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.
The Democrat left is now getting a taste of their own medicine. Jimmy Kimmel has been suspended for saying Charlie Kirk’s murderer was on the side of MAGA – a blatant lie. He’s now complaining about the loss of his free speech and many in the Democrat media are screaming the same thing. How times have changed. The Democrats had no problem endlessly repeating the Russia collusion lie that hurt Trump’s first term. The vile mendacity originated from a bitter Hillary Clinton. Bill Maher even made a urinating Russian prostitutes joke long after it was proven to be a vicious smear.
Then the Democrats lied about Hunters all-too real laptop. Fifty security agency officials swore it was fake. They lied. Many lied to Congress. I guess they considered that free speech too, and they avoided the consequences – at least so far. Continue reading →
Our society today is geared towards the quick fix. With the barrage of drug commercials there is a pill for every symptom. If you can’t sit still pop a pill. Big Pharma’s partnership with government agencies including public education is responsible for the drastic increase of children being put on dangerous drugs.
It’s been 25 years since my last opinion piece covering ADHD, ADD and prescription medications like Ritalin and Adderall. I thought I would never write another piece on this specific issue, but things have evolved since 1999. When I learned Illinois Governor Pritzker signed into law a new bill making it mandatory for yearly psychological exams on schoolchildren starting in 3rd grade, I had to write again on this issue. Continue reading →
Underscoring academic – 40 percent of fourth grade children now lack basic reading skills
I was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far better education.
However, this headmistress reported such alarm and concern were not as present in newer parents. In fact, those with children born during Covid seemed oblivious to the many education problems unmasked during the pandemic and were happily trotting their children toward their first years in the same old forms of substandard education. Continue reading →
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean “tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most will be false positives.”
If politicians want to help kids, they must recognize how government schools systematically undermine students’ mental health.Continue reading →
NOTE:Considering the words of Plato above – just what in the hell has happened? ~ Editor
High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the gold standard exam for comparing student achievement over the years. Continue reading →
U.S. Man Charged $5,000 for Sitting in the ER Waiting Room — and Never Saw a Doctor If you’re not an experienced parent and maybe a little bit prone to overreaction, you too would rush your child to the emergency room when they suddenly developed a rash. You’re going to have to cough up a lot of cash to ultimately be prescribed a topical ointment you could’ve been told to get by an urgent care doctor, but that’s parenting. It happens.
But what if you didn’t even get to see the emergency room doctor? Should you still be charged thousands of dollars?
That’s what Nathan Jachimiec did for his 11-year-old son, Ian, back in May. They pulled into the Good Samaritan Hospital ER in San Jose, hoping a doctor could explain their son’s mysterious rash, but he never got the chance to do so. They just sat there, in the waiting room, constantly being told by a nurse to keep doing what they were doing.. (Continue to full article)
Charlie Kirk Assassination Stirs Fears of Rising Political Violence
Phill Magakoe/AFP
The Sept. 10 death of Charlie Kirk – the highest-profile U.S. political figure to be assassinated in nearly six decades – represents a tipping point for the nation, legal scholars and others told The Epoch Times. How leaders and the populace react to it could determine whether the tide of political violence continues to rise or recedes.
The 31-year-old father of two was fatally shot in the neck as he spoke on a Utah college campus. As of Sept. 11, the gunman remained unidentified and on the loose; police detained two people but released both after questioning.
Susan MacManus, a Florida political scholar for a half-century, said Kirk’s slaying could spark important changes… (Continue to full article)
‘Large number of farmers won’t survive this‘: Trump’s New Trade Moves Put Growers at Risk
A tractor cultivates a corn field at Mencer Farms in Lake Village, Ark., on April 29, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
The game of chicken Donald Trump is playing with China as part of his tariff war is reportedly on the verge of doing irreparable harm to America’s soybean farmers with Chinese negotiators holding the upper hand.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, soybeans farmers are poised to harvest “tens of millions of tons of soybeans,” but their biggest market, China, is not buying, thereby putting pressure of the Trump administration to make a tariff deal.
As the Journal’s Jon Emont and Patrick Thomas are reporting, China’s buyers are boycotting American soybean crops unless Trump first drops the 20 percent tariff the the president imposed… (Continue to full article)
US Companies ‘Upset, Shocked, Freaked Out’ Over 10% Spike in Health Insurance Costs — the Highest in 15 Years US employers are bracing for the steepest jump in health insurance costs in at least 15 years, with premiums projected to climb nearly 10% next year — on top of years of already sharp increases.
Benefits consultants Aon and WTW told the Wall Street Journal that employer health-coverage costs are set to surge about 9.5% and 9.2% in 2026, respectively, the fastest rise since at least 2011.
