From the Heritage Foundation

With all the clamor over the government taking over or further controlling the nation's
health care industry, let us not forget the primary issue that propelled Barack Obama to
the presidency — the financial crisis of 2008.
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Week ending 10 January 2010
A Humpty-Dumpty View of the World Victor Davis Hanson If Obama seems bewildered, angry sometimes, and more at home in warm, lush Hawaii, you would be too - once you discovered that your easy fantasies and winged rhetoric of the last thirty years have no relation with the here and now.
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20 More Islamists Trained to Blow Up Jets British Intelligence has confirmed perhaps the most chilling boast that accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab made to investigators after his arrest: that close to 20 other young Muslim men were being prepared in Yemen to use the same technique to blow up airliners.	So, the DoJ "lawyered" him up!
The Real Blowup Rich Lowry The panty-bomber's failed attempt put paid to the notion that terrorism is the byproduct of a few, specific US policies and of our image abroad. This view dominates the left and animates the Obama administration. It informs its drive to shutter Guantanamo Bay, to get out of Iraq and to cater to "international opinion."
Who Is the Enemy? Victor Davis Hanson Radical Islamists sense, fairly or not, that this administration is angrier at prior officials who kept us safe than it is at those who wish to destroy us for who we are. Given his adoption of the Bush protocols, Obama might show the same magnanimity toward his predecessor that he does toward the Muslim world.
Classified Ft. Hood Massacre Report Is Damning; FISA-NSA Court Approved Monitoring Was Halted Strata-Sphere Monitoring Hasan’s emails, etc was made possible by the changes President Bush made in the FISA-NSA relationship, wherein an NSA developed lead on a threat garnered from monitoring known terrorists overseas could be used as probable cause for investigation. This is the same change to the rules many in the Obama Administration opposed with a vengeance – including Holder and Brennan as well as the President himself.
CIA Bomber Struck Just Before Pat-Down Search More than a dozen current and former government officials interviewed for this article said they could not account in full for what they called a breach of operational security at the base in Afghanistan's Khost province. Advance pat-downs and other precautions are common in an age of suicide bombers, and meetings are kept small and remote.
The Butt Bomb Michael Crowley In the wake of the failed bombing attempt by Nigerian al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, airport security experts are wringing their hands over how to stop the next underwear bomber. Only a careful pat-down around Abdulmutallab's crotch, where the explosive had been sewn into his undies, would have detected his deadly cargo.
Why Won’t the MSM Cover Islam? What Are They Afraid Of? Alicia Colon There are many things on the World Wide Web that are not suitable for public viewing but that should be required viewing for journalists and political figures to alert them to the horrors that exist in some parts of the world. This should not be to incite but rather to rinse away their naïveté in dealing with a hostile culture and our potential enemies.
Climategate: Failure of a Blind and Biased Mainstream Media Dr. Tim Ball It’s beyond belief that the mainstream media can’t see the devastating importance of the emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) known as Climategate. The blindness cancels the claim they’re society’s watchdog.
When Scientific Fraud Kills Millions James Lewis Scientific fraud often ends up killing people. Joseph Stalin's fraudulent "agronomist" Trofim Lysenko caused harvest failures when Soviet agriculture was ordered to follow his bizarre pseudo-science. "Scientific Marxism" killed 100,000,000 people, according to Marxist historians themselves.
Obama's Green Jobs Program: $135,294 Per Job Sean Higgins The White House announced Friday the awarding of $2.3 billion in tax credits – the money comes from last year’s stimulus bill – to companies to create “green jobs.” “Building a robust clean-energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future – jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced,” President Obama said Friday.
The Lies about Green Jobs Alan Caruba Green energy' is proving to be no miracle solution to the nation's monumental unemployment problems, and it is doing little to help the economy emerge from its deepest recession in decades, economists say.
Climategate: Michael Mann's very unhappy New Year James Delingpole  When Mann turns up to work on Monday, he’ll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.
Near Future Dim for Better Battery Powered Autos The study, released today, concludes that the long-term cost target used by many carmakers in planning their future fleets of electric cars is unlikely to be achieved unless there is a major breakthrough in battery chemistry that substantially increases the energy a battery can store without significantly increasing the cost of either battery materials or the manufacturing process.
Smart Meters Prove Not So Smart They promised smart would be cheap, but so far it's proving more expensive. Most Toronto Hydro customers who've been on smart meters and time-of-use pricing the longest have actually seen an increase of up to $3 per month.
