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A Fight to the Death Is Underway

Some people will regard my title as hyperbole.  It is not.  Trump, I believe, understands he is in a fight to the death.  The American establishment tried to discredit and ruin him, to imprison him, to assassinate him.  They stole his 2020 reelection from him. They tried to steal his NY properties. It is not possible for Trump to have illusions about what he is up against.  He is up against evil.

Trump knows that the fight is not just about him. It is about America. For decades a corrupt America...

You Suffer, We Get the Credit

Several years ago, at the March for Life in Washington, some boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky were being harassed by a native American protester and by a group of black activists, taunting them and refusing to let them be. One of the boys, having in vain confronted the protester, stood like stone, taking the abuse, while some of the others cheered, and a few of them decided to give tit for tat, taunting the protester in turn. It should have been greeted with a shrug and a reminder to thos...

Age of Transparency: We Need Mass Surveillance of Governments Instead of Citizens

In the wake of Donald Trump’s return to the White House there has been an atmosphere of palpable panic among the usual suspects. Establishment bureaucrats are screaming bloody murder in aisles like spoiled toddlers at Walmart after being told they’re not going to get whatever they want from the American taxpayer. These people are long overdue for a spanking and a nap.

Elon Musk’s DOGE group has wasted no time in pursuing total transparency of the federal government’s funding operations and I hav...

Keep on Trumpin’

Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.

Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino scam.

Here’s a partial pile-up:

Egypt: the Palestinians will not be ethnic cleansed here, or in Jordan, or anywhere else.

Saudi Arabia: We will not normalize with Israel before there is a sovereign Palestinia...

From Oversight to Overlooked: The Government’s Failure to Control Trillions in Misspent Funds

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), created more than a century ago to assist Congress in its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities, issued a report just last year which estimated that in a span of 20 years, including 2023, that the US Government made $2.7 TRILLION dollars in improper expenditures resulting from overpayments, inaccurate record keeping, and fraud. In fiscal year 2023 alone, GAO determined the federal government improperly dispensed $269 Billion.

Let this si...

Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

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Crimson Tide: Only One-Third of Harvard Students Feel Comfortable Speaking About Controversial Subjects

Harvard has long been accused of fostering an anti-free speech environment and quelching viewpoint diversity. That was the subject of my recent debate with Law Professor Randall Kennedy at Harvard. A new report confirms many of the objections raised in that debate, including a chilling environment where only a third of Harvard’s most recent graduating class expressed comfort in discussing controversial subjects.

Some 89 percent of the graduating class responded to the survey. The study of the Cl...

Millions of Americans Will Begin Receiving Large Welfare Payments This Month

The signs are now up at the corners of major intersections:

Get up to $7,830 with three childrenGet up to $6,960 with two childrenGet up to $4,213 with one child

Sometimes the amounts are higher:

Get up to $12,930 with three childrenGet up to $10,360 with two childrenGet up to $5,913 with one child

These signs are advertisements for welfare payments.

Tax deductions—and exemptions, exclusions, and loopholes—lower one’s taxable income and therefore the amount of taxes owed to the federal g...

Through Smoke and Hairspray

Recently, as I doused our closet in room spray, my husband objected, noting that it “probably wasn’t good for our lungs”. My fancy new spray—aptly named “High Maintenance”—not good for the lungs? Well, we will die in freshly scented clothes, then.

His medical warning had little effect on me for good reason: I am a walking miracle, having spent a good decade of my life traveling in the back seat of the family car—windows up, inhaling cigarette smoke, hairspray and cheap colognes. Room spray, by c...

Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged An Apartheid State From River to Sea By Thomas Suárez

Much has been written in the alternative press over the past year about the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and its other war crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc. This has often been viewed within the historical context of the self-declared Zionist Israeli state’s founding in 1948 up to the present day. But far less has been said about the Zionist’s racial-nationalist-settler-colonialist movement’s history of terrorism to seize Palestine and kill and drive the Palestinians into exile that g...