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A Welcome Change

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On Monday, Red State posted an article about changes President Trump is making to Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

The article reports:

On Monday, it became official: the Trump administration has rolled back the draconian Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards from 50.4 miles per gallon (mpg) to 34.9 mpg. It’s not clear why 34.9 and not just 35, which would presumably make the math a little easier, but then, government isn’t always known for doing things the easy way.

When the standard of 50.4 miles per gallon was announced in 2024, the Department of Transportation claimed that the standards would save car owners more than $600 in gasoline costs over the lifetime of their vehicle. The problem with this number is that under the 2024 rules, car would costs $1,300 more. The math simply does not add up.

The article concludes:

There is, of course, a good argument to be made that the federal government has no authority, under the Constitution, to regulate something like gas mileage standards for cars and trucks. There is no enumerated power in the Constitution that allows Congress or the Executive Branch to do this at all, and therefore, under the Tenth Amendment, it should rightly be prohibited to them. But that ship would seem to have sailed, right around 1860, in fact: so since this is the plate we’ve been handed, at least we have a larger cut of beef on it now.

These choices should rightly be made by consumers, not government. Now, at least, this move takes us a little closer to that; that is, until a Democrat administration takes control and reverses the whole thing. Remember that in November. Remember that in 2028.

Theoretically, the change in the CAFE standards should result in lower car prices for Americans.

Bringing Sanity Back To Women’s Sports

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On Monday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the Department of Education rescinding the Biden-era ruling concerning Title IX and gender identity.

The article reports:

Supporters of women’s sports and sex-based protections have reason to celebrate. The Department of Education announced Sept. 28 that it is formally rescinding the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX rule and reinstating the 2020 Title IX regulations promulgated under the first Trump administration.

Ongoing litigation has prevented the Trump administration from being able to formally rescind the illegal 2024 Biden regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, even though the Education Department has been following the 2020 Trump-era Title IX regulations since January of last year.

In April 2024, the Biden administration issued final regulations rewriting the more than 50-year-old civil rights law, Title IX, to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Essentially, it allowed boys who claim to identify as girls to participate in girls and women’s sports at schools that receive federal funding.

Women’s sports advocate and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines said at the time, “Fifty-two years of progress and sex-based protections have been erased with the stroke of a pen.” She was right. Thankfully, many states agreed, and seven circuit courts temporarily blocked the Title IX rewrite, preventing it from taking effect in 26 states.

The article concludes:

Advocates for child protection must still work from state to state, however. As our Heritage Foundation colleague Laura Hanford explains, child-welfare workers are classifying parents as “abusive” if they treat a child according to his or her sex instead of self-proclaimed “gender.” Social science research has found that affirming a child who claims to have been born in the wrong body does not resolve mental health issues underlying a child’s sexual confusion. Adults who do not caution a child confused about his or her sex could be neglecting that child—and failing to address the true reasons for the child’s distress. Conditions such as anxiety and depression can go untreated or worsen when adults focus on advocating “gender affirmation.”

So-called gender advocates claim that children will become suicidal if adults do not affirm their children. Yet no scientific evidence supports this claim, as even the ACLU acknowledged before the Supreme Court. And contrary to activist statements, new findings from the research and advocacy organization Do No Harm show that laws banning “gender-affirming care” do not increase suicide rates.

Nevertheless, Hanford explains that some courts are removing children from their homes even when there is no evidence of actual abuse. Social workers in the foster care system, meanwhile, are affirming children’s confusion about their sex.

The Department of Education’s rule change should bolster families and state officials protecting children from making irreversible medical decisions they may come to regret. In the states, policymakers must remain vigilant.

The Need To Educate Our Students

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On Sunday, The New York Post posted an article about a recent Democrat event called “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in downtown Ithaca Sunday. Obviously, ‘students vs. billionaires’ is the kind of class warfare used by Marxists to push their agenda.

The article reports:

Cornell University’s lefty crowd gave Democratic Socialist superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a warm, hate-filled welcome by singing anti-Israel chants at a campaign event meant to gin up support for Democrats ahead of the midterms Sunday.

While warming up the standing-room-only crowd of roughly 2,000 people gathered for the congresswoman’s “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in downtown Ithaca Sunday, Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led the crowd singing “from the river to the sea” and declaring “long live the student intifada.”

There are a few problems here. First of all, do the students understand that ‘from the river to the sea’ is a call for genocide of Jews? Secondly, do the students understand that an intifada is a holy war? Thirdly, do the Young Democratic Socialists know that after the communists helped elect the Mullahs in Iran, the Mullahs had all of the communists killed because they weren’t Muslim and they were a threat to the power of the Mullahs? Do they understand how Sharia Law treats women? Do they understand how Sharia Law treats homosexuality?

The article concludes:

The chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” however, was overwhelmingly ruled to be antisemitic by the US House of Representatives. Critics say the motto, which refers to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, is a call for the eradication of Israel and its people.

Ocasio-Cortez voted against the 2024 resolution declaring the phrase to be hateful.

The Bronx-Queens congresswoman, who rose to stardom by shockingly defeating Queens Democratic boss Joe Crowley during Democrats’ last midterm surge in 2018, was planning on appearing with Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier Sunday.

A spokesperson for the Governor’s office said Hochul backed out of a planned appearance with Ocasio-Cortez earlier in the day in Ithaca.

Her office said the cancellation was due to the nor’easter hitting New York City, though Hochul did not have any public events Sunday.

