Shortly after the two ABC moderators entered the presidential debate on the side of Kamala Harris, there was a brief moment when Donald Trump pushed back. It happened when David Muir finished one of his drive-by “fact-checks,” concerning the crime rate in this country. The moderator intended to immediately ask Kamala Harris a question, so that Trump couldn’t respond. But Trump did respond, and the moderator had no answer to what he said. Watch: If you’re going to debate a candidate, when you’re really supposed to be the moderator, then you should at least be able to debate. But Muir had no answer when Trump refuted his canned talking point about FBI data. He sheepishly had to pivot to Kamala, who started laughing awkwardly. That’s because what Trump said was true. This summer, when the FBI released its Quarterly Uniform Crime Report showing that crime was down, they didn’t include data from New York or Los Angeles. The NYPD and LAPD are the two biggest police forces in the entire country, but they didn’t report their data at all, apparently because they couldn’t comply with the FBI’s new data-tracking requirements in time. And that wasn’t particularly unusual. Back in 2022, roughly one-third of the country’s 6,000 police agencies didn’t report crime data to the FBI. This isn’t some partisan point I’m making. The FBI admitted all of this. Yesterday, though, the FBI released its latest updated annual report. And the agency claims that this time around, the report comprehensively documents violent crimes that occurred in 2023 because the data comes from law enforcement agencies that cover more than 95% of the country’s population — including the NYPD and LAPD. According to the new data, car thefts went up by around 20% from 2022 to 2023. So that’s a massive increase. But violent crime was supposedly down overall by 3%, while “murder and non-negligent homicide” were down more than 10%. Reported rapes were down nearly 10% as well, and property crimes dropped 2.5%. As you’d expect, Left-wing media outlets celebrated the news. They portrayed it as vindication for Kamala Harris and her debating partner, David Muir. Watch: A few things about this report. First of all, several large police departments — including the NOPD and LAPD — didn’t report demographic data about these crimes to the FBI. If you pull up these police departments on the FBI’s website, you won’t be able to see the race and gender of assailants or their victims, for example. On social media yesterday, a lot of people interpreted this as proof that the NOPD and LAPD didn’t report violent crimes at all, but that’s not true. They did report violent crimes, but they left out information about who’s committing them, and who the victims are. That’s still a notable omission — especially when the Biden administration and Kamala Harris are claiming that we live in a white supremacist hellscape, where it’s not safe for black people to go about their lives. And it’s an unexplained omission, too. My producers reached out to the FBI, LAPD and NOPD to ask why this data was missing, and we didn’t hear back. But in general, the FBI’s numbers are being accurately reported by MSNBC and other mainstream outlets. If you think the FBI’s data captures all the crime that’s occurring, then yes, the data is a sign that this country is safer than it was a year ago. And that would be a good thing. The problem is that this data doesn’t, in fact, capture all the crime that’s occurring — or anywhere close to it. As even that MSNBC report conceded, the only way for the FBI to hear about crimes is if someone reports them to a police department in the first place. And that may not be happening as much as it should be, because people don’t have any confidence that police or prosecutors will do anything if they report a crime. Unless we’re talking about homicides — which are usually reported because it’s hard to conceal a body — this is a significant problem with the data. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show And the Biden administration itself acknowledges that. Earlier this month, the DOJ released a report entitled, “Criminal Victimization, 2023.” The report is unique in that it doesn’t rely on police department data. Instead, it captures non-fatal crimes that weren’t reported to law enforcement, using something called the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) which is administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Census Bureau. As the DOJ puts it: The NCVS collects information on whether crimes were reported or not reported to police and on the reasons why the crime was reported or not reported. Victims may not report a crime for a variety of reasons, including fear of reprisal or getting the offender in trouble, believing that police would not or could not do anything to help, and believing the crime to be a personal issue or too trivial to report. The reason the DOJ collects this data is that, as it turns out, there are a lot of crimes that aren’t reported — far more than you might think. Quoting from the report: Approximately 45% of violent victimizations were reported to police in 2023, which was not significantly different from 2022. The percentage of rape or sexual assault victimizations reported to police increased significantly, from 21% in 2022 to 46% in 2023. A lower percentage of robbery victimizations were reported to police in 2023 (42%) than in 2022 (64%). During this period, the percentage of overall property crime victimizations reported to police decreased from 32% to 30%, due in part to a decline in the reporting of motor vehicle thefts to police (from 81% to 72%). So when you hear that the FBI reports that property crimes were down 2% in 2023, you have to keep in mind that according to the DOJ’s crime survey, only around a third of property