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Smith: America Is Headed Towards An Epic Economic Collapse
“Our new Constitution is now established; everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
The unimaginable presents itself as the average American citizens bear the brunt of debt repayment through increased taxation, inflation and it’s certain to cause internal instability across the country, when our national debt crisis actually really does reach the tipping point, whereby the military becomes even more underfunded than it already is and the government breaks its promises on Social Security and other programs. These are all indications that the country rests on the verge of collapse, unless something of real consequence is done to reverse course, if it’s even possible at this point. Continue reading
Ross: Never Stop Climbing Part 1 – The Groundwork
I would like to spend some time today discussing perspectives and opinions; with the first few pages being devoted to the differences between the two words. Perspective is most often used to describe a person’s viewpoint; the way they look at something. For instance, someone watching a baseball game from seats alongside the first base line would have a different perspective on the game that someone watching it from seats behind home plate, or way out in center field. The word is also by authors when writing novels; telling the tale from the first, second, or third person narrative. Continue reading
Bennett: In the Garden of Eden A Tribute… and thanks
~ Forewords ~
October 1, 2017 ~ Several years ago on a reunion trip with several of my cohorts from the rice paddies, the boys went out for lunch, while I stayed behind at the hotel in Newport, California to make some notes and write a bit of remembrance. The three of us had spoken for several years about collaborating on a book about our time together over ‘there’ – but I began to realize that both of the guys were bullshit artists, and really had no desire to follow through, and so I decided to write a preface – to what I hope would become my story about the twenty-one months I spent in the Far East – VietNam. What came out of that several hours of peace, can be read HERE. I would highly recommend that you read it before you continue… but – at your discretion…
As for now – we pick up where we left off… ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Publisher and Veteran
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Snyder: The Extremely Improbable, Exceedingly Unlikely, Exceptionally Amazing Birth Of Christ!
When we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating one of the most improbable miracles in all of human history. You see, the truth is that not just anyone could have showed up and claimed to be the Messiah. According to the Scriptures, the Messiah had to come from a very specific bloodline, the Messiah had to be born at a very specific place, and the Messiah had to be born at a very specific time. It was exceedingly unlikely that anyone would ever be able to fulfill all of those prophecies, but Jesus did. The prophecies about the first coming of Christ that we find in the Bible are powerful evidence for the reality of the Christian faith, and yet these prophecies are rarely taught in our churches today. Continue reading
13 Vietnam-Era Holiday Stories to Remember ~ as Told by Veterans
Cpl. Larry G. Nabb finds a moment of peace in front of a decorated Christmas tree in December 1968 at Quang Tri Combat Base, Vietnam. (Staff Sgt. D.L. Shearer/U.S. Marine Corps photo)
Christmas in the military is certainly different than celebrating the holidays as a civilian. And Christmas during war is an entirely unique experience from anything else. When we asked for your most prized stories of the holidays in uniform, our Vietnam-era veteran readers responded in force.
These stories made us laugh, cry and take stock of the sacrifices made by so many from the Vietnam generation. From holidays spent in locales from Greenland to Thailand, dodging enemy mortars, friendly fire or beer cans, or listening to perennial favorite Bob Hope, these Vietnam-era stories deliver poignant memories from yesteryear. Continue reading
A Half Century of Miseducation
The New York Times reported December 4 that math and science test scores for U.S. fourth and eighth graders have been essentially stagnant since 1995. Nor have they have been stagnant near the top – lots of countries outrank us – but rather in the middling middle. American elementary/middle school students perform behind Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, England, Ireland, and Poland.
“’This is alarming,’” opined a Department of Education commissioner. Continue reading
It’s Time to Break Up Big Medicine
UnitedHealth Group is not an insurer, it’s a platform. And it’s in the crosshairs as Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley propose breaking it apart, severing its pharmacy arm from the rest of the business
…ANGER at Health Care industry!
The saga of the UnitedHealth Care CEO assassination has, as could be expected, now turned into a discussion of our health care system. Elizabeth Warren, for instance, is making the obvious point that people hate the health care system.
