VP Debate

Mike Pence vs. Kamala Harris ... or ... True Blue vs. the Shrew

Unfortunately, she will likely eat his hunch ... and maybe his dinner too. (Even, her former boyfriend, Willie Brown, is afraid of her.)


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Headlines

Trump spent years trying to win over Indians. Then Biden picked Harris

Cuomo says coronavirus has inflicted ‘trauma’ and PTSD on Americans

BLM co-founder called for the abolition of capitalism

BLM riots most expensive in insurance history

U.S. charges 5 Chinese, 2 accomplices with broad campaign of cyberattacks

U.S. should have enough vaccine to return to ‘regular life’ by the third quarter of 2021

Judge sets bail at $1 million each for accused Lancester rioters

Big 10 football back on

Senate panel authorizes subpoenas in Republican probe of Obama officials

Trump signals he may back bigger coronavirus stimulus as Meadows says he’s optimistic about a deal

Traffic on some website called ‘Drudge Report’ down 40%

Indonesia drives Chinese Coast Guard ship out of its waters


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Headlines

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of coma

FAA reviews Boeing Dreamliner quality-control lapses after production problems: WSJ reports

Ilhan Omar endorses riots — calls them an ‘uprising’

Trump trumpets John Kelly aide denial to crush ‘The|Atlantic’ story

Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there’s no Brexit deal

White House has talked to VA Secretary about taking Pentagon job if Trump fires Esper

Al-Shabab uprising in Somalia injures U.S. service member

Only one-fifth of voters say they would get Covid vaccine ‘as soon as possible’ ...

Trump blasts Harris for trying to damage vaccine push

Mnuchin expects Congress will extend government funding into December

Biden’s amnesty pledge is even worse than you thought

Poll: Trump ‘erases’ Biden’s lead in Texas

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Headlines

Michigan Secretary of State warns that Election Day could be election week

U.S. considers blacklisting China’s largest chipmaker as tech tensions escalate

Columnist warns that Democrats have ‘no intention of accepting’ a Trump second term

Trump vows to defund schools pushing 1619 project

Too soon for Census Bureau to stop counting, judge rules

Worries grow over K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy

At least 500 riots have occurred throughout the U.S. since the death of George Floyd

Kenosha official: Trump brought help, Biden ‘waste of time’

Harris: ‘We have 2 systems of justice in America’

Labor Day weekend will set the course for the coronavirus this fall

Biden adds Pete Buttigieg, Susan Rice to transition team

Pollster: Big Ten football cancellation ‘most impactful thing’ in 2020 election


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The Debates

The Presidential Debate Committee has picked the moderators for the upcoming debates. Chris Wallace, Steve Scully and Kristen Welker for the Trump-Biden exchanges  ... and Susan Page for the Pence-Harris debate.

Now these choices are supposed to be impartial picks by this impartial committee. Are they? Well I went to Wikipedia for some of the fundamentals (in quotes below, bolded text is mine) for the latter three of them ... and provide the above video for you to gage Chris Wallace’s lack of bias.

Chris Wallace
See above video. Is “redirecting funds” not “defunding?” Come on!


Steve Scully
“is a senior executive producer and political editor for the C-SPAN television network. He is one of the hosts for its morning call-in show, Washington Journal, as well as The Weekly, C-SPAN's podcast. Scully served on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association for nine years, including as president from 2006 to 2007.”

“Scully received a 1982 undergraduate degree with honors in communication and political science from American University in Washington, D.C. During his degree he completed a 1980-81 study abroad program at the University of Copenhagen, interned for Sen. Joe Biden from September to October 1978 and in Sen. Ted Kennedy’s media affairs office in early 1979.  Scully then earned a Master of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, graduating magna cum laude in 1984”


Kristen Welker
“is the daughter of Harvey and Julie Welker.^[3] Her father is an engineer, her mother a real estate agent.^[ Welker's father is white and her mother is black.. She graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1994 and Harvard College with a Bachelor of Artsin 1998.  At Harvard, she majored in history and graduated with honors.  Welker also interned for Today in 1997, while at Harvard.”

