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About The Publisher

A veteran of Viet Nam, student of history (both American and film), Jeffrey Bennett has been broadcasting for over twenty-eight years as host of Perspectives on America, and later - 'Life, Liberty & All That Jazz.' Jeff is considered the voice of reason on the alternative media - providing a unique and distinctive broadcast style, including topics such as health and wellness, news, political satire - with a twist, education and editorial commentary on current events through the teaching of history. In addition, Jeff publishes The Federal Observer - a daily on-line publication, which co-authored and spear-headed a petition, which ultimately caused new legislation to be signed by President George W. Bush within 450 days of the events that rocked our world on September 11, 2001.

POW Who Shared Cell With McCain Recounts Six-Year Ordeal

NOTE: Having served 21 month in the Nam and having now lived in Arizona for 49 years – allow me to state that I was NEVER a fan of McCain. As a prisoner – he was given better treatment than the rest of those who were held. ~ Editor

He was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for a staggering six years. An Air Force pilot who shared a bond – and a prison cell – with the late Sen. John McCain is now sharing his story, as the nation marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon.

It was supposed to be his final scheduled flight over Vietnam. On Nov. 11, 1966, Orson Swindle was piloting an F-8 Crusader. He had already completed 205 missions when he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese. Continue reading

Dickens: Black Robed Bandits ~ The Courts are now in Charge!

In old movies, especially westerns, you could always tell the good guys from the bad guys, the hero from the villain, by the color of their clothes, especially their hats. Good guys wore white, and bad guys wore black. This was designed so audiences in the early silent-movie era could distinguish characters in black-and-white films.

The stereotype carries over into our modern thinking. Continue reading

EXPOSED: Secret War Raging on US Borders

One of the largest and most expensive secret wars in the history of these nations is targeting Canada, Mexico, and the US. Not only are lives and ruined communities at stake, but no one seems to be able to stop the carnage.

Native American communities on reservations, particularly those situated along borderlands. From Arizona to Montana, and even into territories that straddle the U.S.-Canada line, drug cartels have discovered both opportunity and immunity on tribal lands, and American Indian communities are paying the price. Continue reading

Why Aren’t Schools Taking Bulling Seriously? My Child’s Story and the System That Failed Us

Photo by Aaron Burden

My 12-year-old came home sobbing last week after months of weight-shaming by classmates. The teacher’s “solution”? Forcing a hollow apology that only fueled more cruelty. When I demanded action, the vice principal shrugged: “Kids will be kids.”

But here’s the reality… Continue reading

Rockwell: The Menace of “Public” Education

Parents are rightly concerned about what is happening in our “public” schools. Crazed “educators” are encouraging impressionable children to “transition” to another sex, as if such a thing was possible. Students are taught that sexual promiscuity is a good thing. They are brainwashed to accept socialist attacks on our free enterprise system.

What can we do about this disaster? The Trump Administration and anti-woke Governors like Ron deSantis have tried to solve the problem by issuing directives to the schools to eliminate the noxious programs and give parents more say-so about what their children are taught. But teachers who have been indoctrinating our children are well-entrenched, and it will be extremely difficult to curb their baleful influence. Continue reading

Easter: God’s Message of Grace and Justice

The Angel Declaring the Resurrection – (Gustave Doré)

Several years ago, I heard a very popular Christian speaker talk to a large audience for an hour. He said nothing heretical. He said nothing controversial. He just focused on the “unconditional” love of God. Again, nothing wrong with what he did say, but it is what he did not say that bothered me. He said nothing about repentance of sin. There is a reason Jesus said what he said in the above bible verse. And there is a reason John the Baptist introduced Jesus to the world with the exact same proclamation in Matthew 3:2: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

There is a popular trend going on in the American Christian church. The trend is to talk of the love of God without talking about the justice of God. But if you read the Bible, it is clear, there exists both the grace of God and the wrath of God, and Jesus Christ spoke of both. Continue reading

Whitehead ~ Refugee. Dissident. Enemy of the State: Would ICE Have Crucified Jesus?

“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough.” – President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S. courts and the Constitution

                  Jesus – What happened to America?

It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security.

Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at least for select segments of the population. A hierarchy of rights, contingent on whether you belong to a favored political class.

This is what it looks like when the government makes itself the arbiter of who is deserving of rights and who isn’t. Continue reading

Hall: We All Killed Him!

The chain of blame which began at the fall of mankind ends at the mea culpa, and is replaced with the “ideo precor” – the beseeching of Mary, the angels, the all the saints.

