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A group called East County Rising encouraging votes for Senator Ron Wyden, Con. Earl Blumenauer, Tina Kotek and many more, made the mistake of asking voters to vote on November 18th.We have sympathy for the one person who rushed this out too fast and overlooked the mistake — a mistake we have seen before in Oregon. The group East County Rising is a Political Action Committee that is funded by liberal organizations.

Adam Lovinger, a former Defense Department analyst ... a whistleblower, is now battling to save his career. The Pentagon suspended his top-secret security clearance May 1, 2017, when he exposed through an internal review that Stefan Halper, who was then an emeritus Cambridge professor, had received roughly $1 million in tax-payer funded money to write Defense Department foreign policy reports, his attorney Sean Bigley said. Before Lovinger's clearance was suspended he had taken a detail to the National Security Council as senior director for strategy. He was only there for five months before he was recalled to the Pentagon, stripped...

The GOP's long-promised change is an offshoot of a tax overhaul last year that cut corporate rates and winnowed down the number of individual tax brackets. On Friday, the Treasury Department and IRS unveiled the new postcard, which will replace the current forms 1040, 1040A and 1040 EZ.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that new tax forms, designed to make the filing process clearer and simpler for Americans, will be released next week. “Next week we will be unveiling the new 1040 and it will be a postcard as we promised,” he said during a press conference celebrating the six-month anniversary of the passage of tax reform. “Hardworking taxpayers won’t have to spend nearly as much time filling out their [tax forms].” The 1040 form is the U.S. individual income tax return. Republicans promised to simplify the filing process for taxpayers, famously claiming the forms...

Ask Matt Labash, who says the GOP should have called its tax reform measure the "Robbing Peter to Pay Apple Act." Dear Matt, Republicans have called their tax bill “The Tax Cut and Jobs Act.” President Trump wanted to call it “The Cut, Cut, Cut Act” (And here we thought his specialty was branding.) What would you have named it? H.R. Block I’d be fine with calling it “The Republicans Pissing Down Your Leg While Telling You That You’re Bathing In A Warm Mineral Spring Act.” Or maybe “The Robbing Peter to Pay Apple Act.” (In this scenario, you,...

Many of you will remember the Postcard Campaign we began on September 28th, 2015. We updated, continued and reminded several times throughout the entire election cycle, especially when candidate Donald Trump was taking the most fire. Mr. Trump received thousands of notes and cards… It is entire fitting and appropriate for us to send a THANK YOU postcard. If you would like to participate just pick up a simple postcard representative of your town, state or region, personalize it and mail to: President Elect Mr. Donald J Trump C/O Trump International Hotel and Tower One Central Park West New York,...

I'm sending Confederate Battle Flag postcards to the politicians in D.C. The message will be: Not one plantation in the Confederate South was owned by a republican. The democrats were the plantation owners. It was the republican party that freed the slaves from the democrat slave masters.

1916: Badly spelt postcard from Hitler discovered The father of the owner of the postcard was for many years Landrat (District Administrator) of Dingolfing in Bavaria and an avid stamp collector. On his 65th Birthday, the head of the District Savings Bank presented him with this memorable philatelic collector’s item. It is a field postcard written by Corporal Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) to his regimental comrade Karl Lanzhammer (1896-1918) on 19/12/1916 from Munich. Karl Lanzhammer was a friend of Hitler’s from their time together on the Western Front, and a known correspondent of his. At this time he was a cyclist...

Talk about snail mail! The nearly 60-year journey of a postcard through at least four states is finally winding down, although the little Georgia boy whose parents wrote him during a trip to Chicago is now 71 years old. The postcard, with a picture of the Windy City's Shedd Aquarium on the front and a 2-cent stamp on the back, landed in the mailbox of Elizabeth Fulcher, of South Daytona, Fla., last week.

This is the brainchild of a friend of mine, Katy H, in Kerrville, TX. It's great! I believe that the majority of Americans are good, hard-working people. For too long we've been silent because we were going about our business raising our families and making the country work. Now everything that we've worked for all our lives as well as our inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution are being stolen from us by the current Administration and Congress. It's time to DO something! Do you remember the movie, "Miracle on 34th Street?" Do you remember the scene where a man...