I think Governor Hochul was smart to stay away. Our college students need to learn history.

Remember This When You Vote

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On Friday, The Federalist posted an article about comments made at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas.

The article reports:

Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.

“We love this country,” Farooq said. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be ashamed of that.”

Islamic countries practice Sharia Law, which is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. Women have very few rights under Sharia Law. The only way to institute Sharia Law is to overthrow the current government. Also keep in mind that there is a natural alliance between the Islamists and the Democratic Socialists. Both ideologies want to overthrow the current governmental system in America. What the Democratic Socialists don’t realize is that after the communists helped the Muslims gain power in Iran in 1979, the Muslims killed all of the communists because they felt the communists would be a threat to their power.

The article notes:

He went on to argue that Muslims are fully within their constitutional rights to adhere to Sharia law. “We’re Muslims. That’s our identity, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Constitution of this country protects that. That’s our right to believe in the Sharia. Yes, I said it. That’s our right.”

“There’s communists that believe in communism and live in America,” Farooq continued. “The current mayor of New York is a socialist. Bernie Sanders is open socialist. … Our president — I don’t know what the, what he is actually. I don’t think he knows what he is. … But he has that right according to the Constitution. … There are Satanists. There’s a church of Satan. I’ve debated them.”

Farooq works with the One Message Foundation and is a viral social media influencer. His Instagram and YouTube pages boast 430,000 and 1.4 million followers, respectively. The One Message Foundation’s homepage says it, together with other groups, converted nearly 1,500 individuals to Islam during the World Cup. Farooq’s social media videos feature his commentary speaking of polygamy as legitimate and speculating that President Donald Trump may be an evil spirit.

The event host, Authentic Ilm Mission (AIM), which is led by Dr. Karim AbuZaid and Farooq, is fundraising for an expansive Islamic facility “in one of the most densely Muslim-populated areas between Richardson and Plano,” according to the group’s website. On the former site of a Christian church, the four-acre campus and its facilities — 40,000 square feet in total — will be used to host “Islamic K-12 education,” a seminary, and training in Da’wah, that is, Islamic proselytization.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. Consider this when you vote. We are responsible for preserving our Republic.

Saving American Taxpayer Money

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On Friday, The Hill posted an article about about President Trump using the “pocket rescission” process to cancel almost $1 billion in federal funding. In the grand scheme of things $1 billion isn’t a great amount, but with the deficit being what it is, every little bit counts.

Here are some numbers that illustrate the history of the federal budget. In 2007, the federal budget for the United States was approximately $2.729 trillion. That is $4.41 trillion in today’s dollars. That reflects a cumulative inflation rate of about 61.95% since 2007. The current federal budget for the fiscal year 2025 is projected to be approximately $7 trillion with a deficit of $1.8 trillion, which was 5.8% of the GDP. That is not great, but it is moving in the right direction. The Republicans took control of Congress in 2024. Today’s high budget numbers are not solely due to inflation, they are due to runaway spending. In 2019, the federal budget was $4.4 trillion, with a deficit of about $984 billion, which represented 4.6% of the GDP. In 2020, the federal budget was $6.55 trillion, with a deficit of $3.1 trillion, which represented 14.9% of the GDP. In 2021, the federal budget was $6.8 trillion, with a deficit of $2.8 trillion, representing about 12.4% of the GDP. Theoretically, the House of Representatives controls spending. The Democrats controlled the House during the significant jump in spending in 2020 and deficit jumping to $3.1 trillion. If you want to stop runaway spending, don’t elect Democrats to the House of Representatives.

The article at The Hill reports:

President Trump cancelled almost $1 billion in federal funding Friday using the controversial “pocket rescission” process, which allows him to sidestep congressional approval.

Most of the cancellations targeted Health and Human Services (HHS) programs serving undocumented immigrants and unaccompanied children in court, as well as similar initiatives under the agency’s Minority Health office and the Department of Education’s Special Programs for Migrant Students.

“These funds previously went to pro-illegal immigration programs and Non-Governmental Organizations that provided services to refugees, asylees, and other non-citizens and put unaccompanied children in harm’s way,” the White House wrote in a press release. 

The release continued, “Thanks to President Trump’s successful border policies, the illegal alien invasion is over and there are fewer people crossing our border than ever before.”

The White House went on to say the decrease in border crossings meant funding toward these programs became excessive, warranting their recission.

In Washington money equals power, so several Congressmen are not happy about the cuts. However, as a taxpayer, I am grateful that someone is taking action to trim the very bloated federal budget.

Why Are Diesel Prices So High?

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On Friday, David Blackmon’s Energy Additions posted an article at Substack explaining why diesel prices are so high.

Here are some of the reasons:

The Shock: Two Wars Took Diesel off the World Market

…According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), net diesel exports from Russia and the Persian Gulf in August were 1.6 million barrels a day lower than in February. In February, those two regions accounted for almost 45 percent of the diesel traded by sea.

…But Why do These Wars Affect Diesel Prices in the United States, Especially Prices in the Midwest?

A similar question is: if the United States is the world’s largest producer of oil and we are currently a petroleum exporter, why are we seeing these high prices, especially high diesel prices? The answer is that oil markets are global. The diesel market is global, and with the loss of a substantial amount of diesel from Russia and the Middle East, global diesel prices are very high.

…But Why Now? Why are These Wars Increasing Prices Now and Not a Few Months Ago?

The blunt answer is that the world is running out of excess capacity and shock absorbers in the oil system.

