Are Republicans actually serious about abolishing the IRS?

America is an increasingly multiracial society. Despite its early history of slavery and racial segregation, and ongoing bias and tensions, the United States remains one of the few contemporary multiracial constitutional systems that have actually worked.

The derogatory term “welfare queen” was so 1980s and ‘90s, when Republicans and even some Democrats were looking to reform welfare programs. President Biden, by contrast, is doing all he can to expand the number of people receiving means-tested welfare. That makes him the welfare king.

If a society strives to achieve “equity” for every citizen merely by providing equal opportunity, it would need to accept unequal outcomes. If a society does not accept unequal outcomes…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 30, 2023 The Ways and Means Committee released Mr. Trump’s individual and business filings from 2015 to 2020. The release caps Chairman Richard Neal’s yearslong campaign, which he claims is meant to expose the Internal Revenue Service for slow-footing mandatory audits of the President. “Our review found that under the prior Administration,...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – January 2, 2023 The most important divide in American politics isn’t red versus blue. It’s civic pluralists versus political zealots. This is the truth no one in Washington acknowledges but Americans must realize if we’re going to recover. Civic pluralists understand that ideas move the world more than power does, which is why pluralists...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – December 27, 2022 On the menu today: I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears someone is attacking the electrical power grid of the Seattle area, which comes after a series of similar incidents elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest as well as in...

Have you ever boarded an airliner during a rainstorm and then, minutes later, broken through the clouds to bright sunshine? It can be quite startling. People blink like moles emerging from their burro Source: Let’s not let the doomsayers and clouds spoil our Christmas – Washington Times

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – December 23, 2022 Here’s a Christmas present from Stanford University. They apparently won’t ban the use of “American” after all. Hurray for them. In May, the college administration published a list of words to be scrubbed from the university’s website and computer code, including describing someone as an “American.” It has to go because...

The FBI on Wednesday finally broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included efforts to suppress information and censor political speech.