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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.

Whitehead ~ A Police State Presidency: When ‘Rule of Law‘ Becomes ‘Rule by Gunpoint

“The world will soon understand nothing can stop what is coming.” President Trump

Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery.

From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle. Now he has discovered the perfect propaganda machine: AI-generated images.

AI allows the creation of endless variations of Trump-as-warrior, Trump-as-enforcer, Trump-as-savior. These images spread across social media, replicated, remixed, and shared until they become familiar, even normalized.

The latest AI-generated images of Trump, shared on his social media accounts, depict him in the militarized black uniform of a SWAT officer, or in police dress blues.

These memes are carefully crafted signals of how Trump envisions power in America. Continue reading

Smith: Courage to Live Outside the Machine

As I researched Artificial Intelligence more intensely in recent days, I have found myself actually dreaming about all manner of things and events that reveal how a future controlled by A.I. might eventually lead the American people back to the most important things in life – spirituality and a belief in God and reconnecting with nature and the world around them in a positive way that aligns more with the principles of freedom and liberty than anything we have experienced in recent decades.

Perhaps all that is needed is for people to refuse to go along with it all, to unplug, to disconnect and refuse to be just another hackable component in the grand scheme of things, a thousand times removed from what God intended us to be as free born independent men and woman or closer to the sort of people we were when this country was first being settled, from the early 1500s to the early 1800s.

The youth of America would do well to learn and come to understand the rugged pioneer spirit that built this nation and to even strive to be more like those earliest colonists and our Founding Fathers, and to quit worrying about who is following them on Facebook or Instagram and how many “likes” they are receiving on their posts.

What follows was actually inspired by one of those dreams. ~ J.O.S.  Continue reading

DeWeese: The Growing Hopelessness of America’s Youth

Is the American dream dead? Well, here’s a shocker!

YOUR CHILDREN MAY NEVER HAVE A FAMILY AND OWN THEIR OWN HOME!!!

According to a new report from Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene, right now – today, only 12% of 30-year-old Americans are married and have a home of their own. Representative Green is working to stop the growing crisis for younger families. Here is her chart that clearly exposes it.

Marriage and homeownership were never just personal milestones. They were sovereignty anchors, forms of decentralized power that rooted individuals in community. They were family. They were the means for building personal family wealth and independence. Continue reading

Marquardt: The Devil Is in the Details

President Trump is making many valid changes. A major one is doing away with politically deceptive Department of Education (which Reagan wanted to do), thus returning our children’s learning back to the states and counties – where it belongs. The President has also eliminated the Evolution centric UNESCO education. Now, if we are going to have any hope of finishing the job, of removing the Marxist dumbing-down of our children those states and counties should, next destroy every textbook on every subject and start again from scratch. If (most likely the case) they do not, Trump’s action will be worthless – less than worthless – the average parent will think sound science, reason, and logic will have returned to the classroom. This is political deception of the highest order, visible in open leftist opposition.

The same problem holds true with the great scam of Climate Change. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Continue reading

As Schools Increase Use of AI, Experts Warn of Impact on Children’s Development

‘AI creates an intellectual laziness … an erosion of curiosity, stunted cognitive development, and reduced problem solving!’

Pupils in a primary school class use AI for math lessons in Colomiers, France, on March 14, 2025. Matthieu Rondel/AFP

As tens of millions of children head back to school, parents and teachers are grappling with questions about how much artificial intelligence (AI) is too much.

The education system will be one of the primary laboratories for the global AI experiment, according to author Joe Allen.

Schools – to the extent that they either mandate or encourage the adoption of AI – are going to be massive petri dishes in which we’ll find out whether it’s better to maintain traditional cultural norms, or if we turn every child possible into a cyborg!Continue reading

Smith: Response to Mandani for Mayor

Editor’s Note: The following is an intense column written by Mr. Smith in response to the following link. In addition, Justin also published the following on his Substack page. ~ Editor

A sure indication that America is currently FUBAR — [F@#!ed] fouled-up beyond all recognition has once again been revealed by the dangerous rise of an ignorant, anti-American, anti-capitalist entitled, radical man-child Muslim communist to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for mayor of New York City, the hub of America’s economic system. The mere fact that a person such as Zohran Kwame Mamdani, who is aligned with and supported by some of the most radical communists and Muslim terrorists in America and abroad, could pull this off a mere twenty-four years after the worst case of Islamic terrorism in America makes one understand just how severely the Democrat Party’s multiculturalist, diversity immigration policies over the decades have damaged America.

