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Vic Rohe Running for the Florida Senate in District 22
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com Vic Rohe for Florida State Senate District 22. That includes all of Sarasota County and about the southern third of Manatee County. The reasons for Vic’s candidacy are 3-fold: To return local control of zoning & building permitting to our county and local governments. To secure your right to determine […]
Vic Rohe Running for the Forida Senate in District 22
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com Vic Rohe for Florida State Senate District 22. That includes all of Sarasota County and about the southern third of Manatee County. The reasons for Vic’s candidacy are 3-fold: To return local control of zoning & building permitting to our county and local governments. To secure your right to determine […]
The Men Building AI Now Want to Build Better Babies
By Majority Report What Do They Know That We Don’t? For years, the men of Silicon Valley told us artificial intelligence would transform the world. They promised smarter medicine. Safer transportation. More efficient economies. Personalized tutors. Breakthroughs in science. Machines that could help cure disease, write software, and perhaps one day solve problems that have […]
RFK Jr. Estimates Los Angeles Hospice Scams Cost U.S. $5,000,000,000
By The Daily Caller Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House committee Thursday that the total cost of hospice fraud in Los Angeles could reach $5,000,000,000. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who posted a video in December showing him investigating allegedly fraudulent day care centers run by Somali migrants, posted a similar video looking […]
DOJ Weaponization: Overview of Biden’s Campaign Against Pro-Life Groups and Individuals
By Majority Report For years, many Americans have suspected that the federal government was no longer applying the law evenly, especially when it came to deeply divisive cultural issues. Now, the Department of Justice’s own report appears to confirm those concerns. In a sweeping internal review, the DOJ examined hundreds of thousands of records, internal […]
SICK: $269M Medi-Cal Scam—Pharmacy Bills for Drugs Patients Never Got
By The Geller Report California Fraud Alert, II: Orange County Man Pleads Guilty to Medi-Cal Fraud Scheme That Paid Out Over $269 Million RedState: Federal prosecutors say an Orange County man used California’s Medi-Cal system to run nearly $270 million in fraudulent billings through the state’s Medicaid program, collecting more than $178 million before he […]
State’s Spending on Illegal Immigrants Blows Budget by 611%
By The Daily Signal Facing a budget pinch, Colorado lawmakers are cutting spending to largely sustain funding for a program subsidizing “pregnant people” regardless of immigration status. “Cover All Coloradans” is expected to cost 611% more than originally projected this year, according to the state Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. The costly program is now a focus of a U.S. […]
NEWSOM’S DEATH FRAUD EMPIRE: $50M Scam Paid People To Pretend They Were Dying
By The Geller Report Federal authorities in California have dismantled a sprawling $50 million hospice fraud ring in a coordinated April 2 crackdown dubbed “Operation Never Say Die,” charging 15 individuals and arresting eight tied to sham hospice operations across Southern California. The scheme allegedly targeted vulnerable individuals—many not terminally ill-paying them kickbacks to pose […]
SCOTUS Gender Decision Slams Brakes On Coerced Speech
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JUNK SCIENCE SHOCK: Study Says Half of Welfare Policy Research False As Fraud Crisis Explodes Nationwide
By The Geller Report Everything the Democrats say and do is a lie. “It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false….” To Cut Welfare Fraud, Target Government-Funded Academic Fraud More than half of all the research that has ever been used to design America’s social safety net is likely untrue, a study […]
The Boot of Federal Tyranny has Breached its Bonds
By Kelleigh Nelson “… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguard to the continuance of a free government … whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be […]
What is Worse? False Cultural Attribution Or Cultural Appropriation?
