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Remittances sent by illegal aliens cost America at least $30 BILLION every year—and this is using the lowest estimate of America's illegal population. Remittances function similarly to a maximally inefficient tax, in that wealth is dispatched from the local economy, effectively reducing the velocity of money to zero. This causes all sorts of liquidity problems in smaller communities, and kills local economies. And for what? To make Carlos Slim rich.

Watching someone shoot a .50 BMG is always exciting. Of course safety should always be adhere to. This also includes having a great backstop. When a .50 projectile skip off the ground, they can take off in any direction. Its a good thing this shooter is on a gun range thats out in the middle of nowhere. This is the case with this shooter on Youtube who is armed with a rifle chambered in the mighty .50 BMG caliber. When he fires a tracer round, the bullet skips off the ground and ends up arcing up into the air with...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) As always, the fake news media was lying to you. – Yesterday was tax day, and millions upon millions of Americans found out that, as is always the case when it comes to President Donald Trump and his policies, the fake news media has been lying to them for 15 solid months about the impacts the Trump tax cuts would have on their own income tax bills. The fake news media has spent every day since the bill was passed in December, 2017 telling the Big Lie, reciting its joint talking points...

Monday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN) (snip) … said, “You know the Republicans in the Senate changed the numbers of justices on the Supreme Court to eight. Until they took power. Then they changed it back to nine. A lot of what we’re talking about is no less a shattering of norms than what the other side has done. …" He added, “Most Americans don’t want this. Most Americans don’t want the conservative agenda that we are now seeing, the extreme agenda, we are seeing in Washington. In fact, it is precisely...

Wer sind diese Menschen mit schwarzen Tüchern an einem der 2 Türme ..... eine halbe Stunde zu Beginn des Feuers der Kathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris . #NotreDame #France 🇫🇷‼️‼️‼️ Who are these people with black cloths at one of the 2 towers ..... half an hour to the beginning of the fire of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris. #NotreDame #France 🇫🇷! ️! ️! ️(Google Translate)

Rep. Maxine Waters is embracing corporate campaign contributions as the new chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, even as some progressive Democrats have sworn off fundraising from businesses. **SNIP** Even industries that Waters has bashed were willing to make contributions to the new chairwoman. TransUnion's PAC gave $5,000 to her campaign on Feb. 15, two weeks before its CEO testified with other credit reporting executives at a Financial Services hearing intended to showcase their companies' shortcomings. Other corporate PACs that contributed to Waters' campaign included those operated by Amazon, NASDAQ and the Independent Community Bankers of America. Boeing and...

by Jenn Carter On Monday, the world reacted in horror as the nearly 900-year old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was nearly completely destroyed by fire. Horrific flames quickly engulfed the entire core structure, and after 2 hours, the iconic spire collapsed, along with most of the roof and its 210 tons of lead. That's what we know. Here's what we don't: What caused it? Well the media seems to have focused on one reason, and one reason only: the cathedral was "under construction" -- a reported $7 million project lasting years, and scheduled to complete just this year. Therefore...

The bill, now headed to the U.S. House, would make it easier for states to use federal funds to create public gun ranges (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)A bipartisan measure designed to boost the number of shooting ranges available on public land passed the U.S. Senate last week. The proposal, S.94, was introduced in January by U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV and Michael Bennet, D-Colo. The bill, which was reported favorably from the Committee on Environment and Public Works in February, passed the chamber as a whole in a voice vote on April 10 and now goes to the House for...

The Afternoon Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) As Notre Dame Cathedral burns to the ground, the Democrat Party leadership threatens to join it. – Nancy Pelosi was featured in a puff piece interview with reliable Democrat activist Leslie Stahl on CBS’ “60 Minutes” fake news program Sunday evening. At one point, Stahl pointed out the different groups within the House Democratic caucus. “You have these wings — AOC and her group on one side,” Stahl said. “That’s like five people,” Pelosi smirked. Stahl responded by correcting the Speaker, saying that the “progressive group is more than five.” “Well,...

RUSH: There is fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, and it looks huge. The wooden roof appears to be on the way to becoming fully engulfed. There was originally just a small plume of smoke that came out of it from a distant photographer, but now they’ve got news cameras in there, and it is massive, this fire at Notre Dame. It has preempted coverage of the imminent release of the Mueller report on all of cable news. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Notre Dame Cathedral continues to burn. The main spire there has collapsed. That’s one of the identifying...

