The Rules

TikTok Socialists Stay Silent on Cuba

Socialism's '93%' Myth in 2026: Stossel Fact-Checks It, Cuba's Collapse Crushes It John Stossel has made a career out of exposing economic illiteracy with facts, not slogans. His 2025 viral video "What Socialist Influencers Get Wrong (Just About Everything)" still hits like a sledgehammer. He calls out TikTok stars claiming "socialism works better than capitalism 93% of the time!", a meme directly ripped from a 1986 paper by Shirley Cereseto and Howard Waitzkin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMGNVLAKC0 That paper ("Capitalism, Socialism, and the Physical Quality of Life," International Journal of Health Services) used 1983 World Bank data to claim socialist countries beat capitalist ones…

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Fisking French

David French’s “MAGA” Smear Proves He Doesn’t Know Texas A 25-year Texas politico reads the latest New York Times lecture on Christian character, and finds the same old outsider blind spot. I’ve been active in Texas politics for more than a quarter century: knocking on doors, phone banking, running precincts, serving as a Presiding Election Judge, and watching this state transform from a purple battleground into the solid red powerhouse that keeps delivering Republican supermajorities. So when David French, the Connecticut-based New York Times columnist, parachutes in with his Sunday piece “James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray,” I recognize the familiar…

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Talking the SAVE America Act Into Law

There's a Way Forward But Does Senate GOP Have the Will? Senate Majority Leader John Thune has a point when he calls floor time the coin of the realm. Every hour spent grinding through quorum calls, dilatory amendments, and endless debate is an hour not spent on confirmations, funding bills, or the next must-pass item on the calendar. It's the same scarcity that once let Al Gore extract promises of a clean vote on the 1991 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in exchange for his support. Thune's caution is real: reviving a true talking filibuster on the SAVE…

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The Weak as Props

Alex Pretti, the Wolves, and the Need for Shepherds I. Introduction: The Pretti Incident and Shifting Narratives Last week, the nation was fed a tidy martyr story: Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital in Minneapolis, gunned down by federal agents while “directing traffic” outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue. The image was immediate and potent-an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of Trump’s immigration crackdown, his death proof of rogue federal violence. Protests erupted from Minneapolis to New York and Los Angeles. Far-left networks wasted no time seeding the narrative: Pretti as saintly victim, the…

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Let Democrats Cook

The Looming Democrat Shutdown Blunder Republicans Should Let Them Own Folks, we're staring down the barrel of another partial government shutdown this weekend, with the January 30-31 deadline looming like a Texas thunderstorm. Democrats in the Senate are digging in their heels, threatening to withhold the 60 votes needed to pass the DHS appropriations bill unless Republicans cave on so-called "reforms" to ICE-like requiring judicial warrants for arrests and detentions. It's all tied to the recent uproar over ICE and CBP actions, including that tragic shootings in Minneapolis. But let's call this what it is: political theater at its worst, and…

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Just Another Panic Monday

Watch the ICE Panic Melt in Real Time I called it on November 7, 2025, when the Panicans were losing their minds over the push to nuke the filibuster during the Democrat-caused shutdown fiasco. President Trump urged Senate Republicans to scrap the 60-vote rule and force through DHS funding and ACA fixes past Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s blockade. Weak sisters wrung their hands, warned of permanent damage, and begged for restraint. I said the Democrats were overreaching, they would cave first, and the base would stand firm. By mid-November, eight Senate Democrats crossed over, the longest shutdown in history ended…

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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 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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Shepherding the Vulnerable

Lessons from Renee Good's Tragic End In the raw aftermath of tragedy, we often reach for simple narratives-heroes and villains, victims and oppressors. But sometimes, the truth demands we look deeper, into the fragile spaces where human weakness meets manipulative forces. Kira Davis's Substack essay, "The Face of Renee Good, and What It Taught Me" (published January 13, 2026), did that for me. It sharpened my focus on Renee Nicole Good not as a martyr or a monster, but as a stark embodiment of the weak-a woman whose life and death expose the dangers of unbreakable ideological filters, the predation of…

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