Historical Events 1862 - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell, Virginia 1949 - West German constitution approved 1959 - Three-deck Nile River excursion steamer springs a leak, panicking passengers who capsize the ship; 200 drown just yards from shore 1980 - Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game 1993 - Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1750 - Elias Mann, American composer, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1825) 1895 - Fulton J. Sheen, America bishop (Life is Worth Living), born in El Paso, Illinois (d. 1979) 1930 - Alex Shigo, American Biologist and Plant Pathologist known for his study of tree decay and contributions to modern arboricultural practices, born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania (d. 2006) 1935 - Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, British peer (Lib-Dem), born in UK 1982 - Anthony Roth Costanzo, American operatic countertenor (Akhnaten), actor, and educator, born in Durham, North Carolina More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1688 - Pierre de Troyes, French officer and explorer in North America (re-took James Bay forts from the English), dies at Fort Niagara 1818 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, German composer, dies at 78 1842 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer and naval officer, dies at 51 1984 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916) 2020 - Roy Horn [Uwe Ludwig Horn], German-American Las Vegas entertainer (Siegfried and Roy), dies of COVID-19 at 75 More Famous Deaths »

Biologist Bret Weinstein told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that he believes the White House is behind the decision not to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. immunization schedule. In February 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it would add the COVID-19 vaccine to immunization schedules for […]

Is every day Watergate Day in the anti-Trump media? At a London event, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg said "every day is a kind of Watergate at this point," implying Trump was a crook like Richard Nixon. Brian Stelter celebrated this "Truth Tellers" summit of liberals congratulating themselves for valiantly fighting against the Trump menace. Goldberg claimed, "I think we live in an authoritarian or incipient authoritarian kind of climate, but we still can publish what we want to publish." Trump is such an "incipient authoritarian" that he just granted Jeffrey Goldberg an interview at the 100-day mark, which Stelter failed to mention. That interview came after Goldberg had a field day attacking Trump after he was accidentally included in a Signal chat between Trump bigwigs discussing military strikes in Yemen.  As part of the self-congratulation, Stelter said some Americans left behind the “legacy media” because they believed Trump’s lies about the press. He added: "I don’t view myself as a fighter. I don’t think most reporters who are covering politics or media think they’re in the middle of a fight. And yet -- as Marty Baron famously said, ‘we’re not at war, we’re at work’ – if one side’s at war and the other side is not at war, the other sides loses. A pacifist always loses in a war. And so there is this incredibly difficult dynamic the press is in, because this time it’s not just words from Trump, it’s actions.” They are in a difficult dynamic -- because Trump voters think they are hopeless partisan hacks, and the Biden-Harris voters think they are worthless because somehow they weren't fierce enough to prevent Trump from retaking the White House. They expect the media view to dominate and persuade the masses. Conservatives and independents who don't trust the media anymore don't need Trump's opinion to gather their own opinion. It's not just how they punished Trump. It's how they pampered Biden -- especially by downplaying his mental decline. The latest scoop came on Sunday, that the Biden team pondered having Biden take a cognitive test, but decided that was too dangerous, regardless of the results. It wouldn't reflect confidence in Biden's abilities. Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

When President Donald Trump returned to office in January, nearly everyone in his circle agreed on the top priority: renewing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Without action, a crushing 22% tax hike looms, threatening to undo the economic gains of the past decade. Extending the tax reform would also give businesses and investors the long-term stability they need to plan, expand, and hire. Repealing the C-SALT deduction would hammer small businesses — the backbone of the American economy. Instead, the administration has sent mixed signals. Daily shifts in tariff policy have rattled markets and injected uncertainty into every sector of the economy. Investors are jittery. Business leaders are holding back. And analysts are already warning of a potential recession. These mistakes make it even more important to switch the focus to the tax package. The Trump administration should stop talking about tariffs and focus, along with Congress, on stabilizing markets and laying the foundation for economic growth by getting taxes down. C-SALT: A conservative’s dream The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act delivered everything conservatives had long demanded: 100% expensing for business property, a 21% corporate income tax rate, and a child tax credit that rewarded work. It stood as the defining achievement of Trump’s first term. Making it permanent could help revive the pre-COVID economic boom. But lawmakers must resist the temptation to gut the law’s pro-growth provisions to fund unrelated priorities. That includes rejecting the misguided push to repeal or limit the corporate state and local tax deduction, known as C-SALT. Debates about the individual SALT deduction cap have dominated headlines in Washington. Some reforms to that cap may make sense. But individual SALT and C-SALT are not the same issue, and they shouldn’t be treated as interchangeable. C-SALT promotes growth by preventing double taxation on businesses. It lets employers reinvest earnings, stay competitive, and create jobs. Rolling it back would hit business owners hard, slow hiring, and weaken America’s edge in the global economy. Policy groups like Americans for Tax Reform and the Tax Foundation agree: Gutting C-SALT would put long-term growth at risk — and betray the core economic agenda that fueled Trump’s first-term success. For businesses, state and local taxes are an operating expense. If businesses lose the ability to deduct these taxes, they will be paying taxes on taxes. Small businesses pay the price Repealing the C-SALT deduction would hammer small businesses — the backbone of the American economy. Many already struggle under heavy corporate, state, and local tax burdens, especially in rural and Republican-leaning states. Removing this deduction would force them to shoulder a disproportionate share of the pain. No serious conservative case exists for eliminating or capping the C-SALT deduction. Some Republicans seem confused, conflating C-SALT with the personal SALT deduction, which overwhelmingly benefits wealthy taxpayers in high-tax blue states. But they are not the same. As the Tax Foundation notes, capping C-SALT won’t “reduce distortive tax benefits or enhance state competition” the way a cap on the personal SALT deduction might — because corporate and individual tax systems function differently. In 2023, American businesses paid nearly $1.1 trillion in state and local taxes. Stripping away their ability to deduct those taxes from federal corporate income tax amounts to a massive tax hike — potentially hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. That kind of tax increase would erase much of the economic progress since the 2017 tax law was passed. It would punish the very job creators conservatives claim to champion. Lawmakers in Congress — especially Republicans who support free enterprise and pro-growth tax reform that spurs economic growth — should focus on restoring and making permanent the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s tax cuts without jeopardizing the benefits that the C-SALT deduction provides for American businesses of all sizes.

Dem Maxine Waters Accuses an Amused Scott Bessent of Frolicking in a Filibuster Playground

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has ordered the release of more than 60,000 additional documents related to the assassination of the late Sen. Robert F Kennedy, the office announced on Wednesday.

A poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research said Tuesday that 49% of Palestinians said they would apply to Israel to help them emigrate to another country.