Liberals are so busy race-baiting that they forget their own hateful history of undermining black people who dare to leave the Democrat Plantation. In the latest leftist clown show, former […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alt-pop singer D4vd has been charged with sexually abusing, murdering and mutilating the body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose decomposed remains were found in his apparently abandoned Tesla seven months ago, Los Angeles County prosecutors say.

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Most Americans were glad to get another Tax Day behind them this month. It’s galling to hand over a third of everything you earned last year to government to waste, fraud, and abuse.

Consider the raw numbers. Last year, the federal government took just over $5 trillion. States and localities took another $2.5 trillion. Out of a total personal income of just $26 trillion, that’s 1 in 3.

For perspective, you work for the Feds Monday, you work for your state and locality Tuesday, and you don’t get to put anything in your pocket until hump day.

For perspective, a third is roughly 20 times more than the British were trying to tax in the Boston Tea Party.

Free at last.

Notably, we don’t have tea parties anymore. Partly because they don’t make Americans like they used to, but also because that lost third is hidden: The devil’s brew of income tax withholding, employer taxes that come out of salaries, embedded taxes where the trucker bought diesel, Publix paid property tax, but it’s not listed on the bananas.

So, where did it go wrong, and how do we make it right?

The original sin, of course, was the income tax, passed right before World War I. Indeed, it’s a big reason we had a world war—governments didn’t used to be able to afford them.

It was originally billed as a tax on the rich, with a top rate of 7% starting around $15 million in today’s dollars.

Perhaps you’ll recognize the sales pitch—billionaires will pay just a few percent, and all will be well.

Of course, “tax the rich” was bait as it ratcheted up the rates and ratcheted down who pays, so today the income tax hits everybody over $15,000 and takes a quarter of everything we earn. This does not include the billions of hours Americans spend trying to figure out their taxes under threat of imprisonment if you get it wrong—which is, at least, slightly less painful than a root canal.

So, what would it take to get rid of federal income tax? It’s actually very easy—Congress could literally pass a bill tomorrow. After all, the 16th amendment allows an income tax; it does not require one.

Congress won’t do it. It exists to pillage.

But what would happen if the income tax were eliminated?

The federal government would lose about $2.5 trillion of funding. It would have to slash foreign aid, Treasury bailouts for bankers, welfare for the able-bodied, grants to left-wing rioters, overseas wars (one Iran per generation, pace yourself). Even the tax-funded gender reassignment surgeries for inmates and illegal aliens—they’ll have to get Guatemala to pay.

In concrete terms, the federal government would shrink to half what it was between the 1920s and the 1950s, back before the welfare industrial complex and the fraud industrial complex it built.

In return, you keep the nearly $1,500 a month the median family pays in taxes.

But more important, every American would benefit from an enormous boost to economic growth and wages that could triple that to $4,500 a month per family.

The reason is that, just like cigarette taxes reduce smoking, income taxes reduce income. They discourage work, entrepreneurship, job creation, and business expansion.

And the more productive somebody is, the worse they’re hit. Why would a neurosurgeon work weekends, or a successful rib joint franchise for that matter, if most of it’s going to taxes?

President Donald Trump has repeatedly endorsed repealing the entire income tax—the first president in history to do so.

Polls show overwhelming support for abolishing the IRS and replacing it with a sales tax—including 70% of Republicans and most Democrats.

Sadly, Congress has more fun pillaging the republic, even if its voters want to throw the entire tax code into Boston Harbor.

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida may have resigned from Congress in disgrace, but that doesn’t mean you’ve seen the last of her. Cherfilus-McCormick, who faces decades in prison if […]

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Spencer Pratt released a campaign ad in his bid for Mayor of L.A highlighting the homeless crisis and the city's destruction.

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Few ideas are more daunting to an artist than opening up their creative process on the merciless sewer that is social media. Yet this is precisely what my dear friend Josh Steinman suggested when I shared my plan to write a symphony for America’s 250th birthday on a hot SoCal day in December 2024. “You should post live-to-tape updates with all of the mistakes, insecurities, decisions, and improvisation,” he proposed.

Thus began a process that no longer involved cloistered introspection. In the digital age, millions of creators vie for attention with stunts, AI slop, and general vapidity—yet almost none have capitalized on audiences’ desire for authenticity. What better way to be authentic than an egoless public struggle against oneself in the construction of a large-scale symphonic work!

In that initial pursuit of authenticity, the conduit for inspiration revealed itself in the form of a fundamental question: “What is America?” It is from meditating on that question that the American essence gathers through the rightly crafted language of music.

Music is a language. It is the most poetic language because it is the most abstract language, as words never seem to elucidate its emotional or spiritual power. There are, however, clear stylistic markers or syntactic structures that may evoke truths of specific peoples. America is no exception.

The American musical idiom, rooted in its rich, indigenous folk traditions, was masterfully integrated into classical music by composers such as Dvořák, Copland, and Gershwin, then further enriched by John Williams’s cinematic scores. These artists collectively forged a distinctive American symphonic vocabulary. This idiom conjures up a range of American experiences: the bustle of Manhattan in Rhapsody in Blue, the barn dances in Copeland’s Rodeo, or the electricity of a Hollywood blockbuster in the opening bars of Williams’s score for Star Wars. Nobody in the world confuses this music with that of Europe’s because it is so stylistically recognizable. My symphony seeks to extend this vibrant tradition not by replicating the past, but by augmenting it for our present moment.

Unlike other contemporary approaches that eschew tradition, my work embraces the structural rigor of the symphonic form—exemplified by a first movement crafted in strict sonata form—while weaving a sonic tapestry that is unmistakably of our time. This balance ensures that the symphony is neither a nostalgic echo nor a rejection of heritage, but a bold synthesis that captures the essence of America as it exists today. That creative process began not with a chronicle of historical events, but by engaging in philosophical inquiry about the meaning of America. This serves as the wellspring for the symphony’s melodies, themes, and sonic moods, which emerge organically through a deep engagement with this question.

Since work began, the public updates have garnered nearly four million views on X. A crowdfunding campaign to record the piece with a 75-piece orchestra has raised $25,000 (the minimum total needed is $75,000). None of the fears I expressed to Josh Steinman have manifested, as the response has been almost exclusively positive. Everyone is welcome to follow the progress on X.com/StephenLimbaugh.

The high arts set the table for the projective disclosure of the possibilities of the American people. These are not ends that can be reached with UFC fights, race cars, AI nonsense, or any contemporary iteration of “bread and circuses.” A symphony forces collective reflection on our identity, our past, and our path forward. It is a fitting tribute to America’s 250th anniversary—a testament to the enduring power of the symphonic form to inspire greatness and cultivate virtue.

I will continue to work diligently to completion and, with the help of readers like you, will be able to raise the remaining recording funds so the work may be enjoyed by audiences 50 years from now, when we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding.

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Erika Kirk called out comedian Druski and left-wing TV host Jimmy Kimmel over their recent jokes that have involved either mocking a conservative widow or fantasizing about creating new widows. "There is a epidemic of dehumanization plaguing this country," the Turning Point USA CEO declared.

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Outlaw country music legend David Allan Coe died Wednesday at the age of 86. “David was a Country Music treasure and loved his fans,” a representative said, according to People. […]

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“The Apprentice” might be coming back to our screens sometime soon, and it won’t be some RINO governor taking the helm for Donald Trump. Instead, it’ll be Donald Trump at […]

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