George Okoth With a Colleague From the US Army
A bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress, the “Courage to Serve Act,” has the potential to significantly impact the lives of Kenyans seeking opportunities in the United States, particularly those aiming for American citizenship. Continue reading
Top Republican warns of ‘military-age men’ and spies entering US who would wreak havoc in any war over Taiwan
US Customs and Border Protection says it encountered 24,048 Chinese migrants at the US-Mexico border in fiscal year 2023, which ended in September — a 7,000 percent jump on the 323 who came amid the pandemic-era lockdowns of 2021.
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?
More Chinese nationals are encountered at the San Diego sector of the California-Mexico border nowadays than Mexicans… (Continue to full article)
Volunteer from Tucson Samaritans is seen holding open hole in border fence and encouraging migrants to walk through as Republicans demand probe into the NGOs ‘facilitating the crisis’?
Tucson Samaritans volunteers have been caught on camera holding open a hole in a border fence and waving migrants through, according to a congressman now demanding an investigation into NGO’s helping migrants come into the US illegally.
Rep. Tom Tiffany said the organization along with Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans is ‘aiding illegal immigration’ by assisting the droves of foreigners arriving in America daily.
Video shows a volunteer holding open a gap in the fence at the US border with Mexico in Arizona while a steady stream of migrants pass through… (Continue to full article)
Illegal Immigrants Reveal How They Got into America and Why They Are Coming
For the past couple of months, there have been multiple groups of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States. According to a publication released by the House Committee on Homeland Security, there have been more than 7.5 million encounters nationwide and 6.4 million at the Southwest border.
The publication provided more key facts directly from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) report and states:
169 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry. 18 were apprehended in September alone. CBP has arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members… (Continue to full article)
NYC’s Non-Citizen Voting Law Ruled Unconstitutional on Appeal
A law that would allow green card holders to vote in city elections remains in limbo, more than two years after it passed.
The 2022 law sought to let green card holders and other people living in New York City with federal work authorization to vote in local elections for offices including mayor and City Council.
A state appeals court ruled that a New York City law that would allow non-citizens to vote in local elections is unconstitutional — marking a win for the Republican elected officials who sued to block it.
“We determine that this local law was enacted in violation of the New York State Constitution and Municipal Home Rule Law, and thus, must be declared null and void.”… (Continue to full article)
San Diego Migrant Center to Close After Influx of Asylum-Seekers Drain Funds: ‘Serious problem’
A San Diego migrant center announced it will be forced to close its doors Thursday after running out of funds to assist the overwhelming number of asylum-seekers who have illegally crossed into the county.
The mayor of nearby El Cajon, Calif., told Fox News Thursday that he fears the welcome center’s closure will quickly become a “serious problem” for his community.
“Over the past few months, we’ve seen 100,000 migrants come across the San Diego border,” said Mayor Bill Wells.
“A lot of those have been absorbed by this county shelter that used taxpayer money. They asked for $3 million and they spent over $6 million and now they say they’re out of money. So we’re going to see migrants congregating in our streets.”
The center, which claims to be handling up to 800 migrants a day, has been sending buses to county Border Patrol stations to pick up migrants, bring them back to the site and provide services to prepare them for the journey to their final destination.
If the current pace of illegal immigration does not slow down, fiscal year 2024 will break last year’s record of 2,475,669 southwest border encounters — a number that by itself exceeds the population of New Mexico, a border state.
The total number of southwest land border encounters since Biden assumed office in 2021 is 7,298,486, CBP data shows… (Continue to full article)
“Hasta lo Bye-Bye!”
The architect of many of former President Donald Trump’s most effective and controversial policies on Friday laid out what is likely to be Trump’s first-day immigration plan if he beats President Joe Biden in November.
“The simple part is seal the border, deport all the illegals,” Stephen Miller told an audience at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference.
