by | August 26, 2026 · 8:06 am

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BORDER: [3:40] – Democrats protect drug dealers and murderers.

ELECTION INTEGRITY: [2:06] – The Supremes have ruled in favor of Trump’s efforts to limit mail-in voting.

HAPPINESS: Habits that contribute to happiness include:

  • Practicing forgiveness;
  • Spending time outdoors in nature;
  • Enjoying regular, small pleasures;
  • Performing acts of service and generosity;
  • Fostering experiences that evoke wonder and awe;
  • Engaging in less small talk and more deep conversations;
  • Prioritizing experiences over possessions and time over money.

In the end, the goal is not to pursue happiness, but rather to pursue meaning. Happiness is like a piece of fruit that grows on the tree of meaning. If separated from the tree, it will rot and die. But if we find the tree, the fruit will be there, full and healthy.

IRAN: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2521853861564699 [4:52] to hear Andrew Klavan provide a very NOT pc report on the state of the war. It’s so funny, he couldn’t get through it without cracking himself up!

MAHA: [27:44] – Waist-to-height ratio is a stronger predictor of mortality than BMI.

RIP: [2:14] – She’ll be a fabulous addition to the heavenly choir.

SEAL OF CONFESSION: In a unanimous ruling on August 12, the Arizona Supreme Court decided that not every conversation with a pastor qualifies as a protected “confession.”

The case involved a former Baptist pastor accused of sexually abusing a minor. He admitted guilt during a conversation with a co-pastor that was secretly recorded. He later tried to block the recording from being used in court by claiming clergy-penitent privilege.

The court ruled that, for the privilege to apply, the communication must include an admission of fault, sin, or crime made specifically to seek spiritual forgiveness, absolution, consolation, or guidance.

Simply talking to a pastor or admitting wrongdoing is not enough.

This ruling does not touch the absolute seal of the Sacrament of Confession. The Church’s teaching remains unchanged — the seal belongs to the sacrament itself and can never be broken or waived by anyone.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fDeQOfPX35U [2:08] to learn about the plastic part of a knee joint prosthesis.

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by | August 25, 2026 · 9:03 am

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CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1264480795525534 [2:30] to hear Josh Pray exclaim about saints. And, as a Catholic grandma, I gotta say that, while I appreciate his confidence and kudos, let’s be real. The Catholic Church has canonized more than 10,000 saints!

COVID: In 2022, the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine suspended Dr. Meryl Nass’s medical license and ordered her to undergo a psychological evaluation for allegedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19, because she noted that people who recovered from the illness had protection against re-infection. The board members also took issue with Nass prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to patients who had COVID-19.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker ruled that the board’s actions against Nass appeared to have had no probable cause, thus her suit against the board may proceed. Nass posted, “I am happy to report that I will eagerly move forward with the legal case to clear my name and defend the free speech right of medical practitioners to tell the truth to their patients, especially if it goes against government or medical orthodoxy.”

ELECTION INTEGRITY: Yesterday, the Supremes ruled that President Donald Trump may—for the time being—enforce his executive order restricting voting by mail ahead of the November midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

MAHA: “From your fourties onwards muscle silently slips away year on year unless you actively push back against it, and muscle isn’t only about looking strong, it’s a proper metabolic organ that soaks up blood sugar, protects your joints, keeps you upright and independent, and is tightly tied to how long and how well you go on to live (lots of reliable evidence on this).

“Resistance training is the fix here, and it honestly doesn’t mean moving into a gym, because two or three sessions a week where you lift something heavy enough that the last couple of reps are really hard is enough to change your whole trajectory. This can easily be body weight exercises!

“So the action today is small and you can do it right now, whether that’s a single set of press-ups or standing up and sitting back down from a chair ten times, and the point is simply to remind your body that it still needs to be strong.”

  • Dr. Alex’s “The Long Game” e-newsletter

PORTUGAL: Portugal has banned forcing someone to cover their face for reasons related to gender, religion, age, or origin. IOW, burkas are no longer permitted in public. Anyone caught covering their face may receive a fine ranging from €150 (£129) to €3,000 (£2,600).

