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Companies add 250,000 new jobs in December.
Job cut announcements are at lowest level since 1990.
Trump triggers half billion dollars in bonuses for
employees.
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/01/trump-triggers-half-billion-in-bonuses.html
Trump poised to take action on Medicaid work requirements.
For most of the Obama era, the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) pushed the legal envelope on every front in order to promote the interests
of labor unions. No longer.
The Trump administration announced the United States will
deny Pakistan military aid amounting to $255 million pressuring Islamabad to
take more decisive action “against terrorists and militants on its soil”.
President Trump threatens to cut
off U.S. aid money to the Palestinian Authority, asking why the U.S. should
make "any of these massive future payments" when the Palestinians are
"no longer willing to talk peace."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-threats-cut-off-us-aid-palestinian-authority-52103561
Trump pulls brakes on $13B Obama-backed rail-tunnel plan.
Washington
Post watches with dismay as Trump disassembles the federal bureaucracy.
Another Obama policy reversal: Trump Admin Working to Incubate Nascent
Iranian Revolution
NY Times sides with Iranian regime over murdered protesters
VDH: “We’ve gone from hard left, under Obama,
to hard right, under Trump. Judge the ideologies by their results. “…there have rarely been back-to-back
complete reversals in presidential agendas……..We have been given a great gift
in seeing two ideologically opposed solutions back to back, and both may end up
adjudicating rhetoric through deeds.”
A poll of likely 2018 voters shows two-to-one support for
President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration policies, and a lopsided
four-to-one opposition against the cheap-labor, mass-immigration, economic
policy pushed by bipartisan establishment-backed D.C. interest-groups.
The swamp fights back:
Establishment media outlets including CNN and MSNBC have helped
mainstream a conspiracy theory claiming President Donald Trump is “mentally
ill.”
This
information puts a whole new spin on the now infamous Trump “bigger button”
tweet: “When a North Korean Missile
Accidentally Hit a North Korean City”
http://dcwhispers.com/report-north-korea-accidentally-bombed-one-of-its-own-cities-seriously/#FU1QerUSU8geiTIp.99
http://dcwhispers.com/report-north-korea-accidentally-bombed-one-of-its-own-cities-seriously/#FU1QerUSU8geiTIp.99
Bill Clinton once lost the nuclear codes for months, but a
'comedy of errors' kept anyone from finding out
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clinton-lost-president-nuclear-codes-and-nobody-found-out-2018-1
Planned Parenthood brags: We Did 321,384 Abortions; Got
$543.7 Million in Tax Dollars
Planned Parenthood now offers pro-abortion license plates
What’s this got to do with planning parenthood? “As dozens of its clinics closed amid a
dwindling U.S. abortion rate, Planned Parenthood has moved to diversify its
business model by getting into transgender hormone therapy.”
Trends in gender confusion:
A recent study of adolescents in the state of California by researchers
at UCLA found that 27% of youths now identify as "nongender
conforming." Take a look at popular
culture for a moment. People see transgender everywhere they look, and they're
really trying to find it. Whereas the proverbial tomboy was once a mainstay of
American life, now parents of girls who enjoy sports and like to climb trees
must fend off questions as to whether their little girl is trans. Acceptance
has morphed into transphilia: the culture is pushing it as cool or trendy.
2017: Chicago Homicides Outnumber U.S. Military Casualties
18 to 1
A bombshell report released on Thursday reveals that former
FBI Director James Comey´s memo on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
said there was "evidence to support a conclusion" that she committed
a felony before subordinates removed multiple references of incriminating terms
and deleted mentions of evidence that supported felony and misdemeanor criminal
acts.
Mueller grand jury room 'looks like a Bernie Sanders rally'
claims Russia probe witness who says two jurors wore 'peace t-shirts'
Medical scientists have known for decades that smoking pot
can trigger lifelong psychosis in vulnerable teenage boys… Just in time for
Governor Jerry Brown's California pot legalization, we get a huge study from UCSF
showing that chronic potheads have marked loss of "blood perfusion"
in the right horn of the hippocampus. To learn any new information, you need
your hippocampus….
Iran's protests are powerful and real. Why are mainstream
media outlets so hesitant to report on them? (Because this might be credited to
Trump)
Anonymous Street artists add
messages to the “Welcome to California” highway signs. “OFFICIAL SANCTUARY
STATE, Felons, Illegals and MS13 Welcome! Democrats Need the Votes!”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Invertor’s Business Daily
The economy, in case you hadn't noticed, is surging right
now as we enter 2018. It's not an accident. Nor is it a delayed reaction to
Obamanomics, as some misguided pundits would have it. It's Trumponomics in
action, and it works.
As so many others, we thought that it might take a while for
President Trump's policies to kick in. After all, there's usually a lag time
between the action (the policy) and the reaction (economic growth). But the
fact is, the previous administration's policies — trillion-dollar
"stimulus," ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, a disastrous regulatory expansion
— were so growth-damaging that even the possibility that they would be reversed
has brought about a welcome burst of growth.
President Trump, working fast, changed many of those
economy-slowing policies by deregulating, weakening Dodd-Frank, getting rid of
ObamaCare's mandate, and cutting taxes sharply for all Americans and businesses
alike, among many other things. We see it now in literally dozens of economic
indicators, both large and small:
The Dow Jones industrial average has hit record after record
and just burst through 25,000 for the first time. Based on the total
return on the Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Index, the stock market has created
$7.1 trillion in new wealth since Trump was elected.
