Archive for December 2017
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I have a beef with Amazon — over its collection of sales tax
I have a beef with Amazon over its collection of sales taxes. I’m not a tax scofflaw, I have no beef with Amazon collecting sales taxes so long as Amazon collects the correct amount of sales tax. Amazon sells and ships everywhere in America. The Supreme Court held 25 years ago (Quill Corp. v. North…
Read MoreDespite constant vilification by the media, Trump approval same as Obama’s at end of first year
A Rasmussen poll released on Thursday revealed that President Trump has a 46 percent approval rating and a 53 percent disapproval rating, while Obama had a 47 percent approval rating and a 52 percent disapproval rating at the end of his first year. Do you see what is remarkable about this? Obama had nothing but…
Read MoreMy Dalliance with Ahimsa — Answering the Big Question
As one ages one sometimes remembers things long forgotten. Some people go through stages in life where they try out different philosophies or religions to see which one fits for them. These are sometimes called life crises. There’s the midlife crisis everyone is familiar with, but also the crisis one suffers when the knowledge of…
Read More“Decent family man” spies on live-in nanny with hidden camera
New York Daily News: A CNBC director who worked on finance guru Suze Orman’s show has been accused of peeping on his teenage au pair with a spy-cam in a bathroom of his Westchester home, the Daily News has learned. Dan Switzen, 44, hid a camera inside a tissue box in his home in Pleasantville,…
Read MoreFascinating new theory on the Trump/Mueller investigation
First is the central question of why did Trump’s own DOJ give the special counsel appointment of Robert Mueller to the NeverTrumpers practically as a gift. It was Trump’s own DOJ that appointed Mueller to investigate Trump. Does that happen very often? Has it ever happened before? Well, there was an independent prosecutor in Watergate,…
Read MoreMerry Christmas from Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
I’m not Jewish but I’ve prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where I was welcomed to do so. It was a moving experience. It’s the Christian/Jewish alliance. Peace on earth, good will to all.
Read MoreMerry Christmas Baby…
Great blues rendition by Elvis, guitar performance by James Burton.
Read MoreImages of the week
Congress Demands DOJ Turn Over All Docs Related to Obama Scheme to Nix Hezbollah Terror Investigation Israeli special operations legend Uri Bar-Lev, “There was a lot of common interest and parallel investigations involving Hezbollah,” Bar-Lev remembered, “Both the DEA and the Israeli National Police were determined to join forces and do what we could to…
Read MoreIs the United States importing a criminal class?
On Thursday evening Mark Steyn joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss the new figures released by the Justice Department showing that one-fifth of federal prisoners are non-native-born, and that the overwhelming majority of those are illegal immigrants (And I might add, that the overwhelming majority of those came into the country across the…
Read MoreSessions orders review of Obama’s assistance to Hezbollah
The new book, Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money, explains how Israel and the United States began to fight terrorism in the late 1990s up until 2008 by targeting the money that if funneled to Islamic terrorists organization from numerous sources, both government and private, to support terrorism mainly against Israel, Europe and…
Read MoreSome headlines to remember about the Trump tax reform
Yahoo News: “Meet some victims of the Trump tax bill” Washington Post: “10 reasons Democrats think the tax bill will be a political loser for Trump’s GOP” New York Times: “In tax overhaul, Trump tries to defy economic odds” Business Insider: “Americans have already made up their minds about the tax bill — and it…
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