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A Perfect (And Creative) Solution To The ICE Mobs
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This was posted on Facebook by Blue Lives Matter:
STOP what you’re doing – we have a pretty huge update and confession about this whole “Report ICE activity hotline” situation.
By about 1am, we had reports come in from numerous states that there had been “incidents” at a number of biker bars last night. 
It turns out that “report ICE activity hotlines” had received “tips” about “off-duty ICE agents” drinking at dozens of bars. Those bars just so happened to be biker bars owned or frequented by individuals who haven’t always been on the right side of the law.
ICE protestors were alerted and given the addresses of these bars. According to friends of ours across the country, beta soy boy, gender-fluid communist Meal Team Sixers showed up with their “F-ICE” flags and tried barging into the bars.
Except… there were no ICE agents drinking there. As a wise man once said… “now you’s can’t leave”.
To clarify, WE absolutely did NOT report those addresses to the “Report ICE activity hotlines”. That’s ridiculous, guys. What kind of people do you think we are?
Nah. We simply provided the “Report ICE activity hotlines” to the good ole’ boys that DRINK at those bars and asked them if they wanted to have a fun night.
Hey leftists… we’ve been warning you… there would be a time when the people who just wanted to be left alone get off the sidelines.
Keep going, children. We’re in this for the long haul… and we’re really, really good at it.
If you have a phone or fingers to type… you can get in the fight and help protect ICE and law enforcement. Below you’ll find the “report ICE activity” hotlines.
Have fun and blast this thing all over the internet.
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) — 1-844-724-3737
LULAC ICE Activity Reporting — Signal/WhatsApp: +1-202-699-4637
Puente Arizona (Phoenix metro) — 480-506-7437
Arkansas United — 479-763-2822
Los Angeles Raids & Rapid Response Network — 888-624-4752
San Francisco Rapid Response Network — 415-200-1548
Alameda County (ACILEP) — 510-241-4011
Contra Costa County — 925-900-5151
North Bay (Sonoma/Napa/Solano) — 707-800-4544
Sacramento Rapid Response Network — 916-382-0256
Santa Clara County — 408-290-1144
Santa Cruz / Pajaro Valley — 831-239-4289
Central Valley / Valley Watch — 559-206-0151
Kern County — 661-432-2230
Orange County — 714-881-1558
San Diego County — 619-536-0823
Santa Barbara / Ventura / SLO (805 Network) — 805-870-8855
Long Beach Community Defense Network — 562-245-9575
Colorado Rapid Response Network — 1-844-864-8341
Florida Immigrant Coalition / RAISE Hotline — 1-888-600-5762
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) — 770-457-5232
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) — 855-435-7693
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network (Greater Boston) — 617-370-5023
Grand Rapids Rapid Response Network — 616-238-0081
Reno / ACTIONN Rapid Response — 775-453-6137
Rapid Response New Jersey — 1-888-347-3767
NYC ICE Watch — community reporting via coordinated alert networks (no single phone line)
Rochester Rapid Response Network — 585-420-6471
Siembra NC Rapid Response — 336-543-0353
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) — 1-888-622-1510
New Sanctuary Movement (Philadelphia) — 267-333-9530
Centre County Rapid Response Network — 814-264-4626
AMOR / ICE Watch RI — 401-675-1414
Vecindarios901 (Memphis) — 901-329-7979
Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) — 615-833-0384
WA Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) — 1-844-724-3737
Department of Homeland Security U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement we’ve got your six.
A Word Of Caution To The Republican Party
I describe myself as a reluctant Republican. I am a conservative who used to be a Democrat until that party went totally off the deep end. I don’t want to see the Democrats take the midterms–I don’t want to go back to the Biden economy and endless impeachment trials. There is a real danger of that happening if Republicans stay home in the midterms. Why would they do that? An article posted at Substack paints an interesting scenario.
The article is written by Sam Faddis (former intelligence) and is titled,”If The Republican Party Wants The MAGA Base To Show Up In 2026 They Better Show Up For The Base Right Now.” The establishment Republicans have expected the MAGA base to get them elected and then ignored the wishes of that base. I suspect many in the base are no longer willing to play.
The article states:
For years, the MAGA base of the Republican Party fought to push the America First Agenda and to return Donald Trump to the White House. Against all odds and in the face of weaponization of the justice system, manipulation of the electoral process, and the intense opposition of the so-called mainstream press, it succeeded. Americans voted for an end to the status quo, an end to the oligarchs, and a return of power to the people.
And, now, with President Trump back in the Oval Office, we find that the MAGA agenda seems increasingly blocked. The GOP establishment seems determined to prevent meaningful change and continue business as usual in the Swamp.
The article concludes:
We were promised an end to the replacement of American workers by foreigners brought here to take our jobs. H-1 B visas remain plentiful, and Americans continue to lose their livelihoods and pensions to workers imported from abroad.
The Democrats have not gone away. Their party is increasingly dominated by Marxists like Zohran Mamdani, who wish to destroy the republic. What just happened in Virginia with the inauguration of Abigail Spanberger as Governor ought to send chills up and down the spines of every right-thinking American. She was elected because vast numbers of voters who showed up for Donald Trump in 2024 elected to stay home and withhold their support from a Republican candidate who did not appear to support the MAGA agenda. From the moment she took office, Spanberger has moved with astonishing speed to pursue her radical agenda. The same will happen nationwide if there is no immediate action.
