Benson: Our Sieve Of A Southern Border And Middle Eastern Terrorists

The Biden/Obama Regime recently sent 800 troops to the border. Why? So They can speed up the paperwork in letting illegal immigrants into the country, that’s why. They won’t be allowed to do anything that will hinder those illegals from getting in. We’ve already lost the border to the illegals and the cartels so all these troops will be allowed to do is facilitate the paperwork that will allow them to stay here. They will be allowed to do nothing to keep the illegals out because the Biden/Obama Regime wants as many as possible here for next year for the 2024 election. The regime plans to turn Texas into a blue state if they can give the illegals the ability to vote next year. Continue reading →

BIDEN’S SMOKING GUN

A trusted FBI agent revealed that Joe Biden, using his son as a middle man, accepted millions of dollars in bribes from Ukraine. When a reporter asked Joe about this, Biden laughed arrogantly and replied, “Where’s the money?”

The House Oversight Committee recently released evidence of that money, and it’s probably the tip of the iceberg.
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Ross: Part 1 ~ The Origin of a Dynasty

For almost as long as there has been money there have been bankers; those whose chosen profession is to profit off the use of other people’s money. One aspect of banking that people do not pay much attention to is money changing; the exchanging of the currency of one country for that of another. Much has been written and said about these predatory vipers, but there are two specific instances that I feel are worthy of discussion.

The first is found in the Bible, when Christ overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple; declaring, “My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” I have heard many different explanations for why Christ did that; with two being the most prominent. Some say that it was simply due to the fact that the money changers had set up shop on holy ground. The other explanation is that the money changers were robbing the people by exchanging the Roman currency for Sheckels at a rate far less than they were worth; pocketing the profit. In either case, Christ called them a den a thieves; a term that applies just as much today as it did back then. Continue reading →

It’s Business as Usual at the Border

While Biden Deals With the Middle East, hundreds of invaders from all over the world keep squeezing through the wall

550 people crossing into Arizona in little more than an hour on Thursday evening in just one small patch of the border with Mexico

First comes the phone, thrust through the steel bars and twisted one way and then the other as its camera scans for Border Patrol officers.

Then comes the clanging, as the bars — already cut with an acetylene torch — are forced apart.

Only then come the people. Man, woman, child, woman, child, child, man, man, woman.

Eight bodies emerge on to American soil beside Donald Trump’s border wall in Arizona. They bear right, armed with instructions on how to find Border Patrol officers and hand themselves in. Continue reading →

The Incandescent Ban and the LIE of LED Efficiency

Not all of us have time to get a degree in electrical engineering to make sure our home doesn’t look like the inside of an alien spaceship.

It happened as I went to grab a new package of baby wipes from under the sink. I flipped on my bathroom light, and I noticed something strange – one of my three mirror light bulbs began flickering and ultimately settled at a barely luminous dim setting.

My LED light went out… Continue reading →

Holmquist: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Totalitarianism

The political jargon and posturing one hears these days seems to suggest that we are in an era unlike any that has ever occurred before. Hope springs anew, there is light at the end of the tunnel, politicians gush, and for those of our elites who really want to impress with their knowledge of history, a reference to Abraham Lincoln fits the bill nicely: we’re seeing “a new birth of freedom”!

I’d agree that something certainly is in the process of being birthed, but I’d be hard pressed to call that baby “freedom.” Some would even say this baby better bears the opposing name of “totalitarianism.” Continue reading →

Not One, Not Some, But All…

I received a message from Brother David this morning on this exact topic. I responded to an assertion that this is something new. On the contrary – what we face happens all the time and throughout history just before the fall of every great nation when people equate irresponsibility and recklessness – licentiousness with freedom.

Allowing free expression is essential to growth, but knowing what to say and when is crucial to the republic’s survival. It’s like yelling fire in a crowded theater – you can, but should you? We forget that freedom implies responsibility and a willingness to agree to disagree. It allows everyone a choice of what and who to believe. The most difficult of all is deciding what’s most important: the Republic or the Individual. Continue reading →

Smith: Americans Must Prepare to Kill or Be Killed

“If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you don’t like our religion – which a lot of them don’t – if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country and you are not getting in.” ~ Donald J. Trump, New Hampshire, October 23rd 2023

I could give a damn less about where a man has his origins, just as long as he exhibits a true fidelity and allegiance to the principles that built America. But a phenomenon we see so apparent throughout our society today is that it has been overrun by a massive host of anti-Americans in a way never before seen in America.

The entire premise underlying the cited reason for the 1965 Immigration Act could never work; it was preposterous and insane from the beginning, and every single thing traitors like Senator Ted Kennedy said wouldn’t happen have happened and come to pass.