“You get in; you have two policy objectives that you proceed with utter determination on: seal the border, no illegals in, everyone here goes out. That’s very straightforward”
When Biden came to office, the new president ended virtually every Trump immigration policy. The result has been historic and record-breaking illegal immigration. Some expect 10 million illegal immigrants to have crossed the border by the end of Biden’s first term…. (Continue to full article)
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
Millions of children, some as young as nine years old, could be forced to watch a pro-life video of a baby in the womb as part of sex education in school.
Several states are considering laws that will force schools to show videos of a week-by-week development of a fetus in the womb – however doctors say the milestones are inaccurate
The three-minute clip shows the week-by-week development of a fetus — and has been created by anti-abortion campaigners.
Legislators are considering bills in four Republican-led states which would compel schools to show the ‘Baby Olivia’ short movie to students. Continue reading
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
May 13, 2002 – A leftover saying from the ‘60’s – got your attention, didn’t I?
The Federal Observer Editor wastes 28+ years of his life on the air.
Unfortunately, they’re not the only things left-over from the decade of peace & love. During that decade we saw the birth of ”free love”, forgetting that with everything – there is a price to pay. The nation has become steeped in moral decay – as the epidemic of AIDS has spread world-wide. Some say that it was a virus developed in the U.S., others say that it was caused by monkeys and still others who believe that it was caused by the rampant spread of deviant sexual behavior. Does it really matter at this point what the cause?
As a nation, We the People of the United States of America never seem to heed the lessons of history. Sodom and Gomorra set the stage so long ago – and yet today – anything seems to go in America – and we, as a society have turned to stone. Our schools have become proving grounds for alternative sex-education classes. Our children are being taught to accept anything, which is considered outside the norm. Homosexuality is now openly being taught in the government run ‘fool’ system – sanctioned and promoted by administrations who got their education during that same tumultuous decade – all the while parents sit at home and do nothing. I guess that their parents had taken too many drugs, thereby transferring the dead brain-cells to their children. Continue reading
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
So said Ronald Reagan on January 20, 1981, in his first inaugural address. We were reminded of these words last Wednesday when Tennessee Republican Congressman Mark Green said, “I have come to realize our fight is not here within Washington, our fight is with Washington”
At the conclusion of that first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan spoke of the challenge that confronted us. “It does require … our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.”
Today’s challenges are even greater, and with good men like Green and Gallagher leaving behind a broken Congress, it’s hard to share The Gipper’s optimism for fixing things… (Continue to full article)
It’s going to be difficult to get tens of millions of illegals out of the country. If there were some fear of that happening, the Democratic Party would rise up and steal as much of the American taxpayers’ money as necessary to protect this future constituency of theirs.
Corporations that want cheap labor would press politicians with threats of reduced campaign money, and everybody knows politicians love other people’s money more than they love anything else. The illegals themselves would disappear under rocks, into holes in the ground, and into every cavity and crevice they could find to escape deportation. All they would then need to do is occasionally find their way to the nearest Democratic Party-run welfare office, get their money, and then disappear again.
Removing these people from America will be a Herculean task. The Democrats know that and are chuckling all the way to the mail-in ballot box.
But the Democrats and Uniparty Deep State clique don’t care a thing in the world about the American people (except on election day—or, now, election weeks); they only care about power. And money… (Continue to full article)
A Recent Immigrant and Non-Citizen Is the Newest Member of San Francisco’s Elections Commission ~ Something is ‘WONG’ here!
Showing its complete disdain for citizenship and the rights that go with citizenship, San Francisco has appointed a non-citizen who hasn’t even lived in America for five years to its Election Commission. Kelly Wong, who can’t vote, is now one of the people charged with overseeing and creating policy for San Francisco’s Department of Elections.
Back in 2020, San Francisco voters approved a measure holding that people no longer needed to be citizens to serve on San Francisco’s advisory bodies, boards, and commissions, all of which are appointed positions. That opened the door for Wong to start having a say in how San Franciscans vote.
