Category Archives: Point BLANK

Do we have the time, or is this the beginning of the end of life in America as we have known it? This is where you will find a range of Editorial postings and comments by a select group of writers, many of who have had long term relations with Kettle Moraine Publications – and EACH of whom provide us with THEIR Perspectives as this Nation ignores the warnings as we live in the end of days – for most Americans’ are Too Blind to See – and we once again convert back to one of our OLD and DEFINITIVE categories – POINT BLANK!

We Need Constitutional Judges, Not Political Activists

Svante Myrick recently attacked President Trump’s work for religious freedom, as well as our organization’s work on judicial nominations at the American Family Association Action’s Center for Judicial Renewal.

Our standard for evaluating future federal judges is simple: we seek judges “with the best long-term, demonstrable record of commitment to the constitutional role of judges, which is to decide cases according to the original meaning of the Constitution and legislative texts, and to never legislate from the bench.” Continue reading

Four Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Read the First Amendment

Heah cum de Judges…

The Supreme Court has deadlocked on the question of religious charter schools, thanks to four justices who didn’t bother reading what the First Amendment says about separation of church and state.

Four Supreme Court Justices wanted to make it legal for taxpayer dollars to fund religious charter schools.

The Supreme Court produced a 4–4 deadlock on Thursday on the question of whether an Oklahoma religious school could take part in the state’s publicly funded charter school programs. Continue reading

United HellCare: One of America’s Biggest Companies Is Imploding

UnitedHealth Group, one of America’s biggest corporations and a member of the exclusive Dow Jones Industrial Average, is suddenly unraveling.

The crisis engulfing UnitedHealth hit a crescendo this week when CEO Andrew Witty stepped down abruptly for “personal reasons.”

UnitedHealth also swiftly abandoned its financial guidance, blaming skyrocketing medical costs.

And then The Wall Street Journal dropped the hammer, revealing that UnitedHealth is under federal criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud.

The developments have stunned investors, triggering a dramatic loss of confidence. UnitedHealth’s (UNH) stock has lost half its value – a staggering $288 billion – in the span of a month. Its share price plunged on Thursday to its lowest level since April 2020, during the height of the pandemic. Continue reading

Bono: ‘The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Bono, lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, in a scene from the documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender.” (Apple TV+ via AP)

CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.”

I can tell you I’ve slept on beaches close to here,” Bono says with a grin. “I’ve woken up in the sun.” Continue reading

Meet Bob… The American Pope Who Still Has to File US Taxes

I still can’t get over the fact that there’s an American pope… and that his friends refer to him as ‘Bob’.

Bob. It just makes him seem like a regular dude who’d be drinking a beer and shouting at the umpire at a Cubs game.

Something else that makes the new Pope seem extremely down to earth is that he shares the same pain as 100+ millions of his fellow Americans: paying taxes.

Clergy are considered employees of the Church and generally receive salaries, which means they must pay taxes just like anyone else. Continue reading

Trump Writes CON-gress out of the Constitution – and CON-gress Says “Fine

The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those…

The question is, who will stop it?

Having brought Congress completely to heel in the political sphere, Donald Trump is now seeking to write it out of the Constitution. Both of his biggest moves of the past week entail the evisceration of a constitutional role the Framers very plainly and expressly wanted Congress to play.

That is the case for the flirtation with suspension of habeas corpus, which only Congress can do. And it’s even more manifest in Trump’s plan to accept a $400 million (or is it $625 million?) jumbo jet “palace in the sky” from the Qatari government. Continue reading

Hickman: The “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL” Tax Bill Is the Opposite of What America Needs

In the year 428 BC, ancient Athenians imposed a special tax called the eisphora that targeted local business investments in the city-state.

It was expensive and highly unpopular among investors. And wealthy Athenians simply stopped investing in local businesses to avoid the tax.

This is almost an iron-clad lesson of history: whenever governments tax something, they end up with less of it. And the inverse is also true: whenever governments subsidize or cut taxes on something, they end up with more of it. Continue reading

Is Trump Out of Touch, Senile, Nuts, or Something Worse?

It was the cringiest of times. It was the craziest of times.

Do-Whack-a-Doo-doo-doo!