Diesel prices jumped when the Iran war began, from $3.90 a gallon on March 2 to $5.64 on April 6, then eased to $4.58 by July 6 (EIA). Since then, they have climbed nearly $2.

The article concludes:

If You Want Sustainably Lower Diesel Prices, We Need Peace in Ukraine and the Middle East

Diesel prices will come down for good when the diesel the wars took off the market comes back: when Russia’s refineries are repaired and its exports resume, when tankers can move freely through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, and when Gulf refineries are running again.

An export ban does not add a single barrel of diesel to the world market. It moves barrels from Rotterdam and Lima to Chicago, and it raises the world price that sets what Americans pay on the East and West Coasts.

Until peace comes, policymakers should focus on adding supply and moving it to where it is needed: keeping U.S. refineries running, and waiving the Jones Act so Gulf Coast diesel can reach the East Coast by ship. This crisis also shows the cost of letting the shock absorbers run down. The United States entered it with thin diesel stocks, a depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and about 400,000 barrels a day less refining capacity than it had at the start of 2025.

The world needs peace and America needs refining capacity. Those two things will do more to bring diesel prices under control than anything else.

Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

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On Friday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about the departure of 300 of the 400 Civil Rights Attorneys at the Justice Department. I am not going to accuse the Justice Department of becoming political, but I was somewhat amazed when under President Obama the Justice Department dropped the charges of voter intimidation against some members of the New Black Panthers.

This is a picture of a Philadelphia voting location in 2008:

The case of voter intimidation was dropped by the Obama Justice Department.

The Gateway Pundit reports:

Assistant Harmeet Dhillon just confirmed what every honest observer already knew: the old Civil Rights Division was a woke fortress inside Main Justice.

When President Trump’s team told those lawyers the American people had voted to end illegal DEI discrimination and scrub dirty voter rolls, about 300 of the division’s 400 attorneys walked out.

Dhillon did not mourn them. She called it what it was.

In an interview this week with Col. Kurt Schlichter filling in on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Dhillon said the Civil Rights Division is one of the largest shops at Main Justice in Washington.

When she arrived, it had about 400 attorneys. After her office made clear it would implement the president’s , “prioritizing getting rid of DEI and cleaning up voter rolls,” “eventually about 300 of those attorneys quit, and so they self-deported.”

Then she rebuilt.

“We then had the task of, while we had DOJ restrictions and budgetary constraints, building back the Civil Rights Division,” Dhillon said. “And I’m really happy to say that I recruited over 100 great legal professionals here to the DOJ.”

The article notes:

The numbers line up with other reporting. Bloomberg Law reported this month that more than 300 of the division’s 400-plus lawyers departed over the past 19 months as Dhillon redirected the office toward voter-roll enforcement, campus discrimination, and religious-liberty cases.

What did those lawyers refuse to do?

They refused to treat race discrimination as race discrimination when the victims were Asian students, white applicants, or anyone else locked out by DEI. They refused to help states stop illegal voting. They refused to treat dirty rolls — dead registrants, movers, duplicates, and noncitizens — as a civil-rights problem for actual American citizens.

The Gateway Pundit has documented that fight for months. TGP reported last December that a limited review of 47.5 million records turned up more than 260,000 dead people still on the rolls and thousands of noncitizens registered for federal elections.

In March, Dhillon said a review of 50 to 60 million records had found hundreds of thousands of ineligible registrations, including more than 300,000 dead voters still listed. The division has sued states that stonewalled the data and put election officials on notice that knowingly leaving noncitizens on the rolls can be a federal crime.

It’s good to have impartial justice return to the Department of Justice.

Paying People To Undermine Our Government

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On Saturday, Natalie Winters on Substack posted an article about a program in Boston that is training illegal aliens to be community organizers and paying them if they complete the training. What could possibly go wrong?

The article reports:

Boston is offering immigrants—including people in the country illegally—$575 to complete a city-sponsored course in community organizing and advocacy.

The eligibility language on Boston’s own website is explicit:

“Interested applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of their immigration status.”

Run through Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, Immigrants Lead Boston teaches participants how to organize their communities, engage government officials and advocate for change. Its fall 2026 course runs from September 21 through December 5.

Boston calls the $575 completion payment a scholarship to make participation more accessible.

Participants must attend the sessions and complete outside civic activities. The city also promises introductions to key officials.

The published rules establish that undocumented immigrants can apply. They do not disclose how many have received payments.

The article notes:

In 2023, the city partnered with re:power to develop a “train the trainer” curriculum for 13 graduates. Alumni received additional instruction in organizing, meeting facilitation, public speaking and conflict management so they could train other immigrant leaders in additional languages.

Re:power, formerly Wellstone Action, describes its work as training and strategic support for the progressive movement. Its broader programs include developing political power through civic engagement and training elected officials.

One of its stated political principles is unmistakable:

“We must contest for power at all levels of government.”

Boston’s alumni page gives concrete examples of the advocacy participants wanted to pursue. Viera Andrea Ilse described helping neighbors obtain driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status. Adelaida Carbajal Rosales wanted to expand her work with City Life and organizations campaigning for rent control.

Those statements describe participants’ plans, rather than verified paid assignments. The re:power partnership also concerned the earlier alumni course; Boston names a different partner for 2026.

I can’t image what Massachusetts will look like in five years. According to AI, in the 12 months ending July 1, 2025, the state lost over 33,000 residents to other states, contributing to a total loss of approximately 182,000 residents since 2020. I left in 2013. I was slightly ahead of the curve!

