John Kolb

@CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier No .. legal immigrants may, as some groups are high income earners.

Immigrants generate more income and taxes than the average US-born person, Cato’s @David_J_Bier reports. From 1994 to 2023, immigrants generated roughly $100,000 more in taxes per capita than the average US-born person—about 17% more over the entire period. ow.ly/pFek50YKFMx

Oh wow, Hitler His/Her Absolutely brilliant.

@BillKristol @SariArhoHavren You are hopeless…

"The first Polish pope helped liberate his country...The Trumpists are worried that the first American pope could contribute to such a development here. They should be. The view Pope Leo is upholding—that right matters, not just might—is an American one." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

@tolstoybb @phl43 That’s good!😊

Maverick singlehandedly takes out the Danish Air Force and frees the people of Greenland

@ElBaradei @ProSyn Accept Israel will exist and seek peace. Then the wars will end.

Two years ago :(

@undercoverags TX, USC, OU, NE, FSU have been lost for decades. SeverL others pop here and there ..

THE ONLY CFB BLUE BLOODS: TEXAS USC ALABAMA OHIO STATE MICHIGAN NOTRE DAME GEORGIA OKLAHOMA NEBRASKA THE ONLY HONORABLE MENTIONS ARE: LSU FLORIDA STATE MIAMI PENN STATE This should not even be an argument. This is objectively the only correct list.

@_sloveni_ @realMaalouf Why? Perhaps to stop rockets that have been pouring into Israel for decades?

@realMaalouf jews are currently bombing South Lebanon into pieces killing christians and muslims. so pardon me but I'd like to suggest you are devoid of a thinking cap.

The Pope cites Lebanon as an example of peaceful “coexistence” between Christians and Muslims. Fun fact: Lebanon was literally created to be a homeland for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. And it was for a few decades. The moment Muslim invaders thought they had the numbers, they started a civil war that lasted 15 years because they didn’t want to live with the same Christians who made them part of the country. Thousands of Christians were massacred, Muslims became the majority, Hezbollah took over, and the country hasn’t known peace ever since. Lebanon is the first and ultimate example that coexistence between Christians and Muslims is quite literally impossible. It’s mind-blowing that anyone would use it as an example of coexistence, let alone the Pope.

@stphnfwlr @NPR Good

NEW: @NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totaling $113 million. More: npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-…

This day (April 16) in 1948, the British withdrew from Safed & 100s of Arabs immediately attacked the city’s ancient Jewish community. The Arab commander cabled the Arab Liberation Army: “Our morale is very high, the young people are enthusiastic, we’re going to massacre them." The outnumbered Jews chose to stay and fight rather than flee; and, along with a small garrison of Haganah fighters, they managed to repel the attack. The Arab assault was part of the “civil war” portion of the 1948 War that was launched the moment the UN voted to partition Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state on November 29, 1947. From day one, the Arabs rejected any Jewish state on any part of the Land. In fact, on this same day (April 16, 1948), as Arab armies massed on the borders to invade the day the British Mandate ended, Jamal Husseini - acting chairman of the Arab Higher Committee - told the UN Security Council: “The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.” And “fight” they did. The Arabs answered the UN vote with immediate terror: buses ambushed, passengers shot, the Jewish market in Jerusalem stormed with Arabs armed with knives and axes, entire convoys wiped out on the roads with no prisoners taken and corpses mutilated. Jewish civilians were dying at a rate of more than fifty per week. By March 1948, the Arabs were winning the “battle for the roads” and had the Jewish population on the verge of strangulation and, in Jewish Jerusalem, starvation. This is where the wildly misunderstood Plan Dalet came into effect. It was a desperate military counter-offensive to reopen supply lines and prevent total annihilation. It was never a “blueprint for expulsion” as propagandists like to claim. The real ethnic cleansing intent came expressly and proudly from the Arabs whose war cry was literally: Itbah al Yahoud! — “Slaughter the Jews!” On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded with the explicit goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map before it could even breathe. They failed. That failure is what Arabs originally called the "Nakba" — “the catastrophe.” Its original use had exactly nothing to do with “refugees,” but was meant to give a word to the humiliating Arab failure to destroy the wildly outnumbered Jews and prevent Israel from being born. In reality, the vast majority of local Arabs fled before Israeli forces arrived, urged on by their own leaders who promised a quick victory and return. Those who stayed, by the way, became full citizens of Israel with equal rights; and they make up more than 20% of Israel's population today. Perhaps most importantly, there would NEVER have been a single refugee had the Arabs accepted the UN partition and/or chosen not to invade with genocidal intent. Like so many anti-Israel narratives that reverse cause and effect today, the “Nakba” narrative inverts aggressor and victim. It erases the fact that the Jews were fighting for survival against a war of annihilation explicitly declared by the Arabs from day one. What are some other ways cause and effect is reversed in modern anti-Israel discourse? Let me know your thoughts below.

