As if California weren’t already an expensive place to live, the California government is coming up with yet another way to tax its residents. It has proposed levying a tax on text messages, seeing an opportunity to gain additional tax revenue. The proposal has of course been met with laughter and derision, but that may […]
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If you’re like many Americans with a 401(k), IRA, or other type of retirement account, the last few years of stock market gains may have sent your paper wealth soaring. There are more 401(k) millionaires in the United States today than ever before. But with the sums in retirement accounts piling up ever higher, and […]
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The safest place to store guns is in a solidly-mounted safe. But if you don’t have the money or space for a safe, or if you want to keep your guns readily accessible, you may want to look for other hiding spots for your guns. But before you think of where to hide your guns, […]
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The safest place to store guns is in a solidly-mounted safe. But if you don’t have the money or space for a safe, or if you want to keep your guns readily accessible, you may want to look for other hiding spots for your guns. But before you think of where to hide your guns, […]
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In the wake of the G20 meeting in Argentina last week, the G20 leaders issued a joint statement that they would “regulate crypto-assets for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism in line with FATF standards.” That sounds like a throwback to the days when Bitcoin was new and edgy, and telling people you […]
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For the first time ever in the state of Virginia, a public school teacher has been fired for refusing to refer to a female student claiming to be transgender as a boy. The teacher, 47-year-old French teacher Peter Vlaming, claimed that “I’m happy to avoid female pronouns not to offend because I’m not here to […]
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For the first time ever in the state of Virginia, a public school teacher has been fired for refusing to refer to a female student claiming to be transgender as a boy. The teacher, 47-year-old French teacher Peter Vlaming, claimed that “I’m happy to avoid female pronouns not to offend because I’m not here to […]
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With more and more people taking serious interest in their diet and its role in keeping them healthy, many long-forgotten traditional foods are making a resurgence. That’s particularly the case for fermented foods and drinks. Among them is kombucha, a fermented tea drink that is a rich source of probiotics and that can be now […]
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With more and more people taking serious interest in their diet and its role in keeping them healthy, many long-forgotten traditional foods are making a resurgence. That’s particularly the case for fermented foods and drinks. Among them is kombucha, a fermented tea drink that is a rich source of probiotics and that can be now […]
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will be stepping down from his post by the end of the year, and President Trump is hard at work finding his replacement. It isn’t unusual for the chief of staff to resign after the midterm elections, particularly after one in which Republicans lost so many seats in […]
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