Apartment Rental Market: Houston Rents Plunge Most; Southern California Lose Grip. New York, Washington DC, Chicago Down. “Mid-Tier” Cities Red-Hot

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Where Apartment Rents Fell & Where They Surged: March Update In San Francisco, the most expensive major rental market in the US, the median asking rent in March for one-bedroom apartments jumped 8.8% from last year to $3,700. This is a new record, beating by $30 the old record set back … Read more

Apple’s Rotten Core

by Charles Hugh-Smith Entering commoditized, fiercely competitive low-margin services cannot substitute for the high-margin profits that will be lost as global recession and saturation erode iPhone sales. Apple has always been equally an enterprise and a secular religion. The Apple Faithful do not tolerate heretics or critics, and non-believers “just don’t get it.” So the first … Read more

When the Consent Of the Governed Is Ignored Withhold Taxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAXPtQcbwZw Summary The Constitution prohibits capitation and other direct taxes without apportionment. (See Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 and Section 9, Clause 4) The Supreme Court has declared the meaning of “income” to be fixed and confined to objects proper to an excise. Objects proper to an “income” excise are privileges–which is to say, … Read more

Facebook Insider Talks

by TrailDust PROJECT VERITAS Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting” “Troll Report” & Political Targeting in Interview James O’Keefe and his brave team have just pointed a flashlight at the dirty tricks played by the ever-so-friendly Facebook. I first became suspicious of Facebook when their fingerprints were all over the “spontaneous uprisings” of the Occupy … Read more

John Brennan is an ADMITTED COMMUNIST TRAITOR and here’s the proof.

This traitor Brennan is a known communist, along with Comey and many other of their associates that staged this failed coup. Watch this Lou Dobbs video. Brennan worked for 2 years with the other deep state actors, trying to convince Americans that Trump was the Russian asset. He knew his words had weight, calling Trumps actions “treasonous” … Read more

Rich vs. Poor: Who Pays More Taxes in Each State?

by howmuch Our latest visualization maps out how much state and local tax the richest 1 percent of a state pays, compared to the poorest 20 percent of the state. The data comes from a report titled Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All Fifty States. The report, released by the Institute on … Read more

DPRK’s MIC Rebels Against Kim As Exile Group Is Promoted For Possible Coup

by Disobedient Media After weeks of a sustained media campaign attempting to undermine confidence in the denuclearization talks with North Korea it seems that efforts have been significantly ramped up. New revelations regarding events concerning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and statements coming out of the hermit kingdom itself show a concerted effort … Read more

Nuclear Option Alert — McConnell says plans to change Senate rules to cut debate time on district court nominees from 30 hours to 2 hours.

Sahil Kapur ‏Verified account @sahilkapur Nuclear Option Alert — McConnell says plans to change Senate rules to cut debate time on district court nominees from 30 hours to 2 hours. This would clear the way for Republicans to speedily confirm a boatload of Trump judges. “This is a change the institution needs.” Nuclear Option Alert … Read more

IRS is going after Panera Bread for its ‘non-profit’ communist ‘community cafés’

by Dr. Eowyn Panera Bread Company exemplifies one of the stubborn attributes of the Left: They persist in advocating socialism/communism, in spite of the testimony from history that it doesn’t work. Not only has socialism-communism wrecked entire economies, a contemporary example of which is Venzuela, there are the horrific human costs. Bearing silent witness are the … Read more

Here’s The Inside Story Of The Plot To Take Down Trump

The Epoch Times’ Jeff Carlson has done great investigative journalism in documenting the roots of the Obama administration’s clandestine campaign against The Donald and to protect Hillary. Did you know 22 top officials have been fired, resigned or demoted so far for their actions in the campaign and that’s even before Sen. Lindsay Graham’s Senate Judiciary Committee … Read more

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN CNN STILL PRETENDED TO BE OBJECTIVE:

  ● Don Lemon tells Cory Booker ‘nice job’ in ‘hot mic’ moment during CNN town hall. ● Don Lemon Says He Texts Jussie Smollett Every Day Following Attack. Last October, during the Kavanaugh hearings, when the Journolist decided that calling the violent left a mob was not permissible on DNC-MSM airwaves, the Daily Caller noted that “CNN host … Read more

City of Chicago asks Jussie Smollett to pay for $130,000 cost of investigation – “Given that he doesn’t feel any sense of contrition and rem

“Given that he doesn’t feel any sense of contrition and remorse, my recommendation is that when he writes the check, in the memo section, he can put the words, ‘I’m accountable for the hoax,‘” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said earlier Thursday. https://abc7.com/chicago-asks-jussie-smollett-to-pay-$130k-for-cost-of-investigation/5221901/ AC