Keeping Elections Secure

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On Friday, CNBC posted an article about a Supreme Court decision that will help ensure election integrity.

The article reports:

The justices granted the Justice Department’s request to block a judge’s order that had stopped state officials from using Social Security numbers and other information to conduct sweeping checks of the citizenship status of registered voters against federal records.

The court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Its three liberal justices dissented from Friday’s order.

The majority said the plaintiffs’ arguments likely fail because federal law expressly authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to request and receive information relating to citizenship and immigration status from other agencies, including the Social Security Administration.

The administration’s data-sharing arrangement is one in a series of actions boosting the federal government’s involvement in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections in which Trump’s fellow Republicans seek to maintain control of Congress. The U.S. Constitution gives individual states the primary authority to run and administer elections.

The Department of Homeland Security last year redesigned a federal database known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, ​or SAVE, used to verify a person’s citizenship and immigration status. The revamp allowed users to search many records at a time and to conduct searches using individuals’ Social Security numbers.

The argument against using the system is that it is an invasion of privacy and that there has not been rampant fraud in our elections. The article claims that charges of massive voter fraud in 2020 are unfounded. I think the Department of Justice might disagree with that statement.

The article concludes:

In a Supreme Court filing, Justice Department lawyers called the ​judge’s order “indefensible,” arguing that it “threatens the integrity” of the midterm elections.

Texas, which intervened in the case in support of the administration, has disputed claims that the system is unreliable.

Due to separate litigation in Florida, the Trump administration has been able to continue using its modified SAVE system in the Republican-led states of Florida, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio.

We desperately need to protect election integrity.

Changing The Banking Rules For Illegal Aliens

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On Thursday, Breitbart posted an article detailing how the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal aliens taking out loans has impacted America’s banking system.

The article reports:

The number of non-citizens engaged in the U.S. banking system has fallen sharply amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrants.

Immigrants have been closing bank accounts and going back to keep cash in their homes, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Migrants are also taking out fewer loans, the news organization added. Consumer loans to illegal aliens fell by 70 percent since 2024. And lenders are beginning to shy away from entering into such deals to begin with.

“We’ve seen a reduction overall in people who come for financial services, education services, workforce development,” said Hispanic rights activist Erica Serna, the associate director of financial empowerment for UnidosUS. She added that the current atmosphere is “truly frightening for families.”

The current atmosphere is not frightening for families who are here legally!

The article concludes:

Consequently, loans issued to those without suitable credit scores over the last few months have cratered.

“Across all asset classes, the share of loans to people without credit scores fell more than 70% from 2024 to 2025 and another 40% in 2026,” Bloomberg reported. The site further added that lending for auto loans and credit cards for those with low or non-existent credit scores is “expected to be about $7.2 billion in 2026, down from about $37 billion in 2024.”

While these metrics are not a perfect match for the population of illegal migrants, it is a fairly good indicator, Bloomberg says.

“It is the segment with the largest concentration of undocumented borrowers,” said Vadim Verkhoglyad, head of research at dv01, who wrote in the report cited by Bloomberg. “The timing suggests lenders may be reducing exposure to these borrowers amid changes to the political and policy environment.”

Another migrant activist, immigration lawyer Jennifer Oltarsh, said her clients are more fearful than ever.

“My clients are afraid, so they’re pulling their money out of banks,” she said. “They’re holding it in their mattresses.”

Note that the article says, “loans issued to those without suitable credit scores over the last few months have cratered.” Why are banks issuing loans to people without suitable credit scores to begin with? If you come to America illegally, I really don’t think you should complain about the banking system caring whether or not you are a legal citizen.

Changing The Rules To Protect America

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On Wednesday, Just the News posted an article about some changes the U.S. State Department is making to deal with birth tourism. The idea that a mother from China can come to America, have her child, take that child back to China with her, raise him there for eighteen years, and then he can come back to America as a legal voter is frightening to me.

The article reports:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday a new visa restriction policy that targets migrants who engage in or profit illegally from the birth tourism industry.

The secretary claimed foreign commercial birth tourism networks have exploited the American immigration system to sell U.S. citizenship for profit by coaching people seeking American citizenship on how to lie on their visa applications.

Rubio said he is creating a new policy under the Immigration and Nationality Act that targets “individuals who knowingly engage in, have engaged in, or facilitate birth tourism to the United States.”

The policy targets owners, operators, and managers of commercial birth tourism networks, visa “fixers” who coach applicants to commit fraud, foreign medical providers and other individuals who support, abet, and enable birth tourism.

The article concludes:

The move comes after President Donald Trump signed an order last month that directs the State Department to issue rules and guidance to stop birth tourism, even as U.S. law already bans tourists from obtaining visas “for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States.”

The idea that anyone born in America, including people whose parents are here illegally, is automatically a citizen is ridiculous. The Fourteenth Amendment was put in the U.S. Constitution to insure that the children of former slaves would be legal American citizens. Unfortunately the Amendment has been abused in order to set up an eventual time bomb in American elections.

One Positive Consequence Of The Greenland Treaty

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On Thursday, The Epoch Times posted an article about one impact of America’s treaty with Denmark regarding Greenland.

The article reports:

Days after President Donald Trump announced a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark, Greenland Mines applied on Sept. 21 to double the size of its rare earth mine to supply magnet metals needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and defense systems on the island.

