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Hunter Biden’s “Statute of Limitations”

It has been widely written that the criminal charges against Hunter Biden, with respect to his tax evasion, were severely hampered because the IRS let the statute of limitations lapse. But it is clear to anybody that’s ever worked with the IRS that this is blatant coverup. It’s hard to know exactly what happened, but the fact remains that the IRS never lets the statute of limitations lapse. Indeed, when the IRS has an open case, the most important element of that case, always, is the statute...

Inflation is Still Inflation

President Biden and his cohorts in the White House, have been making the point recently that things are good now that inflation has come way down from its highs. In making these assertions, he is trying to take advantage of what he perceives is the economic ignorance of the American people. Let’s be clear: When the rate of inflation comes down from 9% to 3%, what that means is that instead of prices going up at a 9% annual rate, they are instead going up at a 3% rate.  Biden is trying to...

Trade is a Technology

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Don Boudreaux is one of the authors of Cafe Hayek, a fantastic, long-running newsletter on economics. If you aren't reading it, you should. Below is his short and marvelous analogy, "Trade is a Technology." I have reproduced it below. "You ask: “What is the shortest best way to prove the case for trade freedom?” I’m afraid that no such proof is possible. Ultimately the decision to support or oppose free trade rests on a value judgment. That free trade is the best, or even an acceptable, policy...

Unveiling Darkness: Rampant Antisemitism Within NYU

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“Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life…I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.” These are the words of former NYU Law Student Bar Association President Ryna Workman, issued via the association's email list to as many as 2,000 students. The loss of life Workman so callously attributes to Israel was caused by Hamas terrorists who killed approximately 1,300 people and took hundreds more captive; these are conservative estimates. The attack occurred on Simchat Torah...

The White House and Israel Criticism

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The White House has taken a fairly strong stand in its support of Israel since the start of the Hamas war, so it is particularly loathsome that it has not done the same with the onslaught of dissent from within the bureaucracy. The Agency for International Development, the State Department, and nearly 40 other agencies with more than 1500 staff members and political appointees have written letters and memos critical of Biden’s position. Of course, civil servants have the right to say what they...

Letter From a Canadian Professor

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A Jewish Canadian professor shares anguish over the plight of the people of Israel, but more importantly -- of the students' inabilities to understand and analyze the history and context of the current war. I have reposted it in full, as it is an open letter widely being circulated across social media in the last day or so: "Dear Students, I have spent the last 25 years showing you the beauty of all of the literary, cultural, philosophical, and artistic heights of the human spirit over the...

Obama the Antisemite

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"What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable … And so, if you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.” The above comments were given on a podcast called "Pod Save America" just a few days ago by Barack Obama. It’s absolutely disgusting that a former...

Jews are Not the Oppressors

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It has become abundantly clear that there is a big problem with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) community. DEI has labored to push the narrative that you are either an oppressor or oppressed. The problem for them is that this idea doesn’t work when it comes to Israel. There is absolutely no more oppressed minority in the history of the world than the Jews. And yet the same DEI folks make them out to be the oppressor -- and try to do so with a straight face.  Anyone who calls...

How You Can Help Israel

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Front Page Magazine put together a nice list of twelve things you can do to support Israel. I'm reprinting it here below and encourage you to do some of the things on the list. [1] Be informed – Learn the history of the conflict. Do background reading. Good places to start include: “The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order” (1996) by Samuel P. Huntington, “The Case for Israel” (2004) by Alan Dershowitz and “Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns...

Liz Magill’s Antisemitism Inaction Plan

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The latest attempt by Liz Magill to smooth over Jewish donors and save her job is absolutely pathetic. She purports to condemn hateful acts and claims they have no place at Penn, but has done nothing to actually ensure they have no place by removing antisemitism from the campus. There is no expulsion of students who actually engaged in antisemitism -- even though she even described those acts! There is no removal of faculty or administration who have downplayed antisemitism and allowed its...

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