My apartment in Meudon is about 7 km away as the crow flies from the Eiffel Tower. On the fourth floor of my building the tower is easy to see. Yet for centuries Meudon was in the countryside, not a suburb of Paris like it is today (the suburban train to the tower takes 15 […]
(NA) On Tuesday, GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and Democratic Rep. Josh Harder reintroduced the End Kidney Deaths Act. This law would give kidney donors who donate kidneys to strangers a $50,000 “fully refundable” tax credit, and thereby incentivize organ donation. Currently, some 40,000 Americans die each year of kidney failure, for lack of available organs. […]
President Trump blinked today after his “Liberation Day” tariff/taxes catastrophe led to the worst S & P stock market performance for the start of a presidency since George W. Bush’s first term. Trump reduced his blanket tariff for most nations to 10% (for 90 days) while raising tariff/taxes on imports from China. Tariff/taxes remain on […]
People looking for fresh lobster know where to go on Cape Cod. For 50 years, third-generation fisherman Jon Tolley has welcomed customers to his Yarmouth home, where he offers the day’s catch. His father did the same thing at the same home, using a home-based business model that Tolley’s grandfather pioneered in 1930 at a […]
We’re doing a trade war: It’s just not quite as extensive as previously feared. President Donald Trump announced yesterday, after more market bloodbath, that he would pause the implementation of his reciprocal tariffs (the higher-level ones) for 90 days, but that the 10 percent universal tariffs would remain in place and that tariffs on Chinese products […]
One of the statues that was taken down in the 2020 purge of the Southern statues was that of the great American statesman from South Carolina, John. C. Calhoun. The then mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, John Tecklenburg, said that “while we acknowledge Calhoun’s efforts as a statesman, we can’t ignore his positions on slavery and discrimination.” […]
Russia and Iran are at the forefront of the multi-layered Eurasia integration process – the most crucial geopolitical development of the young 21st century. Both are top members of BRICS+ and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Both are seriously implicated as Global Majority leaders to build a multi-nodal, multipolar world. And both have signed, in late January […]
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Americans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny. Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy. It was the day you had to pay your income taxes. Americans have been subjected to a tax on their working lives for less than half of their […]
4/10/1967: Loving v. Virginia argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: April 10 Read More Article from Reason.com