The arrest of Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is more than a criminal case. It is a test of America’s ability to distinguish right from wrong. At this point, far too many Americans have flunked that test. Elizabeth Warren, for example. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts did not wait long…

Posted on Monday, December 16, 2024 | by AMAC Newsline | 0 Comments | Print Earlier this month, reports surfaced that President Biden’s former Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Martin O’Malley signed a deal to make teleworking policies permanent until 2029 for more than 40,000 federal employees. The move was…

It’s become commonplace, though not cliché, to say that Donald Trump has transformed America’s political culture in fundamental and lasting ways. As with anything, the full impact of the Trump chapter in American history will not be understood completely until enough time has elapsed, giving the opportunity for a comprehensive and objective assessment down the…

On Dec. 16, 1944, 30 German divisions smashed into U.S. and British forces in the heavily wooded Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. The Germans counted on bad weather as their ally for this breakthrough. The predicted snow fell, and mists and clouds choked the skies, rendering air support for the Allies impossible at times.…

Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Harris declared that our government would “build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!” This “broadband connectivity agenda” was supported by “every House Republican on Energy and Commerce,” write Republican representatives. Three years later, not a single person has been connected. Why? Because,…

Can you feel it? Something’s happening. It’s visible in all sorts of places from universities to the courts to the media. It’s present in the way in which ordinary Americans are now emboldened to stand up to the forces that have been keeping them down. Despite the darkness of the winter days, despite the continuing…

Posted on Saturday, December 14, 2024 | by Ben Solis | 0 Comments | Print The corporate media has once again betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff agenda and how it will benefit American industry and consumers. In a recent interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, the…

MANGIONE/MASS: What Do We Want? Healthcare Price Transparency — NOW! Struggling Americans told political candidates early in 2024 that healthcare costs topped the list of their financial worries. Congress would do well to listen. Hospital costs have been nothing short of a gluttonous sinkhole of American wealth.  Not only has inflation in those costs outpaced inflation in college tuition,…

Posted on Friday, December 13, 2024 | by Aaron Flanigan | 12 Comments | Print Supporters gather at a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Butler Farm Show Grounds on October 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. For decades, few adages in American electoral…

Please come with me to see … a miracle. It happened near Christmas in 1982, to a Salvation Army bellringer and is what happens when people of heart refuse to let circumstance defeat them. May the spirit that made that miracle happen never stop flowing. Wind the clock back to that frigid, frightening winter in…