Wall Street Journal: If it seems as if the tax code was conceived by graphic artist M.C. Escher, wait until you meet the new and not improved Internal Revenue Service created by ObamaCare. What, you’re not already on a first-name basis with your local IRS agent? National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, who operates inside the [...]
Washington (AP) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to South Asia on a mission aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old conflict in Afghanistan as fears mount about the war. U.S. lawmakers are increasingly questioning the course of the war. The number of U.S. and NATO casualties in Afghanistan is on [...]
Politico: Republicans have been wrangling for more than a year over how exactly to handle the tea party movement, but now Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is bringing them under the big tent. The House Administration committee, which usually takes days to approve something of this nature, approved Bachmann’s request to create a House Tea Party [...]
Washington Post: Thursday’s Post reported about a growing controversy over the Justice Department’s decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with a question: What took you so long? For months, readers have contacted the ombudsman wondering why [...]
The Hill: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Friday strongly condemned comedian Kathy Griffin for joking on her Bravo network reality show that Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) daughters are “prostitutes.†Griffin made the quip to CNN reporters in a segment of her program – called “My Life on the D-List†– that aired Tuesday. Frank, who [...]
New York Times: Marilyn Maldonado is not quite sure why she is at the Memory Enhancement Center in the seaside town of Oakhurst, N.J. What are we waiting for?†she asks. About 10 minutes later, she asks again. Then she asks again. She is waiting to enter a new type of Alzheimer’s drug study that [...]
Wall Street Journal: CIUDAD JUÃREZ, Mexico—Two Americans were driving back to El Paso, Texas, last December after an afternoon across the border in Ciudad Juárez. A few blocks from the border, they were surrounded by Mexican army trucks and pulled from their Dodge Ram. Mexico’s military says it found two suitcases full of marijuana in [...]
The Hill: After a week marred by party infighting, Democrats are trying to pivot back to offense after the final, delayed passage of their financial regulatory overhaul, which strategists touted as a boon to their chances of retaining Congress in November. Democrats seized on Republican opposition to the Wall Street legislation as extreme, highlighting comments [...]
New Orleans (AP) – – The waiting game continued Saturday morning as engineers kept vigil over the massive cap holding back oil from BP’s busted Gulf well, their eyes glued to monitors in a faraway control room that displayed pressure readings, temperature gauges and underwater images. Their round-the-clock work deciphering a puzzle of data from [...]
Politico: A scholar whom President George W. Bush appointed as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom has a reputation as a tough conservative critic of affirmative action and politically correct positions on race. But when it comes to the investigation that the Republican-dominated commission is now conducting into the Justice [...]
The Hill: “I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea,†the House Republican leader said Friday. The top-ranking House Republican told reporters on Friday: “I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea.†Boehner said the ban would send “a wonderful signal to the private sector [...]
Fox News: The installation of a memorial bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in Bedford, Va., next to Western Allied leaders in World War II has ignited a firestorm of controversy and threatened to tear apart the small town 200 miles south of the nation’s capital. Opponents of the bronze sculpture say it has no [...]
PHOENIX (AP)– The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner’s office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them, the chief examiner said Friday. The bodies of 40 illegal immigrants have been brought to [...]
Washington Post: MEXICO CITY — Grenades made in the United States and sent to Central America during the Cold War have resurfaced as terrifying new weapons in almost weekly attacks by Mexican drug cartels. Sent a generation ago to battle communist revolutionaries in the jungles of Central America, U.S. grenades are being diverted from dusty [...]
Jerusalem Post: Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran won a round Friday in its long legal case to get the US State Department to declassify it as a terrorist group. A federal appeals court ordered the State Department to reconsider its decision. The ‘terrorist group’ designation prohibits groups from raising money and obtaining [...]
Washington Times: I have obtained this document sent by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It appears the Washington Post is about to push the bounds of intelligence reporting. The intelligence agency seems concerned. See letter below. More coming later.
