KAROL MARKOWICZ: How the Trump presidency made me a better American.

via nypost: Nearly two years after his inauguration, I have concluded that President Trump has made me a better person. For starters, I’m more compassionate. After the election, I was as dazed and confused as anyone in the political-media bubble. To understand what happened, I devoured reporting about Trump voters and sought to understand them. I … Read more

ELIZABETH WARREN’S “DUKAKIS TANK” MOMENT

via legalinsurrection: The release of her DNA test results right before the midterms is almost uniformly seen as a public relations disaster, from which she still is trying to recover. Rather than confirm the validity of her claim when she was climbing the law professor ladder to Harvard to be Native American, it turned her into a laughingstock. Then … Read more

REPORT: DA Never Interviewed Cop Before Justifying Murder of Innocent Dad in Raid on Wrong Home

via thefreethoughtproject: Wichita, KS – In December of 2017, police responded to a prank call, also known as a “swatting,” at the home of Andrew Finch. When the entirely innocent and unarmed father answered the door during the raid, Officer Justin Rapp was recorded on video killing him in cold blood. After the coverage died down … Read more

Long-Term “Buy & Hold” Crushed Stockholders in Largest Markets Except US & India. But for the US, Luck’s Running Out

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Ugly long-term charts that Wall Street doesn’t want us to see. And now US stocks are infected too. How well does a buy-and-hold strategy work in the stock market over the long term – as measured in years and decades? In the largest markets around the world, it has crushed investors. … Read more

Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019

by John Rubino Much about 2019 is uncertain. But a few things are pretty much guaranteed, including the following: Government debt will rise at an accelerating rate Like a life-long dieter who finally gives up and decides to eat himself to death, the US is now committed to trillion-dollar deficits for as far as the … Read more