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Check out this daily round-up of happenings in politics, government, foreign affairs, entertainment, culture, and more. It's a fresh take on the news with the signature witty edge of the "intellectually irreverent" New York Times #1 bestselling author, historian, and political pundit Dr. Larry Schweikart. The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow.2023-2024 Larry Schweikart Political Science Politics & Government World
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  • Today's News, January 1-5, 2025

    Today's News, January 1-5, 2025
    Jan 5 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) In probably the greatest financial scandal in American history---dwarfing the Tweed Ring, the Whiskey Ring, and Teapot Dome, and in amounts rivaling the 2008 financial meltdown---the Skinny Minny Somali "day care" scandal is absolutely gigantic. I wrote about this in my substack yesterday, explaining why almost every major Department in the U.S. government is going to have a stake in exposing and punishing this. It affects the Department of Ag (food centers), Department of Ed ("learning centers," where one of the signs read "Learing Center"), the Department of Homeland Security and DOJ, and, to the extent multi-state fraud was involved, the SEC. If products were shipped in for fraud it could also involve Transportation. In other words, almost every element of the federal government has an interest in crushing this. So far, DOJ has arrested 100, of which 85 were not Amish. Also, as I said, it is not contained to just Minny, as already there are ongoing large investigations into Covid relief funds in IL, health care fraud in OH, A citizen journalist just arrived there to start the open kimono. Even DemoKKKrat ME has shut off payments to a Somali day care chain due to fraud claims. Then we have Medicare fraud in Kollyfornia, and now, it appears, more Somali fraud in Washington state. Aleady in WA state, a legislator who owns a series of day cares has filed legislation to hide them from scrutiny. When I say this "daycare" fraud will expand everywhere, I'm serious. Now HUD is looking at Rutabaga's "rental assistance" paid to the dead and to, ahem, non citizens. Furthermore, ya'll wanted election reform? Now the Skinny Minny fraud saga is being investigated as a front for fraudulent ballots and stolen elections.The Prancing Gheyboy Tampon TImmy is up to his evil little neck in this, and was warned last year of the fraud, but he obstructed investigations. It's so bad even Newsweak can't ignore it. Oh, and now MAGA is looking at crowdfunding hundreds of Nick Shirleys. 2) Wait, say what? Trump over 50% again in a major poll? Meaning he is likely over 55% since they always poll him low. 3) A judge has ordered that transcripts and audio from a closed-door hearing about alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson must be made public. 4) As Don Henley sang, it's all about "Forgiveness, forgiveness" as an OR city put a murderer who gunned down a teenage girl on its police review board. 5) It looks like Big Firetruck is coming under antitrust heat for price fixing fire fighting trucks. 6) Shipwreckedcrew details in exhaustive fashion how the DOJ works. Try 6,500 assistant attorneys, 3,200 trial attorneys. Tens of thousands of cases per day. All cases still in the pipeline from Trump 1 to Rutabaga still must be pursued. Because of opposition to Trump, turnover has been as high as 2/3 in some departments. Only 31 of 93 U.S. attorneys nominated by Trump have been confirmed so far. And yet Bondi's crew has won almost every single case the toadstools brought against Trump. Meanwhile, it's possible that DOJ was just looking for the right glue to hold everything together, as Bondi has tasked investigators to look into an election-meddling conspiracy. 7) The Traitor Tuppence mirage: why the "right" isn't leaving Trump. 8) DemoKKKrats in trouble financially. Rs have almost an $80m advantage in fundraising. 9) Oh and how about this one? The administration has changed the wording of federal contracts to say that if a company is engaged in DEI it is engaging in fraud. Fed contracts now will require that a contractor NOT be engaging in DEI discrimination or it will violate funding clauses. In other words, companies that work for Uncle Sam may not in any way be involved in DEI or they won't get their cheddar. As Jeff Childers says, once you sign that fed contract, every invoice becomes a certificate of compliance. Who does that affect? Gee, last week Google and Verizon just got requests for docs from the DOJ. Folks, this is titanic, and is the equivalent of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in what will be its effects on institutions, including colleges. 10) Violent crime arrests double in Trump's first year. Meanwhile, the D.C. pipe bomber confessed and said it wasn't about Trump. "I just snapped." Yeah, we all make bombs when we just snap. 11) A federal court allowed President Trump's block on the use of Medicaid money for Planned Murderhood to stand. 12) President Trump vetoed a water bill for CO until the state ends its "Sanctuary" status and frees Tina Peters. This is how you play hardball. 13) Oh, the other side knows how to play hardball too: the mayor of Groomer City (SF) snuck through a reparations bill that would give each black resident $5 million. If they hand out a single dollar, watch the lawsuits fly faster than a hypersonic missile, and watch them thoroughly bankrupt Groomer City. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 14) The number of illegal invaders coming into Kollyfornia plummeted ...
