This morning’s gleanings from the political pooper-scooper

Massive assault takes down key terrorist:

http://www.kpho.com/news/27272012/detail.html

Your tax dollars at work

Shadowy Giant Entity Spying on its Citizens:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print

Not your tax dollars, this time.

A democratic election in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted without violence, the result certified by a wide range of international observers.  But le président sortant  refuse de sortir.

This one would be on the front page, if newspapers had six or seven front pages:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/up-to-1-million-flee-in-fear-of-civil-war-in-ivory-coast-buses-backed-up-at-border/2011/03/25/AFLU6TVB_story.html

Oddly, WaPo has its own bylined article on the subject this morning, but it is almost impossible to find on its Web site.  I found this by googling the name of the reporter:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hundreds-of-thousands-have-fled-fighting-in-ivory-coast-un-says/2011/03/25/AFzNBIZB_story.html

"Only suckers pay taxes":

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?src=me&ref=homepage

This one’s puzzling, from the standpoint of political psychology.  You would imagine that GE -- which can pretty much structure its balance sheet any way it wants -- would carefully arrange to pay at least some token US taxes, so as to deny the New York Times the headline that it pays none.    This is beyond brazen:  part and parcel of the new ethos of greed without shame.

Workers, meet you in Tahrir Square.