Wednesday, January 07, 2026
History for January 7
History for January 7 - On-This-Day.com
Millard S. Fillmore 1800 - 13th President of the United States
- 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" was established. Two years later "SOS" became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to send by wireless radio.
- 1927 - Transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London. 31 calls were made on this first day.
- 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of Chrysler Corp.
- 1996 - One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.
- 2009 - Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged greater international involvement in the energy dispute.
Tuesday, January 06, 2026
Resurfaced Footage Shows Leftist Minneapolis Mayor Speaking Somali, Dancing and Waving Somali Flag
Resurfaced Footage Shows Leftist Minneapolis Mayor Speaking Somali, Dancing and Waving Somali Flag:
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it was surging assets into the Minneapolis area on Dec. 2 to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after the initial reports of welfare fraud of at least $1 billion emerged. Allegations that some of the stolen funds went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab prompted a probe by the Treasury Department.
Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson of the District of Minnesota announced on Dec. 18 that the amount of suspected fraud in Minnesota’s Medicaid program had reached over $9 billion.
Hilton Hotels' Hampton Inn Refusing to Accept Homeland Security Reservations; UPDATE: Hilton Responds
Well, this is awkward. - David Strom
- Hilton Hotels is refusing service to the Department of Homeland Security agents who are engaged in immigration enforcement activities in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul region...
- Hilton has a massive public relations headache to deal with.
Emmy Griffin: The Terrorists Are Inside the Gates | The Patriot Post
Tens of thousands of suspected or confirmed international terrorists have been identified within the borders of the United States. - National Security - Emmy GriffinIn fact, according to National Counterterrorism Center (NCC) Director Joe Kent, testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee on December 11, “The Number One threat that we have right now in my view is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders.”
- The NCC has identified 18,000 confirmed or suspected terrorists who entered under Biden — a number that will inevitably grow.
- Of those identified terrorists, 2,000 were flown in directly as part of Biden’s airlift operations in Afghanistan, a country from which he recklessly surrendered and retreated...
'You're confused?': Marco Rubio destroys network news anchor over 'absurd' question on U.S. capture of Maduro in Venezuela * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs
'You're confused?': Marco Rubio destroys network news anchor over 'absurd' question on U.S. capture of Maduro in Venezuela * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs:
PALM BEACH, Florida – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio humiliated CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan on Sunday concerning President Donald Trump's daring weekend capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
The Capture of Maduro and the Return of American Statecraft
History does not usually announce its turning points with trumpets. - Jim Reynolds
Not because it was spectacular—though it was.
Not because it was unprecedented—because it was not.
- But because it marked the quiet return of an older American habit: enforcing order in its own neighborhood when disorder metastasizes into danger.
Under Hugo Chávez and then Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela was not merely a failed socialist experiment.
- It became something more dangerous: a criminalized state.
- A narco-regime.
- A logistics hub for cocaine, a haven for Hezbollah operatives, an Iranian drone workshop, and a pressure valve for mass migration...
Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025 | Blaze Media
Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025 | Blaze Media:
From faculty firings to canceled speakers, record censorship efforts show campus leaders enforcing silence instead of defending open inquiry.
The fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone in 2025. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs across multiple fronts — and most succeeded.
Sooo much here, read all!-----Instapundit - BON APPÉTIT ANOINTS THE DEMOCRATS’ LATEST ‘NEXT BIG THING:’
There are few positions in life greater than being the Next Big Thing™ in the Democratic Party; you start getting ludicrously generous coverage, even from publications that are only marginally connected to politics.
- Back in 2007, Men’s Vogue suddenly put former North Carolina senator John Edwards on the cover. (An actual sentence from the profile: “The hair, up close, is peppered with tiny strands of blond. Chestnut brown and so finely trimmed, mellifluous, smooth, and feathery, it could almost be a weave, the Platonic ideal as imagined by the Hair Club for Men.”)
- Back in 2008, Men’s Health declared longtime smoker Barack Obama was one of the 25 fittest men in America.
- And who could forget Beto O’Rourke on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2019, declaring he was “was born” to be in the presidential race, with his glum-looking dog seeming to know how his presidential bid was going to go?
- Or the French fashion magazine Marie Claire putting failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on the cover in 2021?
This isn’t just garden-variety liberal media bias; these are once-apolitical publications suddenly giving laudatory soft-focus coverage of a figure, portraying him as the coolest guy ever...
How Snatching Maduro Screws Up Everyone Else's Plans - Lemme Count the Ways
I had already started wondering what the ripples - or maybe it would be even a tsunami - of aftereffects flowing from yanking this one guy out of his chair would do around the world. - Beege Welborn
- My immediate thought had turned to Cuba, as I'd already mentioned how the US oil embargo was crimping an already crappy socialist lifestyle on that God-forsaken little island.
- The importance of the Venezuelan pipeline to the Cuban communist regime cannot be underestimated. Cuba didn't buy oil from Venezuela - it was given to them.
1. The End of the "Free Oil" Lifeline
For over two decades, the single most important pillar of the Cuban economy has been the "Barrio Adentro" agreement, which saw Venezuela ship roughly 50,000 barrels of oil per day to Havana essentially for free. With the US military now securing Venezuelan ports and oil fields following yesterday's operation, these shipments have hit zero overnight. Cuba, which is already cash-strapped, simply does not have the foreign currency reserves to buy this amount of oil on the open market at global prices, meaning the island's energy supply has effectively been cut in half instantly.
2. The Loss of the "Resale" Revenue Stream...
Fascinating conversation!-----"Trump just said of tariffs, "They've made our country rich!" If some taxes make us rich, why not still higher taxes to make us richer?"
"I am talking about using the threat of tariffs to get concessions and the lowering of trade barriers in competing countries. We have not been on an even playing field for decades." - Harriett Lublin
- Kevin Gutzman: Trump just said of tariffs, "They've made our country rich!" If some taxes make us rich, why not still higher taxes to make us richer?
- Michael Spencer: Tariffs, used as a tool to repair the trade imbalances that exist today, are a net positive for our economy. If existing trade was fair and balanced, then no. But virtually all other countries erect trade barriers against us, using tariffs or other laws to excuse their barriers to free, open and fair trade....
Dan Bongino officially leaves the FBI, returns to civilian life | Blaze Media
Dan Bongino officially leaves the FBI, returns to civilian life | Blaze Media:
'It's been an incredible year.'
Dan Bongino served his final day as deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday, returning to civilian life on Sunday after less than a year of public service.
WTH??!!-----Leftist Nonprofit Cashed in at Taxpayers' Expense in the Waning Days of the Biden Administration
But now we are learning more about how little regard the Biden administration had for hard-working Americans' tax dollars, and where that money went in the year before Donald Trump returned to the White House. - Becky Noble
The Tides Center is a social justice fiscal sponsor of and is associated with the Tides Foundation.
The money came largely in the form of government grants, and because it was doled out during the Biden administration, you can guess the left-wing causes it went to...
- In 2024, tax records show that the Tides Center received a total of $37,810,397 of taxpayer money.
- It is the largest amount of government funding in a decade (up from $13,030,345 in 2014).
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