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The World's Earliest Evidence of Taxation →

April 17, 2025

Crystal Ponti: “From Sumer to China, civilizations devised ingenious, and sometimes bizarre, ways to track, collect and enforce taxes, leaving behind vivid clues of how they funded their ambitions—and proved that even in the Bronze Age, nothing was certain but death and taxes.”

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Man Imposes Tariffs as Wife Racks Up Huge Trade Deficit at Target →

April 9, 2025

At publishing time, news broke that Jenna Harper was planning to impose an immediate laundry embargo to counter Eric's tariffs — Babylon Bee.

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Panic Politics: Law Profs' Umpteenth Constitutional Crisis Falls Flat →

March 10, 2025

Jonathan Turley explains why “it is embarrassingly easy to get 1,000 law professors to sign off on letters claiming endless constitutional crises caused by Trump or conservatives.”

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Dems Ready to Defend DOE as Soon as They Figure Out What it Does →

March 7, 2025

While the Department of Education is worthless when it comes to education, it’s yet another conduit for Democrats laundering your money to their friends and pet causes.

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Study Finds People Trying to Stop Financial Audit Have Absolutely Nothing to Hide →

February 12, 2025

Why do you think that NONE of the ridiculous, corrupt spending DOGE is finding was ever revealed under Joe Biden and the Democrats? (Hint: The guy in the picture is a Democrat.)

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Trump Becomes the First Fascist to Cut Government →

February 5, 2025

Babylon Bee: “While most other fascist leaders throughout history have used their power to increase the scope of government influence in their respective countries, Trump has broken with tradition to become the very first fascist with a focus on dismantling his own government's overreaches.”

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Why Los Angeles is Burning →

January 12, 2025

The media will still blame climate change. This allows powerful Democrat politicians and bureaucrats to continue their money laundering scheme in California without accountability — Keely Covello.

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Biden Awards Harris Presidential Medal of Participation →

January 6, 2025

Despite Harris failing to achieve any measurable success at any task she was given, the award demonstrated the fact that physically, she was often in the area — Babylon Bee.

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A Murderer's Moronic Manifesto →

December 24, 2024

Demolished, line by line.

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Where Was Jordan Neely's Father? →

December 10, 2024

Where was Jordan Neely’s father when Jordan needed one? Is there any reason besides money that he finally showed up after Jordan was gone?

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75% of Elves Laid Off After Elon Musk Visits North Pole →

December 6, 2024

At publishing time, Musk was reportedly set to lay off all of the reindeer due to providing Santa with a new electric Tesla sleigh.

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She blew through a billion →

November 11, 2024

Dumb as a rock, Kamala Harris blew through a billion dollars, enjoyed a largely sycophantic media, and ended up with nothing to show for it all but millions in debt.

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AOC Goes on "The Price is Right" →

October 9, 2024

Everything is FREE (except under capitalism).

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Biden Cheats Impeachment, But Not on the Merits →

August 22, 2024

Writes Miranda Devine, "It’s hard to find a clearer-cut case for impeachment than selling access to the White House to foreigners, including the Chinese Communist Party, for tens of millions of dollars."

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Sad: Black People Turned Away In Droves As Democrats Require Photo ID To Enter Convention →

August 21, 2024

Despite knowing that black people are not capable of obtaining photo IDs, Democrats inexplicably chose to require everyone in attendance to show identification, leaving thousands of black people unable to enter.

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Jill Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race →

July 21, 2024

Also, see “Dems Pull Off Successful Insurrection”: https://babylonbee.com/news/dems-pull-off-successful-insurrection.

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Rich Liberals in Their Jets →

July 5, 2024

“Pennyworth was unavailable for further comment, as he needed to go supervise the refueling of his private Crystal Skye jet before his cross-country flight to go on a cruise on his 350-foot yacht.”

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Can Democracy Survive the ‘Defenders of Democracy'? →

June 9, 2024

Jonathan Turley writes, “Fortunately, our democracy does not depend on any president. It was designed by James Madison to withstand the worst, not the best, motivations of our leaders.” I would add that we are not a democracy, but a republic with democratic processes.

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Biden's 10 Conditions for Debating Trump →

May 16, 2024

The only network allowed to carry debate is Al-Jazeera: Fair and balanced.

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Atheist Patiently Waits for Ikea Coffee Table to Assemble Itself →

March 2, 2024

At publishing time, word had spread that the man had died of old age without any evidence that his coffee table was any closer to being assembled than it was when he opened the box.

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