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Because of obvious uncertainty. forecasting future activity is always tricky. Usually forecasters look to the past, noting previous outcomes when certain events occurred. If it turned out that way before, then it’s probably going to turn out that way again. The issue is a bit more complicated for economists, because human behavior is many times inconsistent. For instance, if a consumer sees a higher price for a product will she pay the higher price or will she refrain from the purchase? In the past, she has done both. Economists today are deeply divided regarding their forecast for future inflation. The...

Jack Posobiec, senior editor at Human Events and author of The Antifa: Stories From Inside the Black Bloc, told Breitbart News on Monday that the removal of President Donald Trump has emboldened Antifa. Antifa sees ousting the Trump administration as a victory, Posobiec stated in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. Posobiec noted the widespread adoption of its “defund the police” narrative among Democrats, their allied media, and the broader left has energized Antifa. He remarked, “They are definitely on the...

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education just announced it is interpreting Title IX, which bans discrimination on the basis of sex at federally funded schools and colleges, to include sexual preference and gender identity. This will lead to unintended consequences because many pro-gay programs explicitly discriminate against people who are straight. We already know that it is discrimination when an all-girls club excludes boys. A reasonable boy knows that Girls Who Code is not open to him, and OCR has agreed and required such programs to stop discriminating. Likewise, advertising a third-party scholarship that...

Globalism is a pantomime played by elites on the world stage of a Potemkin Village. Today’s performance of ‘a Frog and his Fool’ is brought to you by Emmanuel Macron and the installed occupant of the White House. ((Poster Note: Now check out the link to the US Dollar to see the increase since Biden joined the 'Club'.))

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) is backing former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory in the race to succeed him, after former President Donald Trump threw his support behind Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.). Burr’s upcoming retirement has triggered over a dozen people to launch bids, many of them Republican. But Burr told Politico that McCrory is the only Republican “that can win the general election.” “Pat McCrory has a commanding advantage,” Burr said. Trump endorsed Budd during the North Carolina Republican Convention in early June. “This gentleman is going to be your next senator. He’s going to be somebody you’re going to...

One of the worst-kept secrets in Indiana politics officially is out of the bag — Jennifer McCormick is a Democrat. The former state superintendent of public instruction confirmed Monday she no longer identifies with the Indiana Republican Party that nominated and elected her in 2016 to lead the Indiana Department of Education. McCormick said she now realizes the values she held during her four years as state schools chief, including taking care of the whole child while pursuing academic excellence, only can be fulfilled by the Indiana Democratic Party. "I know there are Republican voters across Indiana who believe in...

COVID-19 vaccinations will be required of all Susquehanna University students this fall. The university announced its decision Monday, two months after deciding students would return to campus for in-class instruction and that no remote learning option would be offered.

At the beginning of the month, the Pentagon confirmed that they will not allow rainbow pride flags to fly at military facilities in celebration of Pride Month. That fell in line with the Pentagon’s 2020 decision to permit only certain flags at Department of Defense installations. Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters the DOD chose not to make an exception to the existing flag policy after careful consideration. Along with the American flag, the current policy implemented under the Trump administration authorizes flags representing states and U.S. territories, military services, prisoners of war and missing in action, national flags of...

resident Joe Biden's performance at the meeting with foreign leaders in Britain last week was a disgrace. Biden cut deals with Britain that sold out America's interests, and for doing so, he won the worshipful accolades of the Europeans, the Brits and the Canadians. It's amazing how popular you are at a party when you pay everyone's bills. Except Biden isn't spending his own money, of course. He's spending ours. It would be an understatement to say that the Euroland leaders weren't big fans of former President Donald Trump. Trump went to the G-7 meetings and told his international peers...

The promoters of the climate scam have a variety of deceptions to get the gullible to accede to their socialist plans. Those deceptions range from the quite sophisticated to the completely preposterous. At the sophisticated end of the scale we have what I have called The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time — the deception by which 50 and 100 year old temperature records are altered (reduced) by impenetrable computer algorithms to make it seem like global warming has been much greater than the reality. At the preposterous end of the scale we have the claim that the fashionable “renewable”...

Does raising the minimum wage cause job loss? It's a complicated issue, with such factors as economic growth, economic justice, income, the deficit, fairness, inflation, poverty, inequality, the work ethic, and eligibility for benefits thrown in to cloud the picture. As Jack Kelly wrote, it is an issue fraught with unintended consequences. He cited a 2019 study by the Congressional Budget Office: "Increasing the federal minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers. For most low-wage workers, earnings and family income would increase, which would lift some families out of poverty. But other low-wage workers would become jobless,...