The shockwaves of his victory are filtering through the air across the nation as though every septic tank in the nation has overflown and filled the air with the scent of shit, worse than living next door to a corporate operated hog farm. Continue reading

STUMP the TRUMP: The Insanity Moves Forward!

CNN Interrupted Mid-Broadcast for Hardest Blow to Trump Yet as President in ‘Crisis
CNN was halted for urgent breaking news in a developing story, as Donald Trump was handed his biggest blow yet in the second term of his presidency. As Trump vows a crackdown on crime in cities like Washington D.C., Philadelphia’s district attorney Larry Krasner has taken aim at the world leader, claiming he “wants to start a coup”.

“This is just a lie. It’s a lie in DC, it’s a lie in LA, it’s a lie in Chicago, it’s a lie in Philly and it’s a lie by a criminal who pardons criminals. You know, insurrectionists, people who are basically engaging in treason against the United States.

“Simply put, the only crisis here is Donald Trump and that’s because he wants a crisis, he wants a crisis so he can roll tanks in big cities and make it look normal, and he wants that because he intends to try to carry out a coup.”… (Continue to full article)

Court Finds Trump’s Tariffs an Illegal Use of Emergency Power, but Leaves Them in Place for Now
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Trump wasn’t legally allowed to declare national emergencies and impose import taxes on almost every country, a ruling that largely upheld a May decision by a specialized federal trade court in New York.

But the 7-4 court did not strike down the tariffs immediately, allowing his administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court… (Continue to full article)

Trump Moves to Rescind $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid, Earning Pushback From Capitol Hill
Trump is looking to claw back nearly $5 billion in foreign aid funds that Congress already approved, deploying a rarely used maneuver known as a pocket rescission to withhold funding without lawmakers’ authorization.

WTF – Over!

The move has prompted bipartisan pushback from Capitol Hill, with one top Republican calling it “unlawful.”

In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson posted on X by the White House Office of Management and Budget, the president said he was proposing “15 rescissions of budget authority, totaling $4.9 billion.” The cuts include funding for the State Department as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development and international development and assistance programs… (Continue to full article)

Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel
As its genocidal actions in Gaza become more brazen by the day, support for Israel among Americans has reached a record low.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 60% of voters across all parties now say they oppose the United States sending more military aid to Israel, while just 32% say they support it. The pollster said it was the greatest amount of opposition it has recorded for the US-Israel alliance since it first asked the question in November 2023.

Opposition is even stronger among Democratic voters: 75% of them now oppose sending military aid to Israel, compared with just 18% who still support it… (Continue to full article)

Senate GOP Braces for Chaos as Trump Moves to Seize Control of the Fed
Senate Republicans are scrambling as Donald Trump escalates his effort to seize control of the Federal Reserve, blindsiding many in his own party by announcing the unprecedented firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook over unproven fraud claims.

The move, fueled by Trump loyalists amplifying accusations on social media, comes as he prepares to install loyalists on the board ahead of a key interest rate vote. While Cook challenges the ouster in court, GOP aides admit they’re bracing for chaos when Congress returns. “We just jumped into the unknown,” one senior Republican aide confessed… (Continue to full article)

Judge Blocks Trump Admin. From Expanding Fast-Track Deportations Nationwide
A federal judge on Friday blocked a Trump administration effort to expand fast-track deportations throughout the U.S. under a process known as expedited removal, indicating that officials are trampling on migrants’ due process through the policy’s expansion.

While it will almost certainly be appealed, Friday’s order is a major setback for the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, including its campaign to arrest asylum-seekers at immigration courthouses across the U.S. — an operation that has relied on the expansion of expedited removal.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb paused a January directive that had expanded the expedited removal policy — long limited to border areas and recent arrivals — to anywhere in the country and to those who arrived in the past two years.