You may not have the respect of Democrats, but you certainly have mine For those who missed it, Candice Owens testified before the Congressional hate crimes committee last week, and she ripped the Democrats a new one in her opening statement. The hate crimes committee was convened to examine “white nationalism” and “hate crimes”, and Candice blew that narrative out of the water in her opening statement:

Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and the two other radicals are not just the bit players in Speaker Pelosi’s “like five people” description to Stahl, they’re front and centre, in the Battle To Take Down America The CBS Television Network Tweet on the Nancy Pelosi “like five people” explanation of the radicals swept into power in 2018 Midterm elections tells the whole story of what the Democrat Party and the mainstream media are really up to: The CBS Tweet sent out 7:15 p.m., Sunday night:

Some thoughts on Ilhan Omar's tepid reaction to the September 11th attacks, and what it tells us both about Islam and the left's respect for it.

VIDEO Joe Biden keeps kicking the announcement for his 2020 presidential candidacy down the road. The latest can kick involved him supposedly making his announcement by Easter which now appears not to be happening. This video examines the REAL reason why Biden keeps delaying his campaign announcement which is not about his many creepy #MeToo moments and has everything to do with corrupt activity with a natural gas company in Ukraine. Ironically, as we shall see, the one making the corruption allegation is none other than Joe Biden himself.

Happy Tax Day, All. Of course, this is America. EVERY day is Tax Day. Please – raise your hand if you think we aren’t paying enough taxes on enough things. I don’t see a whole lot of hands. In addition to income taxes, We the People pay taxes (or fees, which are taxes) on-and/or-for most or all of the following: Property, sales, marriage licenses, schools, vehicles, recreational vehicles, drivers’ licenses, vehicle license plates, fishing licenses, hunting licenses, business licenses, personal license fees, waste management, water, cigarettes, courts, dogs, cats, gifts, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, unemployment, gifts, estates, gasoline, biodiesel, gun...

Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-Vt) hopes his “Medicare for All” plan will win him votes. Currently, Medicare covers only those age 65 and older. Many like it because its strict price controls keep their out-of-pocket costs low. Health care providers make up the losses incurred serving Medicare beneficiaries by charging other patients more. If all are covered by Medicare this offset would no longer be available. Sanders explained that his plan explicitly outlaws private health insurance “because no one should have the option of seeking more or less coverage than the government decides they need. The notion that...

I’m so old I remember when the Left was outraged to the point of hysteria by a comment made by Rush Limbaugh made about Barack Hussein Obama –“I hope he fails.” Although he was clearly speaking of the policies he intended to implement in order to “fundamentally transform America” the left screamed for Rush’s head, accused him of everything from perfidy to sedition. Incivility had already crept into the body politic with the Bush era but now we had irreconcilable sectarianism. It was the beginning of a new political nontolerance movement. That point at which working through differences became insurmountable...

The first modern income tax was levied in Britain between 1799 and 1816 to fund the Napoleonic wars, but it did not become permanent until 1874. Similarly the United States adopted a like measure during the Civil War, but it was not institutionalized until the ratification of the 16th amendment to the Constitution in 1913. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ~ Frédéric Bastiat A government that robs Peter...

I recently made a trip to Disney World with some of my family and grandchildren. It was an enjoyable experience and though I have my criticisms of Disney and all it represents, I was left with an overall positive view of Disney's accomplishments and enterprise. I was especially appreciative (and somewhat surprised) of the theme park's adherence to a traditional and positive view of American history. I had wrongly assumed that Disney would have succumbed to the pressures of political correctness and toned down its patriotism. I was pleasantly proven wrong.

"Hero." "Echoes of the Kennedys." "Very inspiring." "Good in every way." "Witty, charming, human, compassionate." You get the idea. In the wake of his announcement speech of yesterday, today's Morning Joe was a veritable Pete Buttigieg love-in. In addition to Joe and Mika singing his praises, all the panelists joined in the chorus. And beyond the glorification of Buttigieg, there were pointed shots taken at the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Beto O'Rourke. Donny Deutsch, who called Buttigieg a "hero," said that no one would have used the word for Hillary. And Mika suggested that "putting it kindly," Democrats "missed...