America’s worsening retirement problem:
"When a crisis ends, not everyone recovers equally.
And in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, though the stock market has long recovered, there is an important group that was hit badly – and hasn’t bounced back. This is Americans nearing retirement.
People aged 50-64 are supposed to be building wealth and getting ready for retirement.
But the Congressional Budget Office released a new report on wealth last Thursday that found that median family wealth dropped for Americans aged 50-64 from around $250,000 in 2007 to just under $200,000 by 2010—and then, troublingly, continued to fall to around $150,000 in 2013. That’s a 40 percent drop in six years."
Clothing tycoon’s tacky ‘Mexican’ party enrages Latino staffers | New York Post: "As a rabbi ensured kosher purity at the taco station, hired entertainers — including topless and G-stringed women — gyrated next to partiers.
One woman wore a pink posterboard that read “Immigrant Day Worker” on the front and “Where’s the Wall” on the back, while another female guest’s shirt read “Immigrant Mushroom Picker” alongside a Mexican flag.
...“If they insulted someone, I would apologize to whoever was insulted,” she said. Joseph speculated that the charged election-year atmosphere and Trump’s controversial candidacy heightened sensitivity.
...The hired party staffers — primarily Latinos — were outraged, according to a disturbed guest.
Joseph’s daughter, Sarah Joseph, acknowledged that some of the outfits were unseemly.
“We had a private party honoring Mexico and had no intention of ever offending anyone,” she said. “We cannot control everyone’s costumes.”
Joseph Joseph runs an urban clothing empire that launched in Bushwick in 1977 and now boasts more than 30 locations across New York City, Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester...."
Hillary's Corruption Is Overwhelming - Ben Shapiro:
"After over two decades in the heart of America's spotlight, Hillary Clinton is still an unknown quantity for most Americans. That's thanks to one factor and one factor only: the love and worship of the mainstream media.
Over the weekend, no less than six terrible stories broke that would have crippled anyone else's campaign. First,"
The fact remains that Britain has been held back for decades because of our membership of the EU. We have not been free to make the trade deals we would have wished for while whole swathes of industry were wrapped in red tape and bureaucracy.
A sense of freedom and potential has been bursting through in recent weeks and it is still only the early days. We have an even more brilliant future in store.
History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com Lee Deforest 1873, Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910 Jim Davis 1915, Ben Bradlee 1921 - Editor at Washington Post, Macaulay Culkin 1980 - Actor ("Home Alone") 55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar. 1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta." 1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten. 1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany. 1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II. 1947 - Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball. 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.
"During a rare live interview, Hillary Clinton brushed off her lack of press conferences after being pressed on the issue by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The Democratic presidential nominee has not been questioned by reporters in more than 260 days.
When Cooper first asked the former secretary of state about her lack of pressers on Wednesday, Clinton said, “Well Anderson, I’m talking to you now, and I’ve given way in excess of 300 interviews this year.”"
"Barry Bahrami went from incredulous to angry last month when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a batch of firearms control laws known collectively as “Gunmageddon.”
Then, the San Diego-based CEO became determined to fight back against the laws, which take aim at so-called assault weapons, enforce ammunition background checks, mostly take effect Jan. 1 and outlaw the possession of high-capacity magazines and ban the "bullet buttons" that enable their swift replacement.
"These laws are completely insane to almost anyone with a real knowledge of firearms, and I did not think Gov. Brown would sign them," Bahrami told FoxNews.com. "Many California gun owners are still unaware they will be criminals soon.""
The run-off vote in October will pit two highly contrasting candidates against each other once again, following an initial vote in April and a first, annulled run-off vote in May.
Former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen is running as an independent against Norbert Hofer, the candidate for the Freedom Party (FPO) - a Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant party that is gaining ground in the country. ...Mr Hofer had received 51.9 per cent of the initial result, not counting absentee votes - a total that was described as a “political earthquake”.
The media's anti-Trump frenzy makes history - Washington Times
"This week I am going to do something unusual.
I am going to enter into a conversation with another columnist.
Doing so was not so unusual a few decades back. Bill Buckley and James Jackson Kilpatrick did it when provoked and it was always interesting.
Yet today a columnist is a godlike figure.
Today’s columnist communicates solely with Olympus, and the result is often a bit tedious.
I propose to address the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin and congratulate him on noting that mainstream media (MSM) have passed yet another milepost in their decline. Michael wrote in his column this weekend that “Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.”
And he elaborated: “The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand in hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.” Michael writes for a Rupert Murdoch newspaper and I write for the good Times and The American Spectator.