Have you heard? The world is going to Hell in a handbasket. Our politicians are devils, our hierarchs are often devils themselves, and Catholics are leaving the Church in droves. The media lies to us, and our institutions turn our children into post-modern pill-addicted zombies who can’t be happy in a society where they lack no creature comfort.

Marriages are failing, and a lot of men are addicted to vile images of perversion that they sneakily watch on their phones while standing in a corner on the metro on their way home to their families.

And who is at fault? Continue reading

Smith: The Bombing: America’s World Turned Upside Down in 1995

9:02 Central Time – April 19, 1995 ~ It’s been 30 years since Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols carried out their domestic terror attack, and no matter how righteous their cause in the beginning or how righteous their initial intent, somewhere along the line they got completely off track and lost their way, plotting out one of the most heinous attacks on America that is hard to imagine or really fathom.

Evil use to be not so obvious, and atrocities came seldom. But whether there is something in the water or humanity has simply taken destructive genetic path of late, evil seems to be prevalent and lurking just around the corner on any given day and any given moment. By and large, one can only surmise that it’s simply just a matter of the American people having lost their way and rejecting God and His righteous ways to their own detriment – leading the country down a path to Her own destruction. Continue reading

Trump-Itis!

Impeach’: Judge Sparks Trump’s Outrage
Trump has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg after the judge halted deportations of illegal immigrants tied to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). The Supreme Court recently intervened and ruled in favor of allowing the Trump administration to continue deportation flights of suspected gang members.

Boasberg’s order followed Trump’s announcement of his plan to use the Alien Enemies Act to expedite their removal from the U.S. Trump has since condemned Boasberg as being obstructive to immigration enforcement

SCROO de Judge!!! (Continue to full article)

Trump Denounces Judge’s Ruling on Migrants’ Legal Status: ‘Out of Control
Trump expressed his outrage over a federal judge temporarily blocking his executive order revoking the work permits and legal status of more than half a million migrants flown into the United States under a Biden-era parole program.

“What is going on with our Courts?” Trump posted on Truth Social . “They are totally OUT OF CONTROL. They seem to hate ‘TRUMP’ so much, that anything goes! We are trying to bring our Country back from the destruction caused by the Democrats and Crooked Joe Biden.”

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama in Massachusetts, put a temporary block on Trump’s executive action terminating the CHNV parole program, which granted two-year entry to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In his order, Trump gave the migrants until April 24 to self-deport… (Continue to full article)

Trump Goal to End Taxes on Social Security Gets Bipartisan Support
One of President Donald Trump’s tax policy wishlist items is receiving support from some Democratic lawmakers – but with a caveat.

Trump has put pressure on Congress to include ending Social Security taxes in the upcoming budget bill. A recent budget analysis projects that move would reduce revenues by $1.5 trillion over 10 years and speed up Social Security’s insolvency by two years, as The Center Square reported .

But the newly-introduced You Earned It, You Keep It Act by Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., would, theoretically, fully finance eliminating all federal taxes on Social Security benefits and even extend the program’s insolvency deadline… (Continue to full article)

Scratch ‘n’ Sniff

Social Security’s Trust Fund Could Run Out of Money Sooner Than Expected Due to Changes in Taxes and Benefits
Social Security is one of the federal government’s biggest programs.

Roughly 67 million Americans, most of whom are 65 or older, received Social Security benefits in 2023 . An estimated 183 million workers paid the Social Security payroll taxes that provided the bulk of the nearly US$1.4 trillion in benefits that year, which consumed 21% of the total federal budget .

But within a decade, Social Security could run short on funds to pay the full benefits Americans are counting on… (Continue to full article)

Musk’s DOGE Is Claiming Victory After Uncovering $382 Million in Unemployment Fraud — but the Government Already Found It Years Ago: ‘I Don’t Think It’s News to Anyone
The latest government waste touted by billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency is hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims it purportedly uncovered.

One problem: Federal investigators already found what appears to be the same fraud, years earlier and on a far greater scale.

In a post last week on X, the social media site Musk owns, DOGE announced “an initial survey of unemployment insurance claims since 2020” found 24,500 people over the age of 115 had claimed $59 million in benefits; 28,000 people between the ages of 1 and 5 collected $254 million; and 9,700 people with birthdates more than 15 years in the future garnered $69 million from the government.

Business leaders and economists are warning about a national recession, so it’s natural to think about unemployment. It’s an attack on the image of a critically important program and perhaps an attempt to undermine public support on unemployment insurance when it couldn’t be more important… (Continue to full article)

HEAH Cum de Judge!: Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt for Violating Deportation Order ~ AGAIN!
A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and warned he could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.

