I Got Yer Exploding Bullets Right Here
Here is Kevin Williamson over at National Review: I Was Promised Exploding Bullets! You know, Charlie, I have been looking all over for some of those “exploding bullets” I keep reading about, but I am unable to find any for sale. The reason for that is that — cool as “exploding bullets” sounds! — they…
Trump’s Immigration Id Is Coming to the White House
Thomas Homan, at the time the acting ICE director, at the California-Mexico border in May 2018 after a press conference where then Attorney General Jeff Sessions highlighted the administration’s new family separation policy.Sandy Huffaker/Getty On Friday morning, while celebrating his birthday by calling into Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump began rattling off the “fantastic…
Chart of the Day: Corporate Profits Are Up, Corporate Taxes Are Down
Politico reports on the impact of the Republican tax cut: Federal tax payments by big businesses are falling much faster than anticipated in the wake of Republicans’ tax cuts, providing ammunition to Democrats who are calling for corporate tax increases. The U.S. Treasury saw a 31 percent drop in corporate tax revenues last year, almost…
Ayanna Pressley Wants to Ditch an Old Anti-Abortion Law. House Democrats Aren’t Listening.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks to demonstrators outside of the Supreme Court on May 21, 2019.Stefani Reynolds/AP Images The Democratic majority in the US House appears likely to pass a spending bill which will include the Hyde Amendment, a measure that blocks federal funds from being spent on abortions, despite clear opposition from the the party’s base and…
Here’s the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill That Trump Killed
Via the New York Times, here is an early prototype of the Harriet Tubman version of the $20 bill: Apparently the Times has good sources within the Bureau of Engraving! They report that this design was completed back in 2016: The development of the note did not stop there. A current employee of the bureau,…
A Researcher Found a Bunch of Voting Machine Passwords Online
Kelly Owen/Zuma Press A little more than a week ago the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it was going to forensically analyze computer equipment associated with part of the 2016 elections in North Carolina in association with questions about Russian hacking. The news prompted an information security researcher to announce last week that he’d…