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U.S. stocks slid Friday as investors digested a stronger-than-expected jobs report and rising rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 290 points, or 0.8%. The S&P 500 slipped 1.2%. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.8%.

Anti-gun Press Parrots Misleading Stats and Creates Outright Falsehoods 7:00am Friday, June 03, 2022 As NRA-ILA recently pointed out, gun control researchers and their establishment press lapdogs propagate misleading “science” to advance their political agenda. Sometimes this involves sophisticated statistical modeling, other times it involves the crude mischaracterization of data. The anti-gun advocates’ longest-running version of the latter involves conflating firearm-related deaths among children and those among juveniles and young adults. This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 1-14. Step two, combine that relatively low number with the far greater number of...

CENTERVILLE, Texas -- The manhunt for escaped inmate Gonzalo Lopez is over after investigators tracked him down Thursday in Atascosa County, more than 250 miles away from where the criminal initially escaped from a prison bus back on May 12. Investigators said they believe Lopez killed a Houston family, one adult and four kids. The family's bodies were found Thursday inside of a getaway home in Leon County, which is the area where the inmate escaped more than three weeks ago. Leon County is roughly 116 miles north of Houston.

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There are two faces of today’s employment report. But let’s start with US average hourly earnings growth less inflation (aka, REAL hourly earnings). It printed at -2.8% YoY, meaning that inflation is causing REAL hourly earnings to fall. The good news is that jobs added in the latest report printed at +390k in May. This is only one face of employment. Yesterday’s ADP jobs added report was considerably lower at only 128k. Labor force participation rose to 62.3%, but remains below pre-Covid levels. The unemployment rate remains the same at 3.6%, but the underemployment rate rose to 7.1%. I cannot...

Since mid-May, real-time indicators warned the labor market had hit a brick wall. Piper Sandler predicted last week that up to a million layoffs or more were ahead as the US economy is on the verge of recession. The latest sign of an impending job market shock is an email seen by Reuters from the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who told executives the electric carmaker needs to cut staff by 10% because he has a “super bad feeling” about where the economy was headed. The email, titled “pause all hiring worldwide,” was sent to executives on Thursday...

The housing market is starting to show signs of a slowdown. If the trend persists, the U.S could see an impact in other sectors of the economy — starting with big-ticket items that go into furnishing a new home. "The housing market is very much a leading indicator of the economy because of the knock on effects through the various sectors, like consumption of durable goods," Eric Basmajian, founder of EPB Macro Research, told Yahoo Finance. He predicts durable goods such as large appliances that go into a home could cool off as fewer homes are sold. “We’re going to...

It’s a standard pattern. After a horror like the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, pundits, journalists and politicians come forward to say that the event is evidence of some deep moral failure, a flaw in America’s soul. Predictably enough, of course, they then preach that salvation can only come by doing what they want. But when the facts come in, it invariably turns out that the tragedy doesn’t stem from a spiritual failing in America but rather from the fact that some (most?) of our institutions are run by creeps, crooks and incompetents. We’ve learned that a door was propped open...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 PICKEL STUDIO "Repentance of King David" 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 "David Going to Meet Goliath" 24 The Stained Glass Studio of Clearwater "David and Goliath" 25 Source→ a n d... f i n a l l y ← 26 EDWARD BURNE-JONES Source

Facing an uproar for its support of the transgender agenda, State Farm Insurance says it is dropping its alliance with a transgender group that wanted to supply indoctrination materials aimed at children to schools and libraries. State Farm had said it would support a group called GenderCool, which was targeting children as young as 5 with books titled “Being Transgender,” “Being Inclusive” and “Being Non-Binary.” On Monday, the conservative group Consumers’ Research responded with a video titled “Like a Creepy Neighbor.” ... On Tuesday, State Farm surrendered.

WASHINGTON — In a rare evening address, President Joe Biden on Thursday made an emotional plea to the nation about gun control in the wake of several mass shootings. Biden also asked Congress to take immediate action, saying “Enough, enough.” Read the transcript below: “Memorial Day, this past Monday, Jill and I visited Arlington National Cemetery. As we entered those hallowed grounds, we saw rows and rows of crosses among the rows of headstones and other emblems of belief, honoring those who paid the ultimate price on battlefields around the world. The day before, we visited Uvalde — Uvalde, Texas....

3 June 2022Saints Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyrs on Friday of the 7th week of Eastertide St . Charles Lwanga Ntinda Parish Catholic church in Kampala, Uganda Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingActs 25:13-21 ©'I ordered Paul to be remanded until I could send him to Caesar'King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus. Their visit lasted several days, and Festus put Paul’s case before the king. ‘There is a man here’ he said ‘whom Felix left behind in custody, and while...

The Democratic primary for a Georgia county has been called into question after a hand count revealed the voting machines were off by thousands of ballots. Marshall Orson, a Democratic DeKalb County school board member running for the county commission, asked the local elections board on Thursday to not certify the results as scheduled on Friday due to "numerous issues" with the race.

The Great Seal of Iowa boldly states:We prize our liberties and our rights we will maintain. The Iowa Great seal shows a citizen soldier with a musket. In spite of the sentiments on the seal, Iowa is one of only six states where the state constitution does not contain an explicit protection for the right to keep and bear arms. The seal was adopted in 1847. At the time, the right to bear arms was relatively uncontroversial. In the famous Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Tanney said this, speaking of the rights slaves would have if they were considered to...

On Thursday’s “Mark Levin Show,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) argued that lax prosecution policies from Democrats have allowed people like the subway shooter in New York City to have access to guns and said that “Democrats want to disarm law-abiding Americans. Republicans want to disarm violent criminals.” McCarthy also stated that current gun laws should be enforced more strongly, and “if you enforce the law, you know who would first get in trouble? [President Joe Biden’s] son, Hunter Biden,” for lying on his firearm transaction record.

FIELD OF BATTLE BEFORE RICHMOND, Sunday A.M., June 1, 1862. A battle before Richmond has at last put to the test the rebel boast as to what they would do with Gen. McCLELLAN's army when they should get it beyond the protection of the gunboats. Though the advantage of a sudden movement, against the weakest point in our lines, gave the enemy a temporary success, the final result has not been such as to afford encouragement to their disheartened and demoralized troops, or occasion any fears as to our ultimate possession of the rebel capital. The attack commenced shortly before...

COVID cases have risen sharply in nearly every country that has launched a mass vaccination campaign. (Please watch this short video before You Tube removes it.[1]) Why is this happening? Mass vaccination was supposed to reduce the threat of COVID but — in the short term — it appears to make it much worse. Why? And why is COVID now “surging in 4 of 5 the most vaccinated countries?” According to Forbes magazine:[2] “Countries with the world’s highest vaccination rates — including four of the top five most vaccinated — are fighting to contain coronavirus outbreaks that are, on a...

An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from the data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters.

Readers say they are "unupgraded T72s", not sure which side is which. Location in Donbas and date unknown, most everything unknown. The person who posted it only said that the video was originally posted elsewhere by a Ukrainian sympathetic account, but that doesn't really tell which side is which here.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that his Republican colleagues in the House are “coming down on the side of” the killers of our kids by not supporting the Democrats’ gun reform legislation. Anchor Joy Reid said, “We saw the House Judiciary Committee holding a contentious debate over a package of new gun bills. The Protecting Our Kids Act raises the age on firearms and attempts to crack down on large-capacity magazines.”