A 70-year-old Lincoln County, Missouri foster mother who shipped a teenage girl in her care across state lines, in a scheme witnesses said was tied to a monkey, will spend exactly zero days in a Missouri prison for the felony she just admitted.

Brenda Deutsch, 71, of Winfield, pleaded guilty to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a Class D felony, after an adopted teenage girl in her care was shipped off to a filthy Texas residence that Deutsch had allegedly never inspected, FOX 2 Now reported.

On Thursday, Lincoln County Judge Thomas J. Frawley sentenced Deutsch to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, but then suspended the execution of that sentence and placed her on three years of supervised probation.

In other words, Deutsch will remain out of prison unless she violates the terms of her probation.

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BioNTech has terminated a Phase 2 trial of its experimental mRNA cancer shot autogene cevumeran (BNT122) after an independent monitoring board found an imbalance in overall survival, with development partner Genentech confirming there were “more deaths in the vaccine arm.”

BioNTech co-developed the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sold as Comirnaty.

The cancer jab termination came about 10 months after the trial had already crossed a prespecified futility boundary but was allowed to continue.

Public European trial records show that new patients continued to be recruited for roughly six months after the futility boundary was crossed, with recruitment continuing in Germany until April 28, 2026.

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In 2025, just 51% of firms with 10 to 24 employees offered health benefits, while 97% of firms with at least 200 workers did so, according to KFF. Rising health costs may leave Main Street business owners facing increased difficulty attracting new employees and making key investments, experts warned the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Sky-high and rapidly escalating health plan costs are a major problem for small businesses, which often run on razor-thin margins,” Job Creators Network Foundation president Elaine Parker told the DCNF. “These expenditures prevent small businesses from making productive investments in expansion, equipment, or personnel, reducing Main Street dynamism. As a result, more and more have no other choice but to drop health coverage entirely.”

“Policymakers must allow small businesses to group together in association health plans to negotiate better rates for care, share risk, and avoid costly Obamacare regulations,” Parker added. “[Association health plans (AHPs)] also offer more flexibility and choice, and they streamline expensive administrative functions. These savings would significantly reduce health plan costs for small businesses and their employees.”

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President Donald Trump just laid the blueprint on how to defeat and reorganize a brutal communist regime in less than a year by removing the tyrant and investing in that country’s vast natural resources.

The Joys of Socialist-Communism

Not long ago Venezuela boasted of having the highest living standards in Latin America and attracted large-scale European and Latin American immigration. By 1970 it was the richest country in the region and ranked among the world’s 20 richest by some GDP-per-capita measures, ahead of Spain, Greece, and Israel.

That all ended when Hugo Chavez, the former tyrant, brought his communist-socialism to the country and destroyed the country. By 2016 73% of Venezuelans reported losing around 19 pounds per individual. By 2017 64% of Venezuelans reported losing 24 pounds per individual.

Then President Trump rescued the people and removed their tyran Nicolas Maduro.

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Most are calling Zohran Mamdani’s actions at a 9/11 ceremony a “snafu” or a meaningless gesture with no significance. They clearly do not understand Islam or the process of military, cultural, and political jihad.

He did not drop the souvenir. He did not get confused about the guest list. New York City’s Mayor signed a pair of September 11 executive orders at City Hall on Friday, then whispered to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, “Can you pass this?”

Tisch handed the ceremonial pen to chief counsel Ramzi Kassem. Kassem, who had slipped into the Blue Room late, took it with a smirk and left almost as fast as he arrived.

That is not a clerical accident. That is a staged insult to the dead, delivered one week before the 25th anniversary of the massacre that tore this city open. More importantly, it’s a declaration of conquest, less than 25-years since the attacks, as a “secret” Islamist camouflaged by Marxism now runs the very city they hit hardest.

Fox News and the New York Post both documented the handoff. City Hall’s excuse only makes it worse. Officials told the Post that Kassem and his team drafted both orders as part of his job. So the man who wrote the city’s official remembrance paper was also the man chosen to keep the relic. The police commissioner was reduced to a courier.

The victims were reduced to a backdrop.

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After its historic victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has dropped from 44.4 % of the vote to 43.8% after mail-in ballots were counted, with all other parties gaining abnormally from mail-in ballots. Attorney Dirk Schmitz called this a sign of “systematic manipulation”.

German elections have been thought to be fairly secure, with mainly in-person same-day voting, photo ID requirements, and a Supreme Court ban on digital voting machines, as I explained to Ben Harnwell on The War Room.

However, Saxony-Anhalt saw a boom in mail-in ballots, making up one-quarter of all votes cast.

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced six nuclear-industry bills on September 2nd, all without a single opposing vote. The measures target fuel recycling, uranium enrichment, licensing delays, regulatory staffing and transparency.

The vote to get it to the House floor is another testament to the lack of divide among the Republicans and Democrats regarding the need for more nuclear energy in America.

As we highlighted in a report from Goldman, the Western nuclear revival is gathering momentum across microreactors, small modular reactors and larger designs. But turning announcements into operating infrastructure requires fuel supplies and a regulatory system capable of processing the projects.

The six bills pushed to the House attempt to address at least some of the standing issues:

• H.R. 3978, Nuclear REFUEL Act, 44 yes – 0 no. This would simplify licensing for facilities that recycle spent nuclear fuel without isolating plutonium. Qualifying projects could use the single-step fuel-cycle licensing route instead of separate construction and operating approvals. The potential payoff is a clearer path to reusing nuclear material and developing domestic recycling capacity.
• H.R. 9612, American Enrichment Deployment Act, 43-0. Enrichment plants would receive treatment closer to other fuel-cycle facilities, including permission to begin construction before licensing under the same conditions. Developers would build at their own risk, but NRC approval would still be required. The aim is to bring additional domestic enrichment capacity online sooner.
• H.R. 5549, Efficient Nuclear Licensing Hearings Act, 44-0. This removes mandatory hearings when nobody with an affected interest requests one and requires informal procedures for covered hearings. It’s an opportunity to trim legal costs and delays without making public participation disappear.
• H.R. 9613, Nuclear Advisory Committee Reform Act, 41-0. This refocuses the NRC’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on significant, novel reactor-design safety issues and changes membership and term rules. The idea is to reduce repetitive reviews.
• H.R. 9614, NRC Staff Pay Alignment Act, 42-0. The NRC chairman could pay career senior executives up to 110% of the applicable Senior Executive Service pay ceiling. It gives the regulator more room to retain experienced leadership as the industry competes for expertise.
• H.R. 9084, Department of Energy Nuclear Transparency Act, 41-0. DOE would have to announce covered nuclear-facility authorizations and safety-rule changes, and publish safety analyses, within 72 hours. It’s unclear what the real benefit of this one is besides maybe providing more opportunity for nuclear skeptics to complain about faster regulatory actions. More transparency can be a good thing, but the benefit is less clear in this situation.

In July, ranking Democrat Frank Pallone, and even AOC, singled out the advisory-committee overhaul over concerns about weakening safety oversight. Pallone also sought implementation changes to the enrichment bill, while crediting the transparency measure with helping keep bipartisan nuclear legislation moving.

Surprisingly, those concerns never translated into recorded opposition at the full committee.

