More than 2,600 people backed a bill in Olympia to create Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for low-income and special needs students, but Democrats are already working to kill it. Rep. Travis Couture (R) pointed out that Washington’s public schools are delivering their worst reading and math scores in 30 years, despite some of the highest per-pupil spending in the nation. Naturally, Democrats and their union backers insist on doubling down on this disaster, claiming school choice would somehow harm public schools – because letting parents actually choose is apparently too dangerous. Continue reading
Grades Drastically Improve After School Bans Social Media and Phones
But we COULDN’T consider doing this in America – Could We? ~ Editor

Students hand over their phones. (Cumberland Community School via SWNS)
Welcome to the secondary school where teachers have convinced pupils to delete social media and hand in their phones – and it’s improving results.
Cumberland Community School’s progress score has gone up by a grade and a quarter in recent years, making them among the most consistently improved in the UK. The percentage of pupils who achieved a grade five and above in their English and maths GCSEs is also well above the national average. Continue reading
Sjursen: Are We Who We Thought We Were?
The following commentary was originally published in 2018. Major Sjursen made numerous references to “17” years. I have altered that reference to “24” years – as not one damned thing has changed with the mistakes and errors that this nation has continued to endure! ~ Editor
Americans are led to believe they have been fighting for democracy and freedom these past 24 years, but the truth is far murkier.
“War is just a racket… I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service…during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” ~ Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps, two-time Medal of Honor recipient (1935)
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Why Everyone is Losing It Over the USAID

We’re All Going NUTZ!
Let’s talk about the USAID (US Agency for International Development) – and why Elon is going through it with a very personal machete.
As they weep and wail about funding being cut from “absolutely necessary and life-saving” global initiatives and humanitarian agencies, remember this: We the USA – a nation $36 TRILLION in debt…$36,000,000,000,000 – spent $5.5 BILLION…$5,500,000,000 in the last four years dedicated exclusively to fund LGBTQ issues GLOBALLY. $600 MILLION of which was carved out… hee hee… for trans initiatives. Continue reading
The National Assessment of America’s Educational REGRESS

“Yo’ Adrian – da Kid can’t Read!”
From the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress – a test given periodically to the nation’s students – the 2024 reading and math test given to 4th and 8th graders has further demonstrated the need for immediate change to America’s system of education. Continue reading
Bennett: Memories Were Made of This…
UnitedHealthcare Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million in Settlement: See if You Qualify!
The continuing saga of United Hell-Care… ~ Editor
UnitedHealthcare has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the company violated a federal law that prevents consumers from receiving robocalls without providing prior consent.
The lawsuit claims that UnitedHealthcare violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which restricts the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages in telemarketing calls. In 2012, the Federal Communications Commission revised the rules to also require telemarketers to obtain prior written consent from consumers before robocalling them, among other revisions. Continue reading
The Way We Were: A Bygone Age 1950`s & 1960`s
I was born in ’48 and would go back without a second thought.
I don`t like the world today! Take me back to the ‘Nam – I was at greater piece in my 21 months during the War. ~ Editor
Dickens: The Wrath of CON-gress… in Opposition to Progress
Yes, Trekkies, it’s a play on a movie title from 1982, ‘The Wrath of Khan‘. It seems appropriate because the movie, like the 119th congress, deals with revenge and the overwhelming motivation for retribution in the acquisition of power. You know – Polly-tics.
Admittedly, I rarely watch congressional swamp-meets because they are nothing more than reenactments of playground quarrels over a ball, or a space in the sandbox, or a bucket and shovel; all are childish arguments about control, and an object lesson in one-upmanship. The difference here is that congress – the opposite of progress, is populated by self-professed, professional custodians, elected adults – hired by us, to manage the country. These are the people in whom we have placed our trust, to follow our laws and represent us. Continue reading
JFK Assassination Finally Solved And Isn’t Good
A VERY interesting video. Where were you on that day? ~ Editor
Smith: Panama ~ Uncle Sam Isn’t Creeping Away
“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours” were words declared by Ronald Reagan in 1977, not long after leaving the California governor’s office, and that’s the position President Donald J. Trump has recently taken, by and large if not precisely; but Reagan was reluctant to put any real action behind those words after becoming president, whereas Trump has shown he has the determination of will and the spine to do whatever is necessary to protect and defend U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone, putting Panamanian President Mulino on notice to this fact.
This is a righteous and sound move in response to a growing Communist Chinese influence in a country that has largely been receptive to socialism since its emergence on the international scene as a nation, and it puts new teeth in the Monroe Doctrine and exerting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere to block and expel foreign nations that are hostile to the U.S. from the region. Continue reading
This Is ONE of Our Stories…
May 27, 2018 ~ While searching for specific information earlier in the week, I came across the following. To say the least – it left me in shock for several reasons – the first of which because Memorial day is upon us. Secondly because, next week – June 6, 2018 I will look back exactly 50 years ago to my first landing in Vietnam, where within a week I would be assigned to the 498th Medical Co. (Dust Off) – the company for which a part of the following story took place. Although I do not specifically remember David Hertle, our stories overlapped during the same time frame, to the point where we both left the company and Vietnam within two weeks of one another – but there are others….
One final note: The author makes reference within the following about his story having taken place some 30 years before his writings, which now makes this story 55 years old.
To all of my Brothers who served in the 498th out of Lane Army Heliport – our time and story is nearing its end… I’ll see you at Sundown.
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TRUMP: Redneck President
YEEEEEEE HAW!
Trump White House Drafting Executive Order to Abolish Department of Education

