It’s easy to gripe about the rich manipulating the rules to lower their tax rates, but sometimes it’s better to simply borrow a few pages from their playbook. Although finagling a low tax rate on income — as Warren Buffett talks freely about — is difficult for regular salaried workers, there’s another area where modest taxpayers have something to learn from the wealthy: minimizing estate taxes. Read full article > >

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How to minimize estate taxes, even if you’re not rich

WASHINGTON — Warren Buffett is bringing his fight to raise taxes on the super-wealthy to Congress’ deficit-reduction supercommittee. In an exchange of letters between the billionaire investor and a Republican congressman that Buffett sent the committee this week, Buffett is offering to release his federal tax returns — with a condition. Read full article > >

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Warren Buffett brings his fight to raise taxes on rich to Congress’ supercommittee

Coach Warren Gatland denies Wales have been living “like monks” during their impressive World Cup campaign in New Zealand.

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Wales team are no monks – Gatland

E lizabeth Warren , Harvard law professor and former Obama administration regulator (for consumer protection), is modern liberalism incarnate. As she seeks the Senate seat Democrats held for 57 years before 2010, when Republican Scott Brown impertinently won it , she clarifies the liberal project and the stakes of contemporary politics. Read full article > >

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Elizabeth Warren and liberalism, twisting the ‘social contract’

M aybe only a really, really rich guy can credibly make the case for why the wealthy should be asked to pay more in taxes. You can’t accuse a big capitalist of “class warfare.” That’s why the right wing despises Warren Buffett and is trying so hard to shut him up. Militant conservatives are effective because they are absolutely shameless. Many of the same people who think the rich should be free to spend unlimited sums influencing our politics without having to disclose anything are now asking Buffett to make his tax returns public. I guess if you’re indifferent to consistency, you have a lot of freedom of action. Read full article > >

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Why conservatives hate Warren Buffett

RICHMOND, Va. — Celebrity White House gate crasher Tareq Salahi filed for divorce Friday, claiming his wife was flaunting her affair with the lead guitarist for the rock band Journey. Tareq Salahi filed paperwork in Warren County saying his wife, Michaele Salahi, abandoned the marriage when she left their Virginia home Tuesday to be with Neal Schon in Tennessee. He also accused Schon of emailing him a picture of a penis, though he doesn’t elaborate as to why. Read full article > >

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He stopped believing: White House crasher wants divorce; wife ran off with Journey guitarist

Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor and former Obama administration official who became a hero to liberals with her sharp critique of the nation’s financial institutions, will announce Wednesday that she is challenging Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts for his seat in 2012. Warren, 62, had been widely expected to run and had been conducting a campaign-style listening tour. She will formally announce her intentions with an online video statement as she travels the state. Read full article > >

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Elizabeth Warren to challenge Scott Brown in Massachusetts Senate race

Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren is making it official — she’s running against Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in 2012. The former Obama admistration official will announce her bid Wednesday with an online video as she continues her tour of Massachusetts. “The pressures on middle class families are worse than ever, but it is the big corporations that get their way in Washington,” Warren said in a statement. “I want to change that. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.” Read full article > >

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Elizabeth Warren running against Scott Brown for Senate

President Obama gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency when he addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. Too bad so many in the audience thought it was a big, fat joke. “You should pass this jobs plan right away!” Obama exhorted. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) chuckled. “Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary — an outrage he has asked us to fix,” Obama went on. Widespread laughter broke out on the GOP side of the aisle. Read full article > >

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The irrelevancy of the Obama presidency

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was in critical condition in a Texas hospital Monday after falling ill during a fast, state prison officials said.

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Source: Polygamist leader Jeffs in coma

The bodies of Northern Ireland women Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore, who were murdered in Turkey, are taken to their home towns of Newry and Warrenpoint after being flown to Dublin Airport.

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Murder victims’ bodies back in NI

As the Republican presidential race begins in earnest, so are Senate campaigns across the country. On Monday, former congressman Chris Shays (R) announced he would run for an open seat in Connecticut in 2012, while Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Allen B. West (R-Fla.) both announced they would not run. Those three decisions came just days after former Obama administration adviser Elizabeth Warren announced that she was forming an exploratory committee to face Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), possibly giving Democrats their first top-tier challenger in that race. Read full article > >

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The early line on Senate 2012 races — will the balance of power shift?

Elizabeth Warren set up an exploratory committee as she continues to consider a run against Senator Scott Brown.

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The Caucus: Warren Files to Test the Senate Waters

In Sunday’s New York Times, Warren Buffett discusses the need to raise taxes on the wealthy. He’s absolutely right. Tax increases, in general — as well as tax increases on the wealthiest households, in particular — need to be a part of the solution.

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Opinion: Buffett is right

A panel chairman accused Elizabeth Warren, who is directing the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, of lying.

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Decorum Breaks Down at House Hearing