Then, productively, she proposed, along with Republican Senator Josh Hawley, legislation to split apart some of these monster companies from their pharmacy subsidiaries, thus reducing conflicts of interest in health care. While this legislation was in the works long before the killing, it didn’t stop Wall Street investors from saying that any discussion of health care reform was a de facto endorsement of murder. Continue reading
Time is UP!
It’s a common misconception that Benjamin Franklin first proposed daylight saving time. He did recommend that people rise early to be healthy, wealthy, and wise. He knew it was biologically natural for humans to wake up when the sun rises and sleep when it sets.
President Woodrow Wilson officially signed daylight saving time in to law in 1918, which was another bad decision on his part. (He also got us into WWI and helped create the Federal Reserve). Continue reading
Teachers Told to Stop Whining and DO THEIR JOBS
The founder of a Christian ministry that addresses cultural issues says the absent teachers demanding a 9% pay raise need to wake up.
As AFN previously reported, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is demanding the increase in pay, even as four in 10 teachers have been “chronically absent” this year and already enjoy a median salary of $95,000.
Now the teachers union is slamming The Chicago Tribune for calling them out and for posing the question, “How much more again does their union expect?”
“It’s time for the Tribune to reflect the facts,” the CTU argues. “Have they considered how often educators – especially the 75% of whom are women – are on the front lines of both their classrooms and their families? Does the Trib think workers don’t deserve sick days, FMLA and parental leave? Educators don’t just teach; they sacrifice, care, and persevere.”
Linda Harvey, President of Mission: America, says, “The union needs to wake up”!
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Smith: This Christmas, Pray for a Better World
Christmas 2024 brings many memories to mind, some fun and some poignant, that make me question where mankind goes from here and what will the future look like as a people here in America, long after I’m dead and gone. With decades of the “Christmas Spirit” behind me, it’s hard to see any real good in mankind, holistically speaking, and despite our ecstatic claims of being so civilized, most of my lifetime has revealed that the human race isn’t really much more that a steady, ebbing flow of beings constantly doing great harm to one another, no matter all the false pious “Christians” who too often profess they represent our better angels in the same breath they cheat, rob, bear false witness against or murder someone in cold blood for self-gain. Continue reading
December 16, 2024: The Continued INVASION of America… The Insanity Will NOT End
1.4 Million Illegal Immigrants in US Have Been Ordered Deported, but Have Yet to Be Removed
There are around 1.4 million illegal immigrants in the United States who have been ordered deported by federal immigration judges, Fox News has learned.
Of those ordered to be brought back to their home countries, around 13,000 of them are being held in custody by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE), a U.S. official said.
With only a few thousand in custody, many more are in the U.S. illegally despite orders to have them removed. Figures on how many are being held in local or state custody were not available.
President-elect Trump has pledged to carry out a mass deportation program… (Continue to full article)
Biden Aiding and Abetting Illegals all the Way to the End
As if letting 10 million plus illegals waltz into our country weren’t enough, now the Biden Administration is quietly loosening migrant policies before Trump and his team take office.
Get this, the Biden admin plans to launch an ICE portal app starting early next month in New York City that will allow illegal immigrants to BYPASS in-person check-ins at local ICE offices. Oh great, now the unvetted illegal immigrants roaming our streets will have EVEN MORE anonymity and ability to skirt accountability!
Reports suggest up to 100,000 migrants will be enrolled in the first phase of the program… (Continue to full article)
Over One Million Migrants Given Temporary Protection Status From Biden
The Congressional Research Service, a public policy research institute of Congress, revealed that President Biden has shielded these foreign nationals from deportation thanks to TPS. There were less than 320,000 migrants in the U.S. with TPS when Biden took office in January 2021. That number has since tripled.
There are 17 countries with TPS designations: Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen
They wanted to claim that fewer were illegally crossing. They just rechanneled them over land bridges and by air so they couldn’t be counted as illegal crossings… (Continue to full article)
Illegal Migrant Crime Cost $166.5 Billion, Three Times the Price of Deportation
The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” plan.
