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Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News with Larry Schweikart

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  • Today's News, February 7-9, 2026

    Today's News, February 7-9, 2026
    Feb 10 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) An excellent pro-ICE ad ran during the Game-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named. Meanwhile, the Turning Point USA halftime show racked up 25 million viewers. Oh, yeah, I think a team from Seattle won, but I didn't watch. Still in the last season of "Suits." 2) Elon Musk offered to cover the legal costs of any Epstein victims who came forward to "speak truth." DemoKKKrats reportedly seen at local Kroger Depenz aisles. Then there are the five stages of political spoogieness, as the New York Slimes insisted for years there was no blackmail going on over at Epstein Island Island when, gee, now it says, "Hold muh beer." 3) Trump says to DemoKKKrat Terror Party governors, "You want resist? I got resist for ya right here" as he did NOT invite them to the National Governor's Association dinner nor the subsequent White House working group. Why should he? So they can return to their pig sty swillwhistle funding troughs and begin counter preparations? 4) DemoKKKrats won another special election, this time in LA, in a district Trump carried by 13. That puts the last 8 specials at 50/50. 5) GA is turning into a rotten peach, as newly disclosed docs show that Gov. Brian Kemp told the FBI Bureau Chief not to investigate the 2020 fraud. These people do not understand that if this trickle of sleaze becomes a waterfall, Americans will shuck aside their history and character and demand these bowel-wrappers go to jail. 6) TX has sued a giant fiberglass manufacturer Global Fiberglass Solutions for dumping over 3,000 wind turbine blades at Sweetwater, TX. 7) Cackles had a rebrand attempt that failed so badly even CNN called it "cringe." 8) Florida's teacher's union was trying to hide its class syllabi and lessons. They just lost in court. 9) The House Intel chairman warns that there may be a pattern with the ChiCom biolabs that the FBI has been busting, and that they could be setting the stage for a new pandemic. 10) Pete "The Punisher" Hegseth announced that the Department of War will cut all ties to Harvard. Ouch. Put some ICE on that. 11) The Fourth Circuit Court just cleared the way for Trump to exterminate DEI. 12) How Tik Tok's algorithms radicalized soft-brained liberal women. 13) The Small Business Administration just suspended over 111,000 CA borrowers suspected of fraud and will pursue criminal charges against them. Once they got the money, however, the government will be lucky to get back pennies on the dollar. 14) A large number of military transport planes are heading for the Middle East. A few days ago, a Pizza Tsunami was reported at the Pentagon. Something brewing? 15) A federal judge ordered all Fulton Co., GA, voter docs unsealed by tomorrow. Dems suicidal. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 16) About time. The Administration will not comply with a court order to provide due process to illegal Venezuelans shipped back to El Salvador. Pound sand, judicial jigglepickets. IN CULTURAL NEWS 17) This is moving a little faster than even I expected. Now there is a site where AI hires humans to do physical-world tasks. What does AI do when there's a strike? Call in robodogs? 18) Anyone remember Dr. House? His famous line was "Everybody lies." Apparently, Ryan Burge thinks so too. He examines who actually voted vs. who said they voted. Big difference, and it tracks along with those who said they went to church last week. Of those answering a survey, 97% said they voted in the last election, but only 59% actually did so according to the Cooperative Election Study. 19) This is an interesting development. How do you get rid of "women's studies" and "sociology" departments? You tie student loan access to earnings after you graduate. Oh, and speaking of eddication, TX has set a record for the most students applying for the state's new school choice programs. Teacher's Unions are probably double-ordering razor blades. IN TRANSOID NEWS 20) The Human Rights Campaign, otherwise known as the "Queer Lobby," saw a 65% drop in corporate DEI support. Good start, but should be 100%. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 21) Washington Compost CEO and publisher Will Lewis has resigned. Boo hoo. The Compost died in its own darkness. 22) VT's EV bus fleet doesn't work in the cold, which, gee, is about 60% of VT's year. Meanwhile, Jeep EV maker Stellantis lost a $26 billion bet on higher EV demand. 23) On Friday, Feb. 6, after I had already posted Today's News, the DOW hit 50,000 for the first time ever. 24) Irena Slav is not a tech expert, nor does she pretend to be. But she does a great job of tracking the stratospheric investments here by Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and others (closing on $1 trillion) when so far AI has yet to make a profit on anything or to prove that it's substantially better than what we have. There is a law out there (Peter Thiel's Law) that says that a new tech must be ten times better than the old to effect a replacement. AI is nowhere close to that, yet its denizens are now claiming it will ...
