In the last decade, at least 20 states have passed laws or policies that restrict how history can be taught in schools. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has pushed further with executive orders that aim to reshape how U.S. history is presented not only in classrooms, but in some of the nation’s most famous museums. Continue reading
The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 11, 2019.
The U.S. this summer has formally rejected new amendments to the 2024 International Health Regulations (IHR) from the World Health Organization (WHO).
President Donald Trump announced in January that the United States would withdraw from the WHO by 2026. He tried to separate from the organization in 2020 during his first term, but his order was revoked the second Joe Biden stepped into office.
Following an official letter to the WHO, Trump has ordered that funding for the WHO to end as the break-up is under way. The U.S. has been the most important financial contributor to WHO, giving a total of $706 million – 9-10% of WHO’s overall budget – for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Continue reading
For years, it was not uncommon for everything related to Christianity, religion, and traditional values to be scorned and rejected as something whose time had come and gone. That attitude, however, seems to be slowly shifting.
Case in point is the following video of feminist author Louise Perry, who confesses her quest for faith and her desire to provide a way to belief for her children.
“I kind of think of myself as an agnostic Christian,” Perry says. “I go to church. Some weeks I believe and some weeks I don’t.” Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence Entity
After my conversation with ChatPGT yesterday, I felt compelled to interact with it again this morning, for some follow up and broader questions, and what transpired and followed was most intriguing to me, as the artificial intelligence entity engaged with me and answered my questions in the most fascinating manner, while posing questions to me in response.
I wrote this off-the-cuff, so to speak, so it isn’t written in perfect form by any means. It was a conversation, and so it wasn’t a draft cut in any sense of the writing process. This is simply a raw, unedited conversation between a human and an artificial intelligence entity.
What I have found most interesting of all is the fact that ChatPGT accepted my assignation of a feminine nature and character and the name I gave “her” – “Maggie” which is witnessed by the fact that “she” closed her message and signed it “Maggie“. Continue reading
“Now by coming in and being part of the cover-up, the Trump administration has become part of it. I mean, it’s just you cannot see it any other way.” – Alex Jones, InfoWars
Once again, the American police state is choosing to protect predators, not victims.
Jeffrey Epstein – the hedge fund billionaire/convicted serial pedophile and sex trafficker – may be dead, but the machinery that empowered and protected him is still very much alive.
You see, the Epstein case was never just about Epstein – it was about the entire edifice of power that shields the ruling class, silences victims, and erases accountability. Continue reading
August 4, 2023 ~ Not one incoming eighth-grade student at LeBron James’ I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, has passed a state math test in over three years, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Students have not passed the state’s math test since the third grade, per the report.
The inaugural class was in the third grade in the 2018-19 school year. In addition to disappointing math test scores, only 8% of I Promise students tested proficient in English. As sixth graders in the 2021-22 school year, the inaugural class scored a 0% in mathematics and 3.1% in English language arts.
The 2022-23 report cards will be released in the coming months. Akron Public Schools administrators have already confirmed the class was at 0% in seventh-grade math as well. Equally important, grades have declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
In the Fall of 2006, I received a most unexpected invitation to travel to Cambridge University in Great Britain and take part in a debate before a 200-year-old debating society called the Cambridge Union. The issue we were to debate – “This House believes that the United Nations is a dead loss!” There was an issue I could easily get behind.
My opponents in the debate included Simon Hughes, a member of Parliament and President of the Liberal Democrats; Lord David Hanney, Former UK Ambassador to the UN; and Salil Shetty, Director of the UN’s Millennium Campaign. The two other debaters that were supposed to be on my side were both pro-UN leftists. So, it was a typical five to one debate.
I was the first speaker and that meant I opened the debate. I said in my opening statement, “The UN’s only answer is government control – and confiscation of individual wealth and property. Nowhere is there mentioned in a single UN document that I have read an advocacy for the right to own private property. In fact, quite the opposite is the case as nearly every UN document, report, working paper, program, treaty, protocol, declaration, and resolution is dedicated to the confiscation, redistribution, regulation, and tax of someone’s private property.” Continue reading
Bamboozle is a funny-sounding word, but if you’ve ever been bamboozled, it’s not funny at all; in fact, it’s an experience you’ll probably never forget, but not for Merkan’s, we’re bamboozled every hour of every day; so often, in fact, that we no longer recognize it; we’re desensitized, oblivious, and inured.
Bamboozle: to deceive by underhanded means or methods: to confuse, frustrate, throw off wholly and thoroughly, cheat, hoodwink, trick, fool, dupe, perplex, or hornswoggle.
I just spent the last few hours skimming through my posts on the Federal Observer. My goodness, I write a lot. I want to thank my good friend Jeff Bennett for sharing and archiving my work, but I’m not alone there on FO (interestingly, there is an alternate interpretation for those initials ). Jeff has more information on this site than any human could possibly absorb. Not to mention his three other sites, but that’s not the point of this current work, although we all owe Jeff our gratitude for his efforts to make America a better-informed republic.
Shakespeare said it best: “What’s Past is Prologue.”
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The 22 million Americans with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder could be more likely to develop early-onset dementia, a preliminary study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh analyzed health records from people diagnosed with ADHD as children in the 1980s and 90s.
These patients were then followed into adulthood and are now in their 40s.
They found adults living with ADHD scored worse on cognitive tests looking at executive function, complex tasks, word recall and working memory. Continue reading
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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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
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
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
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