Regulation

Feds go after Harley Davidson for selling kits that improved performance and mileage of their motorcycles. Maybe there'll be some pushback this time.

Socialism

Despite police crackdown, ultra-violent gangs thrive in Venezuela.

Economy

Fires, not central banks, blamed for Canada's shrinking economy.

Immigration

Soros's immigration and refugee plot.

Foreign Policy

The CIA's NGOs led by National Endowment for Democracy.

Clinton emailed classified information after she resigned as Secretary of State.

War on Drugs

Hamilton County Sheriff seizes largest haul of crystal meth in Ohio history, 16.5 pounds, and it will make no difference.

Politics

Social programs spending is too popular for a presidential candidate to campaign against cutting spending.

Brazilian Senate removes leftist president from office.

Julian Assange's lawyer mysteriously killed by train.

Health Care

Taxpayers paid for 100 percent of the research to develop EpiPen.

Politics

Clinton gets loonier by accusing Trump of right-wing extremism and being Putin's puppet. Those things don't go together. This smacks of desperation.

Foreign Policy

Emails about Benghazi recovered from Clinton's server. I guess all the emails she deleted weren't personal after all.

Police State

FBI director Comey says default encryption is hurting government spying. Yay.

Tax and Spend

Apple threatens to cut jobs in Europe if forced to pay $11 billion fine for obeying tax law.

Misc

NASA can't figure out age of star.

War

New design Navy ship leaks.

The US backed Turkey's invasion of Syria.

Environment

Biofuels also increase carbon dioxide. Duh. But they've wiped out forests to produce them.

Misc

Gravity reported as cause of landslide that had enough energy for dust to escape Rosetta's gravity. This is violation of conservation of energy. This conjecture is silly.

War on Drugs

How branding in a free market would make drugs, even heroin, safer.

Politics

Blaming Trump for Obama's proposed social media law for travelers.

Local

Businesses want government to preempt competition from new crony development at the Fairgrounds, but those businesses benefited from cronyism to begin with.

Sneaky income tax hikes.

Health Care

Single paragraph about EpiPen prices explains consequences of government regulation and the monopolies it creates.

""The incredible increase in the cost of EpiPens, auto-injectors that can stop life-threatening emergencies caused by allergic reactions, has hit home on Capitol Hill," reports CNN. Slashdot reader Applehu Akbar reports that the argument "has now turned into civil war in the US Senate": One senator's daughter relies on Epi-Pen, while another senator's daughter is CEO of Mylan, the single company that is licensed to sell these injectors in the US. On the worldwide market there is no monopoly on these devices... Is it finally time to allow Americans to go online and fill their prescriptions on the world market?"

There's that allow word again.

Politics

Clinton accused of using a fake audience over-layed on a green screen for a speech to hide her health problems.

War

Massive accounting corruption at the Pentagon includes trillions in fraud over decades.

Regulation

Obama strongarms Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft into signing political pledge supporting equal pay as if they don't already pay what the market demands. This is a hidden power of coercion that will never show up in any statistic.

Economy

Amazon tests 30 hour work week. Good for them if this is honest, but is this really a pilot program for new regulations, like in France?

War on Drugs

78 heroin overdoses in Cincinnati in two days.

Politics

Pat Buchanan is ridiculously optimistic.

"The surest way for a person with private interests to get a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, or a phone call returned by her, it seems, was to dump a bundle of cash into the Clinton Foundation.
Of 154 outsiders whom Clinton phoned or met with in her first two years at State, 85 had made contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and their contributions, taken together, totaled $156 million."

Business as usual for the Clintons.

"Prediction: If Hillary Clinton wins, within a year of her inauguration, she will be under investigation by a special prosecutor on charges of political corruption, thereby continuing a family tradition."

Pffft. She will own her AG like Obama owns his. It'll never happen.

"Bill has promised that, if Hillary is elected, he will end his big dog days at the foundation and stop taking checks from foreign regimes and entities, and corporate donors. Cash contributions from wealthy Americans will still be gratefully accepted.
One wonders: Will Bill be writing thank-you notes for the millions that will roll in to the family foundation – on White House stationery?
By his actions, Bill is all but conceding that there is a serious conflict of interest between his foundation raking in millions that enhance the family’s prestige and sustain its travel and lifestyle, while providing its big donors with privileged access to the secretary of state." 

