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US Daily reported COVID-19 tests through June 29 At a glance, why U.S. Covid-19 "cases" are increasing. With C19 a "test" is labeled a case, notwithstanding that the vast majority of positives have absolutely no symptoms. So the more you test, the more "cases" you get. Yet…Read More
Good Friday, April 17, 1992: I'd just started a great job at Investor's Business Daily in Los Angeles, and two weeks earlier I'd purchased the car of my dreams, a beautiful, blue Toyota MR2 Turbo. To me, at least, it looked like a small Ferrari. It was fast and sleek. I was…Read More
Reaction to Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's proposal that, "By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the Moon with commercial near-Earth activities that include science, tourism, and manufacturing," has tended either to be whether it's a good…Read More
This holiday season, the American public and economy could benefit from being visited by three ghosts - or at least one politician willing to assume their role as blunt bearers of bad news as well as hope for a brighter future. When Ebenezer Scrooge asks the Ghost of Christmas…Read More
$38 billion: The amount to be cut from this year's federal budget, with much hooping and hollering by Congress and which Pres. Obama declared "painful." $1.5 trillion: This year's projected deficit. 2.5 percent: The fraction of the projected deficit that cut reduces. $36 billion…Read More