President Trump’s bid to knock four letters off the “Department of Defense” in a rebrand to the “Department of War” could cost upwards of $100 million, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated.

On September 5, the president signed an executive order to restore the George Washington-era names of the Department of War and the Office of the Secretary of War as secondary titles for the Department of Defense and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Within that order was a stipulation that the Secretary of War would later submit a presidential application to permanently change the name of the department. Continue reading →

In 1987, American historian Paul Kennedy wrote an influential book, “The Rise and Decline of Great Powers.” Its thesis was that powerful nations falter once they devote too much energy and resources to military interventions at the expense of their own economy.

President Trump is leading the U.S. into this fatal trap that ended the supremacy of so many great powers. his push to change the name of the Defense Department to the Department of War reflects his aggressive intentions.

He has already bombed seven nations — Yemen, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia, Iran, Iraq and Nigeria. He has threatened Cuba and Greenland. The U.S. spends 50 percent of the nation’s discretionary annual budget on the Pentagon while urgent domestic needs like health care go unmet. Continue reading →

Accept free things, and you become easy to control. They will always attach a cost. And you will pay with your freedom

Being the holiday season with Christmas and the New Year are behind us and we naturally find ourselves – though perhaps not everyone – reminiscing and remembering a few of the multitude of frauds and deceptions the Left has gifted us these last few decades.

Make no mistake, we have enemies, both foreign and domestic 

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Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off.

2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution – when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of militarized government embedded itself into daily life.

Under Trump 2.0, the erosion of civil liberties gave way to something more brazen: the dismantling of constitutional government itself.

What made 2025 different was not any single abuse of power, but the relentless accumulation of them. The losses mounted week by week, crisis by crisis, executive order by executive order, until exhaustion itself became a political condition. Continue reading →

President Donald Trump is an occasional practitioner of an unsparing form of political logic. Having taken an interest in the massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators in Minnesota, he has followed up with unfriendly comments on Minnesota fifth district Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.). “She comes in, does nothing but bitch, she’s always complaining,” the president told a crowd in Mount Pocono, Penn., on Tuesday. “We oughta get her the hell out. She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?” Continue reading →

Trump Asked to Be More Civil With Media That Deserves His Mockery
I think it’s fine to wish for a president to set the tone of civility. But the Bushes and Romneys did that and they were still compared to Hitler and slaveholders and what not.

People magazine and former Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi have made separate lists of insults President Donald Trump has recently lobbed at female reporters. It doesn’t matter how the journalists behaved because apparently, women can’t possibly be ill-mannered in press conferences. Or they think you can’t possibly be as rude as Trump.

I think it’s fine to wish for a president to set the tone of civility. But the Bushes and Romneys did that and they were still compared to Hitler and slaveholders and what not… (Continue to full article)

Trump Confronts His Political Reality ~ A Dawning Realization

The president has entered the lame-duck era of his career.

A force is pulling on Donald Trump that is even more inexorable than the march of time: political mortality.

Sometimes scandal or ineffectiveness is what fells a politician; if they survive those, term limits may get them anyway. But not even the most fearsome and durable leader escapes the eventual decay of their power. The towering Lyndon B. Johnson was forced to drop out of the 1968 presidential race, facing a tough Democratic primary; Margaret Thatcher’s powerful reign ended with a Conservative mutiny; Mitch McConnell, once the wily master of the Senate, now finds himself an ostracized backbencher.

Trump may have imagined he was immune. If so, he wasn’t alone. The rules of political gravity, journalists have often declared, sometimes seem not to apply to him… (Continue to full article)

Trump Is the ‘Biggest Security Threat‘ Facing America
Nobel laureate and professor of economics Paul Krugman is condemning President Donald Trump as “the biggest security threat facing the U.S. and, indeed, all the world’s democracies.”

“According to Donald Trump,” Krugman wrote on Substack, “anything he doesn’t like is a threat to national security. Question his clearly illegal tariffs? You’re a dark and sinister force trying to undermine America. When the New York Times reported on signs that age may be taking a toll on Trump’s stamina, he denounced the reporting as ‘seditious, maybe even treasonous.’”