All this goes to highlight the dramatic change in opinion for the expansion of nuclear energy generating capacity in the US in recent years…

Gallup found in 2025 that 61% of Americans favor nuclear energy, only a single point away from the highest level recorded in the poll’s three-decade history. Gallop then ran a similar poll in April 2026, asking whether the U.S. should put more emphasis on various energy sources…

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An unbelievable travesty of justice occurred last week in Ohio after an illegal alien who killed a loving father and his young son was given an unbelievably lenient deal.

Back on February 28, the Ohio State Highway Patrol revealed that a driver who was later identified as 53-year-old Yvio Michel of Haiti, drove his Great Dane semi-truck northbound on Interstate 75 but failed to maintain sufficient distance as he approached congested traffic. As a result, he smacked into four passenger vehicles and another semi-truck.

Lima, Ohio, resident Hurshel Gipson and his 11-year-old son, Michael, were killed in a massive crash caused by the illegal alien. Gipson’s 45-year-old wife, Amanda, who was driving the family’s 2015 Buick Enclave, was transported to an area hospital with serious injuries.

Fortunately, she managed to survive the incident.

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As the federal government faces hundreds of billions of dollars in estimated annual fraud losses, a bipartisan majority of voters want it to use artificial intelligence to help catch waste and abuse, a new poll found.

In the latest The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll, 60% of registered voters said they support using artificial intelligence to help detect fraud, waste or abuse in government programs such as Medicaid. Twenty-seven percent opposed it and 13% were unsure.

The federal government could lose an estimated $233 billion to $521 billion a year to fraud, according to the Government Accountability Office, based on fiscal 2018-2022 data, though the tools meant to catch it have a mixed record.

Support crossed party lines. Nearly three-quarters of Republicans, 74%, backed the use of AI to detect fraud, along with 57% of independents and 48% of Democrats. Even among Democrats, the group most divided on the question, more supported the idea than opposed it.

The question comes as the government expands its use of AI and data matching to flag suspect payments. In fiscal 2025, federal agencies reported an estimated $186 billion in improper payments, about 82% of it from overpayments, concentrated in five programs that include Medicare and Medicaid, the program the poll asked voters about.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services screened 1 billion payments through the Treasury Department’s Do Not Pay system in fiscal 2024 and prevented 363,386 payments worth $2.6 billion.

Of $765.8 billion in overpayments that agencies attributed to data-access problems between fiscal 2021 and 2024, about 73% — or $556.6 billion — stemmed from a failure to access data agencies already possessed, according to the Congressional Research Service.

The scale of outright fraud has been more difficult to measure. The GAO estimate, from 2024, was the first and only government-wide fraud figure of its kind. GAO has said it has no plans to update the spending-side number, having recommended that the Treasury Department develop a method for producing one instead. Treasury had not done so as of July 2026.

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Another week, another historic church reduced to smoke, rubble. The former Saint Agnes Church on Martha Avenue in Toledo, Ohio went up early Saturday morning. The 116-year-old landmark’s steeple came down. The roof burned out. Nearby homes were evacuated. Once again the cause is listed as currently unknown.

Toledo Fire & Rescue was called around 6:30 a.m. Saturday after reports of heavy black smoke pouring from the roof of the vacant church in the Five Points neighborhood. Crews arrived to find the building already heavily engulfed.

Officials warned of collapse risk and alerted people in surrounding homes. The steeple later fell. By Saturday afternoon excavators were tearing the ruined structure down.

Saint Agnes opened in 1910. It was among 29 parishes closed or merged by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo in 2005. The parochial school shut the same year. The diocese no longer owns the property. A charter school now occupies the old school building next door and reported only minor smoke, water, and a cracked window.

One neighbor told local television: “About 6:45 we heard fire trucks and I peeked out my window and it literally looked like the whole street was on fire.”

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Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine.

“But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to those lazy bums over there, disarm you before you can do anything about it, and indoctrinate your children in public schools, so that they learn to resent you and love the State.

Democracy is dangerous without guardrails. Unless a society has a strong sense of moral virtue that fosters personal discipline, duty, and honor, base selfishness becomes the driving motivation behind all political action. Unless certain constitutional protections exist to safeguard each individual’s inviolable rights, democratic majorities devour those rights whenever expedient.

This should surprise no-one. Political philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke described humans’ pre-government “state of nature” as a chaotic, violent clash of self-interest. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” regards self-interest as the engine of free markets. Consequently, it is easy to understand why forms of democracy that are unshackled from both moral and constitutional restraints prompt a society to descend back into a state of nature in which humanity’s worst impulses are again indulged.

When Western leaders speak adoringly of “our democracy,” citizens should prepare to guard their freedoms. My goodness, there is nothing inherently virtuous about democracy. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un runs the most repressive regime on the planet, but his country is known officially as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea! China’s Xi Jinping is the general secretary of the oppressive Chinese Communist Party, but his nation remains officially the People’s Republic of China! Dictatorships around the globe claim to govern in the name of the people.

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As he is wont to do, President Donald Trump has posted something to his Truth Social page that has got people talking and speculating this Labor Day holiday weekend.

The POTUS has had space endeavors on his mind in recent weeks, which have included honoring the famed crew of Artemis II and announcing plans to sign “an executive order establishing a U.S. National Space Academy, apparently to feed into the Space Force and NASA,” as my RedState colleague Nick Arama previously reported.

“To continue to lead the world in space exploration and technology, while securing and defending our national interests in space, the Nation must prepare the next generation of astronauts, scientists, engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, civil servants, and warfighters and ensure that they are capable of advancing American interests in space,” Trump noted in the executive order he signed on August 28th.

He added that “it is my Administration’s policy to strengthen the Nation’s space workforce by expanding opportunities to educate and develop the next generation of leaders across the space domain.”

A young girl in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta revealed the harsh realities of mass migration from Africa into the region.

Ceuta, which is on the African continent, has been flooded with migrants in recent weeks, leading to tremendous strain on local residents and a number of shocking crimes.

The schoolgirl cried to a local news crew that the arrivals have made life in Ceuta unrecognizable.

“I want to go to school in peace, but we can’t go,” the child said, per a report from The Daily Wire.

“We’re scared. Very scared. We’re in a very bad way.”

The Daily Wire noted that 70,000 migrants have arrived in Ceuta, swimming around barriers and even climbing perimeter fences.

Ceuta had a population of 83,000 before the incursion — meaning local services cannot handle the migrants.

Silvia Rojas, the chief prosecutor for Ceuta, confirmed that there have been 23 sexual assaults since the beginning of the incursion.

About nine of them involved children.

I’ve talked about the hindrance of sanctuary cities in the past, and for good reason. Sanctuary cities are the biggest protective barrier against the deportation of violent illegal immigrants in this country. In effect, they limit cooperation with local police and city workers and restrict resources for federal agents trying to arrest such criminals.

Now, of course, these leaders who run such cities will say that such policies help build trust between local police and immigrant communities. But based on the increase in crime in certain cities, I think we can put that particular theory to sleep.

For a good while, President Donald Trump has been trying to find a way to fight back against these sanctuary cities and the rules that prevent ICE agents from properly doing their job alongside law enforcement to arrest and deport these dangerous criminals. But Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin believes there is a path forward.

Speaking on The Ingraham Angle last week, Mullin noted a new way to make these sanctuary cities pay for having these ridiculous policies in place – literally.