An analysis by IBD's Jed Graham shows that, based on recent
tax revenue data, hourly wages are growing faster than the tepid 2.5% pace now
expected. Total job openings of 6 million remains near the record high set last
year. Some 2.1 million jobs were created in 2017. The 4.1% civilian
unemployment rate is the lowest since 2000. The employment-to-population ratio,
the broadest measure of labor demand, now stands at 60.1%, the highest level
since President Obama's first month in office. African-American
unemployment for those 16 years and over fell to 7.5%, its lowest level
since December 2000; meanwhile, Hispanic unemployment dropped to 4.7%, an
all-time low, in 2017. New claims for unemployment insurance stood at a
four-week average of 241,750 in December, close to the 44-year-low set earlier
in 2017 and well below 2016's average of 253,750. ADP's monthly job report says
250,000 new jobs were created in December, based on payroll data the firm
collects. The total number of food stamp recipients fell by 2 million last
year. Federal spending, as a share of GDP, fell from 21.1% in 2016 to an
estimated 20.5% currently. U.S. manufacturing grew in December at the fastest
rate in three months, capping "the strongest year for factories since
2004," according to the Institute for Supply Management. Some 90 companies
have already granted or promised bonuses based on Trump's policies, in
particular the December tax cuts, the nonpartisan Americans For Tax Reform
reported. "Thanks to tax cuts, growing list of companies announcing bonuses,
wage hikes, and charitable donations," the group said. Rising stock, home
and other asset prices have helped push U.S. household wealth to a record $96.2
trillion, up from just under $55 trillion in 2009.
The total number of pages in the Federal Registry, the
government's regulatory bible, totaled 61,950 pages, the lowest in a quarter
century and a sign that Trump's deregulation of the U.S. economy is having a
major impact.
Had enough? We could go on. The fact is, these are the most
bullish economic conditions in America since the early 1980s. We know, because
that's when this newspaper first began. That was the Reagan Boom, a period that
followed a near-decade of stagflation, high interest rates, job frustration
and, perhaps worst of all, disco.
We could easily add dozens other items to our list of
economic data and other things that have "suddenly" or
"unexpectedly," as the media like to say, gotten much better during
just one year of President Trump. The list would be a long one.
No, we're not Pollyannas. We know, of course, that markets
sometimes go down; that the economy sometimes shrinks; and that people
sometimes lose jobs. A policy mistake here, a foreign policy scare there, one
rate-hike too many by the Fed — any of these things could take down soaring
markets and the economy. So could an unforeseen financial disaster somewhere.
Bitcoin? Shaky European banks? A state pension-fund bankruptcy? Who
knows. It's part of the eternal ebb and flow of a market economy.
But right now, growth-enhancing policies are in place in the
U.S., and the economy looks set to grow by more than 3% for a third straight
quarter and into 2018, a welcome relief from the subpar 1.5% GDP growth of the
Obama years. After having their bridles reined in for nearly a decade by Big
Government and high taxes, the economy's horses are free to run. In case you
missed it, don't wait for the starting gun — the horses have already left the
gate.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“This is the crux of the matter: Bannon thinks he created
Trump, and Trump thinks he created Bannon. They had a fundamental disagreement
about who was using whom, and in any such conflict, the president of the United
States is going to win. … Trump’s base is Trump’s. No one ever voted for Steve
Bannon, and now he is on the wrong side of the president in whose name he has presumed
to speak.”
-Rich
Lowry
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GLOBALONEY
What evidence is there that extreme weather "is
becoming more frequent and dangerous." In the U.S., there isn't any. If
you don't believe that, then look at the series of charts below, which are
taken from government sites, that depict trends in hurricanes, tornadoes,
droughts and wildfires — all of which should be, according to
environmentalists, on the uptrend. What do you see in these charts. There is no
trend in any of them.
NASAs changing temperature records.
Global warming films flop at the box office in 2017.
Al Gore: bitter cold is exactly what we should expect from
global warming.
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LEFTIST WATCH
Clinton donors offering cash awards for dirt on Trump
Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Keith Ellison
endorsed Antifa on Wednesday, tweeting a picture of himself smiling with an
Antifa handbook.
Democratic activist David Brock
has been exposed as one of the key sources of money behind efforts during the
2016 presidential campaign to entice women to accuse Donald Trump of past
sexual misconduct
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ARTICLES
Long and complicated, but informative: “This outline is the story of how the FBI
Counterintelligence Division and DOJ National Security Division were weaponized.
This outline is the full story of what House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
is currently working to expose. This outline exposes the biggest political
scandal in U.S. history. This outline is also the story of how one man’s action
likely saved our constitutional republic.”
What’s
going on in Iran: “Will the Persian
Renaissance Return Now That Obama's Gone?”
New
year’s resolution gays should make but won’t
The
death of academic rigor
Illegal
Immigration And Crime: The stunning
numbers the Left cannot refute.
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INTERESTING
New details of the Great Escape POW camp.
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WISE
WORDS
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not
of men.”
-John
Adams (1775)
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