The penalty for that corruption is a fast track to the White House.

State Department refuses to release Clinton's schedule until after the election.

Clinton's pay to play corruption is a natural consequence of coercive government.

KKK endorses Clinton.

War

US, Turkey and allies invade Syria. They already invaded Syria, but this is an escalation.

"Syria’s four-sided civil war just got more complicated – and much more dangerous."

Sounds complicated.

"Up until this point, the Kurdish YPG has been the recipient of US aid, with our “advisors” embedded in their ranks: enjoying US air support, they have managed to carve out a safe space which they call “Rojava,” protected from the depredations of both ISIS and the Turks. This sudden turn in US policy, however, means that their usefulness has perhaps come to an end – and that the Americans, having used them as cannon fodder, are now ready to dump them." 

Sounds evil.

North Korea claims it can nuke US mainland. US rulers must want this guy and his program alive.

Police State

Dwayne Wade's cousin was murdered in Chicago while pushing her baby's stroller. Suddenly people will care. There's no mention of race in ESPN's article.

Foreign Policy

Clinton used open source BleachBit to erase her emails. Company brags of success, as well it should.

Environment

Obama lawlessly declares world's largest nature reserve off Hawaii.

Australian scientists discover another great reef behind the Great Barrier Reef.

Biofuels aren't so green and maybe worse than gasoline.

Media

Media blackout regarding Soros's corruption.

More on Soros and foreign policy.

Economy

Uber lost big money in Q1 and bigger money in Q2.

War

F-35 on path to fail to deliver on time. I thought it was already way late as well as over budget.

Police State

CIA announces Spacenet AI project that sounds a lot like Skynet.

War on Drugs

Drug overdose deaths skyrocketed in Ohio in 2015.

Local

Finally a bar, attached to a brewery, on the river. I hope it survives the bust.

Socialism

State of California gives crony family all the water.

Venezuela confiscates guns.

Police State

Rulers threaten regulations and criminal punishment for people who voluntarily help others like the Cajun Navy during a disaster.

Politics

Another downside to globalization.

"As one of my Twitter followers put it so succinctly: “Globalization: Where leaders from any country get to pick US Presidents.” As the Clinton campaign’s Robby Mook tears a page out of Joe McCarthy’s book and smears Donald Trump as being “Putin’s puppet,” the irony is that this election has seen foreign interference in American politics to an unprecedented degree – on Hillary’s behalf."

Great observation.

Trump is wrong on trade.

War

US Army virtual training program fails.

Book tells story of one young man's life painfully lost to the war in Iraq.

Tax and Spend

Compared to tax receipts, US debt is second worst in the world.

NASA and contractor HP can't upgrade computers.

Health Care

The high price of epipens is a result of FDA regulations.

Foreign Policy

Half of the people Clinton met while Secretary of State gave money to Clinton Foundation.

Claim Russian agent penetrated NSA.

Politics

More Clinton corruption.

"This time a journalist discovers that the FBI files regarding Killery’s FBI interviews about the death of White House Counsel Vince Foster in 1993 are mysteriously missing from the National Archives.
We also learn that there was an apparently failed Arkansas Mafia-style “hit” attempted on Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, when an “intruder” broke into the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Assange has lived for the past four years.  And the London police, who have offices two minutes away, took two hours to respond to the break-in of a foreign embassy."

It keeps on coming. More on missing files about Vince Foster's death.

Clinton and Trump in virtual tie.

Police State

FBI admits to authorizing informants to break the law 22,800 times in the last four years.

Tax and Spend

NASA was wrong when calling dark streaks on Mars running water.

Local

Unemployment rate falls.

Misc

Fabulous picture of jet lightning reaching from a cloud top to the upper atmosphere, an event scientists recently denied existed.

German government tells Germans to stockpile for a ten day doomsday disaster.

Federal Reserve

Negative interest rates and more money-printing in UK.

War

US declares no-go zones for Syrian forces in Syria which may apply to Russians.

