(alfexe/Getty Images) In a time when polarization and self-sorting can make every map look like an Electoral College map, sales taxes are an exception. While it is generally true that blue states are high-tax states and red states are low-tax states, that does not follow for every type of tax. The Tax Foundation put out
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With plummeting COVID cases and deaths, patience for endless lockdowns is wearing thin. “Simon says mask! Simon says unmask! Simon says mask again! Simon says lock down! Simon says you can unlock! Simon says…” Enough, already! Countries are finally starting to opt out. Only those with tremendous hubris could ever have believed you can micromanage
The justice system worked on Thursday as “creepy porn lawyer” Michael Avenatti was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for trying to extort over $20 million from Nike. And reports from the courtroom say he cried like a little baby. He’s the man the liberal media built to be their sleazy fighter
As PJ Media’s Victoria Taft reported, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released an extremely creepy song about normalizing the LGBT lifestyle by effectively brainwashing the children of social conservatives. The song repeats one refrain, over and over: “We’ll convert your children.” “You think we’re sinful, you fight against our right, you say we all
Makes me proud to find out that Biden’s “American Families Plan” ALSO includes a quite sneaky provision to add almost 90,000 IRS employees. Nothing protects American Families like harassment from the IRS. Here we go … You’re driving up to your bank (hopefully not masked up anymore, that provision STILL creeps me out), conducting your
( metamorworks/Getty Images) Former president Donald Trump announced yesterday in a press conference that he would file a class-action lawsuit against Big Tech companies, including Twitter, Google, and Facebook, claiming their decision to ban his and other plaintiffs’ accounts on various social-media platforms has infringed the plaintiffs’ right to free speech guaranteed by the First
CNN’s morning analogy: Republicans are pigs. CNN’s New Day devoted its opening segment Thursday morning to worrying that Republicans will attempt to politicize 1/6 hearings and turn them into a spectacle. Unlike those Democrats, who as we know, never politicize hearings! And CNN sympathized with the Democrats’ decision to hold many of the hearings behind closed
It looks like the first steps are being taken to start a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania. This week, Pennsylvania state Rep. Doug Mastriano requested “information and materials” from multiple counties for a “forensic investigation” just like the recently completed audit in Maricopa County, Arizona. Mastriano is the chairman of the
Finally, some good news. In nine states and counting, residents will owe less on their next state income tax bill as local officials seek to stimulate the economic recovery by lowering taxes. Arizona is the latest state to slash income taxes, Fox Business reports, with Governor Doug Ducey signing into law last week a “flat
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during Republican National Convention in Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (RNC via Reuters) Down in Texas, where I am writing from, concerns about the border are reaching a fever pitch. However, the border crisis is a national problem, which has led to a truly bizarre turn of events: A
Most of us recall as children getting into a dispute with another kid and then blaming him for starting a fight. When Mom approached you said, “he hit me first.” The other kid denies it and accuses you of hitting him first. As adults we become more sophisticated when lying. That’s why White House Press
Or Was I???? We all have our addictions. The hope as we grow older is that the addictions will mature and maybe have less potential for death. At least that’s how I approach it. My current, can’t-live-without-it thing is Tajin, a seasoning that is a blend of mild chili peppers, lime, and sea salt. A
Summary: President Joe Biden will receive a briefing on the Afghanistan withdrawal shortly before giving a speech on the topic. Then, the president will meet with civil rights leaders. President Biden’s Itinerary for 7/8/21: All Times EDT 10:15 AM Meet with national security team to discuss status of Afganistan withdrawal 1:45 PM Deliver a speech
Tucker Carlson speaks with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Gage Skidmore) Last week I wrote about Tucker Carlson’s plausible accusation against the NSA, which he claims collected his emails and texts and leaked them to the press.
