BARACK OBAMA SURROUNDING HIMSELF WITH SPIVS AND CHANCERS Andrew Bolt TonyfromOz prefaces ….. Today we post a full column from Andrew instead of just one of his usual shorter blog entries. It’s a fairly long piece, but well worth the read. For the sake of comparison, think back to before ...

Scranton is great, but New York is like Scranton on acid. No, on speed. Nah. On steroids. - Michael Scott, The Office The sleepy little town in the hills of Pennsylvania just got a hefty dose of publicity - the unwelcome kind. Known primarily as the fictional home Dunder Mifflin, the floundering pap...

We've stretched our telephone hold times to lethal durations Latest news and links: Public Sector Pay Nick W highlights a £70 grand pa call centre job advertised by Northamptonshire Police: "... offering a salary for a call centre manager "somewhat above" similar positions in the private sector, th...

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(320,416,580620,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}() US District Court Judge Donald Graham has ruled that the show will go one: two time Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves - and more importantly, one time winner o...

We name the man responsible for our tax gap As you may know, the Grauniad is currently running a two week campaign on the Tax Gap, "exposing" big corporate tax avoiders. They say: "Big businesses, the super-rich and an entire industry of consultants - many based in the City of London - devote huge a...

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis continues to make headlines. Francis did not make a scheduled hearing on yesterday as part of his federal tax evasion case. Francis reportedly claimed that he was sick (*cough*) but some wonder if there might not be more to the story. Francis was scheduled to appe...

It looks like Joe Francis, founder of Girls Gone Wild, has managed to tick off a judge on top of the rest of his legal woes.  Francis was arrested yesterday after showing up for a court hearing five hours late. He is accused of claiming more than $20 million in phony business expenses on his corpor...

First it was Tim Geithner , US Treasury Secretary. Now it’s Tom Daschle  Health and Human Services nominee.Thank goodness they aren’t that many posts left . Are Obama nominees trying to take Walter Anderson’s  title away from him?  I know, I know, I’m exaggerating just a ...

Written by ALG Admin Amongst the myriad of pork-laden bills that have arisen in Congress in recent weeks, at least one actually favors the citizenry and would help narrow the gulf between American people and the “more equal” political elites in Washington. HR 735, proposed Wednesday by T...

Tax-cheat: President Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary, Tom Daschle, failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes, partly for free use of a car and driver that had been provided to him by a prominent businessman and Democratic fund-raiser, administration officials said Friday. [......