Dear fellow Catholics, by now you probably know that the USCCB spent a good deal of planning and money to organize a "postcard campaign" to Congress opposing FOCA (the ultra-radical pro-abortion 'Freedom of Choice Act' Obama wants to pass). Every bishop agreed to direct every single parish pastor in every single diocese in this country to devote the next few weeks to this. However, I'm getting feedback from friends across the country that this isn't happening and would love a Freeper Catholic response so we can all get a broad view of how powerful (or weak) the Catholic message to...

A fishery cooperative in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, sells a rather unique New Year's greeting postcard — you can eat it. Season's greetings: An employee of a fishery cooperative of Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, shows off dried squid that can be used as New Year's postcards. KYODO PHOTO It is made of dried squid, a local specialty of the town. The flat, vacuum-packed squid is wrapped in paper on which the sender pastes a sticker with the recipient's name and address. The postcard can be sent through the ordinary mail. The cooperative usually produces only 3,000 of the postcards every year, but...

CLAIMS THAT a promotional police postcard featuring a puppy is offensive to members of the Islamic community have been dismissed by one of Dundee’s leading Muslims. A storm of controversy erupted yesterday after a report in The Courier revealed that some members of the Islamic community have complained about the postcard. Dundee councillor Mohammed Asif claimed the postcard, advertising Tayside Police’s new non-emergency telephone number, could offend some Muslims because it features a black German shepherd dog sitting in a police officer’s hat. It is understood some Muslims have been upset by the image because in Islam dogs are generally...

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A postcard that a Japanese soldier mailed from a Southeast Asian battlefront during World War II has reached a recipient in Japan 64 years later, a university whose student helped deliver it said Saturday. Shizuo Nagano, an 80-year-old retiree in Japan's southwestern state of Kochi, received the card Friday — by way of Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii — said a statement from Mukogawa Women's University. Nagano's former colleague at a retail store, Nobuchika Yamashita mailed the card in 1943 from Burma, now called Myanmar, a year before Yamashita died at war at age 23, the university statement said. It said...

Postcard delivered 90 years too late By Nick Britten Last Updated: 9:40am GMT 16/02/2007 When Private Walter Butler posted a card to his sweetheart from the trenches in the First World War, neither thought too much about it when it failed to arrive. Pte Butler, who was fighting on the Western Front with the Dorset Regiment, went on to marry his girlfriend, Amy Hicks, and the pair lived long and happy lives in Chippenham, Wilts. Last week the card mysteriously reappeared when Martin Kay, a postman, found it had been placed in his delivery sack. With Pte Butler and his...

Undelivered mail from 1956 comes back to DeLand DELAND -- It's been a long, mysterious journey for one little postcard. In 1956, George Hitz dropped a postcard into his Stetson Avenue mailbox, hoping a fellow HAM radio operator in Riverside, Calif., would soon get it. No one knows whether the postcard completed its cross-country journey, but it was returned to its starting place this week bearing a 1956 DeLand postmark and a "return to sender" stamp. George Hitz as a teenager at his HAM radio shack on Stetson Avenue in DeLand, from where he sent the card to California. Hitz,...

The German post office has displayed its adherence to the rulebook by delivering a card addressed "Adolf Hitler, Reichstag" to the current seat of government in Berlin. The postcard - sent from Britain and addressed to "Führer Adolf Hitler, Reichstag, German Parliament, Berlin" - was forwarded to the Bundestag this week.The post office had efficiently stamped it with the remark: "mail corrected due to wrong address, please alert the sender".

Thursday, January 13, 2005Postcard from Afghanistan From a reader, CSM Tim Green at the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan: "I have been in the Army over 27 years and have been here 15 months. My tour was a year and I extended it because I knew my first week here one year wouldn't be enough for all the work that needed to be done. Though many people here would rather be home, I have never met a troop of any service or any coalition partner who doesn't feel they are contributing something positive to the cause. I love the attitude of...

I do something called postcard protest.... I use 5x7 colored Index cards, that i get from an office supply store. Then, I write a short note on one side........ like "Why are you ignoring the MILLIONS being fleeced by the DEMOCRATS in Fannie Mae?" on the other side I put the address of whatever TELEVISION or NEWS outlet I'm sending it to. Some days, I'll send out as many as 10 postcards to 10 different addresses. Usually, the colors & the simple message guarantees, most people who come across it will read it. Hence, even if my note is ignored...