IRS Increasing Mileage Rate Deduction
If you use a vehicle for business purposes and deduct annual mileage, we’ve got some good news for you: effective July 1, the Internal Revenue Service is raising the standard mileage allowance from 51 cents per mile (applicable for miles driven from January 1 to June 30) to 55.5 cents per mile. The rate for […]
Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
Iceland maybe the first true free nation, and it intends to remain so, as long as its citizens wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers. On April 9, the fiercely independent people of island-nation defeated a referendum that would have bailed out the UK […]
Gaza Muslims Using Google Earth for Terrorists Target Selection
But they really, really want peace. So go on… give ‘em a State: Gaza’s Islamic terrorists have a new tool helping them to fire on innocent civilians living in southern Israel – the popular satellite mapping program Google Earth. A group of terrorists from the Al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades recently described their use of the program […]
Senate Committee to Hold Field Hearing on Gulf Spill Recovery
The April 20, 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico devastated the Gulf economy, which, more than a year later, has yet to fully recover from the disaster. In en effort to explore relief efforts and “lessons learned” from the spill, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will hold a field hearing […]
South African Watchdog Declares Israel an Apartheid State
South African Watchdog Declares Israel an Apartheid State The accusation that Israel is an “apartheid state” is a deliberate misuse of language as part of a larger strategy to erode the Israeli state’s legitimacy and deserves to be confronted. This is particularly true when it occurs in South Africa where the term “apartheid” carries extra emotional and […]
Terminally Ill: Medical Journal Infected With Anti-Israel Bias
Terminally Ill: Medical Journal Infected With Anti-Israel Bias The UK medical journal, The Lancet, has returned to its annual Israel-bashing issue exploring health conditions in the Palestinian territories. Last year, the journal employed active supporters of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel as supposedly expert commentators on the situation, which earned it […]
Obama Stimulus Funded ‘Guns-to-Drug-Lords’
Just a day after U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s removal, alleging a White House connection to the “Project Gunrunner” that allowed weapons to be delivered to Mexican drug lords, confirmation has come that the program originated at the highest levels of the Obama administration. The link is the $10 […]
Chart of the Week: Tax Burden Is Rising to Highest Level in History
President Obama will meet with congressional leaders tomorrow to resume talks on the debt limit. The rare Sunday meeting between top Republicans and Democrats could signal the start of “hard bargaining” after Thursday’s debt talks left the parties far apart. While Democrats want tax increases on the table in debt negotiations, Republicans have reiterated their “no tax-hike” stance […]
Mullen Should Hold Firm on Freedom of the Seas during China Talks
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen will be in the People’s Republic of China for much of the next week to engage in talks with his counterparts from the People’s Liberation Army. His visit comes amidst a thaw in U.S.–Chinese military-to-military relations, capped by the visit of General Chen Bingde, chief […]
President Obama Admits Welfare Encourages Dependency
During his Twitter Townhall on Wednesday, President Obama admitted that government welfare has created dependency. He noted: I think we should acknowledge that some welfare programs in the past were not well designed and in some cases did encourage dependency.… As somebody who worked in low-income neighborhoods, I’ve seen it where people weren’t encouraged to […]
Palestinians vs American Poverty Rate, Not far Apart
The Palestinian Authority is facing another budget crisis, after all its July. It has reached its borrowing limit and has a 585 million dollar deficit, again. So naturally its leaders are asking the West for yet another mega handout. Back in 2007, 7.4 billion dollars was pledged to keep the terrorist edifice of the Authority […]
