Navy Matters.

You probably know that the Air Force has attempted to kill the A-10 Warthog, the best close air support aircraft ever built, for many years now but has been repeatedly thwarted by Congress.

The Navy faced a similar situation with the Ticonderoga class cruisers. They attempted to early retire them, multiple times, only to be thwarted by Congress. The Navy’s solution was to agree to a blatantly bogus “modernization” program which, in reality, was a way to remove funding for the cruisers while they literally rotted pier side until the Navy could claim that they could no longer be economically upgraded.

Like the Navy, the Air Force has, yet again, been prevented by Congress from retiring the A-10 but, ignoring the intent of Congress, has settled on the tactic of simply no longer funding the operation, maintenance, and support of the A-10. As Redstate website reports,

… by the end of this year, the A-10 will be without depot support, without a training pipeline, without weapons-school instruction, and without operational-test capacity.

With no funding for support, the aircraft will rapidly fall into unflyable status. The Air Force will have, technically, kept the A-10 but will have achieved practical retirement.

Congress should fire every Air Force general and withhold all Air Force funding until A-10 support is restored.
The military seems to feel it is above the will of Congress. It is past time for Congress to re-exert its authority.

Not the Bee.

You can’t make this shit up.

Not the Bee.

People are allowed to poison themselves with junk food AND you have to pay for it!

At least that’s the latest from our federal courts.

You can’t make this shit up.

Meet (Obama) judge Amy Berman Jackson:

NavyMatters

Helicopters are generally recognized as the best ASW platform above the surface; another submarine being the best ASW platform below the surface, of course. Unfortunately, this leads to the widespread mindset that every ship must have helos embarked for ASW.
The problem with the concept of helos on every ship is that the aviation element of a ship is shockingly expensive. A helo needs a flight deck (something on the order of 80ft x 50ft), hangar (another 80ft x 50 ft), dedicated weapon magazines, fuel storage, maintenance shops and parts storage, pilot and maintainer berthing (and food, water, etc.). The extra 160ft x 50ft of ship size means more power is needed to move the ship which means bigger engines which requires more ship size which … You get the idea.

Another problem is that helos are only sporadically available, being notorious for needing maintenance at inconvenient times.

Sure, there’s a penalty to be paid for putting helos on every ship but, really, what’s the alternative since we need ASW? Well, one alternative is ASROC (anti-submarine rocket). ASROC began back when submarines still had to get fairly close to their target in order to attack. Today, submarines can attack with torpedoes or missiles from far beyond ASROC range (vertical launch ASROC has a range of around 12 nm). What’s needed is a much longer range ASROC, perhaps on the order of a hundred miles. Given that we have thousand mile cruise missiles I can’t see any problem with developing a hundred mile ASROC.
In the past, ASROC used arm launchers, box launchers, and common VLS cells. The flexibility in launch mechanism means that some kind of suitable launcher can be placed on any ship tasked with ASW.

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Canadian citizens never voted in favor of socialized medicine. Why would anyone do that? It makes sense to vote for bad health care for other people, if you’re a sociopath or a leftist. But why would anyone vote for bad health care for themselves?

The Canadian government may not have cared about health care, but it cared a great deal about power. So they simply seized the health care industry, using men with guns. Just kidding, of course. They didn’t seize the health care industry. They regulated it. They couldn’t pass laws, so they passed regulations that were impossible to satisfy (or even understand). This made the entire health care industry so inefficient that after a while it didn’t work, forcing the government to step in and save the people from the rich corporations who were ostensibly to blame. Obamacare is based on a similar model. Works every time.

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Americans are used to handouts for favored groups. Affirmative action in university admissions, corporate “diversity” initiatives, and minority-owned contracting requirements direct opportunities, resources, and contracts to supposedly “oppressed” groups, such as women, Native Americans, blacks, and Hispanics.

In California, state Democrats have embraced another kind of favoritism: contracts for state-certified gay-owned businesses.

The scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates privately owned utility companies. California utilities spent more than $43 billion in 2024 on contractors—fuel suppliers, surveyors, engineers, and others—whose work helps deliver water, gas, electricity, and internet service to California’s 39 million residents.

