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A TAXING SITUATION
by Burt Prelutsky
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Monday Top Headlines
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The Free Beacon was Fusion GPS’ “Republican client” (Hot Air)
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Nunes’ investigating digs up trove of Democrat connections to Russia dossier (The Washington Times)
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McConnell readies Senate confirmation votes for four appeals judges (The Daily Signal)
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Democrats have done a 180 on corporate taxes. Here’s what they said last year. (The Daily Signal)
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Former NPR CEO: I changed my mind about supporting gun control after writing book on conservative America (The Washington Free Beacon)
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IRS rehired employees previously fired as security risks (Reason)
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Puerto Rico to cancel $300 million contract to repair electric infrastructure (Bloomberg)
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Historic Virginia church to move plaques honoring Robert E. Lee and George Washington (The Hill)
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California clears first hurdle to breaking into three states (Washington Examiner)
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Most Texans kneel during anthem after owner’s comments (Associated Press)
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Their caliphate in ruins, Islamic State militants melt into the desert (Associated Press)
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Policy: Combating the racism of anti-racism in education (American Enterprise Institute)
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Policy: Why does the U.S. have such an outlier child poverty rate? Our immigration system has a lot to do with it (Manhattan Institute ~The Patriot Post
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Paul Manafort, Rick Gates
indicted by federal grand jury in Russia probe
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by Brooke Singman
{foxnews.com} ~ Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates have been indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on 12 counts... according to the special counsel’s office. The special counsel’s office told Fox News that the counts include conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign banks and financial accounts. The case was unsealed Monday, after Manafort and Gates were permitted to surrender themselves to the custody of the FBI, the special counsel’s office told Fox News...Mueller this is BS. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/30/paul-manafort-rick-gates-indicted-by-federal-grand-jury-in-russia-probe.html
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Union Thugs and Non-Americans 
Bait Citizen To Drive Forward, Mob Attacks
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{rickwells.us} ~ The system in Southern California, worse than but not that different from anywhere else in the compromised state of America... has once again protected the law breaking foreign parasites and criminalized the law-abiding US Citizens. Organized and led by the leftist SEIU, this group of agitators and thugs was marching and blocking traffic in Brea, California. With police as enforcers, they beat their drums, held signs and generally created a BLM style nuisance of themselves.  It’s obvious from the blare of a horn that one motorist didn’t appreciate it, maybe he had something that was important to do. Anything is more important than indulging demanding foreigners, many of whom, judging from their inability to speak our language, shouldn’t be here in the first place... https://rickwells.us/union-thugs-non-americans-mob/
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House Intel Committee Reaches 
Agreement With Fusion GPS on Bank Records
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Yesterday the attorney’s for Fusion GPS and the House Intelligence Committee agreed to terms for releasing the bank records...  The intel committee will receive the bank records to continue their investigation, but the documents will be sealed from public scrutiny. During the week-long negotiations between Fusion GPS and congressional lawyers, multiple funding sources were mysteriously leaked.  One of the leaks showed The Washington Free Beacon and billionaire Paul Singer initially contracted with Fusion GPS in 2015 for initial opposition research against candidate Donald Trump, seemingly for the benefit of WFB and Singer’s preferred candidate Marco Rubio. That commissioned research ended in March/April of 2016 when it was clear that Rubio could not win the nomination...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/28/house-intel-committee-reaches-agreement-with-fusion-gps-on-bank-records-pdf-of-judicial-order/
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CNN’s Undisclosed Ties To Fusion GPS
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by CHUCK ROSS AND PETER HASSON
{dailycaller.com} ~ CNN’s reporting on the Trump-Russia dossier has left out at least one crucial fact... the close ties between the network and the opposition research firm at the center of the dossier controversy. CNN’s reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier’s credibility. Left out of Perez’s reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS’ operatives. Fusion has repeatedly been described in Senate testimonies as a smear-for-hire operation that manufactures misleading or false media narratives for its clients. Glenn Simpson, the Fusion co-founder most often associated with the dossier, is used to working on stories with Perez. As reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Perez and Simpson regularly co-authored stories on national security...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/28/cnns-undisclosed-ties-to-fusion-gps/
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GOP, Dems Playing 
'Same Dangerous Game' on Russia
 
{newsmax.com} ~ Alan Dershowitz said Saturday that "the Republicans and Democrats are playing the same dangerous game" amid reports that special counsel Robert Mueller... has obtained a grand jury indictment in the probe in Russian meddling in last year's election. "If they don't like something, they say: 'Crime, lock her up, lock him up, impeach,'" the Harvard Law School professor emeritus told "Fox & Friends" on Fox News. "That's not the way this works. "There is no crime to create a dossier unless somebody said to somebody else: 'Do something criminal. Hack the Democratic National Committee. Do something illegal.'...Indict liar-nObama and lira-Hillary.  https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/robert-mueller-alan-dershowitz-russia-democrats/2017/10/28/id/822678/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1760784_10292017&s=al&dkt_nbr=0105027g9589
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A TAXING SITUATION
by Burt Prelutsky


You well might wonder why anyone who isn’t an illegal alien or on welfare continues to live in California. In our own case, it’s because my wife and I are too old to move and re-settle in some more civilized part of the country. Rumor has it that there are still a few. 

Still, whenever I hear Arizona mentioned, I find myself wondering why it is that such an alleged bastion of conservatism keeps electing the likes of RINO-Jeff Flake and RINO-John McCain. At least in California, Democrats don’t call themselves Republicans.