“Why are we allowing these sanctuary cities to still get funding from the federal government when it comes to, let’s say, their airport, when we’re processing immigration through these international airports? Why would we be processing immigration policies and immigrants into our state or into a city that is a sanctuary state or sanctuary city? It doesn’t make any sense to me.”

Yeah, me neither. And one particular operation that’s worth mentioning took place in New York over the past couple of months. With Operation Rotten Apple, ICE agents worked vigorously to arrest more than 2,100 illegal aliens, with a number of them being murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and sex offenders.

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“We need your voice,” Abdul El-Sayed told a sex offender who had been sentenced to prison for sexually soliciting what he thought was a 14-year-old girl online and then for “distributing child sexually abusive material and multiple counts of accosting children for immoral purposes.”

The sex offender had reinvented himself as an activist against incarceration and claimed that he had suffered, “I was only allowed to have the type of phone without a browser, and several times had my phone confiscated” and argued that the answer “is to address the root causes of crime… address the real problems… like education, lack of economic opportunity.”

“I hope that you’ll run, and I hope that when you do, you’ll find me out and let me have the opportunity to support,” Abdul El-Sayed endorsed his political activism. “We need your voice, folks who are affected by the experiences that you’ve had uniquely need your voice.”

One of the sex offender’s alleged former victims, said that he had “solicited me as a minor” and that he had “worked with Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed” and together with other politicians made it possible to expunge criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree and “removing rape from 17-24 year old’s permanent record.” The anonymous victim posted that “Abdul helped lead the decarceration movement. He was the president of the non-profit Michigan United.”

Abdul El-Sayed had served as the president of Michigan United aka the Michigan Organizing Project as part of a board with a number of Muslim figures including Aamina Ahmed of AAPI Rising, appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to head Protect Michigan, Senegalese immigrant activist Fatou-Seydi Sarr and Dearborn Magistrate Judge Rula Aoun. One of the organization’s missions was combating ‘mass incarceration’ and it was part of the Michigan Justice Advocacy coalition alongside Safe & Just Michigan where the sex offender worked as a lobbyist and argued for keeping sex offender registries secret and for allowing them to live near schools.

Michigan has one of the largest sex offender lists in the country making the threat worse.

Why was Abdul El-Sayed advocating for a man who had been “distributing child sexually abusive material” and “accosting children” and whose victim has spoken out against El-Sayed?

This was only one of a series of pedophilia scandals and intersections involving El-Sayed.

Earlier in August, Abdul El-Sayed had come under fire for a planned appearance at the Islamic Society of North America, an Islamic group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror funding trial, alongside numerous figures who had called for violence and terrorism, including Imam Tariq Masood who had praised Hitler and describing having “forced his 13-year-old niece into marriage, and advised his followers to do the same with their young female relatives.”

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Chicago rice futures are on track for their largest annual gain since 2003 as the grain that feeds much of the world becomes increasingly expensive amid an intensifying El Niño and diesel-fuel and fertilizer supply disruptions stemming from turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz and the Russia-Ukraine war. Despite encouraging signals of a potential Black Sea peace deal, which sent wheat futures tumbling earlier today, the risk of a broader food crisis next year remains elevated.

Chicago rice futures have surged more than 50% this year, while benchmark Thai prices have advanced for six consecutive weeks. Bloomberg says the rally reflects growing anxiety that adverse weather conditions and elevated agricultural input costs will curb production across Asia, which dominates global rice output and exports.

India’s monsoon rainfall was 13% below normal as of Wednesday, while US rice-crop conditions were weaker than a year earlier.

BMI commodities analyst Bin Hui Ong said monsoon-dependent producers such as Thailand and Indonesia are particularly vulnerable because dry conditions could coincide with critical planting and early crop development periods.

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Far-left progressive Dr. Karishma Manur, who won’t comment on socialists calling for the abolition of the Senate, has taken the lead over Chris Pappas. Pappas is a more normal Democrat. She is a Democratic Socialist who could become a US senator from New Hampshire.

She is a communist pushing for Medicare for All among other bad ideas.

Here she is blasting the Laken Riley Act and smearing ICE with lies:

She did admit she is a Democratic Socialist, while claiming she’d rather be called a progressive.

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A former Obama administration national security official is now arguing that Washington should treat Chinese data centers as potential military targets if Beijing appears close to achieving artificial general intelligence first.

According to a report from Futurism, Jacob Stokes — once a national security adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden and later with the Department of Homeland Security — laid out the case in a new paper titled “Superpowers and AGI,” published through the Center for a New American Security.

The South China Morning Post also highlighted the document. Stokes, now deputy director of CNAS’s Indo-Pacific Security Program, starts from the premise that AGI is coming and that the United States cannot afford to finish second.

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Welcome back to “The New Monroe Doctrine,” where I round up what’s going on south of our border in Central and South America and the Caribbean, especially as it relates to the United States.

It’s been a few months since I’ve done this. We’ll call it a summer hiatus. This column usually takes a long time to write — and if I’m being honest, much more time than what I actually earn for it — so it’s a passion project. Unfortunately, my summer has been a bit busy, so passion projects of all sorts had to be sidelined.

And while this is typically a pretty lengthy and comprehensive column, this will be a travel-size pre-Labor Day weekend version, if you will. There were two major stories from last week that I didn’t get around to covering and really didn’t want the week to end without doing so.

What Are We Going to Do with All These Communists? 

“Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It’s the greatest threat to our country.” – Donald Trump

While communism seems to be on the rise in the United States, I’ve spent the last year and a half documenting its fall in the rest of the Western Hemisphere (at least south of our border). As the story goes, over the last few years, Latin American and Caribbean countries have been voting more center-right than they did previously. Much of this was driven by cartels, violence, and organized crime. Illegal immigration, economics, an aversion to socialism in general, and being fed up with woke value systems also played a role.

Unfortunately, there remain some countries where people can’t just vote themselves out of it. My hope is that by 2028, there won’t be, or, at least, they’ll be close.

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The U.S. was no stranger to terror attacks before Sept. 11, 2001, both at home and abroad, but none shaped America and the world quite like the attacks on 9/11, which occurred 25 years ago Friday.

The Sept 11 attacks – in which 19 Islamic terrorists hiijacked four U.S. commercial planes, crashing them into both twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon and a Shanksville, Pennsylvania, field after passengers overtook the hijackers – caused the deaths of 2,996 people, including the terrorists.

Between the 1960s and 1970s, a leftist group, the Weather Underground, terrorized the U.S. government agencies, claiming credit for 25 bombings, including explosions at the U.S. State Department, U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the California Attorney General’s office and a New York City police station. No innocent people were killed in the attacks, while three of their members were killed in an accidental explosion in a New York City townhouse in 1970.

The 1980s saw a major uptick in Islamic-inspired terror attacks targeting Americans overseas, setting their sights on air travel, especially.

During the Lebanese Civil War, Hezbollah, a terror proxy of Iran, was responsible for the April 18, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people and injuring 120.

The same year, the Marine Barracks in Beirut was attacked on Oct. 23, killing 242 and injuring 60 Americans. Up until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Marine Barracks bombing stood as the deadliest terror attack against the U.S., and the deadliest single-death toll for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima during World War II in 1945.