PROJECT VERITAS: [5:25] – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in favor of Project Veritas’ undercover reporting that had a dramatic impact on the 2016 presidential election.

STUPID PEOPLE: It’s a lot more complicated than “If you are colorblind, you aren’t racist.”

VAXXXINE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1337799741768166 [1:41] to hear Kaylor Betts pose a genuine question.

Jenny Lynn Casey commented, “There was an OBGYN I listened to that began to notice an increase in miscarriages in her practice with her patients. She actually began collecting data asking if they got it, her findings were she believed it was causing them strictly based on data.”

Emily Palmer Rice commented, “I got ALL the Covid vaccinations and have not regretted it once. Praise God for science and smart people who were already working towards the vaccine before the pandemic. Praise God for Dr. FAUCI!”

GRAMMY NOTES: I was 9 days old. I had three older brothers and an older sister who were all brunettes. We did not eat cold cereal for breakfast, toaster pastries didn’t exist, and my mother would have never allowed diner furniture into her kitchen.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/akG4QTVlYYw [1:21] for a tutorial on how to use a LEGO brick separator.

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by | August 24, 2026 · 10:41 am

The “Stop Nick Shirley Act”

Nick Shirley writes, “California has officially signed the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.

“These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.

“For example, if I film a hospice or a ‘learing center’ with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them ‘fear’ or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.

“This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for ‘immigrant support services.’ Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.

“By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.”

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by | August 24, 2026 · 8:39 am

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EXCESS DEATHS: So far this year, there have been 7,300 excess deaths from heat in France and nearly 10,000 in Germany. In both countries, the use of air conditions is regulated and sometimes banned for aesthetic and/or environmental reasons.

JOBS: Ford is reshoring and expanding U.S. production of its Lincoln vehicles. The move is, in part, a response to the Trump administration’s automotive tariff policies.

LIFE: There’s also a whole lot of stuff about not sacrificing children, plus verses that make it clear that God considers the unborn to be His children.

“Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you.‘” – Jeremiah 1:5

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” – Psalm 139:13

“The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.” – Isaiah 49:1

LINDSEY CLANCY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jjeN_EVj46w [1:15] to hear Nick Freitas sum up the situation.

On a personal note … I once knew a mom who had had four boys very close together. The couple had one vehicle, so she was mostly stuck at home all day, every day. When she reached the end of her raggedy, frayed rope, instead of harming herself or the kids, she called 911 on herself. Then she unlocked the door, curled up in a fetal position with her littlest held tightly in her arms, and waited for help … which arrived and stayed and came back a couple times a week until she was in a better place.

MEDIA: After the New York Times published a piece falsely claiming Kai Spears was present at the scene of a deadly shooting, the former University of Alabama basketball player sued. An Alabama jury found the Times liable for defamation and awarded Spears $9.25 million in damages. Spears says he hopes the verdict will help protect people like him in the future.

MILITARY: @marcthiessen – “Forced to work” in “harsh weather conditions”? WTF is wrong with you? It’s an aircraft carrier and we’re at war you moron.

MINNESOTA: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hoping to force Texas to send ICE agent Christian Castro to Minnesota to face assault and false-reporting charges.

ODs: Fentanyl deaths dropped 22% – from 48,913 in 2024 to 38,084 in 2025 – while total drug overdose deaths fell 14%. The Trump administrations says the decline is evidence his border and counter-narcotics policies are working.

PSA: Thirty-two states have now reported cases of salmonella linked to jalapeños from a farm in Sinaloa, Mexico, and distributed to the United States earlier in the year. Stores that sold the peppers and products containing them include Kroger, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods Market. No deaths have been reported.

FYI: Microwaves do not kill pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella. Heat does. Any type of cooking method will do the job provided temperatures reach at least 165°F throughout the food.

WHITE HOUSE: Just hours before lower-court rulings were set to halt aboveground construction on the ballroom, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order allowing it to continue.

GRAMMY NOTES: I finished two sets of quilled e-candle holders for Advent. One set is for us; the other is going to our deployed daughter.

