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Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News with Larry Schweikart

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  • Today's News, December 9-10, 2025

    Today's News, December 9-10, 2025
    Dec 10 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Panicans and Doomspoogers unite! We have nothing to lose but the majority! The Eyores of the Right were out in force as a DemoKKKrat won the Miami mayor race. Many said "for the first time." Well, except for the DemoKKKrat who held the mayorship for 8 years not long ago as an independent who immediately re-registered as a DemoKKKrat the minute he left office. Seth Keshel is absolutely right on this: the level of groin-grabbing on X and "social media" is not only, but completely out of synch with everything else happening around it. Miami? Fine. Yet Miami-Dade COUNTY just flipped red. Last week---yes, last week---FL gained 10,000 net new Rs, bringing the GOP lead in the state to over 1.4 million. But let's get worked up about a big urban area that elects a D for the second time in 20 years. 2) Trump's excellent chief of staff Susie Wiles says the President will go on offense next year with multiple campaign stops to secure the House again. 3) CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations, better known as the Council on American Islamic Rampagers) is threatening to sue FL governor Ron DeSantis for calling CAIR, correctly, a terrorist organization. Now do the DemoKKKrats, gov. 4) Jazzy What-a-Crockett claims Hispanics have a "slave mentality" when it comes to the GOP. Right. But blacks voting like robots fror DemoKKKrats who ignored them and utterly destroyed their families and neighborhoods, that ain't slave mentality right, Steppin? 5) The War Department confirmed 87 narco terrorists have been vaporized in boat attacks. Good. Vaporize them all. 6) The EPA is wiping all mention of "human caused" climate change from its website. Good. 7) In a victory for President Trump, the a judge approved the DOJ's request to release all the grand jury material from the Epstein files following Congress's Epstein Transparency Act. As best I can tell, this was 100% "Don't throw me in that briar patch" from Trump. I think DemoKKKrats will be badly disappointed in who comes up in those lists. It won't be Trump. For the record, I have argued for months that the only way to get this material out is to force DemoKKKrats to release it. 8) Update on Jordan Peterson's health from his daughter, who says he is home but continuing to battle a severe autoimmune problem. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 9) Somalis may be in MN legally, but they are engaging in massive fraud on all levels, flying out "millions of dollars" from Minny' s airport in bags. It also appears the Somalis were bilking a ME medicare fund to send money to furrin jihadists. 10) Rather than fix crime or kick out illegals, Charlotte city council spent $3.2m on public relations. IN CULTURAL NEWS 11) Colleges no longer offer a way out. They are massive traffic jams for youts who need work. IN TRANSOID NEWS 12) A D.C. circuit court says The Punisher Pete Hegseth's transoid ban in the military is "likely constitutional" since military leaders support it and because it advances American security. Yeah, duh. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 13) Job openings jumped 443,000. Yeah, sounds like a recession to me. 14) Data center demands are not just requiring more power, but are pushing innovation in both technical and bookkeeping methods. 15) A new superheating method may have provided a way to extract rare earth minerals back out of used electronics. 16) Trump announced $12 billion in aid to farmers, noting the lag in tariff costs to farmers (due to lower sales) and increased benefits. He is also pushing equipment manufacturers to lower farm equipment costs by cutting regulations. 17) A battle is developing between Trump and the states over regulatory control over AI. Trump says it is essential to stay ahead of the ChiComs. 18) Wonder why we have inflation? A new report shows that federal spending per person rose by 10,000% since 1916. 19) NextEra and Exxon are working on a 1.2 gigawatt data center powered by natgas. 20) According to the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, David Blackmon, the U.S. oil industry has essentially added the equivalent of Saudi Arabia to its oil reserves. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 21) Sanctions on Russkie and Iranian oil at sea leaves a giant glut just floating, waiting to go to market. 22) The Italian energy firm Eni discovered major gas reserves off Indonesia and Borneo. IN MEDICAL NEWS 23) DemoKKKrats and the left are losing so hard on these issues that it's astounding panicans on our side are somewhere on Uranus. Now the Supes overturned a New York state rule banning religious exemptions on vaxxes. This whole vax scaffolding is falling apart faster than the playoff hopes of the Kansas City Swifts. How bad is it? Jeff Childers has dedicated the better part of two columns to analyzing this retreat. Now the FDA will expand its vax injury investigations to adults (take that Dr. Fallacy). HHS says it is investigating side-effect deaths across "multiple age groups." As Childers notes, only in America could the investigation into...
