The Rise of the New Confederacy
Posted By: Hazymac, 1/30/2026 7:04:31 AM
"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,
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The Rise of the New Confederacy
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"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?
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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
Goodbye, California
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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,
Stephen Hunter: Pretti’s pistol
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Our friend Stephen Hunter is the author of 20 novels, including the Bob Lee Swagger series, and is the retired chief film critic for the Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. His most recent novel is Gun Man Jackson Swagger. Late last night Steve wrote us that “this Alex Pretti thing has me all buzzed up. It’s SO familiar–the ‘victim’ instigated the event; the federal agents had about two seconds to respond; the backlash was immediate and well-planned; the media compliant as rent boys.” Steve sees the case as “the tragic but blameless police shooting of a dim liberal-dogooder driven by self-righteous vanity.”
When Renee Good drove her car into an ICE agent earlier this month, the left tried to gaslight us into believing she was just some innocent bystander who was just at the wrong place, that she’d just dropped her son off at school and wasn’t supposed to be there. That narrative fell apart fast. Good, we soon learned, was a trained anti-ICE agitator who was absolutely there to obstruct law enforcement. Now we're watching the same playbook unfold with 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the armed agitator shot dead by Border Patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis while confronting agents.
The talking points are already circulating.
Law professor Jonathan Turley had no patience for the political theater playing out in Minnesota after the Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minneapolis. In a fiery thread on X, he blasted Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey for their reckless comments and premature condemnations.
“Gov. Walz is again inflaming the mob,” Turley said of Walz’s press conference. “He is effectively declaring this to be the murder of a citizen who had a permit to carry this weapon. He is saying that the state not the federal government will control the investigation. He does not have that authority.”
The constitutional scholar wasn’t done there.
He said, “The state can clearly have a parallel investigation
On the Ground in Minneapolis
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The entire establishment in Minnesota has mobilized against ICE’s presence here. Renee Good, who ran her vehicle into an ICE officer, apparently on purpose although we will never know for sure what she was thinking, is treated like a second Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, the local, national and international “news” media consistently lie about the men and women of ICE, smearing them as fascist predators.
A classic instance is the five year old boy whom ICE officers saved from possibly freezing to death after his father abandoned him, whereupon the international press falsely alleged that they had “arrested” or “kidnapped” or “detained” the little boy, or “used him as bait.”
Florida State Attorney Monique Worrell is under fire these days for a decision she made several years ago that has come back to haunt her. Back in 2021, a man opened fire in a Wawa gas station parking lot in Kissimmee, shooting at one individual and several vehicles, totally at random. He was duly charged with attempted murder, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Now, however, he has murdered three people in another random attack, and Worrell’s actions on the first charge are gaining her some unwanted attention.
Central Florida’s WESH 2 made it clear Thursday that Worrell was very much on the defensive
A nurse who hoped that Donald Trump‘s White House press secretary would suffer a severe injury during childbirth is no longer employed. This is good news, because someone who wishes grave harm on political opponents should not be treating mothers and babies.
There is a difference that not even all conservatives understand between free speech and explicitly wishing harm or terror on someone. Even the Founders were in agreement that calling for someone’s death or crippling injury is not, in fact, First Amendment-protected speech. And in the case of a nurse, this is particularly relevant if she fantasizes about medical catastrophe
Minnesota can’t seem to get out of the news. Once a placid backwater, the state has now become synonymous with bats**t crazy. ICE came to town, and it brought left-wingers, both native Minnesotans and paid professionals, out in force. Things went from bad to worse, and a leftist mob invaded a church on Sunday morning, disrupting services. The mob was led by, among others, former CNN talking head Don Lemon. The Department of Justice, outraged, is pursuing criminal charges against some of the ringleaders.
Ice came to town in a more literal way, too: the high temperature today was -11, the low -22. The far left–i.e.,
WASHINGTON -- Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder from Canada who was among the FBI's top fugitives and faces charges related to multinational drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witness, has been arrested in Mexico, top Justice Department officials said Friday.
Wedding, 44, is accused of running a drug trafficking operation, and officials say he orchestrated several killings to further the drug crimes. He was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and authorities had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel confirmed Wedding's arrest in social media posts. Patel said Wedding
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that his time as an elected official will permanently end when he finishes his term as governor. “I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW. Walz had said this month that he would not seek re-election as governor — sending shock waves through state and national politics — but he did not go so far as to say he would not consider another elected position down the line. In explaining his decision Wednesday, Walz talked about the
Mamdani Casts Blame on Eric Adams for
NYC $12B Deficit Budget: NYC Facing ‘Serious
Fiscal Crisis’ 27 replies
NYC $12B Deficit Budget: NYC Facing ‘Serious
Fiscal Crisis’ 27 replies
New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani cast blame on former NYC Mayor Eric Adams for the city’s $12 billion deficit budget, stating that the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis.”
During a press conference on Wednesday, Mamdani accused Adams of underbudgeting important services that NYC residents “rely on every single day,” while “quietly leaving behind enormous gaps for the future.” Mamdani also accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of extracting NYC’s “resources” and using the city’s revenues to “address state level holes, while withholding from the city what it was owed.”
Somali-born state Rep. Yusuf Yusuf (D-Portland) runs a home care business with apparent ties to an interconnected network of Somali-operated companies drawing millions in Medicaid funding, and operating out of a Portland office equipped to funnel taxpayer money back to Africa.