A TWA flight flying from Rome to Athens was hijacked by two Hezbollah terrorists on June 14, 1985. One American hostage, a U.S. Navy sailor, Second Class Petty Officer Robert Stethem, was murdered.

A few years later, on April 14, 1988, a car-bomb exploded outside a USO club in Naples, Italy, killing one U.S. sailor, Third Class Petty Officer Angela Simone Santos, and injuring four other American sailors. The group, Jihad Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the U.S. Department of State.

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In 2026, 55% of those with Parts A and B used Medicare Advantage. Program spending was about $1.21 trillion in 2025 and near $1.3 trillion in 2026, up from $666 billion a decade earlier.

Medicare is projected to go bankrupt by 2032, but thanks to the last 18 months of investigations into waste, fraud and abuse at the second-largest entitlement fund, the life of the program may be extended by over a decade, or longer.

“The beautiful thing about taking out fraud is you’re taking out bad guys who are stealing from poor people,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told Just The News exclusively.

“The American people love it, but you’re also saving the program from insolvency. We project that Medicare will go bankrupt in about six years. We could double that life expectancy just by taking the fraud out of Medicare—forget the rest of it—just from Medicare.”

Under President Donald Trump, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has focused on program integrity rather than a comprehensive solvency package that would close the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund gap.

CMS reports it has blocked more than $1.6 billion in potentially fraudulent laboratory payments since January 2025 and cited $42 billion in FY2025 fraud-prevention savings. Officials, including Oz and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, describe waste, fraud and abuse crackdowns as the main path to stretch Medicare dollars.

The July 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act made 2017-era tax cuts permanent and added a senior deduction, which the 2026 Trustees Report says reduced Hospital Insurance revenue from taxation of Social Security benefits and widened the 75-year shortfall.

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An altercation at a McDonald’s location in Lodi, California, resulted in a worker being shot and another worker being killed by law enforcement.

Police in Lodi, which is in California’s Central Valley, responded to the incident around 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 25, hearing gunshots and screaming inside the McDonald’s when they arrived, per a report from KCRA.

The officers encountered an employee who had been shot.

They also encountered Jonhatan Anguiano, 29, who was fired upon by at least one officer and died at the scene.

Anguiano was employed by the same McDonald’s restaurant.

KCRA reported that the McDonald’s was closed the following day, with a cleaning van observed in the parking lot.

The injured employee was in stable condition, according to KCRA.

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s global food-commodity index climbed in August to its highest level since 2022, with the index now gaining momentum to the upside. The upside reinforces warnings from several major Wall Street desks, which we have covered extensively, that global food shortages could materialize next year.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of globally traded food commodities, averaged 133.3 in August, up 1.9% from July, with every major category advancing. Sugar prices surged 11.9%, while wheat gained 2.6% and now stands 15% above year-ago levels.

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Thank God for TRUTH Social! You can get the truth without the liberal media BS getting in the way.

President Trump posted several items today describing the amazing Trump economy and the manufacturing renaissance taking place in America today.

America is ascending, and it’s all because of President Trump, his administration, and their brilliant economic plan.

From Friday’s White House economic report – America added 162,000 jobs in August, triple the estimates!

“America added 162,000 jobs in August — triple economists’ expectations. The private sector has now created over one million jobs under President Trump, whose reindustrialization agenda continues to drive manufacturing and factory construction job growth. America is in the middle of a historic investment boom, and the August jobs report is the latest data point showing how Americans are benefitting from the Trump administration’s pro-growth policies.  The best is yet to come with even more job, wage, and economic growth in store for everyday Americans.”
— White House spokesman Kush Desai

Here’s what you need to know:

• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August — nearly triple economists’ expectations (again) — for the second-largest monthly gain of President Trump’s second term.
• Main Street Wins: More than one million private-sector jobs have been created in President Trump’s second term, while federal employment remains at its lowest share of the workforce on record.
• Factory Comeback: After years of Biden-era decline, manufacturers added 16,000 jobs last month — the strongest monthly gain in three years — and 58,000 jobs this year, powered by huge demand for pharmaceutical and defense production, data center construction, and semiconductor plants.

More on the THRIVING ECONOMY from President Trump’s TRUTH Social account:

GREAT NEWS! Our THRIVING Economy added 162 THOUSAND Jobs in August, in honor of our Great American Workers who we celebrate this (and every!) Labor Day.

This strong number is nearly TRIPLE the predictions of the Bloomberg survey’s so-called “Economists,” who continue to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The effects of the Trump Boom can be seen across many Industries. My Administration’s Fair Trade Policies, using a wonderful tool called “TARIFFS,” have reset the Global Economy, bringing Manufacturing Jobs BACK to America, like never before. Factory Construction is BOOMING as Companies take advantage of FULL EXPENSING — One year deduction. Before long, these Factories will be teeming with red, white, and blue-blooded AMERICAN Workers! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Hate crimes targeting Jewish New Yorkers have surged in 2026, accounting for more than half of all confirmed hate crimes in New York City as Jewish leaders accuse Mayor Zohran Mamdani of helping inflame the environment with his anti-Israel rhetoric.

NYPD statistics show 425 hate crimes were recorded across the city during the first eight months of 2026, compared with 367 during the same period last year, marking an increase of 15.8%.

More than 200 of those incidents targeted Jews, with anti-Jewish hate crimes rising 8% from last year.

The numbers are particularly stark considering Jewish residents represent only about 10% of New York City’s population.

Yet they accounted for more than half of the city’s confirmed hate crimes.

Jewish Leaders Point to Mamdani’s Anti-Israel Rhetoric

The surge has prompted Jewish leaders to place some of the blame directly on Mamdani, whose outspoken hostility toward Israel has been a defining feature of his political career.

Mamdani has accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza and called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested.

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Federal immigration authorities arrested three Guatemalan illegal aliens in Tennessee during an investigation into the alleged fraudulent use of stolen identities and Social Security numbers.

ICE officers arrested Magdalena Gomez-Garcia, Elias Gomez-Garcia, and Eulalia Ordonez-Carmelo on August 4.

All three Guatemalan nationals were reportedly already subject to final orders of removal from the United States, Border Hawk first reported.

Magdalena Gomez-Garcia is accused of stealing the identity of a New York resident and using the victim’s Social Security number to obtain employment in Tennessee.

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“to clarify how Federal civil rights laws apply when antisemitic discrimination arises in HHS-funded programs and activities”

Note the last paragraph, where it mentions who this letter is addressed to.

From the HHS website:

OCR Dear Colleague Letter on Civil Rights Protections Against Antisemitic Discrimination

Re: Combating Discrimination Rooted in Antisemitism in HHS-Funded Programs and Activities

Dear Colleagues:

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issues this letter to clarify how Federal civil rights laws apply when antisemitic discrimination1 arises in HHS-funded programs and activities.2 Recipients of HHS Federal financial assistance must administer their programs and activities without discrimination based on race, color, or national origin.  That obligation applies pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and, in covered health programs and activities, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (Section 1557).