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  • TODAY'S NEWS, February 6, 2026

    TODAY'S NEWS, February 6, 2026
    Feb 6 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) While people were obsessing over Trump "drawing down" in MN---which will not last, and which I think is a distraction, which will again be picked up as soon as attention shifts---he has torched the whole Board of Immigration process that ends all appeals after March 9 unless a majority of the Board agrees to hear the case. BRAVO. 2) Reason #434 why the DemoKKKrats are screwed, and why 2026 or, at the latest, 2028 is their last stand, as blue states are facing an out-migration nightmare. Overall, DemoKKKrats lost almost another 500,000 in population last year (with CA losing 229,000). Of the states that have red trifectas, only three lost population and two of those, only 1,000. The other 19 gained 345,000. Of the DemoKKKrat states, only ME, DE, WA, and OR gained at all. Even the latest blue state, CO, lost population for the first time in years. Now throw in the fact that the DemoKKKrat states have the lowest fertility rates in the U.S. Gee, I wonder why, with all that free abortion? Then there are consistent, steady, ongoing voter reform efforts as in GA where they are returning to paper ballots. Meanwhile, in Kollyfornia, the top two in polling for the state's governorship are both Rs. Why is that important? Because Kollyfornia stupidly has a "jungle primary" that puts in the top two, regardless of party. I don't think this will hold up, but if it does, watch for Kollyfornia to change that jungle primary law in a hurry. Then there is this indicator: the GOP has outraised the DemoKKKrats by $100 million, or a factor of 6:1. Note, this does not include Trump's $100 fund. 3) The GOP's Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) will retire, bringing the number of GOP to 32 (I think) and Ds to 26. I still believe that by July they will be about even in retirements. 4) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced IRS audits of major banks, financial firms, and intermediaries that facilitated the Skinny Minny fraud. 5) New Azteca (LA) mayor Karen ASS secretly altered a Palisade Fire report that made her and the city look bad. I mean, how else could it make them look? Or we have this story about a "Maryland man" (not the illegal invader Garcia) who was arrested for the attempted murder of Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought. Maybe we need to rename liberalism as "The Religion of Peace" (TROP trademark)? Apparently as another DemoKKKrat, a "Satanist" named "Pagan," was arrested for plans to shoot up a church. All I can say is they better not try that at my church. I'm told the response time is under 9 seconds. 6) Speaking of Kollyfornia, the next President, J. D. Vance, will head a fraud task force looking into the Tarnished State. 7) The administration approved a new rule making it easier to fire federal employees. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 8) This is going to get funny in a hurry, as now MN is policing neighborhood borders to keep out ICE. Get it? They are establishing their own border patrol to keep out people who are enforcing border control. Can't wait til some drunk dopespoker runs one of their lines. What are they gonna do, blow a whistle? 9) Four Venezuelans have been arrested for a $1 million food stamp fraud in MA. 10) Rents fall again as deportations rise. IN CULTURAL NEWS 11) President Trump has announced a National Jubilee of Prayer in May as part of the America 250 celebration. NO OTHER PRESIDENT IN RECENT MEMORY WOULD HAVE DONE THIS. This is nothing less than, as Trump put it, an effort to "rededicate America as one nation under God." TRANSOID NEWS 12) Jennifer Sey rips apart stupid arguments against the two major medical associations---DOCTORS, GET IT?---that decided to oppose transoid surgeries for minors. One inebriated armadillo-brain actually compared getting your breasts whacked off to a . . . nose job. This is another reason DemoKKKrats cannot be trusted with anything. Even if they weren't terroristic murdering mofos, they are STUPID. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 13) EVs are now looking like the costliest corporate blunder in American business history. And that includes some doozies, as I note here: 14) The Atlantic, a pompous, irrelevant litter-liner, whines that Jeffy Bezos killed the Washington Compost. Actually, there, little twaddledigits, it was liberalism like the kind you engage in that killed the Compost. But we don't care what caused it, just so it's gone. Just one example of why the Compost died in its own darkness: it had eight (!!) "climate change" reporters. 15) Weekly unemployment claims rose to a 2-month high. 16) The AI market meltdown this week was caused by the introduction of "Claude," Anthropic's new "skills" prompt that already has built-in the kinds of skills you need to, well, ask the right question for the prompt. And the next thing is "vibe coding" whereby Claude will respond to your vision of what you want to see done. Man, this guy is in trouble. 17) But this isn't even half of the AI blessing/threat. Now it can "vibe code," ...
