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  • Today's News, January 18-19, 2026

    Today's News, January 18-19, 2026
    Jan 19 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) A great column here by Chris Bray on blue zone collapse. Many of us have wondered, "how long can this keep goin' on" (with apologies to the band, "Ace")? Bray argues that the size of these cancerous blue zones prevents an implosion as one might see with a Vegas casino, but rather a slow, mind-numbing reduction in daily quality of life and government services that people are slow to respond to---a kind of boiled frog. He notes various towns around SF have seen their fire departments halved, police response time now up to 30 minutes, plus the constant un-repaired roads, while money consistently goes into administrators' pockets. Chris followed up with another column in the same vein, showing how Hennepin Co. (MN, naturally) County Hospital is collapsing with a $36 million deficit. In a letter to all employees, the administrator said they must find $50 million in the first quarter or close. Welp, ya got 11 weeks. This utter pigbladder of an administrator, when listing the hospital's mission, didn't say "Healing the sick." Oh no. Wanna guess? Yep, "ending disparities' in health care. Folks they are more concerned that everyone dies together than anyone lives. 2) CBS says Trump's approval among Republicans is 90%. It's the Communist Broadcasting System, so make it 97%. But hold on. I thought DemoKKKrats were going to win everything in November. Now The Hill (a DemoKKKrat mouthpiece) is warning that it may be entirely derailed by the Skinny Minny fraud? Meanwhile, I do NOT trust any poll, but this one is pretty devastating for DemoKKKrats. Oh, and DemoKKKrats are already dividing over Cackles, who is "eyeing" a 2028 presidential run. Look, it's her or the Amazing Zohran. She isn't radical enough for the chutescooters in fascist antifa or Black Looters Matter. So you're gonna get Zohran with a divided party;. Can you say President Vance with 360 electoral votes? I'm telling you, this is a serious rift in the DemoKKKrat Party and this Israel thing is one of the big divides is. Cackles had her staff investigate PA Gov. Josh "Slaphappy" Shapiro as an Israeli agent. Can you say the Nuremberg Nicky of the left? 3) I don't trust any poll, but for those of you who like polls, this one says Americans trust Rs more than DemoKKKrats on almost every issue. 4) Louisiana's governor Jeff Landry says his state's DOGE initiative has saved $1 billion already. 5) The FBI caught more "most wanted" criminals in Trump's first year than in all four years of Rutabaga's failed administration. 6) Elon Musk is closing in on a net worth of $800 billion. 7) An OR city has reversed its vote to allow a convicted murderer to sit on a police board. 8) Muy Macho Marco worked his Latin magic and sidelined the "War Powers Act." 9) President Trump will file a suit against JP Morgan Chase for debanking conservatives. 10) Four MS-13 gangbangers in Sen. Chris Van Hollen's MD district lured a 14-year-old boy into a park and hacked him to pieces with machetes 11) U-Haul statistics show people are now fleeing PA, with hits blue legislature and governor. Popular destinations are all red states: TX, NC, TN, FL. 12) It really must have hurt the New York Slimes to write this: "As Davos convenes, deference to Trump has replaced everything." Why would that be? I thought the Euros were all powerful. One lib chockesmoker said "This is the end of Davos.' Hallelujah. The WEF, says the Slimes, has devolved into "just a business meeting." Er, Slimes, that's precisely how the stupid WEF started. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 13) The New York Slimes says the situation in MN is about a "civic ideal" of "nice." Sorry. It's about growing up and dealing with a poisonous corruption and a foreign invasion. Both MN and UT hide behind being "welcoming" and "nice" to avoid confronting unpleasant realities that require government, and the public, to NOT be "nice" but to be adults. 14) The Border Patrol head in MN invited local cops and national guard to join ICE . . . and many did. Meanwhile, Kristi Noem announced over 10,000 arrests of illegals in MN. 15) Seattle's woke poodlenoodle of a mayor is actually sending these little Marxist choadmonkeys to "ICE resistance" camps. Sorry, but this demands and arrest. 16) The border is definitely locked down tighter than a rusty nut, as Customs and Border Patrol say there have been ZERO releases in eight months. IN CULTURAL NEWS 17) Karens have been replaced by a new term, AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberals). IN ECONOMIC NEWS 18) GM's bet on EVs cost it $7 billion already, with no end in sight. The thing is, GM has almost fraudulently been kicking this can down the road by NOT recording these losses in quarterly reports . . . until now. Meanwhile, Jeep just pulled the plug on hybrids. 19) A new geological survey shows there are an additional 1.6 billion barrels of oil and 28 trillion feet of gas remaining in Texas and New Mexico yet to be recovered. 20) Treasury Secretary Scott ...
