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In early 2025, almost no one predicted a recovery in American manufacturing. But manufacturing output has been recovering for a year and a half, and this year hiring finally joined it: factory employment stopped falling in December and has added 58,000 jobs in 2026. The recovery is narrow. Almost all of it, in output and in hiring, comes from advanced manufacturing: chemicals including pharma, machinery, computers and electronics, and transportation equipment. The rest of the sector is still flat or shrinking. The job gains are modest and probably always will be, because these are the most capital-intensive factories in the...

While the hypocrites at WaPo write Dem-friendly puff pieces, Milwaukee elections officials won’t let observers see what’s going on. The Washington Post likes to say that “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The self-righteous hypocrites behind the accomplice media outlet are part of the dark cloud killing representative democracy. (WaPo is keeping the Pulitzer Prize it won for helping to manufacture the Russia collusion hoax, thank you very much). We do know that election integrity dies in darkness, and “progressive” organs like The Post have been bludgeoning it for years. Take Wisconsin’s primary election last month, for instance. The leftist-run Milwaukee Election...

President Donald Trump raged against the Supreme Court’s decision to reject mail-in voting restrictions pushed by his administration on Tuesday, insisting the move “really let our country down.” In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump insisted the move creates an “open field” for “Dumocrats” to cheat in elections: Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all...

A naturalized citizen cannot be deported unless a federal court revokes that person's citizenship. Civil denaturalization requires the government to establish citizenship was illegally obtained or procured through the concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation. Deportation would require a separate removal process and an applicable legal ground for removal.

Beloved, had to share this incredible testimony of Jan Markell; her endurance, faithfulness, vision and knowing in all the adversity, that ALL things work together for good, in God’s perfect will for the child of God, for His ETERNAL glory! Jan’s global ministry is so impactful as she is one of the world’s greatest voices for end times biblical prophetic teaching; and in light of her 21 year infirmity, God has used her beyond all she could imagined. Eph. 3:20-21 May this 20 minute testimony be a great encouragement to you as it was for me; to never surrender and...

Georgia's youngest elected mayor was removed from office just 10 months after taking the job following allegations that he misused city funds and exchanged sexually suggestive messages and images with an 18-year-old high school student. Jayden Williams, who recently turned 23, was impeached by the Stockbridge City Council in the city south of Atlanta after taking office in January. "The City of Stockbridge confirms that the City Council has taken formal action concerning the Office of Mayor," the city said in a statement on Sunday. "The Mayor has been removed from office." Williams was accused of using his city purchasing...

One of the youngest mayors in Georgia history has been kicked out of office after he allegedly sent “sexually suggestive” texts and “explicit” images to a high school student, while also racking up thousands of dollars on the city’s credit card for personal expenses. The city of Stockbridge’s city council voted on Saturday to remove Mayor Jayden Williams. The 23-year-old had just been named mayor 10 months earlier after running as a non-partisan candidate, becoming the second-youngest mayor in the state’s history when he was sworn in. But he’s now out of a job after the city council examined several...

I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment, and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom. I feel the urgency personally. My own father died of a disease that was cured just a few years after his death, and I myself survived an early-stage cancer that would not have been treatable even...

Since the 1880s, the United States has had a policy requiring people entering the country with the intent to become permanent residents to support themselves. There have been times when the requirements or implementation of that policy have been more lenient than others, but at no point since the 1880s, nor after the welfare state dramatically expanded did Congress intend for people to be allowed to immigrate in order to avail themselves of the privilege of becoming a "public charge." It's an obviously common-sense policy. The alternative is to make the United States the welfare provider for the world, which...

Dozens of abandoned boats are piling up, sitting, or even sinking to the bottom of Marina del Rey. "This isn't just a Marina del Rey problem, it's a state problem," said Capt. Sean McCarthy from the nonprofit Catalina Crew. "It starts with someone not paying their slip fee or they owe more than the boat is worth." Sgt. Time Gannon with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Harbor Operation estimated that at least 40 abandoned boats are sitting in their impounds. He said a lot of the time people can't afford the upkeep. "I think some people think it would be...

