Headlines

‘This is the worst nightmare for the Trump campaign’

Jobs report shows fewer hires as recovery loses momentum

U.S. economy adds 661k jobs in September, unemployment falls to 7.9%

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien contracts coronavirus

Shock, sympathy, mockery: World reacts to Trump infection

Trump experiencing mild symptoms after coronavirus diagnosis

Chinese state owned firm praises Biden as ‘rare candidate’ who supports their interests

Poll: Trump gains after debate as race swings 3 points president’s way

RNC Chairwoman McDaniel tests positive for Covid on Wednesday

Tesla delivers 139,300 vehicles in Q3

Guatemala vows to detain and return caravan of Hondurans headed for U.S.-Mexico border

Kellyanne Conway tests positive


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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Coronavirus drives health insurers back to Obamacare

Coronavirus updates: Trump says military will distribute vaccine, CVS to offer drive-thru tests

Resentment builds as reopening rules apply to some, but not to others ...

Gretchen Whitmer lashes out at Michigander protesters,: lockdown ‘not optional’

Appeals court green lights emoluments suit against Trump

Dismal jobs report offered a sign that some people may be returning to work

Jobless claims total 36.5 million ...

Mayor Eric Garcetti: L.A. won’t completely reopen without virus ‘cure’

New Jersey may face $10B budget shortfall through FY 2021

Delta to retire Boeing 777’s as pandemic dims outlook for international travel

Judge asks whether Flynn should be held in contempt for perjury ...

Powell warns of a possible sustained recession from pandemic

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Trump touted reopening. Privately, his team sounded alarms.

Coronavirus live updates: Record private payrolls lost in April,  Friday’s jobs report may be ‘worst ever’

United States of Infection ... 71,130 dead

U.S. sheds record 20.2 M jobs in April

Zoom taps former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster for board

Uber to lay off 3,700 employees, about 14% of workforce

Germany eyes accelerated return to normality ...

W.H.O. continues to follow China’s instructions, ignores Taiwan

Hungary no longer a democracy Freedom House says

Oil turns lower, snapping 5-day winning streak as oversupply fears weigh

New model predicts 350,000 deaths by end of June if all states fully open ...

Pulitzer Prize to New York Times essay with fake history

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Can the F-Bomb save Beto?

The disappointing jobs report would have been much worse without newly-hired Census workers

Record 157:878,000 employed ...

Biden struggles to explain plan for tackling China on climate change

Dems demand info on Trump allegedly steering government spending to his resorts

Trump’s move to put military money toward border wall could hurt GOP senators

Black unemployment lowest level recorded ...

Major League Soccer declares Betsy Ross flag a ‘symbol of hate’

Facebook joins Google as target of states’ antitrust probes

Hurricane Dorian caused $1.5 billion to $3 billion worth of damage in the Caribbean

FALL PREVIEW: Pressure grows on Biden to release health records ...

U.S. jobs report: 130,000 jobs created in August, wages up 3.2%

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Kristjen Nielsen digs in after surviving Trump’s wrath

China is offering lower tariffs on some US products as trade deal inches closer

Tornadoes rip through South ... At least 23 dead in Alabama ...

Clinton: ‘Racist and white supremacist views are lined up’ at the WH

Rand Paul to oppose Trump on national emergency

The week ahead: Jobs report needs to silence rising worries about the economy

House opens obstruction probe

Elizabeth Warren: Mike Pence is not a ‘decent’ man

Hickemlooper launches presidential campaign

Tesla to unveil Model Y SUV on March 14

Paper: Socialism’s millennial fans don’t even know what it is ...

Green Peace co-founder: AOC’s Green New Deal — ‘pompous little twit’

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Cory Booker didn't announce first. But that doesn't mean he is behind

Car loan rates rising quickly, despite the Fed holding rates steady

Pelosi: No wall money ever ... Botches words, suffers facial spasms, confuses Dems, GOP ...

Muslim leaders reject call  to denounce 'violent' Koran

Kamala Harris' crusade against 'revenge porn'

January jobs report: Hiring remains solid, despite government shutdown

Feds charge 19 in Chinese 'birth tourism' scheme ...

U.S. mulls sanctions against Turkey for trading with Venezuela

Trump makes it official: U.S. to leave missile treaty with Russia

Trump: 'There is a good chance we'll have to' declare a national emergency to build the wall

Sperm bank freaks after woman uses DNA test, finds donor ...

Saudi Arabia concludes corruption probe, banks over $100 billin

Paper Moon

Even I was beginning to feel good about the recent government new-jobs report (up over 300,000 jobs) until I read the following CNBC article that puts its numbers in a more sobering perspective: CNBC Analysis. Apparently actual employment growth was only by 4,000 while full-time jobs declined by 150,000 and part-time jobs increased by 77,000. Even when things are looking up for Americans, it seems only a statistical illusion. 

One can surmise that we are now living in an Obamacare economy where job security and middle-class expansion is a thing of the past. First Senator Chuck Schumer and now the Obamacare co-sponsor, Senator Tom Harkin, is saying that the Obamacare law was a gigantic mistake … as it is far too complicated … see: USA Today Article/. (He still wants a single-payer health-care system however.)

So, once again, we see that we are living in a nation of make-believe numbers to gloss over legislative and administrative incompetence. What’s that old song, “It’s only a paper moon hanging over a cardboard sea …”?