My, my, my: The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payroll growth easily beat … Continue reading →
“Decline” doesn’t seem to be a strong enough word for what’s been happening in Venezuela. It’s horrendous there, and somewhat unclear at the moment. It seems an attempted coup is underway, but whether it will gain any more traction than … Continue reading →
[Please also see the ADDENDUM at the end of the post for further details.] Just when you think Democrats can’t get any worse, along comes an idea like that of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon: Under current policy, capital gains, … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →The NY Post headline reads: “Even New York’s millionaires are fleeing to less expensive cities.” “Millionaire” sounds like a rich person—at least, it used to. But it occurs to me that in New York City these days a million doesn’t … Continue reading →
Roger Simon writes: Basically, our youth has suffered from a form of child abuse by their teachers and the media. They have been told, implicitly and explicitly, from earliest childhood that socialism is the preferable system because of “fairness.” The … Continue reading →
Recycling depended on China, it turns out, and China has stopped doing its bit. So now a lot of towns are burying their trash again: Should that empty soda bottle go in the recycling bin or the trash can? Increasingly, … Continue reading →
We have some evidence of possible campaign finance violations by AOC’s chief of staff, a man I discussed in this previous post on the so-called “Justice Democrats”: Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over … Continue reading →
But oh, we can all feel so self-righteous about it, as AOC does: Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power … Continue reading →
New California governor Newsom appears to be pulling the plug on California’s high-speed rail: During Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first State of the State speech Tuesday, he surprised listeners by announcing he would put the quest for high-speed rail connecting San … Continue reading →
We’ve heard a lot of deal rumors. This is what’s being reported lately, as the Friday deadline looms: House and Senate negotiators late Monday struck a bipartisan deal “in principle” that would dodge a second partial government shutdown by providing … Continue reading →
The Democrats’ new election and campaign finance bill may have escaped your attention and gotten lost in the shuffle. But it deserves scrutiny: Today [Feburary 6, that is], House Democrats are holding hearings on a monstrous, 571-page election- and campaign-finance-reform … Continue reading →