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

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Headlines

America’s told-you-so moment: Woe we botched the reopening

Record job gain of 4.8 million in June smashes expectation: unemployment rate falls to 11.1%

House passes $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill

GOP Senators lobby to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth

Supreme Court to rule on House access to Mueller grand jury secrets

Coronavirus live updates: U.S. reports a record 50,000 new cases in a day

2.4 million guns sold last month

At least 23 arrested as Seattle police clear out CHOP

Fauci: Avoid gatherings like Trump’s Rushmore fireworks show

Jeffrrey Epstein friend Ghislaine Maxwell arrested on child sex abuse conspiracy, perjury charges

Boom: CNN’s best ratings in 40 years ...

Molten, Virginia Dems seek to reduce assault on cops to misdemeanor

Human Nature

Life is full of trade-offs. One stays another 15 minutes on the exercise bike in order to work off last night’s dessert. Or, one spends an extra $10 to drive to work instead of taking the bus in order to listen to the drive-time news.

And trade-offs are even more complex when weighed by governments. Can citizens tolerate much higher utility bills in order to reduce the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity? Or can road maintenance be short-changed so that retired pensioners can continue to be paid?

These are economic trade-offs ... but there are also social trade-offs. Can abortion be encouraged at the cost of having to hype immigration to maintain a nation’s population? Or, more topical, can a city insult its minority population with a stop-and-frisk policy in order to save many of their lives and many more wounded? Would one rather be insulted or shot? Strangely, today, many politicians maintain that their minority populations prefer the latter.

So, kind reader, when one sees political trade-offs being made, be they economic or social, that seem illogical ... one can assume that there are other motivations beneath the surface that are influencing these silly decisions.

Such is human nature.

Quotable Quote

“And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. And then they start. ’Oh, I don’t want to get caught,’ so they don’t bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home," — Michael Bloomberg

American Values

From daily timewaster blog

Headlines

Schumer says addressing gun violence will be top Dem priority this fall

Reliable China insiders hint that this round of trade talks could lead to a breakthrough

Bernie: Population control to save climate

Pete Buttigieg admits no combat ribbon from Afghanistan

Democrats seize on climate as 2020 priority weapon

Cramer: US economic strength empowers Trump to continue to play hardball on China trade

Survey: USA 47th best place to live in the world ...

Winning: ADP and Moody’s estimate jobs blowout

Greg Craig found not guilty in Ukraine lobbying case

Private payroll growth well above Wall Street estimates despite recession fears

Feds line up another quarter point cut ...

Boris Johnson’s brother quits Parliament, gov’t

Guns

Don’t do as I do ...

Lesson: Never screw with a man in a black suit ...

Headlines

Susan Collins and the GOP court Trump on guns

Trump suggests ‘personal meeting’ with China’s Xi over Hong Kong crisis

Autopsy finds broken bones in Epstein’s neck ...

Elizabeth Warren calls for ‘affordable, gender-affirming’ health care

British Labour leader seeks help to back no-deal Brexit

Strategist: Yield curves predict ‘absolutely nothing,’ and central banks ‘never run out of bullets’

Trump ties trade deal to Chinese action in Hong Kong ...

CNN, Beto O’Rourke target conservative media as terrorist groups

Gunman wounds 6 police officers in Philadelphia

US 30-year Treasury falls to new historic low

FoxNews poll: Trump disapproval rises to 56% ...

Virgin Island senator: ‘Evidence from Epstein estate may have been lost’

Headlines

Donald Trump’s Nixon-to-China moment on guns

The yield curve everyone is worried about is flashing a recession signal

FBI seeks to scan social media for violent threats ...

ICE releases 300 of 680 illegal aliens arrested in MIS food plants

Biden defiantly defends remarks about Trump and white racism

China’s food prices jump 9.1% in July as the country battles African swine fever

Iran jamming ship GPS to get them to wander into waters?

Bill de Blasio: Abortion is a ‘sacred choice for women’

Trump swats at Macron for Iran diplomacy

Jeffery Epstein ‘misappropriated vast sums of money from me,’ Les Wexner says

Bio-warfare experts question why Canada sent lethal viruses to China

Fitton: Judicial Watch uncovers more Comey corruption

Headlines

Giuliani on Trump interview with Mueller: 'Over my dead body'

Voters are uneasy over probes swirling around Trump, as majority question his honesty/ NBC-WSJ poll

Poll: Americans turning pessimistic on economy ...