Being a pervert has never been more profitable.

Not the Bee.

Because, as we all know, paying to support criminal immigrants and their families is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

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A North Carolina school district agreed Monday to pay $95,000 to settle a student’s lawsuit after her school painted over her tribute to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shortly after his assassination.

A high school junior at Ardrey Kell High School secured permission to paint “Freedom 1776” and “Live Like Kirk—John 11:25” on the school’s “spirit rock,” a large boulder that often features messages on political topics. Yet, within hours, she learned from social media that officials had ordered the “Live Like Kirk” portion painted over.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education agreed to adopt a new student speech policy, issue a public statement exonerating the student, and pay $95,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees, Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the student, announced Monday.

The Antiplanner.

In 2014, a 13-mile extension to Minneapolis’ Blue light-rail line was projected to cost $1.0 billion and open for business in 2020. The latest word is that it is going to cost more than $3.5 billion and won’t begin operating until 2032.

Minneapolis is, of course, run by Democrats.

The line is a northern extension of the region’s first light-rail line, which connected downtown Minneapolis with Bloomington. That line was sold to the public based on claims that it would relieve congestion, but it actually made congestion worse. As reported in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the light-rail line was given priority at traffic lights. Because those lights were coordinated with traffic lights on the para

lel Hiawatha Avenue, the trains interfered with signal coordination on the avenue, a major north-south route in the city.
Engineers tried to fix it but gave up. Moreover, state Representative Phil Krinkie uncovered documents showing that the state knew all along that the light-rail line would make congestion worse, and ignored the problem because “transit had to have an advantage” over driving.

This is why you don’t have rail lines sharing ground level street space. Dallas has the same problem.

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Peptides are amino acids that are used to issue instructions to the body’s various systems. Ozempic, Mounjaro and Retatrutide are all peptides. These GLP-1s have a ridiculous number of things they do in terms of measurable results of reduction: cancer rates, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, obesity, even aging. Some countries are considering making GLP-1s available to all (not just the obese or diabetic) because of these benefits.

There are a host of other things that “biohackers” are injecting. I am posting this here because I think anyone with knee or joint pain would do well to check out BPC-157. I have personal knowledge of people who have cured chronic knee pain with 1-3 injections of the peptide. Old muscle pain? Totally fixable with a trivial injection.

Any search on X will show a host of other peptides in the market, offering or suggesting help for a huge range of maladies. Memory loss? Check. Big drug companies are working on peptides for cancers. Some peptides give you a tan, others are key ingredients in skin rejuvenation (potentially making the Botox world a dead end in human anti-aging treatments). There are peptides in development to cure myopia, and even regrow the optic nerve! Things that we knew could not be done are being done. The peptides can tell the body to do something in old age that it usually would only do at a much earlier (or even foetal) stage of development.

None of the non-GLP-1 peptides (as far as I know) is FDA-approved. Most of them probably never will be, because there is no financial incentive to jump through the hoops for something that cannot be patented and which can be purchased inexpensively.

Government is why we can’t have nice things.

The War Zone.

The saga of the Constellation class frigate is emblematic of so many chronic issues with the Navy’s way of procuring warships. The vessel that was supposed to make the wrongs of the Littoral Combat Ship debacle right failed spectacularly and the timing couldn’t have been worse. Now Constellation is dead and the Trump administration is building a different frigate from a different yard. While the Navy has said why it is moving on, we wanted the other side of the story. We recently had a conversation with George Moutafis, CEO of Fincantieri Marine Group, to get exactly that.

Before we get to the questions and answers, however, here is the backstory.

The U.S. Navy needed the Constellation class frigate, badly, and the program to construct it seemed built to deliver. Rather than a clean-sheet design, the service chose the proven Franco-Italian FREMM as its parent design, betting that adapting an existing platform would be far faster and cheaper, and overall less risky than starting from scratch.

It wasn’t. Among the issues plaguing the program, constant change orders pushed the design far from its origins. Two years into construction, the first ship was barely 10% complete while its design was still being finalized. Meanwhile, costs and schedules blew well past original projections.

As a result of these issues, the Navy late last year cancelled the program. That left Fincantieri’s Wisconsin yard sidelined while a contract to replace the Constellation class frigate went to rival Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula.

In the wake of the program’s implosion, the Navy created the Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) system. It uses a hired manager to hold the prime contract and run the show, overseeing shipyard performance, controlling subcontracts, and acting as a buffer between the service and the builder to keep costs and schedules on track.

In a wide-ranging, hour-long exclusive interview, Moutafis – appointed CEO on July 1, 2025 as the wheels were already falling off this project – gave us unique insights into Fincantieri’s version of how Constellation turned into a debacle and what needs to change as a result. He also touched on an array of other topics, which we will address in future installments.

The Foundry.

For years, most Americans’ retirement savings plans have been locked out of certain investment choices, including some of the market’s best-performing assets. That makes it harder to save for retirement. Fortunately, though, this is about to change, giving savers new—and better—options for their investments.

At issue are not only the many rules and regulations surrounding what can go into 401(k)s and similar savings plans, but also the flimsy legal framework governing fiduciaries—the ones who manage your money. Many investment options are excluded, either by law or by common practice, as fiduciaries try to avoid both legitimate and frivolous lawsuits.

Asset classes like private equity, digital assets, and real estate effectively became the purview of “accredited investors” with very high net wealth and government workers with public pensions. Most Americans—those private-sector workers on Main Street—were left out.

For folks with a typical 401(k) retirement plan, this meant lower returns on their investments. U.S. private equity has delivered the highest long-term returns compared to public equities and other asset classes—even after fees—averaging 3 percentage points (about 20%) better annual growth than the S&P 500.

The Poster Child here is Social Security, which BY LAW has to put its money in U.S. Treasury debt, which famously pays the worst return on the planet because it is also popularly believed to be the most secure investment you can make Supposedly Social Security payments go into a ‘trust fund’, but that fund consists of U.S. debt, which means that the money has already been spent. Social Security is depending on the ‘full faith and credit of the United States’ to get its money back, which means that the situation is no different than if the SS system depended on current tax revenues for its payments. It is, in short, a Ponzi scheme.

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After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K-12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births has decreased steadily in recent years, with 690,000 fewer children born in 2024 than in 2007.

You can believe that if you want to. I suspect it’s more being driven by parents realizing that if they want an educated child they’re going to have to do it themselves rather than hand it off to the government. Roman Catholics have been doing this for centuries and the cost-effectiveness and superiority of that education over what one gets at a government school is common knowledge.

The loss of enrolled students has prompted some desperate measures. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is offering “free” childcare for 2-year-olds regardless of their parents’ income. In 2024, parents of toddlers spent an average of more than $23,000 on center-based childcare, according to the NYC Comptroller.

Why the ‘desperation’? Because all public schools depend for their funding on Federal ‘education’ programs, such as free breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner, which money is shelled out based on enrollment.

For those still attending public schools, chronic absence—the percentage of students missing 10 percent or more of a school year—is a growing problem. As of January 20, the latest data show that chronic absenteeism, which surged from 15 percent pre-COVID to 28 percent in 2022, remains elevated at 24 percent.

The assumption here, of course, is that when a child is ‘absent’ from the local government school, they are wandering the streets getting into mischief. That’s certainly a possibility in The ‘Hood, but more and more it reflects homeschooling and other alternatives. But no—if the government is not ‘educating’ your kid, your kid is not getting educated. QED.

Marc Oestreich, an education policy consultant and strategist, writes that in many cases, students are responding to schools that fail to teach them to read, fail to adapt to their needs, and fail to demonstrate that another day in the building is worth their time.

Oestreich asserts, “The honest version of the absenteeism story is not that American parents have suddenly become uniquely irresponsible, or that students have collectively misplaced their work ethic somewhere between TikTok and the bus stop. The honest story is that a substantial number of families, concentrated among the poor, the male, and the badly served, have concluded from direct experience that what their local public school offers is not worth the time.”

And there you have it. Markets work even when you don’t want them to.

While public schools are struggling, private school attendance has remained steady. However, as more parental choice bills advance, the number of children attending private schools will very likely increase. There are currently 75 private school choice programs in 34 states, serving more than 1.5 million students.

Also, the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program, which takes effect on January 1, 2027, is likely to substantially increase the number of students leaving public schools for private schools.

A step in the right direction.

The Antiplanner.

In recent posts, I’ve noted that the nation’s transit agencies are carrying far fewer riders than in 2019 and yet since that year the size of the transit bureaucracy has grown by more than 50 percent. Two MIT researchers, Vicky Yang and Levi Grenier, have offered a new explanation for such bureaucratic bloat. Instead of looking at transit, they were struck by MIT, whose faculty has grown by 9 percent and the number of students has grown by around 30 percent since 1985, but the number of administrative staff has almost tripled.

The Foundry.

State auditors across the country were unable to verify billions of dollars in unemployment spending, Medicaid payments, and pension obligations in federally-funded programs, according to a new report by a government watchdog group.

The findings in the 2026 Financial Transparency Score report, released by the government watchdog Truth in Accounting, found that 13 states failed to earn clean audit opinions. The report comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on how states are spending federal dollars.

The organization used data from annual comprehensive financial reports, or ACFRs, produced by each state as a requirement for getting federal funding.

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All money is debt. It indicates either that somebody owes you a certain quantity of a commodity, or that the government promise to accept it to pay your taxes and other imposts.

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Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is “needed.”

Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn’t proved her business was needed.

“Why does the state of Louisiana have the right to stop me from doing what I love?” she asks in this update video.

Good question. Ursula has a master’s degree and a social work license. For two decades, she’s helped kids with special needs.

One, Kamal, told us he struggled to make friends, until Ursula “helped teach me how to talk to people.”

Kamal’s mother is grateful: “She explained to me things that I didn’t understand about my kids. It allowed me to go back into the community and work.”

Ursula helped many families. But four years ago, she tried to help more kids by doing short-term respite work.

Louisiana wouldn’t let her.

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A new report argues that an independent Cyber Force should be staffed by only commissioned officers and warrant officers to better develop the highly technical skillsets that digital conflict demands.

Published Wednesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, two Washington, D.C. think tanks, the report proposes a blueprint for standing up a Cyber Force, should Congress decide to do so.

Policymakers in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill have debated for years whether the U.S. military needs an independent Cyber Force. Opponents say it would lead to unnecessary bureaucracy and confusion, but some current and former cyber troops say readiness suffers without a service that prioritizes recruiting, training, and equipping cyber troops above all others.

Ever notice how every delivery service except the Post Office delivers your stuff to your front porch—the way the Post Office used to do?

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The nonprofit Feeding Our Future claimed to have served 91 million meals to children across Minnesota. But as Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Kline described in a recent court hearing, they were not feeding kids—they were instead “feeding the bank accounts of fraudsters.” FOF founder Aimee Bock was sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison for stealing close to $250 million in taxpayer dollars, orchestrating what the DOJ called the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country.

Seventy-eight defendants and counting set up shell companies and phantom sites to feed nonexistent children. Former prosecutor Joe Thompson described the urgency of the FBI takedown: “I remember we took down the case on a Thursday because the following day, on a Friday, is when [the Minnesota Department of Education] paid out the money. Every Friday, they paid out about $20 million.” Twenty million dollars every Friday for meals the system never independently verified.

How exactly did a $4.1 billion federal program pay a quarter of a billion dollars for meals that were never served—and never notice?

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

Roughly 2,000 U.S. diplomats have been laid off or forced to retire, taking with them decades of institutional knowledge, crisis response experience and highly specialized language skills.

Raise your hand if you think that the Federal tovernment needs more of the type of peiole who ran American foreign policy prior to Trump’s election in 2016.

