News Story of the Day: Last month, the U.S. economy created 136,000 new jobs, an increase from the previous month’s 130,000. This is lower than the market estimate of 145,000 new jobs, but the unemployment rate fell 0.2 percent to a 50-year low 3.5 percent.
But it wasn’t manufacturing that led the gains, despite President Donald Trump pledging to make manufacturing great again – it shed 2,000 jobs. It was education, health care, and government that added a collective 62,000 jobs. Also, the retail industry eliminated 11,000 jobs.
Moreover, average hourly earnings were flat at $28.09, average weekly hours were unchanged at 34.4 hours, and the labor force participation rate was unmoved at 63.2 percent.
Chart of the Day: Do you know someone with a peanut allergy? The market is catering more to this growing population. But just how prevalent is it? The Economist has the numbers:
Illustration of the Day: Greta Thunberg needs to play on a swingset or something. She is one angry kid. But, hey, that anger will likely yield her a Nobel Peace Prize and help her make a seven-figure income. Meanwhile, people who are actually doing something about the environment, like Scott Pressler, can ignored. Oh, well.
Quote of the Day: Did you hear? Newseum is closing down. This means you will no longer be able to spend $25 to see Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin outfit! Oh, the humanity! But Joe Schaeffer of Liberty Nation eloquently depicts its welcomed demise.
Apparently, finally coming to terms with the fact that a self-aggrandizing monument to “mainstream” journalism just won’t fly as a business venture in 2019, the Newseum made it official on Oct 1. The highly expensive white elephant will close its doors on Dec. 31. The vanity shrine to stale establishment media consensus “has struggled financially for a number of years and continuing to operate in our current location has proven unsustainable.”
Ego aside, a museum to a dominant media culture that has turned off tens of millions of Americans over the years with its bias, arrogance, and unwillingness to perform real journalism never made much sense – especially in a location abutting dazzling tourist attractions such as The National Air and Space Museum. Never mind personal political feelings. Would you rather pay $25 to see Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin costume from Saturday Night Live (an actual 2012 exhibit) or zero dollars to see the Spirit of St. Louis plane flown by Charles Lindbergh? The fact that the Newseum’s backers considered the two even remotely compatible as National Mall attractions tells you all you need to know about the serious disconnect the profession continues to have with the American people.
The Newseum isn’t just a hall of fame for left-leaning journalists. It is an especially off-putting paean to a strikingly authoritarian and depressingly commonplace ruling media narrative. Its biggest flaw is that it celebrates so many of the very things Americans have had their fill of. Political correctness runs amok at the museum, with exhibits extolling “diversity” and “equality” an everyday experience. A May 19 event titled “Portraits of the Women of the 116th Congress,” for example, hosted by The New York Times, featured sprawling enlargements of portraits of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her Swamp cohorts.
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All of the above sums up just why the Newseum will not be remotely missed by those not already fully on board with the leftist establishment cultural model. Americans are bombarded with these same loaded talking points in schools, churches, workplaces, popular entertainment and, of course, big-box media reporting every single day. To expect them to shell out twenty-five bucks to experience it all again while they are on vacation was always going to be a bridge too far.
Tweet of the Day: Speaking of Thunberg, why is the climate change movement so unhinged? They want cannibalism, insect diets, cockroach milk, and now eating babies? Yikes. But Joel Pollack of Breitbart makes an interesting point:
I don’t know how you eat children without separating families
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) October 4, 2019
Video of the Day: Extinction Rebellion, the British equivalent to the domestic terrorist group Antifa, endured a massive fail as it tried to protest Her Majesty’s Treasury. You just need to look at this clip to realize that ER is likely comprised of the same people who represent Antifa: Fragile nerds who live with their parents.
Extinction Rebellion activists failed in a plan to spray HM Treasury with thousands of litres of fake blood this morning after their high-pressure hose pipe became too much to handle.
What is your response? pic.twitter.com/EpfqWefcKm
— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) October 3, 2019
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