As 2024 presidential election cycle kicks into high gear, it is important to note that we all share the goal of making prescription drugs more affordable for hard-working Americans and their families. Policy solutions can achieve both lowering the cost of everyday prescription medications while promoting access to future innovation for vulnerable patients.

Recent data shows net prices for branded drugs, the most expensive therapies, have steadily declined since 2017. This data shows that more targeted solutions are needed to truly lower the costs of everyday medications and continue to promote access to innovative products. Unfortunately, President Biden has resorted to price controls and removing incentives for innovation by taking the intellectual property of innovators. These actions also ignore his own stated goals outlined in his Cancer Moonshot, that I strongly share, as well as bipartisan solutions in Congress that could be signed into law today. Continue reading →

Opening a medical bill to see the final cost of your care can be agonizing. As a mom with two young children, in the middle of peak flu, RSV, and stomach bug season, I am always anxious about the cost of caring for my family. It’s terrifying not to know what expenses are coming your way for seemingly routine health care services, and the high cost of health care is compounded with a lack of transparency into how much the services we need cost.

I imagine most people feel this way. But I also happen to be a health care advocate, so I know the statistics behind the feelings. Health care costs are continuing to rise, and the main drivers for these increases are pricing distortions and unfair medical billing that large corporate hospitals and health systems level on patients and families. Our hospitals and health systems are a lifeline that our communities rely on, but as we hear in our listening work, people are scared to get the care they need because they aren’t sure what unexpected fees or hidden charges they might be stuck with. Continue reading →

It’s important to acknowledge Kristi Noem’s dedication to her state and her commitment to defending its interests. While some may view her rhetoric as bold or controversial, there’s no denying the sincerity of her beliefs and the passion with which she articulates them. Noem’s emphasis on constitutional principles and personal responsibility serves as a reminder of the values that many Americans hold dear, regardless of political affiliation.

Kristi Noem’s accomplishments as Governor of South Dakota deserve recognition. Under her leadership, the state has experienced significant economic growth and maintained fiscal responsibility, setting an example for others to follow. Noem’s unwavering support for President Trump also reflects the sentiments of many conservatives who believe in his vision for the country.

In a time of political polarization, it’s refreshing to see leaders like Governor Noem who are unafraid to speak their minds and stand up for what they believe in. While not everyone may agree with her perspective, her passion and dedication to her constituents are admirable qualities that should be celebrated. So, here’s to Governor Kristi Noem and her unwavering commitment to making a difference in South Dakota and beyond. ~ Chip Von Gunten

By the way – The American Dream – was an advertising slogan…

I was talking to a former classmate of mine the other night and she and I both agree that the future of this country is looking pretty bleak. Our conversation was cut short; as it was supper time for her, but she stated that our system needed to be tossed out and restarted. I have had numerous conversations with others who stated similar sentiments; saying that we need to eliminate the current behemoth we call government, and go back to the ‘limited’ government outlined by the Constitution. While I agree with those who say our system has become a fat bloated pig; filled with corruption, and controlled by special interests, it is with the belief that going back to the original government, as outlined by the Constitution, where we diverge. Continue reading →

Coming out of the 1960s civil rights era, most teens registering to vote joined their parents’ political party. I did exactly that, joining the Democratic Party. I didn’t know I had the choice to be an independent voter.

Times change.

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No one was prepared for our culture’s sharp turn, but the optimist in me still believes in the American people.

…are we reaching Sundown?

Americans nationwide are nostalgic for the “normal days” we once experienced. The days when children went to school and learned how to get along with everyone. The days when it was okay to disagree with others without the fear of losing your friendship. The days when meritocracy was championed and anyone could achieve their American Dream through hard work. Continue reading →

An interesting selection of topics from Al Benson Jr. Take a deep breath – and then Face the REALITY of our future! ~ Editor

Biden Regime Helps to Fund the Immigrant Invasion
It’s no secret that China Joe Biden, in his lucid moments, which are getting rarer, thinks more of Chinese Communists than he does of white American citizens. I believe he would gladly replace all of us with Chinese Communists if he could find a way to get away with that. So far it seems that his main plan is to let the illegal immigrants vote this year, barring the possibility of the Democrat machine being able to come up with something even more radical.