Word up: research, including numerous brain scans, shows that words can change our brain. Generally, conservatives are happier than liberals, and it’s likely that convoluted liberal linguistics and the mental contortions political correctness entails contribute to liberal delusions. Under Nancy Pelosi’s misguided direction, the House proposed word changes to gender-specific roles. Mother and father are simply “parents,” and aunt and uncle are “parent siblings.” Seamen are “seafarers,” while niece and nephew are a “sibling’s child.” No wonder liberals are so confused and riddled with angst. It’s hard to be more warped then Pelosi, but Biden’s budget proposal absurdly replaces “Mother”...

Proof that time flies by: I completely missed this year’s summer solstice in which the longest day of the year ushers in the season’s languid, slothful days as we march inexorably towards the shortest. It is a lovely, ancient rhythm, you just need to get used to it. One way or another we all do. My languid day begins at the dentist so I bid you adieu for the time being.

We as a nation today are experiencing the compounding EXPONENTIAL rise in lawlessness and its EXPONENTIAL catastrophic and non-reparable wake! The 2020 elections will most likely be America's last and national civil war is indeed at our door and in our future. To not see that is to be a blind man and a fool! An ETERNAL saving relationship to Jesus Christ is all crucial and faith in Almighty God and His Word all important! May many wake up in Christ and be His children of the Day and may many come to an ETERNAL saving relationship to the ETERNAL...

Something from the vaccines is causing deformations and apparent inflammation in red blood cells. Citing experts at the Meedan Digital Health Lab , Reuters Fact Check vigorously asserts that the spike proteins induced by the COVID vaccines do not kill or damage cells. Perhaps so, but something from the vaccines is causing deformations and apparent inflammation in red blood cells, as evidenced by images from microscopy photos. Images of blood cells taken before and after the vaccines can be seen starting about two minutes into the five-minute video. Postvaccine red blood cells exhibit rough instead of smooth edges, irregular shapes,...

John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice of jobs either in the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind blade manufacturing plant located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, has announced it is shutting its doors permanently in less than two months. The disappearance of Molded Fiber Glass will displace over 300 workers and their families. It marks another major loss of energy jobs in the state following President Joe Biden's halting...

Immediately after the execution, resuscitation, and ascension of the Two Witnesses (Deut. 4:Rev. 11:7-19), the nation of Israel will find herself unprotected from the world's EXPONENTIAL demonic aggression (Jer. 30:4-8, Rev. 12:13-17). The majority of Israelis at this time who have rejected the Two Witnesses 1260 day ministry will now be ready to receive and put their trust in Hell's final chosen tool, but only to be deceived and slaughtered by his hand (Dan. 7,12:1-2, Zech. 13:8-9, Matt. 24:15-19, John 5:43, 2 Thes. 2:3-12, Rev. 11:7; 13, 17:8-18). The Two Witnesses ministry in RIGHTEOUS has so vexed and tormented these...

If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks from Africa and the Caribbean come to this country over the past 50 years? Why would they and many millions more want to move from all-black societies to a white-dominated, racist one? This is a question every black and white leftist should be asked. After all, no Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s. And why didn't any? After all, many Jews were suffering terrible persecution and poverty in Russia and in Eastern Europe. Why didn't any of them move to Germany after 1933? We all know the answer: Because...

If God had decided to teach liberals a lesson about Charles Murray’s latest book Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America published June 15, He might, after review, say this: Dear liberals: racial groups really do differ in intelligence and in violent crime, and it ain’t systemic racism. And yes, liberals, IQ tests accurately predict educational and job performance. Because “science is real.” And yes, liberals, if you are going to implement racial quotas all the way up to corporate CEOs, then you got trouble, right here in River City. Not that God’s Word will make a blind bit...

It’s official, I’m a racist. I couldn’t care less that I’m a racist, but I figured I’d declare it just for fun. I’m not going to go join a group, some random non-gay-centric version of conversion therapy leftists would approve of to purge myself of these feelings of hatred, disgust, superiority, and everything else we racists feel toward people we despise based on irrelevant characteristics. No, I don’t think I need professional help for this one. To the extent that my racism bothers me…actually, who am I kidding? My racism doesn’t bother me at all. See, the people I’m racist...