Maybe yes, maybe no [emphasis mine]: Confidentiality, as the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in 1991 in U.S. v. Richey, is essential to “maintaining a workable tax system.”… Taxpayer privacy is “fundamental to a tax system that relies … Continue reading →
…and CNN has obligingly given him a Town Hall forum in which to attempt it. Such forums are usually reserved for presidential candidates, and although when last I checked Comey wasn’t running for that office, the field is getting so … Continue reading →
Another terrible school shooting in Colorado ended yesterday with a toll of one student dead and eight students wounded. This particular shooting was one of a subtype in which there were two perpetrators (I don’t know yet whether it fits … Continue reading →
Does anyone really care about the NY Times’ news on Trump’s taxes? I’m not even sure that the Times cares all that much at this point. Oh, the anti-Trump forces are trying to spin this as big. But anyone who … Continue reading →
Yes, really, and it’s not just a single opinion writer, it’s in an editorial. What’s going on? Well, the first thing to notice is that they’re not saying “let him build the wall.” But they do write the following stunning … Continue reading →
Even the NY Times is reporting on this (taking time off from its hobby of publishing anti-Semitic cartoons): The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a … Continue reading →
Does it seem as though the NY Times has had special difficulties lately in terms of blows to its lofty goal of being the unassailable paper of record? The Netanyahu/Trump anti-Semitic cartoon, and then another anti-Semitic cartoon, both of which … Continue reading →
When I first heard that the measles outbreak in New York was particularly bad among Orthodox (actually, ultra-Orthodox) Jews, I assumed it was because of some religious prohibition about vaccines in that group. That’s also what I read here and … Continue reading →
When the international version of the NY Times decided to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon by the Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes, it was just following a long-established European post-WWII tradition. Antunes has been in the anti-Semitic image business for decades, … Continue reading →
You think I exaggerate? Not much. Take a look for yourself: The cartoon, apparently by a Portuguese artist named Antonio Espresso, depicted a blind Donald Trump, resplendent in the kippah he wears at all times except when the cameras are … Continue reading →
Matt Taibbi thinks so, and he thinks the media coverage of the Mueller report will have been instrumental in fostering that lack of trust: News audiences were betrayed, and sooner or later, even the most virulently Trump-despising demographics will realize … Continue reading →
“Useful?” you might ask. “What do you mean, useful? It makes them look crazy and desperate.” I don’t think they’re crazy, and I think they only look that way to the right and maybe to some moderates/independents but far from … Continue reading →