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Trump names Mulvaney acting White House chief of staff

Stocks broke a key level and child aim for the year's low

Obamacare, RIP ... judge declares unconsttutional without tax

Venezuelans lament gun ban: Allows government to dominate them

CBO: Crminal justice [reform] bill would reduce federal prison population, increase spending

Elon Musk tweets fans might see a pickup truck next year

[Rep.] Schiff digs into Trump's personal finances ...

Report: 'Destroyed' North Korean nuclear site may still be functional

Trump considers delaying border wall fight until January

Mueller investigation cost $25 million in first 16 months, report shows

Moscow to set up military base in Carabbean ...

Weekly Standard to shut down

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Impeachment debate divides Democrats as 2018 wave builds

Good news for FedEx and UPS: People just opened $90 billion in unwanted gifts

MasterCard: It was the biggest Xmas in history!

CBO: At least 4.5 million anchor babies in U.S.

Guatemala follows Trump's lead on Jerusalem

North Korea caught in hard spot as China suspends country's only source of energy

Oil prices hit 2-1/2 year peak ...

Donald Trump: Phony dossier is a 'crooked Hillary pile of garbage'

Playbook: Brits worry Obama invite to royal wedding will offend Trump

The Library of Congress will stop archiving every Tweet

Northeast states sue EPA over air pollution from Midwest ...

[Sen.] Cotton: If DREAM act were so popular Dems would've shut down gov't ...

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GOP faces wrenching call: Running with or away from Trump

California NAACP wants to replace 'racist' Star Spangled Banner

GOP senator [Corker] announces hearing to probe Trump's 'authority to use nuclear weapons'

Border Patrol losing agents faster than it can hire them ...

Republicans have a serious suburban problem in 2018

Trump critics fear DOJ is using merger deal to punish CNN

Gates, Bezos, Buffet richer than poorest half of USA ...

Beijing residents on Trump: 'More honest than Obama'

CBO: Obamacare mandate repeal would cut deficit by $338 billion

China state-controlled media sides with Trump over American 'fake' media

Palm Springs City Council now entirely gay ...

Trump: South Korea agrees to 'tremendous' U.S. weapons purchase

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Sessions' powerful friends stand up to Trump

Clean Obamacare repeal fails in the Senate

Michelle O: Some never saw past 'my skin color' ...

Grassley warns Trump: No more Attorney Generals [sic] this year ...

Dems to GOP: No amendments until we see your [healthcare] bill

Report/ Trump banned transgenders to stop Congress fighting over it

CBO: 15 million would opt out of Obamacare --if they could!

Israel caves, removes metal detectors from Temple Mount ...

Trump's transgender ban is a legal land mine

Imran Awan turns to long-time Clinton associated ate for legal help

Bannon: Let's raise taxes [on the rich]!

House Judiciary Committee approves effort to investigate Comey, Lynch ...

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Tennessee sues over refugee resettlement constitutionality ...

Trump signals 'big fat beautiful negotiations' on healthcare bill

Facebook bans giving out private user data for government surveillance

Democrats paralyzed as Gorsuch skates

[Syria's] Assad complains Trump is not talking to him

Spicer: Trump 'doesn't really think' that Obama personally wiretapped him

GOP scrambles after scorching health bill appraisal

DOJ asks for more time to address Trump's wiretapping claim

Sanders: Thousands of Americans will die becaus of GOP Obamamcare reform

White House seeks to cut billions in funding for United Nations

Minnesota city bans sale of dogs, cats at pet store ...

CBO: 24 million fewer insured under GOP Obamacare repeal

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CBO: USA highest corporate tax rate in G20 ...

Bolton: Trump WH must tear up Iran nuclear deal immediately

[Pakistani] Suspect in House IT security probe also had access to DNC e-mails

Court ousts South Korean leader for corruption

Bitcoin briefly plunges below $1,000 after SEC rejects application for ETF

Trump invites Palestinian president Abbas to White House ...

Trump team asks all Obama appointed US attorneys to offer resignations

Climber survives 2,000-foot fall off of mountain ...

Spicer claims jobs numbers may have been phony before but now are 'very real'

Woman kicked out of women's shelter to make room for 'transgender' man

Trump claims that Obamacare was meant to explode in 2017

3 Germany incidents in 24 hours ... Tear gas attack on train passengers

Job Lock

Can Democrats get any nuttier … or more insidious?  As a way of diminishing the impact of the damaging report of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the consequences of Obamacare for future American unemployment (2.5 million full-time-equivalent job losses by 2024 … see: NY Post Story), the Democrats and their pals in the main-street media have once again hidden behind semantics.  They have tried turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse with the term “job lock” – the requirement that people need to work in order to get health insurance.

In other words, CBO has it right, but instead of these virtual job losses being bad ... they are good because it reduces job lock … see: Huffington Post Article.  Big Brother has saved these 2.5 million full-time-equivalent people from the horrors of working.  This is another perfect example of the Obama administration’s Orwellian newspeak (see "More Newspeak" Blog Entry).

I still remember another poignant example of this kind of liberal semantic mind-bending.  Once on a visit to the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, some left-wing wing-nut classified (on a poster) all the farm girls … who had escaped the drudgery of rural life for this exciting new work opportunity … as “wage slaves.”  So, in other words, the industrial revolution became, with the twist of a phrase, the equivalent of forced labor on Southern plantations … really now!?