Author: Gary Howie

Unemployment Rate Is Higher Than you Think

Real unemployment is about 10% : “The U6 unemployment rate counts not only people without work seeking full-time employment (the more familiar U-3 rate), but also counts “marginally attached workers and those working part-time for economic reasons.” Note that some…

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Donald Trump: Kill All The Cows

I’m waiting breathlessly. Waiting for Donald Trump to proclaim that we should save the planet by killing all cows. The outcry would be immediate. Cows are sacred in India, so he has just alienated all continental Indians and insulted their…

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ISIS Income

Are we making a serious attempt to deny income to ISIL? They use that income to produce slick recruiting videos, pay their jihadists, purchase supplies, and fund terror around the world. With enough funding that terror will ultimately evolve from…

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British Bomb ISIS Oil Fields

Apparently the British are not yet convinced… … that President Obama’s strong stance on climate control will render ISIS completely and irreversibly impotent. Reading between the lines in this article: 1.) The British are actually dropping their bombs, not having…

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ISIS Is NOT Contained

Here is public confirmation… … by our highest ranking military officer that ISIS is NOT contained.   Directly and publicly contradicting the civilian Commander-in-Chief can be hard on careers, so the cost of the Chief’s integrity is yet to be…

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Killing Small Business 101

How to shut down small businesses… … and create a climate where more businesses are closing than are starting up–just use overregulation to strangle the small community banks that normally fund small businesses. No need to worry as long as…

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Narrative Journalism

    Narrative Journalism (originally journalism that tells a story but now morphing into journalism with a purpose that ignores facts not consistent with the desired story) has maintained, as does the President in the first paragraph below, that the…

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Executive Misdirection

If you had a teenager with whom you suspected drug use… and that teenager were to state unequivocally “Mom and dad, I am NOT using drugs” would you 1.) Breathe a big sigh of relief because you know you can…

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