Council of Economic Advisers/CEA

Study: Raising Minimum Wage Could Lead to More Crime

LeeF April 5, 2019 April 8, 2023

Raising the minimum wage could lead to additional property crimes and hit taxpayers with $2.4 billion in associated costs, a new study by the National …

John Durham releases final report, concludes FBI had no verified intel when it opened probe on Trump

2 years ago

Special Counsel John Durham released a damning final report Monday after more than three years investigating the Russia collusion probe, declaring the FBI had no verified intelligence or evidence when it opened the Crossfire Hurricane probe of President Donald Trump’s campaign in the summer of 2016. The prosecutor, however, recommended no new criminal charges. “Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Durham wrote in a 300-plus page … Read More

Report: $163B of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Lost in Fraud, Waste

3 years ago

COVID-19 pandemic unemployment benefits wound up being a “a magnet for rip-off artists,” as identity thieves capitalized on rushed benefits the government was not geared up for in a pinch, The Washington Post reported Sunday. An estimated $163 billion in pandemic-related benefits were fraudulently received, according to the Labor Department. Just $4.1 billion of that has been recovered, only 2.4% of the estimated stolen, raising concern the government is not going to get most of it back. “The unprecedented explosion of unemployment claims, combined with years of disinvestment in our unemployment … Read More

Wisconsin Officially Launches Audit of 2020 Election

4 years ago

Wisconsin is officially auditing the results of the 2020 Election, with the official announcement coming today according to Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson. Robinson announced on Twitter, “The state of Wisconsin authorized an audit of the 2020 election!” The state of Wisconsin authorized an audit of the 2020 election!— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) May 15, 2021 The official audit was ordered almost three months ago by Republicans in the State Legislature, according to Newsweek. The Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted to order the audit along party lines. The audit will be … Read More

Hero armed with rifle takes down would-be mass shooter at apartment complex

4 years ago

FORT SMITH, AR – Authorities say a 26-year-old gunman was firing at residents at an apartment complex earlier in May, fatally wounding an 87-year-old woman during the spate of gunfire. However, it was reportedly thanks to another resident that also had a firearm that this alleged gunman was taken down. UPDATE: The two individuals that died in today's shooting in Fort Smith have been identified. New details released. https://t.co/Xj5W6Tzl4c— 5NEWS (@5NEWS) May 15, 2021 According to reports, the incident at the apartment complex occurred on May 15th at approximately 7:23 a.m. at an … Read More

President Trump officially announced Operation Warp Speed to Accelerate Manufacturing and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines

5 years ago

After it was first revealed in the press on 29 April, President Trump officially announced the public-private partnership on May 15, 2020. Operation Warp Speed will coordinate existing Health and Human Services-wide efforts, including the NIH ACTIV partnership for vaccine and therapeutic development, the NIH RADx initiative for diagnostic development, and work by BARDA. “No vaccines… No vaccines… No vaccines…” the crowd chanted at a September 2020 Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The loud chorus momentarily drowned out the president. A local news station caught the raucous moment. [1:24 … Read More

Johns Hopkins Hosts the Clade X Pandemic Tabletop Exercise

7 years ago

An exercise led and managed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security that had a “raising awareness” aim of pushing the security people to see possibilities, where “We [i.e. the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security] intended to show how leaders in public health, politics, law, diplomacy, defense, homeland security, and intelligence all need to work together to solve some of the problems a pandemic will cause” was held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC. The participants included the CIA and deep state operatives, concluded that national and … Read More

Study: Putting your Phone down by 10pm can Boost your Mood, Cure Depression

7 years ago

STRUGGLING to fall asleep at night? It may be time to ditch your mobile phone after nightfall. The largest study to link disrupted sleep with mental health issues has recommended devices should not be used after 10pm if you want to get a decent night’s sleep. That means no more aimlessly scrolling through Facebook in bed, watching YouTube clips or sleeping with the TV on. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, found people who do so are more likely to suffer from mood problems and rate themselves … Read More

Philadelphia Doctor, Kermit Gosnell, Sentenced to 3 Life Prison Sentences for Murdering Babies at ‘House of Horrors’ Abortion Clinic

12 years ago

MedicalMiscreants.com has a story from 2012: For decades, the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine ignored the nasty rumors they were hearing about a spine-chilling brick building located at the corner of 38th street and Lancaster, in West Philadelphia. No business in the entire state was more inappropriately named than this place – the Women’s Medical Society. And we now know that at least some members of the health department knew it. Because the Women’s Medical Society had been in business for nearly 40 years, state health officials had … Read More

Fouchier “SARS-COV-1” Paper (2003): Koch’s Postulates Fulfilled?

22 years ago

“It is obvious that Koch’s Postulates have not been satisfied in viral diseases.” -Thomas Rivers 1937 During the 2003 SARS “epidemic,” the WHO regularly announced updates about their search for the causative agent of what was claimed to be a new disease. On March 27th, 2003, they admitted that the criteria that needed to be fulfilled in order to prove that there was a new “virus” causing a new disease was Koch’s Postulates: four logic based rules proposed by Robert Koch that have been the burden of proof … Read More

Presidential Candidate George Wallace is Shot 4 Times in an Assassination Attempt by a Supposed Lone, Crazed Gunman, Arthur Bremer, but Evidence Sugge…

53 years ago

“I have no evidence, but I think my attempted assassination was part of a conspiracy.” – Governor George Wallace The story was both familiar and devastating. Another crazy gunman, portrayed as a withdrawn loner, had taken down another leading political figure in our country. On May 15, 1972, Arthur Herman Bremer pulled a gun and fired upon Governor George Corley Wallace during his campaign rally at a shopping center in Laurel, Maryland. CBS photographer Laurens Pierce caught part of the shooting on film. A clip from this piece … Read More

The Miller Urey Experiment is Published: The Experiment Evolutionists tout as Proof of Darwinism / Evolution

72 years ago

Remember learning about Louis Pasteur? Just before his time, many people believed maggots popped into life wherever meat was left out. They didn’t understand the connection between them and flies. They still thought wine fermented on its own, never thinking about yeast. Belief in life just popping into existence without a parent is called Spontaneous Generation. Back before Jesus’ day, the Greeks and Romans already believed in it. It has never been observed and we now know it can’t happen. But many scientists still believe it did happen, at least once, … Read More

George Washington Orders his Troops to Observe the Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer for the ‘Giver of Victory to Prosper Our Arms’

249 years ago

The rag-tag and green Continental Army would need heaven’s help. In April 1776, they arrived in New York, a city with a large population of Loyalists and surrounded by water that was conducive to a British naval attack. By June the British fleet arrived in the harbor with some four hundred ships. It was at this time, the largest force ever sent forth by one nation to another. One of Washington’s men wrote, “I declare that I thought all London was afloat.” The Americans numbered well under half … Read More