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Saturday, December 16, 2017
Legalizing ‘Dreamers’ would cost $26 billion: CBO Dreamers would sponsor 80,000 more people in ‘chain migration’
Legalizing 2 million illegal immigrant “Dreamers” would cost the government $25.9 billion over the next decade, as those now-legal people would claim more tax, education and other benefits they haven’t been able to get before, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.
The CBO also said newly legalized Dreamers would sponsor 80,000 more immigrants to enter the country as part of “chain migration.”
Immigrant-rights activists have argued that legalizing Dreamers would be a financial boon to the country, but the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation suggested otherwise, saying that while they would pay somewhat higher taxes in to the government, they would take far more out of it.
More @ Washington Times
Ex-FBI Assistant Director: Strzok Fabricated Information And "Belongs In Leavenworth"
Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom called disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok a "total moron" who belongs in Leavenworth federal prison, during a TV appearance on Thursday.
Kallstrom, a former Marine captain and Vietnam veteran, told FBN host Liz MacDonald that if an FBI agent wanted to stop someone from becoming President, "I think he can do what [Strzok] tried to do," adding "He can fabricate things, he can make stuff up, he can lie, he can be a total moron."
"You know, he belongs in Leavenworth this guy, in my personal view."
More @ Zero Hedge
Little Saigon 1979
Via Larry Bach
Two of my wife's sisters and two of her brothers. We brought 1, 2 and 4 (L to R) over on the evacuation. Hue, the one on the far left, is seen below in a picture I took inside the C-141 on the way to Clark AFB, PI. Crying below and happy above. :) Last picture below taken in Little Saigon 1976/7?
Trump lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained transition documents in Russia probe
A lawyer for the Trump presidential transition team is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office of inappropriately obtaining transition documents as part of its Russia probe, including confidential attorney-client communications and privileged communications.
In a letter obtained by Fox News and
sent to House and Senate committees on Saturday, the transition team’s
attorney alleges “unlawful conduct” by the career staff at the General
Services Administration in handing over transition documents to the
special counsel’s office.
More @ Fox
GOP unveils final $1.5T tax reform bill '31 years in the making'
Via Billy
The final version of the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs
Act keeps seven tax brackets, but reduces rates for five of them. The
new rates start at 10 percent and rise to 12, 22, 24, 32, 35 and 37
percent. The corporate tax rate is reduced from 35 percent to 21 percent
and the bill provides sweeping tax deductions to other businesses,
lowering their top effective tax rate to about 30 percent instead of
39.6 percent.
Congressional Republicans unveiled the most
sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax code in three decades Friday
evening with an eye toward final passage next week after two key GOP
senators endorsed the legislation.
"This is happening. Tax reform under
Republican control of Washington is happening," House Speaker Paul Ryan,
R-Wis., told rank-and-file members in a conference call. "Most critics
out there didn't think it could happen. ... And now we're on the
doorstep of something truly historic."
More @ Fox
Religious schools, homeschoolers to get a boost in GOP tax plan, thanks to Ted Cruz and Mike Pence
Via Billy
Parents would get new federal tax breaks for sending their children to private or religious schools or teaching them at home if the final Republican tax overhaul bill becomes law.
For that, they can thank Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who offered the original amendment to extend 529 college savings plans to grade school and high school, including costs for homeschooling.
Parents would get new federal tax breaks for sending their children to private or religious schools or teaching them at home if the final Republican tax overhaul bill becomes law.
For that, they can thank Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who offered the original amendment to extend 529 college savings plans to grade school and high school, including costs for homeschooling.
More @ Washington Examiner
Loaded A-1E in flight over South Vietnam
Via Quan Nguyen Thanh
A 602nd ACS A-1E in flight over South Vietnam
96080 USAF- An A-1E Skyraider, armed with twelve 250 lb bombs and two 1,000 lb bombs, enroute to a target area in the Republic of Vietnam. 30 Jan 1966. For the record, they are CBU-25s not bombs and the large stores on the inner stations are 750 lb. napalm.
A unique shot of a loaded A-1E framed by the ordnance from another Skyraider.
KE 31161 A-1E, Udorn, 1968.
All images on this page thoughtfully contributed by Rob Mignard.
A 602nd ACS A-1E in flight over South Vietnam
96080 USAF- An A-1E Skyraider, armed with twelve 250 lb bombs and two 1,000 lb bombs, enroute to a target area in the Republic of Vietnam. 30 Jan 1966. For the record, they are CBU-25s not bombs and the large stores on the inner stations are 750 lb. napalm.
