Why Are So Many Young People Drawn to Communism?

Every generation searches for answers. Young people have always challenged the status quo, questioned authority, and sought a better future than the one they inherited. That impulse is not only understandable, but it is often essential to a healthy democracy. It is how societies reform, innovate, and correct injustice.

Yet one question has resurfaced with increasing frequency on college campuses, social media, and in political discourse: Why are some young people embracing communism or openly expressing sympathy for socialist and communist ideas despite the overwhelming historical record of communist governments?

The answer deserves more than slogans or political attacks. It deserves honesty, humility, and historical perspective. Continue reading

SEX Sells ~ even in Politics!

What you are about to read was written and posted on the date posted below… But then one must ask – “Does satire eventually come to pass and become reality?” Read on my friends – and then click on the Link at the end of the article – and see what apparently HAS come to pass! ~ Editor

October 27, 2018 ~ So I was awakened this morning with a phone call from some pushy woman doing a survey as to whether I had received my voting packages in the mail, to which I responded that I had. She then raised her voice in a snotty manner and demanded to know, “When are you going to send them in?” I told her, “When the people of Arizona start putting up quality people for office” and then told her to leave me alone. HEY – she woke me up out of a sound sleep – whaddya want? Continue reading

Garrison: AOC Brings NOTHING to the Table!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to be considered as a viable 2028 presidential candidate.

Let that sink in.This is a woman who has spent years in Congress producing more Instagram posts than actual legislation. Her legislative resume is thinner than the paper her Green New Deal was printed on. She’s the political equivalent of a restaurant with a fantastic social media page, but found to have an empty kitchen. Before she got into politics, she was a bartender who couldn’t remember the ingredients to a rum and coke.

OK, we’re joking about the drink – we’re sure she’s far more qualified to be a bartender or barista than a president. Continue reading

Dickens: Who Wins? ~ The Complete Series

NOTE: The Federal Observer published the first 5 entries to this series in late June of 2021. As of July, 2021, the author had completed the series and Part Six – And the winner is??? has now been added at the bottom of this post. ~ Ed.

Part I – The Big Question

Is this all real, is there a problem or is what we see manufactured by the people who profit from the chaos they create? Both sides of this conflict – yes, it is a conflict – claim the other side is wholly to blame.

So stop for a moment and think. Ask yourself – who really wins in this situation? It certainly isn’t the people involved in this violence or hatred or conflict, and it certainly isn’t the citizens of this country. Continue reading

Finney: In the Wake of a Spokane Disaster

It’s time the Marxists, running Spokane, pack their bags and leave.

Not one of the people the email, below, was sent to, had the intestinal fortitude to respond. They are hoping that, if they don’t respond, this will go away. ~ L.F.

Mayor,
Spokane City Council,

I particularly ‘enjoyed’ reading Mayor Lisa Brown’s Q&A piece with Emry Dinman last week. One has to wonder if the Spokesman Review collaborated with the mayor’s office on what questions Dinman could ask.

In that article, Mayor Lisa Brown claims that “we’ve always taken the view that traffic safety and fire safety are where community safety really meets people.” Continue reading

Snyder: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum

When I was 10 years old, the United States was one trillion dollars in debt. Now we are nearly 40 trillion dollars in debt. So what did we get for spending 39 trillion dollars that we did not have? What we got was a gigantic mountain of debt that threatens to bring down our entire system. But the Congress critters in D.C. will never stop wasting our money. In fact, if the Democrats do really well in the upcoming midterm elections it is probably inevitable that our tax dollars will be going out the door faster than ever before.

I have been ranting about our national debt for nearly two decades. Continue reading

498th Dust Off Soldiers

This video is dedicated to men who served in the 498th Medical Company, also known as the 498th Dust Off, during the time the unit was operating in Vietnam – from 1965 to 1971. The video runs a little over 30 minutes and contains 385 photographs of men who served in the 498th while it was in Vietnam.

Many of the images are mine and many were lent to me for posting on my 498th Facebook page (498th Dust Off – Vietnam’s Finest). I’d like to thank all those who were kind enough to allow me to use their photographs. This video replaces one I created and uploaded last year (using many of the same images) which was recently blocked by YouTube due to a copyright snafu. I changed the format to allow for additional images and I change most of the songs. The songs in the sound track run, more or less, chronologically from 1965 to 1971.

