728 x 90

Blog 3 Columns

  • Five Facts About Tax Day and Income Taxes

    Five Facts About Tax Day and Income Taxes0

    Today is Tax Day, the day when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Here are five facts you should know about income taxes and Tax Day: 1. The first national income tax in the United States was in 1861 soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. Congress approved a national income tax,

    READ MORE
  • Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies

    Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies0

    Ah, Easter egg hunts. They’re a fun, wholesome, all-American tradition. Or are they? As many parents can attest, Easter egg hunts also have a dark side. Last Saturday, my husband and I took our four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son to an Easter egg hunt sponsored by a local school. To our amazement, the kids had

    READ MORE
  • Are There Any Limits to Illegal Immigration?

    Are There Any Limits to Illegal Immigration?0

    The U.S.-Mexican border is essentially wide open. Why? Because there is a general expectation in Mexico and Latin America that American immigration law is unenforced. Or it is so bizarre that simple illegal entry almost always ensures temporary legal residence, pending an asylum hearing. A scheduled asylum hearing, in turn, is seen by border crossers

    READ MORE
  • Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)

    Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)0

    Venezuela has recently experienced a wave of blackouts resulting from the ineptitude of Maduro’s dictatorship, whose policies have led the country to the most severe economic crisis of its history. The lack of access to electricity is having an unprecedented humanitarian impact on the Venezuelan population. Food is spoiling in unpowered refrigerators, looters are running

    READ MORE
  • Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?

    Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?0

    Here’s a headline worth pondering: “Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands.” The story, on the website SupChina, details the latest innovation at the Jiangnan Experimental School in Hangzhou. Interestingly enough, the electronic headband, dubbed Focus EDU, is made by a Harvard-incubated American startup, BrainCo, based in Somerville, Massachusetts—right next to Cambridge. As the company’s chatty video explains, in a traditional

    READ MORE
  • Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation

    Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation0

    You are sick so you go to the hospital. There is no medicine. Diagnostic machines don’t work because the power is out. The lights aren’t on either. After nightfall, the whole place is pitch black. You can’t wander the halls. Too dangerous. Small wounds lead to amputation without anesthesia because there is no other way

    READ MORE
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024