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Battery Plant Explosions in California Raise Public Health Concerns
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Lithium burns so hot and bright they use it to make flares. Once they get going, lithium fires can be almost impossible to put out. Witness the spate of car carrier fires that tend to burn themselves out when firefighting efforts fail. When hurricanes struck Florida, homeowners evacuated to safety in […]
Biden CIA Warned About ‘Traditional Motherhood’ and ‘Homemaking’ as White Extremist Tactics
By The Daily Signal When the Biden administration turned its attention to concerned parents in the fall of 2021, the Central Intelligence Agency drafted a memo warning about white racial extremists recruiting women for “traditional motherhood” and “homemaking.” The CIA produced an intelligence assessment focused on “women advancing white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist radicalization and recruitment” […]
What Obituaries Can Teach Us
By Joan Swirsky Plus, what they will teach us about those who are still with us. When I was growing up in New Haven, Conn., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper — The New Haven Register, still extant — but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) […]
The Scarcity Delusion: Why a Healthcare Right Doesn’t Create a Doctor
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Autistic Barbie
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‘It’s a Disgrace’: Vance Reveals Playbook for Combating Fraud in United States
By The Daily Signal Vice President JD Vance announced he is withholding Medicaid reimbursements from Minnesota while the administration investigates fraud in the state. When asked by The Daily Signal if this plan should be viewed as a playbook for fighting fraud in the rest of the country, Vance said, “I think you can, certainly.” […]
Is Transgender Violence a Problem?
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As Lawsuits Multiply, Transgender Reversal Movement Gains Momentum
By The Daily Signal Lawsuits filed by young people who were permanently disfigured by procedures attempting to reassign gender are multiplying, and more and more professional medical associations are backing away from endorsing the procedures for minors. Experts like Walt Heyer, who formerly spent eight years living a transgender lifestyle, say it’s just the beginning of […]
Reverend John Stone Shares the Painful Story of the Arizona Family Court System
By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. My guest is Arizona resident, the Rev. John Stone who shares the painful story of how the Arizona Family Court system, Child Protective Services, and even the Arizona Attorney General and Governor failed to act with the forceful and slick taking of three minor children away from their custodial dad. […]
Attorney: Arizona Judge Abortion Ruling Shows Ballot Impact
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1/4 Billion Women and Girls Were Mutilated by Islamic Female Genital Mutilation Practices
By Jihad Watch But the UN claims that female mutilation is a Christian, Jewish and European practice. A staggering number. The UN recently commemorated its ‘International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM’ by not mentioning Islam in any way, but by mentioning that 230 million, almost a quarter of a billion women and girls, were […]
What Constitution? Progressive States, Cities Join WHO Network after U.S. Withdrawal
By Family Research Council For the past decade, left-wing Democrats have calibrated their actions by assessing whatever Donald Trump wants, and doing the opposite. This tactic is evident everywhere, but far fewer people understand how close this pattern comes to triggering a constitutional crisis. One recent example came after the Trump administration officially withdrew the United States […]
She Changed Her Mind. Canada Killed Her Anyway
By Majority Report I call it state-sanctioned murder? What about you? An elderly Canadian woman withdrew her request to die, asked instead for hospice care, and was euthanized that same evening. She was offered no reprieve. No second chance. And no appeal. Death was her only option. The decision unfolded in hours, not weeks. And it happened […]
Arizona Gives $6B Yearly In Improper Medicaid Payments
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Shamp: Arizona Gives $6B Yearly In Improper Medicaid Payments
By Zachery Schmidt Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Arizona is facing $6 billion in improper state Medicaid payments yearly, according to state Sen. Janae Shamp. Shamp, R-Surprise, gave a presentation to the Arizona Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday about what she called fraud. “We cannot put our heads in the sand and […]
Fraud as Policy: The Incentives of the Modern Welfare State
By Patrick Frise Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The scale of fraud uncovered in recent years has exposed how government transfer programs function, even as meaningful public or legislative reckoning remains largely absent. What began as a series of pandemic-related scandals has revealed something broader and more troubling: large-scale fraud is not an anomaly within […]
Melinda French Gates And Her Pivotal Philanthropies
By Robert Stilson Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The erstwhile wife of the Microsoft co-founder now sits atop of one America’s richest philanthropic networks. Where is this money going? In 2024, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates made a $7.88 billion contribution to a charitable foundation established by his ex-wife Melinda French Gates. Media outlets have reported that that the gift was […]
CALIF-FRAUD: Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place — Los Angeles
By The Geller Report California is facing mounting calls for a sweeping audit after MASSIVE fraud was exposed — a staggering 18% of all U.S. home health activity comes from just one place: Los Angeles County. That single county now has more hospice agencies than 36 states combined. One doctor alone was caught fraudulently billing […]