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Rinse, repeatIt was obvious, at least to me, why Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, and Green Day were headlining the Super Bowl halftime show. Each of them had loud anti-ICE messages heading into the Super Bowl weekend. All of their clips went viral. Lady Gaga and her usual blithering nonsense virtue signaled over in Japan.Green Day, a band that is no longer relevant and is sponsored by Spotify, had its usual anti-Trump screeching that then went viral, telling ICE to quit their job and calling out Kristi Noem, JD Vance, etc. I don’t believe this clip is from the Super Bowl,...

We have another video masterpiece of peace and urban harmony from Chicago, otherwise known as America’s largest open-air shooting gallery. While Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to rail against ICE agents rounding up criminal illegals in his dystopian city, four gang members opened up on a rival’s car shortly after noon just across town from hizzoner. While the shooters only perforated their intended target in the butt-tocks, they did successfully kill the man’s girlfriend with their fusillade of lead. Thankfully and miraculously, the bangers with the blasters somehow missed the toddler in the back seat. Gabryel Ayers, 26, was driving the...

Just in the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of the American People that, in many cities across the country, Teachers are taking entire classes of students out of school to demonstrate against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are enforcing Federal Law by removing Illegal Alien Criminals from our midst. These mostly far-left teachers are also teaching their students about how to “demonstrate” against their own government, and how to act in ways that might injure them. Yes, that’s what Teachers, paid with YOUR tax money, are indoctrinating your children to do. Yeah, these “teachers.”...The...

Not in Britain's repertoire anymore.Well, seems that Great Mediocre Britain is continuing its slide into obscurity and irrelevance.I admit it is somewhat depressing to have a ringside seat at the destruction via self-loathing of one of the great Empires of history.If you think I exaggerate, google “British Museum” and see how much whinging, snivelling, and garment-rending British “scholars” are indulging in regarding “stolen artefacts”.Uh huh. You know what happens to “repatriated” artefacts?Museums after Islamist Douchebags get doneSo far, religious fanatics haven’t gone running into the British Museum with sledgehammers because pre-Islam artefacts are heresy. Yes! Let us tear our shirts...

If he were so inclined, I think Governor Walz could rewrite the Paul Simon song subtitled “How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission.” In Walz’s case, it would go “How I was Nancy Pelosi’d Into Submission.” The lyrics would explain how he was Nancy Pelosi’d into submission by Amy Klobuchar, or perhaps how he was Klobber’d into submission. I told the public part of the story in the Examiner column “Exit Tim Walz, stage Biden.” Walz has now folded his campaign for an absurd third gubernatorial term. To say that Walz is the worst governor in Minnesota history does not...

It is not momentous events that are the most meme-worthy. Rather, it is moments when liberals show their true colors and embarrass themselves, often in relatively trivial ways, that set meme-creators to work. This week, along with the ongoing fiasco in Minnesota, we had severel such events. The Washington Post, hemorrhaging losses, laid off a large portion of its staff, causing its newly-unemployed reporters to demonstrate outside the building. They marched in defense of the moral principle that Jeff Bezos is obliged to support them forever, no matter how much money they lose. I wonder whether some of the newly-laid-off...

A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show, raising questions about religious sensitivity on campus. Northwestern’s annual drag show included a performance featuring Catholic imagery, drawing scrutiny over how religious beliefs are treated on campus. A drag performer dressed as the Pope appeared during Northwestern University’s annual drag show on Feb. 2 at Norris University Center, performing choreography that incorporated Catholic imagery while music played for a student audience. The event was organized by the Society of Trans and Non-Binary Students and the Rainbow Alliance and promoted as a cultural experience for students, including...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos didn’t really buy the Washington Post to keep democracy out of darkness or whatever, he bought it to build influence and decided that the Resistance branding was poison in the post-woke era of the second Trump administration. His staff doubled down. So he tried bringing in editors and people from conservative British papers and Washington Post staffers worked to sabotage them. The ongoing battle over the Washington Post between its actual owner, Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest man in the world, who paid $250 million for it, and the staff, show that, at least when it...

