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1. Sally Pipes: Price Controls on Prescription Drugs

2. Dr. Robert Marbut: Tariff Threats Take Aim at Fentanyl Trafficking

3. Col. John Mills: FEMA Gave out Funds Violating President Trump's Guidance

4. Scott Powell: Musk, DOGE, and Washington's Unavoidable Corruption

5. Kenneth Rapoza: Trump’s Three-Pronged Tariff Strategy

6. Mark Tapson: Hollywood Rages Impotently About Anti-Fascist Trump

7. James Hirsen: The Rising Power of the Podcast

Price Controls on Prescription Drugs

By Sally Pipes, Author of The World's Medicine Chest

In The World's Medicine Chest: How America Gained Pharmaceutical Supremacy - and How to Keep It, I explore how free markets facilitated the extraordinary pharmaceutical advances the U.S. has achieved over the past century - from life-saving vaccines to cutting-edge cancer treatments. But over the last few decades, governments the world over have chipped away at - or outright eliminated - many of the incentives that lead investors, drug manufacturers, and scientists to develop new medicines. Every European nation now levies some kind of price control on prescription drugs. And Democrats during the Biden administration enacted the very first price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare. The first tranche of price controls begin on Jan. 1, 2026 on 10 drugs under Medicare Part D. By embracing price controls, the U.S. government risks killing the innovation engine that has made this country the world's medicine chest. [more...]

Tariff Threats Take Aim at Fentanyl Trafficking

According to Dr. Robert Marbut, of the first Trump administration and Producer of Fentanyl: Death Incorporated, President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S., where the opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually. “Fentanyl is an existential threat to the U.S. unlike anything we’ve ever seen. If it takes a tariff to get the attention of Canada and Mexico to do the right thing, then that’s what we have to do." The ingredients in fentanyl are largely produced by companies in China and used by pharmaceutical companies to make legal painkillers. But a portion of those chemicals is purchased by the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels in Mexico. [more...]

FEMA Gave out Funds Violating President Trump's Guidance

By Colonel (Ret.) John Mills, Author of War Against the Deep State

DOGE rides toward the sounds of the Deep State slush fund cannons.

FEMA tried to pull a fast one and give out funds anyway. This largesse has been used since COVID to pay off hotel franchisees who allow their facilities to be trashed by illegal aliens while being well paid by taxpayers. Too bad - they will have to re-capitalize on their own. A total fraud - and FEMA staff will learn a hard lesson on civil service employment. All IGs should be fired for allowing this and not aggressively enforcing this. [more...]

Musk, DOGE, and Washington's Unavoidable Corruption

By Scott Powell, Author of Rediscovering America

While USAID was just shuttered, its story is important because it reveals the transmission belts that the Deep State uses to enlist and redirect other U.S. agencies to support the political agendas that are central to the cultural Marxist transformation at home and abroad. Until Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered the records of USAID diverting taxpayer funds to countless ideological transformation initiatives in countries all over the world, most Americans assumed the agency established by JFK more than 60 years ago was a noble force serving humanitarian needs. What has actually been going on at USAID is part of an elitist cultural Marxist agenda that has infiltrated almost all government agencies - a process known as “the long march through the institutions” - a descriptive term coined by Antonio Gramsci, a founding member and leader of the Communist Party in Italy in the 1920s. [more...]

Trump’s Three-Pronged Tariff Strategy

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

The White House is following a three-pronged tariff strategy laid out by Trump on the campaign trail and echoed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in their Senate confirmation hearings. “You should think of tariffs three ways,” Bessent said. “One will be for remedying unfair trade practices either in an industry or by a country, like steel and China. Another will be as a revenue source; and third is to use it for negotiations with countries like Mexico for the fentanyl crisis.” The tariff threats against America’s northern and southern neighbors were designed to exact concessions from these countries to help Trump address the flow of migrants and drugs across the border. [more...]

Hollywood Rages Impotently About Anti-Fascist Trump

By Mark Tapson, Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center

In the wake of a recent poll which only confirmed what President Trump’s election landslide proved - that celebrities have become politically irrelevant - Hollywood continues to rage impotently against the new President with their tired, old, ineffective smears that he and his new administration are “fascists” and “Nazis.” The Left has spent every waking moment since Trump announced his presidential run back in 2015 trying to demonize him as Hitler 2.0. The coordinated media smearing of Trump as a more dangerous fascist than Benito Mussolini was so relentless and demonstrably false that it ultimately backfired; last November, voters rejected the fear-mongering propaganda and embraced a positive, hopeful movement to Make America Great Again. [more...]

The Rising Power of the Podcast

By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator

An interesting thing is happening in the new “Golden Age of America.” The mainstream media are quietly fading away. Although former media giants have been losing their credibility, influence, and audiences for quite a stretch of time, things really seem to have accelerated over the past couple of weeks. Thanks in large part to a whole lot of fake reporting, many left-leaning outlets had simply lost the public trust. That’s when the media vehicles of podcasting and streaming stepped up to provide a much-needed alternative to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. And what happened is quite remarkable. New media figures that were accurate, informative, and real became more powerful and more influential than their media predecessors had been. [more...]