Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS’s tax-exempt-organizations
division, will plead the Fifth in a hearing before the House
Oversight Committee tomorrow.
Lerner, who has known of the targeting for two years, will not
answer questions before the committ...
I recently asked a wise friend of mine who lives in Virginia
what his take is on the upcoming election for governor between the
state’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, and former DNC chairman,
Clinton confidante and fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe.
My...
Let me put on my big surprise face:
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The House committee should not excuse her from showing up. They
should make her take the fifth, and get it all over the
Internet....
“There’s no shifting going on, that I see at all,” Apple CEO Tim
Cook explained to a Senate investigations subcommittee chaired by
Carl Levin (D-Mich.), referring to his company’s Irish subsidiary
AOI,
which has been
painted as a tax shelter. It...
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) expressed
his outrage over the IRS process in a hearing on the IRS targeting
scandal, but not about the right issue.
The perspective of any rational person would be that the IRS
broke the public’...
Obamacare has not made the health insurance market more
transparent, despite its attempt to create “exchanges” in every
state. The Affordable Care Act foresaw challenges in registration
for millions of uninsured Americans; that’s why it required eac...
As the death toll in Oklahoma rises due to yesterday’s
devastating tornado, Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode
Island wasted no time
blaming Republicans for the disaster.
Whitehouse criticized Republicans for denying the existence of
global...
In a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday,
former IRS chief Douglas Shulman refused to apologize for the
targeting of conservative groups under his leadership.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) directly asked for an apology to his
constituents....
Billionaire Frank VanderSloot made headlines last week when he
said he faced two audits from the IRS and one from the Labor
Department after donating to Mitt Romney’s campaign.
VanderSloot has been talking about this since it happened, and
Kimberely...
Apple CEO Tim Cook faced scrutiny of his firm’s tax avoidance
practices in a Senate hearing Tuesday, but found a champion in
Kentucky Republican Rand Paul, who had
apologized to Cook for the inquiry earlier in the day.
“We are proud to be an American...