The North Carolina-based company’s Sarfartoq rare earth district in southwest Greenland would expand from 74 square miles to about 175 square miles if approved.

“This application is about building Sarfartoq at district scale,” said Bo Moller Stensgaard, president of Greenland Mines in a statement.

Greenland Mines is developing a rare earth neodymium and praseodymium project that could reduce the Western Hemisphere’s dependence on China for the magnet rare earth minerals. China-based processors control at least 75 percent of the global market for all rare earth elements.

The Greenland Mines project is expected to produce about one-third of the world’s neodymium-praseodymium oxide refined outside of China, serving as a key source of the rare earth ingredients needed for energy, transportation, and defense technologies.

China’s export restrictions on rare earths have driven prices up in the past year. The Trump administration has focused on supporting and investing in domestic rare earth operations, but a supply of ore is still needed, according to Greenland Mines.

The article concludes:

Greenland Energy, a privately owned Texas company, has an agreement to drill on the Jameson oil and gas project in the Jameson Land Basin on the eastern coast of Greenland. The company, founded in 2025, began shipping drilling equipment to Greenland in late July.

Critical Metals Corp. is developing the Tanbreez Rare Earth Project in southern Greenland—one of the world’s largest deposits with a high concentration of heavy rare-earth elements.

The company’s Romanian refinery is also expected to process about 28,000 tons per year of rare earth and critical metal products, including 26,000 tons of high-purity silicon dioxide powder, or silica, used in food, pharmaceuticals, paints, plastics, rubber, ceramics, tech, and electronics.

Our dependence on China for critical supplies during the past few decades was not smart. Moving our sourcing of critical rare earth and metal products to countries that share our values is a really good idea.

It’s Time To Take A Second Look

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On Wednesday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about a letter sent to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. by Americans for Health Freedom.

The article reports:

Advocating for individual rights and autonomy in medical decision-making, Americans for Health Freedom, sent an open letter on September 18, 2026, to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and President Donald Trump.

The signatories are publicly opposing the policies overseen by Secretary Kennedy and concerning the mRNA platform. This technology utilizes synthetic messenger RNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles to direct human cells to generate specific proteins aimed at preventing or treating diseases, a process that many leading medical experts consider dangerous and potentially lethal when introduced to the human body.

The letter explicitly states that “while the centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots, [Kennedy and Trump] have failed to take decisive action on this front despite overwhelming credible evidence to the harm of this technology. Instead, [their] policies related to mRNA technology are neutered and self-defeating, putting pregnant women and children at risk, misleading parents and eroding their rights, and failing to help those harmed by vaccines.”

The article notes:

Lt. Col. Long (retired Army flight surgeon Lt. Col. Theresa Long) is currently reviewing approximately 55,000 adverse event reports related to the shot, which include 2,544 accounts of death, raising concerns among many regarding the potential link to the mRNA shots.

“In light of these serious concerns and the collective voice of the signatories,” Hulscher (Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, an Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator at the McCullough Foundation). argued, “it is evident that the call for a reassessment of mRNA vaccine technologies and related policies is not just a matter of individual rights, but a pressing public health issue.” For him, the overwhelming evidence of adverse effects associated with mRNA vaccine underscores the urgency for authorities to prioritize transparency and safety in medical interventions.

As the dialogue continues, he said, it is crucial that policymakers heed the warnings of the medical and scientific community, ensuring that the health and well-being of all citizens, particularly the most vulnerable, remain at the forefront of decision-making processes.

It is time to take a second look at the science behind this vaccine technology. Please follow the link above to read the entire article.

Putting Americans First

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We need to be hospitable to our visitors and the people who come here to work or go to school, but we don’t need to do it at the expense of our own citizens.

On Wednesday, Breitbart posted an article about a new piece of legislation that would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965.

The article reports:

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) has introduced a new piece of legislation that would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require that recipients of Pell Grants be U.S. citizens, a move the Republican said would “put American students first.”

Unveiled on Wednesday morning, the “Pell for Americans Act” simply states that the federally funded aid grant should only go to American undergraduates — not foreigners. 

Despite efforts to restrict eligibility for non-citizens in the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill, several classes, including refugees, asylees, immigration parolees, Cuban-Haitian entrants, and “conditional permanent residents,” remain eligible. 

Just this February, the Hill reported that the Pell program “is in financial difficulties with a projected shortfall of billions of dollars that could lead to trouble for students as soon as 2028.”

By the end of this fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects the Pell Grant program will be $5 billion in debt. Over the next ten years, that number jumps to between $104 billion and $132 billion if nothing is done about the issue.  

Students are not required to pay back Pell Grants. It seems to me that requiring students to pay back at least part of those grants after graduation might solve some of the budget program. Even if a student receives a grant because they cannot afford to pay for their education, they should make enough money after graduation to pay back at least part of the grant to keep the program going.

Your Tax Dollars At Work

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On Wednesday, American Greatness posted an article about the amount of fraud discovered in the Affordable Care Act.

The article reports:

The Trump administration is canceling Affordable Care Act enrollments covering more than 760,000 people as part of a sweeping effort to combat fraud and improper taxpayer-funded subsidies.

Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that approximately 315,000 enrollments covering more than 760,000 individuals were canceled after officials determined they were unauthorized. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates the action will return roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.

“We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” Vance said.

The administration also plans additional eligibility verification for hundreds of thousands of other enrollments and has imposed a six-month suspension on new agents and brokers signing people up for coverage.