But WHO is going to pick the lettuce and corn for us??? (Continue to full article)

Adidas, Walmart, Home Depot, and Other Major Brands Say Trump’s Tariffs Are Pushing Them to Raise Prices
Prices are expected to go up this year as many companies signal plans to raise them in response to President Donald Trump’s slew of tariffs

While firms raise prices for many reasons, some were blaming price hikes on tariffs long before Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” on April 2. That’s when he announced a 10% baseline tariff on imports from most countries, except Canada and Mexico, and a host of “reciprocal” tariffs on top of that.

The situation is fluid, as various countries continue to negotiate potential trade deals with the US.

Some economists have said that Trump’s tariffs — and the uncertainty with his overall trade policy — could lead companies to raise prices on the goods they produce…. (Continue to full article)

Trump: 275,000 Illegals Booted Off Social Security
Trump said Thursday that approximately 275,000 illegal immigrants have been purged from the Social Security database, as well as tens of thousands more beneficiaries over the age of 160 who were still receiving checks.

Trump spoke at the Oval Office to mark the 90th anniversary since the taxpayer-funded safety net for seniors was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

We’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. Many of them have already left the country, and yet we were sending them checks all the time.“… (Continue to full article)

In Trump’s Year of Cost-Cutting and Efficiency, National Debt Soars Past $37 Trillion
U.S. national debt has topped $37 trillion, drawing warnings from economists and business leaders. President Trump’s plan to repay the debt centers on tariffs, cost-cutting, and growth programs. Critics argue the impact is likely to be minimal. Meanwhile, White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai told Fortune the debt-to-GDP ratio has fallen under Trump and will keep improving with pro-growth policies and record tariff revenues.

Trump has got plenty of ideas about how he’ll address national debt: He’ll pay it down through tariffs, or offset some of the borrowing thanks to proceeds from his “golden visa” program.

He’s also said he’ll rebalance the debt-to-GDP ratio by growing the economy, and would reduce the need for as much borrowing thanks to initiatives like the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)… (Continue to full article)

If New Yorkers Want to Know What the City Will Be Like When Mamdani Is Mayor… Just Look at Chicago

Face it, progressives. This is the absolute worst time in history to run out of other people’s money to spend.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani

That’s exactly what has happened in Chicago. And New York City is also facing fiscal Armageddon shortly after the almost-certain next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has to propose his first budget.

There aren’t enough “rich people” to “pay their fair share” or “greedy corporations ” to “pony up” for the two cities to balance the books without huge tax increases. The budget shortfalls facing New York City, and especially Chicago, are historic and horrifying. Continue reading

Whitehead ~ Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury

In Memorium

Cancel culture – political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance – has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance.

Nothing illustrates this more clearly than President Trump’s latest executive order calling for criminal charges for anyone who burns the American flag – a symbolic act long upheld by the Supreme Court as protected political expression.

This push is not about patriotism – it is political theater. Continue reading

Cracker Barrel, Communism, and the Traditions That Truly Matter

Ah, pancakes and politics. Only in America could we riot or boycott to save cornbread while watching capitalism crumble.

I like pancakes as much as the next person. In fact, I like them better when I can order them alongside meatloaf and mashed potatoes at 1:30 in the afternoon while buying a Kenny Rogers CD (for a CD player I haven’t had in a decade) in the gift shop. That, my friends, is one of the privileges of being an American.

But let me be clear: I could not care less what the Cracker Barrel logo looks like.  Continue reading

Smith: America – Marching Toward Economic Serfdom

As anyone will tell, economics is a multifaceted, highly volatile, dynamic topic with more moving parts and components than Carter has liver pills, but I have done the best I could here, in my own layman terms, to deliver a fairly comprehensive overview of the entire American economy and what it and its manipulators are doing to the country on the whole and the American people in the end.

Life imitates art. Most of America’s so-called “role models” are immoral, and America’s society has become immoral on the whole, too. Outside of the severely flawed modern Christian churches, every organ on American culture, for whatever passes as “American culture” today, pushes materialism, self-aggrandizement and living for the moment, in the theme of the 1960s slogan “if it feels good do it“.

Many things have come together in an effort to kill the American Dream, intentionally or not, from executive greed, e.g. multi-million dollar CEO bonuses, and consolidation of wealth that stagnates wages for the rest of the workers participating in the jobs markets. Continue reading

Snyder: Come On Man! It Seemed Like Peace Was So Close, But Now “War Fever” Has Returned With A Vengeance

I have to admit that I am feeling pretty frustrated today. Last week, there was so much optimism that we could finally see peace, but now “war fever” has returned with a vengeance.

