Dickens: Meanies Justify the Ends

The Ends Justify the Means” ~ Machiavelli

If the ends truly justify the means, who determines those ends? Is it the meanies?

If the ends justify the means, someone must determine the importance of that end or the goal. If we are willing to forgo morals, ethics, and everything we hold essential to attain that goal, then someone must have set that priority at the highest level imaginable. Transcending righteousness requires an overwhelming cause and sincere consideration before taking any action. Who decides, or are these ends whimsically eccentric? Continue reading

The Reason You Now Walk Free: They Were Farmers, Dreamers and Sons and Daughters!

We do not mourn in silence now —
we speak in thunder,
for the dead who did not flee
when the hour was grave and the sky was red.

From Lexington’s frost to Kandahar’s dust,
they stood —
not for glory,
but for the man beside them
and the home they carried in their chest like a last breath.

They were farmers, welders, dreamers, sons —
mothers, lovers, daughters, friends —
and when the call came,
they became the unreturning tide
that washes freedom ashore

at a cost only the fallen truly know. Continue reading

Headlines of the Day: May 26, 2025

SCOTUS Sides with Trump to Revoke Legal Status from 300k Venezuelans
Come hell or high water, President Trump is going to keep his promise to deport criminal illegal aliens out of your country and god bless him for it.

President Trump is doing everything he can to keep illegal aliens out of this country as well as put an end to Biden era programs that allowed for a mass invasion under the guise of compassion or even “legal status.”

He’s getting a little help from the high court. .. (Continue to full article)

Trump: Executive Order Will Cause Drug Prices to Fall
Trump says prescription drug prices will drop in a matter of weeks due to an executive order he signed.

The order calls on the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker lower prices for drugs.

If a deal isn’t reached, a new rule will kick in that will tie the price of what the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries… (Continue to full article)

More than half of Americans want to see mass roundups and deportations of undocumented immigrants

Deportation Flights to Venezuela Soar, Outpacing Previous Four-Year Total
At least 3,078 Venezuelans have been deported since January, compared to 3,256 deported over the entire 2019–2023 period under both the Trump and Biden administrations

In just four months, the Trump administration has deported more Venezuelans than during the previous four years combined, according to a new report.

The surge comes as President Donald Trump intensifies immigration enforcement, including the removal of women and children – despite claims that deportations are targeting those with criminal records. According to Venezuelan nonprofit Votoscopio, which tracks repatriation flights, 273 women and 29 children are among the recent deportees… (Continue to full article)

Democrats Push to Strip Trump of Power Over U.S. Marshals as Judges Face Threats
Amid a surge in threats against federal judges, Senate Democrats will formally introduce legislation Thursday to transfer control of the U.S. Marshals Service to the court system itself.

The legislation specifies that the presidential administration would lose its authority over the Marshals. The law enforcement agency is currently part of the Department of Justice, and among other things, it is tasked with protecting federal judges, courthouses and court workers.

Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who is leading the effort, said the change would help insulate U.S. Marshals from possible interference and politicization by the Trump administration… (Continue to full article)

Colombian Woman Charged With Illegally Voting in 2024 Election Stealing $400,000 in Taxpayer Funded Benefits
Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez allegedly lived under a stolen identity for 20 years, illegally voting and obtaining $400,000 in US benefits

Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, also obtained welfare benefits, a REAL ID and eight other state ID’s, the Justice Department said.

Orovio-Hernandez allegedly used the stolen identity to submit a fraudulent voter registration in January 2023, and cast a ballot in last year’s presidential election, prosecutors said. She was captured on surveillance camera at a bank wearing an “I voted” sticker on Nov. 5, 2024, Election Day, according to court documents… (Continue to full article)

Trump Wins Multiple Manufacturing Deals
Trump has announced significant foreign and domestic investments totaling nearly $9 trillion since he took office. Many of the investments reportedly originate from prior announcements, causing critics to express concern about their accuracy. Trump asserted that the commitments demonstrate the success of his economic policies, which have focused on lower taxes, tariffs, energy expansion, and advancements in artificial intelligence.

Trump said, “I think we probably have close to $9 trillion of investments coming into this country.” He added, “If you look at other presidents, there’s never been anything like that.” (Continue to full article)

We Need Constitutional Judges, Not Political Activists

Svante Myrick recently attacked President Trump’s work for religious freedom, as well as our organization’s work on judicial nominations at the American Family Association Action’s Center for Judicial Renewal.