Eligibility verification should be required on every federal program.

The article concludes:

CMS said it has identified unauthorized enrollments and suspicious activity involving agents and brokers. Since January, the agency has sent termination notices to more than 200 agents and brokers it deemed noncompliant.

Democrats criticized the administration’s action. Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, accused Republicans of worsening the nation’s health care problems.

The enforcement push comes as Americans continue to face high health care costs and as affordability remains a major issue heading into the fall midterm elections.

The administration says its broader anti-fraud campaign is intended to protect taxpayers and ensure federal health care benefits go only to people who qualify.

The major provisions of the Affordable Care Act took effect on January 1, 2014. That was more than twelve years ago. Why is it that the Trump administration is the first administration to deal with the level of fraud that has been building over those twelve years? I am beginning to think that the taxpayers should withhold all money from Washington until Washington shows us that they can spend it responsibly!

Pay For Play Only Works If You Get What You Pay For!

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The Democrats are getting ready to be in charge of Congress. They have already stated that if they get control of Congress in the mid-term elections, they will begin impeachment hearings against President Trump immediately. It really doesn’t matter if he has done anything worthy of impeachment–they just want to impeach him. The media is already getting ready to help.

On Wednesday, RealClearInvestigations posted an article about the latest false accusation leveled against President Trump.

The article reports:

In a segment titled “The Pardon Economy,” veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl alleges that Trump has upended the way U.S. presidents have dispensed pardons for “100 years or more” by creating a “new system” that involves lobbyists and high-priced “pardon brokers.”

Stahl’s report suggests that Trump has replaced the normal order – in which pardons typically go through an apolitical review by the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney– with a scheme that looks like “pay-to-play.” It has already led Democrats to vow they will investigate the issue if they retake the House in the November mid-term elections.

To situate Trump in this “pardon lobbyists” narrative, Stahl links the White House to two convicted con artists who claim close ties to Trump without disclosing one critical detail: There is no evidence the two have ever succeeded in getting anyone a pardon. While their efforts suggest that some in Washington may be trying to capitalize on the narrative about Trump’s alleged corruption – inspired, in part, by questionable pardons he has issued previously – “60 Minutes” offers no concrete proof connecting the administration to these money-making schemes.

Stahl’s report also ignored the long history of wrongdoers paying exorbitant fees for lobbyists to get their pardons viewed by the Oval Office – most famously Bill Clinton’s brother, Roger, and Hillary’s brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham.

Although Stahl’s report quotes Trump officials denying her claims, a DOJ official who was outraged by her “misleading” report provided RealClearInvestigations with documents showing that well-connected D.C. insiders are routinely involved in the pardon process.

The article explains that the charge involves two people who were offering to obtain pardons for people for $300,000. But the people who paid them the money never got the pardons. That doesn’t sound like President Trump is the one with some legal questions to answer.

I wonder if the people who paid for the pardons will get their money back since they didn’t get the pardons.

Holding People Accountable For Election Fraud

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I don’t know how rampant election fraud is in America. I have a feeling it is more common in some places than in others. I also think that we have to consider that electronic fraud is possible and deal with that also.

On Monday (updated Tuesday), Just the News posted an article about a Department of Justice crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting.

The article reports:

Since the Trump Justice Department warned state and local election officials that they could be charged with allowing fraudulent voting activities, more than 200 arrests and indictments have been secured in a crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting, and that number could double soon, a top official revealed to Just the News.

…Dhillon (Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon) also hinted at further developments in the coming weeks, suggesting her department has developed evidence calling into question New Jersey’s claim that a computer glitch allowed thousands of foreigners to register to vote in that state and about 400 to actually cast ballots in violation of law.

“I’m not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey. They’re not really cooperating with us, and so we will get to the bottom of what happened there. And you know, New Jersey tried to blame a vendor for a mistake or a glitch, quote unquote. But you know, I think there’ll be another side to that story,” she said.

…Dhillon further stated that in the past several weeks, her office has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election-related crimes, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made more than 160 arrests.

“What we care about is that noncitizens who voted in a federal election canceled out the votes of American citizens. It does happen. It happens a lot more than anybody says. It wasn’t being prosecuted under the Biden DOJ. In the four years of the Biden DOJ, they prosecuted a total of 13 people for election-related crimes, and we’ve done more than that in the last week here at DOJ,” she said.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. We need to secure our elections. Every vote by someone who cannot legally vote cancels out the legal vote of an America.

This Might Save America Money In The Long Run

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On Tuesday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about a Trump administration proposal to rebuild energy sites in the Middle East. I hate to add to government spending, but this might pay off in the long run by lowering energy prices and keeping them there. As I write this, crude oil prices are about $90 a barrel because of the war in Iran. I have a feeling that war will end in the near future. If the war ends in a way that secures peace in the area, investment in the energy sites that were destroyed in the war would probably be a good idea.

The article quotes The Wall Street Journal:

Under Trump’s plan, the U.S. would seek a matching contribution from eight Middle Eastern partners—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq and Jordan—with the goal of generating a $10 billion investment fund. The investment would be called the Partnership for Allied Trust and Construction, or Pact.

Discussions on the fund are under way, and the terms of the arrangement could change, U.S. officials said. It is unclear when, or even if, other countries will sign on.

