More Americans say their financial situation has improved since President Donald Trump took office, and fewer low-income Americans report that they are “struggling” to make ends meet, a new Monmouth University Poll finds. The national survey of 801 American adults (18 and older), conducted April 11-15, 2019, asked: “Thinking about your current financial situation, would […]
It should come as no surprise most Americans saw a lower federal tax burden following the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Tax Foundation data reveals 80 percent of filers saw a substantially lower federal tax liability following federal tax reform – and only 5 percent of filers saw a significantly higher tax liability. The […]
(CNSNews.com) – An emotional Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, at a Sunday afternoon news conference, thanked President Donald Trump for his words of “comfort and consolation” following the shooting on Saturday at a synagogue near San Diego. “I see a sight that is indescribable,” Goldstein said, as he described the act of evil on the final day […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) has not condemned or otherwise reacted to the suicide bombings targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the most important day of the Christian calendar. With the death toll in the bombings having risen to above 320, according to Sri Lankan authorities, the White […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Republican Jewish Coalition on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont of seeking to score points with the party’s “energized” left wing by describing the Israeli government as “racist.” Reacting to Sanders’ use of the epithet to describe Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently-reelected government, and comments indicating that as […]
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), led by Secretary Ben Carson, is reportedly drafting a rule to force illegal aliens from living in taxpayer-subsidized public housing. Currently, Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act allows illegal aliens to reside in public housing if they are living with relatives who are eligible […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sri Lanka’s government has blamed a little-known local Islamist group for the Easter Sunday bombings, but officials and security experts suspect global jihadists were connected to the deadly attack. “There must be a wider international network behind it,” cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told reporters of the coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels […]
(CNSNews.com) – Weeks before President Trump took office, he and his transition team tried energetically to thwart a major U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel, according to the partially-redacted Mueller report released on Thursday. Those efforts were a foreshadowing of what would became a signature policy of the Trump administration’s dealings with the U.N., where […]
“Oh, no! We’re in Virginia,” House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) exclaimed after she realized she’d told a Virginia press conference that they were in Maryland. At a press event marking the start of the Democratic Issues Conference in Leesburg, Virginia Wednesday, Rep. Pelosi told the crowd she was pleased to be “in this great […]
There are some fortunate people (in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Monaco, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, and a few other places) who don’t have to pay income taxes. The United States used to be in that lucky club. The income tax did not become a permanent blight upon the nation until 1913 (there was a temporary income tax during […]
