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he College Scorecard, a Department of Education initiative that publishes data on student debt and earnings after graduation for thousands of schools, just got a major update. Previously, the Scorecard’s major shortcoming was that it only reported data at the institution level—so we could see how much a typical graduate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill earns, but not how much an engineering major earns relative to an education major. Since the payoff of a college education varies wildly by field of study, the usefulness of this dataset to students was limited. No longer. Last Wednesday, the Department unveiled...

Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their de facto, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election. We are now in the midst of a systematic effort to impeach a president on the basis of a thought crime. Trump’s purported quid pro quo sin was issuing a temporary hold on military assistance to Ukraine that supposedly transcended legitimate worries about rampant corruption—to include specifically investigating the suspicious behavior of a corrupt Ukrainian oil company and the compromised relationship of former Vice President Joe Biden...

This is the Democrats’ great new hope? Trump’s a shoe-in. – In the grand tradition of awful presidential campaign announcement videos – like the one of Fauxcahontas pretending to cook up some American Indian food in her kitchen while slugging down a beer – former Democrat Mayor Michael Bloomberg formally announced his entry into the race over the weekend with this wretched posting on Instagram: Behind 2020 @Behind2020 Michael Bloomberg is kicking off his 2020 run with an instagram Q&A Embedded video 140 9:48 PM - Nov 24, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 58 people are talking about this...

Q. What’s the difference between the Schiff Show and a pack of buzzards? A. Buzzards have ethics. They may eat you, but they won’t kill you in order to do so.Always err on the side of buzzards.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

The National Instant background Check System (NICS) for October, 2019, showed record levels of background checks. The previous record for October was in 2016, during the presidential election, when many thought Hillary Clinton would be elected, would appoint at least three hard core Progressive Leftist judges to the Supreme Court. Those justices would be expected to reliably lie to Congress to be confirmed, then violate their oaths of office, and reverse the Heller decision. Second Amendment rights would be gutted. It did not happen, but it was a tremendous incentive for people who thought they might want a gun...

Subtitle: The Matter of the Mississippi River. A not inconsequential percentage of Article V opponents, like those in the John Birch Society, identify as Anti-Federalists. They question the 1780s need for the vigorous government of our Constitution. Those familiar with the era know of Shays’ Rebellion. According to modern Anti-Federalists, Shays’ was the pretext for nationalists like George Washington and James Madison to justify the 1787 Philadelphia Convention. There were other problems facing the infant United States to which the Articles of Confederation proved inadequate. For instance, most of the great European and New World ports were closed to American...

Wikileaks and other sources reporting about an internal email from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that points to a biased report being produced on an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government in the city of Douma in April 2018.... Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could die in prison.... "Have no fear all will end well for everyone" That was the Sunday morning tweet from President Trump on Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher..... On Sunday night we have word of the firing of the Secretary of the Navy.... President Trump tweeting tonight in part regarding Eddie Gallagher..... Results...

The leading candidates for the Democrat presidential nomination, in no particular order, are "Moe", "Larry" and "Curly Joe Biden". "Curly Joe" Biden is an obvious choice. I'll let others decide which of the other two to call "Moe" and which to call "Larry". The next four, in no particular order, are Shemp, Dopey, Sleepy, and Sneezey. It will be interesting ro see if Michael Bloomberg will blow Curly Joe and friends off the presidential race

Please pray for my father. AND my mother. He called for an ambulance last Wed as he was weakening over the week and did not want to end up stuck in the crowded transient temporary lobby of the ER (bad for an elderly tall man with bad mechanical issues as it is). I've been there every day since, and as of now the internist doctors see him as a very, very sick man. He goes for a liver/lymph/??? biospy tomorrow to apparently determine if it is lymphoma (originally stated so) or leukemia. Either way, he does OK but he is...

A liberal watchdog group’s attempt to nail Rudy Giuliani has backfired in spectacular fashion after their FOIA request resulted in the US State Department releasing detailed accusations of corruption against the Bidens – based on interviews with former Ukrainian officials who were in charge of the investigations. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the group American Oversight, the State Department on Friday night released almost 100 pages of records detailing efforts by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate corruption, which include contacts with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) earlier this year. While...

It is no surprise to find out that the Democrats are impeaching President Trump for strictly political reasons. What is a surprise is that The Atlantic magazine revealed that is the main motivation for impeachment. Assistant editor Elaine Godfrey throws out a few obligatory civics lessons nods about the "democratic process" or "seeking the truth" but she quickly gets to the heart of the matter in Friday's article, which concedes the brutal truth for liberals that "Democrats Know Trump Isn’t Going Anywhere."

VIDEO It is the name that dares not speak its name around Valerie Plame. Although Plame falsely (according to a Washington Post fact check) accused Scooter Libby of leaking her name, the true culprit was Deep State insider Richard Armitage of the State Department. Just the sound of his name makes Valerie Plame very very uncomfortable.

What if the Democrats impeach President Trump, but then don’t take the next step? – The next step envisioned by the founders in writing the U.S. Constitution would be that the House, acting in good faith, would then quickly transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate. There, a trial would be held in short order to determine whether or not the impeached president should be removed. But of course, as we have seen repeatedly in recent years, today’s Democrats are not people of good faith, a future potentiality that American patriots like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson – who...

WKYT reported: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents from the Chicago Field Office intercepted a parcel in Louisville that contained hundreds of fake driver’s licenses. A tweet by the CPB Chicago states the fraudulent ID’s were found at the Louisville mail facility. In all, the package contained 238 fake driver’s licenses and 536 black card stocks.

Rep. Al Green’s Probe into People’s Sexuality Mark Zuckerberg, the creator and CEO of Facebook, which currently has 2.7 billion users around the world plans to launch a digital currency and payment platform named Libra. The establishment of such a product requires consideration of multifaceted ramifications. The House Financial Services Committee is charged with investigating the potential liabilities Libra may impose on competing digital currency, the U.S. dollar and the global commercial system built around it. Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington D.C. to respond to questions about the new money. Zuckerberg delivered an opening...

We all knew this was coming!!! "Rasmussen is reporting a pretty significant fact which may make Democrats completely lose their minds. Because if this holds, it’s game over for them come the election. Rasmussen notes that they’re looking at likely voters which may explain why they were the most accurate in 2016. "" More at link:

Do You Support The Ongoing Impeachment Inquiry? Go to the source URL link provided and vote YES or NO to the question. Let this sorry-ass congressman know what you think ... G'day!

With polls showing voters turning against impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) told fellow Democrats “that fact alone makes it even more imperative that we complete the job of removing Trump from office. We must reject the weak and dangerous suggestion to just let the voters decide whether to vote against letting him continue in office. I mean, do I have to remind you that we trusted voters to choose wisely in 2016. Well, we saw how that turned out.” The speaker urged that “we ‘trail blaze’ a new process for selecting a president. In parliamentary systems like they have...

Who's side is he on? Should he be demoted and how far? Senior officers need to get the idea that politics is not their department. It's the senior officers who's appointments are political ones.

Thought provoking...  Now you know how the Fed prints money.https://banned.video/watch?id=5dcaf848708274001e99acb0