Showing posts with label WSJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WSJ. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2025

Israel states that one third of Iran's ballistic missile launch capability has been destroyed

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 It took Israel just two days to get control of the skies over Western Iran. With that accomplished, destroying the rest of the launchers s...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Low-inertia renewable energy systems are prone to blackouts such as in Spain in April because they cannot maintain stable frequencies in the absence of high-inertia fossil fuel, hydro, and nuclear energy systems

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 The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout: Madrid knew solar and wind power were unreliable but pressed ahead anyway. When a grid failure pl...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Ah, so Republican pinhead Joe Concha thinks a Democrat win in 2026 would be a loss lol

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Joe Concha never really does get to his point in this column, but he does spread a lot of nincompoopery about like so much manure on a field...
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Golden Age isn't AAA

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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Trump's tariffs will bankrupt thousands of American businesses and millions will be unemployed as a result

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 So says Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport, in The Wall Street Journal, here : ... If the tariffs on Chinese goods continue at this...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

A Trump-appointed judge has ordered another Venezuelan wrongly deported to El Salvador returned to the United States

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 ... U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher in Baltimore on Wednesday ruled that removing him without a chance to complete his asylum pe...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Nauguration lol, because it's the weekend help

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  From Ken Griffin to ROBINHOOD: Donors Who Funded nauguration Revealed...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Wanting to capture power is about the least conservative thing about today's right wing

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 More recently, far-right writers like Curtis Yarvin, who’s influenced Vice President   JD Vance , have talked about how to capture power th...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Car manufacturing jobs, so-called good jobs, already don't pay enough to enable these Detroit auto workers to buy their own homes and have families, and they fear layoffs because of the tariffs

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  The Wall Street Journal doesn't mention it here . This guy's been working for the company for 10 years and he's still renting....
Monday, March 31, 2025

Marine Le Pen sentenced to jail in France, barred from running for office in 2027

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 Marine Le Pen Sentenced to Prison, Banned From Next Elections Over Embezzlement ... Judges handed down a sentence Monday that bars Le Pen f...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Former S&P sovereign bond unit executive who participated in the Obama era 2011 credit downgrade basically calls Trump's America a banana republic, and DOGE not a proper government department

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  WSJ:   What about DOGE’s   accessing the Treasury Department’s   payment system? Kraemer:   We don’t have all the details of what they too...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Obama appointed judge, Paul Engelmayer, issues sweeping order banning Musk and his allies from accessing the US Department of Treasury payments system

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 Federal Judge Blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE From Treasury System: Order requires those who have accessed payment records without proper security ...
Monday, January 27, 2025

A Democrat moves to the center: Ritchie Torres (NY-15) calls out AOC (NY-14) and Governor Hochul

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  Here : “I’m a controversial figure in Democratic politics,” he says. His affection for the Jewish state makes him “particularly radioact...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Pete Hegseth reportedly has had episodes of drinking to the point of passing out

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    I get the drinking too much until you barf. I mean, that's pretty much been Freshman Life 101 forever and a day. Pete was a freshman...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Neither of these guys won a tectonic election: I can't believe we're still talking about this

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  49.71% 50.73% Oh, we'll have to wait . . . for pigs to fly
Friday, December 13, 2024

Inflation impact on low income households is more like 6.3% when weighing necessities higher, says retail expert Howard Jackson

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The Wall Street Journal reports here , also saying low income wage growth now lags everyone else's:  Howard Jackson, president of retail...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

OMG, the NY Post/Karol Markowicz comparison of Pete Hegseth to Brett Kavanaugh is completely wrong, and now Pete Hegseth goes there to defend himself

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 Where else? but in The Wall Street Journal here : Like veterans returning from any war, we drank beers to manage the reality of what we ha...

DeSantis is far and away better for DOD than Pete Hegseth, but it would be a step down for the governor, and a minefield which could blow up his chances for 2028, if he still has any

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 Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Beside all that, Trump is just poaching again.  Florida still needs Ron D...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Wall Street Journal: Trump is leading Harris among whites by 22 points, among seniors by 8 points

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The late swing among older and white voters jumps out in the Emerson College poll. On Aug. 15, less than a month after she became the Democr...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Kamala Harris is keeping quiet about climate change because the so-called Inflation Reduction Act's climate provisions are going to screw America good and hard for decades, to the tune of $3 trillion

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 The climate policies she would offer promise huge costs for negligible benefits. It’d be one thing to ask for sacrifices that could save t...