Monday, November 25, 2019

The Times’s Editorial Page Lies with Statistics

The Times’s Editorial Page Lies with Statistics: When debating tax policy it is important to use empirical evidence to inform the discussion of what rates the top earners currently pay and what rates we would like them to pay, or if a rate change is even warranted at all.

The Times’s Editorial Page Lies with Statistics

The Times’s Editorial Page Lies with Statistics: When debating tax policy it is important to use empirical evidence to inform the discussion of what rates the top earners currently pay and what rates we would like them to pay, or if a rate change is even warranted at all.

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A five-year tour with the U.S. Border Patrol brought me into contact with the various departments within the patrol.%26nbsp%3B%26nbsp%3BOne was Border Patrol Intelligence%2C those Border Patrol agents who worked on the other side of the Mexican border to root ...: A theory.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

CNN Fake News stories


NOVEMBER 23RD, 2019
BREAKING: Devin Nunes To Take Swift Legal Action Against CNN For 'Demonstrably False' Story
By  Ryan Saavedra
DailyWire.com

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) announced Friday night that he is filing a lawsuit against CNN over a report that they published the same evening that alleged an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani was willing to testify to Congress that Nunes met with a former Ukrainian prosecutor last year to discuss digging up dirt on former Vice President and current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.


"The attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, represents Lev Parnas, the recently indicted Soviet-born American who worked with Giuliani to push claims of Democratic corruption in Ukraine," CNN reported. "Bondy said that Parnas was told directly by the former Ukrainian official that he met last year in Vienna with Rep. Devin Nunes."

 

"Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December," Bondy told CNN. "Nunes had told Shokin of the urgent need to launch investigations into Burisma, Joe and Hunter Biden, and any purported Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election."

CNN claims that Bondy told them that Parnas and Nunes allegedly began communicating with each other around the time of the Vienna trip and that Parnas worked to put Nunes in contact with Ukrainian officials that could dig up dirt on Biden and Democrats in Ukraine.


Nunes also plans to sue The Daily Beast for a story that it published earlier in the week that alleged that Parnas helped Nunes set up numerous meetings regarding Ukraine.

In an exclusive statement provided to Breitbart News, Nunes said: "These demonstrably false and scandalous stories published by the Daily Beast and CNN are the perfect example of defamation and reckless disregard for the truth. Some political operative offered these fake stories to at least five different media outlets before finding someone irresponsible enough to publish them. I look forward to prosecuting these cases, including the media outlets, as well as the sources of their fake stories, to the fullest extent of the law. I intend to hold the Daily Beast and CNN accountable for their actions. They will find themselves in court soon after Thanksgiving."


CNN claims that they began to ask Nunes questions about his Vienna trip on November 14, to which Nunes responded to CNN: "I don't talk to you in this lifetime or the next lifetime. At any time. On any question."

CNN asked Nunes about the trip again on Thursday, to which Nunes responded: "To be perfectly clear, I don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime. I don't acknowledge any question from you ever."

Nunes has long held a policy of not communicating with CNN, which can be evidenced in a clip from summer 2018.


Nunes does have a legitimate reason to not answer CNN, as the far-left network is notorious for making false claims about Republicans and publishing false stories that later have to be retracted.

In late 2017, CNN published a story smearing then-Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci that alleged that Scaramucci was connected to a Russian investment fund that was supposedly under investigation by the U.S. Senate.

Scaramucci took immediate legal action against CNN and the network was forced to retract the report and had to fire three reporters over the incident.

In August, CNN's Brian Stelter, on his show "Reliable Sources," allowed a psychiatrist to falsely claim that President Donald Trump was "as destructive of person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were."

Stelter did not challenge the claim and after experiencing intense backlash, gave an uncorroborated excuse for his inaction to the blatantly false statement.

CNN also lied about former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, being its source for a story whose central claim — that Cohen would testify that Trump knew in advance about the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer — was also false.