The ruling from U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump has said should be impeached, marks a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government over the president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities… (Continue to full article)

Most Voters Want ALL Illegal Immigrants Deported: ‘Americans Like Where We’re Going’ Under Trump
CNN data guru Harry Enten presented numbers Thursday morning that showed that a majority of Americans want all undocumented immigrants forcibly removed from the country.

Enten said the issue is one of the few where President Donald Trump remains above water with voters.

While Trump’s opponents have spent weeks slamming his administration over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, Trump remains popular on immigration… (Continue to full article)

Texas Border: Large Groups Crossing Remote Areas
As illegal crossings have dropped to 15-year lows along once-busy historic crossing points between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande, law enforcement officers are encountering large groups of illegal aliens in more remote areas of the Texas border.

Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveleland has posted photos of migrants encountered in groups of twenty by his deputies, Border Patrol Agents, and Texas Military Forces in his county in recent days – and the story is the same in the “badlands” of neighboring Brewster County.

Border Patrol Agents recently tracked more than 20 illegal aliens attempting to evade them in the rugged terrain of San Francisco Canyon within Big Bend National Park… (Continue to full article)

Time to HANG the Judges

Judge Can Jail Trump Officials — and He’s ‘Calling the Government’s Bluff
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has the tools to proceed with criminal contempt charges against President Donald Trump’s administration — and can also enforce a sentence if they are found guilty, a legal analyst said Wednesday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern addressed Boasberg’s ruling regarding the government’s response to his court order.

The issue involved deportation flights to El Salvador that the judge ordered to turn around and return to the United States. The judge said at the time that the individuals deported did not have the due process to which they were entitled.

In his 46-page opinion, Boasberg found that “probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt”… (Continue to full article)

Trump Administration Says It Seized Control of Penn Station Renovation From MTA
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that the federal government has taken control of the renovations to Penn Station that were headed by New York City’s transit authority.

Duffy said the Department of Transportation and Amtrak will head the project. He added that a federal grant directed for the train company will be slashed and “rescoped,” resulting in $120 million in savings.

He also suggested that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority couldn’t be trusted with the project… (Continue to full article)

Trump’s Price Transparency Rule ‘Cements’ His Legacy of Lowering Healthcare Costs
President Donald Trump’s executive order to enforce healthcare price transparency has been hailed as transformative in lowering costs and “cements Trump’s legacy” as a leader in healthcare reform.

Trump in late February signed an executive order that renewed orders he had issued during his first term in office requiring hospitals and health insurers to deliver “meaningful price information to the American people.”

By requiring real-time prices of healthcare services for health insurance plans, consumers could price shop and find the best deal for their healthcare needs… (Continue to full article)

HERE are your Homes. Pack ’em up – and Go home to where you came from!

Immigrants Choose Self-Deportation Amid Fear of Forced Removal
Many immigrants in the United States are opting to self-deport rather than risk being forcibly removed under President Trump’s intensified deportation policies. Celeste, who traveled from Peru two decades ago, has decided to return to her home country after years of living in Los Angeles. She overstayed her tourist visa and worked in cleaning jobs while hoping for legal status. However, the lack of reforms and recent deportation efforts have left her feeling vulnerable.

According to the Los Angeles Times , President Trump, in his second term, has promised the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, targeting all undocumented immigrants. The administration has launched campaigns urging immigrants to leave voluntarily and has introduced the CBP Home app for immigrants to notify the government of their intent to leave… (Continue to full article)

…and the Beat goes on…

HELL-Care Continues to Move BACKWARDS!

Tom Cruise’s Ominous 2005 Warning About Big Pharma Re-Emerges as CDC Drops Antidepressant Bombshell
It’s been nearly 20 years since Tom Cruise’s infamous outburst on the Today show, where he passionately railed against antidepressants and called psychiatry a ‘pseudoscience.’

At the time, the rant was widely mocked — and Cruise was dismissed as a Hollywood eccentric for spouting controversial views.

But now, with a record number of young Americans being diagnosed with depression and prescriptions for antidepressants soaring among teens and 20-somethings, Cruise’s tirade is being viewed in a new light… (Continue to full article)

UnitedHealth’s Earnings Shock Is Tanking the Entire Health Insurance Industry
Shares of UnitedHealth fell as much as 24% on Thursday. The company posted a bleak 2025 outlook. Other medical insurance stocks also dropped on the news.

