WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. generated 227,000 new jobs in January to mark the biggest gain in four months. Economists polled by MarketWatch had predicted a 197,000 increase in new nonfarm jobs. The unemployment rate rose a tick to 4.8%, the government said Friday. So the previous guy lowballed the January estimate?
Combined employment gains for December and November, meanwhile, were 39,000 lower than previously reported. The government said 157,000 new jobs were created in December instead of 156,000. November's gain was chopped to 164,000 from 204,000. So the previous guy highballed the November estimate?
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The labor problem is all those Federal employees who quit because of Trump.
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As Trump gains increasing control of the various departments, the institutionalized data manipulation of various indices like unemployment, inflation, climate date, etc., will show just how dishonest Champ and his minions really were.
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We know they have provided fake news so long they believe their own lies. Now with Trump every bit of negative information will be offered. Suddenly with Trump in office numbers will be reported negatively and Trump will be the reason for the declines. No need to pay them any attention. The news media has lost all creditably.
[YAHOO] French presidential candidate Francois Fillon attempted to fight back on Thursday as pressure mounted on him to quit the race with some politicians from his own side urging him to drop his scandal-tainted bid to save the conservatives from defeat.
With opinion polls showing the conservatives that their candidate may be fatally damaged, some senior members of The Republicans urged him to pull out now to give the party time to find a replacement who can save them from defeat.
Fillon, 62, denied wrongdoing after Le Canard Enchaine newspaper reported the former prime minister had paid his wife hundreds of thousands of euros for work she may not have done.
Falling poll ratings since then will benefit far right leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker running as an independent.
A daily IFOP poll of voting intentions for the April 23 first round showed Fillon down one percentage point since Wednesday to be level with Macron. Either candidate would comfortably beat Le Pen in the May 7 runoff, the poll suggests.
"I think our candidate must stop," Alain Houpert, a senator close to Fillon's former rival for the conservative ticket, Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... , told Public Senat television on Wednesday.
La Belle France 2 television broadcast on Thursday extracts of a 2007 interview of Fillon's Welsh-born wife Penelope telling Britannia's Daily Telegraph that if she had not had her last child she would have looked for work.
She added that beyond helping her husband during campaigns, she had done nothing more.
"I have never been actually his assistant or anything like that. I don't deal with his communication," she said.
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[BREITBART] We gave them the White House. We gave them the House. We gave them the Senate. And yet they kept losing.
Under Republican control we got the largest expansion of an entitlement program in history and doubled the national debt. Under Democrats we got Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... , and they doubled the debt again.
The Never Trumpers accused Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... of not being conservative, not being a constitutionalist and not being a Republican. They were too stupid to realize that all three of those "attacks" were actually selling points for the man who would become president.
When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 13 days shy of a year ago, the stakes suddenly got very real. The Never Trumpers insisted Mr. Trump would appoint his sister or his butler or his pro-abortion, liberal dog to the high court, desecrating the seat once occupied by one of the greatest legal forces in American history.
Instead, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch, a man qualified beyond any doubt to fill that seat. And a man every bit as devoted to preserving and faithfully adhering to the Constitution.
It would be nice for the holier-than-thou Never Trumpers to finally acknowledge how wrong they were and concede that maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to be one of them to care about the country and stick up for the Constitution.
But that is unlikely. Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome is terminal, so we must settle for the sounds of their death rattles.
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Meh. Given the information available, Never Trump was the right call. Happily, we were wrong. Get over it.
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Bill Kristol is gone. National Review may have permanently wounded their brand.
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...you don't have to be one of them to care about the country and stick up for the Constitution.
That's an interesting turn of phrase there Charlie. It's probably fair to say every president has stuck up for the Constitution. Not all have followed the Constitution. Your assessment may be a tad premature. Here's hoping your right.