If the Republican Party wants the MAGA base to show up in 2026, they better show up for the base right now. We voted for action. We have not seen it.
That’s a stern warning. I hope Congress is listening.
Taking Action In Minnesota
On Tuesday, Hot Air reported that subpoenas were served on Monday to at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota as part of of the investigation into the response to the federal government crackdown on illegal immigrants in that state.
The article quotes a New York Times report:
Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas on Tuesday to at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota, ramping up the Justice Department’s investigation into their response to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the state, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The subpoenas sought documents from Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis and Mayor Kaohly Her of St. Paul related to their policies on immigration enforcement efforts in the state. Two Minnesota prosecutors, Keith Ellison, the state attorney general, and Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County attorney, were also sent similar subpoenas…
While the subpoenas did not cite a specific criminal statute, the inquiry as a whole was said to center on whether elected officials in Minnesota had conspired to impede the thousands of federal agents who have been in the state since last month looking for undocumented immigrants. But the investigation is likely to run up against stiff pushback for examining political speech and conduct that is traditionally protected by the First Amendment.
Free speech is protected by the First Amendment. The right to worship is also protected by the U.S. Constitution.
The article concludes:
The polling on Walz’s attacks on ICE must have been pretty bad because he’s really done a 180 in the past week. Instead of repeating that the state was at war with federal agents he’s now, for the second time, calling for calm. Walz is acting like an arsonist who suddenly decides to make friends with the fire department to help his image. If you want calm, governor, stop throwing rhetorical bombs at the feds and making demands you have no right to make. And you could make a call to Mayor Frey and ask him to dial it back a bit as well.
I have always heard the expression, “Minnesota nice.” I am not sure it applies right now although I suspect that a lot of the people who are making trouble are not actually residents of the state.
Good News
President Trump has negotiated a framework to set up a security deal with Greenland.
On Wednesday, Townhall posted the contents of a post on X by President Trump:
Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. Additional discussions are being held concerning The Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be made available as discussions progress. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and various others, as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations — They will report directly to me. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This is about security. The Golden Dome will protect the United States and Canada. It is an advanced version of the iron dome system used by the Israelis. It is a defensive system–it stops incoming weapons–it does not launch offensive weapons other than the ones aimed at incoming weapons. Setting up that system will be good news not only for North America, but for the world.
The Case Is Moving Forward
On Wednesday, Fox News posted an article about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s choice to ignore a Congressional subpoena. When Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro did that, they were sent to jail. It will be interesting to see what happens with the Clintons. I suspect they are calling in a lot of favors right now.
The article reports:
The House Oversight Committee voted to refer former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for chamber-wide votes on criminal contempt of Congress charges with the help of multiple Democrats, including two members of the far-left Squad, for defying subpoenas related to the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein probe.
Lawmakers voted to advance a pair of contempt resolutions against the Clintons on Wednesday after they did not appear for scheduled depositions earlier this month.
The committee voted 34-8 to advance one contempt recommendation against Bill Clinton, with two members voting present, and another on Hillary Clinton in a 28-15 vote, with one member voting present. Nine Democrats voted with Republicans to advance contempt recommendations against Bill Clinton and three Democrats joined Republicans in the vote against Hillary Clinton.
…The Democrats who voted to advance Hillary Clinton’s resolution were Stansbury and “Squad” members Lee and Tlaib.
“The committee does not take this action lightly. Subpoenas are not mere suggestions,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said of the Clintons’ no-show. “[Subpoenas] carry the force of law and require compliance. Former President Clinton and Secretary Clinton were legally required to appear for depositions before this committee.”
“They refused,” he added.
The article concludes:
“No one should be above the law, including presidents and former presidents, and congressional subpoenas are an important part of that rule of law. And I think the Clintons should be here. I think it’s very shameful that they’re not,” Min (Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif.) said.
With the committee having voted to suggest House-wide contempt resolutions against the Clintons, the chamber will likely consider them sometime in February, according to statements Comer made to Fox News Digital last week.
Stay tuned.
The Question Is…
On Wednesday, Townhall posted an article with this headline, “Why Did Tim Walz and Jacob Frey Release Nearly 500 Criminal Aliens?” That is a very good question. The probable reason is that their sentences or holding time were up and he didn’t want to turn them over to the The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The article reports:
“For example: One of the things we’ve asked Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey is to give us just the criminals you have in jail,” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “They’ve released 490 murderers, and rapists, and drug traffickers onto their streets, rather than just give them to us — and that’s what I don’t understand.”
The Trump administration has argued that Democrat politicians in Minnesota have conspired to impede federal immigration enforcement operations, resulting in subpoenas for Walz, Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and others.
…In the interview, Noem also disputed the claim that federal agents have strayed from standard practices. “We’re doing the same thing that law enforcement has done for years — under this administration, under the Biden administration — all of them,” Noem stated.
Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge in December, ICE has apprehended 3,000 aliens in Minnesota alone. The “Worst of the Worst” were featured on Noem’s social media accounts on Tuesday.
