Written by Oliver Perry
Fox News reported that presidential candidate Kamala Harris affirmed her support of a federal wealth tax.
It’s meant to hit only the “super wealthy”:
“The proposal would impose a minimum tax of 25% on total income, generally inclusive of unrealized capital gains, for all taxpayers with wealth (that is, the difference obtained by subtracting liabilities from assets) greater than $100 million,” the Treasury Department stated in its FY25 revenue proposals. The same proposal was also put forth by the Biden-Harris administration in fiscal year 2024 and in fiscal year 2023, but the minimum taxable amount was 20%.
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Tags: A.Q. Smith, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Biden-Harris Administration, Capitalism, Donald J. Trump, First Amendment, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Income Tax Amendment, Jeff Bezos, Jennifer Szalai, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karl Marx, living Constitution, Ludwig von Mises, Mark Zuckerberg, New York Times, Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn, Sixteenth Amendment, super wealthy, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court, wealth tax
Federal Issues, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | Alyssa Sonnenburg | September 17, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Wealth Taxes, Court Packing, and Revolution
Written by Elizabeth Vaughn
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention this week, “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream rattled off the latest batch of battleground state polls from New York Times/Siena College to U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), which showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump by 5 points in Arizona and by 2 points in North Carolina. She also referenced two new national surveys from ABC News/Washington Post and CBS News showing Harris ahead of Trump by 4 points and 3 points in those respective states.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC News, Bill Clinton, Bloomberg, CBS News, Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump, Fox News, Fox News Sunday, J.D. Vance, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nate Silver, New York Times, Rasmussen, RealClearPolitics, Shannon Bream, Siena Colleg, Tony Fabrizio, Washington Post
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith | August 20, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Does the Media Use Fake Polls to Depress Republican Turnout?
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he wasn’t surprised that people from “small towns in Pennsylvania, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, clung to [their] guns or religion.” This wasn’t a compliment. He thought those people were “weird.”
In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the same group of people Mr. Obama disparaged a “basket of deplorables,” She went on to say we were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic [and] you name it,” just plain “weird.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, basket of deplorables, CNN, Don Lemon, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, J.D. Vance, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, Rick Wilson, Wajahat Ali
Media Watch | David E. Smith | August 6, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Democrats and Their News Media Don’t Even Try to Hide What They Think of You
Written by Peter Heck
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. From a recent New York Times piece, spectacularly entitled, “A Surprising Climate Find:”
‘I’m confident that there’ll be islands in the Maldives’ 50 or 100 years from now, one of the researchers on the team, Paul Kench, told me while we were on Dhigulaabadhoo. ‘They’re not going to look like these islands; they’re going to be different. But there will be land here.’
Just a casual admission that those islands the climate change cult said were going to disappear aren’t going to be disappearing after all.… Continue Reading
Tags: climate alarmism, Climate Change, climate scientists, Dhigulaabadhoo, Global Warming, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, Maldives Island, New York Times, Paul Kengor, sea-level rise, United Nation
Climate Change | David E. Smith | July 5, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Seven Years Ago Climate Scientists Warned the Maldives Were Disappearing. Guess What?
Written by David E. Smith
In the wake of Thursday’s Presidential Debate between Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden, pundits on both side of the political spectrum agreed that President Biden’s mental acuity, weak voice and stammering and halting answers were alarming. Makes one wonder just who is behind the curtain in the White House making decisions.
Prior to this debate, there may have been some whispers in the wind about replacing Biden as the pro-abortion Democratic nominee, but those whispers are now being spoken loudly by political strategists and analysts on cable TV and news talk radio.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2024 Election, Darin LaHood, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Donald J. Trump, Front Page Magazine, James Marter, Jerry Evans, Joe Biden, Joe McGraw, Kamala Harris, Mary Miller, New York Times, Politico
Executive Branch, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | June 29, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Joe Biden: 2024 Democratic Nominee or One Term Has-Been?
