With the IRS scandals of early 2014 all but a distant memory, some closure is coming to the groups that the long arm of the tax law harassed. Unfortunately the verdicts aren´t going the way the affected would like. The IRS may have inadvertently figured out how to win its legal battles against aggrieved tea party groups: Give them what they wanted
Three cheers to Steve Baker , Conservative MP from Wycombe, for raising the delicate yet important of matter of fractional-reserve banking in Britain´s House of Commons. We are in a debt crisis of historic proportions because for far too long profit-maximising banks have been lending money into existence as debt with too few effective restraints
With reporters of the Western World losing their heads over the outbreak of the Ebola virus, it’s helpful to put it in the context of other diseases. This year roughly 8,000 West Africans have contracted the disease, mostly limited to just four countries (Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea). Of these there are 3,866 confirmed deaths, for a
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