Noncooperation with ICE seems to be a Democrat policy. That is puzzling to me. I think most Americans want criminals in jail or out of their neighborhoods, why would the Democrats stand so firmly on this issue? Right now Americans may not understand that criminals are being let out into their neighborhoods, but eventually they will. If the policy of letting illegal alien criminals out of jail, we can expect more violence in our cities in the future. Eventually that violence will make its way out to the rural areas of the country. I know a few rural sheriffs who will not put up with this!
From my friends at Townhall:
An Indication Of Things To Come?
Elections have consequences. Unfortunately, not all of those consequences are good. New York City is experiencing some of the consequences of electing a Mayor with little business experience or understanding of economics.
On Monday, The Epoch Times reported:
President Donald Trump said on Jan. 19 that building a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Dallas would be detrimental to New York and pose a big test for newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the NYSE, announced in February 2025 that it would launch NYSE Texas, a fully electronic equities exchange based in Dallas, pending regulatory filings. As part of the move, NYSE Chicago was reincorporated in Texas and renamed as NYSE Texas, allowing companies to list their securities on NYSE Texas.
NYSE Texas began operations in March 2025, and Trump Media & Technology Group was the first company to list on the Dallas-based exchange and hold a dual listing, according to a company statement.
“Building a ‘New York Stock Exchange’ in Dallas is an unbelievably bad thing for New York,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “I can’t believe they would let this happen.”
What would be the economic impact on New York City if the stock exchange moved to Dallas? I have no idea, but it wouldn’t be good. How much money flows into the city from people who work for the stock exchange through property rentals, lunches, etc.?
The article notes:
NYSE Group President Lynn Martin said in February 2025 that Texas hosts the most NYSE-listed companies, representing more than $3.7 trillion of market value. The exchange views Texas as “a market leader in fostering a pro-business atmosphere,” Martin said.
“We are delighted to expand our presence in the Lone Star State, which plays a key role in driving our U.S. economy forward,” Martin said in a statement at the time.
The article concludes:
The establishment of NYSE Texas coincided with the rise of another major exchange in the state.
TXSE Group said in January 2025 that it had filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to register the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) as a national securities exchange. The company has raised $161 million in an initial funding round and plans to begin trading early this year.
Businesses move to places that have policies that are favorable to doing business. Under Mayor Mandani, New York City may no longer fit that description.
A Book We Might All Want To Read
On Monday, The New York Post posted an article about a new book written by Peter Schweizer. The title of the book is “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
The article notes:
Ismail Selim Elbarasse, an accountant by training, seemed to be living a quiet life in Annandale, Virginia. But in 2004, when police officers noticed him driving with his wife across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and filming its critical structural elements, they decided to act, then detained him and notified federal agents.
He was already a suspect in a scheme to provide funding to Islamist terrorist groups, and now agents were searching through his home for further evidence of his possible involvement.
They discovered far more than a terrorism funding scheme.
Buried among the stacks of paperwork in his home was a document written in Arabic titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” written by a US-based Islamist leader from the Muslim Brotherhood.
The strategic goals memo specifically addressed the “Civilization-Jihadist Process” for using migration as a weapon of subversion.
Members “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated, and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
This is the link to “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America.” I have mentioned this document before in articles about the Holy Land Foundation Trial. If you would like to read those articles, use the search engine at the top of the page.
The article concludes:
During a 2015 speech at the famed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Ayed declared that Muslims in the Western world should be patient. “This dark night will be over,” he declared, “and soon, we will trample them underfoot, Allah willing.”
He gives the West no credit for accepting Muslim migrants out of compassion.
“They wish that we were dead. But they have lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in their midst. We will give them fertility! We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries — whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians, and all those like you. Take the refugees! We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming Caliphate.”
American progressives are either not aware of these sorts of state- ments or ignore them out of strategic convenience: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Both are engaged at some level in viewing migrants as catalysts for radical social change. Migration can be “instrumental in forging social transformations,” they argue.
Why do stable, prosperous, free societies like the United States need “social transformation?” They never say.
The New York Post article is rather long, but it is well worth reading. Please follow the link above to read the entire article.
President Trump And The Deep State
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article detailing four steps President Trump has taken since he took office in 2025 to dismantle the deep state.
The article reports:
1. Reinstating ‘Schedule F’
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate Schedule F, which makes it easier for the president to fire bureaucrats.
2. DOGE
The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly reduced federal employment by about 271,000 jobs.
3. Shutdown Cuts
During the recent government shutdown, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought cut $8 billion of blue state energy projects.
4. Investigating ‘Deep State’ Abuses
In July, a CIA report found that John Brennan, the agency’s director in the Obama administration, overrode internal concerns to claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
The deep state is still with us. Congress has codified very little of what President Trump has done, making it very easy to undo. The 2026 midterm elections are so critical because if the Democrats win either branch of Congress, all of the economic progress we made in the last year will end. Instead we will have non-stop impeachment hearings and a return to the tax and spend agenda that has nearly bankrupted our country. The easiest way to prevent the Democrats from taking over Congress is to insure an honest election. A bill to do that is currently in Congress.
Meanwhile, where are the orange jumpsuits that should be the result of all of the investigations we are hearing about?
Elections Have Consequences
Now that the Democrats have taken over the governorship and legislature of Virginia, I wonder if the voters are happy with what they are seeing.
