The Most Important Takeaway from the Mueller Investigation The most important takeaway from the Muller Investigation is that Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election achieved a level of success light years far beyond Russia’s wildest dreams. Above all, America’s response to the Mueller Report...
Notes on 2017 Tax Reform The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was a complicated piece of legislation that added a host of new tax provisions to an already overly-complex Internal Revenue Code. Because of the turbo-charged speed of its enactment, it did not...
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....
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...
