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It’s tax conference season!gettyI’m on the road again! It’s tax conference season, and my first stop in June was San Antonio, Texas, for The Tax Retreat. It’s been a terrific experience meeting up with my fellow tax professionals. I even ran into Charles Barkley (okay, I suspect he was here for the NBA Finals and not to talk tax, but still). Of course, there was plenty of tax, too. One of the highlights of the week was hearing National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins sit down with Terry Lemons for a conversation that felt refreshingly candid. Rather than sticking to Washington…

The families of the victims of the 2023 Nottingham attacks have said that “every single agency failed… without exception” and accused government bodies of closing ranks and engaging in a “cover-up” after their relatives were murdered, as they demand an immediate meeting with the Prime Minister and top government figures to discuss “changing the systems that failed”. The 14-week public inquiry into the murders of 19-year-old Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19-year-old Barnaby Webber, and 65-year-old Ian Coates by 31-year-old Guinea-Bissau-born West African migrant Valdo Calocane has concluded its hearing of evidence. While the inquiry will likely make its report early next year,…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took action “toward drafting” an affordability agenda for 2027 that puts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in charge of health care, and transgender-identifying Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) in charge of caregiving, according to multiple reports. Sarah Ferris, a Capitol Hill report with CNN shared a photo on X that showed working groups for housing, gas and utilities, groceries and goods, caregiving, and healthcare. According to the photo shared by Ferris, Reps. Laura Friedman (D-CA) and Emilia Sykes (D-OH) were put in charge of the housing group. Reps. Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) and Mike Levin (D-CA) were…

The Republican Study Committee convened a meeting Monday evening with CBO Director Phillip Swagel and Tom Barthold, chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, to discuss the process for estimating program costs and savings as part of a possible third budget reconciliation bill, according to four people granted anonymity to describe the private gathering. RSC Chair August Pfluger of Texas, as well as Budget Chair Jodey Arrington of Texas and House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman of Alabama, were at the meeting. Reps. Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania and Gary Palmer of Alabama were also in attendance, according to…

Move of a young couplegettyGen Z is coming of age in an economy where the traditional path to prosperity no longer works, and instead of giving up, they’re beginning to build new ones. For 70 years, the American Dream followed a predictable sequence: school, job, promotion, mortgage, house, financial freedom. But for many young adults, that path has disintegrated. Headline economic numbers such as GDP and unemployment still look fine, but they were never what made people feel successful. Success was hitting a milestone and trusting the next one was within reach. Now, young adults are having to forge their…

Is anyone not installed? Recently, Candace Owens interviewed Hunter Biden. You know, the wayward presidential son with the infamous laptop. Crackhead. Made a lot of money in Ukraine. He looked better, with freshly capped teeth. He sounds just like the Big Guy himself. If he waits until he’s past 70, maybe he can run for political office. I am cautioned all the time by my less naive friends in the alt media to stop becoming so easily smitten. With Tulsi Gabbard. With RFK, Jr. With Tucker Carlson. With Leonarda Jonie. With Lilly Gaddis. They’re all compromised! They wouldn’t have the…

Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro triggered a new controversy over the weekend by writing “Heil Hitler” in response to a local opinion piece favorable to outsider conservative presidential frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella. Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president ever and a proud former member of the Marxist M19 terrorist guerrilla, is in his last two months of office before he is term-limited out of returning to the presidency. Petro is known for causing international incidents regularly with his prolific use of social media that have, in some cases, evolved into full-blown diplomatic impasses with other countries, including the…

Plans to Quit Rise But So Do Fears of Layoffs—Thanks to the Fed and AI Are workers gaining or losing confidence about their job prospects? On Monday, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released the results of its monthly consumer expectations survey—and the results provided ammunition to both optimists and pessimists. The mean probability workers assigned to voluntarily leaving their jobs in the next 12 months jumped 2.6 percentage points to 20.8 percent, the highest reading since February 2023. This is an indication of economic confidence because workers are more likely to expect to leave their jobs—and more likely…

House Republican appropriators are taking aim at TSA’s new $45 fee for air travelers who don’t have a REAL ID or other accepted form of identification, inserting language into their annual Homeland Security spending bill seeking to stop its collection. The fiscal 2027 legislation, which is poised for an Appropriations Committee markup Tuesday, includes a prohibition on TSA charging or collecting any fee for “a program vetting travelers arriving without acceptable identification for admission through security screenings at airports.” In an accompanying report released Monday offering details about the bill, the House GOP said there’s “no valid statutory authority for…

NATO has launched a new experimental unit to test assorted unmanned systems in the Arctic, as the US-led bloc continues to increase its military presence in the region.The bloc has consistently cited an alleged Russian threat to justify its Arctic buildup. Moscow has rejected the claims, arguing that the region’s militarization has been driven by NATO’s own actions and pledging to respond accordingly to activity in the Arctic, where Russia controls more than half of the coastline.The latest NATO initiative was unveiled over the weekend as the research vessel Alliance departed La Spezia, Italy, launching Task Force X-Arctic (TFX-Arctic). The…