President Trump is a Rolling Stones fan, but his actions this week reflect a Led Zeppelin tune. (snip)nThe USA has been defending Greenland longer thanDenmaek because on April 9, 1940, the Danes fought the Germans valiantly for six hours but threw in the towel because Denmark did not want to be annihilated. The Danes were in this position because because while Germany built up their military after the Great War ended, the rest of the countries that make up the western portion of today's EU did not. A year to the date after the surrender, Danish Ambassador Henrik Kauffmann (acting independently) signed an Agreement Relating to the Defense of Greenland with Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
Posts on Monday, January 19, 2026
write to you from snowcapped Switzerland. Every January, I make the trek for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) high in the Alps at Davos, where pretentious billionaires, the politicians they own, and WEF groupies gather to celebrate themselves in what I imagine the Oscars might have been like if the Nazis had hosted them at the Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden:
“And zee vinner for zee most forced vaxi-nashuns goes to…”
[sound of envelope tearing]
…Justin Trudeau!”
[rapturous applause]
Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has announced that more than 10,000 criminal illegal aliens have been arrested in Minnesota since the Trump administration has taken office. Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge in December, DHS has apprehended over 3,000 aliens with prior convictions ranging from murder, rape, and pedophilia. Noem then reiterated that she has assets on the ground conducting investigations into the massive fraud rampant in Minnesota.
Tina Peters: Free At Last?
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We both know that politicians and judges can be vicious and corrupt, but with regard to Tina Peters, they outdid themselves. Tina Peters has been sitting in a Colorado state prison since October, 2024. During the 2020 election, Tina Peters was the top election official in Mesa County, Colorado. In October, 2024 the 70-year old widow was sentenced to nine years in prison by District Court Judge Matthew Barrett. Given the lengthy sentence, you'd think that Peters molested a child, pushed someone onto a subway track, or stole $50,000 from a Mesa County bank. You'd be wrong.
HUD terminates Biden-era DEI deal that
‘forced racial preferencing’ in home
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‘forced racial preferencing’ in home
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) notified the leading authority in US property appraisals on Monday that it no longer needs to abide by a potentially unlawful Biden-era deal that “forced racial preferencing” on the industry — the latest move by the Trump administration to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
Under former President Joe Biden, HUD used disparate impact theory — the idea that a neutral policy has a disproportionately negative effect on underrepresented minorities — to impose race-based policies on the Appraisal Foundation, a nonprofit entity authorized by Congress to set qualifications for property appraisers.
“Property appraisals are an integral component of helping Americans
Americans love pickup trucks — they are our national vehicle.
Pickups are practical and fun to drive. You can use them for work, home projects, or road trips. Your kids can ride in the back if they’re acting up. And they’re a symbol of a core American identity: toughness, a spirit for adventure, a life philosophy grounded in pragmatism and enterprise. But in recent years, pickups have gotten wildly expensive. So expensive, in fact, that I find it hard to believe that Americans are keeping themselves out of a debt trap after purchasing them.
More than 233,000 full-sized pickups were sold in December 2025, making it the best month for
Anti-ICE agitators occupy Minnesota Target
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Anti-ICE protesters staged a sit-in inside and occupied a Target store in Minnesota on Monday, demanding that the retailer take a stand against federal immigration authorities. A group of protesters occupied the store, claiming Target was allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to operate in its parking lot. "Target parking lots have been a meeting place for ICE agents," one protester holding an "Abolish ICE" sign said at the retailer's St. Paul location. "ICE agents are using the toilets at Target, so they're facilitating this invasion." Target is serving as a "staging ground" for ICE, he
An illegal alien is accused of selling counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl at a farmers market in Forest Park, Georgia, federal prosecutors allege.
Late last week, illegal alien Luis Sanchez-Acevedo of Mexico appeared in federal court after having been charged with distributing fentanyl at a farmers market produce stand. Sanchez-Acevedo was arrested on January 16 at the produce stand.
According to federal prosecutors, Sanchez-Acevedo sold counterfeit “M-30” pills laced with fentanyl in September and October of last year at his produce stand at the Forest Park farmers market. Prosecutors say that Sanchez-Acevedo sold some 3,000 fentanyl pills during this period.
“Sanchez-Acevedo allegedly distributed deadly ‘tranq’ pills containing fentanyl and xylazine
The U.S. federal government finished Fiscal Year 2025 with about $7 trillion in outlays and just over $5 trillion in revenues, leaving a deficit of roughly $1.8 trillion -- a gap that adds to the exploding national debt and threatens economic stability.
