Data Point – headed south

Mexico, which takes in more remittances than any other Latin American country by a wide margin, will likely receive $30.5 billion from the Mexican diaspora living abroad — 6.5 percent more than it did in 2016. About 95 percent of Mexico’s annual remittance haul comes from the U.S., according to Mexican bank BBVA Bancomer. Build that … Read more

Data Point – The Letter networks really hate Trump

These six topics accounted for two-thirds of the administration’s TV news profile in September. While the North Korea crisis received the most attention, this was also the topic with the fewest evaluative comments — just 20 during nearly an hour of coverage — which translates into a large percentage of neutral coverage. I will agree … Read more

Slide Fires and Slippery Slopes

“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”  -Andrew Johnson

Slide Fire Stock
(AP Photo/Allen Breed, File)

Slide Fires and Slippery Slopes. And, the slippery slope is  at our door once again. About 96 hours ago, yet another maniac shot up a public venue, killing 59 people. The emotional caterwauling begun almost immediately. Not one single law in existence nor anything proposed would have stopped or thwarted this attack. It did not take two days for a piece of legislation to totally ban the use of slide fire stocks, binary triggers or other like technology to come to the floor.

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Wolves Against Central Planning

1200px-Yellowstone-wolf-17120Wolves make the case against central planning, that is against Socialism and pretty much all the -isms that leave Leftist priapistic.

As is usually the case when the government, or anyone really, gets involved in something in which it has no business, but is arrogantly confident of its positive affects on things, the unforeseen and unintentional consequences blow up in its face like an exploding cigar. Whether it’s 

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Trump Rolls Back Obama Contraceptive Mandate

birth controlThe Trump Administration has just eliminated the ObamaCare contraceptive mandate.

The Trump administration said Friday it will let a vast universe of employers duck Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate by claiming a religious or moral objection, a long-awaited move that will enthuse pro-life conservatives and enrage advocates who say women’s rights to birth control are being threatened.

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