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Welcome to the new Paradigm: The Stigma of Ageism

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Two and a half years have passed since I abandoned the political blogging scene thinking I would never write again.  Frankly, it was a 10-year long futile endeavor that did not produce the results I had hoped to achieve, however, I did reach 1.6 million readers worldwide.  So in some respect, I consider my efforts not completely unworthy just naive.   Post 9/11 has created a planetary civilization where we are no longer insular societies in our respective countries of origin, we have become a global conglomerate of nations where the common people appear to share and suffer to some degree the same problems, i.e., poverty, unemployment, rampant inflation, to name a few. My goal is to bring together like-minded people from all races, ethnicities, genders, the young, including our middle-aged and elderly citizens to discuss our common problems in society, then seek out relevant solutions, because when you make the effort to help a person you also are inadvertently helping someone else
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Report: U.S. Employment Tanked By 300,000 Jobs In January

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By    Tim Pearce • Feb 2, 2022    DailyWire.com Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A labor market research group reports that the United States lost hundreds of thousands of jobs last month in what could be the first negative jobs report since President Joe Biden took office. The ADP Research Institute projects in a  report  released Wednesday that the U.S. economy lost just over 300,000 jobs in January. ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson blamed the effects of the outbreak of the Omicron variant for the plunge in employment. “The labor market recovery took a step back at the start of 2022 due to the effect of the Omicron variant and its significant, though likely temporary, impact to job growth,” Richardson said in a statement. “The majority of industry sectors experienced job loss, marking the most recent decline since December 2020. Leisure and hospitality saw the largest setback after substantial gains in fourth quarter 2021, while small businesses were hit hardest by losses, erasing mos
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Republicans Find a Facebook Workaround: Their Own Apps

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         SEVERAL LINKS HAVE BEEN BLOCKED OR REMOVED. Conservatives “feel like the big social platforms, Facebook and Twitter, are not sympathetic to their views,” said Thomas Peters, the chief executive of uCampaign, which develops apps for Republican candidates and right-leaning causes. Credit... André Chung for The New York Times By Natasha Singer and Nicholas Confessore Oct. 20, 2018 Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you. You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people who share your views on guns, religion and country. Your news feed contains only posts from like-minded politicians or articles from like-minded news outlets. You can safely post your own comments without fear of vitriol from trolls or challenges from naysayers. This is the insular world in which tens of thousands of Americans who use conservative political apps are experiencing the midterm election season. Amid a chorus of conservative complaints that Facebook and Yo
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Fact Checker: Is the next COVID-19 relief proposal a 'blue state bailout'?

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Iowa’s 3rd District U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, the state’s lone Democrat in Congress, has come under scrutiny for her support of the White House’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, the American Rescue Plan. A digital ad paid for by the American Action Network, a conservative issue advocacy group, recently urged constituents in targeted Democrat-held congressional districts, including Axne’s, to tell their representatives to oppose the package before it came to a vote in the House on Feb. 27. The Fact Checker looked into three claims the ad makes about the latest federal stimulus proposal, which the Senate began debating Friday in earnest. Analysis Claim 1: It is a “blue state bailout.” A review of an  analysis  from the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that studies tax policy at the state and federal level, shows that 23 states with Republican control of the governor’s seat and the state legislature would receive almost $121.4 billion under the proposal, while 15 st
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America Wasn’t Founded on Slavery in 1619 — but on Pilgrims’ Ideals Written in 1620

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Editor's Note:  This article was originally published by  The New York Post   on November 7, 2020, and is cross-posted here with permission . In August 1619, a pirate ship, the White Lion, stopped at Jamestown and traded 20-some captive Africans for food. The Africans were treated as indentured servants and soon released. Fifteen months later, in November 1620, an English ship blown off course on its way to Virginia ended up off the barren coast of Massachusetts. It landed more than 100 men, women, and children. Those voyagers founded Plymouth Colony. Which event mattered more? Last year, the New York Times declared that the arrival of the captives in Virginia was the “true beginning” of America — an America that the Times characterized as a “slavocracy.” The Times calls its campaign to promote this story  The 1619 Project . In my new book, “1620,” I argue that the arrival of the Pilgrims along with dozens of non-Pilgrims (“strangers” as the Pilgrims called them) aboard the Mayflow
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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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The recent rush to defend a black professor’s racist tweets is evidence of powerful self-deception about race. An incoming professor of sociology and African-American studies at Boston University, Saida Grundy,  tweeted , “Why is white America [sic] so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?” In his letter responding to the controversy over these and other comments, BU President Robert Brown  acknowledged  that “Many have expressed the view that some of Dr. Grundy’s comments are offensive and/or racist.” Students then rushed to Dr. Grundy’s defense, using the hashtag #isupportsaida, saying that the professor’s words were not racist, just uncomfortable. A Howard University Ph.D. candidate, Lauren Chanel Allen, wrote in  Quartz : A few white students are upset that their bubbles were burst, and for five seconds they were forced to think about their race and privilege—and Boston University instantly condemns a Black woman for provoking this discomfort. For makin
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The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans

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Note from Deb -  The author of this essay has made it so it cannot be copied and pasted to another website. I urge all readers that come across this post to go to the link below at The Atlantic and read it.  It might just change your life.   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share   
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True meaning of Easter

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The New York Post just proved it is suffering from common core . . . .

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Article titled "Scientists bewildered after monster galaxy 'dies' without warning" is proof of scientific incompetence "Scientific incompetence" SO BAD that even when a topic is spoon fed at a 4th grade level, they don't get it. Here's their blunder: "Scientists are left scratching their heads after a hugely productive galaxy went dark without warning, according to a new study. The monstrous star system, known as XMM-2599, reportedly existed 12 billion years ago when the universe was a ripe young 1.8 billion years old, reports SciTech Daily. But researchers at the University Of California in Riverside are bewildered over how the "ultramassive galaxy" could suddenly die." They then go on to state that maybe it "had a black hole turn on" Here is what the report they quoted actually said, in a sentence: Over 300 billion stars are still shining brightly, but no new ones are being made. All of it's in
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