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notes…The Hollywood Reporter? Los Angeles is grappling with a homeless epidemic. “It’s the worst human catastrophe in America,” says Andy Bales, a pastor who runs the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row. Faced with a growing crisis, city leaders last year budgeted more than $100 million for affordable housing, addiction treatment, job placement and mental health … Read more
One of the fundamental elements of good journalism is “show, don’t tell.” This means that reporting facts are preferred over interpretation or characterizations. But it’s not hard to see why distrust in the legacy media is ever-rising. “Americans blame shutdown on Trump over Democrats by wide margin, poll finds” blares USA Today. Wide margin? The poll actually … Read more
by Jeff_43 I took a part time job at a local tax place (national chain company.) My 1st shift was today and man the level of fraud people are trying is crazy. Our place gives same day loans of someone qualifies so we are warned and had to take training classes spotting fraud. I thought … Read more
via dailysignal: MADISON, Wis.—Dozens of conservative organizations are receiving late Christmas presents years after the IRS handed them a lump of coal. The federal government in recent days has been issuing settlement checks to 100 right-of-center groups wrongfully targeted for their political beliefs under the Obama administration’s Internal Revenue Service, according to an attorney for the … Read more
Exactly. We are a constitutional Repulic whether these losers like it or not AC
If the federal government can’t even manage its own budget, shutting down National Parks in the process, why not return the National Parks to the states, or local authorities, or even private businesses? Bill Whittle’s reaction to the idea may surprise you.
via twitchy: To paraphrase the Simpsons’ Jasper Beardsley, that’s a doxxin’. Earlier: CNN Defends Decision to Spike Local Media Pro-Border Wall Interview: ‘This Is a Non-Story.’ h/t ED
via ocregister: In the poker match between President Donald Trump and China’s new all-but-emperor, Xi Jinping, it’s widely assumed that Xi holds the best hand. Yet President Xi’s hand may not be as awesome as it appears, while the United States, even under this very flawed president, may hold some fine cards. Of course, Xi wields … Read more
via spiked-online: Not only does peripheral France fare badly in the modern economy, it is also culturally misunderstood by the elite. The yellow-vest movement is a truly 21st-century movement in that it is cultural as well as political. Cultural validation is extremely important in our era. One illustration of this cultural divide is that most modern, … Read more
by Nate China is planning on rolling out a nationwide network where all their citizens are graded on a variety of metrics and given a “social credit score.” In this Bloomberg QuickTake video, they explain how it works, what it is, and the battle China is facing domestically with its own population. For those that have low … Read more
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I was digging through some old charts over the weekend and stumbled across this gem from AlphaTrends which explains the “best time to buy stocks.” “Is it possible to time the market cycle to capture big gains? Like many controversial topics in investing, there is no real professional consensus on market timing. Academics … Read more
Thomas Barrabi for FOX Business reports, Trader Joe’s is the preferred grocery store destination for U.S. consumers for the second consecutive year, according to an analysis by consumer data science firm Dunnhumby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teu9biTbW4g Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/tr…
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Pelosi and Cryin’ Chuck Schumer begged President Trump this week to reopen the government. Trump doesn’t give a damn and wants a wall. Chuck and Nancy are losing. And their wall of insanity is crumbling down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8jsr-yVl0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
The government Shutdown continues. Who will blink first? The one who does could lose everything in the upcoming 2020 presidential race – including President Trump. Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, the senior editor of the National Review, told NPR’s Noel King, “ is just simply that for both sides it’s become a zero-sum thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhnxssB9GA … Read more
I have read Hapgood Cayce and others who claimed cataclysmic pole shifts and always waited for more scientific confirmation of “true polar wander”, or the variance of the poles from the current spin axis. Then I read a new study at Rice University that documented a slow shift over the last 13 million years. What … Read more
by ogordained UNITED STATES Futures are down amid weak trade data out of China US CPI was in line with expectations at 1.9% Loan Growth has accelerated rapidly going into 2019 Business loans are up 11% since last year S&P 500 companies are warning that their 2019 earnings may not be as high as initially forecast OTHER UK Industrial Production disappointed (Actual -1.5% | Expected … Read more
by howmuch President Trump loves to talk about cutting U.S. foreign aid, even if he doesn’t always follow through. What’s most often missed in media coverage about this debate is where American dollars are going, and the issues U.S. expenditures are meant to fix. Our latest visualization lays out a nice snapshot, revealing the handful of countries with … Read more
by GoldCore – Case for a pending financial collapse is well grounded warns Rickards – “Ticking time bomb” the Federal Reserve has created is set to go off… – Economist warns U.S. high-yield debt, default of “junk bonds” could cause next crisis – Systemic risk is “more dangerous than ever” as “entire system is larger … Read more
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: The MSM Never Questioned Airing An Obama Speech Despite These 1,063 Examples Of His Lies, Mendacity, Etc. WIDELY CITED STUDY OF FAKE NEWS TURNS OUT TO BE BOGUS: Last year, a study was published in the Journal of Human Behavior, explaining why … Read more