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Twitter loses $5 billion in market value after Trump is permanently barred from the platform

By Theron Mohamed Twitter’s stock price tumbled as much as 12% on Monday, erasing $5 billion from its market capitalization. The tumble followed the social-media group’s permanent suspension of President Donald Trump’s account on Friday. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the…

New York can’t buy its way out of coming blackouts

Even if battery backup worked, its astronomical costs put the idea in Fantasyland  By David Wojick New York City will soon be home to the world’s biggest industrial-scale battery system. It’s designed to back up the city’s growing reliance on intermittent “renewable” electricity. At 400 megawatt-hours (MWh), this cluster of batteries will be more than…

Santa and the Disgruntled Elves

By Riley J. Hood—Milwaukee County Constitution Party  It is 2009, and while there is a debt bubble depression, that had lowered Mom and Dad’s income, Santa is doing fine. Santa always says, “a bad day at pole the north pole is better than Diocletian’s jail cells.” For several centuries, the manufacturing plant at the North…

“A Republic if you can keep it”

By Riley J. Hood—Milwaukee County Constitution Party The following was posted on forbes.com. “When Benjamin Franklin was asked after a session of the Constitutional Convention, ‘What kind of a government have you given us?’ he replied, ‘A democracy, if you can keep it.’ Our republic is founded on the principle that it will continue only…