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    16 mins
  • Today's News, December 7-8, 2025

    Today's News, December 7-8, 2025
    Dec 8 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) I'm going to say of this poll what I say of polls I don't like: I don't trust it. This national generic poll has Republicans up 4%. But, it doesn't matter because voter registrations confirm more this poll than others. 2) The lead attorney under Rutabaga for the Pipebomber case pressured the Proud Boys for years to lie about Trump's (non) involvement. 3) Our friend Shipwreckedcrew explains the Somali fraud problem. Via contracts with schools and the gubment to provide lunches, various products including meats had to come from NGOs. Believe it or not Scott Johnson and Powerline has been on this story since 2018. These NGOs had to be located in po neighborhoods where at least 50% of the kids were getting freebies. 4) I have posted most of these separately, but Seth Keshel does a good job of summarizing the most important voter registration numbers, and they ALL look good for Rs. NC will be a red state within two months at most. PA may be red by 2028. GOP margins are growing everywhere. 5) Kollyfornia is heading for an energy drop-off cliff. Since 2007, the state's domestic oil production has fallen 65%, reliance on furrin energy, up 70%. This is a national security issue. You cannot have a giant coastal state, with a massive economy, in thrall to furrin evil rotatorglands. As David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of energy has pointed out countless times, even if Kollyfornia (like other states) had the production capacity, its pathetic infrastructure is third world due to high costs. It's top pipeline operates at just 17% capacity. And President Trump put an end to the state's goofball EV mandate, which is a problem because Kollyfornia has put most of its eggs in the failing EV basket, er, socket. Since Trump just killed Rutabaga's preposterous CAFE standards, Kollyfornia will be particularly hard hit. Rutabaga was on a demented jihad to eliminate gas-powered cars in America. 6) Roger Kimball argues that Trump's influence is only growing. He will truly go down as one of the great men in history. (Horace Walpole once wrote that only great men---not good ones---can change history because they are willing to do what must be done.) 7) The Trump administration suspects widespread fraud in programs administered by the Small Business Administration and have ordered them to turn over all records. 8) The coldest and harshest winter in 12 years will hit the U.S. So, all that "global warming" stuff is bovine excrement? 9) More winning (and more use of the infamous "poised to"): Supes appear "poised to" hand Trump a victory on agency firings. 10) Republicans are on the winning side, again, in PA registering a small net gain in voters after two months of small losses. 11) Even The Hill now admits this: "The Green New Deal is Dead." 12) Rising DemoKKKrat star quits TX race. Gee why? I thought 2026 was gonna be the DemoKKKrats' year. Likewise long-serving TX DemoKKKrat Lloyd (Doggonit) Doggett announced his retirement from the House. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 13) Tehran confirms the U.S. has deported more Iranians. 14) He's not even in office yet and the Amazing Zohran is instructing illegal criminal invaders on evading arrest. 15) Another twice-deported illegal, who was allowed back into the country, knifed a man on a train in Charlotte, NC. IN CULTURAL NEWS 16) The great Ryan Burge shows that those who are religious are more likely to have a job; and that those Christians who don't go to church are more likely not to be employed. 17) Suspensions, yea, discipline is down in schools, violence is up, despite the early attempts by Trump to root out DEI. This will take a while. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 18) Dollar General Store, where almost nothing is a dollar anymore, is opening over 500 new stores. 19) Not surprised at all. Rutabaga gave illegal criminal alien invaders FHA-backed mortgages. 20) Trump has created a task force to investigate food industry price fixing. Normally that would have been done by any number of agencies, but so many DemoKKKrat cinderbiscuits still inhabit too many agencies. 21) A fascinating review of where the current economy is from Cathy Wood shows that capital investments are growing, inflation has flattened (today's inflation numbers beat expectations in a good way), even housing is looking a little better, the BBB tax cuts are, in fact, going to make a difference and that there are still too many people looking for work, despite a 4% unemployment rate. See my today's substack for further political analysis of this. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 22) Euro leaders are conspiring against President Trump's Uke peace plan to save Green Screen Zelensky. Evil, rotting, toadstools. They make Napoleon look positively benign. 23) The US has given the Euros one year to take over the bulk of NATO. U.S. deputy Sec State just said that the EU has become NATO and NATO has become the EU. Sayonara. 24) X users skyrocketed after the goofball Hun-led Euros fined X $140 million...
