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#87 – Pork Barrel
NBC News:”Doctors say they’re finding it increasingly challenging to distinguish COVID from allergies or the common cold, even as hospitalizations tick up.” NEW – U.S. government debt rises to $33.1 trillion, an increase of $100 billion in just five days and $1 trillion in the last 90 days. Dallas, Texas, Mayor Switches from Democrat to Continue reading
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#83 – Keep Maui in Your Prayers
UPDATE on MAUI FIRESThe official death count from the Maui fires is 114 presently. Many fear that more have died, possibly 480, as more bodybags and mobile morgues set up. ADVICEThree things everyone should do:(1) Conduct your life with integrity and honesty.(2) Act from a pure heart in all you do.(3) Speak truth into your Continue reading
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#80 – Not a Good Time to Have a Broken A/C
On July 12, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the conference of the U.S. Army’s Medal of Honor. This award would come to be known as the highest military honor in the nation. The first recipients of the medal were six Union soldiers who, during the Civil War in 1862, penetrated deep into Confederate Continue reading
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#70 – And The Year Is Young
Students Missing from Public SchoolsParents have grown dissatisfied with public schools. According to a Gallup poll, before COVID-19, 51% of parents were satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their child’s education. Now three years later, that satisfaction has fallen to 42%, the lowest in more than 20 years. Nearly a quarter of Americans, or 23%, said Continue reading
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#66 – Crooks and Money
Why do good men retreat and hide when crooks and wicked persons take control of a town or a national government? Power in the wrong hands becomes tyranny. Corrupted justice, unenforceable God-given rights, and suffering spread everywhere under the government’s heavy hand. Wise and good men withdraw into obscurity in hidden and mysterious places, like Continue reading
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#65 – Work Lies Ahead
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:We live in a time when more Americans need to wake up to what has happened and is currently happening around us. Perhaps, the Everly Brothers (1957) put it best in another context.”Wake up, little Susie, wake upWe’ve both been sound asleepWake up, little Susie, and weepThe movie’s over, it’s four o’clock,And we‘re Continue reading
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#58 – Post Thanksgiving
HEADLINE:Biggest Wage Hikes in 16 Years Expected Next YearAs companies react to a tight labor market and inflation, many employees are expected a substantial wage increase, according to a report by Willis Tower Watson, a workplace consultant. The expectation is that the supply of workers will remain restricted in the long run. Hiring has become Continue reading
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#57 – HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Auto Loan Delinquencies Rise to Highest Level in a Decade as Borrowing Costs RiseTransUnion tracks more than 81 million auto loans throughout the United States. It announced that 1.65% of auto loans, or 200,000 customers are at least 60 days behind on their payments. The affordability of a new car from August 2019 to August Continue reading
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Post #54 – Where to Start?
QUOTE:It is so easy to be wrong – and to persist in being wrong – when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.~~~ Thomas Sowell QUOTE:The party of old left-wing progressives has become one of rich regressives. And once country-club Republicans are becoming a party of middle-class populists.~~~ Victor Davis Hanson 66 YEARSThe Continue reading
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Post #52 – It’s the Season for Elections
2.7 MILLIONMore than 2.7 million people have already voted in more than a dozen states that include early voting options, according to data from the University of Florida. 30,000 NONCITIZENS in Colorado received voter registration notices in September 2022. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Continue reading
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