by HEATHER WILHELM

I’m from a different time, a dark time,” declares comedian Dave Chappelle in his new Netflix special, The Age of Spin. Back in the day, he notes, “I didn’t even know who was on the phone until I answered [it]!”

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“My point is,” Chappelle tells his audience, the seats presumably filled with a decent quotient of dewy-eyed Millennials, “a guy your age wouldn’t know the pain because with your generation, it’s like the space shuttle blows up every [expletive] day — how can you care about anything, when you know every [expletive] thing?” Full Story....Here

by Tyler Durden

An electric auto will convert 5-10% of the energy in natural gas into motion. A normal vehicle will convert 20-30% of the energy in gasoline into motion. That's 3 or 4 times more energy recovered with an internal combustion vehicle than an electric vehicle.

Electricity is a specialty product. It's not appropriate for transportation. It looks cheap at this time, but that's because it was designed for toasters, not transportation. Increase the amount of wiring and infrastructure by a factor of a thousand, and it's not cheap. Full Story....Here

By Michael Barone

Capital vs. countryside -- that's the new political divide, visible in multiple surprise election results over the past 11 months. It cuts across old partisan lines and replaces traditional divisions -- labor vs. management, north vs. south, Catholic vs. Protestant -- among voters.

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We see the deadweight cost of public employee union pensions and unpoliced murders destroying one of the great creations of civilization, Chicago. No wonder the countryside resists; this is how these arrogant bullies govern the precincts of society they control.

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Vicki McKenna

How many times have you observed that social, political, and cultural chaos going on in the world around you and asked out loud "am I crazy...or is this by design"?  You're not crazy, and it IS by design.    And unless people start to put the pieces of the puzzle together and ACT to change the direction of this country, it will only get more chaotic, more illogical, more tyrannical.

Excellent article, be sure to read the links provided. Full Story....Here

By Joseph Weber

After a grueling, trash-talking 2016 election, the new leader of the Democratic National Committee hasn’t exactly taken great pains to raise the level of political discourse in America.

Tom Perez’s latest attack on Republicans is: they “don’t give a sh-t” about voters. Full Story....Here

By Doris O'Brien

In a world bordering on insanity, delusions of grandeur are no longer a joke. Nor is there any need to visit designated mental facilities to be confronted by those who have lost all sense of reality. The delusional are out there in full display. And in many instances, they are the ones running the entire crazy show. The out-of-control antics of Senate minority leader Chuck E. Schumer, for example, have been much discussed -- or is that “disgust”? Full Story....Here

Rick Romell , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

It’s all still quite tentative, but Donald Trump’s election and first few months as president have small-business executives in southeastern Wisconsin feeling sunnier about the prospects for their companies.

That may not seem surprising; business generally favors Republicans. But there was no comparable surge in small-business optimism when George W. Bush won in 2000 after eight years of Democratic incumbency.

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President Donald Trump and Congress have saved an additional $60 billion in regulatory costs by rolling back Obama administration rules, according to a new report.

The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute, released a report Tuesday documenting the most recent ways the administration and Congress have used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations. Full Story....Here