Editorials and Opinions Archives

OP-ED: Biden’s Health Cover-Up – Why We Should Be Furious

By Richard Gallagher FMN May 26, 2025Editorials and Opinions

The cover-up of Joe Biden’s obvious physical and cognitive decline during his presidency (2021–2025) isn’t just a political scandal—it’s a betrayal that should have us seething. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson exposes how Biden’s aides, family, and Democratic allies hid his frailties, ignoring stark warnings like Special Counsel Robert Hur’s February 2024 description of Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” This was as gentle and sanitized description as you could hope for, yet his inner circle, who didn’t want to further point out the obvious comparison to the Trump’s record scandals, could only shrieked that Hur’s words were pejorative, exposing their agility and hypocrisy in dodging the truth about Biden’s decline. The timeless wisdom of Humpty Dumpty and The Emperor’s New Clothes—tales warning of fragility’s fall and the folly of denying plain truth—was cast aside, leaving a shattered president and tattered legacy in its wake.

OP-ED: $5 Million Settlement for Ashli Babbitt’s Blood

By Richard Gallagher FMN May 20, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Ashli Babbitt’s family will receive her 5-million-dollar settlement. Image credit X.com

The $5 million settlement awarded to Ashli Babbitt’s family in May 2025 is a hollow gesture for the unarmed Air Force veteran gunned down by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. It’s not justice—it’s a Band-Aid on a wound that festers with questions. Byrd, concealed behind a wall, chose a bullet over a baton, pepper spray, taser, handcuffs or a simple shove when Babbitt, a 5’2” woman, poked her head through a broken Capitol window. No warning, no de-escalation—just a .40-caliber Glock fired at near point-blank range. Contrast that with New Jersey Democrats like Rep. LaMonica McIver, who, on May 9, 2025, stormed a gated and guarded ICE facility in Newark, assaulted federal agents, and walked away with arrests, not in body bags. Why the double standard?

OP-ED: Toxic Food—Why We Need MAHA To Restore Our Health

By Richard Gallagher FMN May 12, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Back in my know-it-all days, I’d sling sarcastic zingers like, “If guns kill people, then spoons make people fat, cars drive drunk, and pencils misspell words.” Obesity? Diabetes? Your problem, pal—stop scarfing down Twinkies. But you might say I’m “woke” now and I’m spitting mad. Big Food—Kraft Heinz, PepsiCo, Nestlé—and their corporate cousins in tobacco, vaping, and beverages aren’t just giving away the “spoons” for free; they’re force-feeding us addictive, poisonous junk designed to maximize profits while turning us into a nation of for-profit livestock. From cancer to diabetes, they’re raking in billions on our misery, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is our best shot at breaking their stranglehold.

OP-ED: Cost-Plus Con: Bureaucratic Fraud Is Sabotaging Space

By Richard Gallagher FMN May 5, 2025Editorials and Opinions

artemis i-1 — SLS on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. Photo: Charles Boyer / FMN

Imagine a scam where you’re paid more for stalling, overspending, and underdelivering. That’s NASA’s cost-plus contracts, the rotten core of the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion capsule, and Lunar Gateway. These deals, guaranteeing contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin profits no matter how epically they flop, are a taxpayer-funded crime scene. The real enemy? Corporate CEOs and politicians, fattened on this bottomless trough of waste, raking in millions while NASA’s programs are kept on life support, eternally late and eternally over budget. The White House’s fiscal year 2026 budget is hacking these boondoggles to pieces: it’s a Johnny Cash size middle finger to their hustle. This isn’t just about saving cash—it’s about torching a fraudulent system that’s gifting China the Moon while US taxpayers bankroll bureaucratic bloat.

OP-ED: What Have You Done for Me Lately, China?

By Richard Gallagher FMN April 28, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Oh, China, you conniving, economic vampire, what have you done for us lately besides leeching our prosperity and cackling from your smog-choked throne? You’re not just flooding our markets with your dirt-cheap junk, fentanyl-laced death traps, and vapes so toxic they could double as chemical weapons—you’re orchestrating a full-scale assault on our economy while we twiddle our thumbs like spineless idiots. Your trade barriers on our goods are so blatant they might as well come with a middle finger emoji, yet here we are, drowning in your plastic garbage at every Walmart, Dollar Tree, and big-box cesspool. When’s the last time you saw our goods clogging up your stores in Shenzhen or Beijing? Oh, right—never. It’s a one-way con, and we’re the morons eating it up.