America would have been a thousand times better off if we had left well enough alone and left these people who held antithetical ideas to ours right where they were, to make their lives better or not. We sure would have avoided a multitude of problems that have since emerged from this one act alone, and they could have hated us from afar, rather than coming to America and harassing us with charges of being imperialists and white supremacists who still want to oppress them.

Oppress them, My Ass! They arrived by the millions and have been appeased, pampered, coddled and catered to from the first day they hit our shores.

It’s way past time to place a total halt to all immigration and seal every border point of entry tighter than a young virgin’s chastity belt. Stop letting our enemies into our country; leave them where they are and let them hate us while they stew over not having any stew, or any U.S. welfare dollars. ~ J.O.S.
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Gun Control Advocates Ignore What the Founding Fathers Really Thought

We don’t have to guess what the founding fathers thought about gun rights. We can read what they wrote.

In all my years of existence, the Second Amendment of our Constitution has always been considered controversial. Opponents claim it is the cause of gun violence. Proponents assert that it helps guarantee freedom and safety.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

These twenty-seven words have been the subject of much debate during the 20th and 21st centuries. Does it mean that citizens only have a right to own guns if the state has a well-regulated militia in place that they are a part of, or does it mean absolutely that the right to bear arms should not be infringed? Perhaps it means that you can only use guns for hunting purposes, or you’re not allowed to have anything more complicated than an 18th century musket because that’s what the founders had when they wrote this? Continue reading →

Official Medicare Premiums 2024 – The Numbers Are In

Healthcare costs are on the rise for Medicare recipients – nationwide.

The information for this article is sourced directly from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services..

On the heels of the Social Security announcement of a 3.2% cost of living adjustment comes the official Medicare rates for 2024. As always a degree in finance would be helpful in understanding them. Continue reading →

New Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme

Began far earlier and let in many more nationalities in far greater numbers than publicly disclosed

CBP One appointment recipients wait in long lines on the Matamoros, Mexico, side of an international bridge waiting to be called in by CBP officers on the Brownsville, Texas, side. May 2023 photo by Todd Bensman.

In January 2023, the Biden Administration announced what has become the cornerstone of its “new lawful pathways” strategy to manage the historic volumes of foreign nationals illegally crossing the U.S Southwest border.

The White House announcement explained that inadmissible aliens from four of the most numerous nationalities crossing illegally – Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Cubans – would be able to use the “CBP One” mobile phone app to schedule an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, in order to be escorted through a port of entry (POE) and quickly granted temporary “humanitarian parole” and released into the country. Continue reading →

Benson: China Joe Loves The Middle Class To Death – Its Death!

I noted just this morning how Biden’s excuse for a press secretary talked about how he had turned the economy around so it now benefits the middle class. My first thought was – what a ton of bovine fertilizer that is. And in typical Marxist fashion – that is the exact opposite of what has really happened. But then, Biden’s press secretary wouldn’t know the truth if it bit her on the rump! Continue reading →

October 22, 2023: Beaucoup Dien Cai Dau… The insanity will not end!

Medicare Is Getting Worse — and More Expensive

The Medicare plans available to American seniors this year are worse than previous years, according to official ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Every fall, the agency responsible for managing government-run healthcare systems in the U.S. rates the available Medicare Part D plans that they are now eligible to enroll in . Part D is insurance related to drug costs, with enrollees paying a monthly premium to cost share for their needed medications.

These scores are highly influential on the choices American seniors make each year, with CMS reporting that 72% of enrollees chose a high quality plan — rated four stars or higher.

Maybe we can ask Biden to give us free healthcare – like the illegals… (Continue to full article)

Key Updates Coming to Medicare in 2024

Did you know there are some changes on the horizon for Medicare? If you’re an older adult who’s on Medicare, then you’ll want to stick around for this article. Grab a pen and paper and get ready to take some notes. Here are the key updates coming to Medicare in 2024.

How to Stay Out of The Donut Hole or Not Get In as Soon!!! (Continue to full article)

$84,500,000,000 Exits JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup in Three Months As Depositors Take Flight
Three of America’s biggest banks just watched $84.5 billion worth of deposits disappear in a single quarter.

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citi all recorded an outflow of deposits in Q3, according to each bank’s most recent reports.

Dimon says we’re now living through what could be the most dangerous era the world has seen in decades…. (Continue to full article)

A Massive Wells Fargo Glitch Now Erases Money From Accounts
A massive Wells Fargo glitch has erased money from several customer accounts plunging some users into negative.

“Customers at one of America’s biggest banks are reportedly seeing erroneous withdrawals hit their accounts”, says TDH.

