Bringing You up to Date Politically. By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 2/15/2025.

Trump must be up to some 200 executive orders so far. Most of them are well under way, not dismembered by the courts. I appreciate many of them as overdue.

He’s banning USAID, which is not “aid” but the U.S. “Agency for International Development,” a front for the CIA and its reckless pushing of selfish Americanism and USAID’s minus values. In my opinion, foreign aid should 100% consist of private charity. Yes, some of the aid is appropriate and effective but can we afford it? Our national budget is running two trillion dollars a year in the red, one trillion of it being yearly interest on our national debt.

The Department of Education has been politicized for decades, to inculcate rote memory tasks, artificially inflate test scores, and disdain critical thinking. Apparently, it’s not working. Among all western nations, the Italians and Americans have the least general knowledge and the lowest level of critical thinking ability. Our national IQ is 98. We score LOW or the lowest in reading and math. Seven percent of students excel. Many of the rest are astronauts; they only go to school to take up space. Read Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips’ two books about Department of Education manipulation, which amounts to mind control. My dad was a science (and math) teacher. At a big convention of science teachers, not a single one approved — by a show of hands — of the agency’s No Child Left Behind program. We need a meritocracy of independent thinkers.