Title VI provides that “[n]o person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”3  Section 1557 separately prohibits discrimination in covered health programs and activities on grounds prohibited by Title VI and other enumerated civil rights statutes.4  Antisemitic conduct may violate Title VI or Section 1557 when the facts establish discrimination on a protected ground, including actual or perceived Jewish ancestry or ethnic characteristics, Israeli national origin, or another protected ground.5

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I. The word

Peter Thiel spent the back half of last year giving private lectures on the Antichrist, and the word has been loose in the discourse ever since. His political reading is the old one. The Antichrist is not a cartoon devil. He is the figure who arrives offering peace and safety, and who uses the fear of catastrophe to install one universal order. In Thiel’s telling that figure is a regulator. He stops technology in the name of survival. The price of the peace is stagnation.

I want the frame. I do not want his conclusion.

The more probable figure is not the one who promises safety. It is the one who promises growth. Most of the world does not lie awake about existential risk from machine intelligence. It lies awake about electricity, logistics, credit, tax collection, and a median citizen who is twenty four and needs work. To that world the universal offer is not a moratorium. It is a stack. Cheap. Financed. Hosted. Present. Already attached to the handsets, the ports, and the power.

That is the soft Antichrist. It does not arrive with a speech about ending history. It arrives as the only AI that can grow your GDP.

I am not writing theology. I am writing underwriting.

II. The comforting story

The market is telling itself a story. The AI race is a contest of models. America builds the best systems. China copies. Europe regulates. Capital therefore clusters around closed labs, chipmakers, and hyperscale cloud. The scoreboard is a benchmark table.

That story is not false. It is incomplete in a way that misprices power. It treats the richest customers as the only customers that matter. It treats evaluations as destiny. It treats national power as a software demo.

I disagree.

The race will be decided by who becomes the default operating system for the economies that still have the most growth left. Those economies will not adopt AI as a lifestyle product. They will adopt it as a growth tool. They will take the stack that is cheap, present, financed, and attached to what they already run. If that stack is Chinese, Beijing does not need to conquer anyone. It only needs to become expensive to leave.

III. Where the mass actually is

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Jeffrey Gahler cited the killings of Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton in warning about the law’s potential public safety risks

A Maryland sheriff is warning that the state’s new sanctuary law could put dangerous illegal immigrants back on the streets and leave more American families mourning crimes he says could have been prevented.

“It’s just a matter of time,” Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told Fox News Digital, warning that the restrictions will lead to more crime and more victims.

Gahler delivered the blunt warning after testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee about Maryland’s restrictions on cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. He is also leading 16 fellow sheriffs, representing two-thirds of the state, in a lawsuit challenging the Community Trust Act.

The 40-year law enforcement veteran said his greatest fear is that the law will force correctional officers to release an illegal immigrant from jail even after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has flagged that person as a public safety or national security threat.

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A massive water leak in El Reno, Oklahoma has brought new scrutiny to a Bitcoin mining operation that city officials say had been operating without required approvals and in violation of multiple building and safety codes, according to KFOR 4. Three million gallons of water were leaked, according to KOCO ABC.

The facility, operated by Athlon BT LLC, had largely escaped public attention until the leak was discovered. City officials say the company had also installed a fire hydrant without their knowledge, while questions remain about how water was being used at the site.

Athlon originally applied for building permits in 2022. By 2023, however, El Reno had issued a stop-work order after the permits expired and officials identified multiple fire and life-safety code violations. The company was given until December 2023 to address the problems, according to the city.

Instead, officials say Athlon continued construction and eventually began operating the facility despite lacking the inspections and final certificate of occupancy required by the city. Officials have cited problems involving electrical systems, drainage and other areas of the property.

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Democratic Texas Senate Nominee James Talarico was called out for his 2019 vote against a bill banning income taxes in Texas during an interview with CBS Texas, where he collapsed and lied about his stances. 

CBS Texas’s Jack Fink noted that Republicans are attacking him for voting against banning the Texas state income tax as a state legislator in 2019, asking, “Why did you do that?”

When Talarico tried to claim that he voted against it because it was “already banned,” Fink fired back, reminding him, “This would have banned it permanently.”

The proposal in question, which raised the bar by requiring a two-thirds majority in both legislative chambers to impose an income tax, was passed by the Texas House and Senate and then approved by voters on the November 2019 ballot.

Talarico then scrambled, giving a word-salad answer, calling the Republicans’ push to codify the existing legislation “duplicative government overreach at its worst,” further accusing Republicans of “trying to grandstand on an issue.” According to Talarico, lowering taxes is “government overreach” now.

He went on to claim that the legislation “did nothing” and that he has “always” been against income taxes, despite voting against ending income tax. “I’m against an income tax in Texas, always have been. But I’m going to be against any lawmaker in any party who’s just trying to do a stunt on the floor instead of solving problems.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/watch-james-talarico-called-during-interview-voting-against/WATCH:

This comes after Talarico openly bragged about his plans to raise taxes and on the “wealthy” during a sit-down panel with liberal billionaire Mark Cuban and liberal Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov, the Gateway Pundit reported.

President Trump’s face is now on a new $1 coin being sold by the US Mint, and collectors will have to shell out more than a buck to get their hands on one.

The Mint is selling the commemorative coins featuring the sitting president as part of its celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, according to its website.

“These coins are also in circulation, so check your pocket change. Collect them today!” the Mint said on X.

The 2026 Semiquincentennial President Donald J. Trump $1 Coin will be released into circulation and available for purchase in bags and rolls, exclusively from the United States Mint.US Mint

The Philadelphia-minted currency is available in 25-coin rolls and 100-coin bags, and priced between $61 and $154.50, the Mint said.

One side features a portrait of Trump alongside the inscriptions “liberty” and “in God we trust” in all caps, along with “1776 ~ 2026.”

The portrait was designed by US Mint Chief Engraver Joseph Menna and was inspired by an official White House photograph taken by Daniel Torok, according to the Mint.

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Talk about summer blues.

The number of Republican-held Senate seats that are toss-ups or lean Democratic has surged from three in May to six as the post-Labor Day midterm homestretch is about to begin, according to a top political analysis.

In May, only the GOP-held seats in North Carolina, Maine, and Ohio were considered toss-ups or leaning towards Democrats. Now, Texas, Iowa, and Alaska have also turned into toss-ups, per the Cook Political Report.

President Trump won each of those states except Maine in 2024 — four of them by double digits.

“I worry about that, for sure,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SC) admitted to Keloland News last week, when asked about the odds of Republicans losing their grip on the upper chamber.

“I’m a realist, and … I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.”

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The city council for Democrat-run Danbury, Connecticut, voted to allow non-citizen migrants to serve as city police officers. The vote was taken in retaliation after federal immigration forces had recently conducted raids in the town.

The city council members said that they voted to allow migrants to serve as cops to send a message to federal immigration officials. The vote was lopsided in favor of supporting illegals as only two of twenty council members voted against the measure, the Hartford Courant reported.

The qualifications for police in the town now include DACA recipients and non-citizen legal residents.

Left-wing city council member Joe Britton claimed that each applicant would still undergo the same background checks as other applicants, and insisted that once in uniform, the migrants will be “on the same team” as natural-born citizen police.

“In the Army, I learned quickly your background doesn’t matter when you put on the uniform. Same team. Same mission. I believe the same applies to our police,” he exclaimed.

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President Trump posted a map showing New Mexico rebranded as “New America” during a rapid-fire Truth Social storm on Sunday.

The post, one of 34 made in less than an hour, showed a map of the southwestern state with the word “Mexico” crossed out and replaced with “America.”

