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Multiple Failures of Obamacare are the Unspoken Skunk for Dems in the Shutdown Showdown
By Family Research Council Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) chose extending “temporary” Obamacare COVID pandemic tax credits as their hill to die on in the October 2025 government shutdown showdown with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans. But the ugly reality behind Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric predicting soaring […]
Gorsuch, Barrett Blast Colorado’s Double Standard On Talk Therapy For Kids With Gender Dysphoria
By Shawn Fleetwood Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Under Colorado’s argument, a state could “forbid a regulated licensed professional from affirming homosexuality if that were consistent with the then-prevailing ‘standard of care.’” The Democrat-led state of Colorado seemingly attempted to dodge addressing a key point raised in a pivotal free speech case before the U.S. […]
Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story
By Joan Swirsky In 2020, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that one in 36 children (approximately four percent of boys and one percent of girls) was estimated to have autism-spectrum disorder, estimates that were significantly higher than those in all previous years. But just five years later, according to […]
Melania Trump Secures Agreement With Russia On Displaced Ukrainian Children
By The Daily Caller THE WHITE HOUSE — First lady Melania Trump announced Friday that she secured an agreement with Russia on the reunification of Ukrainian children with their families. WATCH: Melania Trump reveals “open channel of communication” with Putin on Ukrainian children Trump spoke for six minutes, sharing that she had been keeping an […]
Houston’s Congressional Candidate Alexandria Butler Declares: Trumpcare Provides Free Health Insurance for Children
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com , TX /PRNewswire/ — President Trump’s American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA) is commonly referred to as Trumpcare. Trumpcare offers age-based tax credits, unlike Obamacare’s income-based subsidies. Age-based tax credits are easier to administer, and everybody qualifies. U.S. congressional candidate Alexandria Butler said, “Trumpcare gives American families an option […]
A Brief Opinion on the Practice of Fact Checking
By Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Like “free trade” and “democracy”, “fact checking” is a term of craft; it has a counterintuitive definition that, surprisingly, has nothing at all to do with “checking some statement against the facts.” In the era of Big Data, facts are mass produced; they are then selectively thrown […]
TrumpRx: Trump Announces Lower Prescription Drug Costs
By The Geller Report Trump is a wonder. Trump strikes Pfizer deal for 85% drug price cuts. President Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement with Pfizer in the White House Oval Office, requiring the company to sell medications to Medicaid at the lowest international prices starting in 2026, potentially saving hundreds of millions annually on […]
Trump Vows to Reopen Mental Institutions, Their Closure “Catastrophic Mistake”.
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) Common sense leadership. The left’s failed policies turned our cities into open-air asylums. Time to bring sanity back. Trump says he’d consider reopening ‘insane asylums’ to help clean up some of the nation’s biggest cities The Independent, September 2025: President Donald Trump has said he would […]
The Essence of Inner Energy: A Path to Universal Spiritual Awakening
By Amil Imani In this vast tapestry of human existence, there exists an intangible force that animates our lives — a subtle energy born from our deepest emotions and experiences. This energy, often likened to a vital essence harvested from the spectrum of human feelings, is not merely a fleeting phenomenon reserved for the mystically […]
Trump Promises American Global Leadership: 7 Themes from His UN Speech
By Family Research Council In an hour-long speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump rebuked world leaders for embracing nonsensical, self-destructive policies, and he urged them to follow America’s lead in restoring prosperity. Since the wide-ranging speech issued challenges to which other nations must respond, it’s worth reviewing the main highlights. Here are […]
The Harms of AI Chatbots on the Family
By Family Research Council Artificial intelligence shapes our society in numerous ways. It provides easier access to a wide range of information, helps ease the stress of brainstorming, and answers the menial questions we’re too embarrassed to ask an actual person. Despite these common uses of AI, many are completely unaware of the consequences of its […]
Injections for Babies: We are WAY off a scientific path here
By John Droz, Jr. I have brought up some of this information before, but to date, few people seem to appreciate the extreme direness of this matter. Maybe it was my fault for including it with other material, as it might have gotten lost. Today, this is my sole point: US vaccination recommendations for babies […]
EXCLUSIVE: Trans-Industrial Complex Trains New Wave Of Radical Doctors Right Under Trump Admin’s Nose
By The Daily Caller President Trump’s crackdown on gender ideology hasn’t stopped a major medical organization from continuing to promote child sex changes through a multi-million dollar transgender affirming training program offered by its philanthropic arm, public records show. The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation launched an LGBTQ medical fellowship in 2021 that offers up to $750,000 grants to academic medical […]
Murders Rise As Publishing Houses Sell Violent LGBT Fantasies To Kids
By Michael Weingrad Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The publishing industry is cranking out books based on the murderous nihilism of the trans community and marketing them to kids. This is how The New York Times summarizes Manhunt, a novel the newspaper celebrates alongside works by James Baldwin and Adrienne Rich as among the “Top […]
No Birthday Cake For Margaret Sanger