This is a state that taxes everything, but, mainly, our patience. It is a peculiar state because while it has more registered Republicans than any other, they’re out-numbered 3-2 by Democrats. That’s what happens when you have 40 million people, roughly 13% of the nation’s population, and probably 30% of the illegal aliens, stuck in one place.

Although all our major offices are held by the likes of Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, Nancy Pulosi, Mad-Maxine Waters, Brad Sherman and scum-Adam Schiff, we still have a few decent politicians in lesser positions. One of those is State Senator Jeff Stone, a Republican, who periodically lets us know what the vermin are up to in Sacramento.

He recently reported on some of the bills, bonds and laws, that were either passed or are currently pending.

● They include raising our gas tax by approximately 20 cents a gallon and our vehicle license fee by an average of $100.

● They proposed increasing the tax on tap water. I assume air will be the next item on their tax agenda.

● They passed a $3.46 billion bond to pay for parks in “disadvantaged communities.” That will be a boon to drug pushers who will have more pleasant surroundings in which to sell heroin and crack.

● They have merely proposed a law to release any prisoner serving a life sentence murder, rape, child molestation, etc. who is 60 years old and has already spent 25 years behind bars. But one assumes it will be passed because the Democrats are always claiming the prisons are too crowded. Of course, they wouldn’t be so crowded if the Democrats didn’t go a hundred years between building new ones. In addition, I now have to worry that Charley Manson might be moving next door in the near-future.

The legislators, as usual, are doing the bidding of the unions, by ordering Tesla to either unionize with the UAW or forfeit state incentives to buy their electric cars.  You might be surprised that the Democrats would side with the unions in a face-off with the environmentalists, but in any competition between two of its voting blocs, the group with the most voters and the deepest pockets will always prevail.

● The Democrats are looking to reduce from a felony to a misdemeanor the intentional transmission of the AIDS virus to an unknowing partner. As shown time and again, the Democrats are against anything that might curtail promiscuous sexual activity.

● The California legislature has opted to give preferential treatment to prisoners convicted of serious crimes who are less than 25 years old. That’s because, or so it’s claimed, their brains are not mature enough to understand right from wrong. But, clearly, at least until most of them start supporting Republicans, they will still be allowed to vote at 18. But the numbskulls are just getting started. Other items on their to-do list include:

● Passing a bill to require our biological sex be omitted from drivers’ licenses.

● Offering free legal services for illegal immigrants

● Establishing safe “injection zones,” monitored by the state to oversee addicts shooting up heroin. God forbid drug addicts be allowed to face the natural consequences of their voluntary addiction.

On top of all that, our legislators found the time to pick the official state dinosaur. I assumed that would be Jerry Brown, but apparently, I was mistaken. Instead, they chose the Augustynolophus morissi. It takes its honored place alongside the red-legged frog, the desert turtle and denim, as our official state amphibian, reptile and, yes, we actually have an official state fabric.

● Speaking of California, rumor has it that the recent fires that devastated our wine industry and killed dozens of people were set by a couple of twice-deported Mexican aliens. I have always contended that arson should not only be a capital crime, but that the appropriate means of execution is readily apparent.

● An Italian journalist, Giulio Meotti, recently wrote a spirited defense of Israel. 

Although, unlike the anti-Semite who occupied the Oval Office for the previous eight years, President Trump has pledged his whole-hearted support of Israel, he has yet to carry through on his promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, leaving Israel the only nation on earth where our embassy is not situated in the capital city.

It is high time, we quit paying extortion to Israel’s enemies and our own.

● The problem I have when people refer to those who experienced the Great Depression and World War II as the “Greatest Generation” is that those are the very same folks who sired and raised the spoiled and unpatriotic baby boomers who, starting in the 1960s, have done so much to screw up America.  

It’s a group that includes such prominent scumbags as the liar-Clintons, the liar-nObamas, Chuck clown-Schumer, Al Gore and, of course, Harvey Weinstein.

● While we’re on the subject of baby boomer Weinstein, Ed Rolanty let me know that the thing about the sex scandal he finds increasingly annoying is how many people refer to the courage of the actresses coming forth with new allegations.

“To my way of thinking,” Mr. Rolanty writes, “if you’re the 37th complainant, or even the second or third, long after the media has eviscerated the perpetrator, you are about as courageous as someone who stormed the beaches of Normandy in June of 2017.”

Moreover, some of the year’s best performances are being delivered by the actors and actresses who insist they knew nothing about Weinstein’s behavior until a few weeks ago. But even they are not quite as detestable as those like Ben Affleck, who piled on, apparently oblivious to the fact that their own sexual misdeeds would soon be garnering headlines. The only thing more contemptible than a man who uses his position to demand sexual favors is one who adds hypocrisy to his resume.

● Jimmy Kimmel, who has turned himself into a late-night megaphone for the Never-Trumpers, actually laughed about turning off the Republican half of his potential viewership, saying: “I wouldn’t even want to talk to those people.”

It does make you wonder about the sponsors and networks that they are so content to let braying donkeys like Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher, cost them millions of viewers and billions of dollars. Is it possible that the likes of George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, are subsidizing their losses?

Nothing else makes sense.

● We keep hearing about income inequality. But the question that a lot more people should be asking is: Why nobody ever seems to mention effort inequality?
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