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Lemme repeat my headline: When even race-baiter extraordinaire Al Sharpton — grand high potentate of the race-hustling industry — warns Democrats they aren’t connecting with black and Latino voters, Democrats definitely aren’t connecting with black and Latino voters.  While the reasons cited by Sharpton as proof of the Democrat Party’s failure to connect with voters of color are incorrect, they serve as … Read more

My dad would tell the best stories. It seems that he was a bit of a “scrapper” back in the day. He grew up in the St. Louis area, graduated from high school weighing no more than 100 pounds, and he never backed down. As an adult, this proved to be an asset in business … Read more

U.S. health officials have warned that numerous brands of brie and camembert cheese may contain Listeria, a potentially dangerous bacteria. Old Europe Cheese Inc. has recalled more than 20 brands of cheese from retail and wholesale stores nationwide and in Mexico after six people in six states were infected with a specific strain of Listeria. Stores that sold … Read more

Short Sellers Squeeze Most-shorted stocks lead market, jumping almost 6% as a group@markets pic.twitter.com/4CjQys1np0 — Mo Hossain (@MoHossain) October 4, 2022 Goldman Sachs, $GS: A weaker economy “will drive households to continue selling stocks… We expect households to sell $100 billion in equities in 2023.” — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 3, 2022 JUST IN – U.S. … Read more

by Chris Black This is so tiresome… BREAKING: Elon Musk offers to proceed with the Twitter acquisition deal for the original price of $44 billion, Bloomberg reports. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 4, 2022 Everything Musk does is a pump and dump scheme. I wonder how many tens of millions of dollars he made by now … Read more

by Chris Black Hey, it’s worked since 2010. Why change now? Stock Market Today: Stock Rally Continues; Twitter Soars on Musk U-Turn(Discussed: $TWTR $TSLA $POSH $RIVN $DJIA $SPX $IXIC $RUT $USO $GLD $BTC)https://t.co/pgZgTDH6co — Kiplinger Letters (@KipLetter) October 4, 2022 Expect to see this economy kept on life support going into the November elections… or … Read more

by Chris Black Russia is making it clear to everyone on earth that they are the good guys. When they tell you Russia is your enemy, you should remember what they’re doing to your kids – and remember that Russia is the only country that is standing against what they are doing to your kids. … Read more

by Chris Black I’ve never realized that Kanye West is a White supremacist Nazi and most probably the head of his local chapter of KKK: Kanye west making Black models wear “ white lives matter” shirts is a culmination of his anti blackness and his immersion in white supremacy ideologies and methods. Disgusting pic.twitter.com/yIaVKPYEBB — … Read more

And in other city in Russia 🇷🇺 is seeing bright “shooting” lights. Cause isn’t clear. It’s not “pillar lights,” as the weather is warm. pic.twitter.com/MWkdoGoLTu — Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) October 4, 2022 AC

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WASHINGTON — America’s gross national debt exceeded $31 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a grim financial milestone that arrived just as the nation’s long-term fiscal picture has darkened amid rising interest rates. The breach of the threshold, which was revealed in a Treasury Department report, comes at an inopportune moment, as historically low … Read more

“Who Will Buy?” is the exuberant ensemble number from the 1962 musical hit Oliver! It is also the rallying cry of a number of investors and analysts who are worried about who exactly will be purchasing trillions of dollars worth of bonds as inflation bites and public deficits balloon. Such concerns were on full show … Read more

Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here. FBI Active Shooting reports are available here (2000-2013), here (2014-2015), here (2016-2017), here (2018), here (2019), here (2020), and here (2021). Introduction The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 17 drew broad national attention because of how it ended – when … Read more

The political pleasantries didn’t last long. Immediately after appearing together in public for the first time Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took aim at Mayor Adams’ plan to erect a migrant tent camp in her district, charging that there’s a “better solution” to be had. The progressive congresswoman, who’s had a simmering beef with the … Read more

Rap mogul and billionaire fashion entrepreneur Kanye West has declared that Black Lives Matter was always just a “scam,” saying that the movement is now “over.” On Tuesday, Kanye West posted a haiku-like obituary for the BLM movement to his Instagram stories, taking at least partial credit for its demise. Everyone knows that Black Lives … Read more