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What’s Trump Doing About Big Pharma Prices and Drugs Made in Foreign Countries?

Only a small proportion of generic active pharmaceutical ingredients are actually manufactured in the United States, and the majority come from India and China. “American reliance on foreign countries for critical, generic drugs is not sustainable and leaves the American people incredibly vulnerable,” Trump said during his campaign rallies in 2017. Spring and summer 2020…

Texas, Alaska Leaders Defend Religious Liberty After Coach Fired For Praying

High School Coach Fired For Silently Praying Before Games When Joe Kennedy made headlines in Seattle, Washington five years ago for being fired from his coaching job for praying, he vowed to fight. “I was blessed for eight years with these guys,” he said. “And it was just awesome, and I look at my blessings…

James Woods’ Greatest Twitter Hits This Week

American actor James Woods literally has a genuis IQ. He’s definitely one of the most intelligent people in Hollywood. Here’s some of his greatest tweets of this week…so far. As long as these crazies on the left insist that “protests” are fine, but church gatherings are not, no rational person will take them seriously. Every…

Three Fingers and a Bird

The True Story of the Profound Lesson I Learned in 1963 on a Barber’s Chair Just eight miles south-southwest of where I thought John Wayne fought at the Alamo was a spot in San Antonio where serious thinking and deciphering came into my life. Slightly west of the halfway point along the street I saw…

How Elvis Became a Guitar Man

Walking into Tupelo Hardware, I wondered how Elvis Presley felt when his mother Gladys took him there for his eleventh birthday, on January 8, 1946. It wasn’t too long after his very first public performance, singing “Old Shep” at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair children’s talent competition the previous October 3rd. Forrest L. Bobo, was working at…

Trump’s Actions to Restore Safety and Peace Begin in High Gear

American sentiment is expanding rapidly against the socialist left’s support of liberal riots, destruction and violence in their cities. “Opposition is growing to efforts by the political left to defund the police, with most Americans convinced that such a move will lead to more violent crime,” a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds. “Sixty-four percent (64%)…

Dangerous Truths China Doesn’t Want Americans to Know

Do you know what a sinecure is? You’re about to find out why some particular American politicians and their families would rather you ignore them. My guess is you (and others you share this with) will be angry when you know. Most Americans realize mainstream media pushes disinformation on Russia (especially supporting false narratives on…

Lessons From Andy of Mayberry We Could Use Today

Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s know it was a decade marked by assassinations, civil rights battles, the sexual revolution, an increase in drug experimentation, and the Vietnam War. There was much turmoil, but millions of us found solace by tuning in to one of three available TV channels to watch The…

True Things We Didn’t Know About States Until We Visited Them

We left the Texas Hill Country on June 19th on a roadtrip through the South. On our 28th day (We’re in Oklahoma City), we sharing some interesting facts about each state we’ve learned along the way. Louisiana Louisiana has the longest coastline (15,000 miles) of any other state in the U.S. Louisiana makes up approximately…

Noah Musical Gives Renewed Sense of Hope

Travel Log: July 2020. Our 22nd day. Thanks to our parents, my favorite Biblical stories are likely the same as many others. I loved when my father would read about Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath, and Daniel in the Lions Den. Before I was old enough to read, I recall drawing and coloring a picture…

Kicks On 66, Grins in Uranus

When I asked the legendary comedian Jerry Lewis, who was 83, what the key to happiness is for him, he immediately had an answer. “Do you remember when you were nine years old?” he smiled. “Always be the person you were when you were nine.” I definitely was nine years old Saturday, July 11th. Dodie…

I Don’t Believe in News, I Believe in You

We drove through downtown St. Louis, Missouri yesterday to check out the Gateway Arch. We didn’t feel welcome for the first time on this trip. Trash, urine, tents, and people who looked drugged out and not too bright were welcomed though. The local city government is doing a horrible job. I wonder which political party…

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