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by | August 22, 2026 · 8:33 am

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DEI: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1084694110663327 [2:30] to hear a scathingly accurate assessment of the Jason Arday case.

GERMANY: On August 15, around 20 to 30 pro-lifers from the German TFP (Tradition, Family, Property) gathered in the city of Göttingen for a “Public Rosary Against Abortion.” Left-wing counterprotestors showed up and surrounded the pray-ers, heckling them and blasting loud music. Twelve of the police officers who surrounded the pro-lifers to protect them suffered minor injuries.

MAHA: I’d put money on this being true for rice and potatoes as well. I cook all of mine ahead of time during the mornings, usually doing enough for 2 or 3 meals, then chuck them in the fridge. Not only does it make the starches healthier, but it also makes meal prep easier in the evening, when I have less energy.

NEW JERSEY: Governor Mikie Sherrill has signed a new law that shields abortionists and their facilities from certain investigations, legal actions, and records requests originating outside New Jersey.

It also creates a new crime of “interference with reproductive health care services” by banning peaceful sidewalk counseling, prayer, holding signs, or simply offering help and alternatives outside a facility.

OKLAHOMA: Cindy Truong, district judge for Oklahoma Judicial District 7, keeps releasing this thug who isn’t even an American citizen.

PATRIARCHY: Cenk Uyger said, “I would rather have my daughter come in 2nd, 3rd or 8th than traumatize those kids.”

Sall Grover @salltweets commented, “This is actually the crux of gender ideology: it’s better for women & girls to accept defeat than it is to tell a man or boy that he is lying.”

I refer my readers back to the DEI blurb above, in which the commenter says, “It is always entirely about the liberal elite and their desire to feel morally and look kind and tolerant.” Even when it means throwing your own daughter under the bus.

PSA: The Food and Drug Administration has issued the highest health risk recall on frozen GreenWise organic blueberries and mixed berries sold at Publix stores across eight states over potential E. coli contamination. The FDA said consuming the berries posed “a reasonable probability … of serious adverse health consequences or death.”

As with the Taylor Farms recall of Mexican produce, this recall of the GreenWise organic blueberries has its origins south of the border where farm workers apparently take their potty breaks in the fields.

SPAIN: Mostly male and all illegal Moroccan migrants have swarmed into Ceuta, Spain. Police say they are kidnapping girls and dragging them into the surrounding mountains to subject them to gang rape. According to agents on the ground and local residents, the attackers operate with near-impunity around the Temporary Stay Centre for Immigrants (CETI) and the irregular settlements that have taken root on the hillsides where the rugged terrain is hard to police.

SURROGACY: Leftists love to use anecdotal sob stories to promote their agendas. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1825275998845659 [1:20] to hear one from our side.

Another is told @ https://cbc-network.org/2023/06/when-surrogacy-goes-bad-there-are-never-any-winners/

SWALWELL: FBI agents have seized former congressman Eric Swalwell’s electronic devices, including his cell phone and MacBook Pro, as well as other undisclosed evidence as part of a federal criminal investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

The FBI, LAPD, and Manhattan DA’s office are all concurrently investigating Swalwell for sexual assault after multiple women came forward and accused Swalwell during his brief campaign for governor of California.

TREASURY: The Trump administration has put an end to illegal aliens collecting tax credits for their anchor babies, thus saving We The Taxpayers $3 billion.

UK: The British government is handing out guides to migrants explaining that things like rape and domestic abuse are illegal.

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by | August 21, 2026 · 7:24 am

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CATHOLIC: [5:25] – The doctrine of the Assumption of Mary refers to the belief that Mary was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory at the end of her earthly life. This event is celebrated in the Catholic Church and signifies her unique role in salvation history as the Mother of God.

CHICOMS: The White House Government Transparency Task Force has released newly declassified intelligence emails showing that, between 2014 and 2020, NSA employees deliberately chose not to tell the president, Congress, or the Director of National Intelligence that they had evidence of the Chinese Communist Party attempting to influence our elections.

