Social Issues

Via Global Macro Monitor,

OK, comrades, let’s check our partisanship at the door and deal with some real analysis on the health care bill that just went down in flames. Here are a few of our thoughts on why the Trump/Ryan healthcare bill to repeal and replace Obamacare went down and some economics behind it...

1)  Most important, the bill had no support throughout the country.   The latest poll released Thursday afternoon showed that only 17 percent of the country supported the plan.

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Illinois voters are voting with their feet. Not only are people scrambling to get out of Cook County, but the entire state is suffering.

Illinois Policy Institute writer Michael Lucci explains in this guest post on Cook County Migration.

Cook County has Largest Population Loss of Any County in U.S.

Saudi Arabia has become the least appropriate winner of a medal since Barack Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize, after the CIA awarded the Saudi Crown Prince the “George Tenet Medal” for his country’s supposed [...]

The DEA has approved a dangerous type of synthetic marijuana produced by Big Pharma to sell to members of the public.  The Drug Enforcement Administration gave the new fake marijuana drug ‘Syndros’ a schedule II classification, meaning [...]

Ireland are expected to leave the European Union in revenge for its treatment by the EU elite during the financial crisis.  Co-founder of Hibernia Forum, Keith Redmond, claims that Irish people have had enough of [...]