Sunday, September 1, 2024
Harris-Walz campaign uses anti-democratic tactics against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the name of saving democracy
In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for the White House. But at the same time, another much quieter drama unfolded: A reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the second-largest news organization in the most important battleground state, was being denied access to the venue. ...
The Harris-Walz campaign continues to take measures to exclude Post-Gazette reporters and photographers from its events due to an ongoing, and very unusual, labor action at the newspaper. The journalists’ strike is unusual because it has gone on so long — nearly two years, making it the longest ongoing strike in America — but also because it has only ever attracted the support of a small minority of the bargaining unit. ... the more anti-democratic tactics we tolerate in the name of saving democracy, the less democracy there will be left to save.
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Democrat former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee says Harris cocooning herself is an affront to democracy
If the polling errors favoring Democrats in 2020 and 2016 persist, then Trump is probably still in the lead.
Further, the focus of the fall campaign will increasingly move from “joy” to policy — and Trump leads on most issues because of a Biden-Harris record of which most voters disapprove.
The cocooning of Harris is an affront to the transparent principles
of democracy. It invites a return of the Bush-era chicken mascots.
Most importantly, it feels dangerously close to a reprise of the failed 1988 Mike Dukakis presidential campaign that never came out of its left-leaning bunker.
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Friday, August 30, 2024
Core pce inflation year over year in July was higher than in either June or May, and the current rate is still 70% higher than the average for 2015-2020
2.62% vs. 2.57% and 2.58%.
But you said inflation was coming down!
The metric averaged 1.54% yoy for the six years 2015-2020.
Stephen L. Miller's dad was a big fan of Rush Limbaugh, the radio icon who straight up said he was in the conservative talk radio business to make money
Nothing personal, just neo-Con Inc. business:
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Jonathan Turley: Zuckerberg fought for years to conceal his cooperation with government censorship until the Republican House Judiciary Committee forced his hand
Zuckerberg is just another, you guessed it . . .
Zuckerberg's sudden regret only came after his company fought for years to conceal the evidence of its work with the government to censor opposing views. Zuckerberg was finally compelled to release the documents by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and the House Judiciary Committee.
Now forced to admit what many of us have long alleged, Zuckerman is really, really sorry.
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The personal exemption from the income tax should be $127,000 today
The personal exemption in 1913 was $4,000 when the average Joe made about $800 a year.
Adjusted for inflation, that's $127,000 in July 2024.
No one paid any tax except rich people, and on up to $20,000 of income the rich paid 1% on the $16,000 difference in 1913.
Kamala Harris meanwhile wants to tax your ass into oblivion, so spare me the comparisons between her so-called budget proposals and Trump's.
Do you have gains only on paper in stocks?
She'll tax them.
That's what unrealized gains are.
The argument that this will apply only to the rich is a joke.
The income tax was to apply only to the rich, too.
Now look where we are: Paying through the teeth and $35 trillion in debt.
And she wants MORE.
Le Monde: Macron has spent the summer in denial of his defeat, the lumpen left has spent it failing to build a coalition to govern
The president's justification for this decision is that the other political groups consulted would have quickly overthrown the new government. ... In the absence of any other obvious possibility, it would have been in the interest of democracy for the president to allow the experiment to unfold instead of trying to assert control at all costs in the hope of preserving his policy for as long as possible, even after it has been outvoted. ...
[Macron] has never acted like the clear loser of this election, nor has he clearly accepted the principle of cohabitation.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Can you spot the year when your home became just another commodity?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_1997
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