Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $39,690
49%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now at 49%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: outpacing

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Study: Congressional Democrats’ Stock Portfolios Spiked 31 Percent in 2024, Far Outpacing S&P 500

    01/08/2025 12:15:34 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/08/2025 | Wendell Husebo
    Congressional Democrats appeared to greatly enhance their wealth in 2024, despite only earning a yearly salary of $174,000. Democrat stock portfolios in 2024 far outpaced the S&P 500, a study by Unusual Whales found Tuesday, spiking on average 31 percent, seven points higher than the S&P 500 (24 percent) and five points higher than Republican colleagues (26 percent). Unusual Whales estimated each member’s stock portfolio performance by calculating the value of each stock from the beginning of 2024 to the end of 2024. The biggest Democrat offender was Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), whose portfolio spiked 142 percent, the report...
  • England: Technological Development Critical to Outpacing Terrorists

    10/26/2006 4:48:40 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 182+ views
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2006 – The same globalization that’s created vast opportunities for economic growth and information sharing among freedom-loving people has become a favorite tool of terrorists trying to destroy their way of life, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told industry representatives here yesterday. Speaking at the Military Communications Conference 2006, England called rapid technological change, and particularly the ways it can be abused, “the fundamental technical and operational challenge of our time.” Terrorists are “technologically very savvy,” he said, and see no conflict in using their technological expertise to close doors it’s helped opened. “Though they aim to...