This story is a repost from RawStory.com. Offshore tax shelter? Check. Income hidden from tax authorities? Check. New IRS unit specifically set up to target taxpayers with tens of millions of dollars? Check. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman told the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Monday that the agency has set up a unit specifically [...]

This story is a repost from WashingtonPost.com. When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan. A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform [...]

This story is a repost from US News and World Report. The sky isn’t falling, exactly. America isn’t on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a disheveled superpower for a few more decades. But all empires end, and the warning signs of American [...]

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Two House Democrats are planning to introduce amendments Tuesday to exempt small- and medium-sized companies from a key post-Enron reform. Consumer advocates and investor groups say that the proposed exemptions would severely undercut protection for investors and increase the chances for financial fraud. Reps. John Adler of New [...]

This story by David Edwards and Daniel Tencer is a repost from RawStory.com. In a discussion of the war of words between Fox News and the White House, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace played a clip from the 1987 gangster movie The Untouchables to illustrate how the Obama administration operates. Wallace went on to [...]

This story by Ryan Grim is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. The public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in. “I’ve concluded –with the support of the White [...]

This story is a repost from HuffingtonPost.com. Okay, let’s get you up to speed on the incredibly true story about how a bunch of right-wingers got taken in by some satiric blog post on Barack Obama’s college thesis, written ages ago, and frantically presented it as real. Months ago, some blogger crafted a fake news [...]

This story is a repost from Reuters.com. Four days before Barack Obama was sworn into office, a prominent radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, told his conservative listeners that a major American publication had asked him to write 400 words on his hopes for the Obama presidency. “I…don’t need 400 words,” he said, “I need [...]

I Don’t Care About Olympia Snowe  – Let me clarify that. I have nothing against Ms. Snowe, I think she is a smart woman who has courage of her convictions and I wish her the best. Its her vote I don’t care that much about.  This weekend I heard that while Harry Reid has apparently [...]

This story is a repost from rawstory.com. Since the Obama administration began accusing Fox News of being “a wing of the Republican Party,” the war of words has intensified. The latest counterattack from Fox’s defenders is the claim that the White House is putting Fox on a Nixon-like enemies list, a list which Sen. Lamar [...]