Media

Turkish journalist jailed for terrorism was framed. I can guess by whom.

Economy

Gates's net worth hits $90 billion.

Foreign Policy

FBI finds another 14,900 emails from Clinton's private email server.

Emails expose Clinton's pay for play through Clinton Foundation.

Tax and Spend

Taxachussets taxes ride-sharing to subsidize taxis.

Military Tricare pays for trans hormone therapy and counseling. 

Local

City of Dayton considers selling McCalls plant, but it should never have owned it.

Fatal overdoses in Montgomery Count way up this year.

Health Care

How germs turned from villain to hero.

Environment

Cooling in the North Atlantic.

War

US threatens Syrian forces if for fighting rebels.

Politics

Clinton blames Assad, Russia and Iran for ISIS.

Clinton's top aide Huma worked for a hardline mother's Saudi journal before Clinton. More.

Hinkley was a friend of the Bush family.

"Imagine my fascination, then, to learn that John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot and nearly killed President Ronald Reagan in 1981 — an attempt which, if successful, would have resulted in then-Vice President George H.W. Bush moving up to the top spot — was none other than a friend of the Bush family."

No kidding?

"The Hinckleys and the Bushes have been friendly for decades, going back to the days when both families set down stakes in the dusty town of Midland, Texas, a magnet for the children of wealthy, East Coast families seeking to cash in on the oil boom.
The Hinckleys were donors to Poppy Bush’s political campaigns over the years, and they gave to support the first, unsuccessful bid for Congress of the young George W. Bush, in 1978. The families lived close to each other, they socialized; I saw indications that, at one point, they may have shared the same lawyer.
Even more strangely, Neil Bush, son of the vice president, was scheduled to have dinner with Hinckley’s brother, Scott, the day after the shooting."

And we're just hearing of this?

Police State

Ten highlights from leaked NSA newsletters include story about NSA spying on medical records.

Environment

Major fraud calls for government to use war powers to fight Americans to prevent global warming. These weirdos are unhinged.

Politics

Trump sets the establishment on fire with good speech.

Neocon calls for military coup against Trump if he wins.

War

Japan to build drone fighter planes to deter China. Rulers, because of people, have minimal reluctance to send soldiers to war. Not drones. But if this leads to drones versus drones without people dying, it's only stealing money.

FOIA proves US created ISIS.

Misc

Microsoft forces updates on Windows 7 and 8.1 users.

Immigration

Coercive immigration kills American jobs.

Police State

NSA hacking code sucks.

Environment

Environmental fearmonger demands tax on children.

Politics

Suspicion the deep state is sabotaging Clinton. The deep state is not of one mind.

Media

People are always complaining about too much money in politics. Not the media.

"Spending on political advertising during the U.S. presidential election has dropped 60 percent from 2012, a troubling sign for local TV broadcasters that were counting on a windfall."

The truth is out.

Economy

Belgian villa goes on sale for $1.1 billion.

Tax and Spend

How taxpayer-funded CERN employees spend our money.

Massachusetts taxes ride-sharing to fund taxis.

War

Turkey and Iran reach agreement for Syrian peace. Bypassing world powers is smart, but I bet Russia had a hand in this.

Neocon Rubin laments, "Meanwhile, as Kerry pleads with Russia to help enact a cease-fire (which would only lock in gains made by Moscow’s ally Bashar al-Assad), Russia is expanding its alliance with Iran and influence in Syria in unprecedented ways. Russian planes are now taking off directly from Iran to bomb Syrian targets" while coronating Clinton.

Rumor has it the US is moving its nukes from Turkey to Romania.

This is the first mainstream admission I've read that boots are on the ground in Syria.

Police State

Oracle one of many companies funding group dedicated to expose Google criminality.

Misc

Uber drivers to be phased out.

Police State

NSA leak is real.

Environment

US Air Force plans to plasma-bomb the atmosphere to improve radio communications. It will also improve the electrical connection between the sun and Earth. What could go wrong?

Sports

NBA moves All Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans to protest NC bathroom law.

UFC recently sold for $4 billion.

