ACLJ: Former IRS Official Lois Lerner Continues To Stonewall By Refusing To Answer Congressional Questions (via PR Newswire) WASHINGTON, March 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which represents 41 organizations in a federal lawsuit challenging the IRS, said today’s decision by former IRS official Lois Lerner to once again […]
Ahead of the Super Bowl, federal officials announced a crackdown on counterfeit National Football League merchandise, revealing the seizure of more than $21.6 million in fake NFL merchandise, Thursday. In an initiative called “Operation Team Player,” the feds targeted international shipments of counterfeit merchandise from abroad as it came into the United States, as well […]
BY RICK NELSON The South Korean government just confirmed what the world hoped was a baseless rumor. North Korea has indeed restarted its Yongbyon plutonium reactor and is now actively generating nuclear energy from the facility. Refined plutonium generated by such a reactor can be used in the development of long-range nuclear weapons — a […]
BY CHERYL SLAVIN Did the Department of Justice dictate last week that educators base discipline on racial quotas, as Foxnews and other outlets suggested, or didn’t they? As supporters of the controversial memo would have it, in an effort to reduce drop-out rates, recidivism and long-term legal problems experienced disproportionately by minority students nationwide, the […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA Responding to bipartisan calls for reform and concern from Americans, President Obama announced on January 17 that he would pursue reforms for the National Security Agency. Obama promised to set limits on the retention and collection of data from foreign nationals in friendly nations, appoint senior officials to oversee, coordinate and implement […]
“The VA is just IRS spelled differently” BY JERRY DONNELLAN Director, Veterans Service Agency of Rockland County Since I came to be director of Rockland County Veterans Service Agency in 1992, the veteran population has dropped in half and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The basic reason for this […]