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When Madmen Start Making Sense, You Know You Have A Problem

September 9, 2013 • Top Story • 1565

In a cool-as-a-cucumber interview with Charlie Rose for CBS News, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said would-be attackers should “expect everything” in the way of retaliation.

He also said “(Americans) should ask themselves, ‘what do wars give America?’ Nothing. No political gain. No economic gain. … This is the war that’s going to support al Qaeda and the same people that kill Americans on the 11th of September”

Strictly speaking, he has a point, though we are loathe to admit it. He is obviously not speaking in the interest of the United States here, but this is one of those rare “through the lookingglass” moments where ideologies happen to align in strange ways.
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7.3% Unemployment, Really? Then Why The Record Number Not In Labor Force? Why The Constant Revisions? And Why Over 100 Million People On Some Sort Of Aid? It Takes a Lie To Cover a Lie.

September 6, 2013 • Top Story • 1356

90,473,000: Record Number Not in Labor Force–Up Almost 10M Under Obama

A disappointing jobs report on Friday raised doubts about whether the Federal Reserve would — or should — start pulling back

Unemployment Rate Down 0.5% in 56 Months Since Obama Became President

Today’s jobs number (and revisions) are sparking some initial vain hope that SepTaper is delayed and providing enough ‘optimism’ that Fed spice will flow just a little longer.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.

NYTIMES blames bad jobs month on plunge in porn industry

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New Month, Same Troubles in Unemployment Numbers

September 6, 2013 • Top Story • 1400

First Week Of The Month, From New Calculations Of GDP To The Deceptive Unemployment Calculations (U3 vs U6) & Let Us Not Forget False Bottoms & Real Estate. Just Keep Looking To The Middle East & We Will keep printing.

Fed Beige Book: U.S. Economy Grew at Modest to Moderate Pace in July, August

Labor Data Point to Steady Gains
ADP Report Shows 176,000 Jobs Added in August, as Unemployment Claims Fall

• July Jobs Gain and Unemployment Decline Were Not Meaningful
• Payroll Boost of 162,000 was 136,000 Net of Revisions
• July Unemployment: 7.4% (U.3), 14.0% (U.6), 23.3% (ShadowStats)

The housing ‘recovery’ is built on false confidence The housing numbers seem encouraging, until you look a little closer and see investment firms are doing much of the buying

Cost of National Security (Without Action In Syria)

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Even More Relevant Today. Do Yourself a Favor & Watch

September 4, 2013 • Videos • 2849

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Wars Costing US Taxpayers $11.26 Million an Hour

September 4, 2013 • Top Story • 1974

Paying for the War in Syria; Every Hour Taxpayers in the United States are Paying $11.26 Million for Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 Every hour, taxpayers in the United States are paying $11.26 million for Total Cost of Wars Since 2001.

Iraq, Afghan wars will cost to $4 trillion to $6 trillion, Harvard study says

Paying for the War in Syria

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Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO!

September 2, 2013 • Top Story • 1414

It’s not just Obamacare, but a laundry list of greivances that caused International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) President Robert McEllrath to tell the AFL-CIO to take a long walk off a short pier in a letter last week to his counterpart at Federation headquarters.

More on the story, via Breitbart.com:

Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO;one of the nation’s largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.
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Dr. Clifton L. Ganus Junior– College Professor & Possibly Prolific Predictor of an Uninformed Citizenry

September 1, 2013 • Videos • 2772

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Obamacare debacle: Companies Batten-Down the Hatches Ahead of Oct 1

August 31, 2013 • Top Story • 1621

As with all Socialist programs, the ones hurt first are those the program says it is there to help. As October 1, the effective days for Obamacare draws closer, business in in a finishline sprint of their own, to pare their workforce, rejigger employee hours, and whatever else is necessary to defend against this load of bull heading for their china shop.

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ObamaCare Cuts Low-Wage Workweek Near Record Low

As we drawer closer to the full implementation of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (i.e.”Obamacare”), a growing list of restaurants and eateries have decided as a cost-cutting measure to cut back their employees’ hours.

Republican congressional leaders, in a fresh strategy after repeatedly failing to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health-care law, are leaning toward an effort to postpone it rather than choke off funding.

House Republican Lawmakers to Review Obamacare Navigators

Poll: 44 Percent Of Americans Unsure If ‘Obamacare’ Is Still A Law
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Taking Water Over The Sides, Capitain

August 29, 2013 • News Archive • 2458

Secret Overbloated Budgets, Tax Breaks For Partyline Supporters, Another City Bankrupt Run By Democrats & Socialist Policies

U.S. ‘Black Budget’ $52.6 Billion. More than 107,000 intel employees.

Gay spouses in all U.S. states will be treated as married under federal tax law even if local authorities don’t recognize their marriages, in what gay-rights advocates are calling a victory.

HHS: Gay Spouses Eligible for Key Medicare Benefits;Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “HHS is working swiftly to implement the Supreme Court’s decision and maximize federal recognition of same-sex spouses in HHS programs

A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday rejected an attempt to kick the city of San Bernardino, Calif., out of bankruptcy court.
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“Put It On THEIR Tab”

August 27, 2013 • News Archive • 2518

Lobbyists Win, Companies Lose, Liars Lie, Numbers Are Manipulated. “We The People” pick up the Tab.

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More than 30 former administration officials, lawmakers and congressional staffers who worked on the healthcare law have set up shop on K Street since 2010

Delta Airlines predicts Obamacare could cost it $100 million:

Treasury to max out borrowing again in October.

100 Days: Treasury Has Kept Debt Frozen at $16,699,396,000,000

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June 26, 2014 • 5723

Frederic Bastiat

By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.

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