by Dave Duringer | Feb 4, 2019 | Death Tax, Estate Planning, News & Commentary, Property Tax, Tax Planning
While the estate tax is a perennial boomerang, Warren’s wealth tax tomahawk chop flies in the face of the Constitution’s prohibition on unapportioned scalping: The Constitution prohibits federal direct taxes that are not apportioned by population,...
by Dave Duringer | Jan 27, 2019 | News & Commentary
Kamala Harris and I were both in the Class of 1989 at UC Hastings College of Law, but I did not know her personally — Hastings was in 1986-1989 a large law school (about 1500 students). Although I passed the bar exam the first time I sat for it and was...
by Dave Duringer | Jan 22, 2019 | News & Commentary
Apparently a LOT of folks at Google, based on the number of upvotes for the following employee complaint, feel it is inappropriate to use the word “family” in a way that assumes there are children in the family: This is a diminishing and...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Commentary
And hands/feet kill more than rifles and shotguns combined: Crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that more people were killed with hammers and clubs than with rifles of every kind in 2017. According to the Uniform Crime Report,...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Why, to qualify for fruit cup? “We just want to make sure we’re representing the people that are in our community,” he said. But Alexander told the Bee that the “stupid” questions offended her so much that she has considered withdrawing from the program,...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Hungary is defending its nation by defending its families: The Hungarian government wants to reverse its own demographic decline the old fashioned way: by making it easier for the nation’s own citizens to have bigger families. To this end, Prime Minister Victor...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Good shoot: A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened fire. The unidentified father was leaving the establishment with...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, News & Commentary
Sounds like a good idea, possibly for inclusion in incentive trust planning: “I want to make a promise to myself and to God that I will stay pure until I get married. “I don’t have to have sex to know that I am loved.” The Purity Movement preaches...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
While the estate planning bar is a little hot under the collar over they handle trusts, at least this is some good news: Wells Fargo bucked corporate gun control by issuing $40 million in credit to Sturm, Ruger, & Co. Bloomberg reports that the $40 million...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
SAF has defended the Second Amendment rights of resident aliens before, with success. Riverside should back down on this. The Second Amendment Foundation has joined in a federal lawsuit challenging Riverside County, California and Sheriff Stanley Sniff over the...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 31, 2018 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Someone pulls out and activates a chainsaw on BART while verbalizing a threat of massacre, and you respond by posting a video on Twitter? and BART finds out about it because of your hashtag #BART, apparently because no one else called 911 either? #SMH! “I...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 25, 2018 | News & Commentary
American minds prove resilient after temporarily almost succumbing to media brainwashing a year ago: 57% oppose banning semi-automatic guns; 40% favor a ban Opposition is up after 2017 reading in wake of Las Vegas shooting Democrats more than twice as likely as...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 24, 2018 | Blended Families, Dying Embarrassed, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
There are lots of ways to die embarrassed. Bad estate planning is one example; see the category above for others. Nothing can top being trampled for eternity while listening to bad puns! Seriously, have you given thought to the ultimate disposition of your remains? Do...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 24, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
HALF!? This is far too great an omission to be accidental. This false report has been used to minimize the importance of carry (including at an “active shooter” class i took, given by an anti-CCW former cop). The utility of concealed carry is much higher...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 18, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Amazing. After decades of advocating gun control “if it saves one life” while ignoring millions of defensive gun uses, the leftist media actually inks a headline braying that one cop — saved by an armed citizen who joined the fray —...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 18, 2018 | News & Commentary
Huge increase in CCW’s issued nationwide, and that’s great! But how often are those with permits actually carrying? One of the advantages of open carry is that you know which neighbors meet their duty of carrying, and you can see if they are doing...
by Dave Duringer | Sep 26, 2018 | Family Protection, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
https://youtu.be/wHfoUWg3zw0 You can tell Brett Kavanaugh’s “virgin defense” is effective — just look how it’s belittled by all the media right now, on the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee showdown planned for tomorrow. The fact is,...
by Dave Duringer | Sep 8, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
We all love and R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha for her work and wisdom about life, but she “died embarrassed” in at least one respect: no estate plan! There is so much potential to harm family when one fails to plan properly. She clearly had time to plan, and was...
by Dave Duringer | Sep 7, 2018 | News & Commentary
A people trained to arms would be laughing hysterically at this: Feinstein next took issue with a dissent that Judge Kavanaugh had written in a case that upheld a D.C. “assault weapon” ban similar to the expired federal law. Specifically, she chided him for...
by Dave Duringer | Aug 25, 2018 | News & Commentary
Birds of a feather flock together, socialist rats travel in packs… ROME, August 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — What you are about to read is an explosive testimony of the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, implicating Pope Francis and several senior...
