Author Archives: The Publisher

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.

GOP Rep: ICE Agents Are Cleaning Up Mess Left Behind by Biden Admin

Under political pressure to punish Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its agents, a Republican lawmaker says the Trump administration is enforcing immigration laws that were trampled on by the open-borders Biden administration.

U.S. Rep. Josh Breechen (R-OK), who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, was interviewed on the “Washington Watch” program Wednesday after participating in a contentious committee hearing. The hearing featured Democrats grilling and lecturing ICE Director Todd Lyons after two anti-ICE activists, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis with phone cameras recording the incidents. Continue reading →

Hickman: When Government Subsidies Stopped – Doritos Got 15% Cheaper

PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps.

But last week – after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of products like soda, candy, and processed snacks – PepsiCo announced price cuts of up to 15% on Doritos, Lay’s, Tostitos, and other Frito-Lay products.

The company’s official explanation was “affordability.” CEO Ramon Laguarta cited low-income consumers are switching to store brands.

But the timing tells the real story. Continue reading →

Dickens: American Epitaph

Out of Control…

The intro music was released the year I enlisted in the USAF – I left for training in February 1972. There were several reasons I volunteered, and someday I may regale you with that story. Let’s just say the decision confirmed my commitment to America and made me the vexed patriot who writes these commentaries and holds this Republic to account; if I don’t, who will? I give you my opinion on what I see and how I feel, and, like it or not, it’s who I am… and I will not apologize.

I’d intended this piece as a fourth chapter in my last commentary, but on counsel’s advice, I’m adapting it to reflect his opinion and repurposing it as American Epitaph. I try hard to be optimistic, to see the good in things, and to look for alternatives and possibilities. I see them, but they’re slipping away as I watch. My fear is that we’ve crossed the Rubicon and there’s no going back. We’re writing America’s Epitaph.

“Old Charlie stole the handle…
And the train it won’t stop…
Oh no way to slow down…”

Symbolism: Old Charlie is often interpreted as a metaphor for fate, the devil, or an indifferent creator, leaving the train (life, society, this republic) to run out of control. More precisely, this republic is out of control as the two primary political parties contend for control of the United States of America, Our Republic, while the third watches from the sidelines, committed not to commit through Active Inaction… a deliberate effort to avoid taking action. Think of finding fault, bitching about it incessantly, and doing absolutely nothing productive to change it.

I was searching for an appropriate musical selection to open this commentary when this Jethro Tull song popped up – there are no coincidences. Continue reading →

Smith: The Measure of a Man

“How many things are now called the worst evil, which are only twelve feet wide and three months long! But some day greater dragons will come into the world” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Thus Spoke Zarasthustra‘ [January 1st 1883]

I’m an old man now, by some folks’ reckoning, and I don’t scare easy.

That ain’t bravado – just mileage. When you’ve watched the Clinch River flood and pull whole trees out by the roots, buried friends younger than you, and gone hungry in a way that don’t make the papers, fear starts to sort itself into piles. Some of it’s loud. Most of it ain’t worth giving a moment of your time.

I’ve been thinking lately about all the things I was once told were the worst evils a man could face. Funny thing is, every one of them had a size to it and a season attached. Continue reading →

**The Silent Land Grab: Why China is Buying US Farmland“**

…and this has been going on in America for the last THREE Presidents – in addition to the FACT that they are also acquiring farm land surrounding US Military Bases! ~ Editor

Congress needs to act to prevent this land grab from happening. Sheep people need to wake up before it’s too late. The CCP is evil not perpetrated by the citizens but the government. From human rights to an act of pure barbarism to outs own citizens. The world including the US needs to hold this evil entity responsible from the devastation.caused by the CCP. Covid being the biggest killer to humanity. Foreign greed money to purchase of our farmland needs to be stopped now. GMOs are just the start and now our farmland wake up sheep people!!!! – Mitchell Cagle

Garrison: Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the Untouchables

For many months the Clintons have not complied with subpoenas from House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer. The Clintons have refused to testify on matters involving Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the subpoenas was invalid.

In other words, the Clintons are above the law. Continue reading →

Garrison: The Off Switches

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Many of us suspect the protests in Minnesota are by no means grass-root. The protestors are well-organized, carry slickly-printed signs, and uniformly shout the same messages. They used a cell phone message program called ‘Signal’ to implement their movements around town to counter ICE agents. They are getting paid by billionaire agitators such as George Soros and his son. Continue reading →

Hickman: Does America Still Have the Tools to Solve Its Problems?

Two days ago I wrote to you about How Elizabeth Warren Destroyed an American Technology Company headquartered in her home state.