"The sale is remarkable considering that brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta bought the organization in 2000 for $2 million."

The new owners just significantly cut ticket prices because of poor sales. The old owners know how to work the bubble.

Socialism

Socialism is the world's greatest generator of poverty.

Ohio turnpike to become testing ground for self-driving cars as if people's lives don't matter.

Hungry Venezuelans break into zoo and butcher horse to eat. This sounds staged.

Federal Reserve

Inflation is not an unintended consequence of printing money. It's an intentional wealth-stealing scheme.

Immigration

Illegal immigrants from terror-linked countries surge across southern border.

Socialism

Volunteers, not government, to the rescue in Louisiana.

Media

CNN deploys drones. They will replace news helicopters.

Foreign Policy

I wouldn't call this $400 million for Iran ransom. It looks like it was going to Iran anyway, so Obama used it for leverage.

War

ISIS followed Clinton's weapons trade from back from Syria to Libya.

US moving nuclear missiles closer to Ukraine as Russian troops mass on border. What could go wrong?

Politics

The truth behind women and men's salaries.

"Women as a group do get paid less than men as a group. But not for doing the same work. Women average fewer annual hours of work than men. They work continuously for fewer years than men, since only women get pregnant, and most women are not prepared to instantly dump the baby on somebody else to raise."

Sowell will get attacked for this.

The Clintons' personal dead boby count numbers about 100.

Table links Clinton Foundation donors to political favors.

George Soros was hacked and his crimes exposed. He successfully lobbied Obama to accept refugees.  Tried to influence Supreme Court. He pushes immigration and refugees because they create unrest which he profits from.

Environment

Coral reef declared dead because of acidification caused by global warming is once again teaming with life.

Coral reefs are resilient.

Police State

Cisco patches two zero-day bugs thanks to release of NSA tools by hackers.

NSA and FBI will investigate hack.

Misc

AI, like all new technology, will start as a force for good. Then governments will co-opt it for evil.

Uber launches self-driving fleet in Pittsburgh this month.

Local

Dayton schools still have busing problems.

Regulation

FAA relaxes drone regulations.

Education

The real definition of lockdown, which is no commonplace in schools.

War on Drugs

More on DEA stealing $200 million from travelers under asset forfeiture laws.

Marijuana kills cancer cells.

Police State

Auction of NSA tools overwhelms security companies.

Health Care

Aetna withdraws from Obamacare.

Tax and Spend

All government-funded science should be available for free. NASA is better late than never.

Economy

Cisco to lay off 14,000 which is 20 percent of its workforce.

Environment

NOAA also claims July was hottest month on record and the record has been set 15 months in a row.

Jerry Brown took big money from big oil.

Local

Murder rate spikes in Dayton.

Regulation

Price controls over time created Venezuela's shortages.

Companies cannot void your device's warranty for jailbreaking it.

Politics

Of course this election will be rigged.

Police State

Hackers sell NSA hacking tools. NSA has been hacked.

Tax and Spend

Foreign central banks sell US debt at record pace. Uh-oh.

Local

Dayton's affordable housing criticized for being in affordable neighborhoods. I wonder if they know what affordable means.

After first day of schools, Dayton's new school superintendent says schools are off to a good start. Give me a break. The DDN considers this propaganda news.

Economy

Five reasons why Austrian economics is real economics while competitors are not.

Politics

Awesome concession speech for Trump if he loses.

Nasty politics and low information voters are nothing new.

Contrary to what we've been hearing, it's a close race now that Hillary's convention bump and Trump's mistakes are over.

Police State

Examples of cops being above the law.

Socialism

The Michigan government invests in Tesla.

Politics

In a perfect illustration of how people in government think, DNC creates a cyber-security board to improve cyber-security, but none of the members are cyber-security experts.

How think tanks funded by billionaires corrupt US policy.

Environment

It seems like I've been reading about something wiping out banana crops for decades, but we still have bananas.

Farmer's Almanac predicts ice-cold winter. I bet that area in north-central Russia still reports bizarrely high temperatures all winter long again.

NASA claims July was warmest month on record.

Local

City to buy former Dayton Daily News site. That means there are no buyers at the city's price, so they're overpaying to a crony. Crony socialism in action.