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  • Today's News, January 15-17, 2026

    Today's News, January 15-17, 2026
    Jan 18 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) The people spoke and AG Pam Bondi listened, firing six federal prosecutors who refused to support ICE operations. The DOJ has also launched a criminal investigation of the Prancing Gheyboy Tampon Timmy. 2) As an educator, one of my running themes here is to remind you of stuff we discussed before, not to say "told ya so" (though I did) but to keep things in perspective. In this case, I've been saying the Skinny Minny fraud is the breakpoint on all this stuff, including a lot of leftover USAID $ they were re-funneling. So now Dr. Oz, administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has found another $1.8 billion in fraudulent spending under the previous administration, all of it linked to . . . illegal aliens. Just one of many, but this MN resident exemplifies the DemoKKKrat Civil War #2 I alerted you to last year when he essentially says toward the end that the Skinny fraudsters are are sucking up money meant for the hood. Watch to the end, as he has a slow build to rage. Meanwhile, Nick Shirley exposes another $16 million MN fraud. DemoKKKrats get that what is coming is unstoppable, hence the MN AG Keith Ellison has actually charged a Muslim man with fraud. They are trying to get ahead of it. 3) Common sense DemoKKKrats at "The Liberal Patriot" understand that you can't have an immigration policy that doesn't block people and/or deport them. Fortunately no one else in the DemoKKKrat Terror Party will listen to them. 4) Wait, so you're telling me Donald Trump is going to Make American Gangs Great Again? Foreign fraudsters are now impinging on West Coast Crips/Bloods gang operations. I sense a new alliance afoot. 5) This is more like it. The U.S. plans to build a nuke reactor on the moon by 2030 in preparation for deep space flight. 6) Jazzy What-a-Crockett looks sunk as the DemoKKKrats move to ditch her. 7) Both FL and TX are beginning to cut out the American Bar Association from its malicious influence on justice selection and law school oversight. 8) Seth Keshel argues that the Trump administration has figured out the foundation of voter fraud. Bondi has sued 23 states for their voter rolls. Some, as expected, are fighting back, but eventually this will likely become unavoidable to all states. As Keshel notes, in the states WITHOUT "automatic voter registration," Trump won 243 Electoral Votes and 25 states in 2024, while Cackles only won one state and one district that for 5 Electoral Votes from non-automatic-voter-registration states. In fact, Trump has already deported enough people from MN for the state to lose a congressional seat! Good. 9) Chris Bray argues that the "expulsion of noise" from the butyraceous and oleaginous Grusome is meant to disguise the fact that Kollyfornia is broke. His own state Legislative Analyst Office said that the negative condition of state finances is "now chronic." Some of MN's people are now saying the same about their state. Folks, even if every single agency under USAID isn't completely closed, good enough. Trump has turned off the spigots to the point that several blue states have become insolvent. And Trump will not bail them out. And of course they blame Trump for their own evil. 10) As we all predicted at the time, the hideous Obamacare---what is left of it---made premiums spiral. 11) The gubment is offering a $100,000 reward for info leading to the capture of little spleenblisters who broke into gubment vehicles in MN and stole weapons. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 12) The U.S. has suspended visa processing for 75 countries. 13) The State Department has revoked 100,000 visas under President Trump. 14) Illegals in TX have sucked up over $1 billion in medical bills. 15) The ICE agent who killed the criminal obstructionist trying to run him down with a car is now a millionaire thanks to GoFundMe. IN CULTURAL NEWS 16) Yale University has purged every single Republican from its faculty. Not surprised, and not hard to do. In the 1990s, various think tanks ran surveys of major universities. U of CO only had one out of 100 in the liberal arts college. Most others were lucky to have even two. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 17) A new deal with TSMC (Taiwan) chip company will see it invest $500 billion in US manufacturing. 18) The U.S. may be entering the greatest period of construction in history, as the AI boom demands millions of new construction employees. 19) The Detroit Auto Show showed no love for EVs. 20) President Trump has called for an "emergency energy auction" to force Big Tech to pay for their own energy. THIS IS MUCH NEEDED. 21) Manufacturing wages rose $1300 in Trump's first year back. 22) President Trump will unveil a plan to allow people to use their 401K funds as home down payments. 23) Condo prices have started to fall. 24) U.S. existing home sales surged 5% in December.. Inflation, meanwhile, fell to 1.44% and the morons at the Fed still haven't lowered rates much. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 25) ...
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    19 mins
  • 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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