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As we knew: Trump's budget chief thinks Obama admin 'manipulated' jobs data
[MSNBC] A great video montage made the rounds over the weekend showing Donald Trump, before he was elected president, talking about the unemployment rate. It’s a jarring video for a reason: the Republican not only dismissed the nation’s unemployment rate as “phony,” he acted as if only an idiot would believe the official data.

It was, to a very real extent, one of the core messages of his campaign: right-thinking people should listen to Trump and treat the unemployment rate as a ridiculous fiction. That is, until last week, when the GOP president and his team decided the phony number is now “real” – because Trump says so.

Obviously, this is absurd, but as it turns out, the president isn’t the only one saying nutty things about U.S. job data. Take the new director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, for example.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2017 00:25 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  MSNBC - 'nuff said.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/14/2017 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Obviously, this is absurd, but as it turns out, the president isn’t the only one saying nutty things about U.S. job data.

The news for the last eight or so years has been full of statements like this. The MSM is so invested in this that to admit otherwise would mean to say they were idiots.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course it was manipulated.

How do you explain the disconnect between "unemployment" of 10% and "employment" of 67%?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 03/14/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  to admit otherwise would mean to say they were idiots.

No, to admit otherwise would mean they are lying bastards who are deceiving the public.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 03/14/2017 11:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, I guess the leadership and the MSM would be lying bastards, and their drooling public 'bots would be the idiots I was referring to.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Believing MSNBC on this issue explains a lot about how the left got so blind sided in November.

At some point their propaganda hurts themselves and we seem to have passed that point.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 17:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Arab-American group may have violated nonprofit ethics law
A Brooklyn-based Arab-American group that has raked in more than $200,000 in city cash since 2014 hosted political events at its headquarters — a violation of federal nonprofit rules, experts said.

The Arab-American Association of New York’s treasurer, Khader El-Yateem, is running for City Council. Its former executive director is the controversial activist Linda Sarsour, who stepped down last month.

Under Sarsour and El-Yateem, the nonprofit hosted the Muslim Democratic Club of New York City for several events, including phone-banking for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016.

Dick Dadey, of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said the group’s actions violate the rule that “no political activity be undertaken by a nonprofit.”

Sarsour and El-Yateem did not return messages.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/14/2017 09:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Former Democrat Congressman on Trump Wiretap Claims: 'It Happened to Me'
[PJ] Former Ohio Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich defended President Donald Trump's claims about being wiretapped by the Obama administration during the 2016 presidential election.

"It's important because there are people who are saying about President Trump's claim, 'Oh, it could never happen.' Well, frankly, it happened to me," Kucinich told Fox News on Friday. Also on Friday, the former congressman penned an article on Fox News describing the incident -- a phone call in his congressional office from a foreign leader had been tapped in 2011, and he listened to a recording of it in 2015.

"Members of Congress ought to be aware that my experience was that my phone wasn't safe in a congressional office," Kucinich, who served in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2013, said. "Now, if they can do that to a member of Congress, they can certainly do it to a presidential candidate, and they can do it to private citizens as well."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 03:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Occasionally, Kucinich does take off his tin-foil hat and get it right.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2017 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe the tape was made by an American intelligence agency and then leaked to the Times. If so, this episode represented a gross violation of the separation of powers.

Some UFOlogists believe the circular markings in the Nevada desert indicate a landing pad for ancient alien spacecrafts. If so, this would go along way in proving the theory of a Reptilian race that lives under Area 51.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/14/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "I believe the tape was made by an American intelligence agency and then leaked to the Times for political reasons," Kucinich wrote. "If so, this episode represented a gross violation of the separation of powers."

Our government involved in a.... disinformation campaign ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||


The war is over, and guess who won.
[Jpost] US President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing US officials.

The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama's administration of limiting the CIA's paramilitary role, the newspaper reported.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2017 02:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Dems hold govt hostage to Planned Parenthood funding
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Senate Democrats said Monday that they will block any spending bill that includes money for President Trump’s border wall, even if it leads to a government shutdown, saying it’s up to Republicans to resist touchy issues in the looming spending debate.

In a letter led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, top Democrats also said they will insist that bills allow Planned Parenthood
...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party.
to collect taxpayer money.

But though Democrats are in the minority and would have to filibuster to block the bills, they insisted it’s Republicans who will be blamed for a government shutdown.

"If Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy," the Democrats said in a letter to top Republicans.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because the media will lie and cheat to say so.

But people don't trust the media any more.

There's always the nuclear option right?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/14/2017 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Abortion (Infant Genocide) forms the foundation of today's democratic platform.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 3:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Pubs hold the majority. A simple majority can pass a budget. Lock the demoncrats out and continue as normal.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/14/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Darth, that's what the Dems did to pass Obamacare.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/14/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#5  When the revolution begins in earnest, I would hope the first officials placed up against the wall are those who felt national security was a "touchy issue".
Posted by: Crusader || 03/14/2017 10:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Time after time the Trunks cowered whenever a government shutdown happened. Now the tables are turned and the Donks have a backbone.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Allow planned parenthood to have funding for mamagrams only (since that's what they claim they do all the time). Then withhold other funding until it can be straightened out if they are in fact doing an excessive amount of abortions in the black community along the lines of Margrett Sanger's plan and let the Dems defend that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Morons! Don't they understand Planned Parenthood is reducing future Democratic voters?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Morons! Don't they understand Planned Parenthood is reducing future Democratic voters?
Posted by Bobby


I'll try and be subtle. Planned Parenthood is basically a culling tool. Hard working brick layers, roofers, framers, landscapers, and seasonal farm workers generally do not participate in such programs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 13:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Besoeker, blacks participate in large numbers and tend to be Democrat voters.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Just noticed the image. Sick but brilliant.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#12  Yes indeed, RJ. Not difficult at all to decipher the 'target population.' All one has to do is examine the placement of Planned Parenthood Centers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 13:17 Comments || Top||

#13  And they're drawn to it like moths to a flame. Cheaper than condoms!
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 14:05 Comments || Top||

#14  Gorb especially when they can get someone else to pay for it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/14/2017 15:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch
h/t Instapundit
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. This order is intended to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the executive branch by directing the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Director) to propose a plan to reorganize governmental functions and eliminate unnecessary agencies (as defined in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code), components of agencies, and agency programs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2017 15:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't this, like, kicking over the fire-ant mound?

For you folks in cooler climes, fire ants are faster and much, much meaner than regular ants. They like to swarm you and them all bite at the same time, and the bites are where they got their name.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2017 18:56 Comments || Top||


Even the Chinese agree
h/t Instapundit
[WashingtonTimes] It may be unanimous: China has officially declared that the U.S. media were in the tank for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

The finding was included in a lengthy report by the Communist government in Beijing listing human rights and civil liberties violations by the United States in 2016 -- a direct response to the March 3 release of the State Department’s annual survey of human rights violations in China and around the world.

In the section titled "Political Rights Undermined," the Chinese government document contends that "U.S. media published a lot of biased reports and commentaries during the 2016 election, fully demonstrating their failure in staying objective or impartial."

American press outlets "clearly chose their side in covering the election," the survey continues. "Among the top 100 newspapers based on circulation, 57 endorsed the Democratic nominee while 2 the Republican."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2017 02:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2017-03-13
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Sun 2017-03-12
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Sat 2017-03-11
  Syrian force a ‘few weeks’ from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deployed
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