She will never admit to it. But according to recently-released federal disclosures, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the wealthiest people in Congress.
And it’s easy to understand why; she completely dominates every other member of Congress when it comes to fundraising. In fact her total fundraising haul just in the first half of 2025 was a whopping $15.4 million (whereas most politicians are lucky to bring in a few hundred thousand). Continue reading
Historic agreement promises hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and opens Japanese markets to US products
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced a $550 billion trade deal with Japan that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and open Japanese markets to US cars, trucks, and agricultural products. (REUTERS/Kent Nishimura / Reuters)
A “massive” $550 billion trade deal has been reached with Japan, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, adding that it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
“We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it.” Continue reading
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Retirees are facing the prospect of substantial Social Security cuts in just seven years, sooner than projected, due to the “big, beautiful bill,” per an analysis out Thursday from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Continue reading
Email users appear to be facing a never-ending barrage of scam emails. Approximately 3.4 billion phishing emails are daily worldwide.
A New Alert from the team at Action Fraud issues important new advice to consider for all email users. When most of us spot something dodgy, we often just throw it away, but that doesn’t actually help to defeat cybercriminals. Continue reading
Cackling Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris may not be a good “fit” in the California governor’s mansion and would face a “difficult” road getting elected, her ex-boyfriend and political mentor, Willie Brown, warned in a recent interview.
“I do think people running for public office really ought to fit eventually where they are trying to land at. And I really do, hope, frankly, that [Harris] comes to that reality,” Brown said of Harris’ political future when asked by “State of Gold” podcast host Jon Slavet. Continue reading
Shares of UnitedHealth Group slipped Thursday after the health care giant said it was under a Department of Justice investigation.
The company said it has started complying with both criminal and civil requests from federal investigators and it was cooperating with them.
“(UnitedHealth) has a long record of responsible conduct and effective compliance,” the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal said federal officials had launched a civil fraud investigation into how the company records diagnoses that lead to extra payments for its Medicare Advantage, or MA, plans. Those are privately run versions of the government’s Medicare coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and over. Continue reading
Editor’s NOTE: The following is too important for you NOT to read. I personally believe that I have been “hacked” informing me of “Denial of Payment” as regards to recent Dental work. One of the letters I have received was in regard to a Dental firm that I have worked with – but is NOT connected with my current Health Insurance company. Hence – I have chosen to re-post the article. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor
July 7, 2025 ~ Nearly $15 billion in fraudulent claims have been uncovered in what officials are calling the largest health care fraud case in U.S. history, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced Monday.
“Today, in conjunction with the DOJ and our federal partners, we are announcing the results from the largest healthcare fraud investigation, as measured by financial losses, in DOJ history,” Bongino posted on X (formerly Twitter). Continue reading
In regard to DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s fantastic expose of Barack Hussein Obama and his creation of a treasonous conspiracy to destroy Trump and obstruct his administration’s policy agenda, she’s acted in an honest and outstanding manner, as she has referred Obama, Comey, Clapper, Brennan and many others to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. As of this writing, it’s not yet clear what criminal charges will follow.
Many have suggested this will be as far as it goes, despite Attorney General Pam Bondi moving as we speak to create a strike force to investigate the matter further. It is said that we can prosecute if we wish but no jury will prosecute, and given the far left commie tenor of the crowds in the area where the prosecution would occur, they just may be right.
Whatever the case, Obama, Biden and their criminal, treasonous cronies must be forced to stand trial and defend their actions in front of the American people, under oath – not that their oath means a goddamned thing or can be trusted to be sincere. Continue reading
The year was 1984, and the fast-food battles were in full swing as purveyors employed every tactic imaginable to discredit one another. The phrase ‘where’s the beef’ became an advertising icon and was used in every possible sense, even straying into the political arena. Even Congress, the opposite of progress, used this catch-phrase…
The phrase implies that something is missing.
The missing component is recognizing and accepting responsibility for words and actions… You know, consequences.
There is a reaction for every action; that’s Newton’s third law. It’s been parsed and rehashed into various phrases like ‘cause and effect’ and ‘Nothing comes from nothing…’ It boils down to actions and reactions. Although Newton’s laws are primarily applied to physics, they also extend to more mundane aspects of life. Continue reading
Natives from the Kotzebue-based NANA corporation welcomed control of the land
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy slams Biden’s ‘cancel culture’ energy policy: ‘It’s been a lack of opportunity’
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined ‘The Brian Kilmeade Show’ to discuss how the Biden administration’s energy policy has inhibited Alaska from producing oil and reducing prices at the pump.
