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The following post features the TRANSCRIPT of a 2 min video clilp from the House Oversight committee meeting on January 7, 2026, investigating Somali fraud in Minnesota.https://x.com/ksorbs/status/2023510195247140995 Feb 16, 2026~~~~TRANSCRIPT BEGINSRep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas): Mr. Ballou, again thank you for being here. Let me ask you, does large scale Somali immigrationMake Minnesota stronger or weaker?Brendan Ballou (former DOJ Special Counsel): Certainly stronger.Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas): Certainly stronger. Do you know what percentage of Somali headed housholds in Minnesota are on food stamps?Brendan Ballou: No.Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas): 54%. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota headed households?Brendan...

NATO has a huge problem that will take decades to overcome. Put most simply, the armor vehicles NATO has won’t survive in a firefight with the Russians, notwithstanding the fact that Russian armor is far from the best. Russia has demonstrated in Ukraine that in conventional warfare it can knock out some of NATOs best tanks and decimate Western armored fighting vehicles like the US Bradley and the German Marder. NATO does not have enough tanks, does not have sound logistics to support them, and faces significant problems coming up against modern Russian ground forces. The Leopard tank has performed...

It is nothing short of amazing to see how far movies have evolved since their earliest days to today. Movies at their earliest inception were state of the art, impressive spectacles that people dressed up for and flocked to see, for a fraction of the cost of attending performance-based arts like plays, concerts, and vaudeville acts. When silent movies came on the scene, the art of storytelling entered a new age, an age that, if done right, would have an impact that would be frozen in time, and become immortalized. Very few films from the silent era have high profile...