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Tariffs Bite into Tax Refunds

Erica York (VP Tax Foundation) discusses how the Trump tariffs will cut into the income tax relief for all tax brackets due. Read on . . . We’ve spent a lot of time in this newsletter tracking the surge in tariff revenue over the past year. Now it’s tax filing season, and those two stories are colliding. Recent […]

More Likely than Not, the policy violates both the law and the right to due process

When you hear the term “More Likely than Not,” whoever says such is saying it is not 100%. When you heard the term, it is thought the probably of something occurring is greater than 50%. “The more likely than not’ standard establishes the measure of proof required for a party to succeed in a legal […]

Measles Denial

Heather at Crooks and Liars writing about a conversation between Robert Kennedy and Dana Bash. “Dr. Mehmet Oz’s nonsense that Robert F. Kennedy is supposedly “at the very front of” vaccine advocacy was too much for the usually passive Dana Bash to stomach. Here’s Oz trying to pretend that Kennedy isn’t a raging lunatic antivaxxer […]

Some Reads for a Sunday

Joel and I went through some articles in our email boxes(?) and thought they may make good reads for a Sunday. Too much to post on Angry Bear. Maybe Sunday reads. Comment section is open for any thoughts you may have related to a particular article (please mention which one). You can use this as […]

SCOTUS Court Case Reports

Some court cases at the SCOTUS level which have had decisions made or are still progressing. I believe you have heard of all of them at one time or another. Not terribly long reads (a couple of paragraphs . . . if that much). “SCOTUStoday for Thursday, February 5, SCOTUSblog.” Brief reads (partials) as taken […]

Trump DoD joins the ‘60s

Back in the 1960s, college antiwar protests included protests against ROTC and other military training programs. Now I see where “Whisky Pete” Hegseth also wants to shut down graduate military education on university campuses. “Beginning next fall, the Defense Department will discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships, and certificate programs at Harvard, according to the […]

Newly Minted Family Billionaires

It’s good to be the president. Or at least this time around. Trump has managed to increase his worth via the presidency. Not saying this is illegal. The amount of enrichment for the Trump family is rather large. More than many presidents combined. ~~~~~~~ Press Release: “New Report Exposes the Trump Family’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Crypto Empire, […]

In Just the First Month of 2026

First saw a report on a Measles outbreak on Facebook after reviewing a fellow writer’s commentary. I do not know the Facebook author of Science and Tech Page. I did attribute the graph and subsequent words to the author Hashem Al-Ghaili. In any case, I believe it to be important to broadcast such information about […]