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Lower migration is driving up blue collar wages, and those extra wages are stabilizing the U.S. economy, says the Economist magazine, which serves as a community newspaper for globalist elites......The admission of rising prosperity comes in a sour-toned February 13 article, and 'is buried' under multiple warnings about future disasters. The Economist article is headlined “Delayed reaction: Immigration to America is down. Wages are up.” ....It provides more good news — that President Donald Trump’s Hire America’ policy is even boosting wages in the midwest. Even the warnings were full of good news about how higher wages are forcing companies...

SUBTITLE: "He's toast," said Dwight Clarke, 70, of Los Angeles, who viewed the event at The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood, California. LOS ANGELES -- One after another, Democratic presidential candidates took turns at the start of their latest debate to take shots at former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. And each time, the crowd at The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood, California, reacted with uproarious cheers. They cheered when Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., criticized Bloomberg for having spent his way onto the debate stage, and when Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana,...

“This morning, as part of a search ordered by the Promoter of Justice, Gian Piero Milano, and the Adjunct Alessandro Diddi, documents and computer equipment were seized from the office and home of Bishop Alberto Perlasca, former head of the Administrative Office of the First Section of the Secretariat of State,” Tuesday’s statement reads. The communiqué said that the raid was part of an ongoing investigation into “financial investments and real estate of the Secretariat of State.” Tuesday’s operation was the second such raid conducted on officials of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State and makes Perlasca the sixth and highest...

Bernie Sanders is a guy who never worked a day in his life or created wealth or jobs, as for looting, he and his wife are experts at that…they have looted the American taxpayer and sold us out for huge bank accounts. They are under investigation for loan fraud as well. So now we should listen to Bernie schooling us on politics and taxes crooks after he backed Clinton after she manipulated the primaries away from him. I do love to watch the Left devour one another. Almost as much fun as when Trump trolls them and their heads catch...

Ever since Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, political spectators have been wondering how it happened. She was supposed to win by a landslide. Now Democrats are debating which of their candidates is most "electable." They're afraid to nominate another Hillary Clinton. But no one can agree on why she lost. Was it because of globalization, sexism, populism, or Russian interference? Eighty-four years of electoral history show that Trump's victory was not at all surprising. In fact, it was entirely predictable. In our forthcoming book, Personality Wins: Who Will Take the White House and How...

Pity the poor liberal media. The Democrats staged a nasty debate last night, and the man who emerged the "big winner" was none other than... President Trump! So said Joe Scarborough and Donny Deutsch on today's Morning Joe. Willie Geist said "They tore the skin" off of Michael Bloomberg. Making matters much worse, Donny divined that Bernie Sanders is "rolling" toward the nomination, yet has "no shot" at beating Trump. That left poor Donny upset, that "two-thirds of this country thinks we're going in the right direction, and you have a guy who wants to burn it down? To me,...

The Vegan Society said that vegans should be given their own shelf in refrigerators at work and employers should 'protect them' from offensive jokes about their dietary choices. The document was written following a judge in an employment tribunal declaring last month that ethical veganism is a “philosophical belief”, like a religion, which should be protected against discrimination by workplace law. The Vegan Society’s document recommends that staff requiring a uniform or special equipment, such as leather safety boots, should be offered non-animal alternatives. It also says that vegans should have their own isolated shelf in the work refrigerator —...

A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born". So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues. A demand like this could cause a rift...

In a cri de coeur for the ages, Attorney General William Barr said in an interview last week that President Trump’s tweets “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Days later in a moment of introspection, Mr. Trump said: “I do make his job harder. I do agree with that.” Historians someday will identify the current period as the moment something snapped in American politics. The moorings have broken, and we are floating free of any guide ropes. How else to explain not merely disagreements over the term of Roger Stone’s sentence but the mass hysteria it has...

New building permits surged to a near 13-year high, pointing to sustained housing market strength amidst a period of continuing economic expansion in the United States that is the longest in recorded history. Permits to build new homes in the United States soared 9.2 percent to a rate of 1.551 million units in January, the Commerce Department said on Feb. 19, which is the highest level since March 2007. In another sign of housing sector strength, builder confidence in the housing market remained buoyant in February, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Housing Market Index (HMI),...