Krugman charged that “Trump’s foreign policy is not about securing the safety and well-being of the United States” and lambasted the “betrayal of America’s security interests.”

“Trump doesn’t care at all about national security,” Krugman declared, “or for that matter America’s national interests. Instead, it’s all about him… (Continue to full article)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Wildly Plotting to Oust Mike Johnson on Her Way Out of Congress
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is reportedly testing support for a last-ditch effort to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, with barely weeks left in office.

Greene has been quietly sounding out colleagues about backing a motion to vacate the chair, multiple anonymous sources familiar with her efforts told MS NOW.

Under new House rules, nine Republicans would be needed to force such a vote, a threshold designed to prevent a repeat of the Kevin McCarthy implosion that paralyzed the chamber two years ago.

“Marjorie is approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker… (Continue to full article)

Republican House Leader Signals Plan to Begin Contempt Proceedings Against Bill and Hillary Clinton
Former President Clinton appeared in a tranche of photos from the Epstein estate released Friday

GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said he plans to commence contempt of Congress proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton for ignoring the committee’s subpoenas related to its ongoing probe into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

In July, a bipartisan House Oversight Subcommittee approved motions to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton and a slew of other high-profile political figures to aid its investigation looking into how the federal government handled Epstein’s sex trafficking

Painting of Clinton in blue dress hung in Jeffrey Epstein’s home | The Times of Israel

The subpoenas were then sent out in early August, and the Clinton’s were scheduled to testify Dec. 17-18… (Continue to full article)

What the Hell Is Wrong with a Country That Makes a Widow Defend Herself for Living?
“I’ve had paper cuts that took longer to heal than Erika Kirk.”

You may have seen this comment on X in recent days. And yes, by the author of a book titled, If God Is Love, Don’t be a Jerk. I’ve also read that she’s “hawking her dead husband’s book.” And that’s far from the worst of what’s out there.

Erika Kirk is not just grieving the extremely public murder of her husband for herself and their children, but for all of the young people who were invested in his life and hurt by his death. She clearly feels a sense of responsibility to not just his audience — his “fans” for lack of a better way to put it — but to the people who hate him and his legacy or what they think he and his legacy stand for…. (Continue to full article)

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz welcomes more Somalis into state despite massive, growing scandals
Minnesota’s scandal-ridden Democrat Gov. Tim Walz spoke in defense of his state’s Somali community at a recent fundraiser, even though members of that community have recently bilked North Star State taxpayers out of more than a billion dollars through various fraud schemes.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Tampon Tim stated: “We are going to defend our neighbors. Instead of demonizing our Somali community, we’re going to do more to welcome more in.”

That’s the ticket!

Some 89% of Somali families with children are on welfare, courtesy of Land of Lakes residents…. (Continue to full article)

Tulsi Gabbard warns of ‘direct threat’ from suspected terrorists now living in United States
Intelligence director blames Biden administration for allegedly allowing 18,000 known or suspected terrorists into country

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a warning about suspected terrorists inside the United States, blaming the Biden administration for what she called a “direct threat” to the lives of the American people.

The National Counterterrorism Center says about 18,000 known or suspected terrorists were allowed into the country under the previous administration. Gabbard said her greatest concern about the influx is that there are “so many more that we are not aware of yet.”

“The Biden administration did not take their vetting responsibilities seriously,” Gabbard said on “Saturday in America.”… (Continue to full article)

Ho Ho, Ho Mutha Phugga!

“Loyalty to the Constitution” plaque located on the grounds of the United States Military Academy

Every military servicemember’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

It is not an oath to a politician. It is not an oath to a party. And it is not an oath to the police state.

Yet what happens when those same men and women are being told – by their own government – that obedience to power and loyalty to a political leader come before allegiance to the Constitution they swore to uphold?

That question isn’t hypothetical. Continue reading →

Trump is saying, essentially, “If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say”.

The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won.

