Numerati
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33%
“The volume of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—the means by which most Canadians visit—dropped by 33% last month compared to June 2024, following a 38% drop in May,” Forbes reports.
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53%
A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.
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$1.6 billion
President Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims, Forbes reports.
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58%
Gallup: “A record-low 58% of U.S. adults say they are ‘extremely’ (41%) or ‘very’ (17%) proud to be an American, down nine percentage points from last year and five points below the prior low from 2020. … Democrats are mostly responsible for the drop in U.S. pride this year, with 36% saying they are extremely or very proud, down from 62% a year ago. This is only the second time Democrats’ pride has fallen below the majority level, along with a 42% reading in 2020, the last year of the first Trump administration.”
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$3.3 trillion
The CBO estimates that the Republican reconciliation bill that the Senate is considering will increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion between 2025 to 2034, Bloomberg reports.Punchbowl News says Senate Republicans and the White House reject the CBO estimate as inaccurate. The White House estimates it will cut the deficit by $4.9 trillion over the next decade.
Keith Olbermann is one of the few mainstream journalists to tell it like it is. Perhaps it is because he originally was a sports reporter.
After being notified that Japan’s emissaries were a few minutes late in declaring war against the United States and the attack on Pearl Harbor had already begun, the commanding General of the Imperial Japanese Forces was quoted as saying, “This disgrace means we have lost the war before it has begun.” Honor meant that much. For the want of a few minutes. That the attack occurred before a formal declaration of war was put forth, the commanding General knew Japan’s honor and therefore the war were doomed.
Iraq is not only dishonorable, it’s a travesty against all humanity. A crime so horrendous as to be arguably the biggest blunder committed by any nation state in history. And like all things built on deceit doomed to fail.
To argue that more killing is needed to justify past killings has to bring this full circle.
My only hope is that I live long enough to see those that produced this disaster receive what’s coming to them.
From the outset of this very dishonest administration, Mr. Bush’s handlers have adeptly used meaningful words as a substitute for meaningful insight. This is a mere example of what they say; is not what they understand.
It looks like that in Crawford, Texas and in the White House, Osama has been forgotten.
Prior to our invasion and occupation of Iraq,
Iraq was a secular nation.
Now is looks like the noble cause for which so many of our soldiers have sacrificed their lives–is to establish Iraq as a theocracy
based on Islamic fundamentalism.
Reading the Iraq constitution finds this direct quote: “No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam.”