Donald Trump has made good on one of his most audacious campaign promises by submitting what he describes as the biggest tax cut in U.S. History. For once, at least, this does not appear to be Trumpian braggadocio. It really may be the mother of all tax cuts. But if passed, what may this bunker buster do to the economy? While I have rarely met a tax cut I didn’t like, this one just may be more likely to send the economy into a downward spiral than it is to send up to orbit. As I mentioned in my January … Continue reading

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This was a bad week for anybody who believed for five nanoseconds that Donald Trump was going to get anything through Congress. The vote on ObamaCare was postponed again. ObamaCare is now permanent. Trump is never going to get enough votes to replace it with something else, which would have been worse anyway. The monstrosity should be repealed. It should not be replaced by anything. But once the Democrats ram some welfare state policy down the throats of the Republicans, the Republicans never repeal it. Their constituents get their hands on money from Uncle Sugar, and they will not tolerate … Continue reading

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What are nuclear weapons for? In four words: Deterrence, assurance, dissuasion and defeat. This is an answer given in 2007 by people on the U.S. side who were versed in these matters. If we apply their answer to N. Korea, we find that only one word really matters: Deterrence. Critical portions of what they said about deterrence is as true of N. Korea today as they emphasized was true of America ten years ago. I quote “…[deterrence] remains essential to national security, and nuclear weapons remain essential to effective deterrence. By helping to prevent war and the need to use … Continue reading

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U.S. Crimes of Genocide against Korea: ‘We Killed Off – What – 20% of the Population. We Burned Down every Town in North Korea…’

‘Miserable end’: North Korea threatens to sink US nuclear submarine in South Korea

National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster says the country should be ‘prepared’ for military operations in North Korea

NATO may boost its presence & prolong ‘training’ mission in Afghanistan – Stoltenberg

Macron visits Holocaust Museum to remind voters of National Front’s anti-Semitism as Le Pen claims euro is ‘dead’

‘I want to get my hands dirty again’ (they are already covered in blood): Tony Blair RETURNS to politics 20 years after winning landslide general election to save UK from bad Brexit deal

Theresa May rules out increase to VAT before 2022 but not hikes to income tax and National Insurance prompting fears of tax raid on higher earners

Hospital boss who failed to stop rogue breast surgeon butchering women received £10million bonanza AFTER the scandal was exposed