DEBT: We passed $40 TRILLION this week. I remember when Obama campaigned on how Bush’s additions to the national debt were totally unacceptable. Then, as soon as he and his Democrat super-majority got into power, they boosted our deficit spending to over $1 trillion per year.

EVERYDAY HEROES: [5:56] – I need a tissue!

IRAN: [20:28] – We control the Strait of Hormuz.

MAHA: Dr. Alex writes, “Ultra-processed food is engineered to slip straight past your fullness signals, because it’s soft and calorie-dense and gone before your body has had time to notice, so you end up eating more of it and feeling satisfied less, and that isn’t a willpower flaw in you, it’s clever design working exactly as intended.

“It’s all about profits profits profits. …

“What changed things for me wasn’t willpower either, it was slowly crowding the junk out with more real food on the plate … because once the good stuff is there and easy to reach, the processed stuff loses it’s grip on you bit by bit. … It honestly does become easier the more you do it.”

  • “Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake” @ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31105044/
  • Ad Libitum means “of or relating to a diet in which the amount of food is not restricted.”

MICHIGAN: Abdul El-Sayed is the man Michigan Democrats chose to run for one of their U.S. Senate seats. From 1999 through at least 2004, his mother, Fatten Fathy Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (aka, Islamic African Relief Agency), an organization that was designated as a terror-support group in 2004 by the U.S. Department of Treasury for directly financing Osama bin Laden and other jihadi groups including Hamas and the Taliban.

In 2010, the DOJ charged the Islamic American Relief Agency with 33 counts of sending money to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions. In the list of exhibits, Elkomy is cited 14 times, eight for participating in illegal wire transfers and five for participating in phone calls about those transfers. Elkomy’s brother and El-Sayed’s uncle, Mohamed or Mohammed Elkomy, is cited 19 times for participating in phone calls between donors, IARA officials, and others.

MINNESOTA: In 2021, the Minnesota Department of Human Services honored Salman Ahmed Elmi as an “outstanding refugee.” Last week, the Somalian was charged with eight counts related to $1 million in Medicaid fraud. Elmi and his co-conspirators at Reva Health in Golden Valley have connections to a sex trafficking ring. Prosecutors say Reva Health paid kickbacks to people to use their information for fraudulent claims.

VOTER FRAUD: The U.S. Census Bureau reports that, so far, they have compared 128 million voter records with citizenship records and found 24,000 votes that were cast in 2020 elections by noncitizens. They still have 32 million more voter records to check, so that number will likely rise.

WHITE HOUSE: The new helipad is done. They used granite, because it can handle 35,000 pounds per square inch, whereas concrete can only hold 5,000 pounds. The ScottsMiracle-Gro Company is coming in to replace all the grass on the South Lawn for free.

WOLVES: The Anglican Church of Canada has published liturgies for those who are choosing to be killed by the Canadian government.

CLICK https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/2090365812188082249 [1:10] and cringe at a pseudo-liturgical recitation of “The Sparkle Creed.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nuyF74DSj-Q [2:31] to hear a fabulous story of God’s grace worked out through an EMT’s craving for coffee.

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by | August 20, 2026 · 7:00 am

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BABYLON BEE: President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that after declaring the Strait of Hormuz an official U.S. territory, it had immediately been filled by a floating Trump golf course.

Trump unveiled the blueprints for several championship multi-hole golf courses to be constructed in the Strait, which were to be built alongside a floating luxury resort. Sources reported that Trump had tentatively named the resort “Mar-a-Hormuz.”

CANNABIS: A study entitled, “Myocardial Infarction and Cardiovascular Risks Associated With Cannabis Use” was published last year in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It revealed that cannabis use “appears to pose a substantial and independent risk for [adverse cardiovascular events, including MI, ischemic stroke, HF, and mortality], even in a population without traditional cardiovascular risk factors.”

COVID COVER-UP: One of Fauci’s senior advisers at NIAID has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in exchange for prosecutors dropping four other charges. Dr. David Morens admits he worked to defraud the United States by obstructing FOIA requests in an effort to protect Peter Daszak, who helped funnel money from NIAID to gain-of-function researchers in Wuhan, China. Morens is due to be sentenced in November.