The following list was posted on X:
Look for a massive exodus from the Commonwealth of Virginia–one of the prettiest states in the nation. Virginia is my stop-off place when coming home from New England to North Carolina. With the increase in the hotel tax, I might want to reconsider that. Taxes in Virginia are increasing, and freedom is decreasing for law-abiding citizens. Criminal penalties for robbery are decreasing. Outlawing hand-counting ballots will make it easier to cheat in elections, and expanding ranked-choice voting will simply confuse everyone.
At Some Point, We Have To Deal With Lawlessness
On Monday, The Epoch Times posted an article about an escalation of the violence and unrest in Minneapolis.
The article reports:
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking into possible violations stemming from a protest by anti-ICE demonstrators at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18, according to officials.
Footage circulating on social media shows protesters gathering inside Cities Church in St. Paul during a Sunday service, while chanting phrases like “Justice for Renee Good” and “Who needs justice, we need justice.”
Protests against ICE in Minnesota have escalated after a federal agent in Minneapolis fatally shot protester Renee Good, who allegedly drove her SUV toward the officer after being ordered to exit her vehicle during an ICE operation. Federal officials have said the officer opened fire in self-defense.
Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said on X that federal officials are investigating protesters for potential violations for allegedly “desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers” during a service at Cities Church.
This is obviously not acceptable behavior.
The article notes:
YouTuber Don Lemon, who livestreamed the protest, said that anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service at Cities Church following claims that one of the church pastors is serving as acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
In his video, Lemon spoke to the church’s lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, as protesters gathered inside the church. Parnell said that he had requested the protesters to leave but they refused.
“I mean this is unacceptable. It’s shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship,” Parnell told Lemon.
…Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that his organization will step in and provide security for the church if local officials fail to take action.
“For protestors to disrupt a Sunday morning worship service this way is absurd. If elected officials won’t contain lawlessness @NAMB_SBC will provide security,” Ezell said on X.
Somehow lost in all of this is the fact that many of the people being deported are not people that you would want living next door to you–there are gang members, sex traffickers, drug dealers, and other criminals. Why do want to keep them here when many of them are a danger to Americans?
We need to find out who is funding these riots and paying the protesters.
The Numbers Just Keep Growing
On Saturday, Just the News posted an article about the number of people who were enrolled in ObamaCare without their knowledge.
The article reports:
In exchange for gift cards, millions of Americans were unwittingly signed up for Obamacare by brokers who scalped their vital information and enrolled them in plans where premiums were paid by the American people, a research group says.
“The government was sending massive checks to insurance companies who were making windfall profits on behalf of people who didn’t use any health care,” Brian Blase, president of Paragon Health Institute, a healthcare policy group told Just The News.
A 2021-2022 expansion of Affordable Care Act subsidies, passed through budget reconciliation, made coverage fully subsidized for individuals claiming incomes in a specific range. Paragon Health Institute investigated and estimated that by 2025, at least 6.4 million more people were enrolled in these zero-premium plans than were actually eligible.
Zero premium means the enrollee did not pay for the plan — it was paid via subsidies funded by taxpayers.
The money went to the insurance companies who never had to deal with claims from people who didn’t know they were signed up!
The article notes:
Many of the enrollees never realized they had coverage because the government paid the full premium directly to insurers, which in turn paid substantial commissions to the enrolling entities. In 2024, 40% of people in fully subsidized plans used no healthcare services at all—2.5 times higher than typical rates—resulting in significant government payments to insurers for largely unused coverage.
Making matters worse, the insurance companies aren’t even providing value, says Blase. “85% of all the [insurance company] revenue now comes from the taxpayer, so they don’t have incentives to offer products that are low-priced, that appeal to patients.”
“Their primary client now is the United States Treasury, and they’re so dependent on the federal government for their revenue source, that’s why insurance companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress to continue this gravy train of these enhanced Obamacare subsidies.”
The article concludes:
One remedy for Medicaid, as well as other programs, is to shut off the federal spigot. According to Blase, “It’s the essential step. The federal government is bankrolling the fraud, waste and abuse in the states, and as long as states can draw on an open checkbook from Washington, they don’t have incentives to make sure that dollars are appropriately spent.”
Referencing the daycare fraud unfolding in Minnesota, Blase criticized the federal government’s lack of oversight. “We shouldn’t have to rely on amateur investigators going into daycare finding out that there’s no children there. The government has access to this data, they know where there are areas that have seen explosive spending.”
Blase also sounded the alarm on states like New York and California. In New York, there has been an unprecedented spike in Medicaid-funded home health aides, who are often family members taking care of relatives, which, Blase says, also creates fertile ground for fraud. In California, fraud has found a home within the hospice care industry.
We need a thorough audit on every dollar the federal government sends to the states and to insurance companies.
Using Climate Change As An Excuse To Build China’s Economy
I am not saying that China is paying off any American politicians to promote climate change, but after reading the article I am about to summarize, I wonder.
On Sunday, Doug Ross posted an article on Substack titled, “Infographic: How the West’s Climate Crusade Built China’s Empire.” Please follow the link to read the entire article. I will summarize some of it here.
The article reports:
While Western nations debated carbon targets and paid citizens not to use energy, China executed a dual strategy: scaling renewable manufacturing to meet Western demand while building coal-fired baseload power to fuel that very production. Today, China controls 29% of global manufacturing output (up from 6% in 2000), produces over 80% of the world’s solar panels and 70% of its batteries, and has constructed more coal capacity in two decades than the entire Western world possesses.
