I think China will win this trade 'war' because their leader, unlike Trump, does not have to stand again for election. All they have to do is wait for the next US government which will, of course, be democrat, who will no doubt have different policies on trade.

I would say keeping the country together after the Civil War was a huge accomplishment, especially since everyone predicted that the Southern States were going to pick right back up. General Grant saw that coming and is why he accepted the nomination at the Convention. He really didn't want to be President.

Screw the third world, and the Amazon, and the ice caps

Build that wall

Unfortunately I am very familiar with Tesla. They have ruined thousands of lives a lot in my city. It's sad what it has done to our community and how they screw over their workers and manipulate the housing market where people who don't work for them lose their housing because their rent triples.

Wonderful new democratic governor of Michigan just proposed a new gas tax for road repair. Currently Michigan has a tax of 26 cents per gallon. If approved an additional 46 cents per gallon will be added.This is a 175% tax increase. Opponents are suggesting evaluating where the gas taxes are being spent now before any increase is approved. At present some of the gas tax goes to schools and then government . I went to college in Grand Rapids Michigan and everyone complains because property and gas taxes were high then but Detroit receives a disproportionate amount of the money.

Gasoline taxes should go 100% to road repair and property taxes should be 100% for school support. If Detroit schools need more money Detroit property taxes should pay for. Not force people from Flint, Grand Rapids, etc, to pay for it. This is a way of hiding school cost in other state budgets and forcing people who don't live there or some who don't even live in the state of Michigan to pay for it.

Spread the tax sources around so that no one can really figure out where it's all coming from. In the end it's socialism. Give the government your money and freedoms and the government will imply you will have more security.

Didn't Tesla invent a power source that harvested energy from the static electricty generated by the Earth?
Didn't someone who shall not be named supress his invention because free energy was not meant to be and money needed to be had?

The Powers That Be will keep fossil fuels going until another resource that can be exploited for more profit can be found.

budgeting is a bit more complex. There are necessities, regardless of the 'hole' that will require continued spending. There are luxuries that can be cut back on, but only helps the 'hole' if they are then used to pay debts instead. If they are just transferred to other necessities or luxuries, it doesnt help that hole either.

There is also debt and deficit, which I have gone into before. Debt is what is still OWED on your home, for instance, even though you are given time to pay it back. Deficit is how much MORE you are expected to be paying than you actually are bringing in. The DEBT grows more with more deficits, and gets smaller with surplus. We have growing debt, the way a growing family might have a larger mortgage when they require a larger house. But the concern should be if we are running on deficit (not paying bills on time) or surplus (paying bills on time) each month.

Everybody will always twist, spin, and use blatant deception, to achieve their goals.
Thats why this story was posted about a woman that died over 50 yrs ago, and some things she said were close to 100 yrs ago (a much different time) The Pro-life people dug this stuff up (much of which is taken out of context) to shame the founder of planned parenthood, even thou Margaret Sanger never promoted abortion. The Catholic church is against birth control because they will do anything to get more Catholics so the Pope can rule the world. But we all know how that's working out, if them priest could have just left them alterboys alone they probably would have had a different out come of their future.

Can someone please explain to this old Englishman why the US has an 'emergency' that requires them to build a wall at the border with another country? Over here, I think very few people like the Trump, perhaps because he has been proved to be dishonest so many times, but also perhaps of his treatment of women. I guess we're more sensitive here about that sort of thing!

CBS chief foreign affairs correspondent confirms that journalism has been replaced by propoganda




On Monday, former chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News Lara Logan dropped a bombshell on the media: she told retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland that the media are wildly biased to the political Left. “This interview is professional suicide for me,” she stated, after agreeing with Ritland that most major media are “absurdly left-leaning.”

She stated: "The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just in the U.S. But in this country, 85% of journalists are registered Democrats – that’s just a fact. No one is registering Democrat when they’re really a Republican. So, the facts are on the side that you just stated: most journalists are Left, or liberal, or Democrat, or whatever word you wanna give it. How do you know you’re being lied to? How do you know you’re being manipulated? How do you know there’s something not right with the coverage? When they simplify it all and there’s no gray. There’s no gray. It’s all one way. Well, life isn’t like that. If it doesn’t match real life, it’s probably not — there’s something wrong.

Compare Logan’s accurate take on the media with the words of opinion writer Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post and MSNBC, who described the media’s wild malfeasance on the Jussie Smollett story this way:

Just the circumstances and the way he told the story, and what he said happened to him sort of fit in with a narra -- not a narrative, but a reality for a lot of people in this country since President Trump was inaugurated, that there is an atmosphere of menace and an atmosphere of hate around the country that made it possible for people to either readily believe or want to believe Jussie Smollett.

Capehart’s Freudian slip is actually rather important. He was correct that many in the media granted credibility to Smollett’s hoax because it fit a narrative. But then he corrected himself to state that it wasn’t a narrative at all – it was a “reality for a lot of people in this country.”

Now, this slip is fascinating because it reveals the unfortunate truth about many media members on the political Left: they mistake their narrative for truth. Opinion becomes fact. Those who disagree with a given “fact” – fact which is actually opinion – are then labeled ignorant, or foolish, or malevolent.


Is this an innocent mistake, a matter of mere confirmation bias to which we are all prone? Or is something deeper going on?

Since the 1960s, the radical Left has claimed that most human interactions are governed by power dynamics. Critical theory suggests, for example, that free markets aren’t actually voluntaristic arrangements of individuals engaging in mutually beneficial trade – they’re a reflection of hierarchical arrangements created by the rich. Thus, critical theorists suggest that a regulated market controlled by “the people” – progressives – would properly rejigger economic relationships. Similarly, critical theory suggests that free speech isn’t actually free – it’s a system set up by those who have powerful distribution mechanisms for their speech at the expense of others. Thus, critical theorists suggest, along the lines of Herbert Marcuse, that certain opinions must be silenced in order to even the playing field – “repressive tolerance” must be applied.

If you believe in such critical theory, you aren’t likely to be shy about the application of your own political power to these supposedly hierarchical systems. After all, if you believe that systems of speech and economics are constructed by the powerful, then you should use every means at your disposal to act against them. If you can blame some nefarious right-wing forces using hidden mechanisms of power for all the systems you don’t like, then you can use institutional power to tear away at those systems.

Thus, media bias becomes not an evil, or even an error to be mitigated, but an affirmative good. Objectivity, in the critical theory framework, is an illusion used by certain powers against other powers; thus, the illusion of objectivity can and should be used by more legitimate powers on behalf of certain political interests.

Most members of the media surely don’t think like this; most members of the media probably fall prey to confirmation bias rather than ideological self-justification. But the continued insistence by members of our media that they are not prone to such confirmation bias, when they so obviously are, suggests that at a certain point, confirmation bias shades over into affirmative enjoyment of Leftist power politics. And that is truly dangerous, because politically-motivated players using the façade of objectivity to press forward an agenda aren’t journalists at all.

They’re simply liars.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that the current military draft is unconstitutional because it only includes men. With women being able to serve in military combat roles, the draft must either be abolished or include women. Should be interesting to see where this goes!!