Welcome to a moment in which one of the most consequential debates Americans (and people the world across) are having is about whether the President of the United States is just a national embarrassment or has full-on blown a gasket. Is Donald Trump just three fries short of a happy meal, or is he full-on howling-at-the-moon mad? Continue reading

US Advises Older Adults Not to Receive Chikungunya Vaccine ~ for Now

Here we go … AGAIN!

European authorities have paused administration of the shot over safety concerns.

U.S. officials are recommending that adults aged 60 and up not receive the only available chikungunya vaccine after reports that older individuals who received the shot suffered severe symptoms typically associated with the chikungunya virus.

Two of the patients died. Continue reading

Trump Redirects Funds From Illegals to Homeless Veterans

… again putting Americans first!

The president signed an Executive Order Friday establishing a center for housing homeless veterans in the Los Angeles area, and whatever funding has been used by the federal government to house illegal aliens is now to go to this center for veterans. Trump also started a voucher program and announced reform at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), expanding medical services for vets and investigating corruption and misconduct from the previous administration. Finally, our veterans are a priority for the federal government. Continue reading

Whitehead ~ How a President Becomes a Dictator: by Executive Order!

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” ~ Ayn Rand

130 executive orders in under 100 days.

Sweeping powers claimed in the name of “security” and “efficiency.”

One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge.

No debate. No oversight. No limits.

This is how the Constitution dies – not with a coup, but with a pen.

The Unitary Executive Theory is no longer a theory – it’s the architecture of a dictatorship in motion. Continue reading

EXPOSED: Secret War Raging on US Borders

One of the largest and most expensive secret wars in the history of these nations is targeting Canada, Mexico, and the US. Not only are lives and ruined communities at stake, but no one seems to be able to stop the carnage.

Native American communities on reservations, particularly those situated along borderlands. From Arizona to Montana, and even into territories that straddle the U.S.-Canada line, drug cartels have discovered both opportunity and immunity on tribal lands, and American Indian communities are paying the price. Continue reading

Easter: God’s Message of Grace and Justice

The Angel Declaring the Resurrection – (Gustave Doré)

Several years ago, I heard a very popular Christian speaker talk to a large audience for an hour. He said nothing heretical. He said nothing controversial. He just focused on the “unconditional” love of God. Again, nothing wrong with what he did say, but it is what he did not say that bothered me. He said nothing about repentance of sin. There is a reason Jesus said what he said in the above bible verse. And there is a reason John the Baptist introduced Jesus to the world with the exact same proclamation in Matthew 3:2: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

There is a popular trend going on in the American Christian church. The trend is to talk of the love of God without talking about the justice of God. But if you read the Bible, it is clear, there exists both the grace of God and the wrath of God, and Jesus Christ spoke of both. Continue reading

Whitehead ~ Refugee. Dissident. Enemy of the State: Would ICE Have Crucified Jesus?

“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough.” – President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S. courts and the Constitution

                  Jesus – What happened to America?

It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security.

Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at least for select segments of the population. A hierarchy of rights, contingent on whether you belong to a favored political class.

This is what it looks like when the government makes itself the arbiter of who is deserving of rights and who isn’t.

Here is what we know: one segment of the population at a time, the Trump Administration is systematically and without due process attempting to cleanse the country of what it perceives to be “undesirables” as part of its purported effort to make America great again.

This is how men, women and children are being made to disappear, snatched up off the streets by press-gangs of plainclothes, masked government agents impersonating street thugs.

Presently, these so-called “undesirables” include both undocumented and legal immigrants – many labeled terrorists despite having no criminal record, no court hearing, and no due process – before being extradited to a foreign concentration camp in an effort to sidestep judicial oversight.

By including a handful of known members of a vicious gang among those being rounded up, the government is attempting to whitewash the public into believing that everyone being targeted is, in fact, a terrorist. Continue reading

Hall: We All Killed Him!

The chain of blame which began at the fall of mankind ends at the mea culpa, and is replaced with the “ideo precor” – the beseeching of Mary, the angels, the all the saints.

Have you heard? The world is going to Hell in a handbasket. Our politicians are devils, our hierarchs are often devils themselves, and Catholics are leaving the Church in droves. The media lies to us, and our institutions turn our children into post-modern pill-addicted zombies who can’t be happy in a society where they lack no creature comfort.