Under current trajectories, deficits are projected to remain near this scale for the foreseeable future, absent dramatic policy changes. What if, as some argue, the solution is staring us in the face: eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse across government programs and pair that with stronger tariff revenues?
Could that alone balance the budget without cutting core programs or raising taxes? Is this wishful thinking or a real possibility?
Left-wing media pundit Don Lemon claimed he was just acting "as a journalist" when he videotaped a mob of anti-ICE agitators storming a church in Minnesota on Sunday. At the same time, he appeared to coordinate with the group and was seen on video kissing the head organizer of the “operation.” The incident is now under DOJ investigation.
Lemon was seen on video giving "Operation Pull Up" organizer leader Nekima Armstrong a kiss on the cheek prior to the agitators storming the church in St. Paul. Lemon, on video, also said that he knew that the agitators were “gearing up for resistance and protest” at the church
The Fog of Prewar in Iran
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Everyone knows about “the fog of war.” What about the fog of prewar? There are a lot of similarities. In the fog of war, you can’t trust media reports, in part because the media have been fed disinformation by government sources and in part because much of the media is partisan, incompetent, or both.
The same is true in the fog of prewar. There is lots of disinformation, oodles of partisan reporting, impatient jockeying for position, precedence, and “the scoop.” But the distorting miasma of prewar exhibits something else: irritable impatience. “Why aren’t the authorities doing something? Where are they?”
For decades, K–12 schools across the United States have honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a way that reflected both his values and his example. On MLK Day, children have volunteered at food pantries, assembled hygiene kits for shelters, cleaned up local parks and donated books to libraries.
The message was simple and powerful: citizenship requires service, and freedom comes with responsibility.
After 15 years of advocacy, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law in 1983, establishing the third Monday in January as a federal holiday. It was meant to be a unifying moment in American civic life —
How New York’s ‘extremely aggressive’
tax collectors chase down people who leave:
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tax collectors chase down people who leave:
‘Trap you’ replies
There’s seemingly no escape from New York – the New York tax man, that is.
The Empire State is “extremely aggressive” in chasing down wealthy people who attempt to escape high taxes with moves to Florida and beyond – and that could escalate as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani works to increase taxes on top earners, experts told The Post.
Many New Yorkers who mull a move believe it’s enough to follow the “six-months-and-a-day” rule, which maintains you’re a resident if you spend 184 days or more in New York, not including airport layovers and hospital stays.
As Minnesota continues to grapple with weeks of anti-ICE unrest, the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) has encouraged its members to take part in a statewide "economic blackout" on January 23 to protest ICE in Minnesota.
The union’s message, circulated to members this week, said, “The Minnesota Nurses Association is encouraging members to participate in this day of action, including the economic blackout and the 2:00 pm rally, as a visible show of solidarity with immigrant communities, workers, and families impacted by ICE activity.” The day of action has been dubbed "ICE Out of Minnesota: A Day of Truth and Freedom."
Trump says he no longer needs to ‘think
purely of Peace’ following Nobel loss,
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purely of Peace’ following Nobel loss,
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President Trump has warned America’s European allies “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace” after he missed out on last year’s Nobel Prize amid a new round of threats to annex Greenland.
Trump’s text message, initially sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, was forwarded to NATO ambassadors in DC.
A source familiar with the note’s contents confirmed its authenticity to The Post.
“Dear Jonas,” reads the message, first reported by PBS. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant,
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will be making the roughly 6,000 mile journey this week from the Hollywood Hills to the Swiss Alps to rip into President Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Trump’s economic agenda betrays our nation: it is not ‘America First’ but ‘Trump First’ — rewarding the favored, punishing the dissenters, and burdening the rest,” Newsom told Politico in a statement. Newsom, largely seen as a top presidential contender, was scheduled to speak on Thursday, one day after Trump was set to take the stage.
The Democrat plans to confront Trump’s view of capitalism as “an assault on the free market,” and label the president as a
Guatemalan authorities declared a state of siege Sunday in response to three coordinated prison-gang uprisings and the related killing of nine local police officers, according to multiple outlets.
Inmates briefly seized three prisons and took 46 guards hostage Saturday, according to various reports. The new declared state of siege will last for 30 days and is intended to aid law enforcement in combating organized crime groups, The New York Times (NYT) reported Sunday.