Our standard for evaluating future federal judges is simple: we seek judges “with the best long-term, demonstrable record of commitment to the constitutional role of judges, which is to decide cases according to the original meaning of the Constitution and legislative texts, and to never legislate from the bench.” Continue reading

Four Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Read the First Amendment

Heah cum de Judges…

The Supreme Court has deadlocked on the question of religious charter schools, thanks to four justices who didn’t bother reading what the First Amendment says about separation of church and state.

Four Supreme Court Justices wanted to make it legal for taxpayer dollars to fund religious charter schools.

The Supreme Court produced a 4–4 deadlock on Thursday on the question of whether an Oklahoma religious school could take part in the state’s publicly funded charter school programs. Continue reading

US Judge Blocks Trump Administration Plan to Gut Education Department

A federal judge blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and ordered it on Thursday to reinstate employees terminated in a mass layoff.

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston at the behest of a group of Democratic-led states, school districts and teachers’ unions issued an injunction, opens new tab blocking the department from moving forward with a mass termination announced in March of over 1,300 employees, which would cut its staff by half. Continue reading

Smith: Humanity’s Next Level of Insanity ~ An Ol’ Guy’s Backwoods AI Assessment

The debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence is extremely deep and broad from several different perspectives on a scientific, ethical and philosophical level that shows much hope for its future while glossing over the pitfalls it presents. As good as it has initially revealed itself to be for many areas of society, I tend to fall in the camp that notes, despite its initial benevolent success, it will ultimately become a tool to enslave all people wherever it is used and unleashed, no matter how much “oversight” its creators believe they have put in place to keep it under their control. Continue reading

Dickens: A House Divided Cannot Stand!

But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How  then will his kingdom stand?” ~ Matthew 12:22

It essentially means that if a group or entity is internally divided and at odds with itself, it will eventually fail. This idea was famously used by Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, arguing that the United States, with its division over slavery, could not endure as a nation. Continue reading

United HellCare: One of America’s Biggest Companies Is Imploding

UnitedHealth Group, one of America’s biggest corporations and a member of the exclusive Dow Jones Industrial Average, is suddenly unraveling.

The crisis engulfing UnitedHealth hit a crescendo this week when CEO Andrew Witty stepped down abruptly for “personal reasons.”

UnitedHealth also swiftly abandoned its financial guidance, blaming skyrocketing medical costs.

And then The Wall Street Journal dropped the hammer, revealing that UnitedHealth is under federal criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud.

The developments have stunned investors, triggering a dramatic loss of confidence. UnitedHealth’s (UNH) stock has lost half its value – a staggering $288 billion – in the span of a month. Its share price plunged on Thursday to its lowest level since April 2020, during the height of the pandemic. Continue reading

Bono: ‘The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Bono, lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, in a scene from the documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender.” (Apple TV+ via AP)

CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.”

I can tell you I’ve slept on beaches close to here,” Bono says with a grin. “I’ve woken up in the sun.” Continue reading

Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Here, And They Are A Giant Step Toward The Dystopian “Digital Prison” Society The Elite Have Planned For Us

Would having your brain connected to the Internet 24 hours a day be heaven, or would it be hell? Today, a very large portion of the population is seemingly glued to their phones or their computers much of the time. But soon implantable brain-computer interfaces will allow those people to stay connected to their devices all the time. Apple has partnered with a shadowy tech company known as “Synchron” to develop a “brain implant that allows users to operate digital devices by thinking”… Continue reading

Meet Bob… The American Pope Who Still Has to File US Taxes

I still can’t get over the fact that there’s an American pope… and that his friends refer to him as ‘Bob’.

Bob. It just makes him seem like a regular dude who’d be drinking a beer and shouting at the umpire at a Cubs game.

Something else that makes the new Pope seem extremely down to earth is that he shares the same pain as 100+ millions of his fellow Americans: paying taxes.

Clergy are considered employees of the Church and generally receive salaries, which means they must pay taxes just like anyone else. Continue reading

Trump Writes CON-gress out of the Constitution – and CON-gress Says “Fine

The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those…

The question is, who will stop it?

Having brought Congress completely to heel in the political sphere, Donald Trump is now seeking to write it out of the Constitution. Both of his biggest moves of the past week entail the evisceration of a constitutional role the Framers very plainly and expressly wanted Congress to play.