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    22 mins
  • Today's News, December 31, 2025

    Today's News, December 31, 2025
    Dec 31 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) As I predicted when it happened, DemoKKKrats' push for Epstein files boomeranged. Trump Tar-Babied them. 2) Oh, somebody likes him; President Trump got massive applause at the re-opening of the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Arts. 3) Great Christmas news: John "Brennanski" Brennan is under a grand jury investigation in FL. 4) President Trump announced a new class of "Trump-class" super battleships. No, don't think the Missouri: Think a Star Destroyer on the water with multiple rail guns, massive electronic warfare systems that can defeat swarms of drones, and plenty of our own drones and missiles. 5) Just another brutal attack, this time in Seattle on a 75-year-old woman, that the Hoax News will ignore because it's in a blue hellhole. And a judge declared a mistrial in the ChiCom foreign agent case involving NY Governor Hock-a-Lugie's aide. 6) The useless Brown U. police chief has been suspended while the DoED is looking at the school's safety protocols. 7) Kollyfornia still hasn't repaid a $20 billion unemployment claims loan given by Uncle Sam over China Virus bennies. 8) About 50 Planned Murderhood clinics closed in 2025. 9) Our friends at the "Liberal Patriot" fret that DemoKKKrats are losing Christians, especially Christian men. Duh. You worship Moloch, are engaged in child sacrifice, practice child mutilation, and hate religion. What did you expect? IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 10) For the first time, the Supes, including some of Trump's picks, rejected the administration's request to send National Guard into Benghazi-by-the-Lake(Chicago), so ICE will just have to seriously reinforce its troops there. The judges essentially said "Invoke a national emergency." Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Jay Landry deployed 350 National Guard troops to N'yawlins. I have to say, I've been in N'yawlins several times. Was not impressed. Wouldn't go back unless paid well. 11) A federal judge upheld Trump's $100,000 fee for H1B visas. 12) ICE has arrested 100 more illegal truckers after the most recent crash. IN CULTURAL NEWS 13) This is the second article in a week about feminism and anti-racism driving white men out of many, if not most, white collar jobs, academia, and arts. Gonna warn you wokester turkey-drippings: it won't work out like you think when your entire life depends on being able to pay exorbitant sums to men who can "do things," to (for the spinster cat ladies) being able to bribe, cajole, or persuade men into fixing everything from your computers to your lawn mowers, your cars to your freaking IKEA furniture. It's a-comin, and you will regret ever doing this. IN TRANSOID NEWS 14) A federal judge struck down Kollyfornia's law preventing parents from knowing about their kids' gender switch idiocy. Kollyfornia actually said that even if their policies were unconstitutional, it would be "too hard" to train teachers to act right. This is sorta like the white racists in the post-bellum South saying, "Yeah, racism and segregation may be wrong, but it's too hard for us DemoKKKrats to be human and do the right thing." IN ECONOMIC NEWS 15) Wall Street Urinal: U.S. economy keeps powering ahead despite predictions. Well, despite the predictions of lint-pickers who never, ever get anything right. Meanwhile, I told you hear that around the first of the year---now that all the stupid DemoKKKrat judges have shot their wad---the economy would turn. And so it has. Per Jeff Childers in his "Coffee & Covid," the U.S. economy is beating the crap out of the Euros, and consumer retail spending inceased almost 4% in the last month. Someone has money. 16) Back seat drivers? Yeah, this is a real winner: Sony and Honda are going to install tech that will allow drivers to drive their cars from the back seat or otherwise drive them virtually---cuz, you know, driving is sooooo hard. 17) We constantly see people such as Warren "No Buffet for You!" Buffet saying he doesn't pay enough taxes, but then when Kollyfornia threatens to impose a wealth tax, the billionaires start talking about moving. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 18) New techniques are being used to offset the ChiComs' dominance in Rare Earty Minerals, including extracting metals from streams, used electronics, and oil wells. 19) Japan is increasing requirements for foreigners to become a citizen there. 20) The U.S. blockade of Venezuela is paying double dividends, forcing the collapse of communist Cuba. IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS 21) Paul Kengor remembers the great Bob Hope, who spent most of his Christmases abroad entertaining troops, singing "Silver Bells." 22) Another box office disaster year for Hollywood. If you adjust for inflation on tickets, or better yet, just go by actual tickets sold, not dollar value, the film industry is down 40% from 2023, and was already falling before the China Virus. Total ticket sales are down by almost half since 2000. 23) Comedian Russell Brand, who converted to Christianity some time ago, faces a ...