Networks Downplay $42 Million in ‘Outrageous’ Bonuses, ‘Unlimited’ Bailout of Fannie, Freddie When $42 million in cash compensation packages were announced on Christmas Eve for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives, the networks couldn’t muster any anger toward the highly connected groups. Although Fannie and Freddie were two government-sponsored enterprises whose excessive risk taking contributed significantly to the housing crisis, the networks barely reported the story at all.
MRC Calls for Action after the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stealth announcements on Christmas Eve! The liberal media's failure to report on the Obama administration’s decision to lift the credit cap on the two government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac AND hand out $42 million in executive bonuses is outrageous. Their unwillingness to hold the government accountable exposes their leftist bias and agenda!
CLASS: Another Entitlement That's Unsustainable Debra J. Saunders Inside the House and Senate health care bills lurks a ticking time bomb – a new federal entitlement, under the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, which would allow Americans to buy into a voluntary federal long-term care insurance program.
Obamacare Expands IRS Authority, may cause greater tax non-compliance J.P. Freire Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance. The House and Senate bills require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their annual federal tax return. Those who don’t would pay a penalty to the IRS.
Dems Plan to Stall Seating Mass. Senator to Pass Obamacare Meredith Jessup Paul Kirk, former aide and confidant of Sen. Ted Kennedy who was handpicked by Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, is winding down his time as a U.S. Senator as the special election to replace Kennedy draws closer. But when it comes to passing the health care bill, Senate Dems are taking no chances and plan to keep Kirk – a supporter of the Dems' plan – in place until after the measure passes.	Update: Brown leading in polls
If You Can Find a Better Deal, Take It! Weighing In on Brit Hume's Advice to Tiger Woods Ann Coulter Why on earth would Hume mention religion while discussing a public figure who had fallen from grace and was in need of redemption and forgiveness? Boy, talk about coming out of left field! What religion – what topic – induces this sort of babbling idiocy?
Some Cultures Aren’t ‘Just as Good as Ours’ Warner Todd Huston Despite the rapturous claims of multiculturalists everywhere, all cultures are not equal, all cultures do not offer something good to the world. Some are evil and deserve to be destroyed. It’s just that simple.
What's Islam? Don't Ask Google FOXNews Google's search engine returns common results to most queries as you type. But the "don't be evil" company appears to be censoring its results when it comes to Islam. Type "Islam is" into the search engine and Google's auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is "don't be evil," is censoring its search results.
Somali Pirates Holding Britons Issue Terrifying Ultimatum: Pay $3M or Yacht Couple Die Pirates holding a British couple issued a terrifying ultimatum yesterday: 'Pay up or we'll shoot them.' In a chilling exchange, they also revealed that 55-year-old Mrs Chandler has been brutally beaten and needs medical treatment.
Darwin, Sanger, Hitler, and Eugenics Fred Gielow "Eugenics is defined as 'the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable characteristics.' In laymen's terms this means people in power give reproduction permission to the 'fit' while refusing it to the 'unfit.' Out of this idea was born the American Eugenics Society (AES).

Week ending 3 January 2010
And WND's 2009 'Person of the Year' is ... The tea-party participant – the individual who is frustrated America's leaders don't seem to want to "preserve and protect" the republic and gives up his or her own time, talents and money to warn elected leaders to choose the straight and narrow.
Was the Intel Faulty or the Database Collection Overridden? “we are encouraged to not create the appearance that we are profiling or targeting Muslims” This is what intelligence is all about, taking bits of incomplete data and pulling it together to see what is heading our way! Whoever this source is they clearly missed the whole point of intelligence gathering for national security.
War? What War? Charles Krauthammer The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration’s response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to downplay and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face.
On Terrorism it's Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate Newt Gingrich Over eight years after 9/11 and 30 years after the Iranian illegal seizure of the United States embassy and the 444 day Iranian hostage crisis, Washington is still avoiding being intellectually honest about the war we are in.
Malfunctions Cal Thomas Had it not been for a malfunctioning detonator, nearly 300 people traveling on a Christmas Day flight might have perished. Only the faulty device, along with some fast-acting passengers, prevented a disaster. But the detonator was not the only malfunction in this near-catastrophe.
The Joke’s on Us The Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. We are. Mark Steyn Just as the thug states understand they now have the run of the planet, so do the terror cells. A thwarted terror attack at Christmas is bad enough. Spending the following week making yourself a global joke is worse.
Great – Somalia Was Able To Stop Similar Airline Bomber Just Last Month AJ Strata Well, now we know how bad our defenses have atrophied since just after 9-11, and probably since President Bush left office. It seems the Somalis were able to detect and stop a similar airline bomb plot just last month.
Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it For a man who campaigned denouncing the politicization of national security under President George W Bush, it is worth noting how intensely political Obama's treatment of what might henceforth be known as Underpantsgate has been. His White House recognized its political vulnerability more readily than it comprehended the level of danger faced by Americans.	From London: the Brits get it
Napolitano Wants to Unionize TSA Employees Despite Safety Concerns Mark Hemingway Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano hasn't exactly inspired confidence after proclaiming "the system worked" in response to the recent thwarted terrorist attack. A radical Islamic terrorist victory for Homeland Security. In fact, this paper called for her resignation this morning.
Erroll Southers – TSA Nominee Less Than Forthcoming All Around Paul Mirengoff It looks like Erroll Southers, the Obama administration's nominee to head the TSA, corrected his testimony about his abuse of his position with the FBI only after Senator Susan Collins learned that his testimony was inconsistent with FBI records and asked him to account for the inconsistency.
Unhealthy Arrogance Thomas Sowell What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.
Change: Mayo Clinic to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little. More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale.
Refuting the Bad “Health Insurance – Auto Insurance” Analogy: A Lesson In Federalism. Publius Huldah By their invocation of the auto insurance analogy, such “expert” and “scholarly” professors as Seidman, Hunter, Jost and Whalen show that they have no understanding of “federalism”; or they think you don’t, and they are trying to take advantage of your supposed ignorance.
Sen. Hatch: Authority for Congress to Mandate Health Insurance ‘Isn't There’ in the Constitution The Senate bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, contains a historic provision that requires every American to purchase health insurance either individually or through their employer. If they do not, they can be penalized with a surtax ranging from $500 to nearly $1,500 per year.
Modern Day Lunacy Walter E. Williams For a president and congressman to shamelessly propose something like the Pre-existing Condition Patient Protection Act demonstrates just how far we've gone down the road to perdition. The most tragic thing is that most Americans have no idea that such an act violates every principle of insurance and it's something that not even yesteryear's lunatics would have thought up.
Trial Lawyers Win Added Clout from Democrats in Health Bill Investor's Business Daily The Senate health care bill includes a gift to trial lawyers: a five-year, $50 million program to encourage states to consult with them on "alternatives" to malpractice claims. Though presented as a reform, critics say the program will simply encourage states to create an additional option for lawyers and plaintiffs to pursue claims, without requiring them to give up anything in return.
Will the Terrorist Kill Healthcare Reform? If – as shown by last week's terror attack – the relatively simple step of improving the assessment of intelligence was not accomplished by introducing a new bureaucracy, why should we assume the vastly more complex health care system will be improved by adding layers of bureaucracy? We shouldn't and it won't.
Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank David Reilly – Bloomberg To close out 2009, I decided to do something I bet no member of Congress has done – actually read from cover to cover one of the pieces of sweeping legislation bouncing around Capitol Hill. Hunkering down by the fire, I snuggled up with H.R. 4173, the financial-reform legislation passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives.
What is Barack Obama doing? UPDATED: Why Interpol, Mr. President? Mark Tapscott Thanks to Executive Order 12425 , which Obama signed Dec. 16 without explaining why, the supreme law of the land is now arguably whatever Interpol says it is, most likely as directed by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in conjunction with the United Nations.
Obama's Make-Believe Life Alan Caruba He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden. We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?
U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top $400 billion, according to Peter Wallison, a former general counsel at the Treasury who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “The situation is they are losing gobs of money, up to $400 billion in mortgages.”
Hurricane Chief says Probe Climategate A former director of the National Hurricane Center called Sunday for an investigation into the “scientific debauchery revealed by ‘Climategate,’” citing the way global warming skeptics have been marginalized by the mainstream media. “Climategate reveals how predetermined political agendas shaped science rather than the other way around,” he said.
It Didn't Start with Climategate John Hinderaker The Kyoto protocol was based on fictitious science, exaggerated or fabricated outright for political purposes. The same Professor Santer who hijacked the Second Assessment Report figures prominently in Climategate. Fraud: it is the one constant in the history of the global warming hysteria movement.
Liberal Lies and Conservative Truths Burt Prelutsky I suspect that liberals will find my suggestions not only insensitive, but downright repulsive. Leave it to a liberal to be more deeply offended by the spilling of a pig's blood than that of a human. It just seems to me that if you have kryptonite, you're a schmuck if you don't use it.
