U.S.. retail sales barely rise in October, up scant 0.1%

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Sales at U.S. retailers rose just 0.1% in October, held down by lower spending at gas stations, auto dealers and grocery stores. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a seasonally adjusted 0.4% increase. Although the number of autos sold last month was quite strong, sales fell a seasonally adjusted 0.5%, perhaps suggesting heavier discounting. Sales at gas stations also fell again, but that's a good thing for consumers. Stripping out gas and autos, sales rose a somewhat better 0.3%, the Commerce Department said Friday. So-called control group sales that factor into GDP rose 0.2%. In September, sales were revised lower to show no gain.

Egypt's Great Pyramid has mystery heat spots, scientists say

The Great Pyramid in Giza had researchers seeing spots recently.  Heat spots, that is.

While on the hunt for hidden chambers within the pyramid, a group of architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan discovered that higher temperatures registered on three adjacent stones located at the bottom of the Egyptian pyramid.  Read more

Administration takes heat for downgrading religious freedom post

The Obama administration is facing new questions on Capitol Hill over its commitment to religious freedom posts, after the State Department -- in defiance of Congress -- appeared to downgrade a diplomatic position created to help persecuted minorities.   Read more

Eurozone GDP growth slows as exports weaken

The eurozone economy slowed in the three months to September as exports to large developing economies weakened, a development that makes it more likely the European Central Bank will expand its stimulus programs in December.

The slowdown was led by Germany, the currency area's exporting powerhouse, while Italian economic growth also eased. There were fresh contractions in Greece, Finland and Estonia, while Portugal's economy stagnated.  Read more

Chaos on campus: Students protest, call for heads to roll at schools around country

Chaos swept over college campuses around the nation Thursday, as the ousters of the embattled University of Missouri system’s president and chancellor earlier this week were followed by dozens of other student protests calling for more faculty and staff heads to roll.

A popular professor at Missouri said he resigned Wednesday after students lashed out at him for pledging to give a scheduled exam amid spiraling protests, but the university said Thursday it rejected his resignation.

The Dean of Students at Claremont McKenna College in California, Mary Spellman, resigned in a letter to the community Thursday, after some at the school called for hunger strikes over what they perceived as a lack of support for students of color.  Read more

THE MISSOURI POOP SWASTIKA IS THE MOMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE JUMPED THE SHARK

It seems more likely that the swastika is a hoax, just as — whisper it — so many other high-profile black victims on American campuses celebrated endlessly by progressive journalists turn out to be mendacious frauds.

But “facts” haven’t stopped students, and even some idiotic professors, from hurling themselves into grievance-fuelled hysteria on campuses all over the country, even at Yale. Such are the levels of hysteria following this fecal fabrication that Mizzou students hallucinated the KKK into existence yesterday.  Read more

The War That You Don’t See

The war that we don’t see is the one being fought right before our own eyes, but our conditioning does not allow us to recognize it.  Read more

Utah congressman finds leak of Russian nuclear torpedo plans 'fishy'

A Utah congressman finds the apparent leak of Russia's plans for a nuclear torpedo system on state-run television dubious.

Two Kremlin-controlled channels showed a military official looking at a confidential document containing drawings and details of a weapons system called Status-6.

The images were filmed during a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with military chiefs in the city of Sochi on Monday, according to The Guardian.  Read more

Neo-Barbarians at the Gate? Western Elites Abandoning Fundamental Values

 

It is becoming clear that the political and financial elites of the United States, the EU and the Gulf States are waging a proxy war against Bashar al-Assad, the people of Syria and now Russians, blocking all diplomatic avenues towards peace and even calling for "countering" Russia, US blogger Joe Contrarian notes.  Read more

4 OUT OF 5 MILITARY PERSONNEL WANT CONCEALED CARRY ON BASES

On November 10, a RallyPoint/Rasumussen Reports poll showed that 81 percent of current and retired military personnel want concealed carry on stateside bases so they can defend their lives in the event of an attack.  Read more

An Adult on Campus

Mitch Daniels offers a lesson to college administrators.

We’ve been wondering all week what happened to the grown-ups on American university campuses, and it appears we have a sighting.Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University, spoke up Wednesday about the children’s revolt at Yale and Missouri in a letter “to the Purdue community.”  Read more

***LIVE UPDATES*** CAMPUS CRAZIES ON ‘MILLION STUDENT MARCH’

A statement from the activists reads: “We are people of all colors, genders, and sexual orientation, and we are united to fight for education as a human right.” Protesters are calling for tuition-free public college, cancellation of student debt, and a $15 minimum wage for college workers… plus a lot of other stuff about “straight white male patriarchy” and rape culture on campus.  Read more

Capitalism, Poverty and Public Opinion

Polling suggests that the majority of Americans believe capitalism harms the poor, despite evidence that capitalism has been instrumental in reducing American as well as global poverty. In many cases, when people deride capitalism, they are actually thinking of “crony capitalism” or, more appropriately, “corporatism.” In a recent article for CapX, Marian Tupy analyzes in detail the state of American capitalism and how it aligns with public opinion.   Read more

VIDEO SHOWS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ACTIVIST JONATHAN BUTLER FALSIFIED KEY CLAIM AGAINST PRESIDENT

Jonathan Butler — the University of Missouri grad student who became the public face of the #ConcernedStudent1950 protests that forced the resignation of both the school’s president and chancellor — claimed several times that he was hit by a car carrying the president in early October during the school’s homecoming parade.  Read more

The Meaning of Their Service

Our country gives hope to millions around the world, and you—who knew that at one time your job was to fight well—kept that hope alive. By your service you made clear your choice about what kind of world we want for our children: The world of violent jihadist terrorists, or one defined by Abraham Lincoln when he advised us to listen to our better angels?