The Biden regime, made up largely of Obama appointees, is using your tax dollars to help finance your destruction, as citizens and as a country. … (Continue to full article)

“How you rikee?”

Chinese Marxists in OUR Military?
If these thousands of Chinese illegals, many of which we must assume have Communist connections, spent $35,000 each to get here, where did all that money come from? Your average Chinese doesn’t have that kind of cash, so someone has got to be footing a tremendous bill to get them here. Anyone come to mind?

Of course the Biden administration remains woefully inept when it comes to addressing the rise in illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from multiple countries… The surge in Chinese nationals sneaking over the border presents another dimension to the problem, especially when it comes to national security… (Continue to full article)

Are White Folks Slated For Eventual Extinction?
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this (I think some must have) but when you see commercials on television, it seems of late, that with more and more of them, where a family is portrayed in the commercial, it is almost always a family with a black husband and white wife or vice versa. Any of you all notice this?

It doesn’t make any difference what the product being promoted is–anything from walk in bathtubs to life insurance to various medications – most of the families in the commercials with two parents or just husband and wife portray one as black and one as white. You have to wonder – is there an underlying message in these commercials along with the advertisement of the particular produce being promoted?

Indeed, you have to wonder if the eventual destruction of the white race is one of the main objectives of the Deep State, at least that part of the white race they think will oppose their agenda… (Continue to full article)  Continue reading →

“The remedy is worse than the disease.” ~ Francis Bacon

The government never cedes power willingly.

Neither should we.

If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”

Unfortunately, we still haven’t learned. . . Continue reading →

I was in college, like many people voting for the first time.

“What party do you want to register in?” asked a person at a table on campus.

“I ain’t in no political party,” I told him. “I’m independent.” (It sounds better when you say it with my New Yawk accent.)

Two weeks later I got a letter welcoming me as a member of the Independent Party, which existed back then.

I called them immediately and told them to take me off their rolls. “I don’t wanna join any club that wants me as a member,” I said, paraphrasing Groucho Marx.

Done. . .  – Well, not quite! Continue reading →

A conservative military watchdog is grateful Sen. Tommy Tuberville has introduced legislation that would prevent the Biden administration from providing health care to illegal aliens at VA facilities.

The Alabama Republican recently went on Fox News Digital and lashed out at President Joe Biden for providing health care administrative services to illegal immigrants utilizing Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) facilities.

“The lines now in the VA’s are getting longer. Our funds that are supposed to go to the veterans are going to these illegal immigrants coming across. It’s a disaster. It’s just one of the many, many things that’s causing this country to really go to its knees because of all these illegals coming into our country.” Continue reading →

Democrat Teams Up With Trump Leaving Leftists With Their Hair on Fire
Trump has attracted support from across party lines before. But this took things to a whole new level.

And a Democrat teams up with Trump leaving Leftists with their hair on fire.

Former President Donald Trump and advisors from his campaign have met with former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).

They met about foreign policy issues along with how the Department of Defense will be handled should Trump win a second term in the White House in November…. (Continue to full article)

Top Democrat Calls It Quits and Sends Out Shocking Resignation Letter
Because a top Democrat has officially called it quits with this shocking resignation letter.
On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) announced his resignation from his role as a Democrat leader of the House, and a protégé made it clear that he wanted to take over in his place.

“I have informed Leader Hakeem Jeffries of my intention to step down as Assistant Democratic Leader of the House Democratic Caucus,” Rep. Clyburn, who is now 83 years old, shared in an official statement.

A change in leadership was triggered by his pronouncement. A House Democratic leadership official informed NBC News that Rep. Joe Neguse, a 39-year-old rising Democrat from Colorado, will seek Clyburn’s leadership position… (Continue to full article)

Chinee Slo-Joe

Biden insists disastrous Afghanistan pullout – that killed 13 US troops – wasn’t a ‘mistake’
Biden was insistent that the disastrous withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 — which led to the deaths of 13 US service members — wasn’t a “mistake,” according to a forthcoming book.

In his book “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump,” Politico reporter Alexander Ward said “no one offered to resign” after the bugout “in large part because the president didn’t believe anyone had made a mistake.”