“ Welker regularly represents MSNBC at the daily White House press briefings as well as reports live for various programs on the channel. She occasionally fills in on NBC Nightly News and Today.”


Susan Page
“ is an American journalist and biographer, and the current Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today.”

“ Her first book was published in 2019, a biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush titled The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. Also in 2019, she signed a deal to write a biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, tentatively titled Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Arc of Power.”



Somehow, there always seems to be a thumb on the media’s “impartial” scale ...

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Bulls and Bears

Had a conversation with a stock-savvy classmate on Monday. Asked him if he thought our stock markets were hitting record highs because the Wall Street pros thought Trump would win in November? His response was that it was more likely due to the enormous liquidity being pumped into our economy by the Federal Reserve Bank because of Covid. (Money has to be put to work somewhere.)

This is certainly likely ... since we saw this same stock market rise during the Obama administration due to about $10 trillion of liquidity injected during the Fed’s three phases of Quantitative Easing  ... combined with essentially zero interest rates.

Now that we effectively have zero interest rates back again, this is another inflator of stock prices. The prevailing interest rate is what one uses to discount the future corporate earnings stream to establish its stock price ... and forever zero rates thoeortically justify infinite stock prices. Calm down pilgrim ... it’s just theoretically ... we’re living in the real world ... and nothing is forever.

But, somehow I have to believe that if it becomes obvious  the Biden/Harris ticket will be clear winners (and the fake Indian as Treasury Secretary), we would not be hitting new stock market  highs ... more liquidity or not.


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Headlines

Chicago mayor: ‘We’re never going to get everything we need from the federal government’

Biden maintains national lead over Trump ahead of convention in NBC News/WSJ poll

AOC refuses to condemn BLM activists who demanded whites turn over their homes

Left mock POTUS over brother Robert’s death

Trump officials blame media for questions of Harris’ eligibility

Forty percent of Covid-19 tests come back too late to be clinically meaningful, data show

South Dakota Gov Noem will not accept federal unemployment funds, says not needed due to state’s economic rebound

NSA O’Brien: ‘Possible’ Saudi-Israel deal next

U.S., South Korea to begin scaled-down drills amid virus spike

CDC says quarantine guidance does not imply immunity to coronavirus for six months

Mike Pompeo signs pact to redeploy U.S. troops from Germany to Poland

Disney unveils first bisexual lead character

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Headlines

GOP attacks Harris over tech ties

Amazon cuts more than 1,200 delivery contract jobs, even as that part of its business booms

Flashback: Kamala’s support for gun confiscation

Schweizer: Kamala refused to prosecute priests’ sex abuse after church’s lawyers funded campaign

US says Iran briefly seizes oil tanker near Strait of Hormuz

Coronavirus updates: U.S. records more than 1,500 new deaths for the deadliest day since May

Twitter’s face of censorship was Kamala’s press secretary

Kamala Harris: Young people are ‘stupid,’ ‘make bad decisions’

New unemployment claims fall below 1 million for first time in five months

Empty apartments in Manhattan reach record high, topping 13,000

Budget deficit explodes to $2.81 trillion due to pandemic related spending

Fauci ‘seriously doubts’ Russian coronavirus vaccine is safe & effective

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Headlines

Trump offers Mexico help waging war on drug cartels after murder of U.S. citizens

House Dems asks Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to testify in impeachment inquiry

Scientists call for population control

Trump slams Gavin Newsom for [California] fires, poor forest management

Sanders outpaces other 2020 Dems in Latino fundraising support

Job openings hit lowest level in 18 months but are still well ahead of total vacancies

Leaked recording from ABCNews reveals network killed story implicating Epstein ...

Julian Castro laying off staff in New Hampshire, South Carolina

How Kamala Harris went from ‘female Obama’ to fifth place

Snowden ‘did more damage to the private sector’ than government, says departed intelligent lead

WASH POST: [Trump] Pure, brazen contempt of Congress on full display ...

NARCOTERROR: [Mexican] Cartel gunmen murder 9 U.S. women and children

Headlines

Republicans unload on Trump for Syrian shift when he needs em most

Senators pile on the NBA for yielding to China over Rockets GM pro-Hong Kong tweet

Supreme Court begins without ill Clarence Thomas ...