Taxation: it’s more pervasive than you know John D’Aloia Have you ever thought about how many taxes you are paying when you buy a product or a service? An amount is obvious when a sales tax is tacked on, but is that the only tax included in the price you pay? You know the answer – of course it is not, but the remaining taxes are out of sight, out of mind.

Week ending 27 December 2009
Christmas under Communism Dr. Jeffrey Folks I have tried to describe my experience of communism, but soon it may not be necessary to journey back in time and outside our borders to know what a Communist Christmas is like. If the electorate does not rid Washington of the leftist politicians now controlling our affairs, we will be celebrating a Communist Christmas here in the United States.
Lessons from John Galt and the Mindless Dan Freeman Recent headlines seem lifted directly out of an Ayn Rand novel. President Obama decries the “fat cat bankers on Wall Street”. Harry Reid attacks insurance companies for making too much profit. House Democrat leaders call Tea Partiers “Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts”. Each of these headlines might well have been uttered by an Ayn Rand character.
Wealthy, quiet, unassuming: the Christmas Day bomb suspect – The inside story of the privileged student who embraced al-Qa'ida With his wealth, privilege and education at one of Britain's leading universities, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet – able to choose from a range of futures in which to make his mark on the world. Instead he opted to make his impact in a very different way.
Jasper Schuringa: Hero of Northwest Flight 253 Mr Schuringa said he said he frisked the suspect and discovered his trousers were open and that he had a flaming object resembling a small, white shampoo bottle strapped to his left leg near his crotch. "I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish the fire with my hands and threw it away," he told CNN.
Report: 25 British-born Muslims are Plotting to Bomb Airliners The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London. They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike.
America Now Associates London Universities with Terror Plots and Islamic Extremists Damian Thompson Prof Anthony Glees, the director of Brunel University’s center for intelligence and security studies, criticised university authorities for ignoring the threat to national security in their midst. “Institutions have not sought to address the problem: they have instead sought to undermine those who have raised the issue,” he told this newspaper.
"Don't Say We're Violent, or We'll Kill You" A recent e-mail to a website launched after the 9/11 terror attacks to document the instances of Islamic violence said simply: "We will kill you. Like this ... " The message included a photograph of a man who had been beheaded, his body resting chest down on grass and his lifeless head placed in the middle of his own back.	14,578 attacks in the last 60 days
Where Did These Guys Come From? The Origins of Obamism Victor Davis Hanson Such a strange scenario we have found ourselves in – a clear majority of Americans is opposed to almost everything Obama has to offer; congressional representatives know they are acting against the will of the people, but know too that they are offered all sorts of borrowed money for their districts to compensate for their unpopular actions.
Impermissible Ratemaking in Health-Insurance Reform: Why the Reid Bill is Unconstitutional Richard A. Epstein This ill-conceived legislation has many provisions that regulate different aspects of private health-insurance companies. Taken together, the combined force of these provisions raises serious constitutional questions. I think that these provisions are so intertwined with the rest of the legislation that it is difficult to see how the entire statute could survive if one of its components is defective to its core.
The Massive Accounting Blunder that Should Sink Health Care Reform Mark Hemingway We now know that whether it was an innocent mistake or fiscal prestidigitation, one of these claims is simply not true. Which is all the more reason you don't railroad an unpopular bill through in the middle of the night, as this episode proves conclusively that the Senate can't be trusted not to make mistakes involving literally hundreds of billions of dollars.
When Legerdemain Is Used to Pass an Unpopular Bill Michael Barone The Democrats' health care bills are an attempt to settle a fundamental issue by partisan maneuver and cash-for-cloture. As Stephen Douglas learned, such tactics can work for a while, but the country – and the Democratic Party – can end up paying a heavy price.
Boehner to President Obama: Keep Your Promises of Transparency in Health Care Negotiations  House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement in response to news reports that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will hammer out a final government takeover of health care bill behind closed doors with President Obama:
Obama Springs to Action with Federal Cash for Alabama Warner Todd Huston Tropical Storm Ida happened well over a month ago, almost two now. But regardless, the great father in Washington has generously opened up the federal purse to help those struggling folks that lost so much to that storm. The devastation was so bad that USA Today said of the storm:
Democrat Corruption is turning Capitol Hill into Tammany Hill Michael Zak Tammany Hall, now a metaphor for Democrat corruption, began as a real place.  It was a building, in fact, the headquarters of the New York Democratic Party.  During the 19th century and early 20th centuries, Tammany Hall was the foremost center of power and financing in the Democratic Party nationwide.
