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REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO MISS August Jobs Growth Tops Expectations, Unemployment Holds Near 18-Year Low -Fox Business “The U.S. jobs market is humming along, with hiring picking up in August and paychecks growing [while] the unemployment rate held steady,” Leia Klingel reports. “Payrolls increased by 201,000 in August and the unemployment rate stayed at 3.9 percent.” Bar Association Lauds Kavanaugh: 'What We Saw Was an Allegiance to the Law' -The Washington Times “Judge Brett Kavanaugh is not only qualified to sit on the Supreme Court but is at the ‘top of the stream,’ the American Bar Association told senators Friday, delivering a powerful statement of support for President Trump’s nominee,” Alex Swoyer reports.“The ABA also shot down Democrats’ charges that there was a pattern of conservative bias in the judge’s rulings,” she writes. Jobs Report Beats as Wage Growth Soars at its Fastest Pace Since the Great Recession -Business Insider “US employers added more jobs than forecast in August, and wages increased at their fastest pace since the Great Recession, a government report showed on Friday,” Akin Oyedele reports. “August was the 95th consecutive month in which American employers hired more people than were fired, and there's never been a longer streak.” Layoffs Just Reached a Half-Century Low -The Wall Street Journal “The number of Americans filing applications for new unemployment benefits fell at the end of August to a nearly five-decade low,” Sharon Nunn reports in The Wall Street Journal. “Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs across the U.S., declined to a seasonally adjusted 203,000 in the last week of August, the Labor Department said Thursday.” American Manufacturers Growing at Fastest Pace in 14 years, ISM Finds -MarketWatch “American manufacturers are on a roll: Business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high, according to a survey of industry executives,” Jeffry Bartash writes. “The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index jumped to a 14-year high of 61.3% last month from 58.1% in July.” Democrats' Kavanaugh Tantrums Are an Embarrassment -Investor’s Business Daily “Any doubt that Democrats are desperate to stall Judge Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court ended Tuesday, when they made a mockery of the confirmation hearings,” the Investor’s Business Daily editorial board writes. “This was nothing more than — bad — political theater.” Happy in Their Work -The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes that “blue-collar workers may be the most optimistic folks in America. Eighty-five percent say they see their lives heading in the right direction,” according to a new Harris Poll. “Seventy percent agree ‘the American Dream is alive for people like me,’ and among those who are parents 88% agree with the statement that ‘my children will have a better future than I will.’” President Donald J. Trump Wants This to be a New Year of Shalom, Salaam, Peace -Jewish Telegraphic Agency Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt writes that peace for the Middle East is within grasp, but Palestinian leadership has refused to engage in talks since “President Trump made his bold, courageous and historic decision to recognize the reality that Jerusalem has been and will remain the capital of Israel. The leadership’s unwillingness to engage is disappointing and only hurts the Palestinian people that they claim to serve.” The Trump Administration is Ready to Help California Meet Wildfire Threat -The Sacramento Bee Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue write that the day the Carr Fire started, FEMA approved a grant to help California with firefighting costs. "There is no denying that fires have been a part of Earth’s history since forests first flourished on the planet," they write. "What we can control is how we prepare and respond to them." Layoffs Just Reached a Half-Century Low “The number of Americans filing applications for new unemployment benefits fell at the end of August to a nearly five-decade low,” Sharon Nunn reports in The Wall Street Journal. “Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs across the U.S., declined to a seasonally adjusted 203,000 in the last week of August, the Labor Department said Thursday.” Click here to read more. In The Dallas Morning News, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) write that Democrats have stooped to a new low with their antics against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. “We are both lawyers who have argued before the U.S. Supreme Court,” the Senators explain. “We know when a black robe fits. When it comes to our nation's highest court, Kavanaugh will wear it proudly, and he will wear it well, as he makes careful, cogent decisions that impact the history of our nation.” “A nominee with 12 years of service on the second highest court in the land, authoring 308 opinions, earning the highest rating from the American Bar Association, acquitting himself beautifully during long hours of senatorial grilling while displaying class, calm, intellect and good humor, Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation was never at any risk,” Matt Mackowiak argues in The Washington Times. In The Daily Signal, foreign policy experts Brett Schaefer and James Phillips write that President Trump made the right call by ending funding for the U.N.’s Palestinian aid organization. “Previous administrations let the fear of the unknown lead them to continue support in the face of ever-more implacable Palestinian demands and mounting evidence that U.S. taxpayer dollars were being used indirectly or diverted to support Palestinian extremism and violence.” “Americans are rightly concerned that Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley have an outsized influence over the news and opinions we see on social media platforms and in Google searches,” Paula Bolyard writes in PJ Media. “A study released today from GovPredict shows that more than 90 percent of political donations by Alphabet [Google’s parent company] employees went to Democrats.” The White House • September 6, 2018 The latest Trump Economy myth: Wages are stagnant The Trump Administration’s critics are in a bind: During the 2016 election, many claimed that then-candidate Donald J. Trump’s economic policies wouldn’t work—in fact, that they would likely trigger a major recession. Nearly a year and a half into his term, the results are undeniable. Nearly 4 million jobs have been created since the election, including 400,000 in manufacturing. New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low. Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps. The economy is on track to hit its highest annual average growth rate in more than 13 years. Looking for a new talking point, the left found one: Jobs, stocks, and economic growth may be soaring, but pay is not. “Worker wages remain stagnant,” ThinkProgress declared in July. Except pay isn’t stagnant—not by a longshot. A new report from the Council of Economic Advisers this week explains the origins of that misleading stat. According to the CEA, official wage growth estimates often ignore key parts of the real compensation that workers receive. Among other problems, these measures exclude the value of crucial benefits such as health insurance, taxes, and paid leave. Real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year, well above inflation growth. CEA’s estimate translates to more than $1,000 of additional income each year for the average American household. Get the facts: American workers are seeing bigger paychecks    Read the full report: How much are workers really getting paid? Democrats’ double standard on Judge Kavanaugh Flash back to June 2010: Solicitor General Elena Kagan appeared before the Democratic-majority Senate for her confirmation hearing to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The Senate did not demand that the Obama administration provide the tens of thousands of pages from Elena Kagan’s tenure as Solicitor General,” Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ed Whelan writes in National Review. “Never mind that Kagan, in stark contrast to Kavanaugh, had zero judicial experience and that her SG records would have been the materials most probative of her legal thinking,” Whelan continues. Naturally, Senate Democrats should take the same principled stand for executive privilege when examining records for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Instead, less than one minute into this week’s confirmation hearing, Democrats began calling to adjourn the session altogether, citing insufficient information about the nominee. In fact, “the Judiciary Committee has received the most comprehensive set of documents ever provided by a nominee to the Supreme Court, receiving more executive branch documents than the past five Supreme Court nominees combined,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) wrote yesterday. “These documents are in addition to the most relevant portion of Kavanaugh’s extensive record; namely, the 307 opinions he authored as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,” Sen. Tillis added. “Senate Democrats’ Disingenuous Double Standard” Something to share: The New York Times on Kavanaugh vs. Kagan Photo of the Day Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead President Donald J. Trump departs from the South Lawn of the White House | September 6, 2018