That is the case for the flirtation with suspension of habeas corpus, which only Congress can do. And it’s even more manifest in Trump’s plan to accept a $400 million (or is it $625 million?) jumbo jet “palace in the sky” from the Qatari government. Continue reading

Smith: Operation Wetback 2.0 ~ Expel Illegal Aliens at Warp Speed

I don’t see how America lasts another decade, such as we find Her now, not without going through the fire of civil war and coming out the other side with Her people’s freedom and individual liberty intact and made stronger than ever before, including the days immediately after Her War for Independence.

Whatever has happened over the last two hundred and fifty years, there is little, next to nothing, of this government as it currently stands, that is worth saving, as we find it guided by men without any real understanding of the principles of freedom and liberty who are still all too willing to grow government power over individual liberty while they enter new globalist ventures even as they claim to be for America first and fighting globalism. Continue reading

What In the World Has Happened To The America We Grew Up In?

It has been but just a few months since I put pen to paper and wrote and posted the following, and yet it seems to grow in importance with each passing day. Read it for the first time, or read it again. The end draws near. People, get ready… ~ Ed.

To Granny and Cat…

April 9, 2019 ~ I have been in a state of proverbial ‘funk’ for nearly a year now. You’ll remember last July when I had made the decision to shut down Federal Observer after seventeen years of publication – only to slowly change gears for God knows what reason. Over these past nine-plus months, the site – although looking much the same – has taken new directions – or in some cases readdressing old topics – which still drive me to this day. I’ll not draw you a map today – you may review the site on your own time and come to your own conclusion… and that is where I stand at this point – conclusions – or more specifically – the Conclusion of this once great nation. MAGA? Forget it – it will never happen. We near the end of the journey. Continue reading

The End of Rule of Law in America

The 47th president seems to wish he were king – and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.

The president of the united states appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a government of laws, not of men, so that they and future generations of Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a tyrannical king. As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” Continue reading

Due to Lack of Interest… Tomorrow has been cancelled

Last Rites for the Promised Land!

Grammy Award Winning Cover art: Evelyn Kelbish

February 7, 2019 ~ Over the past few years I have been reaching further back into my personal history specifically with memories of my youth and my time spent in Country while flying over the rice-paddies and picking up wounded soldiers, civilians and enemy combatants.

Recently I realized that a song which I had considered to be my theme song from those 21 months ~ Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida was released within days of my arrival for the Adventure of a lifetime. You’ll note that it is also a permanent audio fixture of this site in the right-hand column. Some additional thoughts on the song I have also penned as part of the description of our category, ‘Nam – Some Came Home: Continue reading

Hickman: The “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL” Tax Bill Is the Opposite of What America Needs

In the year 428 BC, ancient Athenians imposed a special tax called the eisphora that targeted local business investments in the city-state.

It was expensive and highly unpopular among investors. And wealthy Athenians simply stopped investing in local businesses to avoid the tax.

This is almost an iron-clad lesson of history: whenever governments tax something, they end up with less of it. And the inverse is also true: whenever governments subsidize or cut taxes on something, they end up with more of it. Continue reading

Whitehead: Trump Is Making America Constitutionally Literate – by Violating the Constitution

Donald Trump ran on a platform of relentless, thoroughgoing rejection of the Constitution itself, and its underlying principle of democratic self-government and individual rights. True, he never endorsed quartering of troops in private homes in time of peace, but aside from that there is hardly a provision of the Bill of Rights or later amendments he did not explicitly promise to override, from First Amendment freedom of the press and of religion to Fourth Amendment freedom from ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’ to Sixth Amendment right to counsel to Fourteenth Amendment birthright citizenship and Equal Protection and Fifteenth Amendment voting rights.”Garrett Epps, law professor

If Donald Trump is remembered for anything, it may be his unintentional role in reviving public interest in the U.S. Constitution.

Indeed, few modern political figures have done more to prompt spontaneous national discussions about the Bill of Rights and constitutional limits on government power – if only because Trump tramples on them so frequently.

Through his routine disregard for due process, free speech, separation of powers, and the rule of law, President Trump has become a walking civics lesson.

From the First and Fourth Amendments to the Emoluments Clause, the Constitution has never had such regular airtime.

Ironically, this might be Trump’s greatest legacy: forcing Americans to learn what the Constitution actually says – by violating it.

Unfortunately, Trump himself remains constitutionally illiterate. Continue reading