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57 Ways to Love a Killer


Thursday March 8th, 2018   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 10:28am PST   •   5 Comments

Proposition 57, California’s 2016 Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act championed by governor Jerry Brown, expanded parole possibilities for nonviolent offenders and barred prosecutors from directly filing juvenile cases in adult court. This measure was supposed to reduce the prison population and save taxpayers money. Instead it burns up more taxpayer dollars and gives some…
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New Fed Chair: U.S. “Not on a Sustainable Fiscal Path”


Thursday March 8th, 2018   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 5:57am PST   •   0 Comments

Last week, while testifying before the U.S. Congress, the new head of the U.S. Federal Reserve Jerome Powell acknowledged that the U.S. government is not on a sustainable fiscal path. CNBC has a video excerpt of Powell’s testimony on February 27, 2018, which came in response to questions asked by Representative Bruce Poliquin (R-ME),…
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Will the National Debt Become a Weapon Against the U.S.?


Monday March 5th, 2018   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 6:05am PST   •   1 Comment

Will the $20+ trillion national debt come to be used as a weapon against the U.S. in President Trump’s recently announced new trade war? It’s a situation that has been threatened before, as we saw with Saudi Arabia during President Obama’s tenure in office, and it is something that we have seen other nations…
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Will White-Coat Waste Live On?


Friday March 2nd, 2018   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 9:53am PST   •   1 Comment

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, created by Proposition 71 in 2004, promised life-saving cures for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases. The $3 billion state stem-cell agency also assured voters that royalties from these cures and therapies would generate more than $1 billion. As David Jensen of the California Stem Cell Report notes, no…
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Medicare Taken to Cleaners by Unscrupulous Chiropractors


Thursday March 1st, 2018   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 6:56am PST   •   0 Comments

Where the practice of medicine is concerned, the field of chiropractic doesn’t have a strong reputation, which is attested by a Wikipedia article detailing a long list of scientific controversies and criticism of the field. Never-the-less, despite ongoing questions of many of its practices and their effectiveness as medical treatments, a limited number of…
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