"MAGA is as POWERFUL as it has ever been! ... What he brought into the GOP looks like it's going to last long beyond him.""The Republican base LOVES JD Vance."

This piece is premised on the book American Stasi, available free at AmericanStasi.com, and at all major booksellers. The book attempts to show that the nations of the West have all deployed East German Stasi-like ground surveillance in their communities, to monitor all the citizens, and make sure none can ever rise high enough in government to see the rampant fraud and abuse. The surveillance is most notable through its vehicular units, which follow established procedures, and which you can even see on Google Streetview, as they perform surveillance on the Google car as it moves through communities. Here we...

A man charged with assaulting U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting will remain in custody, following a ruling from a federal judge on Tuesday. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was charged last week with allegedly approaching Omar while she was speaking during a town hall and spraying her with liquid from a syringe. A lab analysis found it was likely apple cider vinegar, though that wasn’t known at the time of the incident. Court documents allege that Kazmierczak has a history of social media posts critical of Omar. In a hearing before a federal judge Tuesday, prosecutors with Minnesota’s...

Why white liberal millennials like Renee Good and Alex Pretti are the most demoralized and dangerous demographic in AmericaMillennial baizuos (Chinese term for white left) are growing old without growing wise. Their suicidal empathy is devolving into homicidal spite. They are the most demoralized and dangerous demographic in America that is radicalizing further during their midlife crisis. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were both 37 years old when they died. They put their bodies on the line for the Minneapolis theater kid communist insurrection. Walz, Frey, Ellison, Omar, BlueSky, and Signal group chats whipped them up with virtue signaling bukkake....

Actor Peter Dinklage recited a poem for 37-year-old ICE agitator Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a federal agent after hitting him with her car. “Blood blown like rose, iced wheels flinched and froze,” the Game of Thrones star said.“This is a poem by Amanda Gorman, called, ‘For Renee Nicole Good, Killed by ICE on January 7, 2026,'” Dinklage said at a recent public gathering, before reciting the poem.“They say she is no more, that there her absence roars, blood-blown like a rose, iced wheels flinched & froze,” the Shitheads star proclaimed, adding, “Now, bare riot of candles, dark...

Happy Goundhog Day

The long and winding road of Don Lemon's arrest came to an end in Los Angeles overnight. It started at Cities Church in the Twin Cities and wended through three different court venues. The end of the road came at the Grammy Awards, which Lemon apparently had been covering for his YouTube channel. What a long, strange trip it's been, indeed:The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., his lawyer said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate...

The actor revealed his thoughts on the ongoing situation during an interview with Variety at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night.“This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting,” the actor said. “We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”Esposito said the situation is all part of a “very insidious problem”...

A rough draft of a speech I think POTUS should make: My fellow Americans; just over a year ago, I was overwhelmingly elected on a law-and-order platform that included a promise to stop the invasion of our country by aliens who were allowed, and incentivized, to enter by the previous administration. I promised to enforce our immigration laws, already on the books, and this includes deportations primarily and initially focused on some of the worst, known, criminals. It should be no surprise to you, the people, that I have acted to fulfill my promise because a country without protected borders...

For many social media users, the irony was inescapable. Former President Bill Clinton, whose first term started with the bloodbath in Waco, Texas, and whose second term included impeachment on charges of lying under oath, took to social media on Sunday to weigh in on the leftist violence erupting in Minnesota. And the responses it stirred were scathing.

Back in October, Neil Young pledged to remove all of his music from Amazon. And in a recent post on the Neil Young Archives, he said he's sticking with the plan. "Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," he wrote. "The president's international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon..." Young's complete catalog and a vast archive of live concerts, studio outtakes, and concert films is available on the Neil Young Archives...