Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
Are children safe in public schools?
If the answer seems pretty obvious, it is confirmation that society has definitely gone to extremes that would not have been recognizable in past decades of American history.
Now Denver-area schools are becoming the first to guard their student populations with military-style semiautomatic rifles, and things certainly appear to be escalating.
via NBC News/AP:
Authored by Eric Zuesse,
Richard Nixon’s similarities to Hillary Clinton are remarkable:
1: Both were highly successful politicians who had exceptionally negative net-approval ratings from the U.S. public, but were viewed highly favorably by the voters within their own Party.
2: Both were unsuccessful in their first run for the Presidency, but managed to come back and ran considerably more successful campaigns the second time around.
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
If you had to make a sudden visit to the emergency room, would you have enough money to pay for it without selling something or borrowing the funds from somewhere?
The American Conservative (TAC) seeks a director of development to lead and manage its fundraising infrastructure in support of TAC’s mission of recovering and extending the insights of prudential conservatism in light of contemporary circumstances. TAC addresses such fundamental themes as:
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
While the robo-traders play tag with the chart points, it is worth considering how it will all end. After all, at today’s close the broad market (S&P 500) was valued at 24.3X LTM earnings per share. That is, valuations are in the nosebleed section of history, but financial history has tumbled into the sub-basement of future possibilities.