Trump Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center if Name Is Removed

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Donald Trump has raised the extraordinary prospect of demolishing the Kennedy Center if he isn’t allowed to shut down the storied venue for renovations – including putting his name back on the building.

As the president moves to remake the performing arts center in his own image, Justice Department attorneys warned in a court filing that the current facility was “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”

What’s more, the administration’s lawyers argued, blocking Trump’s plan to close the center for two years while he rebuilds it could cause donors to flee and contributions to dry up.

“Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site,” wrote Justice Department attorney Brantley T. Mayer.

And Trump-US is out to destroy the country…… (Continue to full article)

Cartels Find Ways to Turn Unsuspecting Americans Into Drug Mules

Swipe left, another swipe left, swipe right, match, and it’s a date. It could be happily ever after, or it could mean becoming an unwitting international smuggler and accomplice to the cartels.

One of the latest tactics drug and human smuggling organizations are using to further their illicit cross-border activities involves taking advantage of lonely hearts, luring people searching for love south of the border, and turning them into so-called “blind mules.”

“They’re using a dating app to recruit somebody into Tijuana,” Chief Patrol Agent Justin De La Torre of the San Diego Sector said. “That person meets up with someone—and doesn’t know it—but they’ve got a magnet load of drugs underneath their car or a person put in the trunk of their car, and then that person drives into the U.S.”

But the cartels have not been dissuaded, Aki, Marin, and De La Torre stressed. The criminal organizations continually adapt, using new and old strategies to maintain their human and drug smuggling operations.

“Cartels are basically a business,” Aki said. “I’ve been in service for roughly 30 years. I’ve seen narcotics come through trunks, through roof panels, through quarter panels to rear panels to tires to spare tires—everything. We continue to see that, but we also see new, innovative ways…” (Continue to full article)

Canada Announces Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliatory Tariffs Against US

Canada has announced it is countering Washington’s (Trump’s) tariffs by imposing dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on hundreds of American goods amounting to CA$27.6 billion (US$19.9 billion).

The new tariffs announced by Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne during an Aug. 25 press conference will come into force on Sept. 8, increasing costs for imported American items ranging from seafood to furniture.

“[New U.S.] tariffs will have real consequences for Canadian workers, businesses, and communities across our nation. Canada must respond, and today we are in a proportionate, targeted, and strategic way,” Champagne said.

American steel and aluminum products, which were formerly subject to a retaliatory tariff of 25 percent, will now rise to 50 percent as well. Canadian steel and aluminum are currently subject to 50 percent sectoral tariffs by the United States.

Ottawa has published an extensive list of items that will be affected by counter-tariffs. Champagne said the “vast majority” of the products affected by the retaliatory tariffs could be substituted with a Canadian product.

Canada had announced its intention to introduce counter-tariffs on Aug. 22. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 24 that his country will be imposing new 50 percent tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, and auto parts beginning in 2027. Canadian autos are currently subject to 25 percent U.S. tariffs… (Continue to full article)

Wiped Out: Us Faces Surging Toilet Paper Prices Amid Trade War With Canada

Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.

After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.

Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors, with Canada threatening to put tariffs of between 25% and 50% on “toilet paper or face tissue stock” from 8 September in retaliation for a 50% hike from Washington DC.

What a Shitty deal… (Continue to full article)

122 Companies Are Draining the West Dry – A Study Just Named Them

US Geological Survey

Nine trillion gallons. Gone from the American West’s April snowpack over the last decade. That’s roughly the entire maximum capacity of Lake Mead — drained, not by drought alone, but according to a new peer-reviewed study, by the emissions of 122 specific, named companies.

BP. Chevron. ExxonMobil. Shell. The Carbon Majors database has been tracking these producers since 1950. Now researchers have connected their emissions to something you can measure in your kitchen faucet.

Quantifying who caused the damage and proving it in court are two very different problems.

The Union of Concerned Scientists describes the study’s core finding as a “widening seasonal gap between supply and demand” — which sounds technical until you remember that Arizona, California, and Nevada are currently under a federal operating plan requiring combined cuts of roughly 400 billion gallons of Colorado River water per year. Nevada has already filed a federal lawsuit challenging that plan. States are fighting over a shrinking pie while researchers argue a finite list of companies helped shrink it.

Attribution in a climate model and causation in a courtroom are not the same thing. Standing, evidentiary standards, jurisdiction — if litigation follows, it will be brutal and slow… (Continue to full article)

Trump Decides to Launch WAR WITH THE WORLD to Defeat Iran and Destroy the Dollar

Before we get into Trump’s suicide mission to end the Iran war by destroying the US dollar, we should lead off with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s confession about how stupid he is because we have to grasp the ignorance level of those in charge to really believe they are embarking on their dumbest war plan to date.