OP-ED: Sanctimony Spiral—How Dems’ Coin New Term to Cover for Lousy Policies

By Richard Gallagher FMN April 21, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Oh, gentle reader, let us pause to mourn the quivering liberal soul, cowering before the ominous specter of the “Manosphere.” This shadowy online realm, where men—those wretched beasts—dare to swap stories, bench-press their feelings, or question the gospel of woke orthodoxy. The manosphere is apparently the apocalypse in flannel. According to the high priests of The New York Times and CNN, this digital den of “toxic masculinity” isn’t just a threat to progress—it’s the sinister force behind the Democratic Party’s slow-motion implosion. And I, old enough to remember when men wore overalls and steel-toed boots, drove pickup trucks with rifles in the back, and grilled “Tarzan” steaks in the heart of the woods, can only shake my head at this pitiful charade.

OP-ED: From Sleepy Joe to Full-Throttle Trump: The Great American Revival in 85 Days

By Richard Gallagher FMN April 14, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Trump’s cabinet meeting at the White House. Source: X.com

Eighty-five days into Donald Trump’s second term, and it’s been like a quad espresso venti to the nation’s veins—no dozing Joe Biden shuffling through the White House here, folks! With a cabinet meeting straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, Trump’s team reported on the progress to save us from open-border chaos, a drug epidemic fueled by China’s, and a debt crisis that has our nation on the ropes. The last administration was asleep at the wheel, but Trump is here to drive this train now and remind us what “America First” really looks like—and China’s not happy about it.

Let’s start with the border, where Trump’s turned the tide on a security nightmare. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem reported a second month of record-low border crossings, rolling out a self-deportation program with a legal return path. This comes after Trump shut down Biden’s CBP One app on day one, which had 280,000 migrants logging in daily to waltz across our border. Now they remain in Mexico, and the Pentagon’s building walls, not bridges, to keep it that way.

Op-Ed: Fiscal Fiasco–Tariffs Might Save Us from Our Own Stupidity

By Richard Gallagher FMN April 7, 2025Editorials and Opinions

America—while we’ve been busy playing the world’s economic punching bag, other nations have been laughing all the way to the bank, raking in our dollars and slapping us with trade barriers so lopsided they’d make a funhouse mirror blush. For years, we’ve been in a tariff war—don’t kid yourself—but we’ve been the chumps who brought a butter knife to a gunfight.

Editorial: Elon’s Edge: Demanding Like Kelly, Delivering Like Ford

By Richard Gallagher FMN March 31, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency’s relentless taskmaster, gets flak for his brash, unemphatic biting style—yet delivers results that dwarf the whining of his critics. Sound familiar? The SR-71 Blackbird soared to once impossible heights and speeds due to innovators like Kelly Johnson, whose demanding approach and boundless thinking crushed notions of impossibility. Henry Ford churned out Model Ts while steamrolling naysayers who thought no one needs to go 40mphs. Tesla didn’t just invent—he illuminated the future, and we’re finally seeing it.

Editorial: Torched Teslas: The Dumbest Rebellion Since Flat Earth

By Richard Gallagher FMN March 24, 2025Editorials and Opinions

“Hey, Geniuses: Vandalizing Teslas Is as Dumb as a Bag of Hammers”

Oh, you brave eco-warriors, you absolute paragons of logic! You’ve gone from hugging trees and praising Elon Musk as the messiah of green tech—remember when his electric cars, solar shingles, and charging stations were going to save the planet?—to smashing windows and chucking Molotov cocktails at Tesla dealerships.

Editorial: To Trump or Not to Trump—Tariffs Are the Question

By Richard Gallagher FMN March 17, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Oh, the horror! The pearl-clutching elites and free-trade fanatics are at it again, wailing about President Trump’s tariff policies like they’re the end of civilization. “Higher prices!” they shriek. “Trade wars!” they moan. Well, grab your shovels, snowflakes, because I’m here to tell you why Trump’s tariffs are the glorious, red-white-and-blue gut punch the world deserves—and needs.

Rescue Mission or Routine? Let’s Cut the Theatrics, Shall We?

By Richard Gallagher FMN March 13, 2025Editorials and Opinions

Here we go again—Boeing’s Starliner coughs up a helium leak and some dodgy thrusters, and suddenly the media’s got its collective knickers in a twist, painting astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams as castaways on some cosmic Gilligan’s Island.