I searched for words to pay my respects to all of you here tonight and had to turn to others more articulate than I to convey what our service meant. Someone once said that America is like a bank: If you want to take something out, then you must be willing to put something in.   Read more

MIZZOU PROTESTERS SEGREGATE BY RACE; WHITE STUDENTS ASKED TO LEAVE ‘BLACK-ONLY HEALING SPACE’

In an ironic development, to say the least, protesters at the University of Missouri (MU) segregated themselves by race Wednesday night, having white students leave a gathering in order to create a “black-only healing space.”

Supporters of the group Concerned Students 1950, which has spearheaded the protest movement at MU, assembled at the school’s student center Wednesday night for a meeting after a planned protest march was canceled due to bad weather. And then, according to activist Steve Schmidt, whites were asked to leave:  Read more

MISSOURI LT. GOV KINDER BLAMES LEFT, CALLS MISSOURI EVENTS ‘APPALLING’

Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder says we’re seeing the “fruits of decades of Leftist control” play out at the University of Missouri this week.

Kinder joined Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 (6AM to 9AM ET) Thursday morning to discuss recent events at Mizzou with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon.  Read more

SHOCK POLL: 72% of US citizens agree with Trump’s Deportation Force plan

According to the latest national opinion polls, both public, and private, most Americans agree with Donald Trump’s plan for a “Deportation Force” to remove 11,000,000 illegal aliens from the United States.
Post Debate polling and other “dials” show that Donald Trump’s statement (aided by Ted Cruz’s defense) that “We are a nation of laws, we are a nation of borders” is held by the majority of Americans.  Read more

US Government Shocked To Find Job Openings Continue To Surge Above Actual Hires

Something odd is happening in the US labor market.

As the BLS reports in its latest JOLTS report, "the number of hires has exceeded the number of job openings for most of the JOLTS history" which should make intuitive sense for any normal, "growing" economy, where the labor market works as expected. However, as JOLTs also adds, "over the past year, this relationship has changed as job  openings have outnumbered hires for several months."  Read more

Job openings in September rise to second-highest level on record

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Job openings rose in September to the second-highest level in the history of the series, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Job openings rose to a seasonally adjusted 5.53 million from 5.38 million in August, though that's short of the 5.67 million peak reached this summer. The series started in Dec. 2000. The quits rate -- an important proxy of worker confidence, since it shows the willingness to look for another job -- was 1.9% for the sixth consecutive month. The hiring rate ticked down a notch to 3.6%.

Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college

Students were set to walk out of classrooms across the United States on Thursday to protest ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges and a minimum wage hike for campus workers.

The demonstrations are planned just two days after thousands of fast-food workers took to the streets in a nationwide day of action pushing for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union rights for the industry.  Read more

Missouri back to football, but it's not business as usual

And you thought the resignation of the school's president was going to solve everything.  Wrong!!!  Its just the beginning.  Once they get what they want, it becomes a unsatisfied appetite for more.  Richard Medlock

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said Wednesday he had asked his coaching staff to stay in close touch with the team in a tense week that included a player plan to boycott and the arrest of a student following online threats against black students and faculty.  Read more

Kerry: Keystone Shows U.S. Is ‘Willing to Make The Same Tough Choices’ on Climate It Wants From Others

Great example.  Taking the most innovative country in the world, a leader in almost all modern progress, and turning it back to the "dark ages".  Richard Medlock

Rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline application provided the Obama administration with the opportunity to prove that the U.S. was “willing to make the same tough choices that we advocate to the rest of the world” when it comes to climate change, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday.  Read more

Springs Officers Will No Longer Take Fitness Tests After Discrimination Lawsuit

Colorado Springs residents had a lot to say after hearing that Colorado Springs police officers will no longer have to take physical fitness tests this year.

“I think it’s a mistake,” Mary Jo Piccin told CBS4’s Tom Mustin. “I think the police need to be able to chase down them criminals.”

Last Friday the Colorado Springs Police Department agreed to the demands of 12 female officers who filed a civil suit claiming the fitness tests are discriminatory. All the officers were over the age of 40.  Read more

Greek workers on general strike against austerity

ATHENS--Greece's main labor unions began a 24-hour general strike on Thursday, in protest against austerity measures imposed under Greece's international bailout.

The strike, which is set to disrupt hospital, public transport, air traffic, tax offices and other activities, is the first major union action faced by the governing Syriza party, a left-wing movement that vowed to end austerity but that has had to accept Greece's creditors' demands to stay in the euro.

The strike was organized by the country's two largest union groups, GSEE and ADEDY, which represent private and public sector workers respectively.  Read more