Month: September 2026

All 50 States Join Medicaid Drug Pricing Program: Trump

The experimental program aims to align President Donald Trump’s most-favored-nation drug price targets with the prices charged to state Medicaid programs.

No More Mandatory ESG Fees for Dairy Farmers, USDA Rules

Money collected from dairy farmers should not go to ‘bankroll radical climate agendas,’ the USDA Secretary said.

Ballot Harvesting Concerns in Nursing Homes Spur New Push to Protect Vulnerable Seniors

by Fred Lucas   As the Trump administration seeks to crack down on potential voter fraud in nursing homes, an election watchdog group is providing additional information to long-term care facilities, citing several past criminal cases involving political operatives and staff who took advantage of vulnerable elderly residents. A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services memo from late July cited two major cases in recent years, one out of Texas and another out of Wisconsin, involving elderly people being exploited in long-term care facilities for collecting votes. The memo says facilities have a “responsibility to preserve residents’ rights to vote and to promote participation in the democratic process.” But says, “This activity should not violate federal or state voting laws.” And that staff “cannot engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.” “Residents who require assistance to vote should have the option of receiving assistance from the person of their choosing and should be offered the option of receiving assistance from their authorized representative,” the CMS memo says. The Election Integrity Network released a tool kit for instructing senior facilities on how to comply with the CMS guidance. Among other things, the tool kit suggests that facilities or caregivers avoid assumptions and ensure…

Surveillance Patent Shows Flock Spying Way Worse Than Advertised

“face recognition data points”

Senate Democrat Blocks Immediate Passage of House-Passed Data Center Utility Rate Bill

‘Congress needs to pass real legislation with real teeth,’ said Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.).

‘FALSE’: New Study Challenges Claim That Laws Restricting Transgender Medicine Increase Teen Suicide

The medical watchdog group Do No Harm published a study Thursday countering the claim that laws restricting sex-rejecting procedures, often euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care,” lead to increased suicide rates among young people with gender dysphoria. “When we examined the widely cited claim that restricting pediatric sex-rejecting procedures will spike suicide rates, we found it…

$9 trillion later and the climate keeps changing – go figure!

The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – According to the so-called “experts,” we all should have sweated to death decades ago, but we haven’t. Do you realize that the world has spent $9 trillion dollars just since 2020 in a futile attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures? I say futile because they could not reach their goal of a rise of only 1.5°C. At best, they think they can limit it to…

DOJ Signals Lawsuit Is Coming Over Minnesota’s ’30 Day’ Waiting Period