The rebrand would be the latest America-themed name change by the president after he ordered that the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario be rechristened the Gulf of America and Lake America, respectively.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore released a video statement on Saturday, announcing that a ballot initiative to erase the state’s single Republican district was approved by the Maryland Supreme Court and vowing to use the ruling to disenfranchise state Republicans. 

Per Politico:

The Maryland Supreme Court on Thursday gave Democrats a victory in the state’s protracted redistricting battle, allowing the Legislature’s proposed amendment on redistricting that party leaders want to clear the way for a 2028 gerrymander to appear before voters in November.

If approved by voters on Election Day, the measure known as Question 3 will prevent future Democratic redraws from being subjected to strict compactness and geographic standards that undid their last attempt at an 8-0 map in 2022.

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Far-left Maine U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson just told a crowd of mobile-home park residents that the government should be able to take private property when he doesn’t like who owns it.

At a Labor Day weekend campaign stop Saturday at Blueberry Ridge Mobile Village in Wells, Jackson said the state should step in and take over parks owned by out-of-state companies and private equity firms.

“I feel strongly that, if needed, the state should be able to come in, to take these places over,” Jackson told residents gathered in a backyard, according to the Portland Press Herald.

He added that the state should hold the sites until residents can take them over “so you don’t see these private equity (firms) coming in and making a killing on these parks.”

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A Fox Business host was allegedly left permanently disfigured after she was attacked by a pit bull in a Whole Foods store, according to a lawsuit.

Jackie DeAngelis, co-host of The Big Money Show, was shopping at a grocery store in Manhattan in September 2023 when she was mauled by the dog, the filing states.

Whole Foods prohibits pets that are not service animals from entering the store.

However, DeAngelis, 46, is now suing the retailer and accused them in her lawsuit of failing to remove the animal before she sustained ‘severe, serious and permanent personal injuries.’

‘As a result of the occurrence, [DeAngelis] sustained injuries to her body, including significant scarring and disfigurement, together with pain, suffering and emotional distress,’ the lawsuit states.

Police told the New York Post that a black pit bull bit the Fox host on her left hand. By the time officers arrived at the scene, the dog and its owner had fled.

The filing claims that DeAngelis has undergone surgical treatment as a result of the incident and has suffered permanent injuries.

DeAngelis is seeking unspecified damages, alleging that the grocer allowed the dog into the store despite its policy.

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(SALISBURY, MD) – Maryland State Police arrested and charged a Cambridge man on Saturday night after he drove the wrong way on U.S. Route 13 for several miles before colliding with a Maryland State Police patrol vehicle.

The driver of a Ford F-250, identified as Joshua Jorette, 36, of Cambridge, Maryland, was arrested on the scene. He is charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and other related charges. He is being held at the Wicomico County Detention Center.

A Maryland State Trooper, assigned to the Salisbury Barrack, was transported to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries and has since been released. The driver and a passenger in a Ford Expedition involved in the crash, a 66-year-old male and a 64-year-old female, were also transported by ambulance to a local hospital.

Shortly before 7:30 p.m. yesterday, the Maryland State Police Salisbury Barrack received multiple reports of a Ford pickup truck traveling north in the southbound lanes of the Salisbury Bypass (U.S. Route 13). A trooper near the Johnson Road overpass located the vehicle and attempted to intercept it, but the pickup truck continued northbound and nearly struck his patrol vehicle. The trooper continued to follow the pickup truck and attempted to make another traffic stop. The vehicle then continued to flee north.

A second trooper responding to the incident observed multiple stationary vehicles and their occupants on the shoulder just north of the pickup truck’s location in the area of U.S. Route 13 at Route 50. Recognizing the extreme danger posed to the motorists and pedestrians behind him, the second trooper maneuvered his patrol vehicle directly in the path of the pickup truck driver in another attempt to stop the vehicle. Jorette attempted to maneuver around the patrol vehicle, but the trooper was able to absorb the impact. The crash caused the Ford to spin and strike a Ford Expedition before becoming inoperable.

The investigation remains active and ongoing.

New GiveSendGo donations will go into an attorney trust account as questions linger over how earlier funds were spent

Karmelo Anthony’s family is seeking another $250,000 to fund his appeal after an earlier campaign raised nearly $634,000 and faced questions over how the money was spent, the family announced at a news conference in Dallas, Texas.

The fundraising push came nearly two weeks after a judge denied Anthony’s request for a new trial. His family and supporters, including attorney Russell Wilson, used the Dallas news conference to outline the appeal.

Anthony, 19, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in June after a jury convicted him of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. He has appealed and says he cannot afford to hire an attorney for the appeal.

The new fund is intended to cover legal fees, experts and other costs associated with challenging Anthony’s conviction, Wilson said.

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In the old days, a criminal that had committed an extremely violent crime would go to prison and stay there. That made society safer, and it deterred others that were thinking of doing the same thing. But now in many areas of the country things are completely different. Way too often, violent criminals with very long arrest records are put back into the streets over and over again.

Of course what happens next is entirely predictable. Lots of extremely violent crimes are being committed by hardened thugs that have committed extremely violent crimes before. This is occurring far more frequently in blue states than it is in red states. Unfortunately, those that are in positions of power in our blue states never seem to see the error of their ways.

Earlier today, I came across a story that really upset me…

An Oregon leftist who wrote a manifesto, built Molotov cocktails, ordered an AR-15, and planned to stalk ICE agents home, murder them, and take their heads as trophies is going back into society.

Rayden Tanner Coleman, 19, of Columbia City, Oregon, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of unlawful manufacture of a destructive device.

As part of the sweetheart agreement, prosecutors dismissed 13 other charges, including attempted first-degree domestic terrorism, second-degree domestic terrorism, attempted assault, and several destructive-device offenses.

If he had been convicted of all the charges, he would have been in prison for a really, really long time.

But instead he got an absolutely absurd sweetheart deal that includes no time in prison except for time that he has already served…

Coleman must continue receiving mental-health treatment, undergo evaluations, surrender the weapons seized by authorities, and pay $550 in fines and fees.

Judge Michael T. Clarke sentenced him to 36 months of supervised probation and 75 days in jail with credit for time already served. That means zero additional days behind bars.

That’s it.

Money could have gone to unindicted terror funding co-conspirators.

Last September 11, every Muslim in Congress and some of their radical allies teamed up on a congressional resolution demanding reparations to Muslims for their suffering after 9/11.

House Resolution 741, introduced a week after the anniversary of September 11, claimed that “in the aftermath of September 11, 2001” Muslims “experienced hate and were targeted by the government” and called for “various forms of relief to support those affected.”

The money would have potentially gone to Islamic groups listed as terror co-conspirators.

While the resolution did not specify which “community-based organizations” that “center the experiences and demands of Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern” and others would have benefited from Congress “allocating resources”, potentially millions of dollars, the official endorsees of the resolution included the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an Islamic terrorist funding trial raising the possibility of these 9/11 ‘reparations’ going not just to Islamic groups, but even to those linked to Islamic terrorism.

Other Islamic groups that endorsed and could have potentially benefited from the ‘9/11 Muslim reparations bill’ including Muslim Advocates, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Muslims for Just Futures and the Muslim Justice League had their own ties to unindicted co-conspirators in terror funding. These include CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) where key figures had championed violence and whose former officials included an unindicted coconspirator in the World Trade Center bombing as its former vice president raising the troubling possibility that ‘9/11 reparations’ money could have benefited advocates and organizations tied not only to Islamic terrorism but even to the original WTC attack which had been carried out by the nephew of the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.

