Posts on Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Intrepid investigative journalist Nick Shirley isn't one to shrink from danger. He had to escape from Cuba when spies followed him during his trip to the communist island and was forced to hire 24/7 security after exposing Somali fraud in Minneapolis. In his latest video, Shirley once again finds himself in serious peril when a Muslim man chases him through the streets while wielding a knife and threatening to stab him. The scene of the pursuit was the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, which has made headlines in recent days after 60,000 illegal migrants poured in from Morocco.

Republican US Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) came out in favor of nuking the filibuster to get the SAVE Act passed. Graham, the sister of former Senator Lindsey Graham, came out in support of the SAVE Act and says she is in favor of eliminating the senate filibuster to get it to pass. Darline made the comments during the South Carolina Republican US Senate debate. Graham added that Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they take control of the US Senate anyway. What a breath of fresh air.

This past weekend, Russia’s main domestic security agency, the FSB, announced that Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been charged with aiding terrorism and put on an international wanted list. CBS News reported: The charges against Durov, who was born and began his career in Russia but later moved abroad, came as the Russian authorities restrict Telegram, one of the most popular messaging apps in the country – […] Soon after the charges were announced, Telegram’s official account on X posted an image of Durov making an obscene gesture with his middle finger. There was no other immediate comment from Durov or Telegram.”

NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers came out of the gates slinging darts on The Pat McAfee Show on Monday. When the ESPN host invited the firebrand on the show, he may not have expected the legendary football player to unleash a rant for the ages on Dr. Anthony Fauci. McAfee opened up his line of questioning about a potential retirement, but Rodgers seized the opportunity to bash the disgraced doctor. "I’m gonna plead the Fifth," Rodgers quipped, "like that absolute coward Tony Fauci. Absolute coward. Are you kidding me? You get a pardon, and you pleaded over 100 times at the White House?

Some of my earliest memories are from a grocery store. My mother, and later her sister, worked at a locally owned Key Market running the deli department. Baked goods, hot meals, sliced meats and fresh salads, and the best donuts you ever tasted made from scratch every day — it was a kid’s paradise. She would sometimes take me to work on Saturdays, and I’d help, doing everything but slicing the meat (age-restricted because it’s dangerous). It was fun for me, and I learned things I would not have learned watching cartoons.

For all the talk out there of supposedly moderate Democrats terrified of the socialist takeover within their party, concerned that extremists will hurt their general election chances, you'd think some in the party would be urging them to tone things down a bit. That doesn't appear to be the case. In a recent NewsNation interview, DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer was asked whether Democratic operatives had been calling on her to rein in the group’s more radical proposals. Proposals she has previously outlined, which include abolishing numerous core institutions

New York State’s continuing quest to kneecap efforts by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in dealing with the illegal alien crisis that former President Joe Biden brought us took a big blow Monday when a federal judge said the state did not have the conditional authority to order a mask ban for federal agents. The ruling did also say, however, that the state could ban masks for its own law enforcement agents and continue to refuse to cooperate with ICE. The agency has argued repeatedly that agents have been subject to violence, threats, and doxing as the Democrats’ anti-ICE rhetoric has maintained a fever

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former Vice President Mike Pence said it is time for President Donald Trump to “unleash” the military to “finish the job” in Iran. Host Bill Hemmer said, “I want to ask you about Iran. We had a Fox poll that came out about two weeks ago. We asked the question on the ultimate outcome with Iran. The U.S. will reach what good deal, bad deal or no deal. And 48% said no deal. What’s your view?” Pence said, “Well, I have more confidence in President Trump than that. I think the Iranians should be very wary at this moment. Look, I strongly supported

After enduring the malign White House ghosts and the Machiavellian Autopen, President Trump’s transparency sure is refreshing. His Truth Social posts are a major vehicle for promulgating his nearly real-time machinations, and official statements on policy, to anyone who follows. Now, certain potentially market-moving posts will only be timely for paid subscribers, while the general public are initially excluded from this important corner of the public square. Paying customers like financial firms will be alerted to President Trump’s market-moving posts while the common schmuck remains oblivious — perhaps until it is too late to leverage the news.

So New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a solution to the obvious problems of his free government groceries going out the door to speculators and out-of-staters who can buy and can resell the discounted foods at a profit. Here he is: The July 27 exchange, transcribed by Grok and me: Q: How you gonna keep people from taking advantage of that deal basically, and is there going to be a limit on the number of items that someone can take that are discounted at that level from that essential basket?

You might be thinking, "Why, of course they did. They are Democrats, after all." But actually, it is more than a little surprising that the California Democratic Party took this stand, because it is stabbing their financial base in the back and a threat to the organized crime ring that is at the heart of the Democratic Party in that state. In other words, they chose ideological fealty to the growing socialist movement in the party over the self-interest of the political class, which ought to surprise you just a bit. Whatever they say, almost everybody in the Establishment is in it for themselves, not to create a socialist utopia.

Politico has dropped a story about Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI). It's mostly about how she's doing in Michigan and how she's dealing with the fight between Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11) and Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic nomination for the Senate to replace Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) But there's also a bit suggesting she might be interested in a presidential run. Later, I asked Slotkin about who she might lean on to staff a presidential campaign.  “I think the idea that there would be like a playbook for how to run for president, if you think there is, and you’re just following that playbook, you’re going to lose,