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Facts Are Stupid Things — November 8, 2015 With the great news that real wages are finally actually climbing as unemployment sank to 5% with 271,000 new jobs created in October, almost all exclusively in the private sector, the right wing is absolutely up in arms about the truly “bad” economic news: The labor participation …
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While in no way endorsing the 70 something adolescent with arrested development, facts are facts. George W. Bush had been president for about nine full months when the United States suffered the first attack on it’s own soil since Pearl Harbor. At the time, to deflect blame, I remember Bush used the analogy that he’d …
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Facts Are Stupid Things 9.3.15 I’m not a big Facebook guy. I understand it’s importance to comics and artists when it comes to letting folks know you’re working. I also understand some people just like to announce what they are having for dinner. One thing I know for sure is that Facebook is a horrible …
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Facts Are Stupid Things – 8.28.15 Trump says he won’t eat Oreos anymore because Mondelez International, the multi-national conglomerate that bakes those cookies, is closing it’s plant in Chicago and moving it’s 600 jobs to Mexico. Here’s the problem with Trump’s statement: It’s just not entirely true and ignores a number of important facts. Full …
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Facts Are Stupid Things 8.22.15 The Debate: An unconfirmed A.P. story told of an early draft of the nuclear agreement between Six Nations and Iran that according to the report would allow the Iranians to “self inspect” this facility. The Skinny: Based on this unconfirmed report, the media-sphere is full of attacks asking how …
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Facts Are Stupid Things 8.17.15 The debate: Why did Barack Obama promise the final deal with Iran would assure “anytime, anywhere” inspections when it gives the Iranians 24 days before we can go in? The Skinny: While the hypothesis is cleverly phrased, the facts indicate that neither Barack Obama, John Kerry or any other …