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TIME LIMITS: A Simple Answer to Our Budget Problem
By Bruce Bialosky Written by Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Ronald Reagan was very fond of simple solutions, simple answers. That was what made him such a great communicator. People understood what he was telling them. My favorite statement of his is written in beautiful calligraphy and hung in my office. Regarding the […]
AZ Legislative Leaders Blast Fraud By ‘Medicaid millionaires’
By Dave Mason Written by Dave Mason Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Arizona is paying $6 billion in Medicaid benefits to more than 20,000 recipients who don’t need the help, legislative leaders said Tuesday at a news conference about a Patient First Coalition report. About one-fourth of those people are “Medicaid millionaires,” who could have […]
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The Purest Form Of Discrimination
By Mark Wallace Written by Mark Wallace Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trump Administration is attempting to defund an entire host of federally-funded programs, generating fierce opposition from those who have their snouts firmly planted in the federal trough. For them the taxpayer-funded gravy train is coming to an end, a prospect they view […]
Running for Governor with a Plan
By Bruce Bialosky Written by Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes When people are running for an elected position, they often launch their campaign with a book making the case why they are the best candidate for the position, along with their backstory. I have read a few of these over the years and […]
Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids
By The Daily Caller The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures on Wednesday. In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection clause. “This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical […]
How Trump’s Unmasking of Corporatism Spoiled the Left’s Agenda – The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats
By Suzanne Cook Catlin Written by Suzanne Cook Catlin Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes America’s two dominant political parties approach governance very differently. The Republican Party sees the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as enduring and time tested and they revere freedom. By contrast, today’s Democratic Party has incorporated the teachings of Karl Marx […]
A Few Very Recent Examples of Soviet Level Western Media Propaganda and Active Measures
By Vlad Tepes Blog 1. While RFK Jr struggles to get rid of the astonishing grip big pharma has on the entire set of regulatory bodies of the American medical system, Canada is insulting itself with narratives and dialectics on the issue. Ottawa Citizen: Experts fear upheaval in the U.S. could fuel vaccine distrust in […]
URGENT: World Health Organization About to Give Itself Unlimited Power
By Robert Williams Written by Robert Williams Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Dr.’ Tedros Will Decide How You Must Live The World Health Organization (WHO) might finally be getting just what it wanted: Unlimited power and control. The deadline to opt out of the International Health Regulations is July 19 – less than two months from now. […]
Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It from Parents
By Family Research Council It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull […]
‘Next’: Schumer Dodges Simple Question About Medicaid For Illegal Immigrants
By The Daily Caller Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question about whether he supported states giving illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health insurance at a press conference Wednesday. The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act included a provision to penalize 14 states and the District of Columbia who enroll illegal immigrants in state health insurance programs by […]
Dr. Fauci and China’s Killer Fungus
By Kenneth R. Timmerman Just when you thought you’d heard everything about corruption inside the National Institutes of Health under Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, this week federal prosecutors arraigned two Chinese nationals in Detroit for allegedly attempting to import a “killer fungus” into the United States. Thirty-three year old Yunqing Jian, and her colleague, […]
‘Absolutely Horrific’: AI-Generated Child Porn Leads Teen to Commit Suicide
By Family Research Council As their teenage son lay in the hospital with his life oozing out of him, Eli Heacock’s parents felt their grief compounded by confusion: They had no idea why he had committed suicide. Then they found his phone. Messages showed their son — 16-year-old Elijah “Eli” Manning Heacock of Glasgow, Kentucky — had fallen […]
Why It’s Hard To Make Sense Of The ‘Mishmash’ In Republicans’ ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
By Chris Jacobs Written by Chris Jacobs Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editor’s note: Given Trump’s pledge of fiscal responsibility and cutting government waste, it is especially perplexing that he has advocated so vociferously for this bill to be passed into law. America is in serious deficit trouble. It is quickly approaching existential levels, and […]
‘Habitual Lawbreakers’: ICE Rolls Up Hundreds Of Illegal Migrant Criminals In Sprawling Massachusetts Operation
By The Daily Caller Federal immigration authorities arrested well over 1,000 illegal migrants during a month-long enforcement operation across Massachusetts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working alongside a slate of other federal partners, arrested 1,461 illegal migrants throughout the Bay State during the month of May, the agency announced Monday. Most of the apprehended foreign […]
Trump Pardons Military Officer Mark Bashaw Who Refused To Follow COVID Mandates
By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump pardoned former 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw after he was convicted in 2022 for violating COVID-19 mandates. Former Army officer Bashaw, an entomologist at the Army Public Health Center in Maryland, was pardoned Wednesday over his conviction by a military judge for disobeying orders intended to curb the spread […]
Senate Should Make House’s Big, Beautiful Bill Bigger, More Beautiful
By The Daily Signal On Thursday at 6:54 a.m., the U.S. House passed the Trump and Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Yup, that is this 1,118-page measure’s official title.) By a snare-drum-tight, 215-214 vote, all but three Republicans and zero Democrats chose to give Americans $4.1 trillion in tax relief, along with their bacon, eggs, tea, […]
A VERY BIG Deal: Critically Thinking about what Science actually is!