A screenshot from a video recorded by @big.t.33 shows one of two teenagers during a confrontation with ICE agents in Alamo, Texas. Left-wing media and activists are exploding Monday over video and interviews out of Alamo, Texas, claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “brutally attacked” two American teenagers who say they were driving to turn in paperwork to join the Marines. But at this point, we do not know the full story. According to reporting first aired by Telemundo and then amplified by The New Republic and The Daily Beast, the two U.S. citizen teens stopped last week near Santos...

Everyone knew exactly what the Lawfare approach entailed. Lower court judges delayed rulings, then rejected the arguments citing insufficient time for the states to comply with U.S Postal Service rule changes for mail-in ballots. By the time the Supreme Court could weigh in, the clock had generally expired. The 2026 midterm election mail-in ballot fraud will proceed as before without impediment. The Trump administration argued the measures were to prevent fraud, but lawfare and state officials claimed that introducing a new ballot-matching system mid-election would create chaos. The Supreme Court ruling [SEE HERE] comes as many states are beginning to...

Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary, who claimed without evidence that he had a drug habit. Iuliia Mendel, who lives in the US and has become a critic of the Ukrainian president in recent months, worked as his aide from June 2019 to July 2021 The measures, which will last for a decade, will strip the former spokesman of her state awards, freeze her assets and forbid her from moving capital out of her home country. The decree also sanctioned nine other Russian and Ukrainian citizens. In response to the decree, she posted on social media: "Sanctions against...

Someone's trash truly is someone else's treasure. At least, if they are a postmodern art collector who likes to set money on fire! At least that's what a patron of the arts bid for the Merino Gallery‘s broken vacuum cleaner, tucked away in a corner waiting to be discarded. According to staff, the cleaner had been used throughout the week to vacuum the exhibition floors before its motor reportedly gave out. Rather than immediately throwing it away, a member of the cleaning crew left it beside a wall while waiting for it to be removed. To the collector, however, its...

An “anonymous donor” paid for the cremation of President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, just days after the deadly Butler, Pa., rally shooting, according to federal records reviewed by The Post. The revelation was included in a trove of documents provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), as part of his ongoing inquiry into the first Trump assassination attempt. “Anonymous donor paid for cremation,” reads a note at the end of a summary of an interview the gunman’s father, Matthew, conducted with federal investigators. The information appears to have been gleaned from a lawyer for the family, according...

While Monday night’s Emmy Awards show remembered Dolly Parton, Rob Reiner, Catherine O’Hara and other industry figures who have recently died, there were some notable omissions. Chuck Norris, who died last March after a career that included eight seasons fronting the CBS series Walker, Texas Ranger, was one familiar name skipped by the commemoration. Also missing were Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon and Patrick Muldoon, who had roles on Days of Our Lives and Melrose Place. Daveigh Chase, whose TV credits included the Disney Channel series adaptation of Lilo & Stitch along with HBO’s Big Love, also was...

"Stand firm therefore . . . having put on the breastplate of righteousness" (Eph. 6:14). Practical righteousness is moment-by-moment obedience to God. We've seen the importance of putting on the breastplate of righteousness as protection against Satan's attempts to pervert your thinking and emotions. But Scripture speaks of three kinds of righteousness: self-righteousness, imputed righteousness, and practical righteousness. Which did Paul have in mind in Ephesians 6:14? Paul wasn't speaking of self-righteousness because that is what the breastplate of righteousness is designed to protect you from. Self-righteousness deceives a person into thinking, I can please God and reach heaven on...

Princeton researchers just ran a first-of-its-kind test of the AI industry's boldest promise: that AI will soon improve itself with almost no human oversight. They gave frontier AI agents six days, $3,000 in compute, and every resource they asked for -- and both papers were unambiguously rejected. But the machine didn't fail the way you'd think. It aced every task. What it couldn't do was the job. In this video: the tasks vs. jobs distinction, the five failure modes, and the Turing Award-winning math that explains exactly which parts of your work AI can take -- and which it can't...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (9/15/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 23 A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[a] I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my...

I can’t seem to be able to copy and paste the text of this article here so you need to use the link. Regardless, the point is that just as we need people to protect us from the people trying to protect us from Climate Change and Covid, we now need someone to protect us from the people trying to protect us from AI. Trump himself in the article compares the AI danger hoax to the climate change hoax. I understand why these various AI CEOs are calling their own product a threat to humanity - they want regulatory capture....