The siege was in response to authorities revoking some privileges from gang leaders and demanding leaders be moved to lower security facilities, multiple outlets reported. Authorities regained control of the prisons on Sunday, spurring a further wave
On Thursday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act 2026. The bill provides the foreign aid industry $50 billion in taxpayer funding, $20 billion over the president’s budget request. The foreign aid industry praised it “as a long-awaited break for a beleaguered development community.”
Heritage Action criticized the aid bill for “falling short of responding to American outrage over systemic waste, fraud, and abuse,” and “throws a lifeline to a corrupt, leftwing foreign aid establishment … that keeps open the door for the return of the progressive multi-billion-dollar aid industry” after President Donald Trump leaves office.
Elon Musk is investing heavily in keeping the Senate seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in the GOP camp, according to a new report.
Musk has donated a “stunning” $10 million to support Kentucky businessman Nate Morris, who is running in the May Republican primary, according to Axios.
The donation is unprecedented — the largest the tech billionaire has ever given to a Senate candidate. Axios reported that Musk was all-in after meeting Morris, who shares a mutual friend in the person of Vice President J.D. Vance. The report said Musk is pleased to back a candidate who views himself as as “anti-McConnell.”
Eric Swalwell's political ambitions just hit a major snag. Swalwell, most famous for public flatulence and bedding a Chinese spy, wants to be the next governor of California, but he is now the target of a court challenge that could blow his entire gubernatorial campaign out of the water before it even gets started.
The accusation? He doesn't actually live in the state he wants to govern.
Conservative activist and filmmaker Joel Gilbert dropped a legal bomb on January 8, filing a petition in Sacramento Superior Court arguing that Swalwell is constitutionally barred from seeking the governor's office.
Gilbert has a strong case.
The Justice Department has put Don Lemon on notice. The disgraced former CNN anchor could face serious federal charges for his role in storming a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he joined a far-left mob hunting for a pro-ICE pastor while live-streaming the chaos.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that federal prosecutors are exploring multiple avenues to bring charges against those involved in the church invasion. "We will pursue charges in this case. I see various crimes that have occurred," Dhillon said. "Exactly what they are, I'm not gonna flag, but the FACE Act has
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill is vowing to put the Garden State on the front lines of resistance against President Trump when she takes office Tuesday.
The Democratic pol, who massively outperformed polling expectations last year after making her gubernatorial campaign all about Trump, argued Sunday that the president is at the heart of her state’s long list of affordability woes. “Right now, the doors to opportunity are being shut down at every level,” Sherrill told ABC News’ “This Week” when asked about her aspirations as governor. “We see a president who constantly is running this tariff regime, putting more money in his own pocket and raising costs on everybody else.
Thousands of Iranians working for the biggest names in tech are calling for an end to the Islamic regime as ongoing bloodshed facing anti-government protesters in the country has become a flashpoint in the US.
A petition signed by founders, engineers and scientists working everywhere from Google and Meta to Amazon and Tesla had gathered 3,400 signatures, according to a post this week by tech founder and CEO Kooshiar Azimian. Thousands of Iranians working for the biggest names in tech are calling for an end to the Islamic regime.
Kooshiar Azimian
“We stand with the people of Iran and call for the end to the Islamic regime,” a statement in the post read.
On Thursday, the White House released its self-described “Great Health Care Plan” (emphasis in the original). The plan — all 359 words of it (yes, I counted) — contains some good policies and some not-so-good ones.
Most notably, however, it eschews any reference to the enhanced Covid subsidies that the administration was reportedly going to embrace just before Thanksgiving. That in itself should relieve conservatives, but it doesn’t mean the plan’s other components don’t deserve scrutiny of their policy merits, or lack thereof.
Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to prosecute protesters who disrupted a church service Sunday in St. Paul, Minn.
Bondi wrote on the social platform X that she spoke to Jonathan Parnell, the pastor who leads Cities Church. A group of protesters interrupted Parnell’s sermon Sunday and accused David Easterwood, another pastor at the church, of being affiliated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law,” Bondi said. “If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness,
This story out of the Netherlands is the best example of "toxic empathy" that is poisoning the West.
Stek Oost, in Amsterdam, was sold as the "solution" to both the housing and refugee crises in the country. A plan would have 125 Dutch students and 125 migrants living in the same building to "aid integration." What happened next was predictable by everyone except the authorities who green-lit this experiment. But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.