I hope you’ll take the time to view the slideshow, and if you do, I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you.

Dennis E. Bishop
RTO, 498th Dust Off
Republic of Vietnam
December 1969 to December 1970.

Dickens – A Bug Up My Ass or Kvetch: Who Works for Whom?

For the past several years, probably more than I care to admit, decisions have been made that affect nearly all of us. I’m referring to the Portable Altar of Enlightenment: the modern smartphone, or cellphone, as many people call it. I prefer the moniker I’ve coined, PAE.

This ubiquitous personal appendage is in nearly every hand, from age 8 to 80 and beyond, across the country. The latest count puts the number of wireless subscriptions at over 331 million, and because many people own more than one connected device, the total number of phones and related units exceeds 380 million.

The PAE is the quintessential communication device. It provides instantaneous, bidirectional information transfer across the globe. There are precious few places on this planet these devices cannot reach; where they cannot, the satellite phone – Sat Phone, if you prefer – can still find us.

So as we watch, we are also being watched. But that is not entirely my point. Continue reading

Smith: America Didn’t Fall in a Single Day Liberty Requires Courage!

This is something we all hope will never come to pass in America, but the way things have gone in the country since 2008, it’s not out of the realm of possibilities, depending on what direction America chooses after Trump is gone. Let’s hope and pray this is really just a figment of my imagination and not a prophecy of things to come.

If things should ever really play out as I describe in this essay and I live to see it, I’ll be old as dirt, depending on just how fast our decline moves — I’m thinking we’ll see major civil upheavals by 2935 due to several economic factors coming into the dynamic that year – and I’ll probably be more than ready to call it a day and slip on into the Great Beyond.

But not before I take a few thousand of America’s enemies along with me – pulling the trigger while sittin’ on my front porch if it comes down to it… Continue reading

Aggressive Child: 1960s Psychiatric Case Study

You will note that the following video has been posted in two separate categories, “Point Blank and “Take a Little Pill.” What is interesting to me – is that in many respects – it was the 1960’s that much of what is presented in this video – is what led to the “taking of the little pill”. If you are not familiar with the reference, then I might suggest that you read a lengthy column which I wrote some years ago – and I DID witness the history of what was being discussed. Go ahead – read it: But it’s all OK – Just Take a Little Pill… where I opened with these simple words: “I was a third week Senior at Glenbrook North High School in 1965 – and I knew  that something was wrong…” ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor

Johnson ~ Don’t Fall for It: AI Teachers Are Not the Solutions

Parents are frustrated with public education and justifiably so. Most of the school day is spent on non-academic activities that are mainly DEI-related. This has been going on for a long time. Now a private school in Oklahoma is selling what looks like an escape: classrooms with no human teachers.

AI software will deliver the entire academic curriculum. Students will spend two hours a day in front of screens while algorithms teach them. The school claims these children learn twice as fast and post sky-high SAT scores. Do not fall for it! Continue reading

Trust in Government Is Eroding… Here’s How to Bring It Back…

Here’s something worth thinking about. Our ability to be trusted, and to trust others, comes from trusting the One who made the stars.

     Cracked US flag, political divisions in America

Over the last 50 years, trust in the federal government has declined dramatically. About 77% of Americans once said they trusted the government. Today, that number has fallen to roughly 18%.

Events this week on Capitol Hill provided fresh examples of why trust in the federal government has eroded. Continue reading

Dr. Kelley and Victory Over Cancer ~ The End of a Long Journey

      Jeffrey Bennett, Publisher

After 27 years since I developed the site for Dr. Kelley – I have come to the conclusion that it is time to shut it down.

It is interesting that I received a recent request and offer to publish a contribution from a writer, but at the time I received his offer – I was going through some records – and I chose to share some of the records with him – and I believe that you – the reader you will better understand why I have made this decision.

The following is a moderation of that which I sent out to the author several weeks ago:

I am no longer able to continue on with the marvelous and important web-site..

It is a long story, but a dirty one – as a woman who was trained by Kelley has spent 27 years lining her own pockets and using Kelley’s name for her own purposes – and toward the end of his life – Kelley realized what a lying, greedy piece of garbage that she was (and I am being polite here).

