The libertarian mistake begins with a mistaken view of human nature: You were born a blank slate, and you can erase your slate anytime you choose and start over

Democrat voters born after 1969 prefer Sanders over Biden 1.8:1

Pathetic president Trump tolerates acting DHS secretary's nostalgia for Gang of Eight amnesty

Yes, to this day my most vivid memory of Trump's 2016 campaign rallies is that one day he would get Botswana to decriminalize homosexuality

Gee what a shock, libertarian Cathy Young totally cool with Drag Queen Story Hour

Pattern development.

Justin Amash steps down from House Freedom Caucus after months of clashing with other members

Justin Amash leaves the conservative Freedom Caucus

Stock market edfay aydays

The unemployment rate, the metric not for just one imbecile, but for a whole nation of imbeciles

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan's former spokesman calls for increase to Congressional pay

Your man or woman in Congress is already in the top 3% of wage earners in America, but it's not enough, says this guy. Republicans carry the Democrats' water, every damn time.

Congressional pay raise amendments roil House:

Brendan Buck, former spokesperson for onetime Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., tweeted his support for a pay raise Friday.

“Congressional member and staff pay should be increased. I know that sounds bad, and makes for bad politics, but it’s just true. No, current member pay is by no means paltry, but it is too low, and it’s having a negative effect on Congress,” said Buck.

USA Today op-ed calls Biden "perfect tool of the oligarchy", might as well be referring to Trump

Joe Biden is a candidate of the oligarchy. Democratic primary voters will see through him:

The best among us may get elected to high office in D.C. with high minded ideals and goals but eventually get co-opted by an insidious system, and gradually become an out-of-touch, often-duplicitous, platitude-mouthing D.C. elite. 

Trump signed everything a Republican controlled Congress sent him without getting anything on immigration in return, the basis for his candidacy. Now he's running for reelection on immigration again.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . ..

The fact is, these two guys could run together on the same ticket.

Meanwhile 744 candidates have filed to run for president as of June 3, 2019, including Communist Michael Tyler Shortshit.

You have choice!

Iraq has handed down at least 3,000 death sentences to ISIS fighters so far

Iraq handing out thousands of death sentences in hasty trials for ISIS fighters:

It remains unclear the window of time between the sentencing and the execution. Interior Ministry sources say it most often takes years for the President to sign for the execution – most often by hanging – to be carried out.

 

The recovery of full time jobs under Reagan hit 50.1% of population in three years, we're still not that far after seven

If I'm repeating myself, let me know.

If the current jobs recovery just equaled the average of previous cycle highs, we'd have 3.1 million more working full time jobs than we do

Six previous full time jobs recoveries since 1968 have meant 51.1% of the population working full time on average at peak, but we appear to have stalled out at around 49.9%.

It looks like a small difference on paper but amounts to almost 3.1 million more working full time today than are.

Population continues to grow, why not full time employment along with it?

This is not a boom.

Hey IRS, when are you going to investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar of MN for filing false tax returns in 2014 and 2015?

Fun explanation of May 2019 market plunge, and the next one

Boston Bruins fans prove there's no uniting the whites

Link.

No way, man, if you're not rockin' a wife-beater crop top you look way too faggy, man

no way

way

Average hourly earnings increases for the bottom 80% of workers not-seasonally-adjusted are averaging 3.08% in April and May vs. 3.42% in 4Q2018 and 1Q2019

These are good numbers compared with the awful Obama era, but still far off the 4+% levels before the last two recessions.

Trump outshines his two predecessors despite today's May jobs miss, but we're still far from a jobs boom

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Greedy and craven U.S. tech companies have helped China control the internet and police its citizens"

Defying China: The world must fight the Tiananmen legacy:

The world must stand up to China’s crimes, repression and chicanery. ... [Tank man's] defiance is a lesson for the rest of the world, which must resolutely stand up to China’s crimes, repression and chicanery and nurture democracy there whenever, however, it can.