A unique shot of a loaded A-1E framed by the ordnance from another Skyraider.
KE 31161 A-1E, Udorn, 1968.
All images on this page thoughtfully contributed by Rob Mignard.
Gregg Jarrett: Did the FBI and the Justice Department, plot to clear Hillary Clinton, bring down Trump?
Via comment by Reborn on Dixie Rising: Another Roadside Memorial Battle Fla...
Such a Machiavellian scheme would move well beyond what
is known as the “deep state,” a popular reference to government
employees who organize in secret to impose their own political views on
government policy in defiance of democratically elected leadership.
There is strong circumstantial evidence that an
insidious plot unprecedented in American history was hatched within the
FBI and the Obama Justice Department to help elect Hillary Clinton
and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
And when this apparent effort to
improperly influence the election did not succeed, the suspected
conspirators appear to have employed a fraudulent investigation of
President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove
him as president.
More @ Fox
95-Year-Old Marine Fights Burglar, Daughter Chases Him Through Town
Via Billy
An alleged burglar got more than he bargained for when he entered the Wisconsin home of a 95-year-old former Marine and his daughter.
Fred, a World War II veteran, says his dog started barking and alerted him to someone breaking in through a back door of the West Allis house on Dec. 4.
“I was almost standing nose to nose with him. That was a shocker,” the veteran told the Journal Sentinel. Fred added that the robber threatened to kill him and his dog if he didn’t hand over his wallet.
“I wasn’t scared. I was so damn mad,” the veteran of the war in the Pacific told reporters. The 95-year-old was able to wrestle alleged burglar, Gary Wells, to the ground before the homeowner’s daughter ran downstairs to help fight the thief off.
An alleged burglar got more than he bargained for when he entered the Wisconsin home of a 95-year-old former Marine and his daughter.
Fred, a World War II veteran, says his dog started barking and alerted him to someone breaking in through a back door of the West Allis house on Dec. 4.
“I was almost standing nose to nose with him. That was a shocker,” the veteran told the Journal Sentinel. Fred added that the robber threatened to kill him and his dog if he didn’t hand over his wallet.
“I wasn’t scared. I was so damn mad,” the veteran of the war in the Pacific told reporters. The 95-year-old was able to wrestle alleged burglar, Gary Wells, to the ground before the homeowner’s daughter ran downstairs to help fight the thief off.
More @ CBS
Gowdy in McCabe: "I'll be a little bit surprised if he's still an employee of the FBI this time next week,"
Via Billy
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., suggested in an interview that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe may soon lose his job as scrutiny over the agency intensifies.
McCabe is scheduled to testify Tuesday in front of the House Intelligence Committee on the subject of FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia inquiry team because of text messages that were critical of President Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., suggested in an interview that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe may soon lose his job as scrutiny over the agency intensifies.
McCabe is scheduled to testify Tuesday in front of the House Intelligence Committee on the subject of FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia inquiry team because of text messages that were critical of President Trump during the 2016 campaign.
More @ Washington Examiner
You Milked It, You Own It
Via 4Branch
....if you think us old geezers are going to fight to fix what you broke while you bitch and whine then you need to **** off and play in front of a fast-moving freight train.
This is the sort of horse**** that really pisses me off.
....if you think us old geezers are going to fight to fix what you broke while you bitch and whine then you need to **** off and play in front of a fast-moving freight train.
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This is the sort of horse**** that really pisses me off.
Like everyone in my generation, I am finding it increasingly difficult not to be scared about the future and angry about the past.So let me see if I get this right. You're 35, which means you were of voting age when Obamacare was passed. You went to college after the scam of ramping college prices, driven by student loans, went into place. In other words you got to vote for the majority of that **** too.
I am 35 years old—the oldest millennial, the first millennial—and for a decade now, I’ve been waiting for adulthood to kick in. My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.
More @ Zero Hedge
NC: Large Confederate flag flying in Catawba Co. stirs up controversy
Via comment by Reborn on Dixie Rising: Another Roadside Memorial Battle Fla...
A large Confederate flag has been hoisted up in Catawba County, and the group behind it said it’s in response to Confederate memorials being taken down across the South.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans put the flag up on Springs Road in Hickory.
A large Confederate flag has been hoisted up in Catawba County, and the group behind it said it’s in response to Confederate memorials being taken down across the South.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans put the flag up on Springs Road in Hickory.
More @ WSOC