The average family plan now runs roughly $25,500 annually — equivalent to the price of a small car… (Continue to full article)
Trump Approval Drops to Record Low of Second Term Trump’s approval rating dropped to its lowest level of his second term in the YouGov/Economist poll released Tuesday.
In the weekly survey, conducted this past weekend, 39 percent of surveyed Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency, down from the 41 percent recorded over the last three weeks and 40 percent recorded in mid-August.
In the latest survey, 57 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of his post, also a record for his second term… (Continue to full article)
U.S. Congressman Says Healthcare Premiums Will Skyrocket 93%, “Make No Mistake About It“
…ANGER at Health Care industry!
In March, Congress approved a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2025 (ending September 30), successfully averting a government shutdown.
Now, House Democrats including U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) are looking at a new GOP CR, presented on Tuesday, that in its current form Democrats say would hurt working class Americans. With the September 30th deadline looming, a government shutdown on October 1 is at stake as the two sides negotiate.
Let me paint a picture. A mom and a dad in their early 60’s, both have jobs, they make $80,000 a year combined. Right now they can afford their health care barely. But if these A.C.A. Credits expire, their bill jumps more than $17,000 a year. That’s like a house mortgage. That’s $1,400 a month every month just for the privilege of not going bankrupt if they get sick… (Continue to full article)
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Links Found Between Charlie Kirk Killer, Armed Queers SLC, Anti-ICE Shooter, BLM, and Radical Gun Club The assassination of Charlie Kirk has revealed an interconnected web of militant leftist groups. Shooter Tyler Robinson and his transgender partner, Lance Twiggs, are tied to Armed Queers SLC, which deleted its social media accounts immediately after the killing. Federal investigators are also probing Benjamin Song, the ex-Marine accused of leading the July ICE detention center attack, who connected the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club to both Armed Queers SLC and broader Antifa networks. Evidence of joint workshops, cross-state coordination, and BLM collaborations underscores how these radical factions trained, organized, and operated together.
Robinson fatally shot Kirk at Utah Valley University, using antifa symbolism in the attack. He engraved lyrics from “Bella Ciao,” described as “probably the most important rallying song to Antifa militants for decades,” on his rifle cartridges. Twiggs, who was transitioning from male to female, provided Discord messages to law enforcement that revealed Robinson’s planning and motivation.
In one exchange, Robinson wrote: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” justifying the assassination by saying, “I had had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”… (Continue to full article)
Cartels Smuggle Big Drug Loads by Rail into US
Mexican Cartel Smugglers have long used traincars to move illegal aliens deeper into the US, but using trains for drug smuggling hasn’t been as common recently, although that appears to be changing.
On September 14, 2025, a San Antonio-based “High Intensity Drug Area” (HIDTA) Task Force, which includes officers from the San Antonio Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, US Drug Enforcement Administration, and Union Pacific Railroad Police checking northbound freight trains hit the jackpot.
After a K9 showed keen interest in one of the train’s railcars, agents took a closer look and found more than 500 pounds of methamphetamine worth well over a million dollars hidden inside… (Continue to full article)
Hobbs: Murdering Beotch! PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs is cutting services to Arizonans with disabled children to protect “This program into the future for the families that need it.“
The Democratic governor is implementing reductions at the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities, which serves more than 60,000 Arizonans, following Republican lawmakers’ harsh criticism earlier this year for massive cost overruns.
The cuts may reduce the number of service hours children are approved to receive, according to the governor’s office. Families with disabled children told 12News that the cuts would be devastating, likely affecting thousands of Arizonans.
The results reflect an 8 percentage-point decline since 2024 and one point lower than the previous record lows recorded in 2000 and 2023.
The lowest number of Americans in more than two decades said they are satisfied with K–12 education in the United States, according to a Walton Family Foundation-Gallup poll released on Sept. 16.
The results reflect the lowest satisfaction level in K–12 education since Gallup first conducted the poll in 1999. Continue reading →
By now, you all should know my morning routine, my liaison with coffee and the news. I freely admit that I’m troubled by the ongoing decline in moral standards and the erosion of personal responsibility across this republic.
I’ve written at length about the culpability of the media and the partisan political parties, and how they directly influence what we believe, which reflects on how we act or respond. It’s no longer a partisan issue, but rather a complex contagion of epidemic proportions. Continue reading →
January 13, 2019 ~ America is currently witnessing the harsh reality of a Democratic Party intent on gaining power by any means necessary and so enraged by the election of President Trump, that they will not even acknowledge America and her patriots have a right to determine who and how many enter our nation, under any set of circumstances.