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Did Democrat values change or did the party change? Obama on the 2nd Lebanon war: "If somebody invades my country, or is firing rockets into my country, or kidnapping my soldiers, I will not tolerate that and there's no nation in the world that would, so I don't see this softness within the Democratic party on these issues"

@Pepper_Rides @LittleCongress Potentially .. and where would the purification be allowed?

@LittleCongress Isn't this against everything Trump stands for and his & republicans policy and agenda? Why would the current administration allow foreign mining on US soil? -and then have OUR MINERALS sent to China?!?

The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters. Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires. Twin Metals and its parent companies are mega-corporations owned by a billionaire family based in Chile. They have a long track record of pollution and environmental devastation, and despite their assurances that this mining is “safe,” decades of research show otherwise. Twin Metals would bring fewer than 750 jobs to the region, with most of its operations being autonomous and remote, but it risks thousands of jobs in tourism and hospitality. The BWCA is the most visited wilderness in America, attracting almost 150,000 tourists and over $80 million in annual spending to the region. This won’t bring long-term prosperity. It will cost us millions in healthcare and environmental cleanup. Mining can be done right, only in the right places. This is the wrong type of mine, in the wrong place. All watersheds are connected. What happens in one place harms another, and pollution near the BWCA will migrate into the BWCA and the surrounding watershed. Republicans are in the pockets of big corporations that want to threaten our Minnesota heritage and one of the most pristine environments in the nation. We must take back the U.S. House and overturn this reckless policy.

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@VividProwess Shotguns - great urban weapons - and some semi/automatic rifles. May be poor resolution, but no bolt action rifles seen.

See all these weapons? The IDF found all of them in a school in southern Lebanon. Yes, a school. Hezbollah, just like Hamas, is using schools, hospitals, and kindergartens as weapon storage. The mainstream media will never show you this. Share this.

@ComicDaveSmith @True_Canuck1 Dave, who is trying to kill an entire civilization? That’s right, the Hezbos and their pals, the Mullahs.

Does “never again” apply to “killing an entire civilizations, never to be seen again?” I’m just curious how this works.

@202accepted @BallouxFrancois Aren’t they already paying steep property taxes on those properties?

i hate to say it but a 1% tax on property over $5m you don’t live in is hard to argue against for the average voter like, the solution is simply “actually live in NYC”, “what are you so broke you can’t afford 1%?”, and “well you could just leave NYC” all are ego hits none of these property owners don’t wanna take and have a hard time refuting love or hate him, he’s actually doing something vs most mayors and tells you in the slickest way possible

@BillMelugin_ @kausmickey Haitians working in Chile absolutely was a thing!

I shot this video while on a boat in the Rio Grande in Del Rio, TX on 9/18/2021 as 15,000+ Haitians flooded across the border illegally and set up a camp underneath the international bridge. Mayorkas later admitted 12,000+ of them were released into the U.S. Many of them later discarded their IDs and paperwork showing they had been living and working in South American countries for years (mostly Chile) as they prepared to make fraudulent asylum claims. Their documents were all over the ground. We collected many of them. House will vote on extending Haitian TPS today at 1:30pm.

@BallouxFrancois Aren’t these property owners already paying steep prop taxes?

The 'eat the rich' messaging is unhelpful at best, but vacancy taxes are actually pragmatic, sensible and fair, and an excellent instrument to encourage urban revitalisation.

@PeruginiNic @NickKristof BS … let’s see what might be in the remains .. hint: Hezbo hardware

The Israeli military detonating a school in southern Lebanon. The only aim here is to destroy education. Scholasticide.

@sahouraxo @True_Canuck1 Full of Hezbo hardware??

Israel just blew up a public high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon. Not a military base. A school.