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Elon Musk and his DOGE-related spending cut recommendations have dominated headlines in recent weeks.
Some Americans are treating the announcement of these cuts like Christmas morning, thrilled at the idea that they get to keep more of their money, rather than have it go toward projects they disagree with – such as the transgender mice President Trump infamously called out in his speech before Congress on March 4. Continue reading
A document for USDA employees indicating how many training courses were inactivated following Trump’s orders to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices in government.
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration inactivated more than 1,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture training programs in February in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion and “gender ideology extremism.”
In the mix of cancellations, however, are courses that don’t appear to be related to diversity or gender.
Internal documents obtained by The Spokesman-Review through a public records request show 1,176 courses in USDA’s “AgLearn” software, used to train employees, were cut in February as a result of President Donald Trump’s goals to end DEI and “gender ideology” in the federal government in order to “defend women,” a January executive order states. Continue reading
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump to ensure honesty at the ballot box has been hit by yet another lawsuit, this time for requiring proof you are a U.S. citizen before voting.
President Trump signed “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections” in a March 25 ceremony at the White House. That E.O. has been hit with four lawsuits so far, including one filed last week by 19 Democrat-led states.
“The President has no power to do any of this,” the state attorneys general complained in the court document. “The Elections EO is unconstitutional, antidemocratic, and un-American.” Continue reading
Now that Joe Biden is out of office, many Democrats feel free to tell what was really going on during his term at the White House. Many of us already knew Joe was a mentally impaired puppet, which became all-too evident during his presidential debate with Trump. Continue reading
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Thursday that millions of dollars in unemployment claims have gone to “fake people” who aren’t even born yet — some not even in this century.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer presented the findings to President Trump at a Thursday afternoon cabinet meeting, saying “we’re working with our [inspectors general] … [to] return those dollars to the Treasury.” Continue reading
Scratch ‘n’ Sniff
The Trump administration is reportedly escalating its tactics to revoke the temporary legal status of immigrants allowed into the U.S. under the Biden administration. The latest effort includes adding migrants who are here lawfully to Social Security Administration’s “death master file,” effectively blacklisting them from the U.S. financial system, the New York Times reports. Continue reading
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified California, New York, and Massachusetts as the primary states responsible for over half of the fraudulent unemployment claims in the United States since 2020. According to DOGE’s findings, these three Democrat-led states accounted for $305 million out of the $382 million in improper claim payments. Continue reading
At a political fundraising dinner on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump said he plans to announce tariffs on pharmaceuticals soon.
“We’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals, and once we do that, they come rushing back into our country, because we’re the big market,” Trump said at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
For far too long, the US has endured unequal trade with countries around the world. Other countries charged us significant tariffs while expecting the US not to reciprocate. This unequal playing field should have been made level shortly after WWII, but no president wanted to upset the economic applecart. Trump is willing to cause shockwaves to remedy the trade situation by means reciprocal tariffs. Continue reading
The goal of the healthcare industry in the United States is to take as much money away from you as possible. I truly wish that I was exaggerating, but I am not. Can you guess which nation spends the highest percentage of GDP on healthcare? Without looking it up, you probably already know that it is us. Gigantic pharmaceutical corporations and massively bloated health insurance companies are raking in colossal mountains of cash, and yet the quality of the healthcare that we receive in return is rather quite poor. Continue reading
President Donald Trump has announced that tariffs on pharmaceuticals are incoming, which means Americans will likely have to pay more for their medicines.
“We’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals. And when they hear that, they will leave China,” Trump said Tuesday at a Republican fundraiser.
Aboard Air Force One last week, he told reporters that “pharma” tariffs would come “at a level you haven’t really seen before.” He added that the tariffs would be revealed “in the near future.” Continue reading
I have been warning that the global forces are working on new tactics to keep their agenda of control moving forward even in the wake of President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop them at the federal level. Trump has shocked the nation as he has exposed the massive amount of federal funds that have been flowing into the coffers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). These are the well-trained shock troops that lead the charge to push the agenda piece by piece. Continue reading
The freakout over President Donald Trump‘s executive order instructing the administration to begin eliminating the Department of Education has nothing to do with learning or teaching. It has everything to do with the Left’s dream of centralizing education and indoctrinating children with trendy, progressive cultural values.
Indeed, it’s unlikely that most people are even aware that the Education Department has virtually nothing to do with their local schools. It doesn’t provide funding for the buildings, textbooks, or teacher salaries. Nearly 90% of all K–12 public school spending comes from state and local sources.
What the federal government does is fund some low-income schools and special-education needs, money that can be easily meted out by the Treasury Department. Or, even better, it’s money that can be block-granted to states to administer as they see fit. Continue reading
It was sometime in the spring of 323 BC when Alexander the Great – the “King of the World” – passed through the gates of ancient Babylon for the last time.
He had already conquered the city nearly a decade before. But his men were worn out from fighting in India and Persia, and Babylon was a secure place to give his army a much-needed rest.
They remained there for a few months, until, quite suddenly, Alexander became extremely ill on either the 10th or 11th of June and then died.
The cause of his death is unknown. Some say he was poisoned. Others blame malaria, typhoid fever, or complications from his battle wounds.
What is certain, however, is that he left behind no legitimate male heir, as his wife was still pregnant at the time of his death. So almost immediately a power struggle broke out as to who would succeed him. Continue reading
Since my title is bound to inspire criticism that I’m a “God botherer,” I’ll preface what follows by stating that I wasn’t always the halo-adorned, floating-in-the-ether desert mystic (without the sand or heat) you behold today. I wasn’t raised with faith, and as a 12-year-old was an agnostic who’d say, “I’d never believe or disbelieve in anything there’s no proof of.” Later on I’d be rather dismissive of theists, actually, viewing them as God botherers myself, though we didn’t have that term or as many Richard Dawkins-like secularist warriors back then. I suppose we were, relatively speaking, handicapped in our exercise of supercilious anti-theism.
But that has changed — and I’ve changed… Continue reading
From left to right, the Dwarfs are Rep. Al Green, Rep. Maxine Waters, Senator Chuck Schumer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Walt Disney’s full-color animated cartoon, “Snow White,” premiered in 1937. It was a huge, groundbreaking success both at the box office and among critics. The movie garnered a special Academy Award and the Disney company was saved from bankruptcy. Disney went on to spend $4.5 million on a studio in Burbank California, where many more successes were created.
Today, the Walt Disney Company has been creating a lot of mega-million dollar film flops – mostly due to their DEI and ‘woke’ underpinnings. A remake of ‘Snow White’ with real actors was asking for more trouble… Continue reading
Politicians do nothing but keep the blame game needle spinning. The issue is irrelevant because it will, at some point, be lost in the minds of the Americans, if their paying attention at all, so, what is important is the politicians presentation of impact, for if he/she, says the right thing, appeals to the marginalized, then he gets reelected, and that,is the name of the game! Politicians have misrepresented themselves for decades, but now, video tape is retrievable in an instant, but believing they can bowl the voter over, they just keep right on spreading the B.S., because that is what they do best! Remember, the average human being only has a 13 second retention memory, and that is only, if he/she is interested in their pet project, so, issues are basically a numbers game, and Politicians know that very well! ~ David T. Vedt
Heah come de Judge!
White House communications director Steven Cheung appeared to mock a federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to return deportation flights to the United States.
In a court hearing on Saturday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said that two flights carrying immigrants to El Salvador and Honduras should be immediately turned around. The judge also issued a temporary order barring the administration from using an 18th-century law to justify additional deportations.
The Associated Press reported on Sunday that the flight did not return to the U.S. despite the judge’s order. Continue reading