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This is the Brezhnev Doctrine

How Irreversible Gains Are Engineered—and Now Defended Through Nullification In a Sunday morning post on X, @Geiger_Capital captured the asymmetry that has defined American immigration politics for years: "One President can open our nation’s border and purposefully mass release millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country. But the next President can’t remove them without obstruction, riots and legal hoops. If it continues, we have no sovereignty." One President can open our nation’s border and purposefully mass release millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country.But the next President can’t remove them without obstruction, riots and legal hoops.If it continues, we…

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Minnesota’s Confederate Revival

The South Rises Again in the North I never thought I would live to see the Confederacy rise again in the North. Never in my life did that enter my wildest imagination. Yet here we are in January 2026, watching Minnesota-deep-blue, progressive Minneapolis-pull straight out of the 1830s Nullification Crisis playbook. Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey are openly defying federal supremacy, refusing to honor over 1,360 ICE detainers for criminal aliens, stonewalling cooperation so federal agents must conduct high-risk arrests alone, and then crying “occupation” and “brutality” when self-defense shootings occur amid armed resistance. It’s nullification doctrine rebooted: state…

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The Bait-and-Switch Democrats

The Long March of Governing Radicals As we kick off 2026, Ben Domenech's sharp-eyed piece in the New York Post yesterday nails a timeless truth in American politics: Democrats who run as level-headed moderates too often reveal their true progressive colors once they're sworn in. Take the freshly minted governors Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey. The media fawned over them as "moderate women" with bipartisan creds-The New York Times and Washington Post practically crowned them as the sensible future of the party. But Spanberger's agenda? Dismantling state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, scrapping mandatory minimums for…

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From the Sidelines to the Senate

Why Minnesota's Chaos Will Upend the 2026 Senate Race Picture this: Michele Tafoya, the sharp-eyed NFL sideline reporter who's stared down Super Bowl chaos for decades, steps into the political arena with a promise to "restore sanity" to a state unraveling under Democratic rule. At 61, she's no career politician-she's a four-time Emmy winner who's mastered high-stakes environments, now turning that grit toward Washington. Her launch video cuts straight through the noise: families crushed by skyrocketing costs, schools failing kids, and a leadership vacuum begging for real results. In a state that's elected wrestlers and comedians to high office, Tafoya's resume…

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The Post-War Era is Done

How Trump Is Locking In America's Next 50 Years The post-war era is over. We are now in a pre-war phase, and President Trump is actively preparing for it. This is not alarmism or speculation about inevitable global conflict. It is an observation grounded in the pattern of decisive actions taken in the first year of his second term. The strategy is clear: secure American primacy for the next 50 years by controlling critical resources, denying strategic assets to adversaries (China, Russia, Iran), neutralizing existential threats, enabling regional stability on American terms, and projecting overwhelming strength that deters rather than invites…

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An Offer They Won’t Refuse

Why US Control of Greenland Will Save NATO from Europe's Own Weakness As the World Economic Forum opens in Davos, the transatlantic conversation is not about climate models or AI ethics. It is about Greenland. President Trump has escalated tariffs on eight NATO allies-Denmark, Germany, France, the UK, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Finland-unless a path opens to American control of the world’s largest island. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has made the position crystal clear on the sidelines: the United States will not back down, because Europe projects weakness while America projects strength. As I have said repeatedly on X and in…

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The Left’s Failed Uprising

The Left's "George Floyd 2.0" Play Burns Out Let’s cut straight through the noise. The activists trying to turn the January 7 ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good into a nationwide uprising—the so-called “George Floyd 2.0”—are watching their playbook collapse in real time. They’re hoping for the same spontaneous, multi-city, months-long firestorm we saw in 2020. It’s not happening. And the proof is overwhelming when you look at the three pillars that bury this effort for good. The Democrats want you to believe the next civil rights struggle is here: ICE is the Gestapo and all good Americans must defend illegal…

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Trump’s Greenland Gambit

Echoes of the 1990 Budget Brinkmanship in "The Art of the Hemisphere" In the high-stakes arena of international relations, President Donald Trump's recent tariff threats against eight European nations over Greenland bear an uncanny resemblance to a pivotal domestic fiscal showdown from over three decades ago. Just as House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski dangled a politically toxic proposal during the 1990 budget negotiations to force President George H.W. Bush to concede on tax hikes, Trump is wielding economic leverage to compel Europe-particularly Denmark-to yield on a strategic asset. This isn't mere bullying; it's a calculated play in what I've…

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Beyond the Face of the Weak

A Dialog on Reason and Mercy in the Renee Good Discourse My previous column asked readers to see Renee Nicole Good not as a symbol to be weaponized, but as a vulnerable human caught in the crossfire of distorted filters and escalating chaos. Inspired by Kira Davis's "The Face of Renee Good, and What It Taught Me" (Substack, January 13, 2026), it was, at its heart, a call to shepherd the weak-those whose inner convictions bend only when external rewards shift-away from the tyranny of evil men who profit from confusion, manipulation, and outrage. Today, as the January 7 tragedy continues…

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Minnesota Throws Hail Mary at ICE

How Federal Plenary Power Dooms Minnesota's Complaint In Minneapolis, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have filed an 80-page complaint against the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge. The suit-State of Minnesota et al. v. Noem et al.-frames the deployment of roughly 2,000 DHS agents as a "federal invasion," complete with "militarized raids" and political payback. It's bold, loud, and almost certainly doomed. From an originalist standpoint, this is another round of blue-state resistance that will hit the brick wall of federal supremacy. The Constitution's text and history allocate immigration authority squarely to the national…

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