Do we say that a blackmailer is trying to reach a “deal?” Is a successful extortion a “deal?” “Harvard’s hundreds of unionized professors are pushing the university not to make any deal with President Trump in its deepening dispute with the White House, and they say they hope to flex their increasing organizing prowess to […]

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I was born squarely in the middle of the “baby boom” generation. We had daily bible readings in my first grade public school class. We said the pledge of allegiance through high school in my public school system. Boomers are sometimes identified with the protests, rebelliousness and non-conformity of the ‘60s, but many or most […]

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Dipping deep here to an old tune sung by the Temptations and then Edwin Starr. Tax Breaks to the wealthy do not pay for themselves and neither do they trickle down to lower income people. The 2017 Tax Break The reality is the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) did not pay for itself […]

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With the signing of the Budget Bill, persons working at “an occupation which customarily and regularly receive tips” can deduct up to $25,000 of tip income provided their total income does not exceed $150,000. This deduction will be phased out beginning in 2028 unless extended by Congress. Trump made three promises to reduce taxes to […]

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I see where Elon has announced that he’s starting a third party. Setting aside the problem that he backed Trump in the last election and was in the tank with the Trump administration blowing up the federal government with DOGE, what are we to make of this? Ross Perot was the most successful third party […]

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Another well written recreation of the Scopes Trial of 1925. It has been called the Scopes Money Trial. This a bit different than the movie you may watch on the topic. As the story goes John T. Scopes was approached by the American Civil Liberties Union to teach evolution. John Thomas Scopes was a young […]

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Part of Republican fables on how healthcare programs are being taken advantage of by fraudulent enrollments. They will not be happy until something serious occurs and many are afflicted. Center for Children and Families takes the lead on debunking the governments stories. “Factchecking The White House ‘Mythbuster’ on Medicaid Cuts and Immigrants,” Center For Children […]

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 – by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were almost no changes to any of the high frequency indicators in any timeframe last week. Despite that, below the surface, there has been a very gradual weakening of a number of important indicators in both the monthly and weekly data.  […]

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My Two Cents: If it is of any consequence, this Baby Boomer is not happy to have Trump as the President again. He was terrible the first time. And he is really working hard to be more terrible this time. The threats keep on coming. People are kidnapped after court hearings, no warrants, masked so […]

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“The court announced that it will hear two voting-related challenges when the court resumes in October: a reargument of a long-running dispute of Louisiana’s congressional map and a case that could erode one of the few existing limits on campaign funding. “The Louisiana case is a challenge to the state’s congressional map, which includes two […]

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I was out and about looking around for interesting pieces or articles which I could post at Angry Bear. I saw this article on Infidel753’s Blog. The author of this newspaper article is right or mostly right. My thoughts? One can still be in disagreement in America as long as they are not openly or […]

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“Autonomous driving is the core promise around which Elon Musk has built his company. Tesla has never delivered a truly self-driving vehicle, yet the richest person in the world keeps repeating the claim that his cars will soon drive entirely without human help. Is Tesla’s autopilot really as advanced as he says? “The Tesla Files […]

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Trump’s BBB is a huge windfall for the Department of Homeland Security: “The bill gives ICE $29.8 billion to hire new staff and conduct deportations. That will lead to a hiring spurt of deportation officers; an additional $4.1 billion bump goes to Customs and Border Protection for new personnel. “For immigration detention, also overseen by […]

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Just so you know: Democrats, health advocates, and even some Republicans have spoken out against the Social Security bill firmly. They are calling it a Trojan horse cutting the safety net for millions of Americans while making up for tax breaks for the wealthiest. Mostly and if living in a house with a mortgage as […]

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 – by New Deal democrat From the Declaration of Independence: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and […]

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I grew up in the state that hosted the Scopes trial. 100 years later, 25% of my fellow citizens believe in creationism. “Trollinger and Trollinger note that today approximately one-quarter of all Americans are young-earth creationists and reject much of modern biology and modern geology, not to mention modern cosmology. Answers in Genesis, which is […]

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Pres. Trump revokes our independence And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” […]

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Derrick: And “yes” just so you know, I did vote for the bill even though I knew it might endanger Wisconsin citizens and Wisconsin rural hospitals may be forced to close. Wow, what an upright guy! Republican Congressional Representative Derrick warns Democrat Governor Tony Evers he has to do something. Republican Rep. “Derrick” Van Orden of Wisconsin […]

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Yes, it cuts Medicaid explicitly. But it will result in cuts to Medicare as well: “But now Republicans have created another problem. They didn’t just cut Medicaid; they also have forced nearly half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare, the health program for the elderly. “Because of a statutory requirement to automatically impose budget […]

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