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Ok, watching the news, etc. second circuit breaker hit at a 7+% drop in the DOW. Trading halted. Oil collapsed 30% overnight. There is a potential of a major collapse today. Fed is increasing money into the economy this am. If you are still in stocks, be very careful. Now, there is a worry that the next breaker at 13% drop in the DOW could be hit. All of this over coronavirus. Now a bit of good news, Texas firm says they have a vaccine, but still has to get through FDA testing. Just hang on, it’s gonna be a...

Sick and tired of this nonsense... It's time for Trump to step up and declare the media a nuisance that must be reigned in from reporting nonsense. Freedom of the press is fine if the press is reporting the news. When they become hysterical and start damaging the economy to the determent of millions who already live in poverty and decay, it's time to put a kibosh on it... All news regarding this virus should be off limits and reported only by government sources, not liberal minded news outlets with a political agenda of destroying the economy. It's drastic and...

Stocks tumbled on Monday as investors braced for the economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus, while a shocking all-out oil price war added to the anxiety. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tanked more than 1,800 points at the open, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. The massive sell-off triggered a key market circuit breaker in morning trading. Trading was halted for 15 minutes until 9:49 a.m. ET.

Before the Patriot Act, the FBI would have been stymied in conducting a counterterrorism investigation involving a now infamous American agent of a foreign power. Anwar al-Awlaki was born in the United States. Yet, apparently, Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee believe the only thing worth remembering about him is that President Obama “illegally” had him killed in Yemen using a Hellfire missile. (No matter that al-Awlaki: had sent “panty bomber” Abdulmuttalab to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit; attempted to blow up a DHL cargo airplane in flight; had become the well-publicized spiritual leader of Al Qaeda in...

U.S. equity markets were halted Monday morning after the S&P 500 dropped 7 percent, as an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia sent crude prices crashing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was lower by more than 1,800 points, or 7 percent, in the opening minutes of trading while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were down 7 percent and 6.86 percent, respectively. Trading will resume following a 15-minute halt. The steep slide caused the New York Federal Reserve to increase its daily cash injections into the banking system to $150 billion from $100 billion.

An animation of a GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) climate model simulation made for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, showing five-year averaged surface air temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius from 1880 to 2100....

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham called on Democrats Monday to stop stoking the flames of coronavirus panic to gain political points against President Trump. "I just want to stress to politicians and the media to stop using this as a tool to politicize things and to scare people," Grisham told "Fox & Friends." "It's not responsible. This is not the time for this. People need to be looking to the CDC for guidance. People need to be washing their hands, treating this like the flu, making responsible choices. This is absolutely not the time to be trying to scare...

With the recent and sudden surge of Joe Biden in the Democrats' presidential primary, the liberal mob running the modern Democrat Party want Americans to believe they have shunned extremism and now have a palatable "moderate" on the verge of leading their party into the November elections. Don't be fooled. With his recent "nasty" display in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Senator Chuck Schumer — the Democrats' Senate minority leader — again reminded us that there are few, if any, "moderates" left in today's Democrat Party. The fact that the Democrats are almost completely bereft of moderates should have...

Post #33. With so many rats running for president in 2020 it's hard to keep up with who's in and who's out. Hopefully, this post will help. This thread will be posted each week, likely on Monday, with the dropouts from the previous week and newly declared candidates noted. Below is a list of declared candidates and their occupation. Below that is a list of dropouts, their occupation and the date they dropped from the race. Dropout(s) in the past week: Amy Klobuchar dropped out on Monday, March 2, endorsing Biden for president. Link.Mini-Mike dropped out the morning after Super...

T.S. Eliot, The Hollow MenIt’s all but official, the media has determined COVID-19 to be the tragedy we have been waiting for (Trump’s Katrina!!). We are all doomed.As James Lileks reflects, this could well mark the end of life as we know it…at least for a little while. I suspect this will seem, in retrospect, as the last “normal” week. The one in which there was other news. This doesn’t mean everything will be actually horrible. It means the news will be horrible, in that it gives a sense of a rapidly escalating catastrophe that produces mass unease and uncertainty....

