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Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News with Larry Schweikart

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  • Today's News, December 11-12, 2025

    Today's News, December 11-12, 2025
    Dec 12 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) The Trump administration has now deported or encouraged people to self deport to the tune of 2.5 MILLION. This would work out to 10 million in Trump's term. By many accounts, that would be half of all illegals here. I know it's looking ahead, but a President J.D. Vance could oversee the final removal of all illegal criminals by the end of his second term. Meanwhile ICE was really busy in N'yawlins as they arrested oer 2,800 and deported over 11,800 . . . in a MONTH!. Kristi Noem's DHS acquired a new fleet of Boeing jets to facilitate faster removal! 2) The weak, cowardly, Pence-influenced IN senate will not redistrict, costing the GOP 1-2 seats. This knocks 2026 back into the razor edge zone of "safe" GOP seats, which I now have as 217. Now, as for some comments by these IN chodetokers: I am a Christian. I am a conservative. And right now, many of these people are metaphorically tossing babies into Moloch ovens because of "muh principles." Oh, and it couldn't be bribes from the holy offering plate, could it? As Seth Keshel points out, someone b gettin' rich from Big Pharma, and does not want a Trump/Bobby HHS taking away their, er, "tithe checks." There is good news: MD has ruled out redistricting. 3) The Comptroller of the Currency's Office has conclusive proof (or, if you are Clinton's adviser, Lanny Davis, "pwoof") that nine big banks engaged in de-banking. I personally know someone who was screwed by this and deserves a nice settlement. 4) I keep chattering about his, but it really is next gen warfare: President Trump has signed an order overriding all state AI regs and putting AI regulation in the hands of the feds. As long as Rs hold the executive, this will be vunderbar. You cannot allow NY or Kollyfornia to have final control over AI. Ever. 5) We'll see: HHS is threatening MN with loss of fed money due to its stratospheric welfare fraud. 6) Two women and a service dog were kiilled in a PA machete attack. Hmm. Machete is the preferred weapon of what group? 7) In a bipartisan bill, the House has reduced the red tape and time it takes to get water permits (can you say "AI data centers?") THIS IS PRECISELY THE KIND OF EFFORT THAT IT WILL TAKE, MANY TIMES OVER, TO MAKE THE HOUSE RELEVANT AGAIN. Six DemoKKKrats voted for it, only one inebriated R voted against. 8) President Trump has reaffirmed his support for the Punisher, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem. 9) Erika Kirk pushed back against the conspiracy theories involving Charlie Kirk. "Just Stop," she said. Don't tell me Erika is Mossad too!! 10) A Columbia review found that Jewish students were called "murderers" and suffered continuous anti-Israel tirades. One question: did any of these analpustules ever criticize the Hamas Murder Pirates? 11) An electric school bus burst into flames in LA. You know, I cannot tell you the last time I heard of any gas-powered car just "bursting into flames." 12) How Republicans tricked Jazzy What-a-Crockett into running for the senate. 13) Gov. Ron DeSantis is being accused by the Miami Herald of diverting $35 million in taxpayer funds to defeat ballot initiatives he opposed. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 14) Remember this Kilmar Garcia catboxliner? I forgot all about him. Guess he had been put back back in fed daycare when yet another fungalicious judge says he must be released. Yeah, I'd release him. Then I'd give him an Uber to the judge's house. And a key. And maybe some superglue and feathers. 15) Ok, so in our last meeting I said I thought the Minny Skinny Fraud had legs, that it would be a "thing." Well, well. The Communist Broadcast System (CBS) just ran a big story on how the fraudsters had luxurious villas and luxury cars, all courtesty of the moronic Minny voters. Folks, as I noted on Monday when I reported the Minny Skinny fraudsters dipping their blood-soaked little hands into the MAINE Medicare system, this is going to unravel everywhere like one of Dinobernie's cheap geriatric suits. Now, Minny admits that nearly every single Somali family with children in the state is on welfare. IN TRANSOID NEWS 16) Good. This is 100% about sending the right signals. This administration won't L.I.E. fo D.E.I. (There's a protest slogan in there somewhere.) Anyway, RICHARD Levine, who chopped off certain organs to "become" Rachel, has had his real, birth name put back on his official portrait at HHS. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 17) EXXON is pausing a major clean-energy hydrogen project. 18) The Wall Street Urinal says this is the one! A new uber-life battery is just around the corner. You know, like the next Cowboys Super Bowl appearance. 19) Transpo Secretary Sean Duffy just pulled 9,500 trucks off the roads because drivers could not pass an English proficiency test. Good. 20) The number of Americans receiving unemployment dropped to a 10 month low. 21) The FED cut interest rates again. Good, We need about four more of these. 22) Shocked. Blue states with "green" energy mandates ...
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    12 mins
  • 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
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