It was a shocking report for the insurer, as the company rarely trims its forward forecasts, and instead generally bumps them higher over time. The first-quarter report also marked the first time the company missed profit forecasts in more than a decade.. (Continue to full article)

Smith: Open the Eyes of the Blind! Mankind’s Struggle With the Existence of God

                                           The Darkness at the Crucifixion (Gustave Doré)

Mankind has struggled with the notion of a higher power, an omnipotent all-powerful being we have all come to know as God, in one form or fashion, since the beginning of time when tiny “humans” emerged from the soup of the earth and began worshipping the stars, moon, sun and all the elements of Mother Earth, along with Her various and wondrous creatures – the wooly mammoths and bears and saber-tooths of the land. And today, as we Christians prepare to celebrate the defeat of death by Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, one cannot deny that we follow but one of several major religions on earth, and therefore, as much as we may know we have the Word of the One True God, it is and always has been a matter of faith, more than anything any one person can prove. Continue reading

Dickens: Non-Compos Mentis ~ Oh, The Luxury!

Non-compos mentis: Not of sound mind, insane, lunatic, unbalanced.

We must be absolutely crazy, out of our minds to waste the luxury of our First Amendment rights attempting to destroy this country for absurd political gains. It’s gang warfare on a national level. Two rival gangs vie for control of this turf called Merka and will fight to the death, even if it’s the death is the country itself.

This oppugnant mentality is rooted in the idea that if something is not available to oneself, it’s better to prevent others from having it, even if it means a loss of resources or opportunity for everyone. Does this sound familiar? One particular partisan political party is willing to destroy this republic to keep the other from having it. In psychology, it’s called spite, where the lack of something is seen as preferable for everyone rather than simply for oneself.

The Ends Justify the Means…

It doesn’t really matter anymore, does it? Since we’ve done nothing about it, it’s of little importance because if it were really important, we would do something about it. Right? Continue reading

The Continued INVASION of America… and the Drug Wars!!

Courtesy of Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland

Sheriff in Remote Stretch of Texas Border Reports Migrant Crossings Pick Up as Smugglers Get Desperate Under Trump
As President Trump’s border crackdown drives illegal crossings down to historic lows , smugglers are doing anything they can to keep profiting from their terrible trade.

In the remote stretch of west Texas border in Terrell County, Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland is seeing migrant crossings pick up because it’s so remote that it’s difficult to patrol.

“Up until now we were slowing down, I think as the year progresses more activity will move out here because it’s wide open spaces”.

About 60 migrants have been captured in the last ten days trying to traverse the mountainous desert region that is home to just 800 residents… (Continue to full article)

CBP Officers Seize Over $14M of Alleged Methamphetamine at Southern Border
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Pharr International Bridge between South Texas and Mexico discovered a shipment of over $14 million worth of methamphetamine, which was concealed in a shipment of vegetables.

The discovery of the drugs within shipments of bell peppers and cucumbers was made on April 11, when CBP officers assigned to the international bridge cargo facility encountered a tractor trailer entering the U.S. from Mexico… (Continue to full article)

The US Coast Guard Seized $510 Million Worth of Drugs From Smugglers, Including a Narco-Sub
More than 24 tons of illegal narcotics worth about $510 million was seized by the US Coast Guard earlier this year, the maritime law enforcement agency said in a statement last Wednesday.

The crew of US Coast Guard Cutter James offloaded more than 44,550 pounds of cocaine and 3,880 pounds of marijuana in Port Everglades, Florida, on April 9, an operation that culminated as the Trump administration focused more military assets on stemming the flow of drugs and migrants across the US’s southern border… (Continue to full article)

Editor’s NOTE: The following is a link to an article which was originally posted on the Federal Observer on July 25, 2010 and was once again shared with our radio audience yesterday, April 15, 2025 – and although “numbers” have declined – the issues remain… There are times that we need to go back and read of the basis for ALL that has STILL been taking place in America… and too few understood it then – and FEW understand it all now! ~ Jeffrey Bennett

Ashurst: A Border Manifesto

Arizona to Verify Up to 50K People From Voter Rolls Who Failed to Prove Citizenship
All 15 Arizona counties have now begun the process of verifying and removing voters from their voter rolls, including nearly 50,000 registrants who did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.

“This settlement is a great result for all Arizonans,” America First Legal (AFL) senior counsel James Rogers told Fox News Digital after his organization’s successful lawsuit spearheaded the process in Arizona.

AFL filed the lawsuit against the 15 Arizona counties last year on behalf of EZAZ.org, and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen, arguing that the counties had not been following a state law that requires proof of citizenship to vote in local and state elections and for the state to do monthly checks of the rolls for registrants who did not check the box confirming citizenship… (Continue to full article)

Mexico Reportedly Plans “Mega Expulsion” of 40 Narcos, Including El Cuini and La Tuta
The Mexican government is reportedly planning a “mass expulsion” of a new batch of significant drug cartel figures to the United States. According to the information published by Crashout Media, “Mexican prosecutors are also considering filing Mexican terrorism charges against cartel operatives, which could strengthen the controversial argument for expulsions.”