Written by Tim Graham
When the elected Democrat district attorney of Manhattan and his 12 (likely Democrat) Manhattan jurors convicted Donald Trump on artificially inflated felony counts of business accounting, you could count on leftist journalists to try to make it the Most Historic Event Ever.
We’re not even sure it won’t all be reversed on appeal. But “historic” is their word of choice … when they like the result.
In 1999, when Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about sex with an intern named Monica Lewinsky, Geraldo Rivera was furious on the “Today” show:
“It was a spiteful action, an action that they performed absolutely in violation of the framers’ intent.
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Tags: Bill Clinton, CNN, Donald Trump, George Stephanopoulos, Geraldo Rivera, James Madison, John Adams, Monica Lewinsky, NBC News, New York Times, Patrick Henry, Peter Baker, President Joe Biden, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Scott Jennings
Executive Branch, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | Alyssa Sonnenburg | June 8, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Beware When Leftist Journalists Use Founders to Attack Trump
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
In 2013, author John S. Dickerson wrote about the troubling condition of the American church in his book “The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church and How to Prepare.”
Mr. Dickerson‘s key premise was that Christian orthodoxy in the United States is in rapid decline. The evidence he presented to support what, at first glance, seems to be a terminal diagnosis is multifaceted.
According to Mr.… Continue Reading
Tags: Christianity Today, David French, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, generation z, George Barna, He Gets Us, John S. Dickerson, New York Times, Nones, Rob Reiner, Russell Moore, The American Psychological Association, The Great Commission, The Great Evangelical Recession
Faith & Religion, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | February 20, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Christians Need To Stop Playing Defense And Go On Offense
Written by Debra J. Saunders
How bad is the situation at the Southwest border?
I attended a hearing Thursday of the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs on the consequences of the current “catch and release” policies to observe how members of both parties address an issue that troubles American voters.
The situation at the border is so downright scary, Jessica Vaughan of the pro-enforcement Center for Immigration Studies testified, that Mexican cartels now are making more money from human trafficking than drug trafficking.… Continue Reading
Tags: Border Crisis, border security, Donald Trump, drug trafficking, Glenn Grothman, Homeland Security, human traffickers, human-trafficking, illegal immigrants, Jamie Raskin, Jessica Vaughan, Joe Biden, Kurt Leptich, New York Times, Robert Garcia, Sheila Leptich
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | February 17, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on There Is Chaos at the Border and Finger-Pointing in Congress
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Foreign policy is no different from domestic policy in that most programs our government wants to fund address problems that our previous policies caused. Hence, the cycle of government. When it comes to foreign aid, how about we first stop funding the problem before throwing endless funding at a solution — while continuing to fund the problem?
Nowhere is this cycle of insanity more evident than with Joe Biden’s massive Israel aid package (primarily consisting of Ukraine grift), while he handcuffs the Jewish state’s self-defense efforts and continues to fund its enemies, including the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.… Continue Reading
Tags: Daniel Horowitz, Donald Trump, Gaza Strip, H.R. McMaster, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Israel, James Mattis, Joe Biden, Lebanon, New York Times, Obama Administration, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Rex Tillerson, Saad Hariri, Shiite Muslim, Sunni Muslim, Syria, Tony Badran, Wall Street Journal
Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith | October 24, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Can We At Least Stop Funding Hezbollah?
Written by Chris Johnson
Texas’ southern border is being invaded.
That’s not me being hyperbolic, it’s the official state of the state since Governor Greg Abbott invoked Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution to defend against Mexican drug cartels crossing into the country over his state line.
“The federal government’s failure has forced me to invoke Article I, § 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, thereby enabling the State of Texas to protect its own territory against invasion by the Mexican drug cartels,” Abbott said in a letter to President Biden. … Continue Reading
Tags: Eagle Pass, Eric Adams, Greg Abbott, Martha's Vineyard, Mexican Drug Cartels, New York Times, Ron DeSantis, Texas National Guard, U.S. Constitution
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | September 22, 2023 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Texas Southern Border is Being Invaded