Canadians’ reputation for politeness is being tested by an ugly dispute over energy policy. It involves the Coastal GasLink pipeline, owned by TC Energy, which will be used to transport natural gas from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, near the Alberta border, to the coastal town of Kitimat. Coastal GasLink was organized in 2012 by the province’s Liberal government, and it’s supported by the current New Democratic Party government. Most First Nations tribes along the pipeline path, including the elected band council of the Wet’suwet’en, support the project. But five hereditary Wet’suwet’en chiefs oppose it, and many left-wing activists predictably side...

Regarding last night’s Evening in Paris: It appeared as a mashup of The Re-animator,The Dark Knight Rises: To be clear, Bloomie is cast as Bane, not the Dark KnightMean Girls, Type-cast, but rightly soand Idiocracy. Not a good look Dems. It was bad enough when Democrats booed God at their convention in 2012. Last night they also booed capitalism. Bloomberg, addressing his fellow Democrats who were all blasting capitalism: “That's ridiculous. We're not going to throw out capitalism. We tried that, other countries tried that. It was called communism and it just didn't work.” The crowd moaned and booed. What...

Claim: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed during the Democrat debate Wednesday night that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg supported President George W. Bush in 2004. Verdict: True. Bloomberg did support Bush in 2004. Sanders criticized Bloomberg during the Democrat presidential debate Wednesday night for serving as a former Republican and a fundraiser for Republicans, including Bush.

It was an exciting time. In 2009, a grassroots movement of concerned Americans scheduled 800 Tea Party rallies nationwide on tax day, April 15th. Forty percent of tea partiers voted for Obama, naively believing it would end our nation's racial divide. They did not realize that Obama was a Trojan Horse with a progressive warrior hiding inside his black-skin exterior. Once Obama began implementing his undercover mission to transform America into a socialist/progressive country, Americans said, no. His sinister policies included persecuting Christians and opening borders to illegals. Obama betrayed Americans. In 2009, I was among only a few blacks...

The idea that animals can experience love was once anathema to the psychologists who studied them, seen as a case of putting sentimentality before scientific rigor. But a new book argues that, when it comes to dogs, the word is necessary to understanding what has made the relationship between humans and our best friends one of the most significant interspecies partnerships in history. Clive Wynne, founder the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, makes the case in "Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You." The animal psychologist, 59, began studying dogs in the early 2000s, and,...

After more than 50 years on the air, Star Trek has become a sort of universal vision of the future. Where other stories imagine a world torn by war, or at the mercy of technology run wild, Star Trek imagines, if not the best possible future, one very close to it. Creator Gene Roddenberry's vision of humanity in the 23rd and 24th centuries unifies the planet, does away with grand-scale internal conflict, erases the need for a money-based economy, and opens up a whole galaxy of possibilities for the human species. The result is a people working together to create...

Bernie Sanders came to Denver last weekend and for fun I took my family to his Sunday night rally. Since we are all Republicans, this was a true walk on the wild side in the form of opposition research. As Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Held at the Colorado Convention Center, the rally “drew thousands” according to local media. There were no lines to get in, other than at the obligatory metal detectors now seen at everything from political rallies to sporting events. Since...

Bills that would have limited how many rounds can be stored in gun magazines and what guns can be sold did not pass in Olympia. Neither bill was approved before Wednesday's 5 p.m. deadline. Lawmakers knew earlier this month the proposed ban on firearms defined as assault weapons did not have the votes to proceed.

Meet the 3 high school girls suing to stop TRANS bastards from competing: https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/meet-the-high-school-girls-suing-to-stop-trans-bastards-from-competing/

Researchers in the Czech Republic have uncovered a fossilized skull of a ‘protodog’ at a dig site dating back an estimated 28,500 years, giving new insight into what influenced the eventual split between dogs and wolves. The team, which was led by University of Arkansas anthropology professor Peter Ungar, also found wolf samples from the site and compared the scratches and scrapes on the preserved teeth along with chemical isotopes left in each. The samples came from a dig site in the countryside near the small town of Předmostí in the eastern part of the Czech Republic.