Posts on Thursday, January 29, 2026

As we sang "Auld Lang Sein" in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2025, the first American newborn of the year arrived to much fanfare and celebration. But this time, the baby was the progeny of Chinese citizens (snip.) Birth tourism from China exploded under President Barack Obama's tenure because his administration (snip) instructed US consular officers "not to deny visa applicants solely because they planned to travel to the United States to obtain citizenship for their child."(snip) Beijing encourages US birth tourism (snip.) A group of influential, indoctrinated, legal citizens is being indoctrinated to act in China's interests, not America's.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that his time as an elected official will permanently end when he finishes his term as governor. “I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW. Walz had said this month that he would not seek re-election as governor — sending shock waves through state and national politics — but he did not go so far as to say he would not consider another elected position down the line. In explaining his decision Wednesday, Walz talked about the

With the clock ticking down to a potential government shutdown this Friday, Senate Republicans are reportedly considering a move that could leave the southern border wide open to invasion. A group of Republican senators is now openly discussing whether to split the Homeland Security appropriations bill away from a six-bill funding package in order to avert a partial government shutdown that would impact the Pentagon and several other major federal departments, according to The Hill. The six-bill package includes funding for the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, Transportation, State, and financial services-related agencies.

As most know by now, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” global warming propaganda film turned 20 a few days ago. It won a couple of Oscars in 2007, one for best documentary. The latter should be returned. The movie was filled with errors. Exalting the celluloid screed with an Academy Award for best documentary is the equivalent of handing the Nobel Peace Prize to a terrorist, an incompetent, a fraud, an unaccomplished charlatan, and, yes, Gore himself, because it was far more a faux-umentary than an honest account of the facts. In the same year that Gore was given his participation trophy,

Dr. Oz claims to have uncovered rampant health care fraud in California, declaring he’s found a whopping 42 hospices in just a four block radius. Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, posted a video Tuesday cruising through Van Nuys, pointing to medical buildings plastered with Armenian writing and claiming they’re tied to a multibillion-dollar hospice and home-care fraud scheme.“ In this four block area in Los Angeles, there are 42 hospices,” Dr. Oz said, “So, either there are a lot of people dying here, or you got a fraudulent activity that is so good everyone wants to get in on it."

The arrest of narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro, the quarantine imposed on Venezuela’s oil industry and the collapse of the European Union’s “renewable energy” strategy all have raised a big question in the minds of many Americans: What role should foreign energy play in our policy efforts? This month’s I&I/TIPP Poll’s online national survey of 1,478 adults, taken from Jan. 6 to Jan 9, provides a very clear answer: Access to foreign crude oil and other energy sources is very important to a majority of Americans. The poll’s margin of error is +/-2.9 percentage points.

Congress lurched a day closer to a partial government shutdown on Wednesday after Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) laid out a list of major reforms that Democrats want to make to the Department of Homeland Security, proposals that will likely encounter resistance from President Trump. Democrats say they will block the six-bill government funding package the Senate will vote on Thursday, which includes the Homeland Security appropriations bill, putting Washington on the brink of another shutdown less than three months after the longest shutdown in American history.

If the second Trump term turns out to be like “The Apprentice” without “You’re fired!” its ratings are going to resemble Joe Biden’s. That means needlessly big losses in the coming midterms, and an end to — or even reversal of — President Donald Trump’s agenda. President Biden never accepted blame for the Afghanistan debacle, for economic malaise and record inflation or any of his other disasters, such as the endless waves of illegal migrants waved into the country. But he also never even implicitly admitted his team had failed by axing an obvious author of those debacles —

As the Nashville Electric Service (NES) is currently under scrutiny, with over 100,000 customers without power days after an ice storm swept through the city last weekend, past interviews and public statements by CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin suggest the executive has focused on sustainability, renewable energy, and supporting public transportation since she became the top executive at NES in April 2022. Broyles-Aplin was spotlighted by Capital Analytics Associates (CAA) last year, when the business insights website highlighted the role of NES in the Choose How You Move transportation referendum successfully championed by Mayor Freddie O’Connell in 2024. “The city had a lot going on this past year,