What just happened in San Francisco is another step in the left’s overall goal of erasing citizenship entirely. Leftists think Americans are spoiled, entitled white people who refuse to get with the program and vote in full socialism. Therefore, they’re chipping away at American votes through unlimited illegal immigration, non-citizen voting, election fraud and, as in Wong’s case, handing the keys to the kingdom to people who have no ties to America and no legal right to have a say in it… (Continue to full article)
New documents show the rising public cost of sheltering migrants in Massachusetts, as the state grapples with a strain on its emergency shelter system.
The state has 17 contracts totaling $116 million to house migrant families through June, including a no-bid $10 million contract for a company providing meals, CBS News Boston reported, citing documents obtained by the outlet.
Last August, Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey declared a state of emergency, saying the state had more than 20,000 migrants in its shelter system.
City officials are keeping their eyes peeled for the next building they can seize and transform into a shelter for migrants…. (Continue to full article)
Incompetence or Intentional Fundamental Transformation of America
So often I get asked if the left is that incompetent. No, they are not incompetent; they know exactly what they are doing, and why. This begs the question of why anyone would want to be in a position of power in a country that they obviously despise. I think we all recall the assertion by Barack Obama back in 2008: “We are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States.”
It was quite telling that no one said “Stop! What is this transformation? What are we transforming to, or from what? The crowd of mindless lemmings just went into a deranged euphoria, and those who did ask questions were dismissed. Or worse, called a racist for daring to challenge an assertion of the chosen one.
According to Marc Morano from The Climate Depot, the bill was merely a disguised ‘green The leftists are not dumb. They are crafty, cunning, and diabolical in their quest to end the life cycle of the longest-running Constitutional Republic that the world has ever known. They are completely cognizant of the consequences and ramifications of their ideological agenda but refuse to reverse course, even in the face of abject failure.
To them, what we constitutional conservatives see as failure, they see as successful implementation of their agenda. What many see as insane, they see as perfectly fine. After all, for the left, their mantra is “the ends justify the means,” and will be achieved “by any means necessary.”… (Continue to full article)
How the US Regime Subsidizes Immigration — Both Legal and Illegal
In recent months, stories from both the legacy media and the independent media have continued to pile up on how undocumented foreign nationals – also known as “migrants” and “illegal aliens” – are able to take advantage of a vast network of taxpayer funded benefits in daycare, medical care, housing, and more.
Both the New York Post and Denver Post report that these foreign nationals have “overwhelmed” the Denver Health hospital system in Denver, and that the situation is “unsustainable.” Meanwhile, public schools report classrooms are filling up quickly with the children of these foreign nationals. Denver is hardly alone. The New York Post notes that both the City of New York and the state government have expanded local welfare programs, including pre-paid credit cards, to further ensure that migrants continue to receive cash and resources from American taxpayers. This is in addition to the approximately 66,000 foreign nationals who are housed in hotels and shelters, care of both New York and federal taxpayers.
USA Today reports that colleges “across the country” are receiving millions in taxpayer money to offer housing to migrants at no charge. Chicago’s mayor is bragging he’s giving away $17 million in taxpayer-funded giveaways to “asylum seekers” who are presently living off the sweat of the taxpayers in government shelters.
This, of course, is just a downpayment on many more planned giveaways… (Continue to full article)
Calls for Secession Surge in Alaska, More Than a Third Want to Separate from the US
The sentiment for secession is gaining traction in Alaska, with a recent poll revealing that over a third of the state’s residents are in favor of breaking away from the United States and establishing Alaska as an independent nation.
Alaskans emerge as the most supportive of secession, with 36 percent expressing a desire for the state to leave the Union, significantly surpassing the national average of 23 percent.
This sentiment reflects broader debates on the integrity of the U.S., particularly amidst heightened political polarization.
Amidst a backdrop of deep political divisions, the idea of a “national divorce” gained attention in 2023, proposed by House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene…. (Continue to full article)
Cheney called on Johnson to bring a bill for Ukraine aid to the House floor during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. The Senate passed a bill approving funding for Ukraine in a vote last week — a bill Johnson had already rejected last week.
