The first successful pogo rocket! What an accomplishment.

Quite the celebration over this. Saving ~$16 Million per launch is pretty huge.
Orbcomm must be quite happy with this -- having a global satellite network for trucks and construction equipment is a big deal.

Kerry: Peace higher priority than Assad going.

Obummer: F THAT NOISE, GOTTA KILL!!!!

Nice to know they have juries, disappointing to hear they're as bloodthirsty as everywhere else. And their Police sound monstrous.

That isn't the flashlight, honey...it's your teeth! No way any sane person is going to visit -- kids are still being born without brains downstream of that place.

Quite the endorsement there.

At extreme cost. I'm seriously doubting they'll ever make a dent in the Houthi stronghold in the north, short of carpet bombing the place...which they can do based on the amount of bombs they just bought.

Mainstream Sunni doctrine is wholly illiberal; if their culture is to be compatible with western classical liberal tradition, a "protestant reformation" needs to happen in Islam. Given the political corruption surrounding the Islamic based states currently and in the past, that's eminently sensible. And amongst the better educated western Muslims, much of this work has already happened; If our governments quit meddling, such a reformation might just have started to take hold. As things are, it'll be another half century before it does, or more, if our governments keep meddling.

LOL. New York attitude to the core.

More Trump Humor:

Thank God. People can finally begin real research into the many anti-cancer potentials of cannabinoids without worrying about knocks from the feds.

UPDATE: The USPS continues official oppression though. No wonder those tools are going bankrupt.

One of the GLADIO capos bites the dust, having paid virtually no price for his crimes.

Echoes of W.J. Sidis, teaching 2 years old to read. I remember the excitement I felt as a 4 year old finally understanding phonics -- I'd been read to and already talked with my parents on a wide range of subjects but phonics really made it click; it was off to the races at that point. Having been able to read at a higher level than the rest of my cohort was, and still is, a leg up; I'm prosperous and nonimprisoned, in contrast to a large segment of my cohort.

On how he became disillusioned with the organization. Basically, he realized they gave up on peace when they decided humanity was the enemy.

Hope it's good.

God bless the AMA for fighting this. Of course, the bureaucrats don't give a tinker's damn if it's illegal; though this case can buy freedom a little more time (hopefully).

This time a KKK member tries to build a "death ray" to kill Muslims. Don't they know the Red Skull runs SHIELD?

It's a huge giveaway program to the mega banks with huge amounts of "excess reserves" that can use it in reverse repo operations, which are now unlimited.

Adams has some good insights on Trump. Kind of funny that Adams uses some of Trump's own methods in questioning Horton's positions :)

UPDATE: Adams' considered response. I'd say both Adams and Horton have it right on this one -- Trump is the master persuader, and his positions can all be taken with a grain of salt. That said, Horton understands that this means America will buy a Pig in a Poke, to our great hazard.

By the way, the other master persuader in Moscow recognizes his own kind. I have to say, this theory puts a lot of things into perspective; think about Obama, Trump and Putin when reading this:

When the top persuaders do their thing, about a third of the public can be expected to literally hallucinate.

Excellent news.

Y'know, like journalists.

Good luck. Smuggling is about to be a very lucrative business in corruptoZone.

For the same reason Galveston did, frankly. Too corrupt.

It raised mortgage rates in the equal and opposite direction. Of course, no sane saver will park their money where it will be guaranteed to lose it's value. They'll instead demand a return, as is sensible.

...but they also removed all reverse repo limits. Which means that banks can effectively evade all reserve requirements via overnight covering loans (reverse repo). Clearly they want to have the member banks keep things pumped up while they keep up the appearance of taking the air out of the market. This won't end well.

New book comes out making the same point I've been making for years: even angels centrally planning angels is worse than the private property alternative. As long as the angel in charge can't read the others' minds, it will have incorrect resource allocation. Whether the others' needs are met is effectively random, and this will corrupt said angels, as random reinforcement tends to do. In contrast, capitalism and private property rewards the individual prioritizing their highest goals, which as angels reinforces their better parts.

Paul manages to get in the best lines of the night. In general, the top 3 all opposed the Neocon line, and got away with it, which is probably why the neoconmen are looking to bandwagon behind Trump now. They know he's a lying sack, and that they can probably sway him.