pacino wrote:Rush Limbaugh is now blaming the falsehoods that sold the war in Iraq on the DEEP STATE intelligence community that was trying to sink a Republican president. And now they're doing it to Trump!

The intelligence community, full of known liberals, does it again!

jerseyhoya wrote:http://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/ - This is great internet. I am going to spend my entire day clicking through the different iterations of the state maps, but the articles are good as well.

Bucky wrote:the other is the 30% tariff just enacted on solar panels. (Drops to 15% at some point, not sure when). There are 260,000 solar energy jobs in the U.S. RIght now, only 2,000 are related to the actual building of solar panels. The rest are design, implementation, installation, etc.

So while I'm sure it will help the U.S. manufacturing sector a bit, we should probably expect the number of solar projects to nosedive due to the new costs involved, so all these installers, etc., will likely face hard times. Maybe they can go back to the coal mines...

U.S.A.!

Mark Berman‏ @markberman
The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House. The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet instead.

thephan wrote:

The U.S. dollar dropped to a three-year low on Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin praised the declining value of the currency in remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The driver is that it is good for US exports, on the basic level praising your weakening currency as the Treasury Secretary seems like a lousy idea. Immediately after this praise, the dollar fell some more.

Trump has previously said he prefers a weak dollar for its benefits to trade, telling The Wall Street Journal in April he feared the dollar was “getting too strong.”

Trump on Thursday said he doesn’t think anyone should make commentary on the value of the dollar.

“I don’t like talking about it because, frankly, no one should be talking about it. It should be what it is. It should also be based on the strength of the country.”

The value of the dollar hit a three-year low Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said "obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities.”

"Longer-term, the strength of the dollar is a reflection of the strength of the U.S. economy and the fact that it is and will continue to be the primary currency in terms of the reserve currency," Mnuchin continued.

thephan wrote:Melania news minute:

- The first couple did not publicly celebrate their thirteenth wedding anniversary on Monday.

JFLNYC wrote:The Trumps are having a stormy marriage.

thephan wrote:The secret society seems to be a joke in a context of holiday calendars with a shirtless Putin on them that were being given to the Russia Probe team as a gag gift for the holidays.

Good job Ron Johnson! Way to get out in front of this tragedy. What is in the water in Wisconsin?

CalvinBall wrote:It is a bummer that the Obamas had this pretty incredible relationship and that's not even something the party of family values could embrace. Instead they elected this lump.