Apparently the downtown music pavilion plan is short on funding, so the city may put $1 million into that. Make that way short, like less than half.

Economy

The velocity of money doesn't have an independent existence, but it seems to be an indicator of economic activity, so seeing it fall for several decades indicates a problem.

Economy

The illusion of prosperity.

"It seems like markets are also an illusion. How else can the Dow be 63% above the 2000 high whilst the Euro Dow 50 stocks are down 45% in the same period and with Emerging Markets down 36%, Brazil and Hong Kong down 35%, Nikkei down 25% and Shanghai down 49% all since 2014-15. We live in a totally interconnected global economy but there just seems to be more skilled illusionists in the US who can defy reality. With corporate profits declining fast, with current account and budget deficits for half a century, with 95 million people not in the workforce, almost 50 million on food stamps, with Q2 GDP at 1.2% (if real inflation rate was applied GDP would be negative) and with exponentially growing debts of over $200 trillion (incl. unfunded liabilities), you wonder what US investors are smoking."

Not gold.

Police State

Race riots in Milwaukee.

"Video footage shows violent mobs of ‘Black Lives Matter’ rioters targeting white people for brutal beat downs during last night’s unrest in Milwaukee."
"The unrest began after police shot and killed an armed man with a “lengthy criminal record” who was carrying an illegal firearm that had been used in a burglary."

I read they shot him in the back, but maybe not.

"Milwaukee's mayor said the man was struck twice — in the chest and the arm — and that he believes the officer involved had a body camera on at the time of the shooting.
Milwaukee Police Assistant Chief Bill Jessup told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel newspaper it wasn't clear if the gun was pointed at the officer."

What police call an investigation if usually a cover up.

Education

A French billionaire opens a free coding school, unlike Gates, Zuckerberg or other crony Americans.

Politics

The deep state is not monolithic, nothing is, so I'm sure some members are against Clinton.

The RNC considers cutting all support to Trump.

Trump doesn't want war with Russia. This is a great article.

New York Times ombudsman admits paper's serious bias against Trump.

Federal Reserve

Claim the euro was invented to give northern European rulers control over southern Europe, and to an extent that has happened. Brussels forces austerity on Greece and Spain. But it also trapped northern banks, giving southern rulers power. Now it's blowing up.

War

Obama is bombing Libya again.

Immigration

Because of gun control, Germans can't buy guns to protect themselves from skyrocketing crime rates caused by migrants.

Police State

The TWA flight 800 coverup continues.

Health Care

Patients benefit from deprescribing drugs.

Economy

The car and car loan bubble.

Real inflation is running between 7 and 13 percent.

Another aspect and consequence of real inflation.

"But as I have shown this week, inflation is also one result of cartel capitalism, in which politically powerful cartels can raise prices and reduce quantity and quality without fear of consumers going elsewhere because the cartels have effectively eliminated competition via regulatory capture, lobbying and the immense advantages of unlimited credit from central banks.
Inflation is also tied to the incentives for fraud in our system: lowering quality as a means of Inflation Hidden in Plain Sight increases profits at the expense of consumers who have few means to detect and measure the reduction in the value of what their money buys." 

I see that every day.

Politics

Bill Clinton attacks FBI and director Comey over Hillary's email server comments. This issue must be hurting her.

NSA has all of Hillary's emails. More.

"The intelligence community’s antipathy toward Clinton has two general sources. One is her misuse of emails containing state secrets. Among the top-secret emails that the FBI discovered on Clinton’s non-secure private servers were some that revealed the names of U.S. intelligence agents operating undercover in the Middle East. Because Clinton emailed secrets to others who the FBI found were hacked by hostile foreign intelligence services and because she used a non-secure mobile email device while inside the territories of hostile governments, her “extremely careless” use of her emails resulted in the termination of the undercover work of those whose cover she caused to be revealed. Many in the intelligence community also suspect that in some cases, U.S. undercover agents lost their lives because Clinton failed to keep their identities secret.
The other source of intelligence community antipathy to Clinton stems from her secret war waged against the late Libyan strongman, Col. Moammar Gadhafi. When she waged that war — using intelligence, not military, personnel — with the approval of the president and a dozen members of Congress, she exercised her authority as secretary of state to grant exemptions to a U.N. arms embargo of Libya. She wanted Libyan militias to have heavy-duty, military-grade arms with which to topple the Libyan government.
But the CIA and others warned her that she was arming terrorist groups, which was potentially lethal for some American intelligence personnel and which is a felony under federal law. One of those groups may have used Clinton-authorized, embargo-free weapons to assassinate Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, at Benghazi. Clinton disregarded the CIA’s advice and didn’t worry about anyone’s finding out about it because she thought her emails would remain secret."