She killed a deal for Amazon to buy iRobot – maker of the popular Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. And as a result, iRobot filed for bankruptcy and got scooped up for peanuts by a Chinese rival.

All of that US intellectual property, not to mention mountains of personal data on iRobot’s US consumers, was handed over to the Chinese… courtesy of America’s favorite Cherokee warrior. Continue reading →

Ross: Are You Prepared?

Do you think that God cares about what you look like? Do you think He cares if you are rich/poor; if you are a Democrat or a Republican; if you are a famous actor or just some working stiff trying to make ends meet? All God cares about is what is in your heart; whether or not you believe what John 3:16 tells us, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Yet there is more to being a Christian than simply believing that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the Living God; He who offered His life as a sacrifice for our sins; dying on the cross and rising on the third day into glory. Satan not only believes that, he knows that to be true; yet he is still condemned to eternal damnation for seeking to elevate himself above the Most High. Continue reading →

DeWeese: A Challenge to Republican/Conservative Forces – What’s Your Plan to Win?

Republican spokesmen and conservative media continue to report with glee that the Democrats are out of control and finished as a political force. “They’re clueless,” “they’re crazy.” “Their leadership is completely out of control.” “The Democrats are done.” On and on it goes. “Are you tired of winning yet,” goes the most popular slogan. And, “The midterms are in the Republicans hands!”

My frustration grows as I’m forced to watch the absolute downfall of American freedom, led by those same pathetic Republican forces who have ignored and completely misunderstand the agenda they have been facing for over thirty years. Above all, they have no idea how dedicated the powers behind it are to assuring that it’s fully enforced. Continue reading →

Smith: Trump’s Repugnant Second Amendment Positions

All the facts surrounding the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti still aren’t out, but I am of the mind that he absolutely got the ass beating he deserved – and maybe he did deserve to be shot if he still had his pistol on him and was reaching for it. But as near as I can gather, he was shot after he was disarmed, and if that’s the case – well Damn – ain’t that some real shit.

However, no matter the wrong or right of what Pretti did or didn’t do, up until the point he angrily impeded and obstructed the ICE agent in the commission of his duty and fought with him, Pretti had every right to be there watching and protesting, even with his firearm on his side.

As much as I hate the Democrat Communists, they still have a right to peaceful protest, but as we are witnessing, nine times out of ten, their idea of “peaceful protest” comes with a shitload of violence directed at ICE, Border Patrol and anyone identified as a conservative counter-protestor or conservative journalist – the latter two often being swarmed and threatened with bodily harm and death – all of which are part of the reason we all have the right to carry a firearm. Continue reading →

Hickman: How Elizabeth Warren Destroyed an American Technology Company

Almost exactly two years ago I wrote about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s heroic quest to destroy Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot.

You might be familiar with iRobot; they are the maker of the robotic “Roomba” vacuum cleaner, and Amazon wanted to buy it for more than $1 billion.

Well, Lizzie Warren wasn’t having any of that. She wrote a hysterical letter to the Federal Trade Commission claiming the deal would “harm consumers,” as if we helpless little people would somehow suffer grievous bodily injury if Amazon bought a vacuum cleaner company. Continue reading →

Smith: The Red Wind Over the Republic ~ and the Saints Will Reach for Rifles!

We are seeing our immigration mess pushed to its breaking point in America today by Democrat Party Communist leaders in every sanctuary state and city across the country.

America is facing a coordinated ideological insurgency that uses immigration chaos, sanctuary policies, and far‑left protest movements and their useful communist Idiots as instruments of revolutionary change. This insurgency is seen as rooted in Marxist-Maoist ideology, supported by sympathetic institutions, and amplified – though not necessarily completely directed – by foreign adversaries and the financial backing of entities such as the Chinese Communist Party.

Most patriotic Americans, such as myself, fully recognize and understand that our country is being transformed against our will. Understanding this perspective is essential to understanding the depth of today’s political conflict. Continue reading →

Going Faster And Faster: The Acceleration Of Decline

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There are times in the 27 years that I have maintained a series of websites, that the time goes by that I choose to republish and article that has something to SAY. The following was published July 15, 2002 on the original Federal Observer, in the category, ‘Village of the Damned‘ (so named for Hillary Clintons’ reference to “It takes a Village to raise a child.”) No thanks ma’am – leave our children in the hands of their parents. ~ Editor