crimes were reported to police in the first place. And the majority of other non-fatal violent crimes aren’t reported either. The exception appears to be “motor vehicle thefts,” which are reported at a rate of more than 70%. And that just so happens to be the same category that, according to the FBI data, increased from 2022 to 2023. Although even 70% might seem remarkably low. How could 30% of car theft victims not even report it to the cops? Well, I actually have some personal experience here. I had my car stolen out of a parking lot downtown a couple of years ago. I did report it to the police — and precisely nothing happened. A detective followed up a few days later, but that was it. I never heard another word about it. In fact I was told that they had eye witnesses and video of the perpetrators, but they were “a bunch of kids” and there wasn’t much that could or would be done. So if my car is ever stolen again, my incentive to report it will be much lower. I still will report it, because I need to report it in order for insurance to cover it. But that would be my only incentive. It’s also probably why car theft reports are so much higher, relative to other types of crime. In any case, the point is that a lack of enforcement has a very demoralizing effect on victims of crime. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! The takeaway from the DOJ’s survey is that, under the Biden administration, crime has increased across the board. Here’s how the Wall Street Journal summarized the survey data: The NCVS report for 2023 finds no statistically significant evidence that violent crime or property crime is dropping in America. Excluding simple assault—the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony—the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund-the-police movement swept the country. The problem is particularly severe in major cities. This is something that’s also not captured by the reporting we’re hearing about the FBI’s data, but it’s true. Major cities are completely unrecognizable from what they were just a few years ago — and there’s no sign that this trend is going to change. Again from the Journal: According to the NCVS, the urban violent-crime rate increased 40% from 2019 to 2023. Excluding simple assault, the urban violent-crime rate rose 54% over that span. From 2022 to 2023, the urban violent-crime rate didn’t change to a statistically significant degree, so these higher crime rates appear to be the new norm in America’s cities. Of course, there are reasons to be skeptical of survey data in general. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just admitted they overestimated job growth in this country by something like 800,000 jobs, and that was because the surveys they used — evidently — aren’t very reliable. But in this case, the DOJ’s survey has a few advantages over the FBI’s data. As I mentioned, it captures crimes that aren’t reported to the police. Additionally, the DOJ has been running this survey since the Nixon administration. But the FBI recently overhauled its data collection methods in 2022, which makes it very hard to compare year-to-year changes in crime. And that’s a major problem because it’s essentially impossible to establish a baseline for comparison with the FBI data. By contrast, with the survey data, we can get a broader look at the overall increase in crime under the Biden-Harris administration — not just looking at 2022 to 2023. More to the point, there are plenty of other indicators that the DOJ’s survey is correct, and that America has become a more dangerous place to live under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. For one thing, you could go to any major city in the country and visit a C.V.S. or a Rite Aid, and see how many items are hidden behind glass. You can look at how police departments have shrunk all over the country, from New Orleans to New York. You can also look at some other indicators that no one’s talking about. For example, the “homicide victimization rate” in this country increased by 19% from 2019 to 2023. That’s a nearly 20% increase in the rate of people getting killed by other people, whether intentionally or unintentionally. 2023's homicide victimization rate was still 19% above 2019's. pic.twitter.com/STtbHpqkMP — ~~datahazard~~ (@fentasyl) September 23, 2024 That seems like a significant jump, to put it mildly. But this is data that no mainstream media outlet will report. It’s only because of an account on X called DataHazard — which came up with the numbers by looking at death certificates — that we have this information at all. Think about that — we have a 20% increase in the “homicide victimization rate” in just four years. Any other country, at any other time in history, would call that a crisis. But using that kind of language wouldn’t play well for Kamala Harris. So instead, her promoters are resorting to a familiar tactic. They’re selectively relying on data that helps their candidate, while ignoring the data that contradicts or complicates the narrative. It’s all part of an effort, once again, to convince you to ignore what’s happening right in front of you. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI They don’t care that more people are dying since 2019, or that most violent crimes are still going unreported. They only care about one thing, which is winning in November. So they’re disregarding all nuance in their reporting on this. But the rest of us — people who actually want to live in this country, regardless of who the president is — can’t accept that. A government that will lie about the deaths of its own citizens will lie about anything. And after the one-sided, misleading response we saw to the FBI’s data yesterday, it’s clear that’s exactly the kind of government that Kamala Harris’ supporters want.

