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January 25, Russia nukes
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January 26, Russia nukes
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2015
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Boris!
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2016
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Boris!
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2017
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Boris!
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2018
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Making the IRS Integral to “Health”
Relevance: 42% Posted on: September 8, 2009
If a doctor who is supposed to help you get better keeps stabbing you with a knife instead, it may seem beside the point to focus on any particular wound. The whole stabbing process is wrong. Democrats in Congress have found a way to duplicate this effect. Their evolving medical…
Thieves Caught, Return Loot
Relevance: 42% Posted on: May 18, 2015
Lyndon McLellan, a convenience store owner, was robbed. The marauders took $107,000 of his honestly earned money. We don’t need the police to find out who did it (and no, the police themselves are not the culprit, not this time). The IRS took the money, suspecting that he “structured” his…
Stay On Call
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 16, 2022
Backlash can be good. Against lousy ideas, for example. Sometimes, the response to the backlash is to relinquish the lousy idea, at least temporarily. We must hope for more than a moment of reprieve from the Internal Revenue Service’s plan to require facial ID recognition of persons who use certain…
The Dog Ate My Country
Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 17, 2014
“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.” In his day, Mr. Jefferson was attuned to a hyper-partisan, mudslinging, muckraking, bulldog press corps, not our modern mainstream media lapdogs. Today, with our government taking…
‘Inappropriate’ Rights Violations in Obama’s ‘Democracy’
Relevance: 41% Posted on: May 18, 2013
You don’t need an explanation. These aren’t the partisan political abuses you’re looking for. Move along. It was all a big mistake. An unfortunate, accidental error. And “what difference does it make?” anyway, since according to the New York Times headline, the “I.R.S. Apologizes to Tea Party Groups Over Audits…
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…
Townhall: A Perfect Storm of Wrongs, Righted
Relevance: 30% Posted on: July 19, 2015
New development in Wisconsin’s John Doe probes. Click on over to Townhall, then come back here for background: Watchdog.org: “Wisconsin’s Secret War” RightWisconsin: “Winners Now That the John Doe is Over” Wall Street Journal: “Wisconsin’s Friend at the IRS” Urban Milwaukee: “The Wrath of Eric O’Keefe” Townhall: “Who is Eric…
Townhall: Targeting Self-Defense
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 16, 2014
The foundation of a free society? The rights of the people in that society. Chiefest of these? The right to self-defense. And that's under attack these days. For the latest example, check out the column this weekend at Townhall. And then come back here, for more reading. TheDC interviews Jordan…
Regulating Protest
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 28, 2013
How did our founders manage to establish a republic committed to free speech and the rights of the individual without a Federal Election Commission? Not only did the Sons of Liberty and other patriots lack a functioning FEC to protect them from “big-money interests,” many of the political communications of…
Too Respectful of Congress?
Relevance: 29% Posted on: June 27, 2013
In disagreements between individuals and the IRS, I tend to side with individuals against the IRS. So Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act seems about right, on the face of it. Yes, the judicial review and nixing of DOMA regarded a tax case. The state of…
Precedented Payments
Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 26, 2020
I idly wonder who cooks up the initialisms for the big federal legislative packages (“laws”) — you know, like the recent “CARES Act” that distributed $2.3 trillion conjured out of thin air . . . and the faith and credit of a wobbly reputation. CARES stands for “Coronavirus Aid, Relief,…
How Insidious the Plot?