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    14 mins
  • Today's News, December 23-24, 2025

    Today's News, December 23-24, 2025
    Dec 24 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Just a general observation on the leftoid/RINO/DeSorosoid attacks on the J.D. Vance speech at TPUSA: Remember Rush Limbaugh. "they will tell you whom they fear." 2) A new House report says that researchers and faculty knowingly collaborated with the ChiComs on military work. 3) Last Saturday I had a substack about Trump's incredible energy---not just personally but in his administration---and how the ballroom, the name change of the Kennedy Center, and the Reiner tweet were all consuming almost all news while the real news was that the administration had deported 2.5 million illegals, brought about a real (red) color revolution in Latin America, is moving into fusion, and most of all how he has started dismantling the federal government with over 275,000 employees dumped, three entire agencies closed, DoEd dismantled, and so on. Yesterday, Roger Kimball picked up on that. I showed that many of these resignations (30 for Rs, 22 for Ds) are due to the fact that Trump has made Congress irrelevant, yet to even tread water they have to work like dogs to keep up with Trump. It ain't fun, and they don't have junkets anymore. Need more evidence that the Congresscritters and Senate Snorers are overwhelmed by the amount of work Trump makes them do? New senator Cynthia Lummis of WY, having just been elected five years ago, is quitting due to EXHAUSTION saying "I feel like a sprinter in a marathon." Yep. That's Trump for ya. Get on the dance floor or go home. 4) Just the latest excuse, this one from Axios: DemoKKKrats aren't winning because they are fat and ugly and now are getting makeovers. Yes, they are fat and ugly, largely ugly because their inner Satan comes through way too much. 5) DOJ has indicted two more, both Haitians, in a food stamp fraud scheme. 6) A power outage in Groomer City (SF) left 130,000 in the dark as self-driving cars took the day off in the middle of the street. 7) The District of Columbia DEI Police Chief resigned, citing "haters" about her diddling with the crime stats. 8) Kollyfornia is facing fuel shortages as refineries shut down and energy companies leave. Boo hoo. The state could go full Chernobyl and I wouldn't care. 9) I told you about this and saw this coming a mile away. Trump Tar Babied the DemoKKKrats into demanding the release of the Epstein files. Now that they are out, Bill Clinton is all over them like ugly on an ape. 10) The acting director of cybersecurity failed a lie detector test, and now the whole unit is suspect. 11) At her TPUSA speech, Tulsi Gabbard called "Islamic Ideology" as the greatest threat to Western Civilization. No, Tulsi, it's #2 because LIBERAL DemoKKKrat ideology encourages and permits "Islamic ideology." 12) President Trump is ousting more career diplomats, or, as President Harry Truman called them, "Striped-pants boys." 13) It's obvious the whole Epstein file thing failed badly for DemoKKKrats. All they can talk about today is J.D. Vance. That's because the DOJ just re-released a bunch of docs that had been redacted. More problems for DemoKKKrats. And this doesn't help: the FBI arrested a top VA DemoKKKrat official for kiddie porn. 14) Emails show Rutabaga's White House coordinated with DOJ and FBI on the Mar-a-Lago raid. Well, it would sure be nice if people went to jail. For example, Stacy (M1) Abrams, the Human Planet had a group that pocketed $5 million in "green" money before Trump killed it. 15) Say what? The Brown shooter, the Portuguese analclot, had an X account with only 79 followers. Guess who one of the 79 was? Barack (Zero) Obama. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 16) HHS is at it again, this time requiring the corporate sponsors of illegal criminal alien invaders to pay their medical share of Medicaid or face collection. This is the way. 17) DHS has rescued almost 130,000 illegal immmigrant children who were missing and trafficked. Good. Now, what are you going to do with them? 18) The Department of Transpo has demanded English efficiency from cross-border Mexican railway workers. IN CULTURAL NEWS 19) Shocking numbers on how DEI pushed men out of culture by Christopher Rufo (Hollywood TV screenwriters went from 48% in 2011 to just 11.9% in 2024). 20) Well, this was obvious when I worked in the university system: "How federal funds are diverted to DEI and administrative bloat." IN TRANSOID NEWS 21) Texas has released a new tool for the public to report men in women's sports. Good. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 22) The Delaware Supes restored Elon Musks's gigantic $139 billion Tesla pay deal. Aw, poor little Elon haters jes kain't get a win. 23) JIm Beam pausing production for "site enhancements." Some people are gonna be Jonesing. 24) DemoKKKrat states keep getting stupider. Now CO is going to phase out natural gas for rural homes. Seriously? 25) The food supplier for Domino's and Papa John's in Kollyfornia is leaving to set up shop in TX. 26) Trump/Truth's fusion deal was a huge moneymaker. Right now...
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    11 mins
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