Author: Jimmy
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Record Number of Americans Renounce Citizenship
Last year, almost 1,800 people … renounc[ed] their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. It’s also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and more than the total…
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Michigan’s Armed Raids on Small Pig Farmers
NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DN[R] conducted unconstitutional, illegal and…
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CHA Relocations = Higher Crime Rates?
According to the Sun-Times: Crime was worse in neighborhoods where former Chicago Housing Authority residents used vouchers to move into private apartments, a new study found. From 2000 to 2008, violent crime was 21 percent higher in neighborhoods with high concentrations of voucher-holding former CHA residents — when compared to similar neighborhoods without them, the…
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Google’s Brin: Web Faces Greatest Threat Ever
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around…
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European Markets Tank
European markets took a big hit today, obliterating any hope generated by yesterday’s rally. Contagion is back, baby! … Italy and Spain led the downward trend, with the latter index briefly down over 4 percent. Yields on Spanish government bonds continued to push 6 percent, but did not exceed that benchmark level. via Business Insider.…
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‘Why Didn’t White Folks Keep Them for Themselves?’
The Chicago Teachers Union, and school employee unions in general, are pulling out all the stops to slow down a school choice and education reform movement that is bowling them over in numerous states and cities. Bold reform efforts are being pushed by the likes of Republicans like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey…
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Is the Fed Promoting Recovery or Desperation?
A lengthy beating to the Fed begins: On Friday, the Department of Labor reported that March non-farm payrolls increased by 120,000, falling well short of consensus expectations in excess of 200,000. … On the payroll front, our present expectation is that April job creation will deteriorate toward zero or negative levels. Immediately after the payroll…
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Another Deadly Weekend
It started out peaceful enough. So much so that Drudge reported, “Only 1 Dead, 5 Wounded in Chicago.” A woman was killed and four men wounded in five separate shootings between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Saturday. via Chicago Tribune. It wasn’t even that warm. But only 5 shot overnight, hardly worth mentioning. Then…
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Worst Housing Market Is In?
New data out of Standard & Poor’s this morning painted a somewhat mixed picture of the U.S. housing market: showing home prices may have hit bottom. via Business Insider. Hit bottom? Unlikely. But what I really wanted to show what this chart: Looking at the worst performing cities: Atlanta, Las Vegas, Chicago. In January 2011,…