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  • Today's News, January 10-14, 2026

    Today's News, January 10-14, 2026
    Jan 15 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) While it's early, it appears that the artificial "outrage" over the shooting of the MN would-be car murderer failed to achieve liftoff. Not that they ain't trying. There is a big protest organized by the Socialists in NYC here; and as Roger Kimball argues here, the cold in part tamped down protests in many blue cities. Let them eat icicles. There were "tens of thousands" of marchers in MN, demanding "We won't stop til it's 1793." Apparently devoid of any historical understanding, 1793 was the year the "Reign of Terror" began in France, where, after a few nobles were separated from their cranial cavities, guess who the Committee on Public Safety came for? Yep. The very "revolutionaries" like Robespierre who started the bloodshed. Oh, and who was left standing? This guy: 2) That didn't take long: a newly-sworn-in Somali city council member in ME resigned after an indictment for fraud. 3) Remember the 2024 campaign and I said the DemoKKKrats had five civil wars, and couldn't win any of them? Yeah, still happening. They have a civil war going on over ICE funding. PA continues to trend Republican with another big jump of R+7200. Now Rs are down only 49,000 in active voters. PA will be red before 2028. And after a court fight, OR will clean 800,000 names from the rolls. Wanna bet how many of those are DemoKKKrats? And here is Clinton pollster Mark Penn warning that the DemoKKKrat spoogemuffins are going to dominate the party until it disappears. Wait, who else has been saying the DemoKKKrats would disappear? Meanwhile, a DemoKKKrat strategist warns that Kollyfornia will see a mass exodus in the next few months due to ridiculously high prices and high taxes. It is true that independents have hit a record high, but that's not good news for DemoKKKrats, as a) a much higher percentage of indies come from Ds, and b) the GOP nevertheless has gained relative to DemoKKKrats in every state. I look at this as a two-step process: first, leave the DemoKKKrats, second, join the GOP later. 4) Kollyfornia wealthy people prepare to leave if wealth tax is implemented. This includes the two Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Gruesome is scrambling to try to undo this. He can't. 5) No one has mentioned this, but there is a "massive" $32 billion plan by Trump to overhaul the nation's air traffic control system, long overdue. 6) The once-decent state of CO is now appearing ready to grant Tina Peters clemency. I think Trump withholding water funds has something to do with that. 7) The DoJ has subpoenaed Fed chairman Jerome Powell after his Congressional testimony where he may have lied about rennovations to the Fed Palace. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said there is no "indictment" but that Powell's refusal to reply to simple requests from DOJ led to the subpoena. 8) The Washington Compost wrote a piece saying Count Dooku (Jack Smith) was a threat to the first amendment. Jeff Childers, in his "Coffee & Covid," says this is a preemptory move to get ahead of prosecutions that are coming. Hope so. 9) I know every state says this about their GOP but it appears the toadsuckers in AK are just crazy. Now they are trying to protect a DEI program. MurCowSki must go, and go now. 10) And just like that, we will be going back to the moon, with a Feb. launch mission. All it takes is leadership. 11) A bank has sued former mayor of Benghazi-by-the-Lake, Lori Lightfoot, for not paying her bills for 17 months. 12) Left wing rag & DemoKKKrat mouthpiece Politico is laying off staff. 13) This author thinks that the defunding of state illegal alien operations by Trump is causing the Deep State to panic. I agree. It appears they shifted some of their USAID money over to Somali fraud, but now that's gone too. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 14) Transpo Secretary Sean Duffy says that 50% of all trucker drivers' licenses in NC were issued to illegals. 15) Vehicular assaults on ICE officers up 3,200%. 16) A court ruled that Trump can indeed impose a $100,000 H1B visa fee. 17) Operation "Salvo" removes 54 more illegals from New Kabul (NYC). 18) DHS surging more agents into MN. Gooooood. Meanwhile Trump ended "Temporary protection" status for Somalis. Is it working? Oh yeah. DHS has been shipping out busloads of illegals on planes, back to their garden paradises. 19) More suitcase follies as in OH a suitcase headed overseas with $136 million in cash was nabbed by DHS. IN CULTURAL NEWS 20) This struggling MA college missed its enrollment goals by half! 21) Several states are changing their time-in-service salary structure for teachers to merit pay. Good intent, but usually merit pay, which must be measured by tangible test results, adds more paperwork and, like anything, can be jimmied. We'll see. Merit for what? teaching Marxist garbage? IN TRANSOID NEWS 22) When you'e lost the Washington Compost, well, the Compost urgest the Supes to save women's sports. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 23) Just the ...
