Oookaaaayyy. Normally when I receive an email message that I want to forward or mention elsewhere, I first ask permission of the emailer. Not this time, though. The following email was sent to Angry Bear last evening, and forwarded to me by Ken late last night: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Charlyn […]
Greece and what is happening to it is not getting enough attention. What is happening there, in my opinion is an example of the human race at it’s worse. I do not see the implementation of austerity as an experiment. I see it as just one more step by those in the world controlling banking […]
by Linda BealeSantorum’s Tax Returns Out News Sources report Santorum has released tax returns. I’m on my way to San Diego for the ABA Tax Section meeting, so haven’t had a chance to peruse. But a tax rate of around 25-27% for 2007-2010 on income ranging from $659,000 in 2007 to more than a million […]
by Linda Beale Misleading Tax Rhetoric Abounds I got the same piece of mail that my colleague and fellow blogger Jim Maule got–a disturbingly misleading rant trying to make a case for zero taxation of unearned income. I started to write a post about it, since this is the kind of material that gets my […]
**This appears to be incorrect. It was based on a story that CNBC has now updated. It was “Bain Consulting,” not Bain & Co., that advised the government on re-financing the automobile companies. — klh Ah! Mystery Solved! Yesterday,in my post, “Crony Capitalism On A Grand Scale“—the title of the post borrowed from an op-ed […]
In my first of two posts yesterday, “What if Eisenhower’s budget were your (grandparents’) family’s?”, about an ABC News item from the evening before discussing Obama’s proposed 2013 budget, and propagating the truism, so popular among pols and pundits, that the federal budget is like a family’s, only with eight zeroes following total expenditures, income […]
Peter Dorman at Econospeak reminds us of what is not discussed in this election cycle, the big government types taking more control. I would be much more bi-partisam than Peter. We also have the example of Virginia and their mandatory ‘transvaginal’ sonograms being inserted into the conversation. Except Texas beat them to it. And we […]
Glen Greenwald at Salon takes aim at the media coverage concerning our relationship with Iran and the barrage of coverage having little to do with real assessments. Lots of links. But this Family Guy segment sums it up for me… Any links to some real discussiom from readers??
(hat tip David Zetland) for this informal note on the question of “Where are the investigative journalists?”. This comment is from a reddit thread and is a beginning to thoughts of how to take personal responsibility for change. Eslader writes on reddit in response to the question of ‘Where are the investigative journalists?”: know? Ex-journo here. […]
Rolling Stone (via Reader Supported News) points us to an op-ed in Armed Forces Journal by Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis and the pdf at Rolling Stone. Earlier this week, the New York Times’ Scott Shane published a bombshell piece about Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour […]