Come what may over the next decade, should I be so fortunate to live so long, I won’t go quiet if things take a turn for the worse – Heaven Forbid – and our nation’s commies take all three branches of government into their destructive, filthy hands. I won’t back down.
I want to thank William Shakespeare for the sub-title; I honestly couldn’t find anything more fitting. It says it all.
Isn’t that the purpose of the title? It entices us to read, listen, and watch more because we’re interested in what it promises. It piques our curiosity.
Shakespeare’s play is a romantic comedy about two couples, but the plot is almost beside the point. The title does the work. It promises drama, confusion, conflict, and entertainment before the curtain even rises.
“I will undertake no unjust wars; will enter into no sinful alliances; will not oppress my subjects by excessive taxation, to support extravagance in my court. What is good for nothing or evil in its operation, what is wicked in its principle, and what would lead me away from righteousness and truth, I will never set before my eyes.” ~ Adam Clarke (1760 – 1832) commentary of Psalms 101:3, “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes.”
The U.S. government has not only entered into a sinful alliance with the State of Israel; it has enthusiastically allowed itself to become an enslaved serf of the State of Israel in fighting a multitude of unjust wars. For all intents and purposes, when it comes to foreign policy, Benjamin Netanyahu is the President of the United States, no matter who sits in the Oval Office.
It was Netanyahu that persuaded Donald Trump into going to war with Iran. Everybody in the world knows it. Trump’s unjust war of aggression against Iran is not only making the Middle East more unsafe, but it is also taking the entire world to the precipice of war, crashing the global economy and even destroying our own country. Continue reading
The Senate crawls back from recess on September 14. The marble hallways will fill up. The cameras will click. And the question hanging over the chamber is the same one America has been asking all summer: Where’s Mitch?
Not “how’s Mitch.” Not “what’s Mitch thinking.” Just… where.
Because the longest-running turtle in Washington has been MIA since June. Last recorded vote: June 11. Hospitalized June 14 after a fall. Then weeks of silence. Then rehab. Then “recovering at home.” Then more silence. Meanwhile the rest of the country is expected to clock in on time. Continue reading
Vietnam veterans affected by Agent Orange chemical exposure pose for a photo with the Rivetin’ Rosie’s Project at the Utah Capitol on Feb. 12, 2026, the day they were recognized by the Utah Legislature. Hannah Turk, a Utah Agent Orange Veterans Foundation board member, is at the far left. (Photo courtesy of Hannah Turk)
Agent Orange Awareness Day, though not an official federal holiday, is observed in the Beehive State and the rest of the country each year on August 10.
That specific date was not arbitrarily chosen. According to the Blinded Veterans Association, the U.S. began spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam on August 10, 1961.
Although its use was intended to save American lives, the herbicide turned out to be extremely harmful to humans and the environment. That was because Agent Orange contained the toxic chemical dioxin. Continue reading
The first shots were fired in Ohio, although for several weeks afterward nobody could agree upon what they meant. There had been violence before, enough of it that Americans had grown accustomed to the vocabulary devised to make violence sound less frightening than it was. A shooting outside a courthouse became an “altercation.” An attack upon a federal facility became an “isolated incident.” A confrontation between opposing political demonstrations became a “disturbance.”
Armed groups that appeared in the streets were described according to the sympathies of whoever was doing the describing, so that one faction’s militia became another faction’s domestic terrorists, while one side’s revolutionaries were another side’s defenders of democracy. There had been assassinations and attempted assassinations, attacks upon police, assaults upon politicians, riots in several cities, and occasional gun battles between organizations whose names were becoming familiar to Americans who had once known little about political extremism. Yet the government and the press had been reluctant to use the one phrase that might have forced the country to confront the truth.