By John Droz, Jr. For years now, I have preached a central theme: the main underlying cause of almost any societal technical problem is that we have replaced Real Science with political science. Think COVID, climate change, renewable energy, etc. The root problem with ALL of these (and many more) is that Real Science had been summarily escorted out of the […]
Report: Biden Admin ‘Downplayed’ And ‘Delayed’ Warnings About Covid Shot Risks
By Shawn Fleetwood Written by Shawn Fleetwood Editor’s note: According to the article, the FDA authorized emergency use of Pfizer’s covid shot on May 10, 2021 in young adolescents aged 12-15. This is at a time when U.S. health officials would have already received large numbers of data points, reports, and warnings about the risks […]
That Big Beautiful Bill
By Kenneth R. Timmerman The House finally passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in the early morning hours on Thursday, after weeks of hearings during which Democrats did their best to obstruct, delay, and obfuscate. One extraordinary example that got my attention — no thanks to the national media, which almost totally ignored it — […]
Default By Another Means Makes Bond Ratings Useless
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, citing rising government debt, increasing interest payments, and a lack of effective measures to curb large fiscal deficits. This marked the first time Moody’s stripped the U.S. of its top-tier rating, which it […]
EXCLUSIVE: School District Piped Taxpayer Cash Into Clandestine Clubs Turning Kids Into LGBT Activists
By The Daily Caller A California school district took federal funds from a disease prevention grant and funneled them into student LGBT clubs focused on gender ideology and queer activism, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network — which backs over 4,000 LGBT student groups in the […]
Doctors Throw Cold Water on Biden Statement That Doctors Only Found Metastatic Prostate Cancer Last Week
By Tyler O’Neil Written by Tyler O'Neil Editors’ Note: As described below, the announcement that former President Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer most likely meant he had it while campaigning and while serving as President. The ease with which politicians, lawyers, and doctors can lie to the American people is shocking. We suppose […]
NO WAY! Doctors Doubt Biden First Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer Last Week
By Tyler O’Neil Written by Tyler O'Neil Editors’ Note: As described below, the announcement that former President Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer most likely meant he had it while campaigning and while serving as President. The ease with which politicians, lawyers, and doctors can lie to the American people is shocking. We suppose […]
NO WAY! Doctors Doubt Timeline of Biden’s Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
By Tyler O’Neil Written by Tyler O'Neil Editors’ Note: As described below, the announcement that former President Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer most likely meant he had it while campaigning and while serving as President. The ease with which politicians, lawyers, and doctors can lie to the American people is shocking. We suppose […]
Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that there may be a larger conspiracy at work following former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis. Trump addressed Biden’s stage four prostate cancer diagnosis while in the Oval Office, calling the situation “very sad.” The president added that people should look into how Biden’s cancer developed into […]
BREAKING! Pornography Companies SUED for Allowing a Minor Access to the Sites
By National Center on Sexual Exploitation As a mother, Jane Doe was fully aware of the online dangers that children face. So, she did everything she possibly could to monitor and safeguard her 14-year-old son’s devices. She was vigilant. But her son found an old laptop in the closet. And through that, he was able to access hardcore […]
South African Orphanage Denied Food Because Children Are White
By Vlad Tepes Blog The video on this issue was censored in South Africa. Of course. WATCH: Censored in South Africa: Orphanage denied food because orphans are white Thank you Hellequin GB. EDITORS NOTE: This Vlad Tepes Blog column with video posted by Eeyore is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved. The post South African […]
The Deep State Goes Viral: Foreword
By Jeffrey Tucker The following is Jeffrey Tucker’s Foreword introduction to Debbie Lerman’s new book, The Deep State Goes Viral: Pandemic Planning and the Covid Coup. It was about a month into lockdowns, April 2020, and my phone rang with an unusual number. I picked up and the caller identified himself as Rajeev Venkayya, a name […]
The Indoctrinologist Is In
By Sally Satel Written by Sally Satel Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a book called PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine. One chapter described what was then a new form of therapy — “multicultural counseling” — that encouraged white clinicians to ask themselves what responsibility they hold for the “racist oppressive and discriminating manner” by which they […]
U.S. Government Lost $1 Trillion in COVID Relief Funds to Fraud
By Family Research Council The U.S. government loses nearly $1 trillion in emergency relief funds annually, according to experts. In a “60 Minutes” interview Monday night, Audient Group founder and former Government Accountability Office executive Linda Miller alleged that international crime rings defraud American taxpayers of billions of dollars every year. “I believe the government is losing […]