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Racing through dinner cleanup after a long day? Your dishwasher sits empty while you scrub plates by hand, joining millions of Americans quietly abandoning an appliance once considered essential. Despite smarter features and energy improvements, dishwashers are losing their grip on daily routines across the country.

Federal efficiency standards transformed dishwashers into marathon cleaners. Modern machines take 2.5 to 4 hours per cycle—a far cry from the quick turnarounds families actually need. The Department of Energy’s push for water conservation limits new models to 5 gallons per cycle, with proposals dropping that to 3.2 gallons by 2027. You get cleaner dishes eventually, but “eventually” doesn’t work when kids need their lunch containers ready for tomorrow morning.

Once again, government screws up everything it touches.

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In September 2025, then-US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr Marty Makary publicly acknowledged that the agency was investigating reports of child deaths following Covid-19 vaccination.

“We do know at the FDA…that there had been children who have died from the COVID vaccine,” Makary said during a CNN interview.

By that stage, however, a fierce internal dispute had already emerged inside the FDA over what investigators believed the evidence showed – and whether the public should ever see the full findings.

“It really did feel like there was some sort of cover-up going on about the Covid-19 vaccines,” said one individual familiar with the discussions.

MD Reports spoke with several current/former agency officials, advisers, and individuals briefed on the discussions, all of whom requested anonymity because they were not authorised to publicly discuss internal FDA deliberations.

Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’—call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

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Food stamps and food pantries are intended to keep struggling Americans fed.

What we found is that, in some communities, that food never reaches an American table. Instead, it gets shipped overseas and sold for profit.

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“What the judge did was double harm,” former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said, commenting on the arrest of a man who wouldn’t have been free to go on a second shooting spree if a judge hadn’t ignored her sentencing request in 2020.

The second shooting spree took place on May 11 of this year, as CBS News Boston details, noting that a private citizen helped a state trooper end the threat:

“The shooting on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts Monday left two men in critical condition Tuesday as police tried to piece together what happened.

“Investigators said 46-year-old Tyler Brown of Boston walked down the street with a rifle and randomly shot 50-to-60 rounds at people and cars. He was later shot by a state trooper and a Marine veteran.”

In 2021, since-retired Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders ignored requests by Rollins and police for Brown to be given a 10-12 year sentence after he was convicted for attempting to kill Boston police officers by firing 17 rounds at them during a shootout – while he was out on parole from his 2014 sentence for a knife attack and just days after he had been released from a psychiatric hospital.

Brown, who also had a cocaine conviction in 2008, pleaded guilty to eight charges, including armed assault with intent to murder and attempted assault and battery by means of discharging a firearm.

Babylon Bee.

Parents of high school graduate David Simpson helped their son sound out the words on his diploma after the teen expressed frustration at not being able to read the words on the piece of paper.

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Conservatives have every right to feel betrayed by the Republican Congress’ recent antics.

Free marketeers, from the U.S. House to homes across America, were told in April to accept Senate Republican Leader John Thune’s emaciated Reconciliation 2.0 bill. The South Dakotan employed a limited-use budget procedure that obviates that pesky 60-vote filibuster threshold and permits passage via simple majority.

These special bills typically deliver the sponsoring party’s leading initiatives. This is how President Donald Trump and Republicans enacted the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” in 2025 and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. Reconciliation was the needle through which former President Barack Obama and Democrats injected the poison of Obamacare into America’s body politic in 2010.

The dangerously cautious Thune had no such ambitions. Rather than a freight train, Reconciliation 2.0 was a rusty caboose. It funded little more than Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol salaries.

Conservatives, eager for a bill packed with Trump/MAGA reforms, were suspicious. “I don’t think Border Patrol and ICE should be isolated,” warned Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, the House Freedom Caucus’s policy chairman. “House Republicans are concerned about giving up their best tool to pressure the Senate to pass legislation dealing with affordability ahead of the November elections,” the Washington Examiner reported.

Paul Graham.

How do you convert between wealth and income tax? If a government imposes a wealth tax of 1%, what’s the equivalent in income tax?

It’s clear from the way most politicians talk about the subject that they not only don’t know the answer, but don’t even realize there’s such a question.

In fact the conversion rate between them is about 20. A wealth tax of 1% is equivalent to an income tax of 20%.

To convert between wealth and income tax rates, you have to divide by the rate of return on capital. The conversion rate of 20 comes from assuming that the risk-free rate of return is 5%. Historically that’s an optimistic assumption. 4% might be more realistic. But 5% will do. [1]

If we run through an example it will be clear how this works. Suppose you have $100, you’re getting a 5% rate of return on this capital, and there’s a 20% income tax. The 5% rate of return means at the end of one year your $100 has made you another $5. But you have to pay 20% of that, or $1, in income tax, so your after-tax income is $4. At the end of the year, after paying taxes, you have $100 + $4 = $104.

Now suppose instead of a 20% income tax, there’s a 1% wealth tax. At the end of the year your $100 has made you another $5, as before. But that year you had to pay 1% of your $100, or $1, in wealth tax. So at the end of the year you have $99 + $5 = $104.

Each 1% of wealth tax is equivalent to 20% of income tax.

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Seattle’s got another taxpayer-funded toilet project for us, folks.

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Not long ago, we covered the story of the Ahkter twins: hackers who the Biden administration had hired despite their illegal hacking history, and how when they got fired, they took out a few government databases with them.

But it was odd was how precise the government was able to relate the pair’s conversations during the mass deletion caper.

Were they bugged?

The answer to that is a hilarious “no.”

Arstechnica discovered that they had been fired via a Teams meeting, and the twins had simply forgot to turn off the recording while they committed their crime.

Government employees tend not to be the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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The Air Force now has 18 new light attack aircraft that are designed to support special operations forces on the ground, and it expects to receive “a handful more” by October, said Lt. Col. Robert Wilson, of Air Force Special Operations Command, or AFSOC.

The single-engine turboprop OA-1K Skyraider II is “essentially a Swiss Army Knife of airborne capability,” that can fly armed reconnaissance, close air support, and precision strike missions, said Wilson, AFSOC’s armed overwatch requirements branch chief.

The Skyraider is designed to support operations that range from counter-terrorism to “aspects of full-on conflict,” Wilson told reporters on Friday. It is capable of carrying weapons, including Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, or APKWS, laser-guided rockets, and the plane also has rails and pylons on its wings so it can be equipped with more advanced weapons and sensors in the future.

One weapon that AFSOC officials are looking to possibly arm the Skyraider II with is the Red Wolf cruise missile, Wilson said.

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In a verdict hailed by federal officials as a major blow against one of the most egregious health care fraud operations in Florida history, a jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman, 42, of Johnson County, Kansas, on multiple conspiracy charges related to a sprawling scheme that bilked Medicare and other federal programs out of more than $1 billion.

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A California school district spent $300,000 to partner with an LGBTQ center that provides “affirming programs, resources, and community care” to minors ages 12 and up.

Pomona Unified School District in Pomona, California, signed a memorandum of understanding for the 2024-2025 school year for a “mentoring program” with Pomona Valley Pride.

Under the memorandum obtained by The Daily Signal, the pride center was to provide “academic support, mentoring, and tutoring services to all students in middle and high school who identify themselves LGBTQ+ and their families to address their unique needs and challenges.”

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Sorry, you little people need to give up your farm so we can feed the digital beast!

I see a day when the surface will be covered with data centers topped by solar panels, and the rest of us living underground like Morlocks.

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Note to employers: When you discover your twin brother employees are ex-cons who did time for hacking into the US State Department, and go to fire them, make sure you fully disable their access.

February 2025, twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter turned a routine job termination into one of the most brazen insider sabotage incidents in recent U.S. government history. Just minutes after being fired from Opexus – a Washington, D.C.-area contractor that provides critical case-management software to more than 45 federal agencies – the brothers allegedly launched a rapid digital assault that deleted approximately 96 government databases containing sensitive FOIA records, investigative files, and taxpayer data.

I’m curious as to whom in the government it seemed like a good idea to put persons named Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter in charge of data for U.S. Federal agencies. That guy ought to have been fired as well.