…The West created unprecedented demand for green technology through subsidies, mandates, and moral urgency—then watched as China captured the entire supply chain to meet that demand. Today, China produces over 80% of the world’s solar panels, controls 97% of solar wafer production, manufactures 75% of all lithium-ion batteries, and builds 70% of wind turbine components. In 2024 alone, China installed 356 GW of wind and solar capacity—4.5 times what the entire European Union added and roughly equivalent to America’s total installed base. The International Energy Agency confirms China’s dominance across all stages of solar manufacturing “exceeds 80%.”
Western nations subsidized consumer adoption of green technology while China captured producer economics. The result: massive wealth transfer from Western consumers and taxpayers to Chinese manufacturers, with global competitors now described as facing an “unassailable” disadvantage.
The article concludes:
The data tells an uncomfortable story: the West’s climate policies, whatever their intentions, triggered the largest voluntary transfer of industrial capacity in human history. China didn’t conquer Western manufacturing—the West dismantled it through higher energy costs, regulatory complexity, and ideological rigidity, while China offered a cheap alternative.
With 29% of global manufacturing, 80%+ of solar production, 75% of battery capacity, and a coal fleet larger than the entire Western world’s, China has converted the energy transition into a strategic windfall. The path forward requires honest assessment: if carbon dioxide is a “pollutant”, the West cannot depend on supply chains controlled by nations still expanding coal power. Until Western policymakers reconcile climate ambition with industrial reality, the transfer will continue—one shuttered factory at a time.
Where were our representatives who were supposed to be looking out for us?
Greenland Does Not Necessarily Love Denmark
On Friday, The New York Post posted an article about how some of the residents of Greenland feel about Denmark.
The article reports:
Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.
Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.
Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.
“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”
While the government of Denmark officially apologized last year for decades of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and girls, the horrific mistreatment has cast a long shadow on the island that has become the center of an international ownership fight.
…“The Danes don’t see us as humans,” Petersen said at a local Inuit restaurant overlooking Nuuk’s famous fjords. “They think we’re too expensive, too small a population. But they take our land, our children, our lives and expect thanks.”
Even in adulthood, medical decisions were made without Petersen’s consent. Plagued with problems after the IUD, she had repeated surgeries for unexplained pain. It wasn’t until years later that doctors informed her that her fallopian tubes had been removed in one of the operations in the early 2000s.
Her family also suffered under Denmark’s so-called “Little Danes experiment,” in which Greenlandic children were forcibly sent to Denmark for adoption or institutional care — often permanently separated from their families, she said.
The program, which ran from the 1950s through the 1970s, was part of Denmark’s broader effort to assimilate Greenlandic children, often without parental consent.
It happened to her mother’s brother, Petersen said. Other relatives were subjected to medical experimentation, she added.
…Denmark announced in December compensation for victims of forced sterilization, but Petersen called the payments another insult. The women are being offered about $46,000 in reparations.
The article concludes:
While Greenlanders are divided on the timing and logistics of independence, many agree on one thing: the current system is unsustainable.
Petersen does not see Trump as a savior — but she does see his interest as an opportunity.
“At least he challenges Denmark’s control,” she said. “That conversation was never allowed before.”
For her, independence is not about choosing between Denmark and the US — it is about finally being treated as human beings with the right to decide.
“We are only 55,000 people,” Petersen said. “If someone truly cared, this would already be fixed.”
Instead, she said, Greenland remains spoken for — but rarely listened to.
“They talk about our land,” she said. “They just never talk to us.”
The current situation in Greenland is a disgrace. The humane thing to do would be for America to come in and introduce the free market, stabilize the security, help the citizens get back on their feet economically, and leave a substantial security force there, but let the people be free.
This Might Be Part Of The Problem
On Thursday, Breitbart posted an article illustrating part of the reason for the crime problem in America.
The article reports:
A Democrat judge has released a Chicago man with 57 prior arrests after he pleaded guilty to using a metal bar to smash a man’s jaw in a sneak attack.
The suspect, Pierre Thorne, 32, was charged after a December 8, 2022, attack on a 53-year-old man in Chicago’s downtown Loop area. Thorne reportedly used a metal pipe to attack the man from behind, CWBChicago reported.
…In addition to the shattered jaw, the victim lost several teeth, suffered multiple facial fractures, had damage to his nose, lacerations to his face and scalp, and an abrasion to his left eye. The victim also required several constructive surgeries, but his face is permanently disfigured.
Investigators tracked the attacker using surveillance footage in the area leading the Chicago Police to identify Thorne as the chief suspect in the case.
Prosecutors noted that Thorne had a long arrest record and had been arrested and released 57 times by the time he reached 30 years of age. He also had several misdemeanor convictions, many of which were for violent attacks.
The article concludes:
Thorne has now pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm in the pipe attack case. Despite this, he will serve no prison time.
Left-wing Cook County Circuit Judge Joanne Rosado sentenced him to four years in prison, but because he was handed a 752-day credit for time served and given a 50 percent sentence reduction, he will be set free to wreck havoc in the city once again.
Do you want this man walking around free in your city?