In an analysis from the Crime Prevention Research Center, the costs of crime from the top targets of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations was set at $166.5 billion. That number is based on the cost to victims, a price list developed by the National Institute of Justice.
Murders account for almost $153.8 billion of the $166.5 billion in estimated criminal victimization costs. Another $6 billion involves sexual assaults/offenses, and an additional $5.2 billion comes from sexual assaults and sexual offenses… (Continue to full article)
Vietnam: A Tribute to Those Who Served
56 years ago I spent my first Christmas in Vietnam. I have never regretted on day of my 21 months of service. ~ Editor
It’s ‘ALL’ a Joke!
Dickens: And In Conclusion… Is this the End?
This is my final post for 2024. This year has been a real ballbuster in every respect. The only positive takeaway is, I’m still on this side of the grass. Any positive aspects of the presidential election remain to be seen. I can’t imagine the pressure on Mr. Trump to perform, especially considering that a percentage of Merka want him to fail. I don’t understand this level of hatred or the depths of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) in the Democrat party. I suppose it makes sense in light of their historic hatred, divisiveness, and racism, but to destroy the republic in retribution is unconscionable. Continue reading
Whitehead: When Rights Become Privileges ~ Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter.” ~ George Carlin
Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch.
It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people. Continue reading
Smith: America’s War for True Freedom Has Just Begun
Looking through the past decades and the prism of history, it is crystal clear that the danger for all Americans emanating from the expansion and growth of the various DC federal agencies has been growing for an extremely long time. We see the proof of the danger by way of traitors like General Mark Milley, who refused to carry out direct orders from President Trump and even went so far as to say he would warn the Chinese Communists if America were to ever mount an imminent attack against them. And so too, we saw Lt Colonel Alexander Vindman, not only spy on Trump but deliver false and purposefully misleading testimony during Trump’s impeachment hearing.
And then enter Biden. No enemy of America’s could have a better friend and agent acting on their behalf than Traitor Joe, who had it rough fighting Corn Pop at the local pool when he was just a young teen growing up in Little China, Massachusetts … Hahaha. Continue reading
As a Teacher for 26 Years, I’ve Seen How We Dumbed Down Education — and How Kids Suffer
An American flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops in Newlon Elementary School, Aug. 25, 2020, in Denver. – AP
Recently, writing in the Acton Institute’s Religion and Liberty Online, a Texas high-school teacher, Auguste Meyrat, brilliantly formulated the most precise description of education in post-COVID America: vegetative education.
As he writes, “Teachers in past decades have been faced with two choices: educating students with challenging material and frequent grading or engaging them with fun projects and participation grades.”
What is he talking about?
What does modern classroom instruction look like these days?
To put it mildly: A lot of it is not very good.
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How the Department of Education’s “Bureaucracy” Failed my Daughters
A Rhode Island mother has slammed the Department of Education (ED) for failing the nation’s children, especially her two daughters who were diagnosed with dyslexia.
Jody Baldwin Stone told DailyMail.com that she struggled for years to get her daughters into special education programs, even though federal benchmark assessments indicated they were in need of ‘urgent intervention.’
‘I do think the level of bureaucracy in the Department of Education right now is so outrageous that you can’t imagine the hoops they make families go through to receive special education,’ Baldwin Stone said. Continue reading
Metzger: The Erosion Continues!
Americans’ trust in institutions was further eroded this week. I’m referring to President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. This one’s different.
Presidential pardons have been around since George Washington. But no president ever promised to not pardon someone – and then went back on his word and pardoned that individual. And no president ever gave such a blanket pardon as Joe Biden gave his son Hunter, one covering the 10 years that Hunter has either been convicted of crimes or that the Justice Department didn’t fully investigate. It’s unprecedented.
This comes after Biden framed his presidency around restoring trust in institutions after Trump spent four years sowing mistrust in them, including accusing the Justice Department of being “weaponized” against him. Biden echoed similar sentiments in pardoning Hunter. “Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.” Continue reading