First the Bush administration boasted in a government report that global terrorist attacks had fallen to the lowest level in three decades. Then the Bush administration said it had counted wrong and that the attacks had actually increased and reached a 21-year high. Now, however, administration officials are saying their definitive analysis on global terrorism, […]
When lawmakers weren’t using a $388 billion spending package to gain access to tax returns, they were loading the bill with pet projects and pork-barrel spending for their districts. One project in particular stands out: * $2 million for the government to buy back the presidential yacht USS Sequoia, sold in 1977 by President Jimmy […]
In case you were away from your computer over the weekend, you might have missed the fact that congressional Republicans nearly empowered themselves to review your tax returns without restrictions or regard to privacy laws. Yes, the law currently considers it a felony to disclose information from income tax returns, but under a new GOP […]