Bush's proposed budget increases funding for IRS audits. An increasing number of IRS audits would certainly target the wealthy, as the article makes clear. The administration identified five areas to which more resources would be devoted to stem tax cheating: abusive corporate tax shelters; unreported income among higher-income taxpayers; failure by employers to turn over […]
The Washington Post is reporting that the Saudi embassy helped the wife of a terror suspect to get out of the country after she was called to testify before a grand jury on possible links to al Qaeda. Jubeir, the Saudi spokesman, bristled at suggestions yesterday that the Saudis had failed to assist law enforcement […]
Not that they'll listen to me, but if they want to outfox Bush on tax cuts, this would be a good plan of attack.
I received some criticism for suggesting that former South African president Nelson Mandela's racemongering, anti-American statements may be attributed to drug use or possibly senility (he is 84). The truth is, while it may be a little over the top, my suggestions were probably the tamest explanations for Annan's remarks. Yesterday, National Review's Michael Ledeen […]