That phrase was civil war. The words carried too much history. They belonged to photographs of dead boys in gray and blue uniforms, to burned towns and amputated limbs, to Appomattox and Gettysburg, to a generation that had once believed its political differences were so fundamental that bloodshed was preferable to compromise. Americans of the twenty-first century preferred to believe they were more civilized than that. They were about to discover that civilization is not something a people possesses permanently. It is something a people must continually choose. Continue reading
Jeffrey Bennett
July 2, 2002 ~ I am a constitutional citizen of this sovereign nation, a voter, and a taxpayer. I served honorably in the armed forces of this nation for 20 years through war in Asia, police actions in Grenada, Panama, and the action in Kuwait/Iraq. I retired an enlisted man 10 years ago and have worked in the private sector, running my own business. I generate a good amount of money for the various governments I have empowered through my continued support, those being Federal, State & Local. I am neither an idiot nor a coward. I believe in our blessed savior, Jesus Christ. I have raised four children during all of this. My point is that I have comported my life as was expected of me by the society we have forged together. There are many who have not, most notably, your selves. Continue reading
July 12, 2021 ~ Something is terribly wrong with the Education ‘Village‘ of America – the complete breakdown of America’s government controlled education system through indoctrination and Socialism. Our children have become truly ‘damned‘ and will have little chance to truly succeed in this nation – UNLESS – the system can be overturned.
This commentary was so-named because of then First Lady, Hillary Clinton’s comment, “It takes a village to raise a child.” In addition to my feelings that our children are truly ‘damned‘ as long as this system is allowed to continue.
The ‘Village‘ is the place that I would not wish to be in today. I was privileged to participate in one of the last non-socialist school systems. Hell – I also know that the conversion had already begun, but I had great teachers. At 78 years of age – I can still picture and name over 90% of those whose care I was placed into. Continue reading
The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements — one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right — share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long defined the American experiment. Continue reading
This well-known rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence needs closer consideration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” it states.
Look through history and you’ll find little evidence that most people experienced these self-evident truths. Until the West led the way in abolishing it, slavery was an accepted historical institution. Notre Dame Professor Keith Bradley once estimated that “in Rome and Italy, in the four centuries between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200, perhaps a quarter or even a third of the population was made up of slaves.” Continue reading
Statue of Liberty, New York City
Perhaps you were fortunate (blessed) enough to have been born in the United States of America. Or perhaps you or your parents were diligent and ethical enough to go through the massive task of coming here legally, and then immediately began to assimilate, making every effort to become a true American.
If either of these is true, perhaps you appreciate, and are grateful to be part of, the freest and most prosperous nation the world has ever known. Perhaps you understand that you did not build this yourself, but received it as a gift from our forefathers and predecessors, who paid a massive price for it, and that it is our job to pass it on intact.
Perhaps you like the ample availability of commodities that no other place on Earth enjoys. It was an awakening during the FIFA (soccer) tournament in the U.S. when people from all over the world were gushing about what America is really like. A general theme was something like, “I hated America from what I read in the papers, or saw on TV, but I loved the America I saw in person.” Continue reading
Children cannot learn if they’re not in school. Yet rarely do we think about the corollary — that children don’t learn much if their teacher isn’t in the classroom.
The issue of student attendance generally attracts more attention because it is carefully monitored and reported as part of states’ education accountability dashboards. In contrast, far less is known about teacher attendance. Despite numerous indicators showing that student outcomes have fallen off a cliff since the pandemic, few journalists or researchers have paused to consider whether and how the pandemic has affected teacher attendance. Unfortunately, the federal government stopped collecting this information the same year that classrooms emptied out, leaving states and independent researchers to fill the gap. Continue reading
I think it is time we discussed the constitutional rights of our children. And when I say children, I refer to the unborn and the born. It appears that too often we are subverting the rights of our children to the whims of adults, relegating them unrepresented, especially our unborn children whose voices we cannot yet hear, but we know that they can experience pain. Think about the recent bill signed into law in the State of Massachusetts by Gov. Maura Healey that allows our unborn children to be dismembered in the womb all the way up to birth.