LIFE: [3:13] – Idaho, North Dakota, Kansas, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, and Tennessee have passed laws requiring that family-life curricula covering human growth, development, or sexuality include accurate and detailed information about early fetal development.

MAHA: If you sit for most of your working day, the most useful thing I can hand you isn’t an hour in a gym, it’s a five minute movement snack you can drop right into the middle of it.

Set a timer, and for five minutes cycle gently through three moves. Stand up and sit back down from your chair ten times, slow and controlled. Then ten press-ups against the wall or the edge of a desk. Then twenty calf raises, up onto your toes and down, holding the desk if you need the balance. Round and round until the timer goes.

It takes almost nothing, but it breaks the long sit into pieces, gets the big muscles in your legs pulling sugar out of your blood, and wakes your head up far better than another coffee would.

  • Dr. Alex’s “The Long Game” newsletter

SCIENCE: Studies have linked sugary drinks with higher rates of liver, breast and colorectal cancers. Now, a new study shows that those who consume one or more sugary drinks per day are almost two and a half times as likely to develop gastric cancer as those who consume fewer than one per month.

According to my 5-second Google search, “Approximately 60% of U.S. adults’ calorie consumption comes from ultra-processed foods, which includes items like soda. This trend indicates a significant overlap between soda consumption and the intake of ultra-processed foods.” [emphasis added]

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: [5:34] – I expect every denomination has this problem.

TOLERANCE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2083298122393789 [2:52] for a refresher course in liberal hypocrisy.

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by | August 19, 2026 · 7:09 am

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CLIMATE HOAX: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2014812257256145207 [:21] to hear AOC tell us in January 2019 that, “The world will end in 12 years if we don’t stop climate change.“

@AnthonyCumia correctly ponders, “Why is she freezing her eggs if the earth has only 5 years left?“

MAHA: [18:50] – Dr. Alex explains how studies have shown the benefit of not just eating whole foods, but of eating a wide variety of them. Thirty plants sounds like a lot, but it isn’t about volume, but variety. And the variety includes not just veggies, but also whole fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices. Yesterday, I made the most diverse salad I could concoct with ingredients on hand. I got 20 different plants into one cereal bowl. And it was delicious!

SWALWELL: Newly declassified FBI files show that the FBI knew Rep. Eric Swalwell’s mistress, Fang Fang (aka, “Christine” Fang), was tied to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), Beijing’s notorious intelligence service and that her parents were MSS agents. They knew she was raising money for California Democrats and was willing to use sex as a means of getting ahead in the world of U.S. politics. Instead of prosecuting her, they tried to recruit her as a double agent. She fled the country.

Prosecutor Jack Smith, who would later pursue Donald Trump on criminal charges, declined to prosecute her lover, then-Rep. Eric Swalwell, despite the FBI having evidence the Democrat congressman had accepted illegal donations from Fang and placed her interns in Congress.

WASHINGTON: CLICK https://x.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/2089490963664408866 [12:13] to watch a 12-minute tour of Seattle’s fabulous library.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TI5fhjarksU to watch a little boy with a big dream.

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by | August 18, 2026 · 8:51 am

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed, granting women the right to vote.

BORDER: [14:49] – Dr. Steve gives an update on one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises.

IRAN: Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Major General Amir Hatami announced the regime will pay $30,000 bounty to any individual who “kills or captures a U.S. soldier and hands them over to authorities.” If a woman kills or captures a US soldier, the bounty will be $60,000.

MAHA: [19:13] – The Real Food Show presents “How to Make the PERFECT Omelet”with Chef Geoffrey Zakarian. We are so fortunate to live near a free-range chicken farm. The yolks on these eggs are a gorgeous orange color, not the wimpy yellow I was used to from caged chickens.

BTW, if you crack eggs on a flat surface, not on the edge of a bowl (like RFK, Jr. did), you won’t get bits of shell in your food.

