Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause has decided to resign, though she will continue working for at least another month. She is now the 3rd leader of the agency to resign this year. Melanie Krause is the third leader of the agency to resign this year; Senate-confirmed Commissioner Danny Werfel resigned from his role on Inauguration...
Well, this screws up my writing schedule for the day. I had a post scheduled for this time but this one is much more important. President Trump just paused almost all his tariff increases, citing the flood of countries begging for new trade deals to avoid the massive increase in business costs they would impose...
President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs went into effect at midnight last night and this morning the president had a simple message for the country who were feeling nervous about his moves. As discussed yesterday, countries around the world seem to be heeding Treasury Secretary Bessent’s advice not to retaliate immediately but to see this as...
No one can claim they hadn’t been warned. Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued last month that the US offers student visas for those who wish to study in this country, not agitate and contribute to illegal actions on behalf of terrorist organizations. And the same is true for applications to emigrate to the US,...
We are being treated to what the CIA called a “modified limited hangout” as they try to recover their credibility after the systematic failures and lying that have disgusted the less self-deluded members of the public. Over the past decade or more, the formerly “mainstream media” engaged in a series of lies, hoaxes, campaigns of...
What a difference a couple of months of lies and betrayals make. Two days ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, led by Alice Weidel, was in a statistical tie with Chancellor-Elect Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU). AfD was, however, still iced out of any government participation, even as Merz lied and finagled his way...
First, the good news: A Democrat governor in a border state has recognized that fentanyl trafficking is a real emergency. And more good news; the same governor has mobilized the National Guard to join the fight. It’s as if the success of Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has actually taught a lesson to...
Nobody knew about the COVID-19 virus in particular at the time, but there is plenty of evidence that it was circulating in Wuhan in mid-2019, and US soldiers who participated in the World Military Games held in Wuhan in October 2019. But as part of a Congressionally mandated investigation, the Biden administration was required to...
Illegal immigrants. Campus terror supporters. Transgender women in womens’ sports, rest rooms and private spaces. Corruption. I’m learning to love this brave new world of Democrats taking the “20” side of a raft of “80-20” issues. And here might be another one: attorneys-general from 19 states are taking the Trump administration to court...
If your child is named “Karen” but wants to be called “John,” you could lose custody of your child in Colorado if House Bill 1312 passes the Senate and gets signed by Governor Jared Polis, as seems likely. The bill was passed with no debate on Sunday night, Democrats having called the question on the...
Is this a win? Procedurally, it’s more of a pause, and may not even be much of a pause, as we’ll see. It may, however, send an important signal to lower courts, and to judges inclined to toss sand in the gears of the executive branch. Maybe. Earlier this afternoon,...
I don’t know if it’s because Eric Adams is frozen by his own current situation or what, but this should never, EVER be allowed to happen in an American city. And I would imagine at some point, either New Yorkers are going to get tired of it and demand something is done about these...
So…High School kids from two different schools get into a dispute at a sports event. It’s the sort of thing that happens every day because, well, High School. No punches were thrown, which is good. But one of the students is stabbed in the heart, which isn’t. According to...
It was only a few weeks ago that the company Colossal Biosciences revealed that it had inserted some Woolly Mammoth genes into mice to create mice with Woolly coats. 🐁 First ‘woolly mouse’ paves way for return of the mammoth Rodents genetically engineered to have shaggy fur and the...
Did the Supreme Court rebuke district court judges in a ‘landmark’ ruling yesterday? Or did they narrowly split the baby on procedural grounds? John wrote last night about the 5-4 decision to vacate a TRO by Judge James Boasberg that had halted deportation proceedings under the Alien Enemies Act. Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi...
