Five 501(c)(4) Groups That Might Have Broken the Law
The GOP is upset the IRS is unfairly targeting fraud they approve of
The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives
The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives
All that happened here is that groups applying to the IRS for special tax status were checked to see if they were engaged in political activity. They were checked, not targeted. Only one-third of the groups checked were conservative groups.
Organizations of all walks and all persuasions were pulled in. That’s shown by the fact that only 70 of the 300 organizations were tea party organizations, of the ones that were looked at
Yet another trumped up nonsense scandal diverting from actual problems like the AP scandal and the Gitmo hunger strike.
Krugman: Where Are The Deficit Celebrations?
Krugman: Where Are The Deficit Celebrations?
For three years and more Beltway politics has been all about the deficit. Urgent action was needed to avert crisis. A Grand Bargain absolutely had to be reached. Fix the Debt, now now now!
So where are the celebrations now that the debt issue looks, if not solved, at least greatly mitigated? And it’s not just recovering revenues: health costs, the biggest driver of long-run spending, have slowed dramatically
Maybe they didn’t actually care about debt and deficit? Maybe the people who said nothing while W grew the debt don’t care about fiscal issues at all. They care about cutting the parts of the state that provide services for the bottom 99% and transferring that wealth to the top 1%
Martin Bashir Reminds Viewers of Darrell Issa’s Criminal Past
Tunneling KFC to Gazans Craving the World Outside
Tunneling KFC to Gazans Craving the World Outside
The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt.
The situation in Gaza is absurd. The smuggling of fried chicken via tunnel is both tragic and comic.
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Do you want to know where all that education money is going? Looks like it isn’t going to education. School sports, the original edu-tainment industry. motherjones: foulmouthedliberty: poptech: And the highest paid public employee in your state is… Just be you, Vermont.
We need a 5th Geneva Convention
The first step to ending the Global War on Terrorism should be a Geneva Convention that defines what a terrorist is, what states can and can not do to fight them and what rights they have when captured. Until there is an agreed upon standard definition of terrorist, states are free to declare almost anyone… Continue reading We need a 5th Geneva Convention
House of Un-Representatives
This Republican House is almost like a parallel government, sitting in for some fantasy nation created in talk-radio land.
Sad and true. Worth a read.
Krugman: Not Everything Is Political
Krugman: Not Everything Is Political
in practice it turns out that many conservatives are unwilling to concede that Keynesian macro has any validity to it, or that you can sometimes run the printing presses without unleashing runaway inflation, because they fear that any such admission would open the doors to much wider government intervention. But that’s exactly my point! They’re letting their views about how the world works be dictated by their vision of the kind of society they want; they’re politicizing their economic analysis. And that’s why they keep getting everything wrong.
This is why we can not have a policy discussion. Because one side doesn’t care about how the world actually works, only the kind of world they wish to live in.
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Bush brought an unprecedented level of systematic dishonesty to American political life, and we may never recover. Think about his two main “achievements”, if you want to call them that: the tax cuts and the Iraq war, both of which continue to cast long shadows over our nation’s destiny. The key thing to remember is… Continue reading Untitled