Concerns have risen over a rather mysterious glitch at Wells Fargo that resulted in unexplained withdrawals and a “debit card pending correction” tag.

Thousands of people were affected according to CBS-affiliated news station WNCT… (Continue to full article)

And then there is Joe Buy Deng!

Something Wicked This Way Comes…

I took a two-week break from the world, or at least tried to. It was no use. Regardless of where we were, man’s horrific intent and bad news encroached on our attempted serenity.

I keep thinking about the analogy of a chimpanzee with a loaded machine gun sitting on a fallen jungle tree with an empty bottle of vodka at its feet.

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Biden sold off nearly half the U.S. oil reserve…

Is it ready for a crisis?

An energy crisis spawned by a Middle East war 50 years ago spurred the U.S. to create a huge crude oil stockpile to shield the country from threats by unfriendly nations.

Now the oil lying in half-filled salt caverns along the Gulf Coast is posing a political quandary for President Joe Biden.

Biden’s administration sold off more than 40 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve last year to help limit rising fuel prices after Russia invaded Ukraine, leaving the stockpile at its lowest levels since the early 1980s. That’s fueling Republican accusations that Biden has left the U.S. vulnerable to a disruption of global oil supplies — at a time when Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel are stoking fears of a wider regional war disrupting fuel shipments from the Middle East.

“That’s Joe Biden’s fault for trying to lower the price of gas before the election,” House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) told POLITICO. Continue reading →

The Artful Codger

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. ~ Charles Bukowski

This commentary continues a theme I started in July, where I spin the titles and stories of Charles Dickens toward more contemporary circumstances. The second episode in the series was “Oliver’s Twist,” or “The Parish Boy’s Progress,” set in London’s seedy underworld; it is a story of poverty, corruption, and Oliver’s eventual reclamation. My observations correlate current political actors to the characters therein.

In his novel “Oliver Twist,” Dickens introduced several memorable actors and personalities that remind us of people we know and recognize in contemporary events. Among the significant supporting characters in this story is The Artful Dodger. This title exercises my literary license with that title, adapting it to fit my intentions.

I’m calling this piece “The Artful Codger.” Continue reading →

Ross: Who Hath Ears To Hear, Let Him Hear

I sometimes wonder what it is about me that causes me to give a great deal of thought to some of the obscure ideas that simply pop into my head out of nowhere. Am I abnormal because my mind never seems to stop thinking; it latches onto something and won’t let it go until it has dissected it and examined it from every possible angle? While I understand the importance of being able to think critically, I just wish I could sometimes shut it all off so it does not keep me awake late into the early morning thinking about things it has latched onto.

My minds latest preoccupation has been beliefs; not what people believe, but beliefs themselves; with a lot of emphasis on how people go about forming their beliefs. While I find the subject to be interesting, it is also quite maddening to lay awake late into the night thinking about how other people form their beliefs. In some ways, the study of beliefs is similar to Epistemology; which is the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge; with emphasis on its limits and how valid it is. Continue reading →

Smith: A Quarter to Midnight in America

‘‘So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death . . .’’

Everything we are witnessing today is a denial of our Natural Rights, Freedom and Liberty and spiritual realities. What is left to us is this naked, immoral society that now holds itself up as the arbiter of what can and can’t be allowed in the public forum and the halls of government, as if government and its men do in fact grant us our rights, such privileges as they see fit. The Leviathan is held before us as our new “god” invested with all the powers it has stolen from our Christian religion, as Christianity is torn asunder and the people are left with a void wanting to be filled. The twentieth century saw “separation of Church and State” as a great triumph, but what a miserable failure of intellect and a great defeat for Americans it has been. Continue reading →

The 225-year-old ‘Alien Enemies Act’ Needs to Come Out of Retirement

They Don’t Write ’Em Like They Used To

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* The Trump campaign has called for the invocation of the “Alien Enemies Act” (“AEA”) to “remove all known or suspected gang Members, drug dealers, or Cartel Members from the U.S.”

* The AEA was enacted in 1798 in reaction to a feared invasion by France, then in the throws of the infamous French Revolution. The Justice Department has explained that “One of the measures of protection found by every nation to be most necessary in time of war is the guarding against internal enemies whose operations are more insidious, and therefore, more dangerous … in many cases, than are the active maneuvers of military forces … . An army of spies, incendiaries, and propagandists may be more dangerous than an army of soldiers.”

* Unlike the other “Alien and Sedition Acts” of 1798, the AEA received wide bipartisan support, including that of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, implacable opponents of the other Acts.

* The AEA is still good law, providing that “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government … all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government [at least 14 years old and not having become naturalized U.S. citizens] … shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.” Continue reading →