This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 5, 2018:
The headline numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report released on Friday once again caught forecasters by surprise: Predicting job growth of 177,000 for January, they got instead 200,000 — the 88th month in a row of positive job growth, with many recent months where the economy outperformed forecasters.
The other number also caught them by surprise:
This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, August 16, 2018:
State flag of Venezuela.
Inquiring minds are asking: what on earth is the US doing meddling in the affairs of Venezuela? The media has broadcast the rolling and accelerating disaster taking place there, with some even properly blaming it on socialist practices unleased by Marxist Hugo Chavez (they are called “Chavism” and its supporters are called “Chavists”) and his protégé, Nicolas Maduro.
Those policies, enforced with increasing vengeance upon a powerless citizenry, have all but destroyed a country that once was one of the most prosperous in South America.
Grant the point. But does this justify in any way U.S. interference? Does it justify sanctions, freezing of assets of Maduro and his henchmen, and removing the freedom of Americans to do business with him, or them? Notice please that the sanctions only apply to about 30 of Maduro’s people and not to any of the 20 or so American oil refineries currently supporting Maduro’s Marxist regime to the tune of a billion dollars a month.
Here are some other questions:
This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, August 14, 2017:
Nicolas Maduro
Inquiring minds are asking: what on earth is the US doing meddling in the affairs of Venezuela? The media has broadcast the rolling and accelerating disaster taking place there, with some even properly blaming it on socialist practices unleased by Marxist Hugo Chavez (they are called “Chavism” and its supporters are called “Chavists”) and his protégé, Nicolas Maduro.
Those policies, enforced with increasing vengeance upon a powerless citizenry, have all but destroyed a country that once was one of the most prosperous in South America.
Grant the point. But does this justify in any way U.S. interference? Does it justify sanctions, freezing of assets of Maduro and his henchmen, and removing the freedom of Americans to do business with him, or them? Notice please that the sanctions only apply to about 30 of Maduro’s people and not to any of the 20 or so American oil refineries currently supporting Maduro’s Marxist regime to the tune of a billion dollars a month.
Here are some other questions:
This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, July 12, 2017:
Littlefield Fountain and Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin.
Three members of the 16,500 faculty of the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) became so incensed over the passage of Texas’ concealed carry on campus law that they decided, along with the assistance of a local Austin attorney, to file suit against everyone in sight to block its implementation scheduled for August 1. The district judge tossed it last week for lack of standing.
The lawsuit exposed not only the lack of standing, but the lack of understanding by the trio and their attorney, not only of the law, but the complete waste of time and Austin taxpayer money required for this frivolous complaint that resulted in nothing but bad publicity for the attorney and exposure of the silliness of professors with nothing better to do.
Hicks is a sole practitioner in Austin, while the three complainants were predictable liberals teaching at UTA:
This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, June 28, 2017:
Location of Port Arthur, where the majority of the shootings occurred
Australia’s Justice Minister Michael Keenan announced two weeks ago that his government would be trying once again to remove “illegal” guns (that is to say, privately-owned firearms that the government doesn’t know about) from society. This time it would not be a mandatory buyback program such as the one that followed passage of the country’s draconian gun-control laws back in 1996, but instead an “amnesty” program where those “illegal” guns could be turned in without fear of prosecution of their owners. It starts July 1 and runs through the end of September. After that, the hammer comes down on anyone found to own one of these “illegal” guns.
Said Keenan, “This is an opportunity for people to present the guns to authorities, no questions asked and with no penalty. If people don’t take that opportunity, the penalties for owning an unregistered or illegal gun in Australia are very severe.”
Yes, they are. Those caught in violation of the law after September 30 face fines
This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, March 6, 2017:
The union representing AT&T workers in five southern states announced on Thursday that it had reached a tentative agreement with AT&T Southwest that includes a promise to hire 3,000 American workers to do jobs previously done overseas.
It’s a four-year deal that includes wage increases, paid parental leave, and sweetened healthcare benefits for some 20,000 AT&T workers. It’ll become effective after the union membership approves it.
There was some apparent reluctance on the part of the company to include the resourcing, as its statement didn’t mention it:
This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, July 22, 2016:
Photo taken in Minute Man National Historical Park.
Tyrant is commonly defined as an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution. It would include a ruler inflicted with passions that led to punishing innocents for perceived injustices. The definition of tyrant so inflicted with those passions is perfectly provided by theEncyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert:
This article was published at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, June 5, 2015:
Deputy Matt, a pseudonym for a beat cop in a city 1,600 miles away from Ferguson, Missouri, told how he learned about the “Ferguson Effect”:
I’m a cop. A few weeks ago, two of my beat partners and I were called to an apartment in a fairly nice complex to help a mother and father with their 16-year-old son.
The son had no criminal history, and by all accounts was a decent kid. But he was having some problems at home — breaking things and making threats with a knife — and the parents needed our help.
When we finally located the son … he instantly began cussing and yelling at us. He took a fighting stance and said he was not going to do anything we told him.
Luckily, we were able to calm him down and get him into handcuffs without any blows being thrown.
We asked why he was so hostile toward us. His response? Ferguson.
Ferguson is now being used, not only by the criminal element but by an increasing number of middle class agitators, as justification for attacks on police officers. Wrote Deputy Matt:
This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, June 5, 2015:
Calling it the “new nationwide crime wave,” the Wall Street Journal on May 29 published an op-ed by Heather MacDonald, author of Are Cops Racist? and a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. She tracked the rise in big-city crime over the past six months:
This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, March 9, 2015:
When the 114th Congress was sworn in in January, each member of the House took this oath:
I, (name of Member), do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
By failing to sign Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s letter to the chairman of the ATF, could one assume that a member of the House is violating his oath of office? After all,
The pushback from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s request for bids to build a national database of all license plate data now being collected elsewhere across the country was immediate, and for the moment at least, effective: within a week the agency withdrew its request.
ICE said such a national data base would just make its job of tracking illegal immigrants easier, that it
Once the 11th-hour vote to avoid the potential default was passed by the Senate and the House and signed into law by President Obama, key players in the game of fiscal chicken just ended began issuing their justifications and frustrations. That game, variously called “political brinkmanship”, a “temporary fix”, “a temporary ceasefire” and “a political achievement for Obama”, does everything the president wanted while
Secretary of State John Kerry, following his meetings with more than two dozen European foreign ministers on Saturday in Lithuania, insisted that his efforts were successful in generating support for President Obama’s planned attack on Syria. But none of it endorsed military action but only that
US Military preparations are underway for a limited, two-day, surgical strike aimed at “punishing” Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons – nerve gas – in last Wednesday’s attack on civilians in 9 cities in the Ghouta region east of Damascus, killing an estimated 1,300 people.
According to senior officials in the Obama administration, the attack “would probably last no more than
This story teaches a useful lesson: shoot to end the threat and for no other reason.
“Mr. Tony” as he is called by his friends and neighbors, came home on Sunday afternoon to discover a teen-age thug taking items from his home and stuffing them into the back of his car. “Mr. Tony” DiSanto, age 84, shouted at the thug to stop. When the thug continued, DiSanto went into his home and got his gun and confronted the man. Here’s what happened, according to a neighbor who saw the whole thing:
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