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…but this graphic is worth breaking out, especially since there are some people trying to claim that the U.S. response has been uniquely bad because #OrangeManBad. The U.S. has done much better than its peer and near-peer nations at limiting economic damage, and it’s done so without maintaining a higher death rate — in fact, …
Data Point – OrangeManBad didn’t do too badly on the economy Read More »
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT, UH, WORK: DC returns to work — and online porn, up 1,600%. “Online porn viewing in Washington, dormant since most offices closed in March, has started to spike as more workers have returned to their cubicles in the federal city.
Death is normal – until the Second Coming (let’s see how many get THAT reference) and that isn’t going to change for any of us. Your death will happen just like Democrats will continue to raise your taxes (and sometimes you just wanna die over that fact).
I didn’t expect to see this but it does bolster the idea that some folks in the Live Free or Die State are taking the idea of “Rugged Individualism-Self-Sufficiency” – of which being prepared is part of that ethos – fairly seriously.
Reformatted: Retail sales skyrocketing by 18% in May as states began to reopen their economies. Economists projected that retail sales would increase 5.2% for June. Retail sales increased 7.5% in June, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday. retail and food services sales for June were $524.3 billion, which is not only a 7.5% increase …
ShotSpotter has been tracking gunfire trends in response to the global pandemic followed by civil unrest in the US after the killing of George Floyd. The graph above shows gunfire per square mile per week across all ShotSpotter coverage areas in the US in the first half of 2020 and 2019. In 2020 gunfire appears …
Data Point – Gunfire; Gosh, I just can’t put my finger on just why the increase…. Read More »
They pushed and pushed and SHOVED to make gun stores “non-essential” during the early part of the pandemic. But then the rush to purchase guns became so high that it looked like Obama was back and “selling guns” again.
Well, at least it is starting to look that way: June private payrolls rose 2.37 million and there was a big positive revision for May, ADP says. “For the month, hiring was especially strong in the pivotal leisure and hospitality industry, which took the biggest hit as measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus spread meant shutting …
Once again, the U.S. is undergoing a media-driven COVID-19 scare after a “spike” in infections. But as we noted earlier this week, the number of cases depends on the amount of testing. The key gauge to watch is deaths. They’ve been falling since April, and there’s strong reason to believe they’re lower than the official …
Data Point – US Daily Deaths, 7 Day Average (Wu Flu) Read More »
This is what three generations of “Hate America” New Leftists have wrought by taking over our Culture and Education systems. Emphasis mine, reformatted: Kaufmann polled American liberals to gauge their willingness “to jettison the country’s cultural identity.” … He consciously removed conservatives and centrists to focus only on self-described liberals. He presented them with 16 “outlandish” statements …
Data Point – Young Liberals DO want to transform America Read More »