Marriages are failing, and a lot of men are addicted to vile images of perversion that they sneakily watch on their phones while standing in a corner on the metro on their way home to their families.

And who is at fault? Continue reading

Trump-Itis!

Impeach’: Judge Sparks Trump’s Outrage
Trump has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg after the judge halted deportations of illegal immigrants tied to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). The Supreme Court recently intervened and ruled in favor of allowing the Trump administration to continue deportation flights of suspected gang members.

Boasberg’s order followed Trump’s announcement of his plan to use the Alien Enemies Act to expedite their removal from the U.S. Trump has since condemned Boasberg as being obstructive to immigration enforcement

SCROO de Judge!!! (Continue to full article)

Trump Denounces Judge’s Ruling on Migrants’ Legal Status: ‘Out of Control
Trump expressed his outrage over a federal judge temporarily blocking his executive order revoking the work permits and legal status of more than half a million migrants flown into the United States under a Biden-era parole program.

“What is going on with our Courts?” Trump posted on Truth Social . “They are totally OUT OF CONTROL. They seem to hate ‘TRUMP’ so much, that anything goes! We are trying to bring our Country back from the destruction caused by the Democrats and Crooked Joe Biden.”

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama in Massachusetts, put a temporary block on Trump’s executive action terminating the CHNV parole program, which granted two-year entry to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In his order, Trump gave the migrants until April 24 to self-deport… (Continue to full article)

Trump Goal to End Taxes on Social Security Gets Bipartisan Support
One of President Donald Trump’s tax policy wishlist items is receiving support from some Democratic lawmakers – but with a caveat.

Trump has put pressure on Congress to include ending Social Security taxes in the upcoming budget bill. A recent budget analysis projects that move would reduce revenues by $1.5 trillion over 10 years and speed up Social Security’s insolvency by two years, as The Center Square reported .

But the newly-introduced You Earned It, You Keep It Act by Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., would, theoretically, fully finance eliminating all federal taxes on Social Security benefits and even extend the program’s insolvency deadline… (Continue to full article)

Scratch ‘n’ Sniff

Social Security’s Trust Fund Could Run Out of Money Sooner Than Expected Due to Changes in Taxes and Benefits
Social Security is one of the federal government’s biggest programs.

Roughly 67 million Americans, most of whom are 65 or older, received Social Security benefits in 2023 . An estimated 183 million workers paid the Social Security payroll taxes that provided the bulk of the nearly US$1.4 trillion in benefits that year, which consumed 21% of the total federal budget .

But within a decade, Social Security could run short on funds to pay the full benefits Americans are counting on… (Continue to full article)

Musk’s DOGE Is Claiming Victory After Uncovering $382 Million in Unemployment Fraud — but the Government Already Found It Years Ago: ‘I Don’t Think It’s News to Anyone
The latest government waste touted by billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency is hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims it purportedly uncovered.

One problem: Federal investigators already found what appears to be the same fraud, years earlier and on a far greater scale.

In a post last week on X, the social media site Musk owns, DOGE announced “an initial survey of unemployment insurance claims since 2020” found 24,500 people over the age of 115 had claimed $59 million in benefits; 28,000 people between the ages of 1 and 5 collected $254 million; and 9,700 people with birthdates more than 15 years in the future garnered $69 million from the government.

Business leaders and economists are warning about a national recession, so it’s natural to think about unemployment. It’s an attack on the image of a critically important program and perhaps an attempt to undermine public support on unemployment insurance when it couldn’t be more important… (Continue to full article)

HEAH Cum de Judge!: Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt for Violating Deportation Order ~ AGAIN!
A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and warned he could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.

The ruling from U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump has said should be impeached, marks a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government over the president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities… (Continue to full article)

Most Voters Want ALL Illegal Immigrants Deported: ‘Americans Like Where We’re Going’ Under Trump
CNN data guru Harry Enten presented numbers Thursday morning that showed that a majority of Americans want all undocumented immigrants forcibly removed from the country.

Enten said the issue is one of the few where President Donald Trump remains above water with voters.

