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Silicon Valley ‘Dazed and Confused’ by Peter Thiel’s RNC Speech

by Chriss W. Street Many tech leaders were left “dazed and confused” after top Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel won a standing ovation at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last Thursday when he introduced himself as both “proud to be gay” and “proud to be Republican.”   As Breitbart News has reported, the Obama Administration has shown lots of love to Silicon Valley’s corporate elite by allowing tech companies to offshore the majority of their employment, deflect  a huge chunk of their 40 percent U.S. corporate tax rate to Ireland’s infamous 12.5 percent tax rate, and still do spectacular business with the federal bureaucracy. One… View Article