By Ken Braun Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: We wonder how many “feminists” really know the background of one of their heroes. There is even an Arizona connection. Sanger moved to Tucson in 1934 and remained a resident for decades. During this time, she helped found clinics that would later evolve into Planned […]
Democrats: The Party of the Sodomite, by the Sodomite and for the Sodomite
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) Sodomite: A person who practices sodomy is sometimes referred to as a sodomite, a pejorative term. Men engaging in anal sex. Women engaging is anal sex. Genesis 13:13: “The men of Sodom were wicked and sinners exceedingly before the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “Do you not […]
Our Healthcare System is a Mess
By John Droz, Jr. As most of us know by now, there was a contentious Senate hearing last week with Bobby Kennedy (RFKjr), Secretary of DHHS. If we just read mainstream media (e.g., here) or listened to the Democrat Senators attacking a fellow Democrat, one might well conclude that the American public was being endangered by RFKjr and […]
Tucson Is the Canary in the Homeless Shelter
By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The reasons why the homeless in Tucson and other cities are living and dying on the street like animals A recent news story by KVOA in Tucson was another daily reminder of personal and societal costs of homelessness and the nation’s embarrassing inability to remedy it. The […]
The Inconvenient Truth
By Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes On September 9th, various experts testified in front of a Senate Subcommittee on Permanent Investigations regarding the long-held dogma that childhood vaccines are safe, effective, and life-saving. For years, many have called attention to the fact that the ‘safety studies’ are fundamentally flawed and/or non-existent, and […]
Kennedy vs. Big Food: Who Is Funding The Fight Against MAHA?
By Tiffany Gabbay Estimated Reading Time: 20 minutes Editors’ Note: We usually would not run an article of this length. But given the recent grandstanding we saw when RFK, Jr. was before the Senate, we thought a deeper dive was a necessity, so we hope you take the time. It is a complex tale of […]
Analyzing School Shootings- Are We Looking For Answers In All the Wrong Places?
By Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes In the aftermath of the recent Minnesota school shooting, where two children were shot and killed by a gender-confused 23-year-old former student while attending a Catholic mass to kick off the school year, it is time to ask the question that mainstream media have long ignored: […]
Schools Make Kids Crazy
By James Bovard Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will […]
The Letter, a COVID-Era Public Health Infamy
By Michael Watson Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Remember the acts of perfidy carried out under the COVID-19 lockdown regime five years ago. An open letter signed by 1,288 people claiming to be “public health professionals, infectious diseases professionals, and community stakeholders” promoted differential treatment of left-wing BLM protests and right-wing anti-lockdown protests. The defenses […]
Biden’s Pro-Gay Orgy Czar Rides Off Into The Sunset After Being ‘Lovingly’ Escorted Off CDC Campus
By The Daily Caller Farewell, Dr. Monkeypox. Demetre Daskalakis, former President Joe Biden’s Monkeypox response deputy coordinator, is out at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Daskalakis occupied various sexual-disease-related leadership roles during his five year tenure at the CDC. Daskalakis says he was “escorted off lovingly” from the CDC’s campus by “folks who […]
“The British Aren’t Coming!”
By Ronald Dodson Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The decline and fall of the non-American Anglosphere The Firth of Forth sounds confusing to American ears. It is an inlet of the North Sea, called a “firth” and produced by the river “Forth.” On this body of water in Eastern Scotland sits Rosyth, the location of […]
Trump Administration Reshapes PEPFAR into Slimmer, Streamlined Program
By Family Research Council One astonishing element of the second Trump administration is the radical Left’s hapless pattern of choosing to fight on what amounts to political quicksand. In the latest installment of this phenomenon, The New York Times complains that “the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) … has apportioned only $2.9 billion of $6 billion […]
Fighting to Improve U.S. Healthcare: Something you are likely not aware of…
By John Droz, Jr. Just prior to the confirmation hearings for RFKjr, a group of political activists sent a letter to the Senate objecting to him. Attorney Diana Lutfi coordinated a counter effort and had numerous medical professionals and scientists (including me) sign a letter in support of RFKjr. Here is a history. Diana is now planning a D.C. Conference (later this […]
The ‘Covid Jab’ – An Unspoken Threat to Humanity
By Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes It has now been four years since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and the advent of the introduction of the mRNA technology on which many of these gene therapy products were based. Based on polling, almost half of Americans believe that the COVID-19 vaccines have […]
A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health
By Carla Peeters Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes In September 2024, Swiss Re published in their annual report, “Many countries worldwide still report elevated death in their population today.” This impact appears independent of healthcare system or population health. In the pessimistic model, Swiss Re would expect excess deaths to continue for another decade. There is also […]
An Encouraging Pro-Life Victory
By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. I’ve been involved in the pro-life movement long enough to see progress and regress, setbacks and positive developments. Here’s a story of God using many active Christians of various churches to bring about a positive change. For 23 years, the Aastra Women’s Center in Ft. Lauderdale was committed to killing […]