Things are getting interesting when it comes to how the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) may go about finding and prosecuting the agitators involved in Sunday's ambush at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon made some media appearances Monday to set the record straight on actions being taken by the Trump DOJ to determine if laws were broken by the ambushers, including former CNN host Don Lemon, and, if so, how the government might move ahead with charges.
For starters, Dhillon put the ambushers on notice that anyone who "paid for, coordinated, or participated in this attack made a big—BIG—mistake."
The Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters argued on 77 WABC radio’s the “Cats Roundtable" that the Democrats' shift further to the left is a signal that Republicans will be able to "defy history" and maintain control of Congress following the 2026 midterm elections. He said the election of figures like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other so-called rogue radicals indicates that the Democratic Party is willing to embrace extremism. As many conservative commentators have voiced, the election most likely to implement common-sense policies aligned with its party platform is the one the American people will choose to grant political power.
U-Haul’s Election Lesson
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Pennsylvania is hemorrhaging residents and resources. And it’s been happening for years.
The recent U-Haul Growth Index shows that people are voting with their feet against Pennsylvania and other purple and blue states that have become inhospitable as places to live, work, and raise a family. And these out-migrators are heading to redder states that welcome them.
In 2025, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee topped U-Haul’s ‘in-migration’ states, measured by one-way customer moves. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania ranked an abysmal 44th.
The impact of losing friends and families—and their wealth—to other states should be the canary in the coal mine for Pennsylvanians getting ready for another election year in 2026.
President Trump did some good things toward peace last year, for which I’ve congratulated him.
Among other things, he derailed the Iranian quest for nuclear weapons with which to make good their never-ending promise to destroy what they call the “Little Satan” of Israel and then the “Big Satan” of America.
He also supported Israel in its effort to contain Hamas and other Islamic terror groups. Israel’s efforts entailed some pain and suffering, but it was the only option to prevent another massacre like October 7, a massacre that Hamas explicitly vowed to repeat.
Two days ago, Sally Zelikovsky brought to my attention a show I’d never heard of—Landman—and a scene in that show that quickly became famous. The show is about oilmen and their families in the West Texas oilfields. The scene is about a beautiful, blonde, feminine Texas woman who goes off to college and finds herself confronted by her new roommate: a smug, humorless, self-centered, non-binary, pronoun-obsessed little dictator.
Both the scene and the actress playing the feminine woman who challenges pronoun madness have gotten a bit of criticism on social media, which MAGA people seem to have played up for effect. Thus, I can find the
Public demonstration has a real economy behind it, from legitimate event staffing for brand launches to controversial “crowd-for-hire” campaigns that simulate grassroots support. Readers search for “paid protest cost” or “crowd-for-hire pricing” because they want price clarity, legal context, and a sense of how these services operate. This piece explains what has been publicly reported about costs and how those figures fit inside legal and reputational guardrails. It also separates lawful event staffing from tactics marketed as protest-on-demand, which raise serious ethical questions and legal risk.
Federal agents who are doing nothing more than carrying out our immigration laws are being verbally and physically assaulted in blue states, Minnesota and California in particular. Don’t try to convince us these are organic protests with only the purest of intentions.
It’s a generously funded insurgency inflamed by the Democrats, cynics who see a political opportunity to create havoc. The combatants are not in uniform, but they serve the same purpose as shock troops who are on the front lines of a revolution before the occupation forces move in.
Confrontations between ICE agents and protesters have been common for nearly a year.
Last week President Donald Trump officially announced the members of the Gaza Board of Peace; an organization headed by President Trump and tasked to oversee the second phase of his plan to end the Israeli conflict in Gaza, specifically the reconstruction and disarmament of Gaza and Hamas respectively. [SEE HERE]
The members of the “Board of Peace,” chaired by Trump himself, includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Emissary Steve Witkoff; Jared Kushner; former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; an American-Jewish billionaire named Mark Rowan; World Bank President Ajay Banga; and Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, Robert Gabriel. President/Chairman Donald Trump has also appointed Aryeh Lightstone and Josh Gruenbaum
A Florida man allegedly shot three tourists dead after they became stranded at their rental property in a town popular with Walt Disney World Resort visitors, according to authorities.
Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, was arrested for the “cold-blooded” murders of the three tourists staying next door to his home in Kissimmee on Saturday, Osceola County Sheriff Christopher Blackmon announced during a press conference.[snip] Bojeh was previously arrested in 2021 after firing at a person and random vehicles in a Kissimmee gas station parking lot, injuring one man, according to court records obtained by ClickOrlando. He was later acquitted of charges by reason of insanity, the outlet reported.
Trump’s DOJ puts Don Lemon ‘on notice’
over allegations he joined anti-ICE mob
that stormed church replies
over allegations he joined anti-ICE mob
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Frequently fired independent news commentator Don Lemon has been warned by the Justice Department over allegations he joined a mob of anti-ICE protesters who stormed a Sunday church service in St. Paul.
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, chided Lemon on X. You are on notice!” she wrote, noting in a follow-up post that the FBI has been “activated”
Republicans are now on the investigative prowl and sounding increasingly confident that they can find and prove there was an intentional strategy by Democrats to hijack elections and manipulate apportionment in blue states like Minnesota. (snip) The Republican's argument goes like this: Democrats (snip) ensured that noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, were counted in the census, then President Biden opened the Southern border (snip.) Next, liberal nonprofits helped move these migrants (snip) [to] Democrat-run cities (snip) and helped them enroll in welfare (snip.) And finally, Democrat leaders (snip) failed to act (snip) when evidence emerged that noncitizens were defrauding (snip) those safety net programs (snip.)
A 300-Year-Old Flame Still Burns: The
World’s Oldest Restaurant Is Full of
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World’s Oldest Restaurant Is Full of
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the heart of a brick building on the street of Cuchilleros, the “knifemakers,” in Madrid, a fire burns. It has burned there continuously for 300 years. When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, the fire had already been lit for 83 years. When the Spanish Civil War rocked the streets of Madrid in the 1930s, damaging one of the balconies of the old brick building, the flame smoldered on. Even when all the world was quarantined during COVID-19, the fire in this building continued, quietly, to glow.
The fire in question is the oven flame of the world’s oldest restaurant according to the Guinness World Records—Sobrino de Botín—and it forms the establishment’s
A woman shared her story after she and her friend saved a man who jumped into a car with them to escape from a crowd of counter-protesters in Minneapolis.
The man, identified as far-right influencer Jake Lang, who was pardoned by President Trump after allegedly assaulting officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, appeared injured as he ran from counter-protesters. (snip) "Honestly, I've kinda gotten a lot of support overall," Daye said. "I feel like, you know, obviously this is a bad man, like not someone that we agree with and not someone we want in our state.."
ADAMUZ, Spain - Experts probing the cause of Sunday's derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which killed at least 39 people, found a broken joint on the rails, according to a source briefed on initial investigations into the disaster. The derailed carriages smashed into an oncoming train, pushing it off the tracks and down an embankment in one of the worst train disasters in Europe in modern times. . The accident happened near Adamuz in the southern province of Cordoba, about 360 km (220 miles) south of the capital Madrid.
The antics of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have been much in the news of late, but the corporate media has studiously ignored the legal and historical context of his refusal to comply with federal immigration law. Minnesota is just one of 16 Democrat-controlled states that have enacted measures that violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2), which provides that federal law takes precedence over conflicting laws passed by states. These Democrats are reenacting the nullification crisis that historians regard as a precursor to the Civil War.
Anti-ICE leftists stormed a St. Paul church Sunday morning and shut down the worship service after learning that one of the church's pastors allegedly works as an ICE agent. "This is unacceptable, it's shameful," the lead pastor of Cities Church, Jonathan Parnell, said to Don Lemon (snip.) One of the Church's pastors (snip) allegedly works as an ICE agent in St. Paul. Nekima Levy Armstrong, an activist, said they were there to let the church know "this will not stand." Armstrong was the one who initiated the disruption inside the church, yelling as the lead pastor finished a prayer.
Khamenei's gamble: Iran admits to the
slaughter and counts on the world to look
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slaughter and counts on the world to look
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Iran’s supreme leader has now openly acknowledged what the Islamic Republic has spent weeks trying to obscure from the world.
In remarks carried by Iranian state media on Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted that “several thousand deaths” had occurred during Iran’s latest wave of nationwide protests, while blaming the United States and Israel for the bloodshed. Protesters, he declared, were “criminals,” “mercenaries,” and mohareb (enemies of God) – a charge that carries the death penalty under Iranian law.
