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Trumps Says If He Doesn’t Win Pennsylvania, It Will Mean Elections “Rigged;” Katrina Pierson Sounds Like SNL’s “Drunk Uncle” In Interview
3 Reasons Trump May Legitimately Lose Pennsylvania People in Philadelphia are part of the Atlantic City casino market and remember Trump casinos there going bankrupt. By the way, if you are the type of person who believes an election is “rigged,”… Read More ›
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We Fact Check CNN Discussion With Apprentice “Winner”
Last night on CNN (click here for transcript) Don Lemon moderated a discussion between the “Winner of the First Season of the Apprentice,” Katrina Campins and former CNN business reporter Ali Velshi. Okay, first off, Katrina Campins was not the… Read More ›
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Toronto Metro Reporter Apparently Needs To Work On Math Skills
Here’s a headline from last Thursday’s Metro: “Toronto’s 1 per cent are about 100,000 times wealthier than us: study…” Now if we do some back-of-the-napkin research, the population of Toronto is about 2.6 million people. The median income in 2014… Read More ›
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The yeas have it! (Probably)
The Republican National Convention began with a raucous vote this afternoon on whether to approve the party’s Rule Book. The Party Chair took two votes based on who yelled the loudest that sounded an awful lot like both votes could… Read More ›
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Three reasons Brexit is ironic.
1. The people of England want to be “independent.” Which they totally are except for the unelected Queen on their ironically Euro-independent money. 2. “What is the EU?” was the second highest search in the UK on Google after Brexit…. Read More ›
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Oil Prices Up Despite Everyone In World Promising To Produce More Oil
Oil prices rose today, even after OPEC failed to come to an agreement to lower production; Russia promised to increase output; oil workers stopped striking after several days in Kuwait; and inventories increased in the United States. 3 Possible Explanations… Read More ›
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McDonald’s Testing All You Can Eat Fries
Time reports that McDonald’s is testing its potential restaurant of the future at a Missouri location. You can use self-serve kiosks to customize your burgers, and order all-you-can-eat-fries. Someone (or since this is the future, maybe some robot) will bring… Read More ›
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Former YellowPages.Com Bidding To Buy Yahoo
The Globe and Mail reports that YP Holdings, owner of the web page formerly known as yellowpages.com is putting in a bid to buy Yahoo. 3 Questions That Arise From This Story The Yellow Pages are still a thing online?… Read More ›
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Axl Rose To Join AC/DC On Tour
CNN reports that W. Axl Rose will replace lead singer Brian Johnson on AC/DC’s “Rock Or Bust” tour, as Johnson has hearing issues. Here are three alternate names we propose for this tour given this information. “Shook Me All Night… Read More ›
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Poll: Almost Half Of Canadians Dissatisfied With Cable Packages
According to an Angus Reid poll, 49% of Canadians think cable TV is “not very good/terrible value for what you pay.” 3 Observations For This Story This presumably makes HGTV very sad. Do you think people want to make bundled… Read More ›
