LB City Auditor Laura Doud issues a press release underscoring the need to protect whistleblowers–like the people who routinely tip off journalists and law-enforcement officials about public corruption.  “As a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner, I know that fraud is a very serious problem for all local governments including the City of Long [...]

WOAHH! Seriously? WHAT?!
Some dudes in New York actually pulled a W@B’s and wheeled their dead friend’s body down to their local neighborhood Pay-O-Matic (Pay-O-Matic? This must have been written by scabs. STAY STRONG WGA!) so that they could cash his social security check. Unfortunately, the two were arrested on charges of fraud before they could [...]

You can’t keep a good conman down
Normally when something you’re doing turns into a disaster, you don’t decide to rely on one of things you know caused the disaster to improve the situation. But then, nothing about President Bush’s vanity war in Iraq has been normal. Still, this report from McClatchy was a bit of [...]

Some colleges unaware of their awareness
As Rachel Powers notes below, ‘60s leftwing radical turned rightwing radical David Horowitz is promoting an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at colleges nationwide. Unfortunately for Horowitz, he’s been caught padding the list of participating campuses.