Republicans, Independents supporting POTUS ‘in ways that they were not doing before’

Harris proposes six months of government-paid family leave

Oil slips as US-China trade talks loom

Two earthquakes rattle Charlotte area ...

Mitt Romney: Trump’s Syria withdrawal a ‘betrayal’ of Kurds

‘POTUS went rogue’: Trump’s Syria move blindsides national security leaders

The 50-year low in unemployment isn’t helping workers paychecks

Minneapolis police union selling ‘Cops for Trump’ shirts ahead of rally

Elizabeth Warren calls to ‘reclaim the court’ and impeach Kavanaugh

Headlines

‘Feel free to leak this’: Inside the Pelosi-Nadler impeachment schism

Fed loses control of its own interest rate on day of big decision — ‘This just doesn’t look good’

Netanyahu falls short of a majority ... Cancels trip to UN ...

Study: Rate of U.S. abortions falls to lowest level since 1973

New poll shows Harris’ support has plunged 13 points in Iowa

Gun violence costs the US $229 billion annually, report finds

Health fears prompt Swiss 5G revolt ...

Martin Luther King Iii urges boycott of NFL over Colin Kaepernick

Trump blames ‘Dummy Beto’ for endangering deal on gun reform

Cramer: FedEx holds ‘most dispiriting call about the economy I’ve heard in a very long time’

Gov’t collects almost everything about everyone entering USA ...

Report: House Democrats 43 votes short of impeachment

Headlines

Moderate Democrats warn Pelosi of impeachment obsession

Apple is becoming a camera company

Iran says ready for war with USA after attack allegations ...

New old hysteria: NYT tries to destroy Kavanaugh again

Tony Blair: All Brits are sick of Brexit

UAW calls a strike against General Motors for first time since financial crisis

White House expected to reveal gun control legislation this week ...

Mitt Romney says he’s not planning to endorse Trump in 2020

David Cameron: Boris Johnson didn’t believe in Brexit

Kamala Harris and Julian Castro call for impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh

Idle mines portend dark days for US coal ...

New leftist Italian gov’t ‘invites’ migrants in ...

Headlines

House Republicans balk as budget vote looms

Hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass says US-China trade deal can’t be reached

Newspaper circulation lowest level since 1940 ...

Tulsi [Gabbard] sues Google for censorship

Warren: I would’ve accepted VP offer from Clinton

Biden, Harris and Buttigieg rack up donations from big bank executives on Wall Street

Europe struggles to conserve water amid record heat ...

Rashida Tlaib in 2015 on Donald Trump: ‘Deport this asshole!’

McConnell moves to confirm 19 judges next week

Goldman sees stronger second-half growth, says buy cyclical companies

POLL: Biden only Dem leading Trump in OH ...

‘Disaster’: Robert Mueller testimony backfires on Democrats

Headlines

Kamala Harris proposes $100 billion plan for black homeownership

El-Erian: The market ‘has gotten carried away’ with its Fed rate cut predictions

7.1 mag [quake] rocks CA 125 miles N of LA

Judges reconvict Tommy Robinson for contempt of court

Biden predicts ‘there will be no NATO’ if Trump wins re-election

Fed’s seek $12.6 billion in drug money from ‘El Chapo’

MAGA on Mall ... Future belongs to the brave ...

Biden: We shouldn’t decriminalize entering the U.S. illegally

US adds 224,000 solid jobs, Fed rate cut may be less certain

Beto O’Rourke pushes student loan forgiveness for public school teachers

Explosion reported at University of Nevada, Reno dorm ...

India: Group hacks man, pregnant wife to death over inter-caste marriage

Headlines

Largest earthquake in decades shakes Southern California

Trump tweet raises concerns that the US may raise tariffs on Europe

Rouhani says Iran will enrich uranium to ‘any amount we want’ ...

Warren: Trump’s July 4th event ‘a campaign event’ that taxpayers shouldn’t pay for

Artificial intelligence more transformative than the Internet

Fire destroys Jim Beam warehouse with 45,000 bourbon barrels

Gibraltar detains supertanker with Iranian oil ...