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Not that I agree with the sentiment, but it helps with accuracy if the entire line was quoted:
It would be nice for the holier-than-thou Never Trumpers to finally acknowledge how wrong they were and concede that maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to be one of them to care about the country and stick up for the Constitution.
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The latest Gorsuch 'news' I have seen is that his HS yearbook lists him as the founder of the 'Fascists Forever' club. (No record of such a club exists, and the best explanation is it was a comment on the then-current description of Pres. Reagan as a fascist.)
[DAILYCALLER] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. and other Democratic Senate leaders refused to meet with Judge Neil Gorsuch Thursday.
The act appears to be Dire Revenge against Republicans for holding the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia open and not holding a hearing for Obama Supreme Court appointee Merrick Garland.
The White House requested that Gorsuch meet with Schumer, but aides said he declined in order to learn more about the nominee’s record, The Washington Post reported.
"By refusing to meet with Judge Gorsuch, Senate Democratic leadership is taking Washington gridlock and obstruction to a new low and placing Senators McCaskill, Donnelly, Heitkamp, Tester, and other Democrats up for reelection in 2018 on the endangered politicians list," Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, said in a statement.
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[BREITBART] 'Against' Trump? Appears to be an incorrect reading of the tea leaves.
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the New America Foundation, which is funded by billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
That explains the combination of violent ideation and idiocy. Do these people not remember who a vast majority of the military voted for? Or is their bubble so opaque that nothing of reality gets in?
These people are mentally ill, and Trump is revealing their diseased minds.
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Rosa Brooks: 1993: At Oxford University (Christ Church) she was awarded a Master of Studies degree in social anthropology in 1993 and was a Marshall Scholar.
1996: In 1996 she completed her studies at Yale Law School, which conferred upon her the title of Juris Doctor.
2004: In 2004 she served as a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign, and she was a supporter of Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.
2006: Can Might Make Rights? written by Rosa Brooks was first published on September 25, 2006.
2009: When Brooks was appointed by Barack Obama to a Pentagon advisory position in April 2009, conservatives criticized her appointment.
2012: After leaving the Defense Department, in 2012 Brooks began to write a weekly column for Foreign Policy.
so...a partisan hack who should NEVER have been in DOD. Likely the one the actual military scoffed at after she left the room
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Trump's a fascist turning us into a military dictatorship! So we should get the military to remove him?
I got whiplash trying to follow that chain of reasoning.
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I got whiplash trying to follow that chain of treasoning
FIFY
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So Hollywood and people who hate the military* want the military to overthrow the US govt and they think that will work out well for them? I don't know where to begin.
[THEHILL] Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that he spoke to the Australian ambassador to express support for the nations' relationship after a heated call from President Trump.
"I called Australia’s Ambassador to the United States this morning to express my unwavering support for the U.S.-Australia alliance," McCain, who's frequently criticized Trump, said in a statement.
McCain added that he asked Joe Hockey, the Australian ambassador to the U.S., to "convey to the people of Australia" that Americans value their alliance, "honor the sacrifice of the Australians who have served and are serving by our side, and remain committed to the safer, freer, and better world that Australia does far more than its fair share to protect and promote."
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McShame is stepping on his crank. Here is what Prime Minister Turnbull said about the call: An indignant Mr Turnbull told 2GB’s Ben Fordham: ‘As far as the call is concerned, I’m very disappointed, the report the president hung up is not correct, the call ended courteously.’ Mr Turnbull on Monday described the call as constructive, saying the pair acknowledged the already strong and deep relationship between the US and Australia and committed to making it stronger.
'That's my job. My job is to defend the national interest of Australia and defend the interests of Australians,' he told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.
'You may wish to speculate about policies and politics in Washington, that's not my role. My job is today and everyday to stand up for Australia and that's what I do. '
He also thanked the president for 'committing' to honour the refugee agreement.
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This is not an example of the sort of foreign policy freelancing that's just plain against the law?
