Free Republic

At a campaign event in Springfield, Illinois Wednesday afternoon presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton warned Donald Trump would use the military and IRS "to go after his critics and opponents."

Membership has its privileges. A Bangladesh government commission was investigating multiple charges of financial mismanagement at Grameen Bank, beginning in May 2012. Muhammad Yunus, a major Clinton Foundation donor, served as managing director of the bank

The Brazilian unit of the world’s biggest accounting firm doctored paperwork, concealed evidence and withheld information from inspectors.http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711505-brazilian-unit-worlds-biggest-accounting-firm-doctored-paperwork-concealed-evidence

If there is one thing consistent about the tides of the culture wars, it is that whenever one side is emboldened, it inevitably leads to overreach. The secular Left is proving this point with gusto in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to nationalize gay marriage, calling for the removal of tax exemptions for churches and religious non-profits who continue to hold the tired old definition of marriage that existed all the way up until yesterday. This step, which would crush the budgets of many churches and non-profits, reveals an amusing hypocrisy of the modern Left’s turn against civil...

Back in May 2009, Professor Glenn Reynolds, better known to his followers as Instapundit, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he discussed some odd rhetoric from President Obama. Obama had been refused an honorary doctorate by Arizona State University, and Obama remarked, “President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.” Reynolds pointed out: Just a joke about the power of the presideBut as told by Mr. Obama, the actual president of the United States, it´s hard to see the humor.

Three U.S. congressmen and a top-level government official attended the opening of the Church of Scientology’s National Office in Washington, D.C., Thursday. Their attendance marked a significant endorsement from members of a government that was once partially at war with the organization. Lawmakers in attendance were Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Indiana Republican Rep. Dan Burton and Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis. Liz Gibson, Senior Program Manager at the Federal Emergency Management Agency was also in attendance. Jackson Lee applauded the organization. “I want to thank L. Ron Hubbard for recognizing that courage is not rewarded but it is...

Scientology Spokesman Tommy Davis Confirms Xenu Story Los Angeles, CA - After years of dismissing the story as false, Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis has confirmed that the story of mankind's origins involving an alien overlord named Xenu is indeed authentic Scientology teaching. In the exclusive interview with KESQ News Channel 3 reporter[1], Nathan Baca, Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis was asked about the story of Xenu, known to senior Scientologists as part of "Operating Thetan Level III", or "OT III" for short. Davis denied the story at first (as he has done in the past), stating that these were claims "forwarded...

The European Commission sought yesterday to establish itself as the EU's chief auditing authority, demanding new powers to police the budget offices of member states. 'Under the proposed law, the Commission could carry out spot checks and "in-depth monitoring visits" anywhere in the EU, at any time, to ensure that Brussels was not being fed bogus data by member states. Eurostat inspectors would be able to demand access to debt figures and "underlying government accounts" to safeguard the "credibility" of monetary union. Findings would be made public if national data was found to be misleading. This follows revelations last year...

Original Title: BESLAN'S FORTY DAYS. THE PLACE, WHERE THE PLANET WAS DESTROYED                      Those who perished on September 1st were remembered over the weekend. Tuesday will be 40 days since September 3rd, but people will be holding their memorials on other days, on Wednesday and Thursday. Everyone has many relatives, and one must go to every home to express sympathy.                During the Great Patriotic War, Beslan lost 357 people, but now Beslan has lost everything. Each day the Rostov laboratory sends another list. On Tueday the number of the dead grew by another seven names: Milena Gachikovna Grigoryan,...

SACRAMENTO - State Controller Steve Westly said Monday his office will audit another $6.4 million worth of grants passed out by legislators with little guidance or oversight. The eight new audits are in addition to four announced last month, when Westly ordered the return of up to $15 million in unspent money given to groups that sometimes neither needed nor even knew of the grants. Westly ordered a review of four years of the grants after news stories suggested $125,000 may have been illegally sidetracked to the 2002 campaign of Secretary of State Kevin Shelley from a nearly $500,000 grant...

Millions in grants, but scant oversight State is auditing funds to nonprofits Sacramento -- Community groups and local agencies that received millions of taxpayer dollars were subjected to scant government oversight and sometimes used questionable business practices to spend the money, according to a review of the grant process by The Chronicle. As state and federal investigators continue to probe a $500,000 grant earmarked for a San Francisco community center that was never built, state auditors are scrutinizing dozens of other grants that were distributed through the state Parks and Recreation Department. Most of the pork barrel allocations were secured...

Turner was the chief accountant of the SEC from 1998 to 2001. Before that he served as CFO for Symbios Inc., an international manufacturer of semiconductors and storage solution products, and was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He is currently a professor of accounting at Colorado State University. In this interview, Turner describes how the mindset of the accounting industry has evolved from looking out for investors to looking out for business. He estimates that corporate restatements over the past six or seven years will cost investors over $200 billion. This interview was conducted by FRONTLINE correspondent...