The jobs report in the nonfarm payroll was only 12,000, not the expected 113,000. Anyone can see that isn’t good. We went to EJ Antoni for analysis; you can see more of his graphs on X. Jobs are being taken from Americans and given to foreigners. Native-born Americans lost almost 800,000 jobs, while foreign-born workers […] The post Harris’s Opportunity Economy: Foreigners Take All American’s Jobs – Literally appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Styx’s career has spanned multiple decades and lineups, growing from its humble beginnings in Chicago to one of rock’s most iconic bands. Formed in the early 1970s by a group of talented musicians, including Dennis DeYoung, James “JY” Young, and Chuck and John Panozzo, Styx initially blended hard rock with progressive and classical influences, quickly distinguishing themselves from their contemporaries. Over the years, lineup changes brought fresh energy and diversity to their sound—most notably, the addition of guitarist and vocalist Tommy Shaw in the mid-1970s, a move that would help solidify Styx’s reputation as arena rock giants. The band’s impressive The post 10 Most Rocking Styx Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny toad living in a Brazilian rainforest. Researchers measured the flea toad at just over a quarter-inch in length (6.95 millimeters) and can fit on the tip of a finger. Even more unique, it emerges from an egg fully formed, rather than as a tadpole. The name of […] The post New Flea Toad Discovered in Brazil is Second Smallest Vertebrate Ever Found appeared first on Good News Network.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. It’s official: Donald Trump wants to abolish the income tax. In a much-anticipated interview with Joe Rogan on his podcast, Trump said the country should return to the late 19th century when we had no income tax at all and funded the federal government with tariffs. Now for months, the former president has been making it clear that he really doesn’t like the income tax, exempting tax on tips, Social Security, overtime pay, first responders, and even 18 million veterans. I kept hoping he’d come out and just break up with the income tax once and for all. And he did. So what if we end the income tax, laying off all 93,654 IRS agents so you can keep every dollar you earn? Will Washington have to run on bake sales? Well, the income tax currently costs the American people $2.4 trillion a year. Trump proposes to replace it with tariffs of 20% on everybody but China, who gets a special 60% tariff that might bring in $900 billion. This would grow America’s economy like rocket fuel. I run through some numbers on the Substack but maybe a 20% increase in the economy near term, so about a $15,000 raise for the typical family. Note that’s on top of the $18,000 of income tax you no longer have to pay. Knock off $3,000 for tariffs and you get about $30,000 in additional income for the typical American family—nearly $3,000 per month. It keeps getting better. Because going by low-tax countries today—or America before the income tax—we might double annual economic growth. So 5% growth would be the new normal. And your kids would be three times richer than you—as it used to work in America. America would be by far the richest country in the world. Also as it was before the income tax. Of course, ditching the income tax would also mean the mother of federal budget holes. After all, replacing $2.4 trillion in income taxes with $900 billion in tariffs is a big hole. Even if you add, say, an extra $500 billion in payroll and excise taxes from economic growth, you’ve still got a trillion dollars to cover. Now we could let it run in deficit, letting the economy outgrow it. I mean, that’s what they do with everything else that doesn’t grow the economy. But you could also cut a trillion dollars in federal spending. How to do such a thing? The other day, Elon Musk estimated he could cut $2 trillion in waste and fraudulent payments. Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, responded, suggesting the military-industrial complex and the pharma-industrial complex. Indeed, going by countries like Britain, perhaps $800 billion of the $900 billion we spend on the military is for protecting Americans—the border, Coast Guard, nukes. As for pharma and the medical-industrial complex, if we simply copy countries like Singapore we might save $2 trillion or more. And Americans wouldn’t go bankrupt getting knee surgery. There’s the illegal aliens—$150 billion a year, minimum. And the trillion-plus we spend on welfare, much of it to the able-bodied. Sharpen some pencils and you get a trillion dollars easy. So you’re rich, the IRS is gone, and you get a nice, lean government. So what’s next? The uniparty will fight this like a rabid dog. But if a president can sell it to American voters, Congress will go along out of sheer self-preservation. Plus, the bake sales would be lit. Read the rest with charts and all the gory details at profstonge.com. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump Wants to Abolish Income Tax appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Matyas Moravec: Most people imagine philosophers as rational thinkers who spend their time developing abstract logical theories and strongly reject superstitious beliefs. But several 20th-century philosophers actively investigated spooky topics such as clairvoyance, telepathy – even ghosts. Many of these philosophers, including Henri Bergson and William James, were interested in what was called “psychical research”. This was the academic study of paranormal phenomena including telepathy, telekinesis and other-worldly spirits. These thinkers attended seances and were attempting to develop theories about ghosts, life after death and the powers exhibited by mediums in trances. My recent archival research has been looking at how these topics shaped 20th-century philosophy. CD Broad (1887-1971) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is now recognised as one of the most important writers on the philosophy of time. He also published on ethics, logic and the history of philosophy. What is less known, though, is that he was an active member of the Society for Psychical Research, a learned society dedicated to the study of paranormal phenomena. The society twice elected him as their president, and he published widely on topics including clairvoyance and poltergeists. In his 1925 book, The Mind and Its Place in Nature, Broad developed what has come to be known as the “compound theory” of ghosts. Broad argued that the human mind was a compound of two components. One of these was the “physical factor,” roughly corresponding to the body. The other one was the “psychic factor,” which carries our mental content like emotions or thoughts. The two of them conjointly form the human mind – just like salt is composed of sodium and chloride. Broad believed that after death, the psychic factor can continue existing for a bit on its own and might enter, like a spirit, a medium during a seance. Images in the ether Another philosopher interested in ghosts and spirits of the dead was HH Price (1899-1984). He was a professor of logic at the University of Oxford and is mostly known for his publications on the philosophy of perception. However, just like Broad, he was heavily involved in the Society for Psychical Research and attended several international conferences dedicated to life after death and telepathy. In his presidential address to the society in 1939, Price tried to offer an explanation of ghosts and hauntings. At any given moment, he argued, your mind is full of “mental images” – the memory of your last holiday, the things you see outside your window, your hopes and expectations for the future. Price theorised that there is a substance, which he called the “psychic ether” that exists halfway between matter and the human mind. He believed that this ether could carry the images that currently exist in your mind even after you die. A bundle of these images and memories can appear as a ghost to some particularly sensitive people. What does ‘ghost’ mean? Casimir Lewy (1919-1991) was one of the most influential philosophical logicians of the 20th century. He spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge – in fact, the philosophy faculty library there is named after him. Lewy is now mostly known for his work on logic, and few people know that he actually wrote his PhD thesis (which was examined by Broad) on life after death. He was primarily interested in language and in the meanings of the terms people use when they talk about ghosts and life after death. What does it mean to say that I might survive the death of my body? What sort of experiences would I need to have as a ghost for the statement “I have survived my death” to be true? Would I have to be able to see myself in the mirror, or to speak to people in the seance room? Lewy insisted that these questions need answering before looking at the empirical “evidence” for ghosts. Following a series of scandalous and widely publicised discoveries of fraudulent mediums faking their supernatural powers and accusations of pseudo-scientific research methods, psychical research eventually moved to the fringes of academia. Lewy, for example, never returned to write on these topics after passing the defence of his PhD in 1943. Nevertheless, despite its brief lifespan, academic psychical research had a significant influence on an entire generation of British philosophers. It shaped their views on time, causation and matter, and gave them an opportunity to think one of life’s most pressing questions: what happens after we die? Matyáš Moravec, Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post How 20th-Century Philosophers Explained Ghosts appeared first on Anomalien.com.

The former Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, claims that he was physically attacked by an unknown entity while lying in bed. Carlson recounted his experience in a conversation with John Heers of the non-profit First Things Foundation for a new documentary project titled Christianities? “In my bed at night… I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled,” Carlson vividly remembered, describing the unexpected and disturbing ordeal. Carlson continued, “I was totally confused; I woke up, and I couldn’t breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate.” The fear and disorientation he felt were palpable as he described his struggle to understand what was happening to him in those intense moments. According to Carlson, the entity he believes attacked him was no ordinary intruder. Instead, he described his assailant as a “demon” that “left claw marks” on his body. Afterward, he said, “I walked around outside, and then I walked in, and my wife and dogs had not woken up.” The fact that his dogs, known to be light sleepers, were undisturbed by the incident added to his confusion and distress. Following the attack, he noticed significant pain in his rib cage and shoulder. “I was just in my boxer shorts,” he explained, “and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder.” The wounds he found were fresh, and, as he noted, “they’re bleeding.” The incident, which Carlson estimated took place around a year and a half ago. Describing it as a “transformative experience,” he said it sparked within him an “intense desire to read the Bible.” It was, he hinted, a profound encounter that shaped his spiritual outlook. The post Tucker Carlson alleges he was physically attacked by a ‘demon’ appeared first on Anomalien.com.