Civil Disobedience vs. Lawful Protest
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Note that the law states that we have the right to assemble peaceably and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Peaceably assembling does not include blocking law enforcement from doing their job. Americans also have the right to petition the government. We also have the right to un-elect the people making laws we don’t like. We don’t have the right to break the law to make our point.
Civil disobedience has been part of American history from the beginning. However, those choosing to engage in civil disobedience should be ready to pay a price for their actions. Martin Luther King, Jr., was in jail in 1963 for protesting segregation. He was right, but he was still in jail. I know many people who went to jail during the peak of the right-to-life movement. I believe they were right, but they also went to jail. If you are willing to engage in civil disobedience, you need to be prepared to suffer the consequences. If you attempt to run over an officer of the law, you need to understand that your actions will have consequences.
There is an argument out there that illegal immigration is not a major crime. However, if someone comes here illegally, do you expect them to respect the other laws of the country? How many people here illegally are working without having money withheld from their wages (as Americans do) and sending that money back home? That’s another law being broken.
The Center for Immigration Studies reports that:
About 54 percent of Somali-headed households in Minnesota receive food stamps, and 73 percent of Somali households have at least one member on Medicaid. The comparable figures for native households are 7 percent and 18 percent.
This is not sustainable.
It’s time to let U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) do their job and send people who are here illegally back to their home countries. We also need to fix our immigration protocol so that they can apply to come here legally. We can’t turn the countries they are fleeing into functioning republics, but we can encourage the people coming here illegally to work toward creating a more successful country where they live.
This Is How The System Works
As the fraud in Minnesota unfolds, one of the questions I have is who wrote the grants, who signed the grants, and who approved the grants. Well, I think we now have a clue as to how all of this was allowed to happen.
On Friday, The Daily Signal reported:
A new report in Minnesota highlights how a former bureaucrat involved in granting a church millions of dollars later went to work as a consultant for the church.
The audit also says that the church failed to provide necessary reporting for hundreds of thousands of dollars of state funding.
Both the church and the former bureaucrat deny any wrongdoing, and gave their side of the story to The Daily Signal.
According to the report, issued by the Office of the Legislative Auditor last week, a grantee—later identified as Zion Baptist Church in North Minneapolis—”could not provide us detailed invoices or program participant data to support a payment of $672,647.78″ from the Department of Human Services’ Bureau of Health Administration “for a single month of work.”
Zion Baptist Church contracted with 14 subcontractors, two of which the legislative auditor visited. The church reportedly paid $40,000 to each of the subcontractors, without specifying rates per service unit.
Those subcontractors failed to show who they served with the money they received. One of them said “the grantee told them they did not need to keep detailed participant records.”
Finally, the grant manager “who approved the $672,647.78 payment left DHS a few days after approving it and later started to provide consulting services to the grantee,” the report stated.
The article notes:
Department of Human Services staff raised serious concerns about subcontractors during the grant period, but supervisors directed them “not to pursue further questioning,” and approved a grant extension.
The whistleblower said key questions remain, such as the justification for avoiding a competitive process for the grant, whether DHS performed due diligence on the subcontractors, whether subcontractors were for-profit entities, and why staff concerns were not pursued.
The whistleblower also listed four grants that Zion Baptist Church received, two of which were sole source (without competition) and together totaled more than $3 million.
“Is Zion some great place?” the whistleblower asked, noting the multi-million-dollar sole-source grants. One one contract of more than $1.4 million, the church “did just a bad job performance” and the state “cancelled it early.”
This smells more than a little fishy to me!
This Is Going To Be A Problem
On Friday, The Center Square reported the following:
New York City lost nearly 5,000 businesses early last year as employers closed their doors or left for other low-tax states, according to a new report.
The analysis comes as newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes to hike business taxes to foot the bill for his agenda.
The report, released Thursday by the Economic Development Corporation, showed more than 3,500 new businesses opened their doors in New York City during the second quarter of the fiscal year but that was offset by a loss of about 8,400 employers. That’s the weakest quarter for business formation since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the report’s authors said.
The corporation’s report is the latest to highlight New York City’s shrinking business sector with employers looking to other low-tax states as Albany piles on new regulations and costs.
It also comes as Mamdani seeks to draw up support for higher taxes to pay for plans for universal childcare, tuition free college and free bus service in the city.
Mamdani’s plans call for increasing the state’s top corporate tax rate by about half, up to 11.5% from its current maximum of 7.25%, which has caused concerns among New York City’s business community. If approved, that would match the highest corporate rate in the nation next door in New Jersey. He’s also called for “wealth” tax and a $30 per hour minimum wage for the city.
His ideas will seriously damage the City’s economy.
The article concludes:
In 2023, New York’s effective state business tax rate was 5.9%, making it the ninth-highest in the nation, the report’s authors noted. The state also ranks poorly for individual income, sales, property and unemployment insurance taxes. It has the fourth highest percentage of housing-burdened households in the country, with 38.6% of households spending more than 30% of their income on housing.
Those factors have contributed to outmigration, with New York losing more domestic taxpayers than any other state from 2020 to 2022, according to the report, as residents fled to New Jersey, Florida, and other low-tax states.
The independent businessman is the backbone of the American economy. People who are self-employed don’t work a 40-hour week. People who are self-employed and successful work an 80-hour week. Logically, why would you stay in a state that takes a large percentage of what you work so hard for when you can move to a state with less regulation and lower taxes? That is what has happened in the past, and if Mayor Mamdani implements his policies, we will see more businesses leave New York City.
