Pat Dollard

CNS: The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new global program to target what it calls “high wealth individuals,” IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Monday. “Through our new global high wealth operating unit we are taking a unified look at the entire web of business and economic entities controlled by high wealth individuals so we [...]

Paul Volcker Volcker was also appointed Fed Chairman by Jimmy Carter… (Reuters) – The United States should consider raising taxes to help bring deficits under control and may need to consider a European-style value-added tax, chief White House economic adviser Paul Volcker said on Tuesday. Volcker, answering a question from the audience at a New [...]

SEATTLE (AP) – A Washington state man has been charged with threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Patty Murray over her support for health care reform, leaving voicemail messages at her office saying she had a target on her back and “it only takes one piece of lead.” Federal agents arrested Charles Alan Wilson in Yakima, [...]

“This war is lost”

Jake Tapper’s Poltical Punch: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today continued his criticism of the comments by Afghan President Hamid Karzai — and when pressed, Gibbs refused to say if Karzai was an ally of the U.S. Speaking to Afghan lawmakers over the weekend, Karzai suggested he might have to join the Taliban himself [...]

Fox News: Senate Republicans on Tuesday slammed one of the Obama administration’s most controversial judicial nominees for failing to initially disclose more than 100 of his speeches, publications and other background materials — an omission the Republicans called unprecedented and a possible attempt to “hide his most controversial work.” They said Goodwin Liu’s nomination to [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says a new U.S. defense policy is “a significant step forward” in reducing the nuclear weapon role in security strategy and will ease the global threat posed by these arms. At the same time, he said in a statement Tuesday that the new strategy will maintain “a safe, secure [...]

CNET: The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to slap Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC’s August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers and had voluntarily [...]