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Jul 13 2021
News
June Consumer Prices Climbed Sharply Again as Economy Rebounded
U.S. consumer prices continued to climb swiftly in June, as the economic recovery gained steam and demand outpaced the supply of labor and materials.
The Labor Department said last month’s consumer-price index increased 5.4% from a year ago, the highest 12-month rate since August 2008. The so-called core price index, which excludes the often-volatile categories of food and energy, rose
Wall Street Journal (News)
Dec 09 2019
News
At War With The Truth
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.
Aconfidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become
Washington Post
May 24 2021
News
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he won't get COVID-19 vaccine due to natural immunity
Senator Rand Paul doesn't plan to get the coronavirus vaccine after contracting the illness early last year, he said in an interview released Sunday.
During a podcast with businessman John Catsimatidis, Paul said, "All the studies show that I have just as good of immunity as the people who have been vaccinated."
Paul had the first known case of coronavirus in the Senate in
USA TODAY
Dec 02 2020
News
Adam Schiff, Who Championed The Mueller Probe, Opposes Durham Appointment
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, one of the leading proponents of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, said Tuesday he opposes Attorney General William Barr’s decision to appoint U.S. Attorney John Durham as special counsel in an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
In an interview on MSNBC, Schiff suggested that the attorney general in
The Daily Caller
Aug 02 2019
News
China Tariffs
On Thursday, “President Donald Trump intensified pressure on China to reach a trade deal by saying he will impose 10% tariffs Sept. 1 on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports he hasn’t already taxed.” (AP News)
The left is worried about the harmful effects of the tariffs on the US economy.
“What is already clear is that the United States, China and the world face a few
The Flip Side
Mar 14 2019
Opinion
OPINION: The Real Theft of American Democracy
On Tuesday, the Justice Department opened an investigation into alleged election fraud in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District. Neither the details of the crime nor the culprits, however, match the scenario that has led to an array of Voter ID laws, voter roll purges and similar efforts “to protect the integrity of the ballot box.”
The Republicans would have the nation believe
Guest Writer - Left
Oct 22 2020
News
Florida Cases Spike; Records Break Across Europe: Virus Update
Europe’s wave of infections keeps rising: France passed 40,000 daily cases for the first time as Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and at least eight other nations reported record numbers of infections. Athens will be placed under curfew.
Florida’s cases jumped. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell for the third time in four weeks, suggesting the labor market is
Bloomberg
Jul 29 2020
News
Portland Fining Federal Government $500 For Every 15 Minutes Fence Remains Around Federal Courthouse
Portland, OR – Portland Commissioner Chloe Eudaly announced on Tuesday that the city is fining the federal government $500 for every 15 minutes the protective fence surrounding the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse remains in place.
“As of yesterday, the federal government owes us $192,000 and counting,” Eudaly declared in a statement on July 28. “We intend to collect.”
Eudaly
The Police Tribune
Sep 23 2018
News
Trump Willing to Meet With Iran's Rouhani at UN, Pompeo Says
President Donald Trump is willing to meet with Iran’s Hassan Rouhani when world leaders gather at the United Nations this week, said the top U.S. diplomat, who also said that Russia hasn’t been helpful to U.S. foreign policy objectives.
Newsmax (News)
Sep 21 2020
News
Wall Street tumbles to seven-week low on virus fears, stimulus fog
Wall Street’s main indexes tumbled to their lowest in nearly seven weeks on Monday, with the Dow shedding as much as 900 points, as worries about fresh coronavirus-driven lockdowns spilled over from Europe.
The CBOE Market Volatility index .VIX, a measure of investor anxiety, shot up to its highest level in nearly two weeks amid uncertainty caused by the death of U.S. Supreme Court
Reuters