Free ride is over: IRS taxing online sales

As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.



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FIFTY PERCENT of CIA hired since 9/11

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, after nearly a year as head of the nation's premier intelligence agency, says his biggest challenge is absorbing all the newly hired analysts and the case officers who have been hired since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.



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Bush OKed the Firing of US Atty Iglesias, per Sen Domenici's Request

Gonzales told Domenici he would fire Iglesias only on orders from the president. Domenici called Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president. Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue. The conversation occurred sometime before Iglesias firing.



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Is Depleted Uranium Killing our Troops?

Dustin Brim went into the Army a healthy man. A year later, he returned home. His body was riddled with incurable cancer. Could his own weapons and armor — made with a byproduct of enriched uranium — have been the cause



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