Then she helped ship those weapons to Syria to arm ISIS.

About the deep state.

"The Deep State has a life of its own, like the government itself. It’s composed of top-echelon employees of a dozen Praetorian agencies, like the FBI, CIA, and NSA…top generals, admirals, and other military operatives…long-term congressmen and senators…and directors of important regulatory agencies.
But Deep State is much broader than just the government. It includes the heads of major corporations, all of whom are heavily involved in selling to the State and enabling it. That absolutely includes Silicon Valley, although those guys at least have a sense of humor, evidenced by their “Don’t Be Evil” motto. It also includes all the top people in the Fed, and the heads of all the major banks, brokers, and insurers. Add the presidents and many professors at top universities, which act as Deep State recruiting centers…all the top media figures, of course…and many regulars at things like Bohemian Grove and the Council on Foreign Relations. They epitomize the status quo, held together by power, money, and propaganda.
Altogether, I’ll guess these people number a thousand or so. You might analogize the structure of the Deep State with a huge pack of dogs. The people I’ve just described are the top dogs."

Yep.

"The American Deep State rotates around the Washington Beltway. It imports America’s wealth as tax revenue. A lot of that wealth is consumed thereby useless mouths. And then, it exports things that reinforce the Deep State, including wars, fiat currency, and destructive policies. This is unsustainable simply because nothing of value comes out of the city."

Yep.

The choice between Trump and Clinton is life and death.

Warmonger Clinton.

Grouping all Muslims together, as Trump does, is as stupid as grouping all Christians together.

War on Drugs

DEA seizes cash from travelers just like cops.

War

Former Bush official, no longer paid by government, admits the US is war-profiteering state.

Politics

Pat Buchanan advocates Trump as the candidate of the people versus Clinton.

More on the murdered DNC staffer who might have been the Wikileaks source.

Environment

Bogus claims about offshore wind energy facilitly.

After being wrong for a decade, NOAA produces the same high-hurricane prediction.

Police State

As I warned, hackers, like NSA, could take over your sex toys.

Misc

Petroglyphs discovered on Hawaiian beaches.

War on Drugs

Police ask Colorado legislature to quit passing new marijuana laws.

Socialism

Government allows Google and Tesla to use socialist roads as test tracks for their self-driving car software.

Politics

Assange implies murdered DNC staffer was Wikileaks source and that was why he was murdered.

DOJ blocked investigation of Clinton Foundation.

After decrying the wealth gap, Bernie Sanders just bought his third home, a $600,000 Vermont vacation home.

Police State

As I predicted, vibrator spies on user.

Environment

ExxonKnew Attorneys General caught illegally colluding. Who will charge them?

Economy

US labor productivity worst in 35 years.

Tax and Spend

Taxpayers to pay for military transgender sex changes.

Police State

Hackers steal $65 million in bitcoins.

War on Drugs

Coca-cola's role in the war on drugs.

Environment

Land use change is a significant contributor to real, tiny global warming.

War

Terrorism in Ukraine threatens wider war.

"The elected President of the Republic of Luhansk in what used to be eastern Ukraine barely survived an assassination attempt when a bomb exploded underneath his car. He has been seriously injured. There seems little doubt that this was the work of the SBU, the notorious Ukrainian secret police outfit that has been implicated in a series of mysterious attacks and “suicides” that have killed opposition journalists and politicians in recent months. Unable to put down the popular rebellion in the east, the coup leaders in Kiev have resorted to terrorism – which is fitting, since fighters formerly affiliated with ISIS are now in their ranks."