Alaska Natives and state leaders lauded a landmark move by the Trump administration to transfer 28,000 acres of land in the Arctic to a consortium of Natives after the Biden administration balked at state officials’ wishes to develop the so-called Ambler Mining Road and claimed they instead were protecting the locals. Continue reading
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) engaged in a bipartisan push to prohibit companies from eliminating cash payments, arguing that a cashless society harms “millions” who do not have bank accounts.
Fetterman joined Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) in introducing the Payment Choice Act, which seeks to require brick-and-mortar businesses to accept cash up to $500 per transaction. The legislation would require in-person companies to take cash payments for bills under $50 and prohibit businesses from surcharging those payments. Continue reading
CASH – Johnny Cash…
Cash used to be king. Now, in many U.S. cities, it’s almost an afterthought. If you’re planning a trip or thinking about moving, you might be surprised at how little you’ll need paper money. Digital payments, cards, and mobile wallets have taken over.
Some places have even started refusing cash altogether. This shift matters for anyone who wants to avoid awkward moments at the register or just keep up with how people pay for things in 2025. Here’s what you need to know about the cities where cash is practically useless. Continue reading
HERE are your Homes. Pack ’em up – and Go home to where you came from!
In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said his agents will arrest anyone they find in the country illegally, even if they lack a criminal record, while also cracking down on companies hiring unauthorized workers.
Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, said his agency will prioritize its “limited resources” on arresting and deporting “the worst of the worst,” such as those in the U.S. unlawfully who also have serious criminal histories. Continue reading
King, Louis XVI
The late king, along with his predecessor — the legendary Louis XIV — had indebted France up to its eyeballs with endless war, waste, and lavish spending.
Sure, Versailles was gorgeous. But the interest payments were eating the royal Treasury alive. And everyone knew that France was in serious trouble… so when the king died, people became hopeful that change was coming.
The new king, Louis XVI, was young, bright, energetic, and wildly popular. People desperately believed that he would finally be the one to reform the system and fix the nation’s gargantuan problems.
And initially things went very well. One of the young king’s first orders was to appoint an economic libertarian named Jacques Turgot as his chief minister… Continue reading
PARIS (AP) — D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate World War II and his fallen comrades, has died at 102.
U.S. World War II veteran Jake M. Larson, 100, who landed at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, arrives for a remembrance ceremony at the Pegasus Bridge memorial in Benouville, Normandy, France, June 5, 2023. – REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
An animated speaker who charmed strangers young and old with his quick smile and generous hugs, the self-described country boy from Minnesota was “cracking jokes til the end,” his granddaughter wrote in announcing his death.
Tributes to him quickly filled his “Story Time with Papa Jake” TikTok account from across the United States, where he had been living in Lafayette, California. Towns around Normandy, still grateful to Allied forces who helped defeat the occupying Nazis in World War II, paid him homage too. Continue reading
We’re all familiar with the story behind this article’s headline. It was the last day of the Constitutional Convention, Sept. 18, 1787, when a prominent Philadelphia socialite, Elizabeth Willing Powel, confronted Benjamin Franklin outside of Independence Hall and asked him, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy”?
Franklin was overheard replying, “A republic, ma’am. If you can keep it.” Continue reading
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
The Trump administration said on July 18 that the United States is rejecting a World Health Organization (WHO) agreement that it says gives the global health body too much power.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the formal rejection of the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR). Continue reading
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy delivered a clear message in his recent conversation with CNBC’s Jim Cramer: Artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape Amazon’s workforce, automating routine jobs while creating new opportunities in advanced technology fields.
Jassy’s remarks, which echo a memo he sent to Amazon’s 1.5 million employees last month, underscore both the disruptive and transformative potential of generative AI across the company’s operations. Continue reading
Everybody agrees that the rich have been getting even richer in recent years. But what about all the rest of us? Unfortunately, it turns out that flooding the system with money was really good for the wealthy, but it has made things much worse for almost everyone else.
Poverty is rapidly growing all around us and the middle class is being systematically eviscerated. If you doubt this, can you explain why the number of Americans dealing with food insecurity has almost doubled over the past four years? And can you explain why store closings in the U.S. are on pace to set a new all-time record?
The middle class simply does not have the same level of discretionary income that it once did. Today, we live in a country where 70 percent of the population feels very financially stressed. If you are in the segment of the population that is doing really well right now, good for you. But you need to understand that most of the country is really hurting. Continue reading
Why is probably the most open-ended indirect question ever posed, yet it’s on my mind constantly. An indirect question is a rhetorical device used to provoke thought or conversation, and it makes an excellent opening for this article.
My formal training leads me to question everything, how to discover answers and possible solutions, and then how to test them. However, the questions I’ve been asking lately don’t seem to have clear-cut answers; they lead to more questions. That’s what I learned outside of the formal arena.
Life is a cruel teacher; after all, she kills all of her students.
Am I asking the wrong questions, or are the answers that ambiguous? Continue reading