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.

Whitehead ~ Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution

“When they came in the middle of the night, they terrorized the families that were living there. There were children who were without clothing, they were zip tied, taken outside at 3 o’clock in the morning. A senior resident, an American citizen with no warrants, was taken outside and handcuffed for three hours. Doors were blown off their hinges, walls were broken through, immigration agents coming from Black Hawk helicopters … This is America.” ~ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.

That danger is no longer theoretical. Continue reading

Bennett: …Bridges, not Walls!

For an usual reason… I have been unable to sleep tonight – and something began to take over my brain and the thought processes would not shut down. I began to review some of my older writings – and what you are about to read struck me so hard that I could not shut it down. You will note the date of my original publication… things don’t always change. ~ J. Bennett, Editor

October 9, 2018 ~ This has been an unusual 24 hours in my life… I could not sleep well last night, but…

On and off throughout the day while working on-line I find that I must return to music to calm my anxiety – and believe me – with all of the hate and the anger that we are all witnessing in this nation today – my anxiety grows. But this time it was not music which affected me… Last night I visited several web-pages dealing with Trump’s day on Earth yesterday. One event was the official White House welcoming of Judge Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. The second event was the President speaking before a major police organization.

The majority of the comments posted (in a Facebook format) while the events continued, were of a uplifting, positive and congratulatory type, but they were also spattered with notes and messages of HATE, and I thought to myself, ‘doesn’t it ever stop?‘ When does the hate go away? Continue reading

McCullough: Where’s the Downside?

The political class in Washington wants you to believe the sky is falling. Every time the government nears a shutdown, Democrats screech that America is about to collapse. Yet the last few weeks have proven the exact opposite. Public opinion is not with them, and they know it.

Why? Because ordinary Americans aren’t stupid. They see what Democrats are fighting for, and it isn’t safer streets, secure borders, or more freedom. It’s more “free stuff.” The Democrats have gone to the wall to preserve and expand subsidies for the Affordable Care Act – a program that feels “free” only because taxpayers are forced to underwrite it. When politicians scream that a shutdown will “harm” Americans, what they mean is it will interrupt the handouts that keep their coalition addicted to government dependence. Continue reading

Trump Isn’t Embarrassing Himself…

He’s Embarrassing America!

He drags America onto the world stage, shouts like a carnival barker, and dares anyone to call him out. Too often, no one does.

                                                                                      Illustration by Abdelafatah Mukhtar

Every time I see a headline or a YouTube video that says, “Trump embarrasses himself by…” it irks me a little. Not because Trump doesn’t make a fool of himself — he always does — but because is it even possible for him to get embarrassed? Embarrassment requires self-awareness. It requires an understanding of social standards, the recognition that you’ve fallen short of them, and the capacity to cringe at yourself.

Trump doesn’t express any of these traits. He barrels through life like a man who believes the world is his open mic, and the crowd is obligated to applaud no matter how stale the jokes are. Embarrassment implies an internal governor that makes you stop and think, “Oh, maybe I shouldn’t have said that.” Trump is missing that chip. He is an indictment on the United States of America, and not just as a president but as a mirror of the worst parts of us — anti-intellectualism, cruelty as entertainment, and the delusion that bluster equals brilliance. Continue reading

Johnson: Can’t Sit Still Pop a Pill (Part 3)

But wait there’s more… It was not just Ritalin and Adderall being prescribed for so-called learning and behavior disorder but also Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) were becoming popular. I was on the Colorado State Board of Education when the Columbine massacre happened. One of my fellow board member’s daughter went to Columbine and was hiding from Eric and Dylin (the shooters) in the library closet. She had phoned her dad as it was happening.

