Or is it even a decision the United States should be making for a woman? People keep popping up on AB threads talking about such when it is not a topic of the thread. Rules; Polite discussions or faced being trashed or tossed in spam. Be on topic. I will take down the post if […]
Harris has been criticized for giving vague answers to policy questions, but the fact is we have a reasonably good idea what policies a President Harris would pursue. If elected, she will behave as we expect a Democratic president to behave. On the other side of the aisle, it is easy to overlook how uncertain […]
When alcoholic beverages were illegal in America, drinking didn’t stop. Alcohol smuggling just became lucrative for criminal gangs. Drugs like cocaine and heroin have been illegal for decades. Consumption of cocaine and heroin didn’t stop; smuggling of these drugs just became lucrative for criminal gangs. Making undocumented migration illegal and militarizing the Mexican border didn’t […]
The Wall Street Journal to which I subscribe to. Author is Jesse Newman. A good read in presenting the problem. The price of a bag of coconut-cashew granola at Whole Foods jumped last year from $5.99 to $6.69. Why that happened defies simple explanation. This is not unusual for a part of a Grocery Bill. […]
Angry Bear posted content on the lowest-wage workers or the lowest 10-percentile of labor having the greatest increase in wages. We used EPI charts Maybe the same two charts can show the same impact here on this commentary. These two charts will show the increase in wage for the lowest 10% of wage earners and […]
r.j. sigmund on Covid US Covid metrics were again down sharply, but the CDC said it now expects to see a winter Covid peak higher than the summer peak, similar to Covid trends over the past 4 years. so we have that to look forward to. Among the CDC’s “early indicators” “test positivity”, or the percentage of […]
I was nosey . . . First a Chart. more charts and then the verbiage . . . Thanks to Strategic Exit for giving me a foundation. There are more informational stats at YouGov Survey: “Political Violence and Extremism.” I was curious, YouGov depicts themselves as an international online research data and analytics technology group. […]
When I was growing up, fluoridation of water was regarded as a commie plot by the John Birch Society wingnuts. Nevertheless, hundreds of millions of Americans (including my wife and I) have lived with fluoridated water without evidence of harm. I see where RFK, Jr is predicting that the second Trump Administration will recommend against […]
If this was Mr. Main Street Citizen, this would have played out differently. Musk can play the court games because he can afford to do so. Hope Trump loses and takes Musk with him. I wonder who will be funding Trump in court? Musk Gets Tossed Back to PA State Court In Lottery Case, Just […]
I watched the County of Maricopa vote play out in 2020. I read the backgrounds of the county board, I did not sense anything unusual with them. The election appeared to be clean and well conducted and controlled. The only beef was from Trump and his people about conspiracy. I am in Arizona and just […]