The four Muslims in Congress at the time had joined forces to equate the Americans killed in the 9/11 attacks with the Muslims, including Al Qaeda terrorists, they claimed had suffered at the hands of the United States of America. The congressional resolution complained about “overreaching policing, surveillance, and criminalization policies”, “discriminatory searches and seizures of Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern” and others, as well as “torture at Guantanamo Bay to extrajudicial drone strikes” against Al Qaeda members.

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The concert lineup for the second annual OC Rock and Ride event is pictured.

Check out the state park on the western shore and what they have been able to do with it.  I wonder if the Wetipquin state park will be anything nearly as nice?  The yurts, camp store/library, cabins and trails… It’s very nice…

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has officially opened Savage Highlands State Park, which provides increased access to tens of thousands of acres of state forest and natural areas in Garrett County and the surrounding region.

Maryland’s newest state welcomed its first overnight reservation-holders the weekend of August 28 along with a steady stream of day-use visitors touring the new location and talking with staff. The park’s main lodge is open the public every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reservations are being accepted for yurts and campsites through November 1.

Savage Highlands State Park provides family-friendly accommodations for rent and serves as a major access point to Western Maryland’s network of state parks, state forests, rivers, reservoirs, and mountain trails.

Formerly a privately-owned luxury lodge, Savage Highlands State Park includes a large central lodge, 18 cabins, eight yurts, and approximately 5.75 miles of trails. The complex serves as a gateway to the surrounding 55,000-acre Savage River State Forest and the nearby network of year-round outdoor activities including hiking, mountain biking, fishing, skiing, swimming, paddling, and hunting.

Maryland DNR Secretary Josh Kurtz said Savage Highlands amounts to one of the department’s most significant new park openings in decades. When the property previously known as Savage River Lodge was available for sale, DNR pursued it with that vision in mind, and to protect the property from any commercial development that would be inconsistent with the natural features of the surrounding state forest.

Secretary Kurtz and Maryland Park Service staff dedicated the new park during a ceremony August 21 featuring Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman and State Senate President William C. Ferguson.

Read more about Savage Highlands State Park.

The House has joined the Senate in passing a bill that would delay a federal ban on hemp-derived THC products set to take effect in November.

The bill has been sent to President Donald Trump for his signature. This will give lawmakers more time to examine legislation that would allow people to purchase these products instead of outright banning them.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that contains provisions to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products that is currently scheduled to take effect in November. The legislation, which has already been approved by the Senate, is intended to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations as an alternative to prohibition.

It now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The provision is part of legislation, which cleared the House in a 370-48 vote on Tuesday, to keep the federal government funded through December 11—past the end of the current fiscal year on September 30. If enacted into law, the effective date of the hemp product ban would also be moved to December 11.

The Senate last month rejected an amendment from Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) and several cosponsors that would have removed the hemp ban delay provision from the funding bill, tabling it in a vote of 61-32, and the passing the overall legislation 90-6.

Hemp derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis were federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill that President Donald Trump signed during his first term in office. But late last year, the president signed new legislation containing provisions that will redefine hemp to make it so only products with 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container will remain legal after November 12.

Blue catfish and flathead catfish are being caught in the Conowingo Dam pool and in the lower Susquehanna River.

Spot are still available in many locations throughout the middle Chesapeake: Whitehall Bay, Eastern Bay, the mouth of the Choptank near Black Walnut Point and Cooks Point, the mouth of the Little Choptank, and Chesapeake Beach.

Anglers in the lower Bay are enjoying an exciting run of Spanish mackerel. The numbers and size of the fish are about as good as anyone could hope for, so don’t miss it!

Read more about the week ahead!

On August 19th the Treasury announced it would increase the size of its nominal long-end liquidity support buybacks beginning September 9. The long end yields declined on the headline. Cue the usual chorus of X hot takes: stealth QE, yield-curve control lite, money printing etc.

The reality is much less bombastic…it is mostly a jawboning exercise.

The Treasury Is Not the Fed…The Treasury Cannot Create Money

Buybacks of this type are a recycling operation. You issue more bills and notes on the front end and you take some longer paper off the street. You can tidy up liquidity in off-the-run issues. You can send a signal that you would prefer the 30-year not print a fresh multi-decade highs on a Tuesday. What you cannot do is print reserves, expand the monetary base, or run a proper balance sheet policy the way the Federal Reserve can. Confusing the two is how people talk themselves into thinking a few billion of “liquidity support” is 2020 all over again.

The size tells the story. Coupon supply at the long end is still large. Doubling a buyback program that was already small relative to annual issuance is, at best, a band-aid. Markets gave it a day. Then they remembered the calendar. The signal from Bessent is not nothing but it is not as big as it seems in the broader picture.

Who is actually in charge of the long end of the yield curve? It is not the Fed. It is not Scott Bessent’s operations desk. It is priced by growth expectations and inflation expectations or said differently the boom/bust cycle.

Who is in charge of that? The laws of nature and God.

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During a recent episode of his podcast, Adam Carolla went off on the idea that there are people in the country who don’t pay any federal income tax, yet are still able to vote, even if it means they might be provided ‘free’ things as a result.

Carolla said that these people should not be allowed to vote because they have no skin in the game.

There are probably millions of Americans who agree with him on this.

Partial transcript via the Vigilant Fox:

The Left insists that no one is pushing for Islamic Sharia law in America. Of course, that’s just not true. In Minneapolis and elsewhere, businesses and governments are offering “Sharia-compliant” financial products to Muslims. If they’re offering that to comply with Sharia law, where does it stop?

Schools are demanding all-Halal meals, California is about to make Islamic holidays part of the school calendar — despite Muslims being only one percent of the state population — and even Abdul El-Sayed said he’s required to follow Sharia law until the day he dies.

Now an Islamic scholar in Chicago is saying Islam didn’t come here to coexist with us. They came here to conquer us, and Sharia law is part of that.

“Unfortunately, these days, we don’t repeat this enough, or we don’t have this doctrinal concept firm in our minds that Islam did not come to coexist,” he said. “The Prophet Muhammad said, ‘Islam is always superior and should never be surpassed.’ Islam is raised high and nothing is raised above Islam.”

“We can’t think of Islam that it came to live with these other religions in the sense that Islam is a religion among those religions and they have a share with the truth and they have a share of justice and they have a share of the correct worship,” he continued. “Islam came to correct all of that. Islam came to remove the oppression of all those religions. And it is the only truth and it is the only way to justice.”

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‘Adventure in the Western Maryland Wilderness’

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has officially opened Savage Highlands State Park, which provides increased access to tens of thousands of acres of state forest and natural areas in Garrett County and the surrounding region.

Maryland’s newest state welcomed its first overnight reservation-holders the weekend of August 28 along with a steady stream of day-use visitors touring the new location and talking with staff. The park’s main lodge is open the public every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reservations are being accepted for yurts and campsites through November 1.

Savage Highlands State Park provides family-friendly accommodations for rent and serves as a major access point to Western Maryland’s network of state parks, state forests, rivers, reservoirs, and mountain trails.