From my friends at Power Line Blog:
This Shouldn’t Be A Surprise
On Thursday, Townhall posted an article about Cea Weaver, director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, and her plans for New York City. The Founding Fathers are not turning over in their graves–they are spinning like tops!
The article reports:
Communists have always, invariably, hated the middle class. That’s why their policies destroy the middle class; they need the impoverished masses, over whom they can rule, and the wealthy class (of which they’re a part). Everyone else is an obstacle to their communist agenda.
…”I think that the United States public policy has done a really, really good job of pitting cash-poor homeowners and working class homeowners and middle class homeowners against renters,” Weaver said. “And we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers. It’s really quite diffiuclt, right? Because, yes, Blackstone is a bigger and worse target than like, Mrs. Smith who owns 15 buildings, but Mrs. Smith who owns 15 buildings still, like, kind of stucks and has a lot more stability than renters. And there’s more of them than there are of the Blackstones.
“So it’s just like this challenging dynamic that white middle-class homeowners are a huge problem for a renter-justice movement,” Weaver added.
She’s intentionally conflating two things: the ownership of rental properties and homeownership. Weaver hates both, of course, so conflating the two is part of her agenda.
The article concludes:
Thankfully, the Constitution prevents the outright seizure of property, but as we’ve seen with civil asset forfeiture and all that, there are ways for the government to get around those pesky Constitutional rights.
Has Weaver’s mother sold her $1.6 million Tennessee home yet? Has Weaver herself moved out of Crown Heights after complaining about gentrification?
The answer to both of those questions is no, and that’s what we should tell Weaver: No. You’re not getting our property.
Another great example of “do as I say, not as I do!”
When The Principle Of Supply And Demand Hurt Consumers
On Friday, Zero Hedge posted an article that partially explains the abrupt rise in residential electric bills. Part of the rise is due to the green energy policies of the Biden administration, which moved toward more expensive sources of energy, but a major part of the problem is the rise in the use of electricity by data centers.
The article reports:
Back in August, when the American population was just waking up to the dire consequences the exponentially growing army of data centers spawned across the country was having on residential electricity bills, we said that the chart of US CPI would soon become the most popular (not in a good way) chart in the financial realm.
This is the chart:
The article continues:
Turns out we were right.
And while Trump obviously can not pull a communist rabbit out of his hat, and centrally plan the entire US power grid, what he can do is precisely what he is about to announce.
According to Bloomberg, Trump and the governors of several US Northeastern states agreed to push for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would compel technology companies to effectively fund new power plants, effectively putting a cap for residential power prices at the expense of hyperscalers and data centers. Which, come to think of it, we also proposed back in October.
The article concludes:
Trump’s initiative will deliver another benefit: the effort has the potential to help PJM tackle a significant roadblock: improving the accuracy of its forecasts for demand growth. With tech giants paying for the power plants they need, the approach could weed out speculative projects that have skewed demand growth projections, something we discussed earlier.
As Bloomberg notes, the involvement of Democratic governors – including Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and Maryland’s Wes Moore – is seen by the Trump administration as helping to anchor the effort, since state policies have driven recent changes in the power mix, including the retirement of coal and gas plants. The initiative is also seen aiding hyperscalers by ensuring reliable power supply, and it could be a model for other parts of the country, the White House official said.
Governors are committing to implement and assign these costs to the data centers, ensuring the price of these new power plants doesn’t land on the average household, the White House official said.
PJM’s auctions have emerged as a political flashpoint in the national debate about affordability after prices reached record levels in 2024. Although Pennsylvania’s Shapiro struck a deal with PJM to cap prices in future auctions, costs hit new highs in two subsequent sales. In fact, had it not been for an implicit cap in the latest auction, residential prices would have been 60% higher (see “Inside The PJM Auction Report, Something Crazy: Without Price Controls, Electricity Bills Would Explode“.)
The most recent auction, in December, also fell 6.6 gigawatts short of supplies, which PJM blamed on the frenzy to build massive data centers. PJM is now being asked to extend the price cap for auctions held through this year, the White House official said.
While the statement of principles being signed Friday isn’t a binding legal document, administration officials have discussed the plan with a host of stakeholders, from PJM executives and state officials, to utilities, power-plant developers, Wall Street and the hyperscalers building these data centers, the official said.
I don’t claim to understand all of this, but I do know that in recent months my electric bill has increased significantly.
Good News On The Economy
On Thursday, The Western Journal posted an article about the December jobs numbers.
The article reports:
The top economist at the Heritage Foundation made a compelling case for why President Donald Trump’s jobs numbers are better than the headline figure indicates.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that a total of 50,000 jobs were added to the economy in December. That’s a holding-steady number. Given the country’s population, it takes upward of 50,000 new jobs to keep the unemployment rate about constant.
Such was true last month when the unemployment rate dropped slightly, by 0.1 percent to 4.4 percent.
The Heritage Foundation’s chief economist, E.J. Antoni, pointed out in a piece for Townhall.com that if you look a little deeper at U.S. employment, there’s some very encouraging information, especially for those holding down multiple jobs to make ends meet.