Some Middle East officials said the initiative appeared to be Washington’s attempt to cast the Strait of Hormuz as a less consequential energy route and show the U.S. and its allies as united in confronting Iran. They added that creating a fund to rebuild destroyed energy sites without a peace deal with Tehran would be premature, as the regime could target fresh infrastructure with drones and missiles.

Iran has been attacking oil refineries, gas facilities, oil fields, nuclear plants, and ports since February. Before we start rebuilding, we need to make sure that there will be no further attacks. If that condition is met, this is probably a good idea.

The Less Obvious Money That Influences Policies

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On Tuesday, David Strom at Hot Air posted an article about the ways that some millionaires use their wealth to influence government policies in various levels of government.

The article notes:

One such program, funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, placed and paid the salaries of “government employees” strategically inserted into Attorney General offices in Blue states, funding regulations and lawsuits aimed at targets that Bloomberg’s NYU-based NGO program identified as vulnerable to its pressure. The goal was, of course, fighting climate change.

The article includes a picture of an X post citing an article from The Washington Free Beacon:

“A group housed at the New York University School of Law and backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg quietly closed its doors in late August amid congressional scrutiny into its funding and operations. The so-called State Energy and Environmental Impact Center’s signature initiative involved placing paid, climate-focused “fellows” in Democrat-controlled state attorney general offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.”

…Think of it as a cousin to “Zuckerbucks,” where a private entity funds a program that places people in government offices as either quasi- or fully government employees, with a mandate to pursue the NGO’s agenda. The same sort of thing happens with grants to news organizations, where an outside group pays for employees or “coverage” of specific issues, and the stories are still technically the product of the news organization, but the content is directed at producing the results desired by the people who cut the checks.

…James Comer opened an investigation into the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, and out of the blue, it closed. He sought documents from it, and “poof!” It’s gone.

As these organizations are being investigated, they magically disappear.

The article concludes:

The system goes like this:

  • Private money pays for an official function voters did not appropriate.
  • The host office gets free (or cheap) labor and a national network.
  • The donor gets a docket — climate litigation, election administration, progressive prosecution — that would be harder to pass as statute.

Democrats always criticize Republicans when we talk about privatizing some government function to improve efficiency. Their preferred strategy is to privatize government by paying for people to do their bidding using the compulsory powers of government to achieve their own ends. 

I assume that the concept is legal, since it has been happening for a while. But I also assume that much of the stuff that we never see and that gets buried in internal documents in the NGOs is sketchy or illegal, which is why the NYU center suddenly closed down with no notice. 

Next time you hear a liberal talk about “preserving democracy,” this is what they really mean. A government that can be bought for the right price. 

Please follow the link to read the entire article.

When The Press Lies To Sway An Election

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The mid-term elections are almost here. Soon all of the television ads for the candidates will be gone. Soon the accusations will stop flying. I can’t wait.

Meanwhile, how accurate is the mainstream media’s reporting of the Trump economic record? According to the actual numbers–not very accurate!

On Monday, Issues & Insights posted an article about the Trump economy and the media’s reporting on it.

The article reminds us:

Republican incumbent President George H.W. Bush lost the 1992 election to the Arkansas governor who ran on the slogan “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” Americans voted for change after being told over and over by the legacy media that the economy was dragging. But it wasn’t. It had recovered from a downturn, yet the media continued to shop the lie, carrying Bill Clinton to the presidency.

We’re now in 2026, less than two months from the midterm elections, and the legacy media, which is nothing more than the Democratic Party’s propaganda arm, is doing the same to President Donald Trump in an effort to lift the Democrats to a congressional majority.

Clinton’s campaign was centered on his claim that the economy leading up to the 1992 election was the worst “in 50 years.” It was true that Bush’s term had a rough patch that began in July 1990. But “the recession ended in March 1991,” according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, and “an expansion began at that time.”

Read that again. March 1991. Not March 1992. Nor March 1993.

The article notes:

While Trump’s handling of the economy is at just 35%, according to RealClearPolitics polling average, the data tell a story that the Democrats don’t want told. Instead, they want to screech about an economy they claim isn’t working for everyone, and yammer on about affordability hardships their policies have caused. Naturally, the media are happy to amplify the message. After all, electing Democrats is, as they see it, their job.

So they ignore:

We  have seen this play before. The question is whether or not voters will fall for this trick a second time.

Trump Report Card: Iran

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Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.

How to deal with Iran’s determination to obtain nuclear weapons has been an issue facing several presidents prior to the Trump administration. Neither Obama nor Biden effectively dealt with the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world in this regard. Neither bribery or diplomacy has worked. President Trump is now addressing the issue head-on instead of kicking it down the road.

Back in January of this year, intelligence information clearly showed that in spite of oversight and inspections by the United Nations, Iran had been hiding its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. In fact, they were just weeks away from having their first nuclear weapon. The 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the Trade Center buildings in New York City should serve as a reminder that Islamist extremists are not rational, peace-seeking individuals. We should remember that the Iranian regime has been sponsoring “Death to America” protests and celebrated the death of almost 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Let’s face it, we are dealing with a death cult. The Islamist terrorists that flew four hijacked planes on 9/11 were fully prepared to die for their cause (destroying infidels in general and America in particular). Death to a true Islamic believer is not something to be avoided, but is sought after in order to obtain an afterlife that is more rewarding than what they are living today. Remember they believe they will have access to multiple virgins. The question that needs answering is, “Would the perpetrators of 9/11 have attacked with nuclear weapons if they had access to them?” Answer–Definitely.

