Incredibly funny video from the Daily Show. The Association of Opinion Journalists (the new name of the National Conference of Editorial Writers) has a project to restore civility to public discourse. Froma Harrop, the group’s president, recently compared the tea party to al-Qaida in a syndicated column, and apparently does not see the irony. The Daily Show [...]

CBS News has a neat article about how we are still destroying Haiti two years after the terrible earthquake. But the economy of rice in Haiti says everything about the condition the country is in. The US government subsidizes and “donates” ton after ton of rice in Haiti and in so doing has through the [...]

Washington, DC – Today, the National Taxpayer Advocate issued its 2011 Annual Report to Congress.  In response to the release of the report, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA) released the following statement: “Today’s Taxpayer Advocate report provides a glimpse into the challenges facing taxpayers as they struggle with a [...]