Editorial

With 408,000 fewer Americans report having jobs as air continues to come out of Biden economy, unemployment rate rose to 4 percent in May, according to the latest data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey.
That accounts for 783,000 fewer Americans reporting they have jobs since Nov. 2023 when employment peaked at 161.86 million. Now it’s down to 161.08 million.

I wrote in my column over a month ago that no one should be surprised over former president Donald Trump’s conviction in a New York Court last week. As we say in the South, Trump was a gone pecan from the get-go. There are a number of reasons why. Some emanated from his prejudicial surroundings in New York City. But other causes were of his own making.

What really happened in New York this last week in the prosecution of Donald Trump? The breathless paid script readers of the controlled “press” wanted to gloat and heap disdain on the former President. Their glee was only matched by the vapid analysis of how the verdict might impact the election this year. And a few of the quislings of the Republican In Name Only (RINO) persuasion began to daydream about a return to the Republican Party that played the role of shill to the state, supporting ever more wars of imperial design and furthering the “project” of globalization.