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson admitted Wednesday he was “in regular communication” with other mayors leading so-called “sanctuary cities” in efforts to impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. President Donald Trump called for an end to “sanctuary cities” in a post on Truth Social Monday, following a series of shootings, two of them fatal, that took place in Minneapolis involving Department of Homeland Security personnel engaged in immigration enforcement operations. Johnson said during a press conference at the National Press Club he’d been talking with Democratic Mayors Jacob Frey of Minneapolis and Michelle Wu of Boston about how to combat

Immigration officials have wrapped up a sweep in Maine that netted hundreds of suspected illegal aliens in recent days following complaints from the state’s Republican senator. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said in a statement early Thursday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “has informed me that ICE has ended its enhanced activities in the state of Maine. There are currently no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations here.” “I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state,” added Collins, the lone Republican federal officeholder from New England.

Unlike virtually every other government-spending program sold as an “investment in the future,” Trump Accounts look to fit that bill — with 401(k)-style investment accounts for newborns that can teach the value of saving (and the power of compound interest) from the cradle on. With Nicki Minaj bringing added star power, President Donald Trump led Wednesday’s summit promoting the new accounts, which officially launch July 4, as part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations — fitting, as the accounts are very much about nurturing continued prosperity for the Republic. Indeed, as House Speaker Mike Johnson notes, they encapsulate such core American values as “the belief that everybody gets a shot.

Big-money billionaires, including Larry Ellison and Sergey Brin, are flocking to ritzy little enclaves at the California-Nevada border to scoop up property and seemingly escape the Golden State’s proposed “billionaire tax.” Brin plunked down a whopping $42 million last month on a Lake Tahoe estate in Nevada. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has also been quietly amassing luxury properties just over the state line, snapping up multimillion-dollar homes in elite Nevada enclaves like Crystal Bay and Incline Village — prized for their private beaches, gated estates, and sweeping panoramic views of the lake.

New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani cast blame on former NYC Mayor Eric Adams for the city’s $12 billion deficit budget, stating that the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis.” During a press conference on Wednesday, Mamdani accused Adams of underbudgeting important services that NYC residents “rely on every single day,” while “quietly leaving behind enormous gaps for the future.” Mamdani also accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of extracting NYC’s “resources” and using the city’s revenues to “address state level holes, while withholding from the city what it was owed.”

Amazon announced Wednesday it will eliminate 16,000 corporate positions as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and streamlining operations. Bloomberg reports that Amazon announced Wednesday it will eliminate 16,000 corporate positions as part of an organizational restructuring. The job cuts represent part of a broader effort by the technology giant to remove bureaucratic obstacles and increase employee ownership across the company.

What have Little Red Riding Hood, Jane Austen’s Emma and prison reformer Elizabeth Fry got in common? They are all female-coded ‘compassionate’ girls and women who can help us understand why young women are veering to the radical Left. The New Statesman has reported on this trend and the predilection of young women to support various perceived victim groups – trans rights and Palestinians, for example – even when these groups clash with their own interests. Explained as “suicidal empathy” by Gad Saad and the “hijacking” of instinctive female care for victims by Eric Kaufmann, the lurch to extreme Left-wing ideology by young women today deserves our full attention.

Bari Weiss — the young, dynamic new head honcho at CBS News — is not at all interested in being accepted by the lefty communist collective clique that has had a stranglehold on American mainstream media seemingly forever. That's what makes her story so interesting, fun to watch, and important. It wouldn't be odd if she was, mind you. Ms. Weiss is decidedly left-leaning in her politics. She is something that we don't see much of anymore, an iconoclast who broke away from the leftist hive mind and survived all subsequent cancel attempts from the bedwetters.

New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is already discovering that governing can be a whole lot harder than campaigning — you actually have to manage a budget, deliver on services, and do so without alienating your key supporters and allies. The grinning socialist is realizing that he and the Big Apple are facing some serious fiscal issues, but he has three answers: 1) It’s all former Mayor Eric Adams' fault (with some help from disgraced former Empire State Governor Andrew Cuomo, and 2) Scare the heck out of everyone by saying we’re risking the next “Great Recession,”