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    18 mins
  • Today's News, January 8-9, 2026

    Today's News, January 8-9, 2026
    Jan 9 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Just getting started but MN state government (guess who, ultimately?) blocked investigators looking at the Skinny Minny fraud and blacklisted whistleblowers. New info today says Gheyboy's gubment threatened to come after their families and their homes. Who would ever want to work for this hideous, vile, evil snotbag of a state? And as many have prophesied, the violence will only increase because DemoKKKrats are out of options. Yesterday, Border Patrol shot two people in Portland. The leftoids' reaction? The Prancing Gheyboy Tampon Timmy announced that he was authorizing the call up of the national guard to protect police to "keep the peace." Watch: This will become a George Wallace in the school house door moment if they in any way obstruct ICE or federal agents: Trump will then have authority to nationalize them. Stupid move by the Tamponed One. And Congress? Yeah, they're so effective. Cong. Anna Paulina Luna has subpoenaed billionaire Neville Singham, who is flagrantly funding anti-ICE. Oh, and Renee Good, the dysfunctional woman who tried to run down an ICE officer and paid for it? She was an official "ICE watch" records show, officially aligned with anti-ICE terror groups. Sorry, no sympathy here. Then we have Scott "Hamilton" Bessent, who shut down all further Skinny transfers to the homeland. 2) I'm getting to be so right, so often, it's almost boring. I said that the Skinny Minny fraud would be found in MANY states, especially blue states. Welp, here is Washington State weighing in, with an audit showing $1.8 billion missing from King County. And here a NY state health program, riddled with fraud. 3) To no one's surprise, then, J.D. Vance rolled out a new assistant AG dedicated strictly to this kind of fraud and based in the White House, not the DOJ. 4) Saying that "we knocked out" all the drugs coming in by water, and now he will authorize strikes in Me-hee-co on the cartels. Wanna bet Scheinbaum suddenly finds the cajones to do the strikes herself? Again, though, this is concerning. Ol' Woody Wilson sent Blackjack Pershing and George Patton after Pancho Villa into Me-hee-co and they failed. Course, they were just running, as opposed to having large, stationary targets. 5) NJ has lurched far to the right as the latest voter registration there shows Rs gaining a whopping 44,000 on Ds. I know, I know, I repeat myself, but this is happening in EVERY SINGLE STATE WE CAN TRACK. In almost two years, the ONLY brief periods in ANY state where there has been a D "recovery" has been in PA and NJ during DemoKKKrat primary season. Both have lost all those gains. TX, which does not register by party, has handed over its full voter rolls to the feds, as per law. Ooh, and another D is leaving the house, making the number Rs -30, Ds -24 and growing. 6) Here is another reason Congress's approval is swirling the toilet bowl. When they do act, they do incredibly stupid stuff like extend Obamacare rather than kill that, er, witch. 7) There are Kollyfornia calls for Trump to federalize via emergency declaration Palisades where ZERO homebuilding has started after the fire a year ago. It is increasingly looking like blue states want to be seen as the Confederacy after Appomattox and want to be governed in "military districts." 8) Typical Trumpian carrot and stick. First he threatened Raytheon to get on board, that it was too slow and not delivering good enough stuff, then he announced a $1.5 trillion defense budget that sent defense stocks flying. Certain panic spoogenuggets very distraught. 9) Fat Fani Willis may be on the hook for millions in President Trump's legal fees. There's another room in the Trump Presidential Library. 10) Looks like the unhinged MTG may have tipped off protesters about Trump's visit to a restaurant, creating a security incident. 11) U-Haul records show it's not just millionaires leaving Kollyfornia. It's the highest gap between leavers and arrivals in any state in the Union. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 12) The ICE agent who in self defense fired at a nutjob MN driver who tried to run him over was nearly killed in June by an illegal alien invader rapist. President Trump spoke to the officer, who is recovering in the hospital. 13) If we have to bankrupt these jerkweeds, so be it. Department of Transpo has pulled $160 million from Kollyfornia for their practice of handing drivers' licenses to illegal piddledippers. 14) Hilton Hotels gave the boot to a Hampton Inn member hotel that refused reservations for ICE in Minny. Just a few days ago, Jeff Childers at "Coffee and Covid" reminded us (in the context of DEI at that time) that all invoices to the feds are basically a statement of compliance. Meaning, Hilton would have risked ALL its fed contracts if it allowed this goofball hotelier to stand. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 15) The U.S. trade deficit dropped to the lowest level in years, decreasing by $19 billion and prompting the Atlanta fed forecast 5.4% growth ...