While Trump’s opponents have spent weeks slamming his administration over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, Trump remains popular on immigration… (Continue to full article)

Texas Border: Large Groups Crossing Remote Areas
As illegal crossings have dropped to 15-year lows along once-busy historic crossing points between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande, law enforcement officers are encountering large groups of illegal aliens in more remote areas of the Texas border.

Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveleland has posted photos of migrants encountered in groups of twenty by his deputies, Border Patrol Agents, and Texas Military Forces in his county in recent days – and the story is the same in the “badlands” of neighboring Brewster County.

Border Patrol Agents recently tracked more than 20 illegal aliens attempting to evade them in the rugged terrain of San Francisco Canyon within Big Bend National Park… (Continue to full article)

Time to HANG the Judges

Judge Can Jail Trump Officials — and He’s ‘Calling the Government’s Bluff
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has the tools to proceed with criminal contempt charges against President Donald Trump’s administration — and can also enforce a sentence if they are found guilty, a legal analyst said Wednesday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern addressed Boasberg’s ruling regarding the government’s response to his court order.

The issue involved deportation flights to El Salvador that the judge ordered to turn around and return to the United States. The judge said at the time that the individuals deported did not have the due process to which they were entitled.

In his 46-page opinion, Boasberg found that “probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt”… (Continue to full article)

Trump Administration Says It Seized Control of Penn Station Renovation From MTA
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that the federal government has taken control of the renovations to Penn Station that were headed by New York City’s transit authority.

Duffy said the Department of Transportation and Amtrak will head the project. He added that a federal grant directed for the train company will be slashed and “rescoped,” resulting in $120 million in savings.

He also suggested that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority couldn’t be trusted with the project… (Continue to full article)

Trump’s Price Transparency Rule ‘Cements’ His Legacy of Lowering Healthcare Costs
President Donald Trump’s executive order to enforce healthcare price transparency has been hailed as transformative in lowering costs and “cements Trump’s legacy” as a leader in healthcare reform.

Trump in late February signed an executive order that renewed orders he had issued during his first term in office requiring hospitals and health insurers to deliver “meaningful price information to the American people.”

By requiring real-time prices of healthcare services for health insurance plans, consumers could price shop and find the best deal for their healthcare needs… (Continue to full article)

HERE are your Homes. Pack ’em up – and Go home to where you came from!

Immigrants Choose Self-Deportation Amid Fear of Forced Removal
Many immigrants in the United States are opting to self-deport rather than risk being forcibly removed under President Trump’s intensified deportation policies. Celeste, who traveled from Peru two decades ago, has decided to return to her home country after years of living in Los Angeles. She overstayed her tourist visa and worked in cleaning jobs while hoping for legal status. However, the lack of reforms and recent deportation efforts have left her feeling vulnerable.

According to the Los Angeles Times , President Trump, in his second term, has promised the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, targeting all undocumented immigrants. The administration has launched campaigns urging immigrants to leave voluntarily and has introduced the CBP Home app for immigrants to notify the government of their intent to leave… (Continue to full article)

…and the Beat goes on…

HELL-Care Continues to Move BACKWARDS!

Tom Cruise’s Ominous 2005 Warning About Big Pharma Re-Emerges as CDC Drops Antidepressant Bombshell
It’s been nearly 20 years since Tom Cruise’s infamous outburst on the Today show, where he passionately railed against antidepressants and called psychiatry a ‘pseudoscience.’

At the time, the rant was widely mocked — and Cruise was dismissed as a Hollywood eccentric for spouting controversial views.

But now, with a record number of young Americans being diagnosed with depression and prescriptions for antidepressants soaring among teens and 20-somethings, Cruise’s tirade is being viewed in a new light… (Continue to full article)

UnitedHealth’s Earnings Shock Is Tanking the Entire Health Insurance Industry
Shares of UnitedHealth fell as much as 24% on Thursday. The company posted a bleak 2025 outlook. Other medical insurance stocks also dropped on the news.

It was a shocking report for the insurer, as the company rarely trims its forward forecasts, and instead generally bumps them higher over time. The first-quarter report also marked the first time the company missed profit forecasts in more than a decade.. (Continue to full article)