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Currently active CIA analyst James Erdman, presented himself as a whistleblower to congress to outline how the Intelligence Community had evidence and knowledge about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how it was created by “gain of function” research (weaponizing a virus) in a biolab in Wuhan, China funded by the United States government.

According to the testimony, there are elements inside the Intelligence Community, specifically the CIA, who worked with scientists to coverup the origin of COVID-19 and the fact the virus was man made and leaked from a lab. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, pressured and influenced scientists in the intelligence community to fabricate information and lie about the origin of the virus.

Fauci has denied accusations that he lied about the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) role in funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and argued that the research did not meet the level of gain-of-function research. However, a longtime advisor of Fauci’s, David Morens, who served as a top advisor at NIAID, was indicted by the DOJ last month and accused of using his personal email account to hide communications related to a controversial coronavirus research grant that involved collaboration with the Wuhan Institute.

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No wonder Biden pardoned him.

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Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend—something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses.

Consider Ohio.

At one address in Columbus, investigators found 94 different companies registered in the same building. The windows were covered. The offices appeared empty. Yet, according to The Daily Wire investigative team led by Luke Rosiak, that single address has billed taxpayers more than $66 million.

This is not a minor accounting error. It is not mere “waste.” It is a system being exploited.

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European officials have expressed dismay, disappointment, and surprise in the wake of the weekend announcement by the Trump administration that the US will be withdrawing some 5,000 troops from Germany over the coming months.

“There has been talk about withdrawing US troops from Europe for a long time. But of course, the timing of this announcement comes as a surprise,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas expressed on the sidelines of the European Political Community meeting in Yerevan, Armenia on Monday.

And the gravy train starts creaking to a halt.

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am aware that many here do not think that the entire effects of the experimental gene therapy known as the Covid vaccine have been adverse. Some may even still get “boosters” when they are offered. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and ways of thinking. I have been paying close attention to news and research reports that have always been out there; they were mostly suppressed by the legacy media and banned from multiple social media platforms when reports started showing up in mid-2021, showing numerous adverse effects of the Covid shots, up to and including death.

Right now, even the US government, which actively suppressed news reports of deaths and injuries, and heavily promoted the shots (and refused to allow proven existing medications to be used) is admitting that the harms of the shots are too obvious to ignore any longer. Countless reports of young athletes literally dropping dead on the playing fields have been publicized. Media news readers have collapsed over their desks in front of the public, but doctors continue to be “baffled” as to causes. Most young athletes and employees of media companies were mandated by their employers and schools to receive shots and boosters, yet vaccine injury is still not recognized as a cause in many cases.

On my blog, I do occasional big posts, bringing together news and research stories of individuals, groups, and countries where vaccine injuries leave people dead or severely disabled. Statistics show obvious spikes in deaths from “turbo-cancer” in people who have ZERO risk factors. Today, people under age 45 are being diagnosed with Stage Four colon and pancreatic cancers, who literally were completely healthy before. The only common factor is Covid shots. Yet much of the public remains blind to these risk factors staring them in the face.

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As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, the Justice Department this week advanced cases against illegal aliens running criminal enterprises—including a gun trafficking scheme orchestrated from behind bars.

In Georgia, the Justice Department announced the 25-year sentence of a Mexican illegal immigrant who used a contraband cell phone from inside a Georgia state prison to manage a massive drug and gun trafficking conspiracy.

Servando Corona Penaloza, a Georgia state prison inmate, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for orchestrating the sale of more than 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl and the purchase of more than 200 military-style firearms transported to Mexico for use by Mexican cartels, according to the Justice Department.

He was in prison serving a sentence for a Gwinnett County drug trafficking offense.

You can only have waste, fraud, and abuse when the government is giving people money. Stop the government from giving people money, and you will also stop the waste, fraud, and abuse.

This is not rocket science….

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Remember the J6 prosecutor who stabbed another driver on the highway during a road rage incident?

Well, two-and-a-half years later, he has finally been sentenced to jail.

