The Irritating IRS Who likes the Internal Revenue Service? Raise your hands now. Hmmmm. No hands. The U.S. has a self-assessing income tax system. Each year, every taxpayer is required to report income to the IRS, determine how much is owed in taxes, and pay those taxes....
America at War The U.S. has increasingly weaponized sanctions and tariffs in an effort to force hostile countries to bend or surrender to American demands. Realists refer to this as waging war. America is at war. In pursuing victory, America has slapped onerous sanctions on Iran, Venezuela, North...
Silent Spring (with apologies to Rachel Carson) If you were driving a car in the 1980s, you’d have had to pull off the highway from time-to-time to clean the windshield because of the number of insects that had met their fate at 60 mph … especially...
Kate Smith Kate Smith, known at various times as the “Song Bird of the South” and “the First Lady of Radio,” is best known today for her rendition of “God Bless America.” She also sang two songs that many see as disgustingly racist. The lyrics of...
If you’re the “average” American, 2017 tax reform means that your taxes have gone down a bit … although they’ve gone up for those unfortunates, whether or not “average,” who live in the wrong States and cities. Taxes soon eventually will be going up for everyone....