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
RFK Jr stars in this parody trailer of a ‘new’ episode of the classic TV Western “Wanted: Dead or Alive,” starring Steve McQueen. RFK, Jr. is a bounty hunter, a gunslinger when needed, that has discovered all of the towns he used to travel through are ghost towns, and he discovers the culprit is none other than “Big Money,” imaging Bill Gates as the actor in the role.
The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 11, 2019.
One of the first actions of the new Trump administration was to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Many public health advocates quickly raised alarm bells, citing longstanding arguments about the importance of the agency and what the U.S. stood to lose by withdrawing its membership and money.
It is unlikely that these advocates paused to consider that leaving the WHO is exactly the disruption needed after years of reform efforts that were long on talk but short on results. One of us knows this firsthand, having worked inside the WHO at the highest levels; the other has seen this as a private-sector innovator seeking to navigate its bureaucratic maze. Continue reading
Pecker Storm in America?
Written and Published by The Daily Mail ~ March 14, 2025
Jesus what happened to you America?
I had planned on getting back to work on a rather lengthy essay I began nearly a month ago, but sometimes something happens that throws a monkey wrench into the best laid plans. The other day, right after posting my last essay in fact, I read a post on Facebook that became the inspiration for this. The post was about a young woman with terminal cancer who had written a letter telling people to not let the little things bother them; that life was too short, too precious, and could end at any time for unexpected reasons.
This wasn’t the first time I’d seen or heard that message but there was something about this time that planted the seed that sprouted into what you are about to read.
Most people, if they are being honest, will tell you that they fear their own death; albeit some fear it for different reasons than others. Yet death is an inevitability we cannot escape, and becomes so the moment we take our first breath of life outside the womb. The truth of the matter is, there isn’t a thing any of us can to to prevent our passing when our appointed time comes.
I think that Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson understood this; for as he lay on his deathbed he told one of his officers, “Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.” Continue reading
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It’s a simple, straightforward formula: Politicians need money — lots and lots of money — to stay in power. (It isn’t exactly true since their reelection rates are sky-high anyway. But I guess when it’s their jobs on the line, it’s “all hands on deck.”) Businesses lust over the power of politicians: The right tax break or the wrong regulations can make or break your company.
That’s a helluva motivator.
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