Washington - It’s a U.S. taxpayer’s dream: make the Internal Revenue Service go away, and the largest conservative group in Congress is endorsing just that.
The Republican Study Committee, which counts over two-thirds of House of Representatives Republicans as its members, called recently for “the complete elimination of the IRS.”
The committee’s support for this idea, once confined to the fringes of conservative ideology, suggests it is more widely accepted on Capitol Hill than ever. But many in Washington, including some Republicans, have trouble taking it seriously.
Calls to abolish the IRS have not been well thought through, said Republican Representative Charles Boustany in an interview.
“Before we start making blanket statements about ab...
The 2016 presidential campaign rumbled through Indiana Sunday focused on Tuesday's critical primary, even as front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump itched to fully engage in the one-on-one battle they cast as inevitable.
But the underdogs in both parties made clear they had no plans to exit the race, at least until the Indiana results come in — and perhaps longer.
"We're going the distance," Trump rival Ted Cruz said on ABC's "This Week," arguing that Trump won't be able to get the majority of delegates required to clinch the nomination. "We're going into Cleveland, and it will be a contested convention."
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders insisted that his path to the nomination depends on the unlikely prospect of flipping superdelegates...
Jerusalem - Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked on Sunday said she is pushing to have Israeli law apply to the West Bank within one year.
Shaked made the comments while being interviewed on stage at a conference in Jerusalem organized by the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, in spite of prior vehement opposition to the idea by the Justice Ministry bureaucracy, including former attorney-general Yehuda Weinstein.
Asked about the Hok Hanormot or “Normalizing Law,” for making Israeli law apply to the West Bank, she replied, “I established a joint committee along with the Defense Ministry to work on legislation for Judea and Samaria, with essentially the purpose being that ultimately any law which was passed in the Knesset w...
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On “Fox News Sunday” yesterday, Chris Wallace kicked off his interview with Donald Trump by asking Trump about violent protesters assaulting a supporter of his days ago.
Trump called Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s endorsement of rival Ted Cruz “the weakest endorsement anyone has seen in a long time.”
Trump denied his comments toward Clinton have driven down his already extremely low support women in the polls. “Even women don’t like her. They don’t like her. It’s the women’s card, and she plays it, and I’ll let you know in about 6 months if she plays it well. It’s true. if she weren’t a women, she wouldn’t even be in this race.”
London - An Australian man long rumored to be associated with the digital currency Bitcoin has publicly identified himself as its creator, apparently ending one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world.
BBC News said Monday that Craig Wright told the media outlet he is the man previously known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The computer scientist, inventor and academic said he launched the currency in 2009 with the help of others.
His identity had been shrouded in uncertainty until now, and the media’s inability to pinpoint the person responsible had led to a series of investigations. Last year, some reports claimed Wright was the founder and had used a false name to mask his identity.
The BBC said Wright had decided to make his identity known to stop the spread of &...
On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Newt Gingrich spoke to Maria Bartiromo yesterday about Donald Trump and says he’s unstoppable now.
Donald Trump’s victories in a series of northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states over the past two weeks coupled with his lead on the eve of Tuesday’s Indiana’s primary have made one thing clear: He is the unquestioned favorite for the Republican presidential nomination.
Which raises the question: Who is Trump going to pick as his vice presidential nominee?
The short answer: No one knows. Trump relishes being unpredictable, so trying to game out how this most unconventional of politicians will make up his mind is a bit of a guessing game. Add to that the fact that Trump’s inner circle remains, largely, devoid of establishment types, and you quickly get into a situation where the people talking don’t know much and the people who do know aren’t talk...
Ted Cruz spoke yesterday with CBS’ “Face the Nation” to discuss his recent vice presidential pick, his chances against opponent Donald Trump, and former House Speaker John Boehner’s recent remarks.
Tehran - Iran’s Supreme Leader criticized the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf region on Monday, saying American forces should go back to the Bay of Pigs, state media reported.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a group of teachers Monday that American military drills in the region were proof of U.S. arrogance.
“They sit together, scheme and say that Iran must not hold war games in the Persian Gulf. What a foolish remark! They come here from the other side of the globe and stage war games. What are you doing here? Go back to the Bay of Pigs. Go and hold exercises there. What are you doing in the Persian Gulf? The Persian Gulf is our home,” said Khamenei. State TV broadcast part of his speech.
His remarks were an apparent reference to the 1961 failed invasion of Cuba ...
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down with CBS’ “Face the Nation” yesterday to discuss what his future in the primary race looks like.
London - The anti-Semitism dispute bedeviling Britain’s Labour Party ahead of an election Thursday has continued with the suspension of a city councilor.
The party said Monday that Nottingham City councilor Ilyas Azis has been suspended pending an investigation.
The move follows the suspension last week of two other Labour figures, including former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who was on the party’s executive council.