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    22 mins
  • Today's News, December 4-5, 2025

    Today's News, December 4-5, 2025
    Dec 5 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Fakey Jake Tapper called the captured Pipe Bomber, a black man, Brian ""Gnat King" Cole a "white man. Hoax News is having real trouble with this guy: his family was bankrupt, having been bail bondsmen for illegal criminal alien invaders who---never saw this coming!---didn't show up to court and stuck the family with all the costs. The FBI did a remarkable job of reopening the case that the Rutabaga DOJ had no interest in pursuing. Gone unsaid was, "Why?" Grand Moff Garland did not pursue this, perhaps, because there was video that has subsequently disappeared that showed Cole not only planting the bombs, but walking up to then candidate Cackles' Harris's SUV and leaning in, talking to the occupants (i.e., either the Secret Service or Cackles herself!) Pam Bondi credited Dan Bongino and Kash Patel for working the evidence, and noted that there was no "tip." They did it all themselves. And, Lil' Gnat kept buying bomb parts after Patriot Day (J6). 2) This is an absolutely amazing document, the new Trump National Security Strategy. It's worth reading the whole thing. Not only does it note that the previous administrations gave away the store, but it is a total commitment to a powerful U.S. military, to non-intervention, to Peace Through Strength, to a vibrant U.S. economic and tech sector, and to taking no crap from anyone. I have seen most of the Reagan National Security Decision Documents. They were good, but this is the greatest statement of America's strategic goals---and they are exactly what should be---that I've ever seen. My longer synopsis here on X. 3) Trump wins again on the national guard, this time in D.C. where an Appeals Court said "Stay!" 4) A New York grand Jury refused to re-indict Big Tish James on fraud charges. 5) Republicans are seeking to block ChiCom influence in K-12 education. 6) Seth Keshel argues that despite always being a teaser state, Republicans should write off MN. Even after some of the Skinny Fraud is cleaned out, they have emplaced election fraud right into their processes and it will be hard to overcome. For example, there was a BIG election integrity win in MI, but as Keshel points out, it's only as good as its enforcement. Meanwhile, Rs continue crushing it in the new redistricting, no matter what CA and VA do (Probably +9D) as IN added two more R districts. By my count, that puts Rs at +16 to +19 depending on how far FL goes. In other words, based on Cook's "209 safe R" districts right now, Rs have already held the House even before we get to the Supes' decision on racial redistricting. 7) In a huge loss for Ds, Trump "tar babied" them into demanding release of the Epstein file that incriminate . . . them. Now a judge says the grand jury material must be unsealed. They will really regret this. 8) Jack Smith ("Count Dooku") has been subpoenaed in the "Arctic Frost" investigation. And Pam Bondi is now going after DemoKKKrat "megadonor" Reid Hoffman. 9) The Supes ruled that TX can continue with its R-friendly redistricting map. Zen Master thinks this has no impact on Kollyfornia, and that the Supes, based on precedent, will not interfere. So this is a wash at 5 seats for each side. . 10) The Senate will confirm 97 more Trump appointees in a single vote. 11) Shocked, I tell ya: GAO found massive fraud in Obamacare. 12) The scientific journal Nature just retracted a 2024 "climate change" study. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 13) The latest scheme by DemoKKKrats to resist ICE has a DEI twist, namely they are instructing illegal criminal invaders to say they are transoids or homosexuals. 14) DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says that more than 2 million illlegal invaders have already left the country. That translates to over 8m gone by 2028, which by many accounts is over 25%, maybe more. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 15) Don't look now but a big recovery is around the corner as jobless claims fall to the lowest since 2022. 16) Hoax News, such as Fortune, thinks this is a loss: NGOs lose jobs, big time. This is a huge win. 17) DemoKKKrats realize they have a civil war with Big Tech/Big Data/AI vs Green, and are now seeking to climb back on the oil pipeline. I think this will prove impossible so long as Kollyfornia is in the Union. 18) Republicans voted to cancel Rutabaga's prohibition on drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. 19) President Trump rolled back Rutabaga-era fuel standards saving Americans $110 billion. Meanwhile, Trump edged closer to eliminating income taxes in favor of tariffs. And Treas. Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump can recreate the tariffs even if Trump loses the Supe ruling. 20) Shades of RFK, as Groomer City (San Francisco) filed suit against major food and drink manufacturers for "unhealthy food." What this really is has less to do with safety and the staggering reality that Kollyfornia is going broke and needs every last red cent. 21) Trump certainly understands the necessity of hyperspeed reactors. 22) Long term ...
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    14 mins
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