It’s no secret that high taxes on items like alcohol and cigarettes – otherwise known as “sin taxes” – have produced durable black markets in those goods. But in case more proof is needed, the Tax Foundation looks at excise tax rates on cigarettes versus smuggling. What they discover is entirely predictable: Excessive tax rates Tucker Carlson says he spoke to a source who confided in him that the Central Intelligence Agency likely played a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The comments came on his top-rated Fox News program Thursday night during a monologue in which the host blasted the release of thousands of new files on A Biden administration official recently briefed members of Congress that following Ukraine’s success in retaking Kherson, the path to liberating Crimea is clear. But that doesn’t mean a fight for the strategically important peninsula, occupied by Russia since 2014, wouldn’t come at a cost. Beyond the loss and life and property, some U.S. officials worry December 16, 2022, marks the 78th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. The WWII German offensive that came to be known as the “Battle of the Bulge” was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II. Involving more than 610,000 American troops and 450,000 German soldiers with 1,500 tanks The pair bragged about how they had set Trump up. ANALYSIS – While I never claimed COVID was a deliberately released Chinese bioweapon or even explicitly that it was part of a bioweapons program, I did point out that China had an extensive biowarfare program that could be involved with the creation and leak of the virus. I also explored the likely theory that COVID-19 Kari Lake filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the 2022 midterm election. PO Box 455, Leesburg, VA 20178 Unsubscribe |