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Recently, National Public Radio (NPR) in the US published a story titled ‘Live free and die? The sad state of US life expectancy’ that explored the great divide between the United States and peer countries on life expectancy. While most countries experienced a dip during the Covid-19 pandemic and rebounded after vaccines and other treatments were rolled out, American life expectancy has essentially fallen off a cliff and never came back. The graph published by NPR is shocking. It shows that US life expectancy is lower than in Cuba or Lebanon. The number has been known since just before Christmas...

Geologist Dr. Roger Higgs (DPhil, Oxford, Geology, of geoclastica.com) has just released a new takedown of the anthropogenic global warming scam. Below is a summation of his findings–which you can find in full over at ResearchGate (Technical Note 2021-5).In what Dr Higgs calls yet another manipulation of the data, in early 2021, NASA discreetly lowered the 2016 global average temperature –previously the highest on record– to make the year 2020 seem like the hottest.NASA play these ‘games of adjustment’ all the time, and each and every time, without fail, their tweaks support the man-made global warming narrative.Below are copies of...

ONE of the few outlets that publishes daily information on the infection rate in vaccinated and unvaccinated people is the ZOE Covid Symptom study. Above is Wednesday’s estimate for the UK based on the data submitted by users through the ZOE app, and it shows something very striking. While the infection rate in vaccinated people has been trending well below that in the unvaccinated for months, in the last two weeks the rate in the vaccinated has surged while in the unvaccinated it has reached a plateau.We don’t know what is causing this. The vaccinated group is older than the...

Lumber futures on Chicago Mercantile Exchange plunged more than 40% in June, suffering the worst ever monthly decline on record dating back to 1978. Prices are down 18% in 2021 and recorded the first negative first half since 2015. Lumber peaked in late April/early May at around $1,711 per thousand board feet, and as of Thursday morning, prices are down more than 4% to $684. It appears the great lumber bubble of 2021 has encountered a classic commodity blowoff top, down -60% from the highs.Readers may recall we’ve been closely following the lumber bubble: The latest drop in prices “suggests...

Europe is a hugely diverse place in terms of culture, language and especially religion. The European Social Survey 2014-2016 found that across the continent, there is a huge difference in the share of young people identifying as having no religion. The research found that the youth in Poland are still quite religious with only 17 percent of respondents aged 16-29 not associating themselves with any religion. The situation is much different in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands where 7 out of 10 young adults identify as having no religion. The highest share on non-religious youth was recorded in the...

There is no doubt that China wants to subjugate Asia, echoing Japan's role during World War II.  For those who think China's economy might overtake the United States economy, and thus make China a more formidable adversary, this article aims to provide detail on China's main constraint in that ambition: that its domestic coal production is near its peak and will then go into long-term decline. Even if China can keep its energy supply constant with an accelerated expansion of its nuclear power sector, the cost of producing coal from deeper mines will mean that the costs of industrial...

JULIAN ASSANGE: I investigated both presidential candidates — Hillary was the only one with corrupt ties to Russia

Hover over a line to see past, current and future relationships, drag dots to rearrange. Hillary Clinton is poised to announce her second presidential bid but questions about her ethically ambiguous blend of money, access and power will dog her through the campaign. The links between her Clinton Foundation charity, her work as secretary of state, and her political ambitions are multitudinous and tangled. Lurking behind the campaign launch is last month's stunning news that Clinton set up a secret email account and server to use for official business and has since destroyed emails on it that were wanted by...

The gun prohibitionists are already saying that blood will run in the streets when the Illinois General Assembly crafts some form of concealed carry legislation in accordance with today's ruling by Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. “As the dissenting opinion points out, the two judges who threw out Illinois' law did not take account of the danger to the public from stray bullets, and they ignored the Illinois legislature's determination that carrying weapons has been shown to escalate violence,” said Lee Goodman, an organizer with the Stop Concealed Carry Coalition.If Lee had taken the...

Instead of a speech, President Obama could update the country on the State of the Union through a tweetable infographic. He won't, but let's be honest, we already know the president is going to say — as every president always does — that the "state of our union is strong." But how do we know it's true? If Obama did want to go the infographic route, here are 13 graphs he might use, in order from most troubling to strongest. How things stand now: Americans’ faith in the direction of their country is down to recession-era levels, according to an...

Penn State students pour into the streets of downtown State College, Pa., on Wednesday night after the university's Board of Trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and the school's president, Graham Spanier.

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Today, September 16, 2010, we have had 365 graphs of the day published in American Thinker. Each day for the last year, our Graph of the Day included one or more short quotes, a graph of some kind, and some statistics, usually related in some manner. We let the quotes, graphs, and statistics speak for themselves -- no added commentary. After a year of that, allow me to add some commentary. I did pick the subject material myself, so there is no denying the graphs were "biased" in that sense -- in the same sense that any publication is...

I apolagize for the vanity. I almost never post them, so I hope you will bear with me. I would apreciate any feedback. It has long bothered me that the Demcrats get away with talking about the "Bush recession", which actually started in the fall of 08, the very end of GWB's term, and nearly two years after the Democrats took over Congress. Somehow the average person seems to think that the Republicans were "in charge" until Obama took office, despite the fact that budgets and spending is completely under the control of Congress. So far the career Republicans have...

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Great for political self-awareness: take the quiz and map your Bible-clinging, gun-slinging reactionary views- you misguided anti-progressive, you-

"Spreading European debt woes may be a wake-up call for the United States, which could eventually face a crisis of its own if U.S. leaders fail to summon the political will to tackle growing budget deficits."  Caren Bohan and Glenn Somerville, Reuters. "U.S. Debt Shock May Hit In 2018, Maybe As Soon As 2013: Moody's"  Investor's Business Daily headline of May 5, 2010. General Government Gross Debt (% of GDP) Source:  IMF. Hoven's Index for May 17, 2010 Net costs to date of financial sector bailouts, as percentages of GDP: UK:  5.4% Germany:  4.8% Canada:  4.4% US:  3.6% Average of...

Track the national unemployment rate since 1948 -- the first year in which the government provides data that can reliably be compared with the current rate. Numbers are seasonally adjusted. The Bush years don't look so bad after all.

One year in, the evidence is clear – and growing by the day – that the Recovery Act is working to cushion the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and lay a new foundation for economic growth. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the Recovery Act is already responsible for as many as 2.4 million jobs through the end of 2009 As a result, job losses are a fraction of what they were a year ago, before the Recovery Act began The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: * Cut taxes for 95 percent of working families through the...