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McCain could've done all that shit and never announced it to his fickle media Maverick fans - same result. He's a grandstanding loser prick who should retire before he dies in office. He's not getting a State Funeral
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In the end, will he insist Graham be buried with him ?
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No one is questioning the US-Australia alliance, John.
Australians got tired of unwanted refugees arriving by boat and have been stockpiling them on a nearby island, leaving Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull with a huge tar-baby He was delighted when some sucker (Obama) offered to take it off his hands. Now he is bummed that Trump wants no part of this rotten deal. Sucks to be you, Malcolm.
"I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further"
-- Darth Trump
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Turnbull despises Trump, and made this deal with Obama five days after Trump won, to embarrass him as much as to fix his own problem. Yes, he is that arrogant, and that ignorant, to think he could prevail here. Trump did Australia a big favor here.
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All these people who had all these sweet deals with Obama should have known better and it's their problem if they didn't. McCain is an old fool who should have retired a few decades ago. The refugees should be returned to their countries of origin.
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All of them are free to leave whenever the like. A few have, but the rest are hanging on in order to get into a first world country.
Trump has been much too generous to Turnbull and should can the deal. Turnbull has proved himself as slimey as Obama.
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The Media in the US is scum of the earth just like the democrat party is the scum on the earth. They are one and the same and they ALL lie about everything.
Following the lying media for intel, idiot McCain tunes in to dis-credit the President.
LEMON: "I’ve been wanting to have this conversation because this has been a big issue about free speech on campus and conservative voices being heard. Mr. Reich, my first question to you is, there’s a violence that we saw at Berkeley. We had it live here on CNN last night. It ultimately plays right into the hands of the right-wing white supremacist, someone like Milo Yiannopoulos."
REICH: "It absolutely does, Don. And I want to be very, very clear. I was there for part of last night and I know what I saw. Those people were not Berkeley students. Those people were outsiders, agitators. I’ve never seen them before. There’s rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a group that were organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that forced the police to cancel the event. So Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley doesn’t respect free speech rights, that’s a complete distortion of the truth. I mean, Berkeley opened its biggest auditorium to this right-wing Breitbart News character, this hateful odious person. They said, ’Free speech is the most important thing we stand for,’ and it was these outsiders who caused the police to finally come in and have to cancel it."
LEMON: "You think it’s a strategy by Yiannopoulos or right-wingers? They put this on in an effort to show there’s no free speech on a college campus like UC Berkeley?"
REICH: "I wouldn’t bet against it, Don. Again, I saw these people. They all looked almost paramilitary. They were not from the campus. And I’ve heard -- again, I don’t want to say factually, but I’ve heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right wing and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News."
LEMON: "It is interesting because there have been protests but nothing this violent. We haven’t seen anything to this level."
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I’ve heard -- again, I don’t want to say factually, but I’ve heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right wing and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News.
The "relationship" is that George Soros hires "these people" to riot at events he considers "right wing". FTFY, Mr. Reich.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Senate passed a resolution repealing regulations on the coal industry that were issued issued by the B.O. regime in its eleventh hour.
The resolution passed, 54-45, one day after the House approved its own resolution of disapproval. The measure now will be sent to President Trump, who is expected to sign it. The resolution helps to fulfill part of Trump's pledge to help coal miners get out from under the weight of increased regulation on their industry.
In killing the Environmental Protection Agency's last-minute Stream Protection Rule, the Republican leadership called it a rushed regulation that blindsided states with unnecessary and burdensome rules for coal mining.
Most Democrats opposed the resolution as a step backward for the environment, with Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the top Democrat on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, leading the charge during the debate Thursday morning.
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The resolution helps to fulfill part of Trump's pledge to help coal miners get out from under the weight of increased regulation on their industry.
And the tens of thousands of jobless miners, their families, and decimated communities, what's to become of them ?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[YAHOO] French presidential candidate Francois Fillon attempted to fight back on Thursday as pressure mounted on him to quit the race with some 
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
John 