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 6, 2016
The story of the Wisconsin John Doe raids against conservatives, covered yesterday and the day before, is a big one. Huge. So I now continue. The rest of the story? Recently, materials that police seized from the subjects of those dawn raids were leaked, illegally, to the Guardian newspaper —…
The Enemies List(s)
Relevance: 27% Posted on: May 20, 2013
It’s no surprise to long-time observers of the Obama administration, the Internal Revenue Service, or government in general that the IRS has targeted non-lefty groups for reasons the agency laughably contends are non-ideological. The current brouhaha is only part of the story. Here’s another part. Frank VanderSloot is a businessman…
Townhall: Trickle-Down Tyranny
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 8, 2015
Freedom is under assault, under siege. It's not just from terrorists. It's from the people we've assigned to protect our freedoms. And, worse yet, the tyranny comes not just from the Big Guys in the nation's imperial capital. Our local governments have picked up the tyranny bug. Welcome to Kafka's…
I Gave at the IRS
Relevance: 26% Posted on: October 14, 2011
A friend of mine shared something Desire Street Ministries had posted to Facebook: We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of…
Debate Versus Intimidate
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 10, 2014
Political donors often prefer to remain anonymous. It’s not just shyness. Anonymity can protect you from unscrupulous political opponents. The higher your profile — especially if you’re persuasive, or your story contradicts some treasured “narrative” — the higher your risk may be. At Breitbart.com, Mike Flynn writes that “non-disclosure of…
Townhall: Let’s Repeal Freedom of Speech?
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 29, 2014
No one likes shackles. Especially certain members of Congress (all Democrats) who yearn to be free . . . of constitutional constraints. Click on over to Townhall.com, for the latest attempt to increase the power of insiders at the expense of America's democratic-republican heritage. Then come back here for more…
The Bidening
Relevance: 23% Posted on: September 27, 2022
It does seem — because of the raids and surveillance and things targeting critics of the regime — that the Biden administration (“the Biden”) is out to get its political opponents. John Hinderaker of Powerline notes a few recent tip-of-the-iceberg actions by the Biden or its political allies. The Dilbert…
You Can’t “Give” Me What’s Already Mine
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 9, 2008
A mooching relative borrows $500 from you, wastes it all in a drunken spending spree, never pays you back. Eventually, he loftily hands you a fiver. He says, “I don’t even know why I give you this money, but I’m a nice guy. Use this gift to create jobs or…
Commiserations on Tax Day
Relevance: 22% Posted on: April 15, 2010
It’s April 15, my eldest daughter’s birthday. I used to tell her she wouldn’t have to pay taxes like everyone else, because IRS folks wouldn’t dare make her file on her birthday, would they? Seriously, when it comes to family and taxes, I’m just glad that my wife does all…
Reversal of Charge
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 20, 2022
Using PayPal never guaranteed smooth sailing. But until recently, the problems users encountered mostly pertained to PayPal’s targeting of fraud — not with whether a user uttered wrong thoughts or pursued projects disfavored by corporate implementers of a Chinazi-style social credit system. More and more, though, PayPal is informing individuals…
The Silver Bullet
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 31, 2000
Remember the Lone Ranger? With the help of Tonto, he fought corruption and injustice in the old West. His trademark was a silver bullet. In his new book Completing the Revolution, columnist and TV commentator Robert Novak says, "Term limits is the silver bullet, because unless you have term limits…
Townhall: It Takes a Collectivist
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 7, 2013
There's no doubt about it, in her MSNBC "Lean Forward" spots, Melissa Harris-Perry leans left. Very left. This weekend's Common Sense Townhall.com column explores the weird bias of one MSNBCer. Click on over, and come back here for more reading: Some of this may seem familiar. No surprise: “A Little…
The J. Edgars’ Threat Tags
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 24, 2022
Last year, Attorney General Merrick Garland found himself under fire for putting parents under fire. That is, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was shown to be targeting for investigation parents upset at school boards for promoting Critical Race Theory. Garland tried to weasel out of the situation, but since then…
Show-Me Madness
Relevance: 21% Posted on: March 24, 2009
What if you were profiled by the police as a terrorist simply because of your political beliefs? A new report entitled "The Modern Militia Movement," prepared for law enforcement agencies by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, threatens just that. The report doesn't detail any current criminal activity in Missouri. It…
Gave at the Office?
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 10, 2000
You may have seen the article in your local newspaper, unless of course you've been too busy to read the paper because you've been rummaging through old receipts and struggling with various tax equations in order to get your federal income taxes filed. Well, the message from Congress on paying…