Get your children OUT of the System – NOW

One must be careful in remembering better days. Memory presents an improving mirror, smoothing rough edges of rougher times, giving a warm glow to things that were less roseate when they happened. Like a good editor, it revises things for the better. Thus one recalls, or half-imagines, the idyllic boyhood in Mississippi, the favorite grove where one played in the slanting afternoon sunlight that probably wasn’t as golden as one recalls, with childhood companion who perhaps weren’t as admirable as they now seem. One forgets, or half forgets, the drunken parents and the poverty and hookworm. And so one must tread cautiously when pondering a past in which all things were better, cleaner, and purer. Yet…yet sometimes things were better, and sometimes things do decay. Sometimes a society does go from better to bad to worse. I wonder. Continue reading →

Why 2026 Marks the Dawn of Nationwide School Choice

Trump’s new federal school choice program includes an irresistible pathway for taxpayers to help kids.

You DO have choices you know!!!

As we kick off National School Choice Week, there’s never been a more exciting time for families who seek educational freedom. Governors across the country now have a golden opportunity to opt their states in early to President Trump’s innovative federal tax credit scholarship program embedded in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, unlocking scholarships for millions of kids without touching a dime of public school funding. Continue reading →

Sara: Another Shooting in Minnesota

And it’s awful. Again!

Again, another person who believed their presence was necessary, their purpose noble, and their cause just – did not return home.

Another person who believed they were fighting Nazis, the Gestapo, or fascists — fought to the death. Whether they wanted to, needed to, or understood what they were doing.

Another preventable situation that devolved quickly.

Another damaging war of words and narratives followed.

And the road of restoration for our nation becomes a little harder to pass – littered with all the junk dragged into it by both sides. Continue reading →

Smith: America’s Enemies From Within Seek Her Destruction

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The more I see and hear coming out of sanctuary cities and states all around the nation, whether we speak of New York City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago or up the road from me in Nashville, the more convinced I am that there isn’t any peaceful solution, and we freedom and liberty minded Americans can no longer sit idly by while America is slowly dismantled piece by piece by subversive Democrat Marxist-Maoist Communists far too willing to do any and everything to destroy Her, even to the point of accepting financial help and training from the Chinese communists and other communists abroad.

Many lack the courage to admit this fact, simply because they don’t want to tip the cart so-to-speak, and they somehow believe we can simply keep limping along trying to make compromise after compromise with these vile, evil, intransigent commie rat bastards in a manner that prevents America from succeeding and reaching Her full potential. They would rather see the nation die slowly so long as their own respective and relative comfort isn’t disrupted in the slightest, looking at only ensuring their own prosperity and “security” in the short term rather than doing everything within their power to ensure prosperity and real and solid security for all Americans while defending and protecting our inalienable God-given rights. Continue reading →

Minnesota Shows Why the Left Will Win America’s 2026 Civil War!

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The saddest thing about this is that the Republicans will work with the left to ensure their victory.

The United States is facing an existential threat. My guess is this summer will be the most violent, damaging domestic summer since the Civil War. And I predict the left will win and come out victorious on the other side. They will, after winning this new civil war, seek to eliminate the last vestiges of republicans.

I use a small ‘r‘ because while some Republicans are true republicans, most are not. And when the left wins the war, those RINOs are going to “work with” Democrats to create the illusion that America is still a republic, but it won’t be. They will use every tool available to silence dissent, take control over virtually every sector of American life, and they will implement rules so that America becomes a one-party nation.

Now I say all of this with the great hope that I am wrong, but I don’t think I will be. Continue reading →

Snyder: A War Has Erupted On The Streets Of America, and It Is Going To End With Martial Law In Major U.S. Cities

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Chaos has erupted in the streets of major cities all over this country, and it appears that we have reached a boiling point which could cause events to completely spiral out of control. We knew that there was no way that the Trump administration was going to back down on immigration enforcement, and we knew that there was no way that the left was going to back down and allow ICE to conduct mass deportations without resistance. In fact, the left now has “response teams” that literally operate like military units in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis and New York City.

So it was inevitable that we would see more violent confrontations, and now another protester has died. The left is promising to fight back harder than ever, and President Trump is seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act.

As both sides continue to raise the stakes, it is just a matter of time before this crisis ends with martial law in major U.S. cities. Continue reading →

Massive Social Security Data Breach Sparks Identity Theft Fears for Millions

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

Federal officials are scrambling to contain the fallout from a massive Social Security data exposure that has thrust millions of Americans into the crosshairs of identity thieves. A whistleblower has alleged that more than 300 m Social Security records were placed at risk, potentially affecting virtually every working-age and retired person who depends on federal benefits. The breach is not just a technical failure, it is a direct threat to people’s credit, bank accounts, and long term financial security. Continue reading →