Month: March 2022

Californian Businessman Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison for Illegal China Arms Deals

A businessman in southern California was sentenced on March 30 to one year and one day in prison for illegally brokering sales of embargoed arms from China to the United States, and for falsifying the correlating tax returns. Xie Tuqiang pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and filing a false tax return…


IRS Five Times More Likely to Audit Low-Income Filers Than All Others, Including Top 1 Percent: Watchdog

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials audit returns of taxpayers making $25,000 or less at a much higher rate than for all other income earners, including those in the top 1 percent who President Joe Biden claims pay nothing, according to a nonprofit government watchdog. “So far, it has completed 132,922 audits of these low-income wage…


Book Review: ‘Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States’

A small college town in southern Pennsylvania is the home of the most famous, the most bloody, and the most decisive battle of the Civil War. It is also home to one of the most famous speeches in American history. The town of Gettysburg has a population of less than 8,000. In July of 1863,…


Maryland Lawmakers Approve New Congressional Map After Judge Tossed Old Version

Lawmakers in Maryland have approved a congressional map to replace a version deemed unconstitutional by a judge, even as the state’s attorney general appeals the judges ruling. Both chambers in the Maryland General Assembly this week approved the new map, contained in Senate Bill 1012. The state Senate passed the measure 30-10, and the state…


Careless Whisper (New Album Release) – Alexandr Misko

“Careless Whisper” – This song is legendary and Alexandr Misko has finally made a proper arrangement of it. Tuning: CFD#GG#C, CGD#GA#D (Capo 4th fret) @ Alexandr Misko https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdZe3OmKYiIwyrLFEEbNwVw https://www.facebook.com/alexandrmisko


Markets and Private Property, Not Government, Protect the Environment

Commentary  Each century presents its unique set of problems for lovers of freedom, peace, and prosperity. While the great vanguards of liberty in the 20th century dealt with the looming shadow of centralization and were engaged in a battle against socialists and statists who argued for centralization and adjudication of individual liberty for the sake of universal…


A Lesson From Aristotle

Commentary To listen to The Narrative emanating from the White House, you might think that inflation was Vladimir Putin’s fault. He invaded Ukraine, didn’t he, and gas prices spiked? “Make no mistake,” President Joe Biden said in mid-March. “The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin.” Ah, Putin. Is there…


First Nations Delegates Meet With Pope Francis

A First Nations chief, Gerald Antoine, said Thursday that their meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican will be the beginning of a partnership, as Canadian indigenous communities call for an official apology from the Catholic Church over the residential schools. “We very much hope that these discussions will be the beginning of continued dialogue…


US State Department Warns Russia May Detain Americans, Urges Them to Leave

The U.S. State Department this week warned that Russia may detain Americans and urged U.S. citizens to leave the country amid the conflict in Ukraine. In a travel advisory warning on Wednesday, the agency said that Russian officials may single out and detain U.S. citizens in Russia before repeating earlier warnings for citizens not to…


Washington State School District Adopts ‘Culturally Responsive’ Student Discipline Policy

A school district in Washington state has adopted what it calls a “culturally responsive” student discipline policy that takes into account race and ethnic background in doling out punishment. On March 14, the policy was passed by a vote of 3-2 by the Clover Park School District Board of Directors in Lakewood.  The board’s two…