IRS offers cybersecurity steps to protect tax data
The Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers to take simple steps to strengthen online security during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which highlights the role everyone can play in protecting personal, financial and tax information from identity thieves and scammers. "Criminals continue to look for new ways to steal taxpayer information and exploit trusted partnerships," IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano said in a news release. "Taxpayers and tax professionals can help protect sensitive information and strengthen the security of the tax system by making cybersecurity ...
Trump attempt to muzzle press attack on First Amendment
Pressed recently on President Donald Trump's expulsion of three news organizations from the White House, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., shrugged it off as indistinguishable from Trump's own past suspension from social media platforms, saying, "So it goes both ways." Huh? The senator is either remarkably ignorant of the Constitution from which he derives his power, or shameless enough to pretend to be. What Barrasso didn't appear to understand is that the First Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, doesn't go both ways: It protects us from the government, not vice versa. ...