The bipartisan Senate bill passed last week includes $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion in security assistance to Israel. It also includes $9 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza, the West Bank and Ukraine, and $4.8 billion to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
Cheney reiterated that Johnson should take action “to help the Ukrainian people.”
“And again, he’s gonna have to explain to future generations, to his kids, to his grandkids, whether or not he did what was right, whether or not he was a force for good and aided the cause of freedom, or whether he continued down this path of cowardice and doing what Donald Trump and [Russian President Vladimir Putin] want him to do… (Continue to full article)
The facility built on the site will be able to accommodate some 300 soldiers by April — and will have the ability to expand to house up to 2,300
Texas plans to construct a military base along the border with Mexico, the state’s Republican governor announced Friday, as his election-year tug-of-war with the White House over migration continues to broil.
A wave of illegal border crossings in recent months has made migration a key talking point in the US presidential election campaign once again, with Republicans seeking to pin blame for the record-high numbers entirely on Democratic President Joe Biden. Continue reading
President Biden’s poll numbers seem set in quicksand. Now the special counsel’s justification for not recommending charges against Biden for having “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” is damning: Biden’s memory has such “significant limitations” that the special counsel believed he could not convince a jury that Biden has a “mental state of willfulness” that a serious felony (or, presumably, serving as president) requires. Cue the campaign commercials. Continue reading
With no regard to the danger, this White House has thrown open the gates to a stampede of evildoers. Almost 300 people from our Terror Watch List have already been caught. But have they been kept? Just this week, a Pakistani national that Border Patrol captured in November was found wandering around Los Angeles after his January release, stunning immigration officials. “Imagine how many cases like this one get through without us knowing,” one Homeland Security official told the Daily Caller anonymously.
In most cases, it takes “more than three months for an agency to determine if someone is/was a known suspected terrorist,” another agent cautioned. “Who knows how many after-the-fact realizations were made after releasing someone into the country?” He admitted, “We may never know until they are encountered by law enforcement at a later date. Very well after it’s too late.” 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
Written by David Marcus for The Daily Mail ~ February 16, 2024
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)
* House Republicans keep calling it quits, even though they’re in the majority.
* Several GOP committee chairs are retiring, and younger Republicans seem to be giving up.
* It comes after a year in which chaos and lack of productivity reigned in the lower chamber.
On Tuesday, Republican Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee achieved a goal that he’s been overseeing all year, and that narrowly eluded House Republicans last week: the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The very next day, Green — the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee — called it quits. Continue reading
I know a strong economy is important to people, but it has been placed in such a primary position for so many decades, that it seems the American people are willing to forgive almost any violation of our rights, just as long as any particular administration is delivering a “good economy”. But when they prop up corporations with government subsidies and throw trillions of stimulus dollars into the economy, ultimately it isn’t a good economy, despite short term appearances, and it results in a debilitating effect on all individuals’ finances, which also ultimately has a marked effect on their individual liberty. Continue reading
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
When I open my eyes in the morning, the first thing I lift my head to see is the clock sitting on the nightstand beside me. If it’s even a minute past six, I’m up and out of bed…
Yes, I’m aware that retirement offers me the luxury of keeping myself attached to the pillow, eyes closed, drifting in and out, without caring to which number of that clock the short hand is crawling. Problem is though, that over the course of fifty years I’ve developed the impossible-to-break habit of getting up early – despite the fact that I no longer have a proverbial timecard to punch.
So, sun-up or not, when that hour comes I swing my feet over the side of the bed and onto the floor, stand as noiselessly as my creaking knees will allow, and very quietly – so as not to awaken my still-dreaming wife – navigate down the hall and into what we call the “back bedroom.” There I have access to the two drawers and three feet of closet space not being used for seasonal storage, and which hold a few pairs of well-worn old jeans and a small, folded stack of t-shirts and sweatshirts good for just hanging out. 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