Formerly a privately-owned luxury lodge, Savage Highlands State Park includes a large central lodge, 18 cabins, eight yurts, and approximately 5.75 miles of trails. The complex serves as a gateway to the surrounding 55,000-acre Savage River State Forest and the nearby network of year-round outdoor activities including hiking, mountain biking, fishing, skiing, swimming, paddling, and hunting.

Maryland DNR Secretary Josh Kurtz said Savage Highlands amounts to one of the department’s most significant new park openings in decades. When the property previously known as Savage River Lodge was available for sale, DNR pursued it with that vision in mind, and to protect the property from any commercial development that would be inconsistent with the natural features of the surrounding state forest.

Secretary Kurtz and Maryland Park Service staff dedicated the new park during a ceremony August 21 featuring Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman and State Senate President William C. Ferguson.

Read more about Savage Highlands State Park.

We begin this week’s perambulations with a stroll into the future.

So far…the Bubble in the US is broader than any in history. It has been inflating everything it touched for the last 30 years.

All bubbles pop, of course. How they pop is the confusing whirlwind we enter today.

But don’t worry. Even in the worst crash, real wealth doesn’t disappear, it just changes hands. When the stock market goes down, those with stocks have less paper wealth…and less of a claim on real wealth. They are ‘poorer.’ That leaves those without stocks relatively richer. They have a bigger claim on the real goods and services the economy produces.

The feds and their elite cronies have a good racket going…diddling markets so as to shift more and more wealth away from the public and towards themselves. They own most of the capital assets…and they control the US budget. Pressuring interest rates lower, and backing up the stock market with bailouts and ‘put’ options…they’ve gotten richer and richer. As we saw last week, at today’s prices the stockholding class can theoretically buy twice the GDP…and have $10 trillion left over.

It wasn’t capitalism that made them so rich; it was a corrupt money system. And if the dogs of capitalism were unleashed, they’d have their fake money fortunes for dinner. Interest rates would be set by honest savers and borrowers — not by Fed policy decisions. Prices would be determined by buyers and sellers; the budget would be balanced; the debt would be cleaned up; the troops would come home; inflation would disappear; and the Baltimore O’s would win the World Series.

But of course, we’re dreaming.

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The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it’s investigating several major American grocers concerning massive spikes in beef prices.

“@JusticeATR has expanded its investigation to include 8 of the largest grocers when it comes to beef affordability,” the DOJ posted on X.

“@ASGWoodward sent letters to the following regarding the recent increases in the retail price for beef: Kroger, Publix, Walmart, Albertsons, Aldi, Ahold Delhaize USA, Costco, Amazon.”

“Beef prices are a critical concern to Americans, and a priority for this Justice Department.”

This news comes nearly four months after the DOJ launched a probe against top meatpackers JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef to investigate possible antitrust violations, Fox Business reported.

Attorney General Todd Blanche held a press conference back in May, revealing that federal officials have been examining three million pertinent documents while contacting “industry participants, including ranchers, cattlemen, producers, and processors,” for potential interviews.

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Senator John Fetterman may be a Democrat, but he has also been one of the most vocal critics of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

During a recent appearance on FOX News, Fetterman dropped some serious truths about the DSA, saying that they are anti-American, but buried in his comments was a huge truth about these people that doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough.

Fetterman says, ‘they want to impoverish middle class whites’ and that is absolutely correct. Listen to any one of them talk long enough and they will eventually link capitalism to white supremacy.

It’s not true, but it is one of their favorite talking points.

Breitbart News reports:

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) called out the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for being “deeply anti-American” and for wanting to “impoverish middle class” white people.

During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Hannity went over the DSA’s agenda and how they want to “eliminate the Senate,” grant amnesty to illegal aliens, and abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons, among other things. Hannity went on to ask Fetterman if he agrees “with any part” of what he mentioned.

“Of course not. Like, the DSA, they’re deeply anti-American,” Fetterman said. “They’re deeply anti-capitalism. They’re deeply anti-the American way of life.”

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Despite the majority of citizens (including Democrats), who don’t want non-citizens on Michigan’s voter rolls, Michigan Secretary of State and Democrat candidate for governor, Jocelyn Benson, isn’t giving up the fight to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls and prevent any petition by the people, government entity, or even U.S. Supreme Court from identifying and removing them.

Michigan voters, regardless of political party, do NOT want non-citizens voting in their elections. In fact, a whopping 87% of voters evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in Michigan said in a recent Remington Group poll that they are not in favor of non-citizens voting in Michigan elections.

America’s dirtiest Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is not about representing the people she was elected to represent, she is, and always has been, about looking out for her own special interests. Jocelyn Benson and her right hand man, Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater, have done everything within their power to ensure non-citizens are not only placed on Michigan’s voter rolls, but ensuring they maintain the sole authority to identify them.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was recently speaking to Larry Kudlow of the FOX Business Network about the economy and the topic of socialism and the DSA came up.

Bessent’s description of the voters who are supporting the DSA was positively brutal, but completely accurate.

Victor Davis Hanson and others have described these people as overeducated and downwardly mobile. Bessent’s description wasn’t too far off from that.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

LARRY KUDLOW: I was talking last night at dinner. We’re seeing the people that finance ministers are sitting next to at your head table. So we’re seeing free enterprise move through this hemisphere, very interesting. A lot of overturning of the left and socialism, moving back towards free market economics. Argentina is probably the best example, but by far not the only example.

I sat next to the finance minister of Poland. He was talking about the reforms. I sat next to the finance minister of Italy, who was moaning and groaning that he can’t get his reforms through, but he had the right idea…

TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: Look, I agree. And we’ve seen some great examples. I think we have a generational opportunity in the Western Hemisphere. As you said, it was led by Argentina and the reforms there. Everyone said it couldn’t be done. And now we are seeing the inflation drop, the change in economic circumstances.

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The Islamic Center of Irving, which operates the Islamic School of Irving, faces a civil lawsuit alleging school officials failed to call police after a woman reported that a 14-year-old former student raped her while she cleaned the school.

The 22-page petition, filed Aug. 24 in Dallas County’s 193rd Judicial District Court under cause No. DC-26-16400, seeks more than $1 million and a jury trial.

The case names the Islamic Center of Irving, doing business as the Islamic School of Irving; Naheed Kunnamal, in his capacity as school board president; the North American Islamic Trust, which the petition says owns the property; and Gaddoor Saidi, in his capacity as the trust’s board chairman.

The civil case remains pending. The defendants have not admitted liability, and the court has not adjudicated Doe’s allegations.

Independent journalist Breanna Morello first reported the lawsuit Monday. “Did the Islamic School of Irving attempt to cover up for a violent rape that allegedly took place there?” Morello wrote on X.

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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has publicly rallied behind far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, attacking both parties for criticizing the controversial commentator as a growing number of Democrats distance themselves from his rhetoric about American Jews.

The DSA lashed out at Democrats, Republicans, and the media while also condemning a Republican-led House resolution denouncing socialism.

“The establishment: Ds, Rs + media, have pivoted from DSA wins to personal attacks, racist dog whistles, symbolic House resolutions, and an obsession with a Twitch streamer,” the DSA’s official X account wrote.

“What would happen if they devoted that same attention to the thousands of Americans who die each year because they can’t afford healthcare?”

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