Aziz had suggested on Facebook that it might have been wiser to create Israel in America and that Israel could be relocated “even now.”
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched an independent review of anti-Semitism and racism within its ranks.
Donald Trump returned to one of his favorite subjects, the Canadian birth of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., at a Sunday afternoon rally inside the city’s largest sports arena. His cue came from the senator’s wife, Heidi, who tripped over a word at a GOP presidential campaign rally and appeared to say that her husband was an immigrant.
“Heidi Cruz — nice woman,” Trump began. “She said this one: ‘My husband’s an immigrant!’ He’s an immigrant! That’s what I’ve been trying to say!’ ”
The line got laughs, and Trump seemed to find voters in the crowd who knew what he was talking about. On Saturday, while covering Heidi Cruz’s campaign stops around Indiana, Washington Examiner reporter Byron York hea...
Man, 24, accused in Beersheba court of training with terror group to attack Israeli soldiers on Gaza border, buying part of doomed Gaza-Sinai smuggling tunnel
An alleged Hamas member was charged with a litany of offenses in Israeli court Sunday, including planning to kill soldiers by planting bombs and shooting rockets at Israeli troops patrolling the Gaza frontier.
The 24-year-old man, named in Beersheba District Court filings as Medhat Abu Sneima, was indicted on 18 different charges, all relating to his time as an operative for the Hamas terror group which rules the Gaza Strip.
Charges included attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, making contact with a foreign agent, passing information to an enemy with intent to harm state security, taking part in illegal milit...
Two other members of the terror group wounded in mysterious blast
A Palestinian activist in the Islamic Jihad terror group was killed Monday, and two others were injured, when a bomb exploded east of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry named the man as 30-year-old Mazen Muhammed Lulu, from the Shejaiya district in the eastern Strip.
The circumstances surrounding the blast were not immediately clear.
According to Palestinian reports, Lulu was a fighter in the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.
A statement released by the group mourned the death of Lulu, saying he was killed “as he carried out his duty of jihad.”
The Iran-backed Islamic Jihad is the second-strongest armed movement in the Gaza Strip, after...
Salah Abu Ismail says his son and daughter, whom Israel says were at Qalandiya to stab police, were unarmed and took a wrong turn
The family of a Palestinian brother and sister who were shot dead last week as they allegedly tried to carry out a stabbing attack demanded Monday the release of security camera footage of the incident, and insisted that the two had no intention of attacking security personnel and had merely taken a wrong turn when they were gunned down.
Maram Hassan Abu Ismail, 23, and her brother Ibrahim Saleh Taha, 16, residents of Beit Surif, a village in the central West Bank, were shot dead at the Qalandiya crossing north of Jerusalem on April 27. An investigation determined Sunday that the pair were shot by civilian security guards and not Border Police offi...
Baltimore, MD – May 2, 2016 – 7:54 AM - Please avoid Seven Mile & Reisterstown Road as emergency personnel tend to a pedestrian who was just hit by a car.
I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again. I open the top drawer of my desk and I point as the client looks on. I tell the person that I wish I had a magic wand that I could take out to cure their health issues, especially the overweight and obesity. I also tell them I wish I had a pill they could swallow and it would fix their issues. Neither I nor anyone else has any of those items. But if a person is willing to put in some work, there is ONE thing that probably has more influence on your health than anything else.
Imagine that you went to your doctor and the news isn’t great. He tells you that you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, you are now diabetic and you seem to be suffering from depression. This is definitely no...
Police are looking for a person who stole cigarettes from Royal Farms stores in Baltimore County.
On Wednesday, the person approached the counter of the store in the 6000 block of Falls Road and asked for four cartons of Newport cigarettes. When the clerk walked away to get the cigarettes, the person reached over the counter and grabbed the cigarettes.
On March 15, the person asked a clerk at the store in the 1500 block of East Joppa Road for six cartons of Newport cigarettes. When the clerk asked for identification, the person walked out of the store. The clerk walked away from the register and the person ran behind the counter and grabbed six cartons of cigarettes, police said.
On March 8, the same person asked a clerk at the store in the 7200 block of York Road for four car...
The boy shot by two Baltimore City Police officers on Wednesday will not be charged.
Police said two officers in plain clothes Wednesday on Aisquith Street saw the 13-year-old boy carrying what looked like a semi-automatic handgun. Police said the pair identified themselves as officers and the boy ran.
Police said the officers chased him for about 150 yards and then he stopped and turned toward the officers still holding what turned out to be a BB gun. That's when officers shot him, hitting him in the shoulder and leg.
A Baltimore police spokesman told 11 News on Saturday, "After conferring with the State's Attorney's Office, the decision was made not to charge the young man."
Commissioner Kevin Davis told a panel on Saturday that the boy would not be charged. ...