"On July 27, 2018, CNN published a blockbuster story: that Michael Cohen was prepared to tell Robert Mueller that President Trump knew in advanced about the Trump Tower meeting," The Intercept reported. "There were, however, two problems with this story: first, CNN got caught blatantly lying when its reporters claimed that 'contacted by CNN, one of Cohen's attorneys, Lanny Davis, declined to comment' (in fact, Davis was one of CNN's key sources, if not its only source, for this story), and second, numerous other outlets retracted the story after the source, Davis, admitted it was a lie. CNN, however, to this date has refused to do either."

CNN has also posted false stories about:

James Comey's testimony
The spread of misinformation on Twitter
Republicans funding the anti-Trump dossier
How Trump fed koi fish in Japan
Donald Trump Jr. getting advanced notice of a dump of WikiLeaks emails
A sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh that was already retracted
Repeatedly spreading false statistics about school shootings
Host shared a fake story about an AR-15


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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Nixon's Lessons for the Would-Be Impeachers https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/trump-impeachment-inquiry-richard-nixon-lessons/

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

FedEx Paid No 2018 Federal Corporate Taxes — A Reminder That The Tax Rate Should Be Zero

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TheHill.com: 0%: The correct corporate tax rate

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Monday, November 11, 2019

Study puts standard narrative on opioid crisis in doubt

Pharmaceutical companies are taking the blame for the opioid epidemic in America. We've all heard the narrative: Americans become addicted to pills prescribed by irresponsible doctors and peddled by unscrupulous drug companies. Many die of an overdose. There's no denying that this occurs. However, a new study from Massachusetts strongly suggests that it is not the main reason for the opioid epidemic. The study found: Prescription opioids were detected in

 

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Study puts standard narrative on opioid crisis in doubt

Pharmaceutical companies are taking the blame for the opioid epidemic in America. We've all heard the narrative: Americans become addicted to pills prescribed by irresponsible doctors and peddled by unscrupulous drug companies. Many die of an overdose. There's no denying that this occurs. However, a new study from Massachusetts strongly suggests that it is not the main reason for the opioid epidemic. The study found: Prescription opioids were detected in

 

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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Opinion: Don’t ever talk about the media “speaking truth to power” again

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Monday, October 28, 2019

How The Obama Administration Set In Motion Its Coup Against Trump

How The Obama Administration Set In Motion Its Coup Against Trump: Nunes realized the purpose of Obama’s dossier. 'Devin figured out in December what was going on,' says Langer. 'It was an operation to bring down Trump.'

This Impeachment Subverts the Constitution

I thought you would be interested in this story I found on MSN: This Impeachment Subverts the Constitution http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/AAJn6gw?ocid=se

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The Cobra Effect: Lessons in Unintended Consequences | Antony Davies, James R. Harrigan

The Cobra Effect: Lessons in Unintended Consequences | Antony Davies, James R. Harrigan: Unintended consequences happen so often that economists call them “Cobra Problems,” after a famous historic example. In colonial India, Delhi suffered a proliferation of cobras. To cut the number of cobras, the local government placed a bounty on them. Can you guess what happened?

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Middle-Class Incomes Surging – Thanks to Trump Policies

COMMENTARY Markets and Finance

Middle-Class Incomes Surging – Thanks to Trump Policies

Oct 10th, 2019 2 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Stephen Moore

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Stephen Moore is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation.
This has been one of the biggest middle-class success stories in modern times, and it is a testament to the success of the Trump tax, regulatory and energy policies. MANDEL NGAN / Contributor / Getty Images

Key Takeaways

Middle-class incomes, after adjusting for inflation, have surged by $5,003 since Donald Trump became president in January 2017.

These surges in income, have occurred at exactly the time when many liberal economists and media talking heads were shouting "recession."

These latest income numbers also squarely contradict the claims by Democratic presidential candidates.

The latest Census Bureau Current Population Survey data now show that middle-class incomes, after adjusting for inflation, have surged by $5,003 since Donald Trump became president in January 2017. Median household income has now reached $65,976 – an all-time high and up more than 8 percent in 2019 dollars under the Trump presidency.

This data was compiled by the statisticians at Sentier Research, an economic research group whose founders have more than 30 years of experience at the Census Bureau in analyzing the monthly income numbers.

