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Click to enlarge.September 3, 2013After a Recent Upswing, College Enrollment Declines, Census Bureau ReportsIn 2012, there were 19.9 million college students, including 5.8 million enrolled in two-year colleges, 10.3 million in four-year colleges and 3.8 million in graduate school.The math suggests that we are going to have some seriously well educated retail, leisure, and hospitality workers in the future.Some people...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty - vs- Tyranny I found the following article by Ann Althouse interesting. More than just interesting really. Refreshing and honest as well.In yesterday's interview with Chuck Todd, Obama said:"You know, one of the lessons -- learned from this whole process on the website -- is that probably the biggest gap between the private sector and the federal government is when it comes...

The U.S. House GOP leadership confirmed over the weekend that they will not move to allow a vote on an immigration reform bill before 2013 ends.By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 9, 2013Washington, D.C. - In the last three days around the country, multiple sit-ins held in cities by immigrant rights organizations to push for the U.S. House majority GOP leadership to allow a vote on an immigration bill has made no strives to...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyI am a fiscal conservative, a social libertarian, not a democrat, not a republican... I am an American and I vote, like millions of other Americans do. Although the total turnout is shameful to say the least. That is, however a story for another day.In reading THE WEEK I admit to being a bit puzzled. The week is a conservative leaning publication so it is natural...

Click to enlarge.You can disregard the blue point due to the government shutdown if you like. As for the trend in red, a good pair of rose-colored glasses will make it virtually invisible!Source Data:St. Louis Fed: Custom Cha...

Carolyn C. Alcala and Anthony J. Judd Alcala kept going after striking Judd, a homeless man at the 900 block of W. Greenfield Ave.By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 9, 2013Milwaukee, WI - On Friday, Carolyn C. Alcala, 47, pleaded not guilty to one felony count of hit-and-run in the death of Anthony "Tony" J. Judd, 45, a known Milwaukee homeless man whose punch line was "Hey amigo, you got 25 cents." On October 26, Judd was...

Kathryn StalbaumStalbaum turned herself to Chicago police for help.By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 8, 2013Chicago, Illinois - On Friday, Kathryn Stalbaum, 15, from the Town of Genesee who has been missing since last Tuesday turned herself to a Chicago police officer for help, according to the Chicago Police Department. Stalbaum approached the officer and told him that she had been missing from Wisconsin. Authorities...

VIEW MORE... I told you that you don't have to wait too much for seeing another outfit ( with a good dose of color this time) combined with those Zara boots that are becoming lately my everyday shoes :)Color of the day is obviously Yellow with a side of fuchsia.Wish you all a sunny weekend!                                   ...

Those not in the labor force have grown nearly 3.2 million over the past year, with nearly 1 million in just the past month.Click to enlarge.There was a major long-term trend shift starting in 2000. The Fed didn't like the old normal in red so it offered us up a housing bubble and in its aftermath a new normal in blue. It's a bit hard to tell the two normals apart in the chart. Well, you kind of can. The new normal...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyPolls are admittedly mere indicators of the political pulse of the public. It is true arguments can be made that depending on the political preference(s), or leanings of the particular organization responsible for any specific poll that the poll may be manipulated through specific wording of poll questions. Questions intentionally designed to generate the response...

Karla Salazar holds a sign before getting arrested by LA police.Photos: FacebookLos Angeles police arrested more than 50 people outside a Chinatown Wal-Mart store for wage dispute.By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 8, 2013Los Angeles, CA - On Thursday, police arrested at least 54 wage protesters including Wal-Mart employees, teachers and nurses in front of a newly opened Chinatown Wal-Mart store. More than 200 people participated...

Awakening of American minds For the last five years Americans have been asleep. As we slumbered Democracy was being supplanted by forces unfriendly to it. The very strength of our nation drained away as the blood of socialism was being transfused into our institutions, industries and classrooms. Many of us, who saw the changes coming, were ignored, became banter of late night talk shows or found our words squelched...

The following chart shows motor vehicle loans as a percentage of annual wage and salary accruals.Click to enlarge.How much debt is too much? We'll find out someday if we keep hugging the bottom of that trend channel.October 28, 2013More new-car buyers opt for 7-year loansMore new-car buyers are stretching out their loan payments as long as possible — as many as seven years — and experts wonder if the trend is another...

November 7, 2013J.C. Penney reports first monthly sales increase since 2011J.C. Penney Co. said Thursday that a 0.9 percent increase in October same-store sales, its first year-over-year monthly increase in almost two years, signals “meaningful progress in its turnaround.”0.9 percent is almost exactly what apparel inflation has done over the past year. Way to go JC Penney! Very impressive!The increase in sales wasn’t...

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NOTE TO READERS: In an effort to reach people in these times of NO attention span I am developing a series of very short videos that focus on the concept of Supply and Demand to illustrate the flight (migration) from high taxes and stifling regulations of key liberal centers. Regions known to be hostile to small free enterprise.  (The videos are amateurish due to the fact that I am an amateur. I'm working on that)....

http://www.svbizlaw.com/nigerian.419.letters33.htmThe link above shows a huge selection of scammer email419 Fraud, Lottery Fraud, Phishing & Other ScamsScammer Letter : From: Mike Anderson  Request for Confidential Business RelationshipAttn; Sir/Madam,I know that this will come to you as a surprise since we don't know each other before. For the purpose of introduction, I was the assistant to the Former...

Photos: UFWMcCarthy meets with the women who held a sit-in for 10 hours on Wednesday at his Bakersfield office.  By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 7, 2013Bakersfield, CA - On Wednesday, U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy (R) finally met with a group of women who had a sit-in for most of the day at his Bakersfield office. McCarthy, the majority leader of the House met with the women before midnight to discuss the current...

Rafael Caro Quintero and Enrique "Kiki" CamarenaThe Mexican Supreme Court decided on a vote of 3-1 to overturn an appellate judge decision to free Quintero last August.By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 7, 2013Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - On Wednesday, the Mexican Supreme Court on a decision of 3-1 overturned an appellate judge decision to free Rafael Caro Quintero, 58, a reputed druglord. Quintero, a former founder...

Photo courtesy of UFWThe UFW in Bakersfield is reporting that at least 15 women and some media members were locked inside Congressman McCarthy's office by local police and no food, water or medicine for some of the women who are diabetic can be delivered inside.By H. Nelson GoodsonNovember 7, 2013Bakersfield, CA - On late Wednesday, the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) reported that 15 women who entered into U.S. Representative...