Let it be so! UN Secretary General says the UN is running out of money

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“Our cash flow has never been this low so early in the calendar year, and the broader trend is also concerning; we are running out of cash sooner and staying in the red longer”

"Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General for the UN is concerned that the international governing body is alarmingly short on cash.

"According to Fox News, Guterres sent a letter to UN staff earlier this month saying there was “troubling financial situation facing the United Nations.” He went on, “our cash flow has never been this low so early in the calendar year, and the broader trend is also concerning; we are running out of cash sooner and staying in the red longer.”

"Deadbeat member states who pay late or not at all are being blamed for the UN’s cash flow issues." 

From Fox News

Capturing the delusional Middle East policy of Obama-Kerry perfectly, as the 2014 Gaza conflict raged.

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4 Years Ago – One of the Greatest Cartoons Ever

On July 31, 2014, Legal Insurrection cartoonist A.F. Branco posted what was, by far, the most viral cartoon he’s done for us, Crash of Civilization.

It took place as the 2014 Gaza conflict was in full swing. Here were some of our posts in the days before the cartoon, including:

• UN Official admits Hamas firing rockets “from the vicinity of UN facilities”
• Media cover-up of Hamas crimes starting to unravel
• Gaza ground war: More tunnel warfare, Hamas may have body parts of dead Israeli soldier. . . 

. . . 

"The cartoon (featured image) captured Kerry’s delusional attitude precisely. It shows John Kerry "mediating between Hamas and Bibi Netanyahu.

"Hamas’s demand was Death to All Jews. That is an actual Hamas demand. The 

Hamas charter calls for killing all Jews, and Hamas Imams call for the same.

"Kerry asked Bibi to at least meet Hamas half way.

"The cartoon worked at so many levels, and it went viral." . . .

Memo To Trump: Listen To Larry Kudlow And Fix The Unfair Capital Gains Tax

Investors.com  "Taxation: A few months before he became President Trump's top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow wrote a column urging  Trump to index capital gains taxes to inflation. Thankfully, the Trump administration appears to be listening. Not only would indexing fix a glaring problem in the tax code, it would add still more juice to the economy.

"In a column published by IBD last August, Kudlow called the lack of inflation adjustment for capital gains taxes "an unfair and misguided policy that punishes risk and success." He said Trump "should use his executive authority — as he so often has to drain the swamp — to remove this prosperity-killing practice." 

"Right on all counts.

"First, consider the fairness argument. One of the most important tax reforms enacted by President Reagan in the early 1980s was to index income tax brackets to inflation. Before that, families whose incomes just kept pace with inflation would get pushed into higher and higher tax brackets. Indexing tax brackets to inflation ended this unfair, and hidden, tax.

"But capital gains still suffer from lack of indexing. Let's say an investor bought $1,000 worth of a company's stock in 2000. Today, it's valued at $1,500. If he sold the stock, he'd face up to a 23.8% capital gains tax on the $500 gain. 

"That's not counting any state-imposed capital gains taxes.)

"But in real terms, his investment has gained only $7. So, his effective capital gains tax rate is 139%. If the gains were indexed to inflation, his tax bill would be $1.67 instead of $119.

"The longer the investment, the worse this inflation tax get. The effective tax rate, in fact, can be infinite, if the inflation-adjusted "gains" turn out to be losses." . . .

Are the Dems actually trying to build an image of being bad sports?

Thomas Lifson

RNC-DNC softball game in gentler times (2017).  Photo from Twitter via the Daily Caller.

"The Democratic National Committee has refused to participate in the annual softball game between Democrat and Republican leaders and staffers, a decade-old tradition that reaffirmed a spirit of national unity, good sportsmanship, and love of a sport invented by Americans.  The old expression, "take your ball and go home," connotes bad sportsmanship when someone doesn't get his way and decides that a game therefore must end.

Benny Johnson reports at the Daily Caller:

Despite being a time-honored tradition going back many years, the DNC is refusing to play the RNC at this year's annual softball game.

RNC sources tell The Daily Caller that they were "stunned" when Democrats abruptly pulled out of the good-natured game between leadership and staffers at opposing political organizations.

. . .  

Freeing People from Left-Wing Lies

Tom Trinko  "The majority of Democratic voters are victims of a deliberate conspiracy by the leftist media, academia, and the Deep State to mislead them through lies of omission and commission.

"A recent Pew survey shows that leftists are much more likely not to want to associate with people who don't share t"heir political views than are conservatives.  Furthermore, leftists are more likely not to know any conservatives.

"Look at the electoral map from 2016 – the blue areas are all tiny and tightly grouped.

"Essentially, most leftist voters live in an intellectual bubble where the fake news media provide the propaganda, and their friends repeat, hence reinforce, the lies, making them seem credible.  This even impacts the fake news reporters themselves.

"On Twitter, for example, a leftist said the recently released FISA warrant application showed that the FBI had told the judge that Hillary was the one who paid for the Steele dossier, but that's not the case.  The application for the warrant said:" . . .

Georgia Journalism Dean Apologizes For Offensive Tweet Calling GOP Candidate ‘Nice Guy’

Weasel Zippers Terrorism of this sort will not be tolerated.

"A new low in being offended.  Via Fox News:"

A journalism professor at the University of Georgia apologized for offending people after calling the Republican candidate for governor a “nice guy” on Twitter. Charles Davis, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at UGA, tweeted-then-deleted a message about the President Trump-endorsed candidate for Georgia governor, Brian Kemp, on the night he won the Republican primary.“I went to high school with GOP guv candidate @BrianKempGA,” Davis wrote in the now-deleted tweet. “We played YMCA ball from childhood. Politics be damned. He is a nice guy, always was. Kind to a fault. He’s a friend, always has been, and will be when we’re old(er) and grey(er). That’s how all this should work, people.”Liberals on Twitter labeled Davis a “racist” and one user said “You’d never vote for a black woman and would much rather vote for the white racist,” as reported by CampusReform.org.Three days after the tweet that put him under fire, Davis issued an apology.“I’d like to apologize to anyone offended by my tweet shout out to Brian Kemp,” Davis wrote. “It was ill-timed and poorly written. I’ve read and learned so much from you all and will endeavor to be more thoughtful.”

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