US consumer sentiment races to 2-1/2-year
high; inflation expectations ease
Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/19/2024 5:11:30 PM
WASHINGTON, - U.S. consumer sentiment improved in January, hitting the highest level in 2-1/2 years amid growing optimism over the outlook for inflation and household incomes, which bodes well for the economy's prospects this year. The better-than-expected reading in sentiment reported by the University of Michigan on Friday reflected a brightening of moods across all age and income groups, education and geographical locations as well as political affiliation. It suggested that Americans were finally warming up to the economy's resilience after much anxiety over high inflation, which has weighed on President Joe Biden's popularity. Consumers' inflation expectations over the next 12 months were the lowest in three years,
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'She Said Yes': Sen. Tim Scott Announces
His Engagement After South Carolina Beach Proposal 4 replies
His Engagement After South Carolina Beach Proposal 4 replies
South Carolina Senator (and former GOP presidential contender) Tim Scott has had a busy weekend. On Friday, Scott formally endorsed his former presidential primary opponent, Donald Trump. Then, on Saturday, Scott popped the question to girlfriend Mindy Noce on the beach in Kiawah Island, South Carolina — and she said, "Yes." Scott, 58, first introduced the world to his then-girlfriend following the third GOP presidential debate in November. As Sister Toldjah reported at the time:
Though Scott revealed back in May that he did have a significant other in his life, he was mum on the details which is kinda understandable considering a) it's his private business and b) the mud
Biden of All People Mocks Trump Over Mental
Acuity, Trump Says "I'll Let You Know
When I Go Bad" 3 replies
Acuity, Trump Says "I'll Let You Know
When I Go Bad" 3 replies
President Joe Biden has at least two X accounts -- or at least his handlers do. @POTUS and @JoeBiden are both known for posting cringe-worthy messages that are often devoid of reality. But of all the people who should not be making fun of someone else's mental agility, it's Joe Biden. He is a walking gaffe machine -- sometimes a falling gaffe machine -- and is prone to speaking gibberish, talking to people who are in another state, and having death match smackdowns with his teleprompter. But somebody on Team Biden decided it would be a good idea to bring attention to the subject of mental fitness:
As part of an overall effort to turn Texas from a Republican stronghold into a blue state, billionaire progressive financier George Soros is pouring oodles of cash into the state’s races to bolster support for far-leftist candidates. The idea is to transform Texas into a Democratic playground, and the strategy could work if the state Republican Party doesn’t find an answer to this political offensive.
George Soros is pouring money into local Democratic parties in Texas in a ploy to help Democrats turn the state blue, according to the Texas Tribune.
Soros, working with the Texas Majority PAC, donated six-figure sums to the Democratic parties of Hidalgo, Cameron and Dallas counties, all
The fictional John Wick, a retired assassin, got back into the business because bad guys killed his dog, a foolish decision resulting in almost 500 deaths at John Wick’s hands. That, of course, is the movies. Real life is Rep. Dan Crenshaw (D-TX) gunning politically for United Airlines (“UA”) because an airline executive, instead of apologizing after an employee manhandled Crenshaw’s dog, refused to acknowledge the airline’s error and, instead, attacked Crenshaw. I’m no Dan fan, but I can support him in his fight against an airline that is so committed to political correctness that it’s abandoned customer service and, along the way, seems to be putting Americans at risk.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has suspended his 2024 Republican presidential campaign, the announcement comes just two days before the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire.
DeSantis, 45, announced his plans to drop out of the Republican primary race on Sunday in a video posted on X. In his announcement, DeSantis also issued an endorsement for Trump. “Trump is superior to the current incumbent Joe Biden. That is clear. I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge is my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican Guard of yesteryear, or repackage formed of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represent,”
Several U.S. personnel were injured in a missile attack Saturday night by Iranian-backed rebels on Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, the Pentagon said.
At about 6:30 p.m. local time, multiple ballistic missiles and rockets were fired by Iranian-backed militants from western Iraq, U.S. Central Command said in a statement posted on social media.
