2019-Jul-02
A-5609/S-3960 (Land, Freiman, Armato, Johnson, Mukherji, Milam, Mazzeo/Sarlo, Addiego) – Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.
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VETERANS: Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee gives vets back some of their money
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
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Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review
Tuesday, July 2, 2019Why is liberalism failing? Several causes, said Putin. Among them, its failure to deal with the crisis of the age: mass and unchecked illegal migration. Putin praised Trump’s efforts to secure the U.S. border:
“This liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population. … This liberal idea presupposes that … migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants have to be protected.”
Source: Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review
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I like Pat on a “common sense” foreign and domestic policy.
I wonder if the “culture war” is lost?
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Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won’t last :: Jeff Jacoby
Tuesday, July 2, 2019Socialism is profoundly at odds with the American experience, and always has been. The Mayflower passengers who settled in Plymouth sought to build a socialist society avant la lettre, one in which, as Governor William Bradford later recounted, there would be no private ownership of property and “all profits and benefits” were to be part of “the common stock.” The settlers wanted a system in which everyone would work for the common good, and there would be no inequality of wealth. What they got was a painful lesson in socialism’s failures, with rising levels of hunger, corruption, and persecution. Only after the colony reversed course in 1623 and established private property rights did its fortunes change for the better.
Source: Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won’t last :: Jeff Jacoby
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Every time “socialism” comes up, think “Mayflower Compact”!
Every time Communist Bernie Sanders or the other “Socialists” promise free stuff, think “North / South Korea”, “East / West Berlin”, “Venezuela”, or genocide!
Argh!
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Fed Up with Facebook? Here are 6 Alternatives – Make Tech Easier
Tuesday, July 2, 2019So, you’ve finally had enough of Facebook – privacy issues, time drains, relationship-straining political debates, and all the rest. Still, social media is a valuable tool, so what are your other options?
Source: Fed Up with Facebook? Here are 6 Alternatives – Make Tech Easier
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Best way to get the big techs under control!
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Taylor Swift ‘Sad and Grossed Out’ by Big Machine Acquisition – Variety
Monday, July 1, 2019Taylor Swift has described herself as “sad and grossed out” by Scooter Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine Records, which holds the rights to her entire catalog up through 2017’s “Reputation,” calling the deal “my worst case scenario.” Swift said she was shocked to first learn of the transfer of her work through news accounts Sunday morning. Braun declined Variety‘s requests for comment.
Swift posted her impassioned reaction in a Tumblr post, which reads:“For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.
Source: Taylor Swift ‘Sad and Grossed Out’ by Big Machine Acquisition – Variety
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Sounds like Scott Borchetta as evil as any record executive industry could be?
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Acosta Tries to Embarrass Trump, but the President Had the Perfect Retort
Monday, July 1, 2019“No, not at all,” Trump shot back. “I don’t really care about offending people. I sort of thought you’d know that.”
Source: Acosta Tries to Embarrass Trump, but the President Had the Perfect Retort
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Pretty funny zinger.
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