The Jerry Lewis Klutz Award for Mental Gymnastics has to go this week to this statement by Secretary Bessent:

On Thursday, hours after announcing that Washington would keep its naval blockade and hit Iran with the too toughest sanctions in history, the Treasury Secretary watched crude climb and told CNBC, “I’m not sure why oil has popped up on this.” He called it a spike he doesn’t understand, and waved it off as noise. Buried in the bafflement is a remarkable assumption: that slapping draconian sanctions on a major oil producer should make oil cheaper.

It actually includes a lot more asinine assumptions than the overall thought that Bessent’s new financial war against Iran will make oil cheaper. For example… (Continue to full article)

But then you see… It Ain’t just the Trumpettes!

When I was 10 years old, the United States was one trillion dollars in debt. Now we are nearly 40 trillion dollars in debt. So what did we get for spending 39 trillion dollars that we did not have? What we got was a gigantic mountain of debt that threatens to bring down our entire system. But the Congress critters in D.C. will never stop wasting our money. In fact, if the Democrats do really well in the upcoming midterm elections it is probably inevitable that our tax dollars will be going out the door faster than ever before.

I have been ranting about our national debt for nearly two decades. Continue reading →

FILE – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, center, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appear on stage during a rally, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

Zohran Mamdani (Communist) took office as mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, giving American socialism its largest electoral victory in roughly a century. The Democratic Socialists of America celebrated him as one of their own. The organization puts its national membership above 100,000 after reporting 65.5% growth in 2025. Continue reading →

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” ~ Founding Father John Adams

John Adams, Patriot

Today, the very root of our nation’s freedom, prosperity, and private property ownership by individual citizens, is under attack across the nation. Eminent Domain is the weapon of choice to allow private corporations to simply take property at will under the excuse of the “common good.” Wind and solar farms, carbon capture pipelines, and massive AI data centers now cover vital farmland and private neighborhoods. The property owners are given no choice in the matter. It’s gone. How is that possible in a nation built on the very concept of private property ownership and protection?

For decades we have faced the globally organized juggernaut called “Sustainable” designed by powerful forces to completely change and control human society. However, from the very beginning of the plan our nation, which is based on the very concept of private property, has stood in the way.

Now, today, the tool every tyrant has ever dreamed of for complete control is in their hands – AI!

So, the train for control is ready to leave the station, but the way is blocked by those infernal property rights! What to do to allow tyranny to commence? Continue reading →

Re Jonathan Freedland’s column (I used to revere the great experiment that is the United States. After Trump, I’m not so sure, 3 July), there are two overwhelming horrors of the Trump presidency that have permanently altered the governance of the US.

First, paid officials of the state implement his orders with little question, because of the weird concept of the commander-in-chief, given more reverence than most religious leaders. There are no crazy military or political orders that will not be obeyed, though they might be rescinded at a later date by the courts – after the damage has been done. Continue reading →

A survey by Pew Research Center conducted in December 2025 found that Americans were more pessimistic than optimistic about the country’s future. By: Aaron Burden/ Unsplash

More than eight in 10 Americans believe the future of U.S. democracy is under ‘serious threat,’ according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released as the country marks its 250th anniversary.

The survey found that 82% of Americans believe democracy faces a threat because of the issues dividing the nation, up from 78% in February. Just 17% said no such threat exists. Continue reading →

Ted Cruz confronts a State Department ambassador during a heated hearing over allegations of discriminatory hiring practices involving race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

The confrontation escalates after Cruz accuses the Biden administration’s State Department of rejecting certain applicants based on identity rather than merit, including claims involving white men, Christians, and individuals outside preferred ideological categories. Continue reading →

History isn’t a series of random events; it’s a clock. And for every superpower in recorded history from Rome to the British Empire that clock stops at exactly 250 years.The United States just hit the mark – TODAY!

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According to a member of the White House Religious Liberty Commission, more problems are on the way for the U.S. if people do not correct course.

“Far too often in our national life, religion is treated … as a problem or annoyance to be managed, restricted or sidelined,” the executive summary of the commission’s recently released report states.

Commission member Eric Metaxas says the Founding Fathers built religious freedom into the very fabric of the nation, but that has been forgotten or ignored.

“We have to know the stories of our founding,” he insists. “If we don’t understand that stuff, we can’t rely on a few experts to take care of it.” Continue reading →

As we approach America’s 250th birthday, a lot of people are reflecting on how much our society has changed over the years. If we could go back to 1776, we would be absolutely shocked by how different day to day life was back then. Early Americans didn’t have everything handed to them, and so they had to work extremely hard. But even though conditions were often very rough, the population was also very civilized. That actually didn’t change for a long time.