For over four decades, the Islamic Republic has relied on a familiar formula for survival. It begins with repression at home, then blames foreign intervention, and waits for the world to hesitate.
BLACKWELL, Okla.—When Oklahoma legalized medical marijuana on June 26, 2018, many people were hopeful that it would stimulate the economy while helping eligible patients.
They expected the 7 percent excise tax and state and local property taxes on sales to bring in more money for schools and infrastructure, create new jobs, and help the economy thrive.
Few people expected organized crime to rise to the levels it has, according to Mark Woodward, public information officer for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
Democrats are bullish about retaking the House of Representatives and making Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) the next Speaker after the midterm elections. Part of that optimism is the cushion of five seats created through further gerrymandering of California’s U.S. House districts.
According to one respected Ninth Circuit judge, however, California may have a slight problem: Its new congressional map may be based on racial discrimination.
No politician is more of an enigma than Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
For years she has been rumored to have married her brother – allegations she has called 'absurd and offensive'. Her family fortunes, steered by her white, American husband, have curiously skyrocketed to $30million.
And more recently, her Minneapolis community has been mired in shocking fraud allegations.But even more disconcerting is the question about her citizenship.
Is Ilhan Omar really an American?
Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) The cultists in the Church of Climate Change Alarmists sure are resilient for people who are convinced that we're all so fragile that the weather is soon going to kill us. Maybe I'm simplifying their message; it's difficult to pay close attention to those who are permanently in the throes of hysteria.
One of the greatest upsides to writing about politics is that I can vent my frustrations with the lunatic left and enjoy myself while doing so. The climate cultists are particularly enjoyable to mock because the aforementioned hysteria makes the poor dears so easy to trigger. One mention of "Floaty
Six years after it was founded, a rightwing party is poised to rise to power in today’s presidential election in Portugal.
No less than 11 candidates are involved in the election, making it likely that the two top candidates will have to compete in a runoff ballot next month in the likely event that no one gets over 50% of the vote.
“Almost 11 million people are eligible to vote in the election, with most results expected late in the day. The winner will replace President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has served the limit of two five-year terms.Among the front-runners, according to recent opinion polls, are André Ventura,
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent never disappoints when he makes a Sunday show appearance. That held true Sunday morning as he joined Kristen Welker on NBC News' Meet the Press. Whether the topic was Greenland or the Fed, Bessent was well prepared to address the questions Welker raised.
Right out of the gate, Welker zeroed in on Greenland, noting that both Denmark and Greenland insist it's not for sale, and asking: "What makes President Trump think it is?" Bessent emphasized its strategic value.Welker followed up by asking Bessent whether Trump is serious about annexing Greenland, or instead, using the discussion as a negotiating tactic.
What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th birthday?
America is a far different place from the nation that saw King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 at the young age of 39; different even from the country that made this a federal holiday in 1983.
Black Americans still face real inequities. Look at the huge numbers of crime victims, disproportionately black, generated by terrible progressive policies on public safety.
Or the decay of America’s public schools, once an engine of black social mobility:
Trump tells Norway PM he no longer has
obligation to ‘think purely of peace’
after Nobel snub replies
obligation to ‘think purely of peace’
after Nobel snub replies
US President Donald Trump tells Norway’s prime minister he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in a message published today.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump says in a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
The authenticity of the message is confirmed to AFP by a source close to the matter, and by Store to Norwegian newspaper VG.
Even in the heyday of the liberal democratic order, the conceit of the World Economic Forum induced skepticism: Once a year, the wealthiest, most powerful people on earth gather in a village in the Swiss Alps to devise solutions to the most critical problems in modern life. The slogan of the forum, “Committed to Improving the State of the World,” has long encapsulated the reason for doubt. People with the greatest stake in the status quo — billionaire executives who run the largest banks and technology companies — are cast as change agents, uniting with world leaders to pursue the betterment of humanity.
But this year, Davos seems especially challenged
A high-speed train derailed and hurtled into another train in Spain on Sunday evening, killing at least 39 people and leaving dozens more injured in one of the country’s worst rail disasters in more than a decade.
The train, operated by rail company Iryo, was traveling from Malaga to Madrid with 371 people onboard when its rear three carriages derailed and crashed into the front two carriages of another high-speed train traveling in the opposite direction, officials said.
The collision, near Adamuz in the southern region of Andalusia, caused both trains to overturn at speed, news agency EFE reported, with the front carriages of the second train sent plunging down an embankment.