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A Red Herring Narrative

The Gun Was There-So What? Focus on What Actually Happened The introduction of the Second Amendment into the Alex Pretti shooting discussion is a red herring-pure and simple-and one that hands the Left exactly the narrative gift they crave. Let’s cut straight through the noise. The facts on the ground in Minneapolis on Saturday, are still in dispute: bystander videos, witness affidavits, and the emerging court record show a licensed concealed-carry holder disarmed by federal agents before shots rang out, with no clear frame of him brandishing or reaching for the pistol in the decisive moment. The real fight is over…

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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 Subsidy Cliff That Wasn’t

How Fraud Exposed Democrat Hysteria Let’s cut straight through the noise, folks. As a voter in Plano, Texas, who’s been bombarded with Democrat doom-mongering all last fall, I’m flat-out indignant. They screamed from every rooftop about how the expiration of their precious Obamacare subsidies would hammer everyday Americans like Myrtle and Merv from Rio Linda-premiums exploding from $200 a month to over $1,000, families plunged into ruin, the whole "affordable" care house of cards collapsing. It was nonstop hysteria on X, in ads, and from every blue-check talking head. And now? January 2026 rolls in, the cliff hits, and it's crickets.…

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Tax the Fruit, Not the Branches

A Supply-Side Answer to the Deflation Warning Anthony Pompliano dropped a clear warning this week. Truflation’s real-time dashboard shows U.S. inflation at 1.21% year-over-year-down sharply, well below the Fed’s lagging 2.7% BLS print for December. He’s been saying it for months: the real threat isn’t runaway inflation. It’s deflationary pressure from weak demand, delayed purchases, and a middle class that’s pulling back. Inflation is now at 1.2% according to @truflation.For the last year I have been warning that deflation was a much bigger risk than inflation.The Federal Reserve completely screwed this up.They must cut rates aggressively now! pic.twitter.com/WZ6dpfjYS5— Anthony Pompliano 🌪…

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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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Trump’s Arctic Framework Triumph

Realpolitik in Action – Time to Read The Art of the Deal In the high-stakes theater of Davos, President Donald Trump did not arrive to play by the old rules. On January 21, 2026, after a substantive meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, he posted on Truth Social: “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.” He immediately canceled the February 1 tariffs that had been set to hit…

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A Farewell to Gabriel Barkay

The Man Who Let the Dirt Tell the Truth I’ve spent more evenings than I care to count parked in front of the TV, letting ancient Jerusalem rise from the screen like dust off a dig. That was back in the aughts, when The Naked Archaeologist aired-Simcha Jacobovici charging through history like a man possessed, and there, steady as bedrock, was Professor Gabriel Barkay. Calm. Precise. And armed with a dry wit so sharp it could cut through limestone. I laughed out loud more times than I can count, not because the man was a comedian, but because truth delivered deadpan…

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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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