This massacre ripped our hearts out. I felt obligated to do some research which revealed that in school shootings, before Columbine, every shooter I could get information on was already receiving some form of psychological counseling and was on one or more psychiatric drug. Eric Harris was prescribed Luvox (fluvoxamine) for depression and was in counseling as part of a juvenile diversion program. Toxicology reports confirmed Luvox in his system at the time of the shooting. His counseling involved a psychiatrist who prescribed the medication. Continue reading

Smith: Flushing Out America’s Treasonous Communist Snakes

For all reasonable Americans who are still capable of using logic and facts in tandem with existing U.S. legal code, they will be unable to come to any other conclusion other than finding the events from 2016 to the present as directed and guided through Democrat criminal complicity, to be nothing less than treason against the United States and the American people.

Handing down a judgement and punishment may be an entirely different dynamic though, given his fate will be in the hands of people who will more than likely be Democrat Party minions, but should they dare to be so misdirected as to let him go without any punishment whatsoever, it will be a slap in the face of all America. Continue reading

DeWeese: The Charlie Kirk Affect – A New Chance to Rebuild the Republic

Change the debate and rebuild the Republic of our Founders so every generation will have the hope and joy of true liberty, just as Charlie envisioned;

Phill Magakoe/AFP

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is one of the greatest outrages most Americans have ever faced. Especially our younger generations! It has also been one of the greatest outpourings of emotion, outrage, and determination the nation, and perhaps the world, have ever experienced.

We are not dealing with confused Democrats who simply have bad ideas

The Charlie Kirk murder exposed one very specific fact. We are not dealing with confused Democrats who simply have bad ideas. Finally, people are beginning to see the evil forces that you and I have been warning about. They have an agenda that is designed to destroy our society of freedom, and they will go to any extreme to win. Continue reading

Growing Number of Republicans Pessimistic About Direction of the Country

Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically, according to a new AP-NORC poll that was conducted shortly after last week’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The share of Republicans who see the country headed in the right direction has fallen sharply in recent months, according to the September survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Today, only about half in the GOP see the nation on the right course, down from 70% in June. The shift is even more glaring among Republican women and the party’s under-45 crowd. Continue reading

Shurk: Can This Nation Be Saved?

How does America survive when its citizens belong to two divided camps that believe fundamentally incompatible things?

Over the last century, there has been a trend to establish “truth and reconciliation commissions” in countries emerging from periods of political terrorism, totalitarianism, or civil war. The idea is to acknowledge the crimes and atrocities that past governments officially sanctioned and to recognize the harms inflicted upon their victims. As is often the case when governments “disappear” citizens or throw them in gulags for their politically incorrect thoughts, it is the not knowing that haunts society. Survivors bereft of answers are left with inconsolable anguish. The commissions are often used as a first step toward healing grave national trauma.

It is no surprise that these commissions generally reflect the worldviews of the prevailing government that forms them. Communist governments are quick to label past “right-wing” officials as “murderers” while memorializing their own murderers as “patriots,” “civil rights heroes,” or “noble revolutionaries.” Continue reading

Public Schools Robbed Children of Learning and Earnings. They Should Pay Kids Back!

A national effort to compensate Americans affected by prolonged pandemic-era public school closures and other education policy failures is long overdue.

Five years ago, public schools across the United States closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other large school districts were locked out of classrooms for 18 months. These prolonged public school closures harmed a generation of children. According to University of Arkansas professor of education policy Harry Anthony Patrinos, school closures in developed countries reduced students’ lifetime earnings by $21,000. Continue reading

Garrison: The Schumer Shutdown Is Hours Away!

Democrats are ready to force a government shutdown to appease their far-left base. Sure, the Republicans control both the House and Senate, but 60 votes are required in the Senate to keep the government going, and there are only 53 Republican Senators – and Mitch ’Turtle’ McConnell cannot be trusted to deliver a vote that helps Trump.  Continue reading

Dickens: An Open Letter… Let Them Sink!

     Dickens is ANGRY!

To Whom It May Concern:

Our world and country are in chaos. The partisan political parties battle for control of this republic. Cities are the victims of bad policies, but they re-elect the same type of people to those leadership positions, and there is no end in sight, implying that they don’t want help, have given up, or no longer care.