The base's air defense systems intercepted "most of the missiles," but "others impacted the base," CENTCOM reported. Multiple U.S. personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries, CENTCOM said, and at least one Iraqi soldier was also wounded. No further details were immediately provided. This marks the 144th attack on U.S. troops
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Saturday questioned Donald Trump’s mental fitness after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when talking about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
“Last night, Trump is at a rally and he’s going on and on mentioning me several times as to why I didn’t take security during the Capitol riots. Why I didn’t handle January 6 better. I wasn’t even in DC on January 6. I wasn’t in office then,” Haley said. “They’re saying he got confused. That he was talking about something else. That he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiples
An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital
killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, officials say 7 replies
killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, officials say 7 replies
DAMASCUS, Syria — An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported.
The Syrian army said the building in the tightly guarded western Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh was entirely destroyed, adding that the Israeli air force fired the missiles while flying over Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli military did not comment.
A few hours later, an Israeli drone strike on a car near the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre killed two Hezbollah members who were in the vehicle and two people who were in a nearby orchard, an official
In a move that is sure to affect no one with the good sense to not read The Los Angeles Times, employees of the nation's fifth-largest newspaper went on strike. The walk-out came amid arguments over layoffs and a lack of pay raises. Get ready for some whiplash as these spoiled, over-credentialed journalists realize there are consequences to their actions. Kiera Feldman, an investigative reporter at the outlet, seems rather gung-ho, doesn't she? "Let's gooooooooo," she proclaims as if she's picking up a rifle and charging into the battle with her bayonet fixed. Clearly, she's ready to endure whatever may come in her righteous fight for whatever
Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.), who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race in November, endorsed former president Donald Trump at a New Hampshire rally Friday night, four days before the state’s Republican primary.
“We need Donald Trump,” Scott repeatedly told voters in Concord, N.H., declaring the former president as the best candidate to defeat President Joe Biden in November. “That’s why I came to the very warm state of New Hampshire,” he said, drawing laughter from the audience, “to endorse the next president of these United States, President Donald Trump.”
Scott joined Vivek Ramaswamy and Governor Doug Burgum (R., N.D.) in becoming the third former Republican presidential candidate
Fox News’ Sandra Smith exclaimed, “Wow!” when talking about the U.S. stock market hitting an all-time high on Friday.
“Fox News Alert here, as we take a look at the markets, and the U.S. Stock market continues to hit record high after record high,” she said, continuing:
You’re looking at a fresh 300-point gain on the Dow right now, hitting its highs of the session. The S&P 500, which is a snapshot of the broader U.S. Stock market, is hitting an all-time high, surpassing the previous record set two years ago.So, wow, there continues to be a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of optimism in the U.S. Stock market.
The stock market keeps scaling new heights as investors focus on the good and ignore the bad, no matter how bad the bad parts might look sometimes.
Prospects for a slowing economy, geopolitical unrest and turmoil in Washington aren't scaring market participants largely because none of those threats have turned into much in reality.
What instead has taken center stage is an economy performing remarkably well, inflation pulling back and a run of positive developments in Big Tech that has outweighed any what-ifs that the market has had to endure.
"If investors are looking for a reason to be negative, it's hard to find," said Mitchell Goldberg, president of ClientFirst Strategy,
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President Joe Biden again mocked gun owners over the weekend, suggesting they will need F-16 fighter jets if they are really serious about taking on the government.
Townhall reported Biden speaking to reporters, referencing Thomas Jefferson’s famous quote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Biden said, “And I love people who say, the ‘blood of liberty,’ or excuse me, ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots.’ Well, guess what, man, I didn’t see a whole lot of patriots that are out there walking around making sure that we have these weapons…And if you really want
In June 2023, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed the 96-page Halderman Report – the Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had been hiding this report from the public for two years.
University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman and Security Researcher and Assistant Professor at Auburn University Drew Sringall collaborated on the report where they discovered many exploitable vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems’ ImageCast X system.
Does Joe Biden's climate czar, John Kerry, ever listen to himself?
He made this dunderheaded speech at the World Economic Forum, unwittingly contradicting himself as he sought applause from the elites. (X) So "farms" need to be restricted according to the green agenda, which as any Dutch farmer can tell you, means shut down -- or else people will die, presumably of starvation since he said "people will go hungry."
Fewer farms, all to prevent people from going hungry.
