Posts on Friday, January 30, 2026

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville believes former Vice President Kamala Harris has “no chance” in winning the presidency in 2028 if she decides to run. Instead, he has his money set on one Democrat: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. During an interview with Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo, Carville emphasized that Democrats need to ask themselves “two really important questions” to win over the nomination. The first, according to Carville, is whether they can “raise a lot of early money.” “Because no matter how they set it up... when it happens, it happens quickly,” Carville said in comments released Wednesday.

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King Solomon famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in Minnesota. On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison initiated a lawsuit on behalf of the North Star State, along with municipal co-plaintiffs Minneapolis and St. Paul, against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons and the rest of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement apparatus. In his press conference announcing the suit,

Joe wrote about Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner going on an unhinged tirade against ICE agents, promising to hunt them down like Nazis. But there’s more: he plans to prevent them from being pardoned by Trump by slapping state charges on them. It’s not a surprising development, but rather a spin-off of the Georgia lawfare against Donald Trump that fell apart once the prosecutor’s office’s numerous conflicts of interest and inflammatory remarks came under scrutiny. (X) I mean, this is deranged behavior, a window into the lawless, anti-cop disposition that permeates the Democratic Party. CNN’s Scott Jennings tore into Krasner this week

Is Canada really warming at double the global average rate, as the Canadian government says it is? A new report says no, because the data Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) uses are apparently corrupted by fundamental mistakes, mistakes so severe that when corrected, all the supposed warming of the past six or seven decades vanishes. Given that Canada represents a large fraction of global land surface area, one naturally wonders if the world is warming at anything like we are told it is. This discovery should have generated mainstream media headlines across Canada. After all, the mistakes in the Canadian temperature data were discovered over four years ago

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock,” which is supposed to be an expert assessment of how close the world is to a nuclear holocaust, ticked down to 85 seconds to midnight this week. Are you scared? You shouldn’t be. The clock has proved to be a terrible measure of doomsday, but a near-perfect measure of the left’s grip on power, reliably moving away from midnight when Democrats are in the White House, and closer to Armageddon during Republican administrations. First, look at the reasons behind why it ticked closer to midnight this year. One of those listed

California’s long goodbye continues apace, as that state’s leftists are promoting a wealth tax on the rich, to be enacted by ballot proposition. We are only after billionaires, they say. Just give us five percent of your money, they say, and we will be satisfied. We won’t come back for more. No one believes them. Now California’s rich are packing up to leave: Over the last week, I spoke with 21 billionaires about the looming prospect of a wealth tax. We discussed whether they left or are planning to leave California (most of them are), what a wealth tax means for the technology industry, and finally how,

According to [Gad] Saad's thesis, empathy becomes misdirected into a type of benevolent altruism that prioritizes the perceived feelings and needs of "marginalized" or external groups at the expense of the survival, security, and interests of one's own group and its values. The outcome is the weakening, and ultimately the destruction, of the very civilization that expressed this emotion. The problem? This concept of suicidal empathy unfortunately does not work. As the term predicts, it ends up killing its host. What we observe, however, in many people, is a highly selective empathy, precisely the opposite of caring about everyone.

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released a bombshell report with new and damning information on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon she shared with White House reporters at the daily briefing. The documents reveal it was Barack Obama and the FBI and CIA leadership at the time to sabotage President Trump before he even stepped into office. Obama did this knowing the entire story was manufactured and not a word of it was true. Gabbard released one House Intelligence Report that had been locked up in a CIA vault for almost a decade!

I don’t know where CNN finds its liberal guests, but Tiffany Cross, a failed MSNBC host, is elite in how laughably incorrect her observations are, which is in keeping with the office culture of her former employer. MSNBC, or MS Now, only serves to keep liberal America’s blood pressure low through shoddy propaganda that withers under scrutiny. Cross tried to argue Tuesday night that ICE might be riddled with white supremacists, which sent conservative commentator Kevin O’Leary over the edge. She later called him a cultist for the MAGA movement, which was also not well-received.

“Melania” kicked off its big rollout this weekend, with a premiere at the Trump-Kennedy Center Thursday evening, followed by appearances on 1,500 screens nationwide beginning Friday. “I’m very proud of the film,” Melania told reporters Thursday evening as she arrived for the event with her husband, wearing a black Dolce and Gabbana dress. “You will see humor, you will see grief, you will see fashion,” the first lady said of what the audience can expect, noting that the public will learn “what it takes from going from private citizen to first lady again.”

Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.” This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting. But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today. Now that we’ve seen videos of an earlier struggle with federal agents and learned more about the organized nature of the anti-ICE resistance, it’s become clear that the better word for Pretti was agitator, or perhaps even operative. A protester, as typically understood, is someone who is making a point, often as part of a gathering of other like-minded people and,

City Council Speaker Julie Menin introduced legislation Thursday to create an up to 100-foot buffer zone for protests outside synagogues and other houses of worship. The new proposed bill from the city’s first Jewish council speaker would allow the NYPD to establish a security perimeter of maximum 100 feet around religious institutions during demonstrations, to be determined on a case-by-case basis. “Jewish New Yorkers make up roughly 10 percent of our city’s population yet last year they were the victims of more than half of all reported hate crimes. That’s a reality we cannot normalize and we cannot ignore,” Menin said.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that could further cripple an island plagued by a deepening energy crisis. The order would primarily put pressure on Mexico, a government that has acted as an oil lifeline for Cuba and has constantly voiced solidarity for the US adversary even as President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to build a strong relationship with Trump. Trump was asked by a reporter Thursday whether he was trying to “choke off” Cuba, which he called a “failing nation.” “The word ‘choke off’ is awfully tough,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president’s tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president’s sons Eric Trump and, Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs. The filing alleges that the leak of Trump and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax records caused “reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump,

The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago — the ones that erupted after a young woman was arrested and died in custody for not wearing the hijab properly — would improve civil rights in the Islamic Republic. Not much changed, though. Being on those streets, she felt, may have been for nothing. But it didn’t deter her. In early January, she protested again. The sea of people across Tehran’s busy streets lifted her spirits. This time, the spark was inflation and the plummeting value of the Iranian rial — though chants soon targeted the country’s theocratic leaders.

During recent hearings on the Trump administration’s Venezuela operation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio forcefully rebutted an argument from Senator Rand Paul. Sen. Paul claimed the administration had violated the Constitution by forcefully removing an elected official from another country. Rubio quickly countered that Nicolás Maduro was not a legitimately elected leader, whose rule rests on widely acknowledged rigged elections, and noted that Maduro has also been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking charges. "I think we are in violation of both the spirit and the law of the Constitution by bombing a capital, blockading a country, and removing an elected official," Paul said.

“The Government of Cuba has taken extraordinary actions that harm and threaten the United States. The regime aligns itself with — and provides support for — numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adverse to the United States, including the Government of the Russian Federation (Russia), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Government of Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah,” the order reads. “For example, Cuba blatantly hosts dangerous adversaries of the United States, inviting them to base sophisticated military and intelligence capabilities in Cuba that directly threaten the national security of the United States.”

"Regime change? Oh no, I think we would would love to see the regime change," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday while testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations when some Democrat tried to ask him a "gotcha" question about Cuba. While Rubio wouldn't own up to it — and I'm not sure that "regime change" is the appropriate phrasing — I think it's pretty obvious that a free Cuba is a goal of the Donald Trump administration. I mean, they wouldn't 'fess up to plans to dethrone Nicolás Maduro either, but we knew that was coming for months, and we watched it happen on January 3.

President Donald Trump threatened to decertify Canadian-made aircraft and impose a 50% tariff unless Canada approves Gulfstream jets, accusing Ottawa of illegally blocking certification while allowing its own planes access to the American market. The dispute centers on aircraft certification, a regulatory process that determines whether planes can be sold and operated in a country. Trump has accused Canadian authorities of using that process to restrict U.S.-made Gulfstream jets. "Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally, and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has accused JD Vance of being antisemitic for not mentioning that it was the Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust in his post marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shapiro, however, did not explicitly state that it were Jews killed in the Holocaust either. (snip) "It is not surprising to me, however, given the way in which he has openly supported the AfD Party, given the way he openly embraces neo-Nazis and neo-Nazi political parties, given the way in which he has offered comfort, really, to the antisemites on the right who are infecting the Republican Party," Shapiro continued.

One of the first British patients to receive Elon Musk's controversial brain-computer implant has described what it is like to live with the futuristic chip. Sebastian Gomez-Pena is taking part in the first UK clinical trial of the Neuralink device, which allows users to control a computer using only their thoughts. The former medical student, who was left paralysed from the neck down after a devastating accident two years ago, told Sky News: 'It is a massive change in your life where you can suddenly no longer move any of your limbs. 'This kind of technology kind of gives you a new piece of hope.'

On Tuesday of this week, atomic scientists readjusted the Doomsday clock to 11:58:35, or 85 seconds to Midnight, the narrowest window pointing to mankind's purported annihilation ever. Now keep in mind, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost was the actual annihilation of humans if Russia and the U.S. started exchanging nuclear warheads, the clock was set to 11:53. It's a silly metric, and wholly unserious when considering the geopolitics of all that's going on, past and present. But if we're looking at the longetivity of the Iranian theocracy that's had a deadly iron grip on Persia for nearly 47 years, all indications are the mullahs' time is just about

The Senate on Thursday evening reached a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security for just two weeks as lawmakers hope to pass a significant spending package in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown. Lawmakers kicked the rest of the government's annual funding bills over to the House of Representatives. The Senate will not vote on Jan. 29 to advance the deal struck by lawmakers, a Senate aide informed USA TODAY. The chamber will reconvene at 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 30, according to the Senate Press Gallery. Though the agreement reached Thursday doesn't guarantee a partial government shutdown won't still happen, it marked a big step forward