Rubio Heads To Gulf Capitals As Washington Races To Lock In Iran Deal

The French Never Wanted Mass Immigration Via Remix News, French leaders know how to manipulate their voters, but the voters are also apparently easily manipulated. Every leader from French President Emmanuel Macron to François Mitterrand in the 1980s has decried immigration numbers and promised a crackdown, all while allowing immigration numbers to continuously climb year after year. Here are just some relevant quotes: Emmanuel Macron said in 2023: “There is an immigration problem in France.” In 2016, then French President François Hollande said, “There are too many arrivals, immigration that shouldn’t be there.” In 2023,...

Despite 'Survey' Sadness, Jobless Claims Slide Near Historic Lows The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell to just 207k (below the 213k expected and down from the prior 209.25k) - back near its lowest levels in 5 years (and trend towards its lowest level in 50 years)... Source: Bloomberg Despite a small pick up last week, Continuing jobless claims have been below the 1.9 million Maginot Line since the start of the year... Source: Bloomberg Finally, as the following chart suggests, while it may be "hard to get"...

Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California's decline, arguing that the state's deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housing, and transportation has created a self-reinforcing system where every new crisis produces more regulation, more spending, and fewer productive citizens.