Schumer: Trump is not getting the wall in any form

DNC chair Tom Perez goes to war with state parties

Washington is 'working on' extraditing Gulen to Turkey, foreign minister says

[Dems] Push to restore state and local tax deductions ...

Pittsburgh mayor pushes firearms confiscation order, gun bans

British officials line up behind second referendum

North Korea condemns US sanctions, says denuclearizationn at risk

Wash Post: Media unwilling to cross Mueller 'invisible line' ...

'No Deal' Brexit more popular than second referendum

Powerline Pic

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Women trounce the men in first major primary night of the year

Trump lawyer Michael Cohen 'appears to be selling access to the president' says porn star Stormy Daniel's attorney

Saudis to seek nukes if Iran does ...

Twitter bans conservatives for posting facts

Trump suggests pulling credentials of  the 'corrupt' media

NTSB opens investigation into Tesla crash in Florida

Report: Stormy lawyer accuses wrong Michael Cohen?

Google conference: use 'preferred pronoun' stickers

McCain's absence handcuffs Republicans

Report: Secret source who aided Mueller probe is off limits to Congress

Air raid sirens [in] Israel, IDF: Iranian forces fire rockets

Housing developer: Tenants with guns will be evicted

Question?

From Mistly Cajun blog

Lesson for Today

From Powerline blog

So sayeth Pocahontas ...

Student Marchers

What all those young gun grabbers who were marching around the country this past weekend can't or don't want to realize ... is that our Second-Amendment guns help keep the likes of Donald Trump from ever trying to become our dictator.

Keen Observation

From Powerline blog

Bu they did have "assault" bows ...

Makes Sense ...

From Powerline Blog

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Politico: The dizzying, mesmerizing Trump show

Rush Limbaugh on Trump: 'This was one of the most effective press conference I have ever seen'

FACEBOOK Live airs four murders in one day!

Coulter: House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president! Now, nothing ...

Mother of four takes sanctuary in Denver church ...

Appeals Court agrees to wait on Trump's revised travel ban order

A lot of Dodd-Frank rules are getting killed before they have a chance to live

China may ban American ships from passing through its waters ...

Wikileaks exposes: CIA involvement in French election ...

Sex at 70: [Susan] Sarandon says orientation 'up for grabs' ...

Zukerberg rebuffs 'America first' ...

Fake News: NYT, NYDN, HuffPo report GOP helping mentally ill to get guns

Trump Lies

A reader has sent a number of Trump "lies" compiled by The Huffington Post which, as I have promised him, I republish here without detailed refutation. I have also removed the HuffPo's refutations because, given the political bent of this site, this suggests that there may be a bias in its analyses, I therefore leave it up to you, dear reader, to decide on the veracity of things. Do your own research and make up your own mind. (Try not using HuffPo or Snopes exclusively.) Here are Trump's "lies" according to the HuffPo:


We [the HuffPo] start with his Nov. 21 claim to have watched on television as thousands and thousands² of Muslims in New Jersey were cheering the fall of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.  
Trump boasted that he predicted Osama bin Laden. 
Trump heard that Obama is thinking about signing an executive order where he wants to take your guns away. 
Trump claimed his campaign is 100 percent self-funded. 
Trump said his tax plan is revenue neutral. 
Trump told the story of a 2-year old who got autism a week after the child got a vaccine. 
Trump said Mexico doesn¹t have a birthright citizenship policy.
Trump denied that he ever called female adversaries some of these things:fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.


But, for myself, looking over this list, I can't help but to conclude that, except for the statement on his tax plan, these supposed falsehoods are pretty thin gruel ... say compared to our current bunch of Pinocchios.

Contest

How many times will Obummer refer to himself in his upcoming State of the Union address this week? (Guesses below 50 will be deemed ineligible.).

 Contestant closest to the actual number will get a carton of Trump campaign buttons that say, "I'm Very Rich" Decision of the judge (me) will be final.

Booby prize: Guess whether he will refer to guns or global warming more times and what the difference between the two will be.

Booby prize will be a gross of Hillary Clinton bumper stickers that say, "You Hope I Change"