[ad_1] If you have not been following him on Twitter, @PoliticalMath has been doing yeoman’s work debunking misinformation about coronavirus data. One big theme is the popular conspiracy theory, bandied about regularly by major media, that Florida is actually covering up significant numbers of deaths. But then you look at the evidence: [T]he author of

[ad_1] The leveraged-loan market received good (but expected) news in a recent case when a judge threw out a suit seeking to classify syndicated loans as “securities” (on par with stocks and bonds). A leveraged loan (to oversimplify) is a loan to a borrower with an already substantial amount of debt. Writing for Bloomberg in

[ad_1] Posted by: R. Mitchell in Featured News, Syndicated Posts, Trump Administration, White House Watch May 29, 2020 President Donald Trump holds a press conference on Friday in the Rose Garden of the White House. This event is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through

[ad_1] Former FEC Chairman Brad Smith has a review of left-leaning law professor Rick Hasen’s book Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. As he notes, Hasen rehashes some tired arguments about “voter suppression” but also makes some solid points, such as criticizing Stacey Abrams for undermining the legitimacy of elections:

[ad_1] Conservative judges have become increasingly skeptical of the “administrative state.” They are giving executive-branch agencies less deference when those agencies interpret the laws that govern them. They are suggesting that they may act to stop Congress from granting these agencies so much discretion that they practically become lawmakers. President Trump’s appointees to the federal

[ad_1] Personal incomes rose by 10.5 percent in April, far surpassing predictions of a 5.9 percent decline. The Senate’s economic-spending package put money in the hands of consumers just as they reduced their purchases by 13.6 percent due to the coronavirus shutdowns. The data released by the Commerce Department today raise the possibility that a

[ad_1] Police officers face protesters after a white police officer was caught on video pressing his knee into the neck of African-American man George Floyd, who later died at a hospital, in St. Paul, Minnesota, May 28, 2020. (Adam Bettcher/Reuters) You can watch officers of the Minnesota State Police arrest CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and

[ad_1] Twitter censored the White House’s official Twitter account after it shared and quoted a tweet from President Donald Trump Friday that the company’s moderators hit for “glorifying violence.” The account shared a tweet Trump composed early Friday morning in which he called people rioting and looting in Minneapolis, Minnesota “THUGS” and suggested that he

[ad_1] GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is considering subpoenas for two longtime Clinton associates who peddled a dossier about Donald Trump similar to the one pushed by Christopher Steele.  Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer, the Clinton cronies, were involved in one of the more bizarre but unexplored aspects of the Clinton-related efforts to peddle Trump dirt. 

[ad_1] Aretha Franklin performs in Pasadena, Calif., on September 7, 2005. (Chris Pizzello / Reuters) The latest episode of my Music for a While offers an eclectic program. It has a Shostakovich overture, a spiritual, a Broadway song, a French organ classic. There is also Aretha Franklin, from 1985: “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?” I have said