MASSACHUSETTS: Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña (61) has been arrested and charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. According to the DOJ, the Democrat used $150,000 of a COVID-19 small-business loan to fund his mayoral campaign, catch up on back taxes, and settle two private debts.

PSA: Heart muscle that dies does not come back. Time is the whole game.

The classic heart attack is heavy central chest pain that does not settle, sometimes spreading to the arm, neck or jaw, with sweating, nausea, breathlessness or a sense of dread.

However, women, people with diabetes and older people are far more likely to present without that crushing chest pain. Instead it can be breathlessness, or sudden overwhelming fatigue, or pain in the back or the jaw, or nausea and vomiting that looks like a stomach bug.

CALL 911 when experiencing new, severe or lasting chest discomfort, or chest discomfort at rest, or any of the above combined with sweating, breathlessness or a feeling that something is badly wrong.

Do not drive yourself. Do not wait to see if it passes.

  • Dr. Alex’s “The Long Game” e-mails

TRUMP ECONOMY: As promised, manufacturing and jobs are returning to our shores. The Institute for Supply Management survey for July shows U.S. manufacturing activity has increased to the highest level in more than four years. And the ISM Manufacturing Employment in the United States has hit a new four-year record high for high-paying, family-sustaining jobs.

Construction jobs related directly to factories and trade are soaring under President Donald Trump at 10 times the pace he inherited from former President Joe Biden. In the first quarter of 2025, when Trump took office, the United States only added 9,300 such construction jobs. So far in the third quarter of 2026, America has added 93,000 such construction positions.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9z8-jGDkobY to enjoy a new R*CKST*R.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-DPPeqWmSxw to see another doggie do his thang.

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by | August 16, 2026 · 7:47 am

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HAWAII: Democratic Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports stemming from a bribe she allegedly took as a state lawmaker in 2022.

HHS: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be investing $102 million to establish 415 new healthcare centers to add to the 158 existing ones providing comprehensive primary care in rural areas.

FYI: The Health Resources and Services Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland. It is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.

HOME AGAIN: Kevin Rideout works as a pilot for the Christian organization, Serving In Mission (SIM). Last October, he was abducted by Islamist jihadis in Niger, which is currently ruled by a military junta that ousted Western partners including the United States in favor of an alliance with Russia.

MAHA: [8:30] – If you’ve ever wondered what the second number in your blood pressure readings actually means for your health, watch this one.

MILITARY: Because the newer, electromagnetic catapult system used on Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have proven to be both more expensive and less effective than the older steam catapults, President Donald Trump has ordered the Navy to return to the latter.

NEW YORK: Phase one: “It’s not happening.” Phase two: “It’s a right-wing conspiracy theory.” Phase three: “It might be happening, but only a little bit.” Phase four: “Yes, it’s happening and we’re proud of it.”

PSA: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recalled more than 19 million eggs for possible salmonella contamination. These include white shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs produced and distributed from farms in Texas and marked with “sell by” or “best by dates” ranging from July 20 to Aug. 17. They were available for sale at Kroger stores in Louisiana and Texas and Brookshire Grocery stores in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Consumers who purchased the affected eggs should throw them away or return them to the place of purchase for a refund.

SLEEP: “Sleep is the foundation the rest of your health is built on, and I mean that almost literally, because when you skimp on it everything downstream suffers, from your appetite and your mood to your blood sugar, your immune system and even how much muscle you manage to hold onto. There’s barely a part of the body that a run of bad nights doesn’t steadily touch. … You can chase every clever hack going, but if the sleep underneath it isn’t there, you’re building on sand, and everything else becomes a great deal harder than it needs to be.” ~ From “The Long Game” newsletter by Dr. Alex

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1082992730732691 [ :25] to watch two leftists respond to “Should voters have ID?”

TRANS: CLICK https://x.com/JDVance/status/2087939909239677308 [3:16] to hear Vance, Kennedy, and Christine announce the release of the “Wolves in White Coats” report linked below.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=27809993301972374 [:29] to hear Speaker Johnson tell a funny Trump story.

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