There is an old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Ask yourself this question, “Would the world have been better off eliminating the Hitler regime before it was sufficiently armed to carry out his promises to expand Germany and eliminate Jews and start what turned out to be the most devastating war in all of history?” Clearly, the answer is yes. I remember the photos of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin coming back from a meeting with Hitler and waving a paper document believing he had eliminated Hitler’s threat. Another false promise. Evil is not so easily stopped.

The reality is that any effort to stop evil comes with a price. The world in general, including the people of the United States, are paying a price for the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and also the conflict with Iran. That price is primarily higher fuel costs and the resulting inflation of all items transported by vehicles. Again, using WWII as an example, there were 406,000 American servicemen killed during that war. There were also dramatic economic costs to the average American to defeat Germany and Japan. Most of us are too young to remember, but here are a few examples: Food was rationed, especially meat, canned goods, sugar and produce. Ration cards were required when purchasing these items. Gasoline was also rationed and tires were simply not available. No new automobiles were built from February 1942 until October 1945. Spare parts were not readily available. Bicycles, typewriters, washing machines and other appliances were not manufactured. Clothes were in short supply and lines were long and store shelves empty. I remember having blackout window shades in our apartment in New York City. The point I am trying to make is that the increase in fuel prices pales in significance to the sacrifices of another generation when evil was allowed to flourish. Would a nuclear armed Iran lead to WWIII? It is certainly possible.

So, the bottom line is whether our generation of Americans is willing to shoulder the burden of increased fuel costs to reign in the evil regime in Iran. This election will answer that question.

Ignoring The Real Problem

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On Sunday, The Daily Signal posted an article about a claim made by Representative  Ayanna Pressley that there is a national crisis of “widespread modern-day lynchings” and “racial terror.”

The article lists eight cases of black people found hanging from trees. Only one of those people, a woman, was found to be the victim of foul play. Her murderer, a black man,  has been found and arrested.

The article reports:

The investigation found no national racist conspiracy. From 1995 through September 1998, authorities investigated 670 arsons, bombings or attempted bombings involving houses of worship. Two hundred twenty-five involved predominantly black churches. Most did not. Of the 106 suspects arrested for arson at black churches, 68 were white, 37 were black, and one was Hispanic. 

Some fires were indeed racist crimes, but the sweeping media narrative was false. America had again been stampeded into believing white racism had suddenly and everywhere reared its head. 

The article notes:

Meanwhile, these so-called leaders ignore the elephant in the room. 

They ignore the epidemic of black children born without a father married to and living with their mother, despite overwhelming evidence that two-parent families improve economic, behavioral and educational outcomes. 

They ignore the crisis of K-12 schools in urban America, where most black fourth graders are not proficient in reading or math. Democrat politicians and teacher unions control and defend public urban schools. 

They ignore black-on-black crime. In 2023 more than half of the nation’s homicide victims were black, and of those victims, nearly 90% of the identified offenders were black.  

They ignore the effect of illegal immigration on black joblessness and wages. A U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation found that illegal immigration has tended to increase the supply of low-skilled labor and depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American workers—a disproportionate number of whom are black men. Research presented to the commission estimated that the immigration influx from 1980 through 2000 reduced the employment rate of low-skilled black men by 8 percentage points. Other research estimated that immigration cost the average American man without a high school diploma approximately $1,800 annually in reduced wages. 

It’s time to make stable families great again!

The Children Are Behaving Badly And Hoping We Have Short Memories

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CNBC is reporting today:

  • The White House television press pool that covers events by President Donald Trump on a rotating basis will stop covering those events because of the White House’s ban of CNN from acting as a member of that pool, CNN reported.
  • CNN was barred from covering Trump as the designated TV pooler when the president is visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
  • In addition to CNN, the other members of the White House TV pool are NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox.

They are simply outraged. But let’s look at a little bit of history.

On Sunday, The American Spectator posted an article about banning CNN.

The article points out:

It is, however, unreasonable to ask former President Barack Obama to keep his mouth shut on this issue. On Saturday, he appeared on C-SPAN to offer his typically hypocritical take on Trump’s “press ban,” as the network disingenuously described it: “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, you know what, Fox News, you’re out of here! It’s unimaginable!” Actually, it’s not necessary to imagine what would have happened—Zip. As Piers Morgan points out, “Obama did ban Fox, and waged almost constant war against press freedom.” Joe Concha elaborates, “Team Obama rejected more FOIA requests than anyone in history, spied on James Rosen, secretly seized AP phone records and booted several  news outlets off of his plane.”

But former President Autopen holds the record for the most extensive White House press purge. As Fox News reported in August of 2023, “At least 442 reporters have lost their credentials since the White House press office changed its rules for journalists to be eligible for permanent passes, according to reports.” The new eligibility requirements were clearly meant to target independent journalists. In order to qualify for a White House pass, reporters had to prove “Full-time employment with an organization whose principal business is  news dissemination.” This travesty produced no condemnation from the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). Trump’s action, however, was vociferously denounced by WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich:

The article at The American Spectator concludes:

As for the claim that the Trump administration has violated the First Amendment, perhaps these “journalists” should take the time to read it. It doesn’t give CNN, MS NOW or Politico any claim to a seat in the White House briefing room.

According to AI, 56 percent of Americans watch the mainstream media. That’s probably still too many, but the distrust of the media is at an all-time high because of their false reporting. The two most honest sources of news right now are Newsmax and One America News. Unfortunately, Fox News has gone over to the dark side.