At the same time, Yusuf’s wife works at Legit Home Care in Portland, which faced a MaineCare audit and drew in $7,116,267 between 2019-2024, according to Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) records obtained under the Freedom of Access Act (FOAA).
Rep. Yusuf, currently serving his first term in Maine’s legislature, revealed in his source of income filing with the Maine Ethics Commission that he manages
Hunter Biden says it doesn’t matter that he has “ghosted” his 7-year-old daughter with ex-stripper Lunden Roberts because he never agreed to be a part of her life, according to a stone-hearted new legal filing. The 55-year-old former first son argued Tuesday in new court papers that the contentious Arkansas child support case for daughter Navy Joan Roberts shouldn’t be reopened after he and his baby mama settled in 2023. But Roberts, 34, earlier this month said Hunter should be jailed for failing to uphold his end of the bargain, claiming he’s refusing to talk to Navy and not giving her pieces of his artwork before it dramatically plunged in value
Hillary Clinton took to social media to express support for the rioters in Minneapolis even as the disgraced former candidate and her husband were dodging a congressional subpoena looking into their relationship with family friend and Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein.
After condemning the Trump administration’s push to deport illegal alien criminals from Minneapolis, despite the obstruction of violent leftist rioters who had tried to murder federal law enforcement agents and bit off an agent’s finger, Clinton urged directing funding to the rioters.
“In Minnesota, scores of ordinary people are bravely looking out for their neighbors, defending their communities, and protesting lawless violence,” she tweeted. “Here’s how to stand with them.”
Ex-NFL star who swapped football for FBI
quits with brutal swipe at Donald Trump
over ICE raids 17 replies
quits with brutal swipe at Donald Trump
over ICE raids 17 replies
Former NFL star Charles Tillman swapped footballs for rifles and pistols after hanging up his cleats, swapping a career on the field for one in it.
That was until one day in January 2025 when ICE descended on Chicago.
After 13 seasons in the NFL, the former cornerback joined the FBI, enrolling in the bureau's 20-week training program in Quantico, Virginia in 2018, two years after retiring from football.
And the Chicago Bears icon embraced the role, previously citing a desire to 'do my part and give back' as his reasons for joining up in an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail last year.
However, Tillman, 44, has now revealed
Homan Says Minnesota Dems Ready to Cooperate
with ICE, Allowing Agency to Begin Pulling
Officers Out 17 replies
with ICE, Allowing Agency to Begin Pulling
Officers Out 17 replies
Following weeks of unrest in Minnesota over immigration enforcement in the state, White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that he will begin reducing the number of federal agents in the state once state officials follow through on their pledge to begin cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Homan, who was dispatched to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti over the weekend, acknowledged that ICE and Customs and Border Patrol operations in the state had not been conducted “perfectly” and that changes needed to be made — but he also reserved significant criticism for Minnesota Democrats who have prevented federal agents from collecting the targets of enforcement operations
Augusta, Maine - Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac will not seek reelection to represent House District 120, and says the decision comes after "serious reflection and conversations" about the political climate for Black elected officials.
Dhalac says during her time serving in the Maine Legislature, the climate has become "increasingly hostile and unsafe." "Throughout my tenure, I have experienced persistent racism, harassment and threats that reflect a broader national pattern targeting Black and brown elected officials," Dhalac said. "These dangers are real and carry heavy emotional and physical consequences not only for those serving but for their families as well."
Dhalac is one of the first Somali Americans to serve
With the clock ticking down to a potential government shutdown this Friday, Senate Republicans are reportedly considering a move that could leave the southern border wide open to invasion.
A group of Republican senators is now openly discussing whether to split the Homeland Security appropriations bill away from a six-bill funding package in order to avert a partial government shutdown that would impact the Pentagon and several other major federal departments, according to The Hill.
The six-bill package includes funding for the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, Transportation, State, and financial services-related agencies.
Plans have been launched to protest at Target stores across the country this weekend to demand the Minneapolis-based retailer takes a firm stand against federal immigration enforcement. Organizers are staging anti-ICE protests in at least nine Twin Cities locations on Saturday, including the Richfield store where two Target employees who are U.S. citizens were detained earlier this month. Local nonprofits ISAIAH and Unidos MN are leading the effort, which they say is a call for ICE to leave Minnesota and for justice following the January killings of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents. Target still hasn't
Minnesota Cops Beg Walz, Pols To Let Them
Work With ICE, Say They Could Have Prevented Shooting 14 replies
Work With ICE, Say They Could Have Prevented Shooting 14 replies
The head of a major Twin Cities police union slammed local officials for blocking cooperation between local cops and ICE and Border Patrol agents -- saying if they were involved, "there would be no loss of life." (snip) Since the Republican National Convention was held in St. Paul in 2008, Minnesota law enforcement has undergone extensive training in mobile field force configurations and crowd management for major events. And because of that, I think we're in the best position to deal with that," Ross said. "Unfortunately, our local politicians would not allow us to do that," he added.
Two Decades Of Inconvenient Inaccuracies
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As most know by now, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” global warming propaganda film turned 20 a few days ago. It won a couple of Oscars in 2007, one for best documentary. The latter should be returned. The movie was filled with errors.
Exalting the celluloid screed with an Academy Award for best documentary is the equivalent of handing the Nobel Peace Prize to a terrorist, an incompetent, a fraud, an unaccomplished charlatan, and, yes, Gore himself, because it was far more a faux-umentary than an honest account of the facts.
In the same year that Gore was given his participation trophy,