The “expulsions” are part of Mexican “President Claudia Sheinbaum’s strategy of cracking down hard on cartels to placate the Trump administration and avoid excessive tariffs or unilateral U.S. military strikes into Mexico,” adds the report, published by Ioan Grillo, a British journalist based in Mexico City and specialized in organized crime.

“Up to 40 cartel members could be expelled,” details Grillo, mentioning the name of Abigael “El Cuini” González Valencia, a high-ranking cartel member who is accused of being the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)

This new batch of expulsions would follow a similar operation from February of this year… (Continue to full article)

How Many Dead Americans Will It Take for Democrats to Start Caring?
Democrats are like that guy running the three-card Monte game in Times Square at 3:00 a.m.. They talk non-stop for the express purpose of distracting whatever sucker plunked down $20 to “find the red queen.” The subject of the talking doesn’t matter, only the distraction it creates. “Hey, check out that guy’s shoes!” That keeps the scam going.

That’s how Democrats are when it comes to illegal immigration — talking non-stop without ever saying anything, in the hope that no one will notice that every single American murdered by an illegal alien would be alive today had the immigration laws just been enforced as written.

Laken Riley, for example, would still be alive. So would Kate Steinle, Rachel Morin, and every single other American murdered by ILLEGAL aliens… (Continue to full article)

Legal Status Revoked for 985,000 Migrants Who Entered US Under Biden-Era CBP One App
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is terminating parole protections for people who entered the country through the CBP One app, revoking legal status for nearly a million migrants who came to the U.S. during the Biden administration.

Roughly 985,000 people used the app to make appointments at a port of entry at the border, with those who entered often permitted to seek asylum and given temporary work authorization.

The Trump administration last month also said it plans to begin fining migrants $998 per day if they fail to leave after being ordered deported… (Continue to full article)

Holmquist: DOGE and the 4 Essentials Needed to Create a Decent Society

(Flickr-GPA Photo Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Elon Musk and his DOGE-related spending cut recommendations have dominated headlines in recent weeks.

Some Americans are treating the announcement of these cuts like Christmas morning, thrilled at the idea that they get to keep more of their money, rather than have it go toward projects they disagree with – such as the transgender mice President Trump infamously called out in his speech before Congress on March 4. Continue reading

Ashurst: A Border Manifesto

Editor’s NOTE: The following is an article which was originally posted on the Federal Observer on July 25, 2010 and was once again shared with our radio audience on April 15, 2025 – and although “numbers” have declined – the issues remain… There are times that we need to go back and read of the basis for ALL that has STILL been taking place in America… and too few understood it then – and FEW understand it all now! I have spoken with Ed this morning. ~ Jeffrey Bennett

July 25, 2010 ~ I believe story telling to be an art form, certainly verbal record is the oldest form of recording history and recognized by historians worldwide. There is an old adage among those who love to tell a good tale, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” And yet there are times when the truth is even more fantastic than exaggeration. What I write here is the truth, plain and simple.

I reside on, and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. I’’ve been here for 13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Some have called it “the wetback culture” or “America’s border problem”. Lately it’s been taking steroids. Continue reading

USDA Removes More Than 1,000 Training Courses – Including Bullying and Harassment – for ‘Gender Ideology Extremism‘ and DEI

A document for USDA employees indicating how many training courses were inactivated following Trump’s orders to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices in government.

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration inactivated more than 1,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture training programs in February in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion and “gender ideology extremism.”

In the mix of cancellations, however, are courses that don’t appear to be related to diversity or gender.

Internal documents obtained by The Spokesman-Review through a public records request show 1,176 courses in USDA’s “AgLearn” software, used to train employees, were cut in February as a result of President Donald Trump’s goals to end DEI and “gender ideology” in the federal government in order to “defend women,” a January executive order states. Continue reading

Democrats Called ‘Insane‘ for Suing Trump Over Non-Citizen Voting

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump to ensure honesty at the ballot box has been hit by yet another lawsuit, this time for requiring proof you are a U.S. citizen before voting.

President Trump signed “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections” in a March 25 ceremony at the White House. That E.O. has been hit with four lawsuits so far, including one filed last week by 19 Democrat-led states.

The President has no power to do any of this,” the state attorneys general complained in the court document. “The Elections EO is unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American.” Continue reading