Conservative Pulse

Rum tax break? Not quite…but it’s still $192 million!

Lisa Hawkins with the Distilled Spirits Council contacted me regarding the rum tax break issue that we earlier mentioned as among the earmarks in the $800 bailout.  Apparently it’s not actually a “tax break” for manufacturers, but an extension of a Federal Excise Tax refund deal we have had with Puerto Rico and the Virgin [...]

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Clean Sweep for Obama

It looks like Barack Obama has swept through today’s primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. By landslide margins, Obama carried the states of Nebraska, Washington, and Louisiana. And he also claimed victory in the caucuses held in the Virgin Islands. Hillary “I loaned myself $5 million” Clinton was able to pick up some [...]

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