The resulting stand off between President Trump and (Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and their respective supporters has allowed the harsh reality to come home, that the Democratic Party really has become the anti-American Party of Brown Ascendancy; and, the Democrats, such as Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, place more value on their own power and their by and large white-hating communist, socialist, and fascist allies from South and Central America and North Africa and the Middle East, than they do on America’s own citizens. Continue reading →
“That’s right, it’s come to this, yes it’s come to this, and wasn’t it a long way down, wasn’t it a strange way down?” ~ Leonard Cohen, from ‘Dress Rehearsal Rag‘
And so here I am again, looking at the direction of our country, as I all too regularly witness our enemies-from-within having their way with Her, simply because they absolutely refuse to abide by the normal social order and any of our laws or the constitution which raise their ire on any given day. Too many erroneously identify this as “politics as usual” when, in fact, it is anything but “as usual” and denotes a marked shift in everything about our country, Her people and what will probably occur in the aftermath of recent violent events – and what really should and must happen, if America is to survive as a republic for much longer.
People can disagree with my assessment all they wish, all day long for months into the future, but they are sadly mistaken if they believe the Democrat Party rat bastards really have good intentions for the people or that there truly exists any peaceful solutions for America, going forward from this day on. Continue reading →
US Senator Joseph McCarthy was in the middle of an otherwise boring speech at the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950, when he pulled out a nondescript piece of paper from his jacket pocket.
Waving the paper into the air for all to see, Senator McCarthy proclaimed that he possessed a list of more than 200 known Communists in the United States, and that he would make sure they were all outed and punished. Continue reading →
We must speak truth with conviction, but also with love that disarms hatred.
Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist writer. He is credited with the theory of “cultural hegemony” that advocates for changing society through academia, the media, and the culture.
“When will it end?”
That was the question a legacy media commentator asked after conservative talk show host and thought leader Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. Another lamented, “Is this how we solve our political differences in America?” From the shattered stained glass of Annunciation Catholic School to the crowded fields of Butler County, Pennsylvania, the heartbreaking answer is too often yes.
And yet evil, whether it slinks across a rooftop or slams into twin skyscrapers, is not new. Two thousand years ago, the prophet Hosea watched his own nation, awash in idolatry, turn its back on God and declared a warning from the Lord, “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind …” Continue reading →
On Sept. 3, 2025, China celebrated the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan by staging a carefully choreographed event in which 26 world leaders were offered a podium view of Beijing’s impressive military might.
The show of strength was deliberate and reignited a debate in Western media over whether we are on the cusp of a China-centric “new world order” to replace the U.S.-dominated international “rules-based order.”
But as someone who writes about geopolitics, I believe we are already there. It might be in flux, and the U.S. still has a big role in it, but a new world order has begun – and as it develops, it will look increasingly different than what it’s replacing. Continue reading →
Sen. Rand Paul is calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to reappear before Congress after emails were uncovered that contradict his testimony to lawmakers.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee obtained documents showing that Dr. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, directed NIH employees to destroy records.
“These documents suggest your direct involvement in efforts to conceal information related to the Committee’s investigation and appear to contradict your previous testimony before Congress,” Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said in a letter Tuesday to Dr. Fauci. Continue reading →
Kirk centered his conservative movement around engaging young minds in political debate and raising up new voices.
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks at the High School Leadership Summit, a Turning Point USA event, at George Washington University in Washington on July 26, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
By the time he set off on his final campus speaking tour, Charlie Kirk had built an organization of some 250,000 members, all the while engaging in conservative political organizing, engineering get-out-the-vote efforts, drawing tens of millions of dollars in funding, and growing a media influence machine.
A driving force behind Kirk’s movement, Turning Point USA, has been his focus on engaging young minds in political debate and setting an example for new generations of political influencers like himself.
Through this mission, Kirk often found himself on a college campus, delivering a speech or sitting down with a table and a microphone and defying his critics with the prompt “prove me wrong,” even in the face of insults and threats.
A strategist working to restore schools from harmful agendas isn’t surprised that federal spending didn’t improve kids’ math and reading scores.
12th graders’ scores dropped to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills.
The assessments were the first since the pandemic, and the Associated Press says they “reflect a downward drift across grade levels and subject areas.” Continue reading →
This was one of Charlie Kirk’s last posts on X. Like his Savior, Kirk was an exceptional influencer who exemplified grace, love, and understanding. For this, the left had him assassinated. We don’t know who did it, but it looked like a professional job and many socialist Democrats were celebrating. Some of their posts were reprehensible and I won’t repeat them here. Continue reading →
Like a lot of people, I first came across Charlie Kirk when YouTube’s algorithm started showing me short clips of him dismantling woke Leftists at university campuses.
Kirk used politeness combined with simple logic and reason to demonstrate what we all already knew: the Left has no idea what they’re talking about! Continue reading →