My New Project

Over the past month or so I have been partnering with my friend Iris at Chamayo’s weblog. Our collaborations and joint posts on her site were quite successful and the subject of a joint blog came up. Of course, I felt that it was a great idea so we got our heads together and opened a joint web-log, [...]

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IRS Enforcement Fell in 2008

 
Sooooo let’s see, the IRS is focusing its enforcement and collections efforts on those people LEAST able to pay and letting the wealthier individuals and corporations skate?
Tom
The IRS yesterday released 2008 enforcement data, showing, among other things:

Collections fell for the first time in a decade, down 4.7% from 2007 (to $56.4 billion)
The audit rate [...]

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U.S. Economy Sinking in an Ocean of Newly Created Money

At one time or another we have all heard it said that “you cannot get there from here”. Much the same can be said of the current state of the US economy. Every prominent economic pundit is focusing on falling demand as the economy’s nemesis. Nouriel Roubini points out that “85 percent of aggregate demand [...]

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The Federal Reserve Bank is the Reason for America’s Downfall

The American Dream, An Obituary – The American Revolution was an extraordinary event. The idea that freedom was an inherent right, that tyranny could be successfully opposed, that government could serve the people, not the few, was truly revolutionary in 1776—as it is today.
The American Revolution, however, has run its course; and unless resuscitated and [...]

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The Bush Administration’s Geneva Convention Hypocrisy

The Bush Administration’s Geneva Convention Hypocrisy

By Jason Leopold
The Public Record
Monday, December 22, 2008

 

 

U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq War when Iraqi TV [...]

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’Twas the Flight Before Christmas…

by Becky Akers

You might think that with its upcoming TV show, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would retire satisfied from the indoctrination wars. Alas, too much is never enough for tyrants. So signal a victory has not kept one of the DHS’s sub-agencies, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), from releasing the propaganda it traditionally [...]

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