By Rick Manning 905,000 more people were employed in one month. 341,000 fewer people were unemployed in one month. 575,000 more people joined the labor force in one month. These almost impossible results were reported by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics for the month of September .  That’s right, last month the Labor Department’s household survey […]

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Cartoon c/o Legal Insurrection By Printus LeBlanc In today’s hyper-sensitive world, a simple observation or sentence can get blown out of proportion and make worldwide news. The advent of social media has allowed the PC police to monitor and act twenty-four hours a day whenever someone’s feelings […]

By Robert Romano “We are going to work something out. We have to look at their whole debt structure. They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We’re going to have to wipe that out. That’s going to have to be — you […]

By Robert Romano The Department of Homeland Security’s assessments that 21 states’ election systems were somehow targeted by Russian hackers has fallen apart at the seams. In Wisconsin and California, for example, the supposed targets were unrelated agencies including a department of workforce development that distributes unemployment […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/353700-inventors-beware-big-corporations-attack-innovation-while-profiting-from Apple just launched its latest iPhone at a retail cost of $799 for the 8 Plus version and $999 for the X upgrade. Yet despite those astronomical costs, Apple has launched a worldwide regulatory assault on the company — Qualcomm — whose […]

By Robert Romano The Trump administration and Republican Congress have released their blueprint for tax reform, which would result in net tax reductions of $2.2 trillion according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget , and already the plan is running into some resistance among Republicans. This time, the hold-up could be over the elimination […]

Cartoon c/o Legal Insurrection . By Natalia Castro Republicans have finally released their tax proposal . While many are pleased, the devil will clearly be in the details for many who are still unsure if they should support the bill. A more modest approach has been taken from what […]

By Robert Romano Boycotts are en vogue again. Any place where politics is injected into pop culture, there is that compelling urge to tune out and send a message of our own in return, voting with our pocketbooks. So the thinking goes, if they can’t keep their […]

By Richard Manning As originally published at http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/the-att-time-warner-merger-and-the-assault-on-free-speech/ The beauty and lifeblood of the First Amendment is that it encourages a diversity of opinions to compete in the marketplace of ideas. Yet, sadly, as we witnessed in the last presidential election and even more so today, […]