Overcoming opposition from right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats, the House reached a compromise to pass the budget bill and the Continuing Resolution (CR). The agreement funds all departments except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If the parties don’t reach a compromise on a funding bill for DHS, its...
An elderly naturalized U.S. citizen forced out of his home by ICE into the freezing weather
ICE agents’ aggressive tactics in arresting people in their homes, workplaces, and from their cars have sparked nationwide protests, as they appear to be acting as the president’s paramilitary police rather than as a publicly...
Class conflict in America has been primarily framed either in economic terms favored by the left or in cultural terms favored by the right. The Epstein files could be presented from either perspective, but their most potent impact has been the cultural division they expose between an elite class...
When critics suggest potential illnesses President Donald Trump might have, they point to evidence of a possible ailment. They notice bruises on his hands, swollen joints, dozing off during televised meetings, and his rambling, disjointed speeches. However, they never identify the one hallmark of a serious illness that he...
At the end of November, President Donald Trump permanently paused migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’” Then he followed up by halting all asylum claims, pausing visa issuances for Afghan nationals, and in December, he began calling Somalis “garbage.” He particularly targeted Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from...
Beginning today, there is just enough time to vote and possibly pass legislation in the Senate, forcing the House Republicans to vote or risk killing the ACA credits.
The Democratic Party Lacks Competent Leadership
Members of the Democratic Party are arguing over who was responsible for their failed attempt to use...
What is the purpose of a nation’s army? Common sense would say that it is to defend the nation’s territory and protect its citizens from foreign powers that could destroy their homes, businesses, and peace.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, in line with President Trump’s plan to create a MAGA-Military,...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is rejecting liberal woke beliefs because he claims they have weakened and misguided our military. He introduced the generals and admirals to the new Department of War, no longer called the Department of Defense, because Trump saw “defense as too politically correct.”
Hegseth said the...
The folly of assassinations is that they generate the opposite of what the assassin intended. Aside from the tragedy of taking a human life, there is a pattern of how assassinations work against what the assassins aim to accomplish.
Perhaps this realization could prevent assassins before they pull the trigger,...
At the end of August, huge banners hung from trucks circling Chicago’s downtown streets, carrying a message for President Donald Trump: "Do not come to Chicago" and "FASCISTS ARE NOT WELCOME."
Name-calling in politics is more of a tradition than an anomaly. However, after Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016,...
President Trump sent soldiers into U.S. cities, not to fight crimes, but to distract the public from the Epstein Files. There is a clear link between media coverage of the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s files and Trump’s deployment of Federalized National Guards and Marines into the Democratic-leaning cities of Los...
Gallows erected at the January 6 Washington, D.C., Insurrection - In God we Trust photo by Tyler Merbler from flickr.com/photos
Last month, a small brick was removed from our Constitutional wall that separates the state and church. The New York Times’s investigative reporters reported in July 2025 that the Internal Revenue Service carved out an...
President Donald Trump declared that America will never be socialist. He’s beating up a strawman, since there has never been a fully socialist country. That’s because, throughout history, every country, whether it considers itself socialist or capitalist, engages in capitalism to some degree, which is essentially the existence of...
How do we know if our President is Mentally Unstable?
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Congress should pass a law to help select and maintain a stable president in the future. This should involve requiring presidents to undergo neurocognitive exams to determine if they are mentally impaired or unstable.
To...