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Boris!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: January 26, 2019

On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

Boris!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: January 26, 2020

On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

Boris!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: January 26, 2021

On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

Boris!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: January 26, 2022

On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

Boris!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: January 26, 2023

On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

Boris!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: January 26, 2024

On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

Not Inadvertent

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: December 12, 2022

Maybe we can put a stop to the assault on the privacy of donors to political causes. By “we” I mean The Buckeye Institute and the Institute for Free Speech, who have teamed up to challenge “a decades-old law that forces the IRS to demand that nonprofit charities hand over…

The Regime Shows Its Fangs

Relevance: 39%      Posted on: March 31, 2023

“No one thinks it’s a coincidence,” says Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “Everyone thinks this was done for intimidation reasons.” The “this” was a visit by the Internal Revenue Service to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi while he was…

Expensive Payback

Relevance: 36%      Posted on: July 2, 2001

class="medBr">Well, whoop-de-do. To show how benevolent they are about giving us back a few dollars of our own money, the IRS is sending a letter saying the check is on the way, and ain't it grand? They say they must send us this letter to explain how the amount was…

What’s Being Forfeited

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: April 11, 2017

What do you call those who prey upon the innocent, illegally snatching their money? Thieves? Muggers? The Mob? Government. Last month, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report on the Internal Revenue Service’s use of civil asset forfeiture against Americans accused — well, not accused .…

Voting for Audits

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: January 10, 2023

Eighty-seven thousand new IRS agents! What could possibly go wrong? In a bill passed and signed last August, “$80 billion worth of new funding over the next decade” was shoveled at the Internal Revenue Service “so it could” — as a recent Reason article summarizes — “hire 87,000 new workers,…

Some Courage Required

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: November 2, 2014

Two days from now, elections across the country will produce a “new” Congress, with all 435 seats in the so-called House of Representatives on the ballot and one-third of the U.S. Senate up for grabs. The state of play in Senate contests makes it appear increasingly likely there will be…

Townhall: Government Burglars

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: April 9, 2017

The IRS doesn’t just seize money for reasons of taxation. The folks in that agency have another racket in their job description. Click on over to Townhall for the story, then come back here for background. Treasury.gov: “Criminal Investigation Enforced Structuring Laws Primarily Against Legal Source Funds and Compromised the…

Another Death Tax Victim

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: July 31, 2000

We get taxed so much while we're living, it seems kind of overkill to tax folks when they die. To me, dying is bad enough already. And now Terence Jeffrey, editor of Human Events , gives us another reason to oppose the death tax: it's murdering the First Amendment. Nearly…

Not in America

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: October 15, 2001

Deena Gilbey is a British woman living in New Jersey. Her husband had a work visa to be in the U.S. and she was a "dependent" on that visa. Mrs. Gilbey's husband was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Now somehow she has no legal status…

They Can Stay And Pay

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: October 24, 2001

Remember Deena Gilbey? She was the British woman at risk of being deported after her husband died in the recent attacks. Her residency status depended on her husband's work visa. So within days of the 9/11 tragedy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was telling Mrs. Gilbey that with the end…

Swarms of Officers to Harass

Relevance: 33%      Posted on: August 12, 2015

Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s simple but true. And, as a corollary, let me add that using the power of the federal government to harass individuals or groups one happens to dislike or disagree with is wrong. You might recall that our Declaration of Independence rebuked King George…

The Philosophy of the Fig Leaf

Relevance: 32%      Posted on: July 25, 2013

The temptation to cover up a bit of ugliness with the proverbial fig leaf will always be with us. According to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), that is just what the U.S. House did when it squashed Justin Amash’s amendment to the 2014 defense bill, replacing it with a weaker measure…

Term Limits: Let’s Keep ’em

Relevance: 31%      Posted on: August 29, 2014

Former Clinton Treasury secretary Larry Summers proposes that we switch from an eight-year, two-term limit for the union’s presidency to a six-year, single-term limit. He contends that by chucking the president’s second term, we can maybe prevent such gridlock and scandal as tends to especially afflict those second terms. Six…

A Closer IRS

Relevance: 30%      Posted on: December 21, 2021

Congressman Jared Golden, a Democrat in a Trump district, may be feeling heat. “First, Nancy Pelosi said she’d raise taxes. Now, she’s coming for what’s left,” warns an American Action Network television advertisement airing in Golden’s Maine district.  “To help pay for trillions in new spending, Pelosi wants the government…