SMILE – Mr. President!
The Trump White House on Tuesday drafted an executive order to abolish the Department of Education, NBC News reported.
Trump vowed to wage war with Education Department and give power back to the states. Continue reading
Vietnam Veteran Music Video “Drive On” by Johnny Cash
I happen to be in the camp that the U.S. actually should have been there helping the South Vietnamese to stop the communists, but like so many other wars we have subsequently entered, I’ve always thought we should have taken the lead and executed the military strategy to win definitively and quickly rather than allow it to drag out as it did. Continue reading
Penalties for Employing Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. Increased to $5,724 Per Violation
Employers in the United States who hire undocumented immigrants could now face penalties of up to $5,724 per individual. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule in the Federal Register today , stating that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is authorized to impose these penalties. This amount represents an increase from the previous maximum of $5,579. Continue reading
“I Have Many Students Who Don’t Even Speak English”
A Teacher’s Social Media Post Is Being Investigated After They Apparently Invited ICE To Come To The School
Forth Worth Independent School District is investigating a social media post by a reported substitute teacher. The teacher apparently wrote that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement should visit the school where they work because it has “many students who don’t even speak English.” Continue reading
Dr. Fauci: ‘He Was Trying to Cover It All Up’
Fox Host and GOP Senator Claim Dr. Fauci Had Ulterior Motives During Covid Pandemic
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined Fox & Friends on Monday morning and dabbled in some historical revisionism, explaining that he now believes Dr. Anthony Fauci had ulterior motives in trying to limit the spread of Covid-19.
Fauci, like most other officials in his position around the globe, advised both Presidents Trump and Biden on public health intervention measures to slow the spread of the virus, and has since become a controversial figure, with many critics arguing that he was overzealous in his recommendations.
“Dr. Fauci. I don’t hate him, but let’s face the facts. He made them. He tried to establish complete control over everybody. Why did he do that? In my opinion. He was scared,” Kennedy began, adding: Continue reading
The Staggering Number of US Students who CAN’T Read
A record number American children can’t read, according to alarming new data… But they blame in on COVID?

Underscoring academic – 40 percent of fourth grade children now lack basic reading skills
In 2024, 40 percent of fourth graders and a third of eighth graders had ‘below basic’ reading skills, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Meanwhile, only 23 percent of fourth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders were deemed ‘proficient’.
These results mark record lows since the reading assessments started in 1992. Continue reading
Young Man Dies in Agony After Price of His Inhaler Rose from $66 to $540!
The ONGOING saga of UnitedHell Doesn’t Care and OptumRX
Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, who had battled chronic asthma since childhood, was denied his life-saving inhaler when he went to collect his prescription at a Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin on January 10, 2024.
The pharmacist had informed him that his medication would now cost $539.19 – a shocking increase from his usual cost of $66.86. Continue reading