Author: Tom Faranda
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WSJ: Billionaire “Cash for Kids” donations going into 25 million children’s new “Trump Accounts”
This was part of the so called “Big Beautiful Bill”. And it is/was a great idea. Michael and Susan Dell plan to donate $6.25 billion to 25 million children for savings accounts. The founder of Dell Technologies and his wife will provide $250 for children age 10 or under who were born before Jan. 1,…
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Canada set new record – euthanizes 16,449 in 2024.
So, in Canada depression is an acceptable reason to be euthanized. According to the latest report on “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) from Health Canada released at the end of last month, there was a 6.9% increase in state-assisted deaths in Canada in 2024. In 2024, although assisted suicide is permitted, in which the person who wishes…
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Eddie Murphy, 1st appearance on Johnny Carson Show
New Year’s Day, 1982. He was 21 years old. Don’t think he’d get away with some of this today.
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Peggy Noonan on Kamala and John Fetterman memoirs
The former Reagan speechwriter who has had a Wall Street Journal weekly column for decades. She is a thoughtful person (and no fan of Trump). I have not read either book (and won’t be). Excerpts below the link. Kamala Harris’s memoir gives you little idea of what she believes. John Fetterman’s is better. I spent the…
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WSJ: “‘Deliver or Die’: Inside the Drug-Boat Crews Ferrying Cocaine”
The payoffs are so huge for the traffickers that they are OK with risking death. Excerpts below the link. “The high-seas cowboys who speed tons of cocaine to American consumers are now getting blown out of the water. They say it won’t stop them.” CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade,…