Great.

Police State

FOIA forces FBI to release 18 hours of spy plane video taken of protestors.

"The FBI flew their spy planes more than 3,500 times in the last six months of 2015, according to a Buzzfeed News analysis of data collected by the aircraft-tracking site FlightRadar24." 

Shut it down.

Regulation

Feds regulate e-cigarettes out of business.

Secret software may shut off VW diesel emissions controls after 22 minutes since testing only last 20 minutes.

Regulations virtually killed the V8, and now they're killing the V6.

Economy

Phony jobs report.

"Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that the US economy added over 250,000 jobs in July, far in excess of any forecasts. The reality was far more grim. Those “jobs” weren't actually created by businesses – they were created by the statisticians who compiled the numbers, through the process of “seasonal adjustment.” That's a bit of statistical magic that the government likes to pull out of its hat when the real data isn't very flattering. It's done with GDP, it's done with job numbers, and similar manipulation is done with government inflation figures to keep them lower than actual price increases. In reality there are a million fewer people with jobs this month than last month, but the magic of seasonal adjustment turns that into a gain of 255,000."

Nice.

The bad economy hurts young workers most.

The rising price of burritos illustrates real inflation.

Politics

The Communist Party backs Clinton.

Tax and Spend

Record tax haul through July.

Politics

I have long argued against what I call naive libertarian optimism, and Robert Higgs suddenly materializes to agree.

Environment

Because they are prisoners, inmates consume fewer resources than free people, so let's imprison everybody.

Education

Government funding of universities has left them poorer.

Economy

Worst expansion in 30 years continues.

Health Care

Nearly all lice resistant to over-the-counter treatments.

Environment

FDA approves releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida to supposedly fight Zika. Whatever the real reason, this will do more harm than good.

Foreign Policy

Hostage confirms escape plane was delayed until Obama's $400 million payoff to Iran landed.

Obama dodges questions about Iranian hostage payoff.

Economy

Ohio bankruptcies continue to fall since 2007, but that will change soon.

Whaley's cronyism nets her $141 thousand for next mayoral campaign.

Tesla loss grows.

Local

Taxdollars demanded to remove another Great Miami River dam.

Federal Reserve

Because of the weak economy, yhe Bank of England cuts interest rates to virtually zero and begins its own QE program.

Politics

Inter-African and Middle Eastern slave trade outlasted US and European slave trade by a century. US blacks don't care. Their parents weren't African or Middle Eastern slaves. They were American slaves.

War

Don't rethink NATO. Withdraw from it.

US illegally bombs Libya again.

US failures in Africa.

Tax and Spend

Pennsylvania passes 6 percent streaming tax.

"Magazine and newspaper subscriptions, as well as digital versions of the Bible, will be exempt from the digital downloads tax, reports CBS Local News in Pittsburgh."

What about net tax neutrality?

Environment

Tesla posts 13th straight quarterly loss.

Misc

Frequently changing passwords reduces security.

Health Care

This new story saying flossing has no value is baloney. I wonder what's behind it.

Politics

More top DNC officials resign in wake of Wikileaks release.

Blaming disgruntled US intelligence hacker for hacking DNC. That would explain why the US is trying to build a case against Russia.

Economy

Home ownership rate hits 51 year low despite federal policy trying to entice people into homes.

Health Care

US government drops flossing guidelines.

Socialism

Venezuela trying to cover up 12 hour food lines.

Foreign Policy

Obama sent $400 million in cash to Iran as Navy hostages were freed.

Police State

Slow motion replays make juries four times more likely to convict.

Tax and Spend

Government accounting office slams NASA for unreliable spending projections.

Economy

Uber merges with China's largest taxi firm. More.

I'm skeptical China has passed Silicon Valley in mobile tech innovation.

Federal Reserve

Because the economy is so weak, Fed leaves rates unchanged.

"All we do know is that the Fed likes to constantly tell us how well the economy is improving while refusing to increase the target rate. That latter part tells us all we need to know."

Yep.

Local

Dayton experienced rise in fatalities at intersections where red-light cameras were turned off. That doesn't justify them.