Biden told his top aides, [National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan included, that he stood by them and they had done their best during a tough situation – the excerpt reads, with one White House official saying, “There wasn’t even a real possibility of a shake-up…. (Continue to full article)

America is Wasting Over a Trillion Dollars on “Green” Programs
Despite a staggering $34 trillion debt, Democrats are allocating an additional trillion dollars for green subsidies. Much of this excessive spending stems from the 2022 “Inflation Reduction Act”.

According to Marc Morano from The Climate Depot, the bill was merely a disguised ‘green pork barrel’ falsely labeled as the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ by Democrats to gain more public support. Morano argues that the green initiatives benefiting from these subsidies are essentially ineffective.

“It’s not reducing emissions, nor is it enhancing the reliability, security, or abundance of American energy… (Continue to full article)

Alejandro Mayorkas on border: ‘We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system’
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday blamed House Republicans for record-high migrant crossings at the southern border after they voted largely along party lines to sink the bipartisan border security bill that included foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

During an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Mayorkas was asked by moderator Kristen Welker whether he bears responsibility for the overwhelming number of migrants trying to cross the border and the backlog of asylum claims, which President Joe Biden has called a “crisis.”

“It certainly is a crisis and we don’t bear responsibility for a broken system, and we’re dealing a tremendous amount within that broken system, but fundamentally, Congress is the only one who can fix it.”… (Continue to full article)

Five Dirty, Career-Ending, Prison-Warranting Secrets Biden Wants You to Forget Before Election Day
Let’s call it like it is. Lady Liberty is on the ropes, and it wasn’t the Nazis, the Soviets, or Islamic terrorists who put her in a daze. Nor was it a second Civil War that bloodied her face, forcing Mick to cut her eye. The simple answer is that this is the work of Democrats and RINOs.

As of today, we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden plans on running for re-election, hoping to assail our battered nation with another term of Marxist codswallop. I’ll bet my Snagglepuss lunchbox that doesn’t happen. I think Biden is going to exit, stage left. And with good reason.

Brandon, Let’s Go!

Biden is the worst presidential candidate since Vermin Love Supreme Al Sharpton. He “brought class back to the White House” in his first term by allegedly dropping a crabcake in his pants while chatting up the Pope… (Continue to full article) Continue reading →

Illinois Governor, Cook County President Allocate $250 Million For Migrants, Chicago Mayor Absent
Chicago officials allocate millions for migrant crisis amid funding tensions

Chicago’s leaders, including Governor J.B. Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, have unveiled a significant funding initiative, pledging over $250 million to address the migrant crisis in the city. However, tensions arise as the city, county, and state collectively determine a need for $321 million to sustain essential services and shelters for migrants throughout the year.

Notably, the announcement lacks mention of contributions from the city of Chicago, leading to speculation about funding disparities and potential friction between city and state authorities”… (Continue to full article)

                                 “Stick it Joey – EH??”

House Delivers Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda, Votes Against Natural Gas Moratorium
‘Joe Biden would rather appease the radical environmentalists in his party than protect hardworking Americans.’

If enacted, Pfluger’s bill would amend the Natural Gas Act of 1938, giving the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) exclusive authority to approve or deny applications for the siting, construction, expansion or operation of LNG export projects.

And in approving or rejecting permits, FERC would be required under the bill to “deem the importation or exportation of natural gas to be consistent with the public interest… (Continue to full article)

‘I Have a PhD in Recognizing Bullshit’
Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds to FDA Expert Testifying Covid Vaccines Saved 3.2 Million Americans.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) declared at a House hearing on Covid vaccines that she has a “PhD in recognizing bullshit” in a rant that included no questions for the witness to whom it was directed.

Greene honed in on Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration, and his support of vaccines, especially for young children.

“I’m not a doctor but I have a PhD in recognizing bullshit when I hear it!”… (Continue to full article)

China Joe’s New Favorite People – Illegal Chinese Immigrants
A news report claims the fastest growing group of illegal immigrants entering the United States along the Southern border is from China, with roughly 37,000 Chinese nationals apprehended at the border. Lat year alone according to data provided by the Department of Justice, 55% of Chinese immigrants were granted asylum in 2023 compared with 14% for immigrants of other nationalities.

Why do you suppose so many Chinese illegals are given asylum compared with other groups? And how many of those given asylum are young men of military age?

