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Corporations are people, Mitt Romney once told us. But if the Trump administration’s tax plan were to become law, in the future a whole lot of people may just become corporations. That’s because of a huge loophole implied by the broad tax ideas the administration recently released.

WASHINGTON — In a meeting at the White House with business leaders two weeks into his presidency, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase. Aren’t the Chinese manipulating their currency? Mr. Trump asked, according to two people who were there. “No, Mr. President, they’re not,” Mr. Dimon replied. “I think they’re trying to be responsible.” Others at the meeting, including the former Boeing chief W. James McNerney, agreed. Their advice echoed arguments by members of Mr.

BEIJING — President Trump came into office fuming about North Korea. “I believe he is trying very hard,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday. “He is a good man. He is a very good man, and I got to know him very well.” That’s heady praise for someone the president had never met before this month. But Mr.

WASHINGTON — In his first 100 days in power, President Trump has transformed the nation’s highest office in ways both profound and mundane, pushing traditional boundaries, ignoring longstanding protocol and discarding historical precedents as he reshapes the White House in his own image. But just as Mr. Trump has changed the presidency, advisers and analysts say it has also changed him. Still a mercurial and easily offended provocateur capable of head-spinning gyrations in policy and politics, Mr.

WASHINGTON — In his first 100 days in power, President Trump has transformed the nation’s highest office in ways both profound and mundane, pushing traditional boundaries, ignoring longstanding protocol and discarding historical precedents as he reshapes the White House in his own image. But just as Mr. Trump has changed the presidency, advisers and analysts say it has also changed him. Still a mercurial and easily offended provocateur capable of head-spinning gyrations in policy and politics, Mr.

Posted at 2:17 pm on April 29, 2017 by streiff Yesterday, President Trump appointed a strong pro-lifer, Charmaine Yoest, as Assistant Secretary of HHS for Public Affairs. Yoest’s appointment does not require Senate confirmation, which is too bad because we could sell PPV tickets to the confirmation. To give you an idea of what these people consider normal, the former ASPA is now vice president for communications at Planned Parenthood. This is an important position because the ASPA determines what the huge HHS bureaucracy can talk about and what they say when they

Posted at 1:15 pm on April 29, 2017 by smoosieq I’ll be honest: Tucker Carlson isn’t my favorite FNC host. Frankly, I was a bit disappointed when he was brought on to take over for Brit Hume, who’d been standing in, I thought, quite nicely since Greta Van Susteren’s departure. It’s not that I don’t appreciate Carlson’s abilities. I’m just not particularly enamored of his primary approach – i.e., inviting guests who take unpopular (to most Fox viewers) stances and debating and berating them to demonstrate just how silly they are. So I don’t typically watch his show(s).

Posted at 6:00 pm on April 29, 2017 by streiff As I’ve posted in the past, the Trump administration’s combining stepped up enforcement with skillful public information campaigns in Central America have reduced attempts to cross the border with Mexico to near record levels without spending a single dollar on a wall or on more Border Patrol agents.

Posted at 6:30 pm on April 29, 2017 by streiff Last Tuesday, this story appeared in the Wall Street Journal and caused some consternation among conservatives. One of the most unconscionable acts of the Obama administration in its bloody-minded monomaniacal drive to destroy health insurance in the United States was to make contraception a mandatory item in all health plans.

Posted at 7:17 pm on April 29, 2017 by streiff Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech to a law enforcement meeting on Long Island yesterday. The big attention-getter was his vow to break the MS-13 gang : “we are targeting you, and we are coming after you.” But Sessions hit on another critical issue.