ANALYSIS – ‘MURDER, INC.’ – Falling or jumping from high-rise buildings is a growing death of choice among Russian oligarchs and other elites. But dying in more mundane ways, such as being stabbed or shot, is also becoming popular. Since Vladimir Putin – a former KGB officer – invaded Ukraine just over a year ago, […]
The Department of Treasury has finally agreed to hand over suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to Hunter Biden‘s foreign business deals to the House Oversight Committee. Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) initially requested information about the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions flagged by U.S. banks in January. Under federal law, when banks suspect suspicious […]
In a new piece, Esquire reports that opinion polls show many Americans are woke. Even, that Republicans might do better if they tried to make the lives of the people better. The point they miss is that definitions of what is “woke” differ. For example: “Republican presidential hopefuls are vowing to wage a war on […]
President Joe Biden plans to announce a major move Tuesday that could affect all gun owners across the United States. Per The Daily Mail: “President Joe Biden will announce a sweeping executive order increasing the number of background checks on gun buyers and cracking down on firearms dealers during a visit to the site of a mass […]
In 2018, former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank (D) lobbied heavily for changes to his signature legislative accomplishment — the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Frank retired from Congress five years before but was still active in the private sector. As a board member of the now-bankrupt Signature Bank. After receiving over $1 […]
ALERT – In yet another glaring example of Joe Biden’s failed immigration and border policies, a mob of several hundred illegal migrants, mostly Venezuelan, attempted to storm the U.S. border checkpoint in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) said in a statement that the aggressive mob, some estimated at over 1,000, made a […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has now crisscrossed what will be a crucial state in the 2024 Republican presidential primary: Iowa. Wherever he went, DeSantis received a warm Midwest welcome, possibly boosted by the popular, Trump-endorsed Republican who appeared alongside him: Governor Kim Reynolds. The yet-to-announce presidential candidate traveled to the Hawkeye State to sell his […]
Now that’s an embarrassing first day on the job… A local Democrat forgot the Pledge of Allegiance in her first meeting as a Miami city commissioner last week. Sabina Covo, who was elected as the Miami City District 2 commissioner on Feb. 27 in a special election, went blank-faced during the March 9 meeting after […]
A Florida sheriff accused of being a cross-dresser is waging a public war against a white supremacist organization and is even posting photographs of himself in a bra. The battle started when the neo-Nazi group “Goyim Defense League” blanketed the county and Daytona International Speedway in anti-Semitic and white supremacist flyers and used bullhorns to […]
Former President Donald Trump seems unconcerned with Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into his alleged involvement in the $130,000 hush payment made to former pornstar Stormy Daniels. On Monday, Trump’s attorneys revealed the former president would not testify in the grand jury investigation into the 2016 payment. “We have no plans on participating in that proceeding,” […]
There’s plenty of fallout from the closure of (at least) two banks over the weekend and the government’s announcement it was guaranteeing all depositors’ money in those banks. The bottom line: this was a bailout with all the risks, moral hazards and rewards for very bad behavior we were told would not happen again following […]
Biden’s New Proposal Further Reveals Washington’s Insatiable Appetite
The Biden administration’s budget plan is stuffed to the gills with new taxes intended to help pay for (some) of the new spending the president wants. While Mr. Biden’s budget is going nowhere, fast, it offers a teaching moment on how the current tax code taxes your money two or three times. The Tax Foundation’s […]