None is a member of the MSM, but I would venture that neither of us is as tyrannized into homogeneity as the writers for the MSM. In fact, there exists more diversity of opinion about Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton where we write than within the MSM. In our audience we trust our readers to decide for themselves. My only quibble with Michael is that I doubt the MSM had much credibility before it began its ambush of Mr. Trump, though for a certitude it has now gone beyond the point of no return..."
"The Anne Arundel County Public School District in Maryland has instructed teachers and faculty to let transgender students bunk with other students of the gender with which they identify — and not tell parents."
Life draining out of NHS, says Dr Mark Porter | Express Comment | Comment | Daily Express "OUR NHS is in crisis. Any doctor working today It’s not surprising many people question the Government’s commitment to the NHS. First and foremost, the service needs more funding. It is under unprecedented strain and is struggling to keep pace with relentlessly rising demand. ...Failure to invest now will result in a disaster both financially and in terms of patient health and care."
New revelations show a nation for sale under Hillary Clinton | New York Post: "The Democratic Party often warns us that mixing big money and politics will corrupt democracy. They must have nominated Hillary Clinton to prove it.
The Clinton Foundation was ostensibly set up to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Though it’s done some fine work, its most fruitful program has been leveraging Clinton’s position in the State Department to enrich her family, friends and cronies.
It’s against federal law for charities to act in the interests of private business or individuals.
Yet the Clinton Foundation secured high-paying gigs for its namesakes and helped for-profit corporations with family ties set up lucrative deals.
As it turns out, that’s probably the least corrupt part of the story..." Read on!
"The Obama administration is withholding from Congress details about how $1.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds was delivered to Iran, according to conversations with lawmakers, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the administration is now stonewalling an official inquiry into the matter.
The Departments of State, Treasury, and Justice have all rebuffed a congressional probe into the circumstances surrounding the $1.3 billion payment to Iran, which is part of an additional $400 million cash payout that occurred just prior to the release of several U.S. hostages and led to accusations that the administration had paid Iran a ransom."
Officials for University YES Academy held an impromptu meeting today to tell high school students they needed to find another school to attend. Only parents and students were allowed in the meeting, and they were barred from using recording devices.
“What are our kids supposed to do?” a parent told Metro Times reporter Allie Gross. “Another black school closed down. More black kids cannot be educated.”
The school’s management company, New Paradigm, handed parents and students a list of six other schools, including one of the company’s own schools, Detroit Edison Public School Academy, Gross reported from outside the meeting.
Students criticized New Paradigm for waiting until the last minute to announce the school’s closure.
“They call about everything else, but they don’t think to call about closing the school,” a student told Gross.
The University YES Academy, at 14669 Curtis St., will continue to teach K-8.
Ralph Bland, head of New Paradigm, via YouTube.
After the meeting, three bodyguards tried to prevent Gross from interviewing the head of New Paradigm, Ralph Bland, who declined to comment.
Culture Beat: Climate Alarmists Demand Child Tax — The Patriot Post:
"One of the problems with believing a lie is the unforeseen negative ramifications that proceed from it. Case in point is an idea promoted by Travis Rieder, assistant director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at John Hopkins University.
In a recent interview with NPR, Rieder said that having fewer children “could be the thing that saves us.”
He continued, “Here’s a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them.” His proposal to advance this idea amounts to a procreation tax, a kind of “carbon tax on kids,” as he called it. Great idea, let’s make the cost of having and raising children even more expensive.
NAFBPO Endorses NumbersUSA’s "10 Steps" | NumbersUSA:
"The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) has endorsed NumberUSA’s "10 Steps to Fix Our Broken Immigration System".
“I am writing today for the purpose of recognizing and endorsing the Ten Point Plan that Numbers USA has masterfully conceived which addresses the key points necessary to dramatically reduce illegal immigration and effectively address those already here in violation of law. The key is putting the National Security and Public Safety of all Americans first and that is the effect this plan will have,” wrote Zack Taylor, Chairman of the NAFBPO, in the endorsement.
The 10 Steps:
Make E-Verify mandatory for all U.S. employers to eliminate the jobs magnet.
Complete the Congressionally-mandated biometric entry/exit system to track non-immigrant visitors to the U.S.
End the practice of birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and foreign visitors.
Require state and local law enforcement to report affirmatively all non-citizens in custody to ICE, make ICE detainers mandatory, and require ICE to pick up and remove deportable aliens.
Expand expedited removal to include all illegal aliens with criminal convictions.
End catch-and-release of illegal aliens by requiring that they be detained until removal.
Deny immigrant and nonimmigrant visas to nations that refuse to repatriate their citizens.
Reform the judicial process in immigration courts, including restricting relief from removal, to expedite the process and reduce the backlog of cases.
Restrict asylum to the internationally recognized definition of those who are unable to be returned to the home country due to a well-founded fear of (state) persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
This is Americans nearing retirement.