The situation in the Middle East threatens to spiral out of control, there is a very real possibility that the U.S. military could soon be conducting operations in Mexico and Venezuela, and it appears that our last chance for peace with Russia could be going up in smoke.

I was writing about a coming war with Russia many years before it became fashionable, and I continue to warn in the strongest terms possible about what will happen if we do not reverse course. But of course world leaders do not listen to people like us, and they continue to make decisions that could drag us into the unthinkable. Continue reading

Bishop: Government Statistics Are Always Political

In the age of Trump, even the most boring of political positions can find themselves in the center of the political news cycle. In recent weeks, it has been the Bureau of Labor Statistics. After severe revisions to previous job reports, Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and has nominated E.J. Antoni, who – if nothing else – has claimed to be a fan of Murray Rothbard.

Usually a changing of the guard at a position such as this would go on with little fanfare. In fact, one of the reasons why BLS Commissioners typically overlap from presidential administration to presidential administration is that it has traditionally been seen as a low-priority position for a president’s agenda.

So why has this become an issue now? Continue reading

Tucker: Blinded by the Science

Big Pharma – Cookin’ the Books ~ C. Dickens

CDC participants listen to the speakers during a meeting of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices (ACIP), in Atlanta, on June 25, 2025. AP Photo/Mike Stewart

This is the age of science. We are led by facts and data, not faith and superstition.

That’s what we’ve been told for centuries. And mostly we have believed it. We have good medicines, tremendous technologies, and instant information about everything. This is the product of science.

And yet, every orthodoxy is subject to abuse when it is no longer questioned. This is what we’ve experienced for some years now. When the scientists come along with schemes to change our lives in ways that contradict intuition, we are right to question them. Continue reading

Hickman: Clearest Proof That The Bureaucratic State Needs to Go

Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz – the detention center in the middle of the swampy Everglades, surrounded by razor wire, armed guards, and actual alligators.

Formally known as the Everglades Transitional Detention Center, it was built by the state of Florida inside federal land managed by the National Park Service, designed to detain illegal immigrants apprehended under Florida law.

The facility went up in record time – especially for a government project – complete with fences, floodlights, sewage and power systems, and modular housing pods for hundreds of detainees. Continue reading

Smith: Last Call for the Whiskey Girl

I am an empath, and at more times in my life it has caused me much of my own grief – it’s the reason I feel so deeply saddened by everything I see across America that is working to destroy Her, especially as I look at the images of a sea of American faces and the despair we now see in the eyes of far too many, for all the reasons you are all too well familiar and understand.

Normally, writing is a bit of work for me that entails reams of information and long tedious hours of research, because I typically write non-fiction white papers on the most important issues of the day. But having been a student of the human experience for all of my life, sometimes my inner-most being demands that I write something that takes a deeper look at what it really means to be “human” by way of some soul-soothing fiction, written with many thought-provoking factors in mind.

I recently came across a striking black-and-white photo, with a strong vintage vibe reminiscent of the raw, soulful energy of Janis Joplin, that was entitled ‘Whiskey Girl‘. This was the umpteenth time I had seen it, since it most certainly has been in circulation for at least the past fifteen years. It was pinned by Emmy Rose in a collection entitled ‘Shoot, camera, Action!‘ this year. Continue reading

Meet the GREAT Corn-Holion!

Bryan Kohberger has demanded a transfer inside the maximum security prison he now calls home-following harassment by fellow inmates.

Bryan Kohberger – Payback is a Beotch!

The mass killer who broke into an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, and slaughtered four students in the dead of the night has filed multiple written complaints to prison officials since he was sent to the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna less than a month ago.

In the first handwritten note, seen by People, the 30-year-old complained that ‘verbal threats/harassment’ and ‘recent flooding/striking’ – where inmates intentionally cause flooding in their cells – had made J block somewhere he didn’t wish to be.

‘Not engaging in any of the recent flooding/striking as well as being subject to minute-by-minute verbal threats/harassment and on that and other bases [sic] Unit 2 of J-Block is an environment that I wish to transfer from,’ he wrote.

Kohberger asked to be transferred out of J block’s restrictive housing unit to B block, where inmates are also held in single cells. Continue reading