“Boy Meets World” actress Trina McGee shared the heartbreaking news that she suffered a miscarriage after announcing to the world that she’d gotten pregnant at the age of 54. During the now-55-year-old actress’ appearance Monday on “The Tamron Hall Show,” McGee — who played Angela Moore on the popular ‘90s sitcom — told Hall that she was no longer pregnant after previously sharing that she was expecting with husband Marcello Thedford. “I did lose the baby,” McGee told the host. “It wasn’t expected, it was closer to the end of the first trimester. We don’t have any real reasons why.” “I was still so grateful to have the experience of being able to conceive at this age and this time,” she added, noting going through “a lot of depression” after it happened. Boy Meets World’s Trina McGee Reveals Miscarriage After ‘Miracle’ Pregnancy at 54: ‘Very Hard to Face’ https://t.co/pUWsDEi3B9 — People (@people) September 23, 2024 “There are so many things that come when you really want a family and you want your family to be complete,” McGee continued. “There are so many dreams that you have. It was hard to face the fact that that’s not going to happen at this point in the junction.” The star already has three children: Ramia, 33, Langston, 30, and Ezra, 26. She shares two with ex-husband Courtland Davis, the third from a previous relationship, and was very much looking forward to having a child with Thedford, as previously reported. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “There were so many women who, even at 55 and older, still want to get pregnant or don’t want to be boxed into this ‘geriatric pregnancy’ thing,” McGee said. “I don’t know if I’m here to give advice for everybody, because everybody’s body is different, and you should listen to your doctors.” “Part of me doesn’t ever want to go through this again,” she added. “The conclusion I came to is, we’ll just keep loving each other, if something happens that way, fine, but I don’t want to put another anxiety on myself. Sometimes it really is better to let go and let God.” Earlier this year, McGee opened up about being pregnant again at 54 after her announcement caused a stir online. “I have been saying I wanted to have a baby with my current husband of 16 years for quite a while,” McGee told Entertainment Tonight. She went on to tell the outlet she visited “shamans” in Belize who recommended elixirs and natural remedies for reversing signs of early menopause. “The number one thing for me is to not partake in any stress and stay away from negativity as much as I can, and that pertains to what I put on TV… what I look at on my phone, you know, there’s so much drama and violence and negativity out there as soon as you turn on the screen,” McGee said. “I really want to be pointed when I turn on the screen; what I’m watching. Because stress, for me, is the biggest factor.” Amanda Harding contributed to this piece. Related: ‘Boy Meets World’ Actress Pregnant At 54, Credits Natural Remedies

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There are countless songs that explore the theme of wanting someone you can’t have, but this list takes a deeper dive into the many facets of that longing. Sometimes, it’s the physical distance between two people that creates the desire—just not being able to be near them in the moment. While difficult, that separation is often temporary. On the other end of the spectrum, though, are the more heart-wrenching situations: the person who doesn’t even know you exist, someone who completely ignores you, or, worse still, someone you never had and likely never will. Whether it’s unrequited love, a relationship The post 10 Rock Songs About Wanting Someone You Can’t Have appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

“To the autoworkers in Michigan, Georgia, and all other parts of our country, I am pinpointing you for greatness,” former President Donald Trump said in a campaign speech on Tuesday. In a rally held in Savannah, Georgia, Trump laid out his economic vision for the United States if he is reelected in November. His message focused on reviving domestic manufacturing. Georgia is a key swing state that’s being courted heavily by both Trump and his Democratic opponent for the presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump called his economic policies “new American industrialism,” where the focus will be on bringing offshored manufacturing jobs back to the United States. The 45th president said that, for years, other countries have stripped American jobs and wealth, but added he would “put America first.” He said that under his leadership “American workers will no longer be worried about losing [their] jobs to foreign nations. Instead, foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America.” While many vital industries have moved to other counties in recent years, Trump said, he has a plan to bring them back and restore American prosperity. “This New American Industrialism will create millions of jobs, massively raise wages for American workers, and make the United States into a manufacturing powerhouse,” he  said. “We will be able to build ships again. We will be able to build airplanes again. We will become the world leader in robotics. The U.S. auto industry will once again be the envy of the planet.” To make that happen, the former president said he would incentivize American companies to hire American workers while reducing burdens to economic growth: I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden, and free access to the best and biggest market on the planet—but only if you make your product here in America and hire American workers for the job.  If you don’t make your product here, then you will have to pay a very substantial tariff when you send your product into the United States. Trump proposed lowering the corporate tax rate to 15% for companies that make their products in the U.S. Harris has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28%. The rate currently is 21%. The former president said that his policies—which focus on rebuilding American industry and creating energy independence—would strengthen the American economy, but that Harris’ policies were too “radical” and would damage the country. He said that while Harris was fine with jobs going overseas, she would place heavy taxes on American companies. “Kamala the tax queen is demanding a 33% tax hike on all domestic production,” Trump said. This will make companies flee elsewhere, he said. Worse, Trump said that Harris’ proposal to tax unrealized capital gains would be catastrophic and would send the country into a depression. “This woman is grossly incompetent,” he said. He said that the Biden-Harris administration has imported millions of illegal aliens who are lowering wages and taking American jobs. PRESIDENT TRUMP: Kamala’s illegals are also crushing your wages and stealing your jobs— last month alone, American-born workers LOST 1.3 million jobs, and migrants GAINED 635,000 jobs. So as we create millions of new manufacturing jobs here in Georgia and nationwide, we will… pic.twitter.com/hUtsCrgzVt— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 24, 2024 “So, as we create millions of new manufacturing jobs here in Georgia and nationwide, we will make sure these jobs go to American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Trump said. Heritage Foundation economic policy expert E.J. Antoni wrote in June that while unemployment has been falling in recent years, most of the job growth has been among  foreign-born workers. “Over the last year, employment rose 637,000 for foreign-born workers, but fell 299,000 for native-born Americans,” Antoni wrote. “There are fewer native-born Americans employed today than before the [COVID-19] pandemic; meaning, American workers have made no progress in over four years. In fact, they’ve fallen behind.” The post In Speech on Economy, Trump Calls for ‘New American Industrialism’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.