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Southwest Airlines cancels all flights in and out of Houston today and tomorrow.

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Total delays today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  125 Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  125 Total cancellations today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  10 Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  10 https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/KIAH   AC

Everything That Could Go Wrong in a Housing Market (Is Happening)

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Image credit: Creative Commons (CC0) From Birch Gold Group The housing market is on the verge of spinning out of control. Just about everything that could be going wrong is going wrong. The only holdout for the moment is home prices, which are up an astonishing 22.5% just this year. For many homeowners, that’s great news. Home equity is a huge … Read more

Texas Baby Murder Ban Reinstated!

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A federal appeals court reinstated Texas’ controversial “fetal heart beat” abortion ban on Friday night, days after a lower court suspended the Republican-backed law. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, effectively pausing U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order against the abortion ban earlier this week. Texas … Read more

Municipal-Bond Fund Investor Pullback Signals Weakening Market October 9, 2021

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(Bloomberg) — Investors in the $4 trillion market for state and local government debt appear to be looking for the exit.Most Read from BloombergThey pulled $344 million from long-term municipal-bond mutual funds and $460 million from high-yield funds during the week ended Wednesday, according to Refinitiv Lipper US Fund Flows data. Overall they put just … Read more

Gaetz Nomination For 2022 Speaker Is Genius… He’s The First One! October 8, 2021

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Republican congressman from Florida, Matt Gaetz, has promised to nominate Donald Trump as the next House Speaker, should Republicans regain the majority. A few people have floated this possibility over the last year. But Gaetz is the first elected official to make it a pledge. .@RepMattGaetz pledges that when Republicans retake the House in 2022, … Read more

These 7 states are pushing Non-Citizen voting…

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In 2018, House Republicans adopted a resolution recognizing “that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.” All but one Republican voted for the measure, which was adopted 279–72. A total of 71 House Democrats voted against the resolution, while 49 joined Republicans in supporting it. … Read more

DAWN OF THE GLOBAL TAX… 136 COUNTRIES AGREE

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I don’t remember voting for this… The breakthrough comes after some changes were made to the original text. Notably that the rate of 15% will not be increased at a later date, and that small businesses will not be hit with the new rates. This helped Ireland — a longtime opponent of raising corporate tax … Read more

FLASHBACK, NOV. 2, 2020: Will your ballot be safe? Computer experts sound warnings on America’s voting machines.

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via usatoday: Millions of voters going to the polls Tuesday will cast their ballots on machines blasted as unreliable and inaccurate for two decades by computer scientists from Princeton University to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Toyed with by white-hat hackers and targeted for scathing reviews from secretaries of state in California and Ohio, Direct Recording Electronic … Read more

So Whats Mr. Forbes is actually saying here? Debt Ceiling is nothing but bullsh*t?

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Tldr: Republicans hold the majority. “We need debt ceil go high” Democrats “bUt tHe dEbt” Democrats hold the majority. “We need debt ceil go high” Republicans “bUt tHe dEbt” This is literally political, duck duck goose. They both will keep going until a party loses. But in reality. Americans lose. This is literally the most … Read more

KEEP MOVING UP, GREG! Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld edges out Fallon and Kimmel in late-night ratings wars.

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There’s a new king of late-night in the hotly-contested late-night TV wars — Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, who says of his rivals, “While they cover their asses, we’ll just continue kicking them.” Gutfeld averaged 2 million viewers over last week — when he took his NYC show on the road to Nashville — making his … Read more

“SEC chief to Wallstreet: The Everything Crackdown Is Coming.”

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Here’s some of the bits that stood out to me. He’s laying out one of the most ambitious agendas in the SEC’s 87-year history — some 49 proposals, many already drawing opposition from hedge funds, stock exchanges, online brokers and public companies. . Lawmakers’ other priorities include reining in special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, responding … Read more