With sadly ironic timing, we noted just last week that the blowback from "unequivocally good" low oil prices was set to cross the border from an increasingly suicidal Canada, and so, as AP reports, it appears Alaska is facing the toughest of times. As oil prices make new cycle lows, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has called for the state's first income tax in 35 years in order to close a $3.5-billion-dollar deficit the state is carrying.

Trump's rise and continued dominance are linked with media coverage, which he devotedly encourages with further celebratory antagonism, bigotry, and hate speech. But as a media clown he is still just a puppet of the GOP plan.

Knowledge, not knee-jerk reactionism, should guide immigration policy. And xenophobia has no place in America. No place.

Over six years ago this website made a simple prediction: as a result of the Fed's disastrous policies designed to make the rich richer beyond their wildest dreams, the US middle class - the growth dynamo behind America's economic power for over a century - is on its way to extinction.