She has gone out of her way to destroy all that I have done with the Kelley site since it’s inception in 1999, and she has gone out of her way to destroy the entirety of the Kelley family business – which up until 3 years ago – was the ONLY LEGAL supplier of the Kelley Enzymes. In addition to all of the above – she has done all that she could to insure that others who were trained by Dr. Kelley – would not be able to work with Cancer “victims” – INCLUDING me – who was also trained by the Doctor.

I could greatly expand on her story and what it has cost those of us who were committed to Kelley’s great work – but frankly – it would be a waste of my time to continue.

The sad part of all of this is – is that I made the difficult decision to shut down the Kelley site – something that truly makes me sad.

NOTE: To those of you who may be reading this column, I have been in touch with my printer and I HAVE ordered some copies of Dr. Kelley’s books, “Victory Over Cancer without Surgery, Chemotherapy or Radiation” and “The Self-Test for the Different Metabolic Types“. If you have an interest or need for either or both of Dr. Kelley’s books – do contact me via phone or email. so long as there is a need or interest – I will never cease making them available. ~ J.B.

For those of you who have been long time readers of the Kelley site, We thank you with all sincerity. You will note that what has been posted on Dr. Kelley’s web-site  for all of these years – has now been removed, and it is expected that the final section dealing with ONE specific category – which has been poisoning our children in addition to their families since the early 1960’s – Bennett: But it’s all OK – Just Take a Little Pill… has now been transferred to to the Federal Observer under the category of, “Take a Little Pill…” (but it might be going through a minor title adjustment – so stay tuned!)

Protect your children and grandchildren – and be blessed my friends.

Kettle Moraine, Ltd.
P.O. Box 579
Litchfield Park, AZ 85340
602 – 799 – 8214
KettleMoraineLtd@cox.net

DiLorenzo: Bolshevik Revolution 2.0

In fact, while South America is moving to the right, our Democrat Party is moving to the left… far left!

“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” ~ Karl Marx

“The goal of socialism is communism” ~ Vladimir Lenin

It has been said that communism will always attempt to come in through the front door. If locked, it will try the back door, if that fails, it will crawl in through a window. Continue reading

Garrison: Fauci Charged With Contempt of Congress

Anthony Fauci has been found in contempt of Congress. Will the DOJ pursue the case and send the mass murderer to prison? That remains to be seen, but certainly Fauci deserves the same fate meted out to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. The former advisors to President Trump were convicted of contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas, citing presidential privilege. Both served prison sentences. Continue reading

City Wants School Curriculum To Include Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels

For God’s sake, WAKE UP NEW YORK! If not for yourselves, DO IT FOR YOUR CHILDREN!

                                               Marx and Engels: Attitude Toward America in the Early Period

If you are reading this, from this moment on, take the socialist agenda seriously and share that view with your family and friends.

Democrats have been destroyed from the inside out. I’m old enough to remember when Republicans were just right of center, and Democrats were just left of center. At that time, both sides of the aisle still had the best interests of the country as their primary objective. Both sides still respected American traditions and were proud of our Western Culture as a whole. Continue reading

Dickens: The Promise and the Trap

For the past few weeks, I’ve been buried in a personal project, and the deeper I went, the more I kept running into the same disturbing pattern in American life: the steady normalization of socialist ideas under softer, friendlier names. ~ C.R. Dickens

I’m talking about the creeping stranglehold of socialist ideology in this country – not merely as a slogan, a campus argument, or some far-off theory, but as a practical effort to make ordinary people more dependent on centralized power.

What I found is not just another political disagreement. It is a pattern: movements that promise fairness often begin by asking for trust and end by demanding control. When government institutions gain authority over healthcare, housing, education, wages, and information, they do not merely influence private life; they begin to define the terms on which ordinary people are allowed to live it. Continue reading

Socialism Keeps Returning Because America Keeps Forgetting

FILE – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, center, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appear on stage during a rally, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

Zohran Mamdani (Communist) took office as mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, giving American socialism its largest electoral victory in roughly a century. The Democratic Socialists of America celebrated him as one of their own. The organization puts its national membership above 100,000 after reporting 65.5% growth in 2025. Continue reading