I can’t honestly tell you when this started happening, but I have found that I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to subjects that would never have crossed my mind 10 years ago. I don’t know if this is simply one of the things that happens when you get old, or if it is due to the fact that my mind has much more free time since I retired a few years back. Maybe its a little bit of both, who knows.

Sometimes, when I least expect it, a random thought will pop into my head; something so out of the ordinary that I ask myself, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’ Then there are times that I will be reading something, and a single word sets off a rapid fire chain reaction of thoughts that is so intense that I can no longer focus my mind on what I was reading; or writing for that matter. Whichever the case may be, there is one thing that is common; I find that my mind refuses to let go of that thought until I have given it a thorough examination; looked at it from every conceivable angle.

The latest thought that has taken up so much of my mind’s free time is…well…time. Just to be clear, I’m not talking about what time it is, or how much more of it I have left before I return to the dust from whence I came, but time itself; what it is and how we go about measuring it. Continue reading →

Anders Hustito sits at his house in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. His son, 43-year-old Jeffrey Hustito, died at a sober living home in Glendale, Arizona, in 2022. Credit: Adriana Zehbrauskas, special to ProPublica

At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions.

The deaths, almost all from drug and alcohol use, span from the spring of 2022 to the summer of 2024, according to a review of records from the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner. Over half died as officials ignored calls to address lax oversight later shown to have contributed to thousands of patients being recruited into sham treatment programs. Continue reading →

Officials said the latest enforcement effort marks the next level of cooperation among state and federal agencies.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seize 47,000 rainbow-colored fentanyl pills, 186,000 blue fentanyl pills, and 6.5 pounds of meth hidden in a vehicle in Nogales, Ariz., on Sept. 3, 2022. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

A major sting operation in Arizona has resulted in 25 arrests and the seizure of 1.7 million fentanyl pills and other drugs, as well as guns, vehicles, and a large amount of cash.

The seven-month enforcement effort called Operation Double Down targeted the illegal narcotics trade across the region from April to November 2024, and involved multiple agencies.

“Operation Double Down is a powerful example of what can be accomplished when law enforcement agencies at every level work together to combat the deadly flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs into our communities,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement on Feb. 21. Continue reading →

Democrats don’t view the Constitution as something to protect and respect. They view it as a club to wield when their opponents gain power.

That “goddamned piece of paper” – again

Republicans are in power, so Democrats are back to pretending to care about the Constitution.

As Democrats struggle to attack Trump 2.0, the national propaganda press is pushing a new narrative.

Earlier this month, a New York Times newsletter posed the question, “A constitutional crisis?” Three days later, The New York Times reported, “Trump’s actions have created a constitutional crisis, scholars say. Continue reading →

Lie-Awatha Warren

In addition to being a fake Indian who justified cynically ticking the “Native American” box for career advancement purposes by claiming that “Grandpappy had high cheekbones,” Elizabeth Warren is also a brazen pharma whore, which is why we saw her so viciously smear RFK Jr. in his confirmation hearing, going so far as to claim that if Americans injured by vaccines were allowed to sue the pharmaceutical industry like bad actors in literally any other industry, they would go bankrupt and then kids would be genocided by measles just like he snuffed out all of those Samoan babies in their cribs with his bare anti-vaxx hands… or something. Continue reading →

President Trump is surging at full speed to expose and stop the deep state’s drive to destroy the American culture of free enterprise, private property, and limited government. For over three decades climate change and environmental protection have led the lies to trick Americans into voluntarily surrendering their liberties. American farmland has been, and continues to be, one of the leading targets in the agenda as more and more land is being subjected to eminent domain takings by private developers. Continue reading →

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest – forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” ~ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Author, John Whitehead

This has all the makings of a constitutional crisis.

According to law professor Amanda Frost, “a constitutional crisis occurs when one branch of government, usually the executive, ‘blatantly, flagrantly and regularly exceeds its constitutional authority — and the other branches are either unable or unwilling to stop it.’”

Consider for yourself… Continue reading →

Paul Craig Roberts

Some people will regard my title as hyperbole. It is not. Trump, I believe, understands he is in a fight to the death. The American establishment tried to discredit and ruin him, to imprison him, to assassinate him. They stole his 2020 reelection from him. They tried to steal his NY properties. It is not possible for Trump to have illusions about what he is up against. He is up against evil.

Trump knows that the fight is not just about him. It is about America. For decades a corrupt American establishment has been running the government for their benefit at the expense of the American people. Trump says he intends to take government out of the corrupt establishment’s hands and put it back in the hands of the people. That is the last place the establishment wants it. For them the struggle Trump began in 2015 is existential. If Trump loses, America loses, and the establishment wins. Civil liberties will disappear, especially for “racist” white people and for people who think there are only two genders. Censorship and false narratives will prevail, and we will live in a belief system constructed for us by the establishment and the whore media for whom government is a profit center. Continue reading →

        “I look at life from Both Sides Now!” ~ Judy Collins

Republicans may feel that they’re on the up and up, armed with Donald Trump in the White House and a trifecta at the federal level, but former insiders of the conservative party argue that the GOP’s inability to stand up to its executive leader is becoming an unsolvable problem.

Speaking with MSNBC on Sunday, former Florida Representative David Jolly claimed that Republicans have no targetable solutions for some of Congress’s chief jobs due to the legislative branch’s constant deference to Trump’s will. Continue reading →