It's Not Socialism. It's Communism. Alan Caruba The celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this year was attended by many world leaders with the notable exception of President Barack Obama. For a man who has visited more foreign nations in his first year in office than any previous President, the decision to avoid this significant anniversary was taken as one more signal of his true political and economic agenda.
Is There No Stopping This Liberal Madness? Christopher G. Adamo Last week, with comparatively little fanfare, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave away a hundred billion dollars at the bogus "Climate Summit" in Copenhagen. Hillary essentially embezzled it from the pockets of every American citizen to whom it rightfully belonged.
CBO: Extending Federal Benefits to Same-Sex Couples Will Cost $898M Legislation, sponsored by Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., an openly gay lawmaker, and with 138 cosponsors, would allow for homosexual partners of federal employees to receive the same benefits as married spouses, which include health insurance, survivor annuities, compensation for work-related injuries and travel and relocation benefits.	Obama supports the plan
Coroner Furious After a Grandmother Dies in 'burning agony' Following Nhs Injection Blunder A grandmother died after 'gross failures' by NHS doctors who injected her lungs with a chemical that was ten times the recommended strength, a coroner ruled today. Rosemary McFarlane, 64, spent ten days in 'burning agony' after receiving the lethal dose during what should have been a routine procedure.	A horrible, preventable death
2009: The Year of Living Fecklessly Charles Krauthammer Last Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran "will continue resisting" until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads. So ends 2009, the year of "engagement," of the extended hand, of the gratuitous apology.
War Is Hell – Not Litigation R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Jed Babbin, once deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of George H.W. Bush and now the editor of the oldest conservative periodical in the land, is petitioning Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to dismiss charges against three SEALs for allegedly causing discomfort to one of the most-wanted terrorists in Iraq during his capture last September.	Human Events Petition
The Climate Change Scam: A Concise Summary In the wake of Climategate, common sense deniers [neo-deniers] like to say that there is lots of other evidence for global warming, in addition to that which has been debunked by the East Anglia whistleblower. Actually, however, the scientific evidence for AGW [man-made global warming] is remarkably weak.
Five Decades of Cooling Ahead; Need for Affordable Energy will Increase Investors Business Daily A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming – perhaps for the next 50 years.
Why Climate Change Is Hot Hot Hot Mark Steyn Remember the ozone layer? It was all the rage back in the old days. It was caused by spray-on deodorants, apparently. So we packed ’em in, and switched over to roll-on deodorants. And, because we forswore the sinful spraying of armpits, the ozone hole began to heal.
Climategate: How To Follow the Money Charlie Martin There’s big money in climate. That became strikingly obvious in Copenhagen. The conference itself cost in the neighborhood of $30 million, but that was only the visible tip of the melting iceberg. It appears that most of the participants saw the money spent as an investment.
ClimateGate – The Unspeakable BBC: biased even when trying to be unbiased? Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christensen The IPCC did not seriously evaluate  alternative theories. It set out to discredit them, perhaps correctly, but this remains to be decided. Its brief was and remains to ‘underpin’ a major international political agenda with far-reaching economic implications.
Criminal Background Checks Proposed for Homeschoolers; Proposal has ties to UN's Child's "rights" Agenda "This bill is breathtaking in its scope and reflects a perverse level of suspicion towards parents who home-educate their children," said Michael Donnelly, a staff attorney and director of international relations for the Home School Legal Defense Association.	The UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child
It's A Wonderful Life — Not Adam Graham Why does It’s a Wonderful Life now only air twice during the holidays – and only on NBC? Growing up in the 1980s, I saw It’s a Wonderful Life several times each year. It was a staple of hundreds of networks. It was on the Family Channel, on the local independent TV station, and on innumerable other venues.
Why I Signed The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience David M. Huntwork It is one thing to judge, and another to excuse. The Manhattan Declaration does neither. I found this to be a rather profound statement by a large number of Christian leaders taking a stand for the foundations of civilization, the family, and the sanctity of human life.
Why the 'Angry Mob' Is Angry Wendi Lynn G We're not violent people – but we are human, and we do get angry. We're just regular folks who prefer to not protest or make a stink about anything. We just want to live our lives in peace. What lights our fire is any threat to that peace and the freedom that provides it.
IRS Cannot Verify Taxpayer Eligibility for  2/3 of $325 Billion of Stimulus Tax Benefits The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration today publicly released its review of the IRS's ability to verify taxpayer eligibility for tax benefits and credits provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.