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There are 132,853 K-12 schools in the United States. edweek.org/ew/issues/educ…
Defining a "mall" is actually quite tricky, but there are more than 11,300 Wal-Marts & Sam's Clubs in the United States.
Hannity is proposing a bigger-than-Iraq policing and counter-insurgency effort in the United States
I know I'm taking this suggestion more seriously than its author ever intended, but .. there are 700,000 currently serving police officers in the US. Can't find a number for retirees - especially since we'll need some kind of age cut off, right? 70? 65? 60?
We're saving some money in that Hannity proposed that these hundreds of thousands of police retirees all work for free. Nice of them! But there will be insurance costs, right? Uniforms? Health care for sure ...
We may need to work shop this concept a little more ....
Anyway, the important thing is that the flow of creative thinking on Fox not be impeded by petty considerations like doing 5 minutes of research or thinking before talking on camera
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Trump has succeeded in harming China's economy. China posts worst growth in 17 years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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How big a deal is the China ag announcement? China bought 17% of US ag exports - more than Canada or Mexico.
Until recently, China was Number 1 market for US soybean exports, buying more than half the exported soybean crop.
China was the number 2 destination for US hay; number 3 for US dairy and poultry; number 4 for pork and beef; number 5 for wheat.
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Had black voters shown up for Clinton in the same numbers they showed up for Obama in 2012, she'd have carried Michigan by 1.5 points, almost certainly Pennsylvania too, probably Wisconsin.
Enthusiastic African-American support for the 2020 ticket will lock Trump out of the industrial Midwest - and put him on defense in Georgia.
In 2012. African Americans turned out at a higher rate than whites for the first and only time in US history. Obama delivered that. And his would-be successors are talking about him in a tone of "Mmm, I don't know ... "
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