During Wednesday’s World News Tonight, sensationalist ABC anchor David Muir and correspondent Alex Perez teamed up to try to pull the wool over the eyes of their viewers; trying to make it seem as though President Biden flew to Chicago, Illinois to fight crime when in reality he was more interested in peddling his massive spending
After a year of demonizing police, covering for Black Lives Matter and antifa rioters, and outright calling for the defunding of police, Democrats happened on an idea: why don’t they just flip the Republican talking point that Democrats are trying to defund the police on its head? “Defund the police” didn’t work out to be
Amtrak will spend $7 billion to manufacture a new fleet of 83 trains in a project expected to support 2,100 jobs, the company announced Wednesday. Amtrak partnered with railway company Siemens Mobility to produce the new fleet, the company said in a press release. The trains are designed to be “state-of-the-art”, with onboard Wi-Fi, power
(AVNphotolab/Getty Images) Dutch euthanasia enthusiasts always pretend that doctors there commit homicide by lethal injection “only as a last resort” when nothing else can be done to eliminate “unbearable suffering.” What a pile of manure! As I have been documenting over the past 28 years (!), euthanasia in the Netherlands has metastasized from killing the terminally
CNN journalists think it’s their job to bully parents and conservatives concerned about liberal propaganda being taught to the next generation. That was obvious on today’s New Day, where one CNN reporter belittled parents protesting Critical Race Theory in their kids’ schools as ignorant and brainwashed by Fox News. Co-host Brianna Keilar started the segment by
Kabul today is starting to look like Saigon in 1975, and the long-predicted return to power of the Taliban appears imminent. Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai knows who is responsible for the catastrophe: no, not himself and his corrupt government, but his American patrons. Karzai said that “the US has failed. Instead of saying that they have
The e-cigarette company JUUL recently agreed to pay the state of North Carolina $40 million in order to settle a lawsuit that claimed they marketed their products to teenagers. JUUL has faced increasing criticism and multiple attempts at regulation in recent years over its release of fruit-flavored pods that found popularity with teens. The company
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during Republican National Convention in Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (RNC via Reuters) Unlike most of us, mainstream outlets and pundits just aren’t ready to stop talking about Donald Trump. For instance, as of this writing, I count no fewer than five items on the CNN homepage related to
Tuesday night on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid and longtime faux Republican Matthew Dowd engaged in some corrosive, offensive, and repulsive rhetoric as they insisted that the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was worse than the radical Islamic terror attacks on September 11, 2001 and that an insufficient number of Democrats share
Academia Eats Its Own Here is some background from Tyler about what I am discussing in this episode: Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the discredited “1619 Project,” has rejected a tenured position at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Instead, she will join Ta-Nehisi Coates, a former columnist at The Atlantic, at
Summary: President Joe Biden will fly to Chicago, ignore the gang violence issue, then travel to another Illinois city where he will talk about his non-existent “build back better” plan. President Biden’s Itinerary for 7/7/21: All Times EDT 9:30 AM Attend meeting on Russian ransomware attacks 10:30 AM Depart White House en route to Chicago,
Opponents of Critical Race Theory attend a packed Loudoun County School board meeting in Ashburn, Va., June 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Conservatives are on the march in the political offensive against the teaching of Critical Race Theory and related racialist concepts in K-12 public schools, a battle that has moved into state legislatures. I have
With Fox’s Peter Doocy away from Tuesday’s White House press briefing, interest shifted elsewhere for NewsBusters and, thankfully, CNN political analyst and Grio correspondent April Ryan beclowned herself with questions from the left on civil rights, voting, and white supremacists. This included the insane assertion from Ryan to Press Secretary Jen Psaki that voting rights
One of the things I’ve always found to be rather unbelievable is when I read about people having epiphanies and everything becoming crystal clear in a moment. Maybe I don’t believe it because that certainly isn’t how my life has ever worked. I learn all of the life lessons that I possibly can, but it
Former New York Police officer Eric Adams continued to lead former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by a narrow margin after the city tallied thousands of additional absentee ballots Tuesday. Adams leads Garcia 50.5% to 49.5%, a margin even closer than last Wednesday’s, which showed Adams at 51.1% and Garcia at 48.9%. The city’s Board of
1. “The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end.” – Pope Benedict XVI — Save the Storks (@savethestorks) July 6, 2021 2. “There is something profoundly disturbing in our current contradictory stance which