You may have noticed a curious trend recently, usually exhibited by "moderate" progressive pundits, which involves comparing the candidacies of Donald Trump in 2016 and Bernie Sanders in 2020. The most recent I've seen is by Andrew Sullivan at New York Magazine, where he celebrates the Democratic establishment having consolidated power behind the embarrassingly senile Joe Biden, which effectively crippled Bernie's candidacy on Super Tuesday. "If only Trump's rivals had exercised that discipline in the GOP primaries four years ago," Sullivan playfully muses. Like the Democrats in 2020, he argues, the Republicans in 2016 faced an "insistent and ascendant insurgency...

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By Cathi Chamberlain The big question leading up to the 2020 elections is who will be the tougher challenger for President Trump, Biden or Bernie? Democrats are deeply divided. That’s a good thing. Bernie Sanders’ message has a strong following, particularly among younger voters. For a generation, our universities have been teaching them a romanticized view of his socialism. Bernie’s ouster from the electoral process in 2016 to facilitate Hillary Clinton’s rise caused a major disruption in their party’s unity. Feelings of betrayal are still raw today. Should the Democratic establishment repeat that strategy in 2020, the party might not...

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Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week,” former Chicago Mayor and former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel sounded off on the 2020 presidential race amid the coronavirus outbreak. Emanuel said the coronavirus precautions preventing President Donald Trump from having his typical rallies and thus missing out on the admiration he craves will be “devastating” and will “psychologically torment him.

“Codswallop” is one of those interesting words that might have been used by Supreme Court justice Anton Scalia in a dissenting opinion, or by conservative intellectual William F. Buckley in describing some liberal policy. It’s a British expression that refers to words or ideas that are foolish or untrue, in other words, nonsense. While codswallop is a good description of the entire Democrat agenda, today I will restrict its use to the hysteria surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, media fearmongering, and resulting public panic. Big media is all about ratings, view, and clicks, hence their axiom, “If it bleeds, it leads.”...

Around the world, leaders and health authorities were struggling to try to get a handle on the rapidly spreading coronavirus. But in the United States, President Donald Trump seems to have thought it would be a great time to hit the links with professional baseball players. On Sunday, the commander in chief played golf with current and former Washington Nationals players at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The White House doesn’t normally release details about the president’s golf outings but on Sunday, pitcher Patrick Corbin posted a series of photos on his Instagram of the game with...

Over 14 years later, former Congressman Rick Renzi is still fighting for his innocence. He was wrongly imprisoned during the Obama administration by prosecutors and FBI agents who are part of the deep swamp. They got him convicted of attempting to conduct a land trade while in Congress that would have allegedly benefited him — but he didn’t even propose the trade and the judge ruled the land trade was in the “public interest.” Renzi served a 3-year prison term and was released, but he is not giving up on clearing his name. A few months ago, his attorneys filed...

Count the state of Georgia as yet another this year moving to shine much-needed light on how pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) operate. On Thursday, Georgia’s state Senate unanimously (52 – 0) passed SB 313, a bill that restricts the business practices of PBMs just a day after the House voted 165 – 1 to pass other consumer-friendly PBM measures. The Georgia House approved bills that would penalize PBMs for violating the state’s department of insurance regulations and direct them to expand generic and lower cost drug options for consumers.  SB 313 compels PBMs to report the rebates they receive from...

In November of 2019 buried deep in the congressional budget Continuing Resolution (CR) was a short-term extension to reauthorize the FISA “business records provision”, the “roving wiretap” provision, the “lone wolf” provision, and the more controversial bulk metadata provisions [Call Detail Records (CDR)], all parts of the Patriot Act. As a result of the FISA CR inclusion the terminal deadline was pushed to March 15, 2020. ~ Something has to happen this week The Senate is scheduled to recess March 13, 2020. Additionally, the DOJ/FBI response to the FISA court order (due February 5th) has still not been made public....