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  • TODAY'S NEWS, February 3-4, 2026

    TODAY'S NEWS, February 3-4, 2026
    Feb 5 2026
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) This is why the "special elections" game is so tricky. DemoKKKrats just finished celebrating a TX state senate seat flip when this AL result comes out. The R won by an even bigger margin than did Trump in 2024. Again, overall, somewhat meaningless. Meanwhile, our friends over at "The Liberal Patriot" are starting to put up storm warnings about the Electoral College, as well they should. 2) Having demanded that Trump release the Epstein files, now DemoKKKrats are panicking that he has, beginning with the Clintons, who, after failed maneuvering and posturing, finally relegated themselves to being interrogated by the House. Looks like the DemoKKKrats have tossed the Corrupt Crime Family under the bus. Remember, this comes one week after unnamed "DemoKKKrats" warned House members to stay the heck away from MN because, well, the story was hurting them. Nor does it help that another DemoKKKrat was charged with fraudulent use of funds in GA. No, the "big names" aren't here, but for Pete's sake, is anyone watching the sheer number of underlings being rolled up? 3) I did not expect the Supes to overturn the Kollyfornia redistricted map, any more than they will overturn any other. This does not change my equation one iota, as I always calculated 5 new DemoKKKrat seats in Kollyfornia. Rs still should hold the house by 2-5. 4) The FBI shut down another biolab operation, this one in Las Vegas. 5) Ah, the left is so cheery and full of life. The Senior Skank, Jill Biden, learned that her ex-husband has been charged with murdering her successor. 6) The Inspector General said that a whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard lacked credibility. She says she was on the ground in Fulton Co. because Trump requested it. 7) Moronic Massachusetts is set to establish driving mileage limits. Are you toadstools awake yet? Meanwhile miles driven hit an all time high. 8) Ryan "Baby" Routh was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Trump. 9) Elon Musk and X awarded Nick Shirley $100,000 for his reporting on the Skinny Minny fraud. 10) Two GOP Congressmen have said that John Can't Carry a Thune will bypass the standard silent filibuster to pass the SAVE (voting integrity) Act. We'll see. Oh, and a new poll shows that 76% of black Americans want voter ID. 11) Republicans are just 42,877 away from flipping PA red among active voters. This margin was DemoKKKrat +1.1 million in 2016. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 12) Shipwreckedcrew says Jonathan Ross was 100% justified in shooting Renee Good. IN TRANSOID NEWS 13) The first major medical group says nay nay on child mutilation. Drip, drip, drip. Soon this will be universal, then they will begin looking at transoidism in adults, properly, as a sickness. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 14) In a regular and expected concern with AI, the latest suggests AI will cost a lot of software jobs, causing a market dip. Fortune warns that AI may also cut revenues. Someone better figger it out because right now AI is lining up to be the biggest capital expenditure in history. 15) Bahama Breeze, the sister chain of Olive Garden restaurants, basically went out of business overnight. 16) Rare earth minerals stocks soared after Trump announced "Project Vault" as a strategic minerals stockpile. 17) Commercial office delinquencies are worse than in 2008. Thing is, I'm not sure they will ever recover from the China Virus, and maybe many of those elites who own those properties should have done more to stop the insane lockdowns. 18) Private payroll growth did not hit expectations. Maybe some of them are here, as the Washington Compost tells employees to stay home and may have extensive layoffs. However, Quantum Insights says that manufacturing growth is back in style. 19) Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI. Will this be Skynet after all? It would be a trillion dollar company. Today, however, Wal-Mart hit $1 trillion as the first ever trillion dollar business. 20) Harvard thought it could stall, waiting out Trump. The New York Slimes ran a story saying Trump backed down. Oops. Trump increased the demand from Harvard from $200m to $1 billion. 21) David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, says that natural gas is the big winner in the AI power race. IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS 22) Looks like the Clintons aren't the only elites caught up in the Epstein muck. Norway's top dogs are identified as well. This includes PMs, royalty, members of the useless Nobel committee. Gonna be fun. Norweigians don't like it, with 76% saying the future queen should not take the throne, but perhaps work at a ski resort. And in Mediocre Britain, Lord Mandelson, ex-ambassador to the U.S., has resigned. 23) A conservative, following the latest string of conservative victories in Latin America, won the presidency in Costa Rica. 24) Trump's trade pact with India will cut into Russkie oil revenues. 26) The son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Khaddafi was shot in his home....
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