He highlighted the discrepancy between the 50,000 news jobs figure and the survey of households’ total, finding that the number of people employed in the country jumped by 232,000.
“There’s an explanation for this difference if we dig further into the report, and it indicates a very positive development in the labor market,” Antoni argued.
“The number of multiple jobholders plunged by 444,000 last month, the second-largest drop since the government-imposed Covid lockdowns. Simultaneously in December, the number of part-time jobs declined by 740,000 while full-time employment shot up by 890,000,” he added.
The article notes:
But, Antoni noted, “All the net job growth in 2025 came from the productive private sector, while government jobs declined, due entirely to federal layoffs. It’s a positive development, but it drags down the headline jobs number.”
The BLS reported that federal employment is down 277,000 from January of last year.
Biden presided over a nearly 6 percent increase in the size of the full-time federal workforce during his tenure, with the total cresting 3 million in September 2024 for the first time since 1990, according to USA Facts.
The current number of federal employees is 2.744 million, the lowest since late 2014.
Finally, under Trump, people’s real income is going up, since wage increases are outpacing inflation.
Trump told the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday, “After real wages plummeted by $3,000 under Sleepy Joe Biden, real wages are up by $1,300 in less than one year under President Trump.”
Inflation is a major tax on all Americans. Just bringing inflation down to manageable levels increases affordability.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
The level of fraud in government programs is astonishing. Every day we read about another scandal involving the government’s ‘safety net.’ Many of us are wondering how much of our tax dollars are funding fraud rather than a ‘safety net.’
On Wednesday, The Federalist reported:
The ongoing scandal regarding Minnesota’s welfare-industrial complex demonstrates the extent to which government-created graft has “hidden” in front of the nation’s noses for not just years but decades. Another report released just before Christmas illustrates the depths of those fraudulent payments.
Last summer, I wrote here about a report by Louisiana’s legislative auditor highlighting nearly $10 million in Medicaid payments that state made on behalf of deceased beneficiaries between February 2019 and last March. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most recent report shows that this type of government waste and abuse — or, depending on one’s perspective, fraud by insurance companies, who receive payments for “covering” dead people — occurs with regularity nationwide.
The report came from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) and covered payments made to Medicaid managed care organizations from July 2021 through June 2022. The report arises because in most (but not all) cases, state Medicaid agencies do not directly administer benefits (i.e., pay doctors and hospitals who treat beneficiaries). Instead, they contract with managed care organizations and pay insurers a capitated (i.e., per-person) amount every month for that coverage. That dynamic represents a clear opportunity for fraud: If no one reports the beneficiary as deceased, the insurer will get paid to “cover” that person indefinitely.
The article notes:
A footnote in the report demonstrated how this type of abuse is a choice that states consciously make. OIG noted that “Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming had no capitation payments with a service date after the month of the enrollee’s death.” In other words, these six states all imposed proper safeguards to ensure that Medicaid dollars did not go to dead beneficiaries, while 35 other states did not, leading to the improper payments. (The remaining states did not have significant amounts of capitated payments to managed care organizations and therefore would not face this type of fraud.)
It’s time for all states to put in place laws that protect taxpayer money. The government should not be paying money to dead people!
The Quiet Impact Of Deportations
On Thursday, Zero Hedge posted an article about one of the less-mentioned results of deporting illegal aliens.
The article reports:
Democrats entered 2026 confident they could make “affordability” the rallying cry that would win back suburban voters and propel them back into the majority. But an inconvenient political twist has upended that plan: Donald Trump is the one actually delivering on affordability – and doing it in ways his opponents are almost certain to despise.
The foundation of this shift is the administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigration. ICE deportations under Trump have sharply reduced the number of illegal migrants in the country – which, according to the White House – is easing the enormous housing demand that exploded under Joe Biden thanks to his open borders policies.
In short, rents and home prices in many major metro areas are becoming more affordable. Though we would of course note that correlation is not necessarily causation.
It’s called the law of supply and demand. If there are more people than houses available, the price of housing goes up. If there are more houses available than people who want them, the price goes down.
The article concludes:
Falling rents, rising wages, and higher labor participation are giving younger voters something they’ve struggled to find for years: a sense of stability. Lower immigration is also contributing to reduced crime and drug deaths, further tying economic security to Trump’s immigration policies.
And then there’s the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the administration believes will play a huge role in giving Americans the relief they’ve been craving. The legislation aims to lock in lower individual and corporate tax rates, expand full business expensing, and let voters see more of their paychecks. The administration describes it as a direct strike on the cost-of-living crisis.
Other key provisions include higher SALT deduction caps for homeowners, no tax on tips and overtime, and a modest expansion of charitable deductions. Seniors will also see new tax breaks on Social Security income. Buyers of U.S.-made vehicles would get fresh incentives. Each piece will show that while Democrats talk the talk on “affordability” the GOP walks the walk.
Democrats built their midterm plans around the assumption that they could own the affordability issue. Trump is instead redefining it on his terms: fewer migrants competing for jobs and housing, stronger wages, cheaper rents, and more disposable income. Republicans hope that by the time voters head to the polls, “affordability” may no longer be a Democratic talking point. And it might just work.
Illegal aliens working ‘under the table’ drive American wages down, and illegal aliens drive rents and house prices up. At some point the unions and others who support Democrat policies are going to realize that they are hurting themselves.