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    15 mins
  • Today's News, January 6-7, 2025

    Today's News, January 6-7, 2025
    Jan 8 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) I told you that the feds were not even getting warmed up yet with the Skinny Minny fraud, that ultimately nearly every single fed agency will be involved in prosecuting these rectalsnappers. So here it comes. Trump orders the largest ever immigration enforcement effort in MN. As the song goes, "Here Comes the Boom." Just one more example: Feds are probing hundreds of millions in cash in luggage leaving the Mogadishu, er, Minneapolis airport. Trump could probably get all this done quicker by making a deal with the Cincinnati Bengals to trade Joe Burrow for 80,000 Somalis to be ushered back to their home stadium in Africa. I'm sure he can come up with a lucrative inducement for the Bengals. And how about this side effect: With Maduro out---as someone who was "threatening them"---up to 600,000 Venezuelan amnesty types no longer have a case and must go home. And MORE bad news, again confirming what I said about the all-expansive nature of these investigations, as state addiction and mental health facilities are just the latest fraud vehicles there. Trump is going after Kollyfornia soon, and right on cue, Gruesome vetoed a bill that would track state spending on homelessness and housing. Gee, why? Unless, maybe Old Oleaginous One knows that that spending is the center of state fraud. And here is a piece by the urinal lickers at the Slimes saying, "Wait a minute. You can't run on affordability and have fraud out there, cuz people will blame DemoKKKrat fraudsters for the lack of affordability." Bingo. 2) Not only did markets rise on the news of Maduro's unfortunate incarceration, but the arrest was bad news for the Russkies. Or so says the "Big Short's" Michael Burry. 3) Those of you who read this know I told you about this Monday, that among all the other things that great Maduro raid accomplished was that it showed Russkie and ChiCom tech is poopiecaca. The USN went through those defenses like tissue paper, and now other people are realizing it. Oh and here's another spinoff of the raid: the "bodyguards" who were killed were all Cubanos. Conservatives have said for decades that Cuba was the #1 source of instability in Latin America and this further confirms. And, as a bonus, the Amazing Zohran was outed when he said he was "briefed" on Maduro's capture. Nope. Doesn't even hold a security clearance, nor will he. 4) The Prancing Gheyboy Tampon Timmy can run---er, not run in this case (for another term)---but he can't hide. The Fed Fraudmobile is setting its GPS for him right now. Or, as Jeff Childers puts it, "Tim Walz, the vice presidential candidate one year ago, is now a political corpse, a stain on the party, and a spent force." Seth Keshel explains how Tampon Timmy did everything he could to expand election fraud in MN, and that there really is a red wave there if you can control the fraud. But to return to Jeff Childers for a moment: he argues that Team Trump had all the dirt on Tampon in the 2024 election but held fire. Well, based on the Maduro raid (and the previous Iran raid), "Silent" Susie Wiles has her troops moving swiftly but silently, almost as though the new Janissaries had their tongues, not their other members, removed. Meanwhile, Childers argues that this is typical prosecutor approach: go after the weakest member first (MN) then turn your guns on the Big Plate Full of Scabs, Kollyfornia, which is rife with fraud. And, right on cue, five DemoKKKrat states have been told their child care funds are frozen. It is truly amazing that after 10 years Trump can still play these people like Tom Brady looking off a free safety. He says "Greenland" and then freezes stuff. Do you get the irony? 5) Toddling Tommy Edsall at the New York Slimes is starting to get it. They are skeeered, very skeered, seeing that in fact the Trump revolution is now affecting culture. 6) Michael ("Granny Killer") Byrd, the officer who killed unarmed Ashli Babbitt on Patriot Day (J6) 2020, is revealed to be running an unaccredited daycare in MD and has pocketed up to $190 million in HHS funds. Sounds to me like he needs to be Maduro's bunk mate. Speaking of people who should be Maduro's bunk mates, the Pentagon DEMOTED U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (what a humiliation) and reduced his retirement pay for his "don't obey legal orders" video. This saguaroschlub is fortunate not to get the Henry Wirtz treatment. 7) GOP Congressman from Kollyfornia, Doug LaMalfa, dead at age 65. Along with MTG's selfish departure, this leaves the GOP majority in the House at one. There are still four seats unfilled. 8) Voter registration update from PA, where both parties lost . . . but Ds lost 13,000 MORE than Rs. Slowly PA is following NC out of DemoKKKrat hands and should be a red state by registration before the 2028 election. 9) Was it really that long ago? On Monday I had a story that the Amazing Zohran was going to sell public buildings to developers to get the cost of housing down. Not so fast, says one of his ...
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