“It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes. Mamdani responded to Trump’s threat of extortion — vote for my preferred candidate or else — by pointing out that said federal funding was not Trump’s to give. “This funding is not something that Donald Trump is giving us here in New York City,” Mamdani said. “This is something that we are, in fact, owed in New York.” 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 →

Twenty-four years ago, America awoke to the most horrific attack on our homeland since Pearl Harbor. A cloudless blue September morning was ripped apart by fire and steel, as two hijacked airliners slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. In New York, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, firemen and police officers — all perished as the towers collapsed in fire and smoke. In Washington, the Pentagon burned after another jet crashed into its western wall. And in the skies above Pennsylvania, ordinary Americans on Flight 93 fought back, sacrificing their own lives to stop a fourth attack. Continue reading →

Days after he sent letters instructing top pharmaceutical manufacturers to use a “most favored nation” pricing model for prescription drugs, President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that he had cut costs by up to 1,500%.

But Trump’s grandiose claim is mathematically impossible.

Here’s a closer look at the facts. Continue reading →

Billionaire hedge fund titan Ray Dalio, who famously predicted the 2008 financial crash, has sounded a stark alarm over America’s spiraling debt.

Dalio warned that without swift action to slash the federal deficit, the US could face an ‘economic heart attack’ in the next three years.

‘If the US doesn’t cut the deficit to 3 percent of the GDP, and soon, we risk facing an economic heart attack in the next three years,’ Dalio wrote on X. Continue reading →

The newest borrowing data triggered discussions surrounding Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s debt issuance strategy.

The U.S. government will borrow more than $1 trillion over the next three months, the Treasury Department projects.

According to the latest marketable borrowing estimates, released on July 28, the Treasury expects to borrow $1.007 trillion during the July-to-September quarter.

This is nearly double the previous estimate of $554 billion in April, “primarily due to the lower beginning-of-quarter cash balance and projected lower net cash flows,” the Treasury said in a statement announcing the estimates. Continue reading →

Trump’s plan for regulating artificial intelligence must treat transparency as a foundational safeguard – not merely as a research objective or optional feature.

McGinnis is right… We’re in some really deep Kimchi…

I ran into one yesterday with AI… I can’t find any information on the number of fraudulent SSA numbers DOGE has found. It’s been buried… I’ll keep looking, but then I discovered a line in browser settings, most people have no idea that these exist or where they are… that warns AI is not always right… it may contain errors… No one looks there so they believe this is the gospel according to god…

We are TARFU… ~ Charles R. Dickens

The worst-case scenario is stark: artificial intelligence systems, more powerful than any human mind, could soon begin making decisions, forming plans, or even deceiving users – all without leaving behind any trace of how they arrived at their conclusions. Continue reading →

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

Retirees are facing the prospect of substantial Social Security cuts in just seven years, sooner than projected, due to the “big, beautiful bill,” per an analysis out Thursday from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Continue reading →

Shares of UnitedHealth Group slipped Thursday after the health care giant said it was under a Department of Justice investigation.

The company said it has started complying with both criminal and civil requests from federal investigators and it was cooperating with them.

“(UnitedHealth) has a long record of responsible conduct and effective compliance,” the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal said federal officials had launched a civil fraud investigation into how the company records diagnoses that lead to extra payments for its Medicare Advantage, or MA, plans. Those are privately run versions of the government’s Medicare coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and over. Continue reading →

BEWARE!

Editor’s NOTE: The following is too important for you NOT to read. I personally believe that I have been “hacked” informing me of “Denial of Payment” as regards to recent Dental work. One of the letters I have received was in regard to a Dental firm that I have worked with – but is NOT connected with my current Health Insurance company. Hence – I have chosen to re-post the article. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor

July 7, 2025 ~ Nearly $15 billion in fraudulent claims have been uncovered in what officials are calling the largest health care fraud case in U.S. history, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced Monday.

“Today, in conjunction with the DOJ and our federal partners, we are announcing the results from the largest healthcare fraud investigation, as measured by financial losses, in DOJ history,” Bongino posted on X (formerly Twitter). Continue reading →