This year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, when our nation was established based upon the Natural Rights theory of John Locke. Our endowed, unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property (pursuit of happiness) emanate from the God of our Judeo-Christian faith heritage. Sadly, it appears that Gov. Healey believes that the right to life emanates from her pen, as she condemned unborn babies to a brutal death in the State of Massachusetts. Wonder what the Sons of Liberty would say? And what of those disturbed women who stood by clapping and smiling as she did so? The delusional Marxist ideological right to dismember unborn babies in the womb, albeit Massachusetts already allowed such up to 24 weeks, undermines the constitutional right of those babies. Continue reading
Fraud is costing America’s schools millions of dollars, and many of the perpetrators are not outsiders – they are the officials and employees entrusted with running the nation’s public education system. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has some shocking details:
As the state of public education in the U.S. sinks to a historic low with consistent declines in math and reading scores, those hired by local governments to run the nation’s failing elementary, middle and high school campuses commit tens of millions of dollars in fraud. They include state and district superintendents, high-ranking school officials and lower level staff as well as charter school administrators. In the last five years alone, the public servants charged with educating children have operated at least 130 fraudulent schemes that have robbed schools of nearly $71 million. A new audit released by the Department of Education Inspector General (IG) calls them “bad actors” who were mostly exposed via a hotline portal operated by the watchdog. The probe resulted in 98 criminal and civil cases, 74 suspensions and 13 administrative actions. Continue reading
On the morning of August 20th 2032, the President of the United States looked out through the tall windows of the East Room and saw a city that no longer seemed entirely certain of itself. Washington had always possessed a peculiar confidence, the confidence of a place in which decisions were made, and consequences happened somewhere else, beyond the Potomac, beyond the marble facades and guarded doors. Even when the country was angry, Washington generally seemed serene.
Traffic still moved along Pennsylvania Avenue, flags still stirred above the government buildings, tourists still photographed the Capitol, and somewhere inside the vast machinery of the federal government a clerk was always filling out a form that another clerk would eventually approve. But that morning the city seemed different. There were National Guard vehicles at several intersections, barricades around the Capitol, and clusters of police officers standing beneath the summer trees.
The previous night’s demonstrations had continued until nearly dawn, and although the official statement from the White House described them as “isolated disturbances,” everybody in Washington knew that the phrase was intended less to describe reality than to create it. Continue reading
It happened in a day and grabbed our attention, but it took years of preparation. We’ve been lamenting and memorializing it for 25 years, yet we still haven’t learned a goddamned thing — look where we are today.
Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” And we’re quietly sitting on the sidelines, watching and ‘screwing the pooch’ in grand style.
Guess What… Our enemies have access to the same historical information we do, and many of their leaders were educated at our top colleges and universities. The biggest difference is that they’ve learned from it, adapted it, and use it to their advantage. But we ignore it, dismiss it, and actually believe that our prominence protects us from the lessons of thousands of years of history.
I’d planned to stay on the sidelines about this, but the media’s insincere wailing, gnashing of teeth, and feigned outrage this morning pushed my resolve and my medication to the breaking point. Continue reading
A CBN News report in February described New York City mosques and their loudspeakers blasting the Muslim call to prayer across the city during the Ramadan holidays.
Such a display, which indicates dominance in Islam, would have been unthinkable in the weeks, months, and years after the 9/11 attack claimed 2,753 lives at the World Trade Center.
The very first fatality recorded in official records was Father Mychal Judge, a Franciscan priest. He died from falling debris in the North Tower lobby, where he ran from his friary to give last rites to the dying and to pray for the injured. Continue reading
In an idyllic rural setting, a team of eight horses pull an antique red wagon out of a vintage barn. There are two uniformed riders on the wagon.
A close-up reveals that these horses are stunningly beautiful Clydesdales.
A transition montage shows the horses walking and trotting along a green pasture, then along the cobblestone road of a small town, and then across the Brooklyn Bridge. Beyond the bridge, the Clydesdales reach a field where skyscrapers can be seen in the distant background.
The distant skyline becomes recognizable as New York. The team of horses become recognizable as the Budweiser Clydesdales.
With the Statue of Liberty in the background, the Budweiser Clydesdales stop walking and begin to bow their heads in unison. A wider camera angle then shows “Budweiser” painted on the side of the beer wagon. Wistful background music reaches its emotional crescendo.
