Smith: A Flight of Fancy… “Maggie

I know there are so many other things that I could have delved, but since its advent, I have taken a great interest in Artificial Intelligence, all that follows it and all it may hold for the future of the world, but especially America. However, this morning, purely on a lark and an excursion into a bit of a flight of fancy, I decided to see if I could have a little fun with one A.I. in particular – ChatGPT.

What follows is the results of our short little conversation. This is simply a FUN little exercise and interaction between a human – I think I’m still “human” – and an artificial intelligence. HAHAHAHAHAHA… ~ J.O.S.
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AOC: To Each According to Her Merchandise Sales

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

UPDATE: Trump secures historic $550B trade deal with Japan: ‘Never been anything like it’

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)

RELATED – July 25, 2025: Trump’s Big Trade Deal With Japan Is Already Falling Apart

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

WARNING! Gmail and Yahoo Alert Issued as Email Users Warned to Follow Simple Advice Now

Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook users should report any suspicious activity online to prevent cybercrime

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

Kamala Harris’ Ex-Lover Willie Brown Warns Her of ‘Difficult’ Road to Win California Governor’s Race After Resounding 2024 Loss

                              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

Smith: Cut Down the Lies Where Treason Lies

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

Dickens: Truth or Consequences… Either, Neither, or Both?

But where’s the beef?

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

Trump Admin Implodes Literal Biden Roadblock With Potential to Unleash Major Mining Windfall

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

ICE Head Says Agents Will Arrest Anyone Found in the U.S. Illegally and Crack Down on Employers of Unauthorized Workers

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

Hickman: The Illusion Collapses

When King Louis XV died in 1774, nearly all of France breathed a collective sigh of relief.

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

‘Papa Jake’ Larson, D-Day Veteran and Beloved TikTok Storyteller, Dies at 102

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

A Republic if You Can Keep It.‘ The American Experiment Has Never Been in Greater Danger

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

Trump Administration Rejects WHO Agreement, Citing Threat to US Sovereignty

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the move.

 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

Dickens: Do You Trust AI? Why?

Who or what do you trust?

Just look at where we are!

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.

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Bennett: Sleeping With the Enemy

March 31, 2009Are you shocked? Hell, I”m not. When you sleep with the Devil – you take it in the assets.

So, a few months ago, while Junior was still in residency at 1600, the (once) B I G Three Auto makers from the Mutha City (Detroit) came to town to beg for financial AIDS from Big Brother and the holding Company (CON-ress). They all flew down to the city of DeCeit – Washington, you know – BIG cars, loose wimmen, little choir boys (pages) and 535 Traitors with no balls.

Moe (Alan Mulally), Larry (Robert Nardelli) and Curly (Richard Wagoner) came in on those BIG corporate jets, each of which I am sure has burled paneled walls, BIG screen tv’s, a fully stocked bar, and maybe even some more loose wimmins! Wearing their BEST $3,000 Armani suits with their rich, Corinthian leather shoes (sorry Ricardo), they plopped their BIG asses down at the table in front of the CON-gressional twits and stated their cases, as to why they should be bailed out, like the boys on Wall Street and Bankers Alley.
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Smith: American Education and the Destruction of America

Suffer the Little Children…

There cannot be any real doubt in the minds of most conservative and freedom-loving Americans that the U.S. public school system and communist teachers, from the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, have done more damage to our society on the whole than any other entity in recent memory. And by and large, through the people’s own complacency and careless, assuming attitudes, the American people created this situation themselves. Continue reading

American Teachers in Red States Are Walking Away for Good

          Tribute to the Teachers ~ Alexandra Nechita, 1995

The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities – and their profession.

When Rosalyn Sandri returned to teach English at her high school alma mater, she never imagined it would end in a forced resignation. Only three years after stepping into her Texas classroom, she walked out of it for the last time. She’d never see her students again.

“They didn’t even let me say goodbye,” she said.

The week before her dismissal had been unremarkable – long days spent grading essays and assigning homework. In September 2024, Sandri, 33, had started publicly transitioning as a transgender woman, something she said her fellow teachers and students welcomed kindly. She shared her journey on TikTok, including one video documenting the euphoria of being called “ma’am” for the first time. Continue reading

A $100 Billion Mystery Is Unfolding on Tariffs and Inflation and Economists Are Cracking the Case

Economists have for months warned that tariffs would cause an inflation surge, but as of July, there’s little evidence of that in economic data, despite about $100 billion in tariffs already collected by the Treasury. Fortune asked economists to explain why. The possible reasons range from “it’s too soon” to “consumers won’t stand for it.”

Since the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, when the president signaled a wholesale reimagining of the international trade system on a scale not seen in decades, mainstream economists have warned that prices would surge.

The mantra, repeated by everyone from mainstream economists to factions of the GOP, has been clear: A tariff is a tax on consumers. Businesses said the same, with three -quarters of importers in a recent New York Fed study declaring they planned to pass on some tariff costs to customers.

But halfway into the year and well into the most consequential reshuffling of trade in half a century, tariff-fueled inflation is missing in action. Continue reading

Smith: Righteous Tools to Cleanse American Society

Everyone seems to be getting the vapors over the Trump administration’s new, aggressive scrutiny of those people who have become U.S. citizens through the naturalization process, but for me, it’s simply a heightened awareness that far too many new “immigrants” – legal and illegal – have used our freedoms, laws and system to take advantage of any weak link they could find, and it’s far past time to bring the gravy train to a halt, to bring the deceptions and subversion to a halt. Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice is doing exactly what several past administrations failed to do, and no one can find any real fault in her orders or those of President Trump’s in this regard, unless of course they are already in the camp of the damned anti-American Democrat Party communists. Continue reading

Dickens: Maybe It’s Time… Let it Rain!

It’s a common practice that when things have gone wrong for too long, the ailing system requires a complete reset. It’s an opportunity to reassess the current process and incorporate changes to address deficiencies or rectify problems. However, when the system is so corrupt and focused on divisive elements rather than its intended goal, it’s time to start over.

That’s a direction we haven’t taken for a very long time as a country; not since 1776, as a matter of fact. Merka seems to prefer the band-aid and cobble approach to everything, but there are only so many patches you can make before the underlying fabric will no longer support them, and the patches hold other patches in place, rendering the original indistinguishable from the changes. You can’t tell where the repairs end and the original begins.
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