Does this clown know where food comes from? Does he understand that more production of food means more emissions of oxygen and less production of food means fewer emissions?
They want him gone – no matter the cost.
President Trump is up in the polls, and the Republican base is coalescing around him. DeSantis, his most formidable primary challenger, dropped from the race and endorsed President Trump on Sunday.
The globalist elites are in a panic. Trump is the greatest threat to their power over humanity in the civilized world. Something must be done.
Alex Soros tweeted out an obvious threat against President Trump on Sunday evening.Alex Soros is currently facing scrutiny due to his recent tweet sharing a post from the far-left The Atlantic that features a bullet hole and a sum of $47.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu insists his preferred candidate Nikki Haley doesn't have to win his state to become the Republican presidential nominee.
Sununu told NBC's Meet the Press that New Hampshire's Tuesday primary is not 'make or break' for Haley after a poll released on Sunday shows her trailing former President Donald Trump by 19 percentage points.
The Granite State governor and top campaign surrogate also questioned whether Trump is mentally fit to serve another White House term after he appeared to confuse Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ hired her alleged lover’s law partner to work for her office at a rate of $150 an hour, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation — an arrangement that is raising eyebrows among legal experts who question her spending of public funds.
Christopher Campbell, a partner at Wade & Campbell Firm, has received $126,070 from the Office of the District Attorney since 2021, according to county records. Willis hired Campbell to provide services as a “Taint Attorney” reviewing privileged evidence beginning in Jan. 2021 at a rate of $150 an hour, contracts obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
Our Weird Passivity Toward Iran’s Aggression
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Watching our response to Iranian aggression against us and our allies, I’m reminded of Sherlock Holmes mystery, “The Curious Case of the Dog That Didn’t Bark.” Turns out the watchdog didn’t bark because it knew the thief, and my supposition is that there is a good reason why we have behaved as if Iran and its proxies merit no more meaningful response: This Administration -- as did Obama’s -- has been thoroughly compromised respecting the ayatollahs. Hussain-Abdul-Hussain, who analyzes such things for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, summarized the recent provocations of Iran.
This week, Iran attacked without provocation Pakistan,
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) had a cheeky reaction to the news of her challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), suspending his presidential campaign, telling a cluster of supporters, “May the best woman win.”
“We just heard the Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the race,” Haley said while addressing supporters, who clapped and cheered.“He ran a great race. He’s been a good governor, and we wish him well,” Haley continued, emphasizing that the race is “now one fella and one lady,” emphasizing that all the other men in the race have dropped out.
Liberal tears are pouring out again, pointing fingers at conservatives, former President Trump, and Tucker Carlson.
During an interview, former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross blamed “white conservatives” on firing from the Left-wing network, claiming people in her industry were attacking her. “[The way she was fired] suggest[ed] to other people in the industry that this person is so unhireable that we could not trust her with a live mic,” Cross said. “The network began attacking me. They planted hit pieces in the press. The network president began a bizarre, unhinged tour
This article originally appeared on JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission.-- You can’t make this up. These people lie so many times they forget what’s true.
It’s official – Joe Scarborough from Morning Joe is a liar.
Today, more than three years after Jan 6 and the unraveling of the big lie, Joe Scarborough claimed that four policemen died on Jan 6. (X) Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth.Four people did die on Jan 6 but they weren’t policemen or women, they were Trump supporters!
DeSantis Out
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Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 Republican primary.( snip)The next few days will be fraught with demands to unite the clans. However, please remember the proven and demonstrably accurate axiom: Never Trust a Never Trumper.
The Ron DeSantis campaign was built upon a foundation of fraud. Long planned as an effort to destroy the threat that MAGA represents to the Republican apparatus,
Let the howling and gnashing of teeth begin. Following his thumping victory in Iowa on Monday night and with a commanding lead going into Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump looks nailed on to secure the Republican Party's nomination for the US presidency.
Barring death or some obscure legal intervention, he will go on to face the failing, ailing Joe Biden again in November's election.
As things stand, the pollsters and bookmakers suggest that this time he will win.
Cue another great panic about the end of the free world as we know it. Left-liberal commentators are lining up to parade their despair. Political leaders and media experts gravely inform us