For 90 days.

This all happened in FLORIDA, by the way. This wasn’t some woke DC judge like the kind who screwed over J6 protesters.

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In 2019, the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona spent over $20 million to tear down and completely rebuild a school named Pima Elementary. This year, it voted to close the school.

Pima Elementary, designed for up to 840 students, reopened at less than 60% of that capacity, and it continued to decline. This fall, just seven years later, the school building won’t contain a single student.

Far from a one-off tale of district mismanagement, the closing of a brand new $20 million school building illustrates how easy special interest groups find it to manipulate school districts.

A nationwide baby bust had begun eight years before the bond election, meaning that there were already fewer students to go around. Likewise, the high price of housing in Scottsdale became a significant deterrent to young families locating there.

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Never forget that Anthony Fauci received a random and very suspicious pardon from a not-all-there Joe Biden right before Joe left office.

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Hey, we never said it would be easy….

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has halted payments to more than 400 hospices in Los Angeles and across California, with the estimated fraud being greater than $600 million, according to the anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance.

Sheila Clark, CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, is questioning how these alleged instances of fraud have slipped through the cracks.

“How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store? That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification, and accreditation,” Clark said during a House of Representatives hearing on April 21.

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A divided federal appeals court on April 24 allowed Texas to enforce a state law that permits the arrest and prosecution of individuals thought to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 10–7 to undo a 2024 injunction that had prevented enforcement of the law known as Senate Bill 4. Initially, the former Biden administration had challenged the statute, but the second Trump administration dropped the challenge in March 2025.

SB 4, which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed in December 2023, would make it a state-level crime to illegally enter or re-enter Texas from a foreign country, give state judges authority to order that violators leave the United States, and allow prison sentences ?of up to 20 years for those refusing to comply.

The Fifth Circuit did not address the merits of the case because it found that the groups challenging the law—Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and American Gateways—lacked legal standing to do so.

Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s kick the can down the road!

The groups had argued that SB 4 was preempted—or superseded—by the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

Which is obviously is—but its enforcement relies on an Administration that actually enforces laws and all that other right-wing picky shit.

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Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instruments like that. Yet that is essentially what the United States has attempted with its tactical air fleet.

The F-35 program’s total lifetime cost is projected to exceed two trillion dollars, the most expensive Major Defense Acquisition Program in history. The United States plans to purchase thousands of them. Meanwhile, modern conflict, from Ukraine’s drone war to naval engagements in the Red Sea to Iran’s own mass missile and drone salvos, increasingly favors systems that can be produced at scale and replaced when lost. The F-35 is a masterpiece. But a force designed around a masterpiece is not designed for long, protracted wars, and U.S. adversaries know this.

The problems fall into two categories. The first is the physical problem of operating in the Pacific. The second is the sustainability problem of fighting there for more than a few nights. Both problems point to the same solution: a balanced force that has the unique capabilities of the F-35, while hedging against its limitations by shifting more procurement dollars to unmanned systems. That would result in a force with fewer F-35s than projected, but positioned for what the decades to come will demand.

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A district court judge repeatedly shielded the Southern Poverty Law Center from scrutiny during a defamation case and then dismissed a conservative group’s case because it “lacked evidence,” according to the conservative group’s attorneys.

Attorneys for the estate of Donald A. King and his organization, the Dustin Inman Society, filed an 81-page brief Thursday asking a higher court to reconsider the case. They claimed that Judge Corey L. Maze of the Northern District of Alabama erred in rejecting their attempts to obtain evidence proving the SPLC acted with actual malice in branding the society an “anti-immigrant hate group.”

“The case was decided by stacking four errors,” Harry Mihet, chief litigation counsel for Liberty Counsel and one of DIS’s attorneys, told The Daily Signal in a Friday phone call. “Cutting off discovery, ignoring what the SPLC already knew, twisting the legal standard, and stretching the single-publication rule, until the plaintiffs had no case left. And so the case was decided, not because there is no evidence available, but because the court did not allow any evidence to be gathered, to show that the SPLC acted with actual malice.”

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