Our current situation fits Einstein’s definition of insanity perfectly. Continue reading

Hickman: A Brief History of America’s Extreme Ideological Divide

In the election of 1800, journalist James Callender once described presidential candidate (and then Vice President) John Adams as “a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

Adams’ opponent, Thomas Jefferson, was likewise smeared as “the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father,” and accused of being a Jacobin who would confiscate Bibles and burn churches.

The ideological divide – even from America’s earliest era – was so bad that each side thought the other would bring an end to the Republic. Continue reading

Garrison: UN Escalator to Irrelevance

The UN was established after the failed “League of Nations,” but both were predicated on nations getting together to prevent disastrous wars.

Wars continued despite the UN being established just after WWII. Nowadays, the countries that are represented at the UN are mostly anti-American and pro-globalism – and they expect America to pay for everything. Continue reading

Smith: Freedom and Liberty: An American Birthright

Unfortunately, wherever one finds a free people and a free society, one will always find evil men and women who will do anything to control them, to bring them to heel, and to conquer them in fact – to force them to do their bidding upon pain of death. And in that, just as has always been the case, we will always find ourselves in a war to survive and defeat the forces of tyranny, those monsters who hate freedom and liberty.

People who hate freedom and liberty are angered that anyone would choose to tell them “NO” to some dangerous, insane, and asinine idea – how arrogant and ungrateful we must be to reject their overtures and the cold chains of serfdom to an authoritarian government, the Leviathan – how dare we reject their mantel of master and the cradle to grave control they offer, under the guise of “care”. Continue reading

It’s Time to Finish the Dismantling of the Education Department

The Department of Education has operated as a costly experiment in federal overreach for too long – expanding bureaucratic layers, weakening local control, and spending billions without improving academic outcomes.

The department was intended to ensure access to equal educational opportunity for all students, supplement educational efforts at the state level, and serve as a research organization to provide guidance and best practices to policymakers. Instead, it has created red tape, enforced radical ideologies through one-size-fits-all mandates, and drained critical resources from classrooms with bloated administrative processes and procedures. Continue reading

Oklahoma Overrun With Chinese-Operated Marijuana Farms

A vast quantity of marijuana grown in the state leaves for the black market. Officials say 85 percent of grow sites have Chinese connections.

Chinese gangs are taking advantage of loose marijuana rules in Oklahoma to grow and transport marijuana to other states for sale on the black market, authorities say.

Oklahoma narcotics officials told Congress $153 billion worth of marijuana is unaccounted for and likely leaving the state for the black market in other states. Continue reading

CDC Panel Changes COVID Vaccine Advice to Support Informed Decision-Making

The CDC’s acting director will decide whether to accept the recommendations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should recommend that people receive a COVID-19 vaccine only after speaking with a health care provider, agency advisers said on Sept. 19.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously advised the CDC to change its immunization schedules to move COVID-19 vaccination to shared clinical decision-making.

For most tiers of recommendations on the schedule, the default decision should be to vaccinate the patient based on age group or other indication, unless contraindicated, the CDC states. “For shared clinical decision-making recommendations, there is no default.” Instead, vaccinations “are individually based and informed by a decision process between the health care provider and the patient or parent/guardian.” Continue reading

The American Left is Resurrecting The Bloody Legacy of John Brown

We should take the left’s invocation of John Brown seriously. It’s a call to murder anyone who opposes their agenda.

AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON/NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION/PUBLIC DOMAN

On the same day this week that a leftist sniper unleashed a deadly attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, fliers were spotted on the campus of Georgetown University for something called the John Brown Club. The fliers quoted a phrase that Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, inscribed on one of the bullets recovered from his rifle: “Hey, Fascist! Catch!” Under this, the flier read, “The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.”

The flier includes a QR code linking to a signup page that says, “We’re building a community that’s done with ceremonial resistance and strongly worded letters. If you want to make a real change in your community, let us know below.” Continue reading