by Jim Kouri, CPP In 2005, taxes owed with collection potential had grown to $132 billion. That number may climb in 2006, with perhaps $150 billion owed by taxpayers in default. The Internal Revenue Service has not pursued some tax debt due to limited resources, manpower constraints and higher priorities. As a result, the...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP In 2005, taxes owed with collection potential had grown to $132 billion. That number may climb in 2006, with perhaps $150 billion owed by taxpayers in default. The Internal Revenue Service has not pursued some tax debt due to limited resources, manpower constraints and higher priorities. As a result, the...
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Alarmed by attacks on evolution in the classroom, a group of scientists has recruited a candidate of its own for the Ohio Board of Education.
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Former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh said he planned to have the cancer removed in December using da Vinci robotic surgery, a high-tech procedure.
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A previous version of this essay was published in The Lizzie Borden Quarterly. In many ways, the family in which America’s most famous alleged – but not proven! — parricide took place was an exemplar of what our contemporary politics calls “family values.” Thus, it is fitting, rather than ironic, that the National Review...
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Baqouba (Iraq): A 14 year old Assyrian Christian boy named Ayat Taariq was beheaded in a factory by Muslim insurgents on October 21, 2006, a missionary of the At Anycost Jesus Mission in Iraq reported. Ayat Taariq was employed as a mechanic at an electrical agency in Baqouba. On arriving at work to begin...
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And the left says Rush Limbaugh is insensitive? Get a load of Bill Maher’s Steve “the crocodile hunter” Irwin Halloween costume: As Dr. Evil would say, “Riiiiight…”
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Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that an annual rite featured sex, drugs and the ancient equivalent of rock ‘n’ roll.
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In new web ruling, Iran’s supreme leader warns of ‘vile consequences’ of looking at non-Muslim women
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The woman who said she was raped after performing as a stripper at a Duke lacrosse team party was clearly impaired and “talking crazy” afterward, the second dancer at the party said in an interview broadcast Monday.
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“Traditionally, only mothers get such allowances, but it was decided to define other family members – a father, a grandmother or a grandfather – who will be able to get the allowances,” he said. “This will give an opportunity to manoeuvre the family budget.”
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The bee is about 40 million years older than previously found bees, making it the oldest bee ever found.
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Written by Sher Zieve I recently interviewed Robert Parks, who is vying for Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. Parks is active in Republican politics and was recently endorsed by Republican Candidate for Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District Rick Barton. Bob has some interesting things to say about how he would rebuild the Massachusetts Republican...
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The marketing of financial products has caused investors to focus too narrowly on the details of specific investments. As a result, most investors fixate on asking the wrong questions and fail to ask the strategic questions necessary to tailor their investments to best reach their life goals. The financial services industry has been largely...
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Australia’s top Islamic cleric, who sparked outrage with a recent sermon saying that immodestly dressed women invite rape, fainted Monday and was taken to hospital while Muslim leaders met to discuss his future role, police said.
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Richard Dawkins on why religious faith tends to create more evil people than, say, Stalinism
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“It was known as a picnic spot long before anyone had heard of Osama Bin Laden.”
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The Republican Party filed a lawsuit on Friday, seeking an emergency hearing to force state officials to disclose names of illegal immigrants who have obtained New Mexico driver’s licenses.
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Violent crime surged nearly 20% there from 2004 to last year, when the rate of such crimes rose much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to FBI figures released in June.
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