Thursday, January 11, 2024
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Gas..
During a campaign-style Friday speech at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington, President Joe Biden boasted about the three-month decline in gas prices.
Facts First: Biden’s claim about average gasoline prices was false, as the White House acknowledged by correcting the official transcript after CNN inquired about the claim on Friday afternoon. In fact, zero states have an average price under $2.99 per gallon, figures from GasBuddy and the American Automobile Association show. As the correction notes, Biden got a key digit wrong: 41 states and the District of Columbia have an average price under $3.99, not $2.99.
Biden has correctly used the $3.99 figure in previous remarks. But the price of gas is one of the most important numbers in politics. Even if the President made an inadvertent error this time, his incorrect remark was televised live on CNN and MSNBC.
Deliberate gimmick. Just a thought.
Compasion..
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Sticky..
A mob of sticky-fingered migrants stormed into Manhattan’s Bloomingdale’s and tried to swipe a trove of Versace, Dior and Prada designer sunglasses totaling $5,300 — before all but one of them escaped, police sources said Sunday.
About 15 asylum-seekers swarmed the high-end Midtown retailer shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday and grabbed more than a dozen pairs of the pricey sunglasses before making a run for it, sources said.
In a troubling trend in recent years, gangs of thieves throughout the country have overwhelmed merchants in grab-and-run heists that retailers have difficulty thwarting.
Last week, more than 100 troublemakers stormed into a California bakery and trashed the eatery before running off and leaving the storeowner devastated.
Kicks Off..
Gun..
Hunter Biden will have an active January in court as the Department of Justice's two criminal cases against him begin to take shape.