On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Texas v. United States on whether a federal judge was correct in striking down Obamacare. On this episode, Michael Boldin gives an overview of what the case is about – and what needs to be done to take on the ACA – whether the courts strike it down, or not.
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Taxation is (really complicated) Theft
The Taxpayer Advocate Service just released a road map of the “modern” US tax system and just as you might expect it is a mess of government agencies (that don’t communicate with each other), rules and laws that the average person is just not going to take the time to wade through.
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson released the map Wednesday. “Anyone looking at this map will understand that we have an incredibly complex tax system that is almost impossible for the average taxpayer to navigate,” said Olson, who is retiring at the end of this month.
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Ross Perot: Bush Told Saddam Go Ahead and Take the Northern Oil Fields
Via Ry Dawson, the closest we’ll ever see to accountability for a Bush.
lol wut
“I know in 2019, looking back at 2008, things look different,” Acosta said, alleging that “today’s world treats victims very, very differently.”
Hey, it was the 70s. Everyone was on ludes and reading old beat poets. We had brown paisley shirts with big lapels. Man it was groovy. The age of consent was 14 back then. Things are way different now.
Veterans: Never Should Have Fought the Terror Wars
What a shame. You know, it didn’t have to be this way at all.
Forget stupid loser crank Al Gore winning instead. If Bush had only had anyone but Dick Cheney for VP and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz over at Defense, then Colin Powell would have been his man on foreign policy and the whole damn thing would have ended in 2002.
Don’t get me wrong, Powell is still a war criminal for going along and lying us into war, but it wasn’t his policy to expand the war.
No Iraq War II means no war in Libya, Mali, Syria, no Islamic State or Iraq War III. He probably would have wanted to stay in Afghanistan though, and who knows what else, but it definitely didn’t have to be like this: 7,000 dead Americans; a million-plus dead innocent people who had nothing to do with attacking us; as many widows and orphans; Christian, Druze, Yazidi, Turkmen, Kurds, Tuaregs, and millions more Sunni and Shia Arabs displaced and “cleansed” from their homes where their tribes had lived for thousands of years; domestic police state solidified; budget completely busted; capitalism completely corrupted; lost everything anyway; America disgraced permanently.
That must be why the rest of yall drink so much.
Jerusalem Post Concerned For Palestinians Killed In Syria
Anna Arohnheim at The Jerusalem Post laments that over 4,000 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since 2011. But, why were they in Syria? Why were they in refugee camps in Syria to begin with?
Most of the Palestine refugees who fled to the Syrian Arab Republic in 1948 were from the northern part of Palestine, mainly from Safad and the cities of Haifa and Jaffa. A further 100,000 people, including Palestine refugees, fled from the Golan Heights to other parts of Syria when the area was occupied by Israel. A few thousand refugees fleeing war-torn Lebanon in 1982 also took refuge in Syria.
Who Owns The US Government? Hint, Not The American People
President Trump doubled as chief dealmaker on Tuesday.
“We’re going to be signing a document today, very large transaction,” said Trump. “It’s a transaction that will be purchasing a lot of Boeing jets, that means a lot of jobs,” he added without elaborating.
Following the meeting, the White House released specifics on the transaction, which includes five Boeing 777 freighters. The value of the deal, which was first announced at the Paris Airshow, is nearly $2 billion.
Several other U.S. companies are also getting business from Qatar including, Gulfstream, owned by General Dynamics, for large-cabin aircraft. Raytheon will sell NASAM and Patriot Systems to Qatar’s Ministry of Defense, General Electric will see an order for jet engines that power 787 and 777 planes and Chevron-Phillips Chemical, a unit owned by the two companies, will work with Qatar Petroleum on development of a petrochemical plant along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Washed-Up Russiagate Hack Isikoff Smashed Even By the Post Over His Latest Melted Scoop
Not that the liberals have learned a damn thing after getting burned for the last three years, but, via Bernard, even the Washington Post wasn’t going for Michael “Wrote a Book Based on the Steele Dossier” Isikoff’s latest claim, that the supposed connection between the leaked emails and Seth Rich was invented by the Russians. It wasn’t.
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