Kamala top choice of Hispanic Dems after criticizing Obama on deportations

Producer-in-chief puts on a 4th of July show — with a military emphasis

Kamala Harris says busing should be considered, not mandated

Russian sub that caught fire linked to underwater drone program ...

Pew: Only 1-in-3 Democrats say knowing pledge of allegiance is important

Headlines

D.C. mayor slams Trump ‘s Fourth of July celebration

Trump tells Iran threats ‘can come back to bite you’ in nuclear standoff

DOJ ordered to find ways to include citizenship question on census

WSJ: Nike’s ‘patriotic fumble’ a ‘donation to Trimp’s re-election’

Most top military chiefs skip Trump’s Fourth of July fest

Trump’s latest Fed moves are another attempt to take control of interest rates

Ruth Bader Ginsburg praises Kavanaugh ...

Ilhan Omar: ‘I don’t know’ if any2020 Democrat can beat Trump

‘We have a predator living in the White House’: Harris sharpens attack’s on Trump

Federal appeals court says Amazon is libel for third-party sellers’ products

STOCKS ROAR TO RECORD HIGHS ...

CNN death spiral continues with double digit Q2 ratings collapse

Headlines

National poll: Kamala Harris just two points behind Biden

Tesla stock surges after setting new delivery and production records

Gallup: American pride hits new low ... Nike pulls [Betsy Ross] flag shoe ...

Hunter Biden admits to rental car incident with crack cocaine

MSNBC not planning to air Trump’s July Fourth celebration live

Housing is providing another in a line of troubling signs pointing to an economic slowdown

Judge blocks policy keeping asylum seekers locked up ...

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher found not guilty of killing ISIS fighter

Sanders trails Buttigieg by millions in second-quarter money chase

Trump administration says it will print census without citizenship question

Trump massive $105 million fundraising haul ...

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans back citizen question on census

Headlines

Hickenlooper finance director flees to Beto

Trump says major trade talks with China have already begun

Cortez battles border police  Officials deny ‘toilet warer’ claim

Andrew Yang is first Democrat candidate to condemn Antifa attacks

Trump wants census to find out who is ‘an illegal’

Companies are warning that earnings results are going to be brutal

Russia proposes prisoner swap with USA ...

Facebook reconsidering nudity

Biden plummets, Harris vaults to second in major poll

Chinese military conducts anti-ship ballistic missile tests in hotly contested South China Sea

Hong Kong protests descend into chaos in direct challenge to China ...

Chinese media: China responsible for Trump-Kim summit

Headlines

‘Her ambition got it wrong about Joe’: Harris faces debate backlash

The trade war hasn’t stopped investors from buying Chinese shares, says UBS

First US leader to enter NKorean territory ever: ‘Great friendship’ ...

Obama-appointed judge blocks construction of Trump’s border wall

North Koreans scuffle with Trump’s new press secretary

OPEC is sounding likely to extend oil production cuts as meeting starts in Vienna

10 people dead after plane crashes into hanger in Texas ...

U.S. oil production hits 12 million barrels a day for first time

Kudlow on Dem candidates: ‘I don’t understand what planet they’re describing’

Private survey of Chinese factory activity in June shows lowest reading since January

Russia to tow nuke power station to Arctic ...

Journalist Andy Ngo assaulted by Antifa protesters in Portland [OR]

Headlines

Kamala Harris goes after Trump on immigration

Trump tells Putin: Don’t meddle in US elections

Biden stammers as Kamala eats him alive! ‘That little girl was me’

Chuck Todd spoke more words at second debate than 7 Democrats

‘Everyone hates this place’: Border bill tears apart Democrat caucus

Kamala Harris attacks Joe Biden’s record on busing, working with segregationists

Dems vow health care for all illegals

‘Hell no’ Ocasio-Cortez opposes Pelosi’s decision to pass Senate [border] bill

Bernie Sanders admits he will raise middle-class taxes

Russia’s Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘outlived its purpose’

Supreme blow to Trump ... ‘Contrives’ question on census ... Roberts sides with Libs ...

Report: Biden’s campaign freaking out about poor first debate