I reported last week in the Wall Street Journal that real median family income had soared by $4,146 under Trump through July 2019. The just-released August numbers from Sentier show a huge monthly gain of $857 in income per household.

These numbers contrast sharply with the 16 years prior to Trump's presidency. In the eight years that George W. Bush was president, median income barely showed any gain, up just $401 thanks to the deep recession of 2008.

In the seven and a half years that Barack Obama was president, and not including the end of the recession, which Obama inherited, incomes inched up by $1,043 (June 2009 – January 2019). This means that in the 16 years before the Trump presidency, incomes rose by about $1,500 while in less than three years middle incomes have risen three times faster.

The contrast is even sharper when measured on a monthy basis. The monthly rise in incomes under Bush was $4. That number was $11 under Obama and $161 under Trump.

These income numbers are PRE-TAX, so they do NOT include the impact of the Trump tax cut. The Heritage Foundation estimates that the average household has saved $1,400 a year on their federal taxes from the 2017 Trump tax cut. This means many working-class families now have a $6,000 higher after-tax, and after-inflation paycheck today.

These surges in income, especially in the last several months, have occurred at exactly the time when many liberal economists and media talking heads were shouting "recession." In reality middle-class families were enjoying a near-unprecedented income windfall and "the gains in income levels in recent months," Sentier reports, "have been accelerating."

These higher wage and salary incomes are no doubt related to the very tight labor market, which has given workers new bargaining power to ask for higher pay. Today there are more than seven million unfilled jobs in America – the highest number of surplus jobs in American history.

These latest income numbers also squarely contradict the claims by Democratic presidential candidates, such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who claim that all the gains from the Trump economy have gone to the rich and large corporations. Warren claimed earlier this year that workers had to work "two or three or four jobs" just to keep their incomes from falling.

No, this has been one of the biggest middle-class success stories in modern times, and it is a testament to the success of the Trump tax, regulatory and energy policies.

This piece originally appeared on Fox News

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Saturday, October 5, 2019

Duke Energy application points finger at solar for increased pollution

https://nsjonline.com/article/2019/08/duke-energy-application-points-finger-at-solar-for-increased-pollution/

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North Carolina Energy Company Finds Solar Power Increases Pollution

North Carolina Energy Company Finds Solar Power Increases Pollution: If we expect to create a prosperous future fueled by low-cost clean energy, it’s time to recalibrate the way we think about renewables.

Friday, October 4, 2019

Impeachment Comments Democrats Would Rather You Forget

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Barack Obama to Cindy Sheehan: Get Lost

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Greta Thunberg, Indisputable Proof That Our World Has Gone Mad

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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Pink Slip, Black Rage

Pink Slip, Black Rage: Can’t at least one “black leader” issue one tiny statement about how blacks should maybe not kill their bosses and co-workers after getting fired?

By its own definition Antifa is Fascist

Antifa%26rsquo%3Bs+founding+can+be+traced+back+to+2007+in+Portland+and+the+Rose+City+Antifa+group.+Prior+to+2016%2C+the+group%26rsquo%3Bs+activities+were+limited+to+harassing+neo-Nazi+gatherings+and+doxing+white+supremacists.+But+that+changed+in+2016+after+the...: It’s clear that they believe the current liberal democracy government of the country has failed and what the people need are strong incorruptible leaders to take the reins and do what is needed to fix it in their image.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

CNN: Everything but the News https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/cnn-trump-derangement-everything-but-news/

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Fake News all over again

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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Why Did the Deficit Just Top $1 Trillion? Here’s Another Clue For You All

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Saturday, September 7, 2019

Oh, the lies they tell about voter ID

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Did the Obama administration commit 'the biggest accounting fraud in history' with student loans? Experts weigh in

Did the Obama administration commit 'the biggest accounting fraud in history' with student loans? Experts weigh in https://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-administration-student-loans-experts-113140861.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma

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Opinion | I’m the administrator of Medicaid and Medicare. A public option is a bad idea. from The Washington Post

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