Even as recently as 100 years ago, people living in the western world were very highly civilized. The way they dressed, the way they spoke and the way that they carried themselves commanded respect. Of course if our ancestors could see us today, they would be deeply shocked by how far we have fallen. Continue reading →

The United States Congress, on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, is preparing to formally diminish American independence and sovereignty through a proposed merger and long-term integration of executive functions throughout the government, coordinated by the Department of Defense. Continue reading →

So much for caring about states’ rights.

Evanston, Illinois – just blocks down the street where I worked in the early 1970’s ~ Editor

The Trump administration is trying to get rid of the first reparations program in the U.S. for Black Americans.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice asked a judge to end the program in Evanston, Illinois, offering $25,000 to the descendants of the city’s Black residents who experienced housing discrimination between 1919 and 1969 due to city policies and ordinances. All residents who experienced housing discrimination in the city after 1969, regardless of race, also qualified for the program, which began in 2021. Continue reading →

For over 3O years, the federal government has been working to take control of a huge area of Northwest America via the Columbia River Basin plan. So, after all this time the “powers that be” in Montana and the federal government ignored the U.S. Constitution and approved the plan to remove said Constitution from a huge area of Montana (Washington and Idaho are a good part of it, also).

One might think that reviewing all the information — the many testimonies, studies by experts, and even old documents – they would have realized that, besides being unconstitutional and just plain wrong for the Montanans who live here, that the Columbia River Basin plan is bogus – a scheme to remove local control and another tactic in both fulfilling the bogus Wildland Project and stealing the property rights of good landowners some of whom have inherited from grand and great grandparents. And cared for those lands to this day.

But, if the Constitution was used as a marker, it ain’t found in that great document… Continue reading →

Editor’s NOTE: THIS is exactly what Tom DeWeese of American Policy Center is talking about. WE the People MUST take action NOW! Follow the links below in order to have a better understanding of the insanity that is taking place in America!

Original Column: DeWeese – AFFH: The Swamp Alligator That Must Be Removed!

We have re-posted all of the following links from Tom’s recent article – as it is too important for the reader not to have instant access to them… And we will continue to add more references as we come across them. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor

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June 5, 2026 ~For decades the federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been a major player in the implementation and enforcement of Sustainable Development Smart Growth policy that is changing local community development into little more than social engineering.

In 2009, Barack Obama formed the Partnership for Sustainable Communities which resulted in the merging of the power, overreach, and money of HUD, the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The purpose was to strengthen the power of the federal government to push federal planning initiatives on local communities. Specifically, Obama wanted to force individual communities to adopt the government’s “Livability Principles.”

If they refused, they would face loss of grant money from these agencies. Continue reading →

For years, the Democrats have pushed relentlessly toward the left. As a result, we now see outright communists in positions of power in major cities throughout the country.

In LA, Mayor Karen Bass is a big fan of Fidel Castro and she is in the process of stealing the election from a far more sensible challenger – Spencer Pratt. In most countries around the world, election ballots are counted in a matter of hours. In California, it can take weeks – thanks to mail in ballot absentee ballots abuse. It’s imperative to rein in election abuse in the US, but in Congress the Democrats (and some anti-Trump Republicans) don’t want the ’Save Act,’ which will help end the abuse Democrats employ at the ballot box. Continue reading →

It was September 2006 – roughly two years before the 2008 financial crisis annihilated much of the global economy. But Greece was already in deep trouble.

Unemployment was hovering around 9%. Youth unemployment was a staggering 25%. And government finances were in the toilet, with official debt-to-GDP at 100% and annual budget deficits at nearly 8% of GDP.

The deficit issue was especially troubling; as part of the Eurozone, Greece was legally obliged to keep its annual budget deficit below 3% of GDP. But the government was simply incapable of doing so… Continue reading →

At a news conference discussion of Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas encyclical, Leo was joined in discussing a subtopic concerning the “Threat of ‘Anti-Human Vision’” by Anthropic’s co-founder, Christopher Olah.

Izzat de Pope?

Pope Leo said, “The risk extends beyond the misuse of certain technologies.” He went on: “More gravely, the pervasive technocratic paradigm in which we are immersed, and that is amplified by the digital revolution and AI, threatens to normalize an anti-human vision.”

Olah wisely pontificated: “Some might believe that matters of AI are best handled by computer scientists like myself. They are mistaken. The questions raised by A.I. are bigger than the A.I. research community, not just in their implications, but also in their nature.” Continue reading →

Non-racist groups on Hate/Hit List…

The US Department of Justice has announced the Soros-backed Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury “with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.”

This indictment claims the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals, as far back as the 1980s, who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated and guided violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website. Continue reading →