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NY Times: Shaming Delinquent Tax Payers Is An Awesome Idea

Over the last few years, we’ve heard lots of talk about not shaming people, especially when it comes to “body shaming” and “slut shaming”. But, hey, what about when it comes to taxes? The NY Times publishes an op-ed by Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Ugo Troiano Shaming Those Who Skip Out on Taxes IN 2006, according […]

Can Hillary Win The Millenials?

Obviously we are a long, long, long (long, long) way out from November 2016, and few will truly be paying attention to the presidential race on either side till, at best, early 2016, other than serious political wonks. Even then, it seems that few pay attention more than at the periphery, being interested more in […]

Campaign staff DROVE ‘ordinary’ Iowans to Hillary’s first campaign stop – including health care lobbyist who was an Obama campaign intern and Biden chauffeur

Hillary Clinton’s van trip to Iowa was the most spontaneous thing Chuck Todd has ever seen. To the rest of us, it’s about as spontaneous as anything she does… Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured […]

O Rubio, Rubio, Wherefore Art Thou Rubio?

“We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., proclaimed in his presidential campaign kickoff Monday. It was impossible not to think of when Barack Obama in 2008 — a freshman senator with an impressive personal story — chose to challenge presumptive nominee Hillary […]

It’s Only Money. Your Money

It is tax week 2015. If you completed your tax return on time and wrotethat check you’d much rather leave in your account, why notpour yourself a cup of coffee (or maybe a bottle of antacid relief) and plop yourself down in your favorite easy chair and sit a spell.You deserve it. While relaxing, why […]

The Romance of Poverty

On Tuesday, CNN ran what should have been a puff piece in its travel section about the wonders of visiting Cuba. The title of the piece spelled out the angle: “Why you should travel to Cuba before it looks like everywhere else.” The authors, James Williams and Daisy Carrington, write, “Cuba is not like other […]

Chicago: Economic Death Spiral After 84 Years of Democratic Control

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, after winning reelection, pronounced Chicago “the greatest city in America.” Run by Democrats for more than eight decades, Chicago should serve as a showplace that reflects the wonderful world of “progressive policies.” Public schools are a mess, and the city’s finances place their bonds at near junk level. In 2013, the […]

‘Little Boy’: A classic modern film

There are classic films, like the ones on TCM and AMC, and there are modern films. There are few modern classics. “Little Boy,” in theaters April 24, could be a modern classic. The film is set in a Southern California town during World War II. A couple’s oldest son, London Busbee (David Henrie), is drafted, […]

China Finally Stops Fighting the Stock Market

Although China’s economy has been leading the world in annualized growth since the days that mobile phones had retractable antennas, there have always been some aspects of the country’s commercial and financial system that loudly broadcast the underlying illogic of a Communist Party’s firm control of burgeoning capitalism. China’s stock markets were one such venue […]

Girl Knocked Out by 30 Foot Fall Inside a Hollow Tree Claims She Went to Heaven, Met Jesus, and Then Woke Up Cured of a Lifelong Illness (WATCH)

Miracles happen — there’s no denying this. And one family is certainly grateful for the miracle that kept their daughter alive after she fell 30 feet inside a hollow tree, and somehow survived. A nine-year-old girl who plummeted 30ft headfirst down the inside of a hollow tree claims she ‘went to heaven and sat in […]

[VIDEO] Suspect rammed by speeding police car, the result is caught on tape.

An Arizona man was severely injured after an Arizona police officer made a decision to hit him with his car.  The man was a danger to others and the officer sought to end the threat abruptly and immediately.  The video is shocking. [ot-video type=”youtube” url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b8V3fxN-EM”] Intense dash cam footage released Tuesday shows an Arizona officer […]