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Despite the natural sympathy for a dying man, the revisionist attempt to erase his failures and their consequences should not prevail.The stock of historical figures rises and falls with the changing times that follow them. That is especially true for presidents. Examples of these top leaders whose reputations have risen and fallen in succeeding generations abound. Some who exit office with low popularity ratings wind up being thought of with respect once the immediate political circumstances pass, and both historians and the public are able to judge their achievements with more dispassion.The most outstanding example of this phenomenon is Harry...

The IRS said it plans to tax some non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, as collectibles akin to art or gems — an approach that would tax profits for wealthy owners at a higher rate relative to assets such as stocks, real estate and cryptocurrency. The federal government levies taxes on collectibles held for more than a year at a top rate of 28%. It generally levies a top 20% rate on other investments. In a notice on Monday, the IRS said it intends to issue guidance regarding the treatment of certain NFTs as collectibles. NFTs are essentially one-of-a-kind digital assets, which...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• JESUS APPEARS AT THE SEA OF GALILEE ֎ Featuring 31 Paintings and 5 Windows ֎ J O H N «Chapter 21» Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias. It happened this way: Simon Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Early in the...

It’s the perfect headline for the major media’s preferred narrative, which means two things: Nearly every outlet will pick it up, and it’s mostly bogus. “So many doctors are being driven away by Idaho abortion ban that this hospital can’t deliver babies anymore,” one headline about Bonner General in Bonner County, Idaho, declared. “Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies as doctors flee over abortion ban,” the Guardian said. “Near-total ban on abortions is driving doctors away, hospital says, leading to lack of nearby labor and delivery care for thousands.” The Today Show reported it this way: “Idaho hospital closes its...

The city of Philadelphia has announced an agreement to pay a $9.25 million settlement in connection with the police response to protests after the death of George Floyd in 2020. While dozens were killed and billions of dollars of damage were done during the riots that raged across America for weeks in the summer of 2020, it is the participants themselves who will be paid restitution by the government. Law and order in the United States have now descended to a level of anarcho-tyranny in which the government funds rioters with the tax money of their victims. The slow death...

Then-Vice President Joe Biden approved an official statement in December 2015 about Hunter Biden’s position on a Ukrainian energy company’s board despite claims he was not involved with the family’s business, emails obtained from the National Archives show. Since assuming office, at least seven times Joe Biden or his communications team have outright denied, and deflected questions about, involvement in the Biden family enterprise. Biden “acted at all times in a manner consistent with well-established executive branch ethics standards,” Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the president’s campaign, said in 2019. “He carried out the Obama-Biden administration’s policies without regard to...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 25. The following dispatches have just been received by the Navy Department: CAIRO, Tuesday, March 24. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington: I have just received the following communication from Lieutenant Commander K.R. BREESE, dated Black Hawk, March 20: The Hartford is below Warrenton. Admiral FARRAGUT's secretary came on board this morning, en route to Admiral PORTER. It will take him a week, at least, to communicate and get back. He says that the Hartford passed the fort, but that the others were repulsed, and one was seen in flames. It is believed that the...

The Federal Reserve raised their target rate just once under President Obama until Donald Trump was elected. Then raised their target rate 8 times AFTER Trump was elected. In other words, Bernanke/Yellen kept the target rate near 0% for too long. When you throw the insane level of spending by Biden and Congress on top of the massive Fed stimulus. Now The Fed is trying to remove the excessive monetary stimulus by raising rates which is crushing banks. And then we have Senator Elizabeth Warren calling for an investigation into The Federal Reserve for the banking crisis without taking any...

Every single Democrat voted against the Parents Bill of Rights. It shouldn’t be surprising. Democrats want to transition school children without informing parents. If you remember, Terry McAuliffe, a gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, lost because he said parents didn’t have the right to a say in what their children are taught. “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” McAuliffe said and confirmed. Parents just wanted to know what was in the curriculum and to be informed if their child was raped by a transgender in a bathroom as in Loudoun County. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the...

Earlier this month, a state Appellate Court struck down the city of Albany’s “good cause eviction” law. Benjamin Neidl, the attorney who argued for property owners in the case, told Capital Tonight that the ruling effectively ends the conversation on a local level unless the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, decides to hear the city of Albany’s appeal. Albany was the first city to implement the policy, which requires property owners to give cause for an eviction and limited the amount that they could raise rent on tenants. The rent increases are capped at 5% with exceptions for...

President Biden could find himself roped into his son’s legal woes as an ongoing defamation case against Hunter Biden slowly makes its way through the courts and both sides gear up for discovery, legal experts told The Post. John Paul Mac Isaac, a Delaware computer repairman, filed a suit against Hunter Biden and President Biden’s campaign committee on March 1 claiming the pair sought to falsely cast the contents of Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation.” Hunter Biden dropped off his laptop at Mac Isaac’s computer repair store in Delaware in April 2019 and never returned for it. The computer drive...

I’ve been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the last month, including through the recent turmoil in the banking industry in the United States and Europe. It’s a coincidence that has, um, given me some things to think about. For those unfamiliar, the ways people in Argentina navigate the day-to-day economy can sound wild. When you don’t think you can trust the bank, the currency, or anybody in charge, things can get pretty weird pretty fast. Amid super-high inflation, people can’t bet on the value of the Argentine peso staying stable, so when they’re paid in them, they spend them fast...

After three days in jail with only Aleve as treatment, she has received surgery.

Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that an individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject. Effective January 1, 2024.

Minnesota lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that would establish the state as a "trans refuge" for children who are seeking transgender medical procedures but who may be denied "gender-affirming care" in other states. In a party-line 68-62 vote, the Minnesota House passed HF 146, which had been introduced by Rep. Leigh Finke of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Finke is the state's first transgender lawmaker. Democrats supporting the bill say the legislation will protect transgender people, their families and healthcare providers from facing legal repercussions for traveling to Minnesota to obtain cross-sex hormone prescriptions or sex-change procedures. Similar legislation has been introduced...

* Pandemic-related emergency funding from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, ended this month in most states. * For retailers like Kroger, Walmart and Dollar General, the decline in SNAP dollars will put pressure on discretionary sales. * Add in lower tax refunds on average this year, and shoppers have fewer dollars to spread around. More than 41 million Americans receive funding for food through the federal program. For those households, it will amount to at least $95 less per month to spend on groceries. Yet for many families, the drop will be even steeper since...

What happens to a culture when absolute truth is determined by a group of elites instead of spiritual morality

The Talk Shows Mar 26th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas); Toby McKeehan, better known by his stage name TobyMac, contemporary Christian music singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Commentary by Brit Hume, Trey Gowdy and Jonathan Turley. Panel: Annmarie Hordern, Lis Smith, Guy Benson and Vince Coglianese.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Joe Tacopina, personal attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump: Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, who Pres. Trump fired for...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 12 Whose Son Is the Messiah?35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David? 36 David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:“‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’[h] 37 David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”The large crowd listened to him with delight._______________________________________________________New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011...

A federal prosecutor made a rather explosive filing on Friday, admitting that three police officers helped instigate parts of the crowd on January 6th. The case, which is before US District Judge Rudolph Contreras, involves a defendant named William Pope who is seeking to uncover the videos in question. Prosecutors are none too happy about that, arguing that “unmasking” the videos would put police officers at risk ... A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The admission...