Perhaps you've noticed that this is the annual income-tax week for Americans when the 2025 returns or excuses are due in to the Internal Revenue Service.
Thanks to a mainstream media blackout on some good news, you may not have noticed that income-tax refunds are noticeably larger this year, and your checks for any back taxes due can be noticeably smaller.
This is due to the One Big Beautiful Bill of tax cuts and reforms passed earlier by the Republican Congress and signed by the GOP president.
Instead of chronicling this positive, timely, and unexpected financial bounty in a year of midterm elections that could snatch congressional control from Republicans, some media have brought out the violins.
They're playing for — wait for it! — the poor lawbreakers who sneaked into the country illegally under Joe Biden's open southern border policy.
It seems that, in addition to being here illegally, many of them are also working here illegally. Which means they should be paying and filing federal income taxes like the rest of us.
But in order to avoid breaking those laws, too, these illegal immigrants must pay and file federal taxes.
Which means that despite the extensive previous administrations' concealment help, they may well then be uncovered by Immigration and the Border Patrol. And shipped home.
Gee, what should they do to address this problem of their very own making?
I have expressed some rather strong opinions here in the past on the festering problem of illegal immigrants and the serious social, educational, financial, and law enforcement challenges their presence will levy on local communities and their taxpayers for many years to come.
This time, my brief audio commentary thoughts on this situation are even stronger, all of which you can hear by clicking on the U.S. flag below.
And, as always, I urge you to leave your own opinions and thoughts on this situation and the commentary, down below a little deeper.
I posted an extra non-VIP story this week, reporting on the special election wins of Canada's ruling Liberal party and some unusual aisle-crossings that finally hand Prime Minister Mark Carney a majority hold on the House of Commons, albeit a slim one.
This will give Carney, a frequent Trump critic, considerably more political leverage within Canada and likely more swagger in his ongoing jousts with the U.S. leader. Worth watching.
I've been struck in recent weeks by the unlikely events that have dominated the daily news diets that so many of us consume. So, I pulled some of the together in a Sunday column titled "You Want Unexpected News? I'll Give You Unexpected."
The most recent audio commentary actually fit into that unexpected news category.
It looked at the latest — and in my opinion, most outrageous — nominees to receive Democrat Party bounty in the form of so-called reparations for alleged wrongs wrought on them by the United States government. You might be as angry about it as I am. (Another reason to show up and vote in the midterm elections this fall.)
