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April was another record month for illegal immigration The problem with waiting months to act decisively at the border is that we become accustomed to the new normal of record border numbers. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), April set yet another record, with a total of 109,000 apprehensions at the southwest border. Unless the … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The Washington Post suggested Thursday that President Trump endorsed “tacitly encouraging extrajudicial killings and brutality” against caravans headed to the U.S. The paper’s story focused on a moment that occurred immediately after saying he would “never” use weapons at a Florida campaign rally Wednesday. Trump was discussing the ongoing issue of migrants crossing the Southern Border and … Read more
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton joins the Larry O’Connor Show to discuss #SpyGate and election integrity in California.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1126984774038376449 The Latest on the tariffs standoff between the United States and China (all times local): 6:50 p.m. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer says his office is preparing to impose tariffs on the $300 billion in Chinese products that aren’t already facing import taxes, another escalation in Washington’s dispute with Beijing. The U.S. just after … Read more
by sundance Against the backdrop of documents from the state department, Senator Lindsey Graham sends a letter to both OIG Michael Horowitz and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seeking additional information about State Department contact with Christopher Steele. (Source Link) Additionally, the FBI has apparently reversed course on the self-serving redactions they put in place when the Kavalec Memo was released. A less redacted … Read more
Joe Biden is being called out for immigration virtue-signaling after a video of the Democratic candidate calling for a fence “40 stories high” at the US-Mexican border to keep out the Mexicans bringing in drugs resurfaced. “I voted for a fence,” Biden boasts in the video, unearthed by CNN, before launching into a rant against … Read more
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? “Brazil to allow crime reporters to carry guns for protection” reports the UK Press Gazette. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Second Amendment says what it says and though I haven’t owned a weapon in decades, the people who want to stop you from owning one are for the most part … Read more
via reason: Tenants’ rights groups are ecstatic that two major rent-control bills have sailed through the Assembly’s Housing and Community Development Committee. Democratic supermajorities and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s blessing may assure the bills will become law, thus offering the latest affirmation of H.L. Mencken’s infamous quotation: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they … Read more
via hotair: • Slap a new tax on banks with more than $50 million in assets. Kamala Harris especially likes this one, which would bring in an estimated $61 billion. Banks are big and bad, unless you want or have home mortgage. • Increase by 88 percent the amount of income Americans must pay Social Security … Read more
Attorney General William Barr is on the right track to investigate the origins on the Mueller probe, says Virginia Congressman Ben Cline, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee. #OutnumberedOvertime #FoxNews h/t duFontaine.
by Order of the Dragon By the first quarter more businesses had closed than all of 2018, and every day more closing, now Dollar Tree and Payless and Party City I got laid off with my all my co workers in December and have been out of work. No luck at all. All of us. … Read more
Facebook Caught LYING About Censorship, Regulation Is Coming. Facebook banned several right wing figures but claimed this is normal for them but in a new report from the Associated Press we learned that not only does Facebook leave up the overwhelming majority of content that breaks the rules they actually compile it into celebratory videos. … Read more
by Nilus Mattive via Daily Reckoning If you’re over 50, chances are the decision to retire won’t be yours. A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute found that more than half (56%) of U.S. workers over 50 have been fired, forced to retire early, or pushed out of their jobs before they were … Read more
by Michael Snyder As expected, trade negotiations with China concluded on Friday with no trade deal in sight. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the negotiations “constructive”, and that helped calm the financial markets, but there really isn’t any reason to be optimistic at this point. The negotiations that happened this week did not even come close … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Cities Where Americans Suffer Hot Inflation, But There Are Cool Spots Too This is something the people in the San Francisco Bay Area have figured out a long time ago: The national inflation numbers don’t quite measure up to local realities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the national Consumer Price … Read more
via Zerohedge: Conventional investing wisdom would have you believe that anybody who has remained bearish on global markets since the financial crisis has not only lost a boatload of money, but has missed out on the opportunity to cash in on one of the most torrid bull markets in recent memory. However, as Horseman Global’s … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO Towards the end of long expansions (this one is the longest on record) things get tight. Factories operate flat-out and start raising prices. Good workers become harder to find and companies start competing for them with higher wages and other perks. This story is about the “other perks” which, because they don’t show up … Read more
From Birch Gold Group During dry season, you always want to make sure you completely put out your campfire. Otherwise, it could quickly become an out-of-control brush fire. Right now, corporate debt is that brush fire. And rising interest rates since 2015 could compound the problem if an economic downturn occurs. We warned about this increasing corporate debt … Read more
by Jesse Colombo Last week, President Donald Trump reiterated his call for the Fed to cut interest rates: President Trump is technically correct in saying that the economy (or, more accurately, the stock market) would “go up like a rocket” if the Fed cut rates by 1%, but only because doing that would supercharge the dangerous … Read more