Nobody tells us that, but don’t you wish you had a dollar for every one?… (Continue to full article)

Protestors demonstrate for full benefits for all US veterans in July, 1974.  Jerry Engel/Getty Images

Biden Giving Veteran Healthcare Resources to Illegal Immigrants
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) recently slammed President Joe Biden for prioritizing individuals who are illegally crossing into the United States over U.S. military veterans by providing healthcare services to illegal immigrants.

The Republican senator argued that the Biden administration has created longer wait times for veterans to receive medical care by using Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities to provide care for illegal immigrants.

“[Biden’s] decided, OK, we’ve got to feed all these 10 million people we’ve let come across the border, we’ve got to house them, and we’ve got to give them health care,” Tuberville told Fox News. “They’ve opened up care from the doctors in these [VA] community care systems. The lines now in the VAs are getting longer. Our funds that are supposed to go to the veterans are going to these illegal immigrants that are coming across.”… (Continue to full article)

Failing Elementary School Goes Full Commie, Defends ‘Abolishing Systems of Oppression’
A sad story about a California public school may sound like a satirical Babylon Bee headline but it’s true: An elementary school paid a quarter-million dollars to a Communist activist to teach its struggling Hispanic students how to abolish democracy and overthrow their white oppressors.

The public learned about Glassbrook Elementary’s contract with the “Woke Kindergarten” website thanks to a Feb. 3 story published by The San Francisco Chronicle and education reporter Jill Tucker. The school used federal funds, set aside to improve student test scores, to send its teachers to work sessions where they were told white supremacy and oppression are the barriers to learning, the story said.

“They’re training kids to become revolutionaries instead of instilling the knowledge they need to succeed in society.”… (Continue to full article)

The US Now Has an 85% Chance of Recession in 2024, the Highest Probability Since the Great Financial Crisis
A recession is likely to hit the US economy in 2024, a new economic model highlighted by the economist David Rosenberg suggests.

The economic indicator, which Rosenberg calls the “full model,” suggests there’s an 85% chance of a recession striking within the next 12 months.

The model calls into question the growing narrative that the economy is about to pull off a “soft landing” or “no landing” scenario this year.

Our conviction that the recession has been delayed but not derailed is still running at a high level… (Continue to full article)

Job Gains Are Going to Immigrants, and Keeping Young US-Born Men Out of the Workforce
We keep hearing that the US economy is strong, especially the job market.

At first glance, this perspective seems to be spot-on. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, right before COVID-19 hit, the fourth quarter of 2023 shows 2.7 million more people working.

Except all those gains are among immigrants.

The number of immigrants working over this period is up by 2.9 million, while 183,000 fewer US-born Americans are working.

Put simply, compared to 2019, all the net job growth has gone to immigrants… (Continue to full article)

“The madmen are in power.” ~ Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction.

That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United States still spends more on foreign aid than any other nation.

The latest foreign aid spending bill includes $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Continue reading →

As I write this, Washington DC is dealing with the fallout of two events in which two different groups of people had to answer the question: What is Congress for?

One of these events came on February 8, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson. In this case, a collection of Colorado activists asked the Court to reaffirm the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to ban Donald Trump from running for re-election on the grounds that, back in January of 2021, Trump committed “insurrection” against the United States.

The fact that the various criminal charges against Trump have not yet gone to trial is of little concern to them. Instead, they argue that because the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution bars officers who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding office again, judges should be able to remove an “insurrectionist” from the ballot as easily as they might remove a noncitizen, or a candidate who hasn’t reached the proper age. Continue reading →

Given the wholesale disaster that has been the Biden presidency, one has to wonder how it all happened. We have all seen the Democrat party become radicalized, almost purely Marxist, since the Obama administration. Obama promised to transform the country and he surely did. He effectively drove race relations backward by seventy years. Continue reading →

The second verse of the Bible states that the world was in a chaotic state. God then made order. Which is why the Left is undoing it.

It is impossible to understand what is happening to America — and to the rest of the West — without understanding the most dynamic ideology of the last hundred years: leftism.

We need to begin with the understanding that leftism (or “progressivism”) and liberalism are not only not the same ideologies, they are in fact opposed to each other on virtually every major issue. Continue reading →