GOOGLE FACES 50 PROBES

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Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. The news follows the announcement of a joint state Facebook probe led by the attorney general of New York. Google is also reportedly facing an antitrust probe from the U.S. Department of Justice. Fifty attorneys general … Read more

Baltimore evacuations after vehicle found with 1,000 gallons of gas

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Baltimore police discovered a van loaded with 1,000 gallons of gasoline Monday morning and are evacuating several office buildings from the Inner Harbor — where emergency officials are urging people to stay away, city council members confirmed. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting Baltimore police on the scene. A police spokesperson … Read more

2020 WILD! YANG CROWD-SURFS

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Andrew Yang is doing what Beto O’Rourke could only dream of. The 2020 Democrat and entrepreneur was spotted performing what might be a presidential campaign first on Saturday: crowd surfing across a wave of supporters at the AAPI Democratic Presidential Forum in California. And if the sight of Yang’s ride wasn’t triumphant enough, the fact that … Read more

The Costs & Consequences Of $15/Hour – The Update

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by Lance Roberts  In 2016, I first touched on the impacts of hiking the minimum wage. “What’s the big ‘hub-bub’ over raising the minimum wage to $15/hr? After all, the last time the minimum wage was raised was in 2009. According to the April 2015, BLS report the numbers were quite underwhelming: ‘In 2014, 77.2 million workers age 16 … Read more

Democrats are amassing a 2020 trove of opposition research to weaponize against Trump in key battlegrounds that includes information from 7,000 lawsuits from nearly 50 states

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Democrats have gathered information from 7,000 lawsuits from nearly 50 states Information includes documentation about every time Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall The Democrats will use the research against the president in the 2020 election, particularly in key battlegrounds states   Information was gathered through news … Read more

If It Weren’t For Double Standards, They’d Have No Standards At All: Trump-russia And Clinton-libya: A Story Of 2 Probes And The Fbi.

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via realclearinvestigations: Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya in 2011. The FBI received the documents … Read more

Why Trump Is Bad News For Political Consultants

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via americanthinker: “Political consultants burn through billions of dollars and have no idea what they’re doing except to enrich themselves. “They do a number of things over and again of limited effect: TV and radio ads, direct mail, robocalls. And burn through money they do. Jeb Bush’s campaign famously spent $139 million and he dropped out … Read more

Not Only Is The Government Not Capable Of Protecting You, It Doesn’t Even Want To

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Parkland dad uncovers how district enabled deranged student-turned-shooter. After the deadly Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., national media focused largely on a handful of student activists, leaving it to victims’ parents to unravel why the slaughter happened. Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 killed, … Read more

82 Days In Jail And A Lost Job For Possession Of…Honey

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by Simon Black of Sovereign Man Let’s bring on the weekly absurdity! School cop handcuffs and screams at autistic 8-year-old An eight year old autistic boy in Southlake, Texas became agitated in his guidance counselor’s office. At one point the child became fidgety and took out a jump rope (that had been provided to him by the school). … Read more

Elizabeth Warren’s Insane Proposals

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Elizabeth Warren’s proposal seems to lack any comprehension of the economic impact. She has said: “To put our economy — and our families — on firmer ground, it is essential to reduce household debt both by raising people’s wages and by bringing down their costs. That is the heart of her economic … Read more

Why Is The “Cost of Living” In Cities So High?

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by Robert Murphy via Mises John Cochrane has an entertaining and informative blog called “The Grumpy Economist,” offering insights centered in the Chicago School approach that nonetheless will resonate with the Austrian reader. However, in a recent post Cochrane erroneously claimed that people living in high-rent areas of California were effectively using a different currency than other Americans. This type of loose … Read more

Republicans face must-win race in NCarolina… Test for president

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GOP faces must-win race in North Carolina CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Republicans are scrambling to avoid what would be a devastating loss in the special House election in North Carolina’s 9th District. Internal polls from both sides show Republican Dan Bishop and Democrat Dan McCready running neck and neck in a traditional GOP stronghold that was unexpectedly competitive in … Read more

STUDY: Financial Stress Making 2 In 5 Young Americans Sick

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via studyfinds: COLUMBUS, Ohio — The cost of health care in the United States is a controversial topic. For many, health costs are a serious source of stress, particularly with a slumping economy and the potential for a recession on the horizon. Now, a recently conducted survey reveals some troubling truths about the impact financial stress is … Read more

Bahamas Media are now reporting that more than 3,000 are feared dead on Abaco island ALONE

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  BP BREAKING| The bodies of Hurricane Dorian victims loaded off a plane from the Abacos. More than 3,000 are feared dead. pic.twitter.com/W4tHukE0QD — Bahamas Press (@Moca_Foundation) September 9, 2019 Hurricane Dorian victims could climb beyond 3,000 in Abaco alone… GB hundreds…Government has left the damages untouched and bodies littered in communities across the islands … Read more

Report: Vacant Homes Plague Canada

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There are more than one million empty or temporarily occupied homes across the country.  That’s according to the report “‘Ghost’ Homes Across Canada: A Decade of Change in 150 Cities,” which also shows that the majority of the abandoned residences are investment properties or short-term rentals, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver.  Overall, the number of … Read more