The lawman returns as Tom Homan takes the border by storm | Blaze Media

The lawman returns as Tom Homan takes the border by storm | Blaze Media: 

Donald Trump’s new border czar draws on decades of law enforcement experience and a John Wayne-style zeal.

There’s something quintessentially American about a lawman.

He is the ever-present hero in our mythology, a figure buried deep in our national psyche — like the Pledge of Allegiance or apple pie.

The Wildfire Fallout: Is the Insurance Industry on the Brink?

Watch an Anti-Trump Clown Get Obliterated by One Tweet

She, like the rest of liberal America, has zero grasp of history, which was brutally exposed with that post. Dustin Grange responded in kind to nuke her from orbit:

Lunch video-----Negative vaccine efficacy

"A higher percentage of participants who contracted COVID-19 had received at least one dose of the vaccine

Odds of contracting COVID-19 increased with the number of vaccine doses: 

Noon-toon

 

Glenn Beck recalls the exact moment he knew that Trump was truly for the people | Blaze Media

Glenn Beck recalls the exact moment he knew that Trump was truly for the people | Blaze Media: 

Glenn Beck keenly recalls the day he visited with President Donald Trump a few months after the 2020 election.

“He had a moment of humility and a moment that changed my understanding of him in a much deeper way,” he reflects.

Let us not forget!

 

Yes!!-----Trump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR

“The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period,” according to the proposal. 

“CPB grants represent a small share of the total funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), which primarily rely on private donations to fund their operations,” it continues...
...CPB President Patricia Harrison said...“The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media’s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions — all for Americans in both rural and urban communities.”...

Sanctuary cities are murder cities!

 

SNOPES KNOWS ELON MUSK DIDN’T GIVE NAZI SALUTE, WON’T DEBUNK HOAX:

Instapundit - Even Snopes, which fancies itself an objective fact-checker, refused to debunk the claim that Musk gave a Nazi salute. 

"During his brief speech — available in full on YouTube — Musk said to the crowd gathered in honor of Trump’s victory, “And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.” He then briskly extended his right hand from his heart to the crowd in front of him. He repeated the gesture for the people behind him. Then, in a moment omitted from the users’ videos, he said, placing his hand over his heart, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured, thanks to you.”[…]
We emphasize that as of this writing, Musk has not explained the gesture, nor can we read his mind to learn precisely what he intended by it. It’s possible it was a purposeful Nazi salute; it could also have been entirely innocent. The available evidence is too scant to draw a solid conclusion."

It’s really sick that at a time when the mainstream media has been raising alarm bells about disinformation, they continue to actively engage in it to serve their agenda.

• Snopes will get around to debunking this hoax sometime at the tail end of JD Vance’s first term in the Oval Office — that’s how long it took them to debunk the “fine people on both sides” hoax from 2017.
• In the meantime, as Kurt Schlichter writes: Elon Musk Needs to Sue Everybody. - Ed Driscoll

#1 This day 1978-----Player - Baby Come Back

Worth remembering. -----Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "Nobody Ever Complied Their Way Out Of Totalitarianism" | Video | RealClearPolitics

"Nobody Ever Complied Their Way Out Of Totalitarianism" -Tim Hains

During a speech this weekend at Hillsdale College, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about his anti-establishment political views:

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: I'll leave you with three thoughts:
1. Any power that government takes from the people, it will never return voluntarily.
2. Every power that government takes, it will ultimately be abused to the maximum extent possible.
3. Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism. The only thing we can do is resist.

Watch Kennedy's full speech at Hillsdale College this weekend below:

Selective "outrage" 101.

 

Miracles among flames: Religious statues SPARED in wildfires | Blaze Media

Miracles among flames: Religious statues SPARED in wildfires | Blaze Media: 

Californians are dealing with devastation after their homes have been lost to the wildfires that ravaged the golden coast — but one family noticed something interesting when they went back to look at the charred remains.

Members of the Halpin family were blessed with a sign of hope when they saw that their statues of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph miraculously survived the blazes.

Why Trump-haters need to believe that Elon is a Nazi - JNS.org - Jonathan S. Tobin @jonathans_tobin.

Anyone aware of what is being said on left-wing social-media platforms knew this was coming. 

The hope that President Donald Trump’s left-wing foes were giving up on their unhinged claims that he is a fascist and bent on destroying democracy was, at best, premature. -  Jonathan S.Tobin @jonathans_tobin. 

• So it was hardly surprising that Elon Musk’s gesture of appreciation to applause to the crowd at an inauguration celebration was seized upon as a Nazi salute and used to justify claims that the SpaceX/Tesla CEO was showing his sympathies for fascism...
• The problem this kerfuffle exposed is how willing many on the left are to weaponize charges of antisemitism against their political enemies despite not caring about the issue of Jew-hatred...

AM Fruitcake

History for January 24

History for January 24 - On-This-Day.com 

Yakov Smirnoff 1951 - Comedian

• 1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.
• 1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
• 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.
• 1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.
• 1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

Trump unleashes ICE from Biden-era limitations on nabbing illegal aliens at 'protected areas,' including churches and schools | Blaze Media

Trump unleashes ICE from Biden-era limitations on nabbing illegal aliens at 'protected areas,' including churches and schools | Blaze Media: 

"Going forward, law enforcement officers should continue to use that discretion along with a healthy dose of common sense," read the memo. "It is not necessary, however, for the head of the agency to create bright line rules regarding where our immigration laws are permitted to be enforced." Fox News reported that ICE agents told them the new rules would allow them to deport more illegal aliens because they were using the Mayorkas rule in order to avoid deportation by hiding out in churches and other "protected" areas.

The way we were-----Screaming Me Me Assault Weapon by Remco Toys

Does Turning a Computer Off At Night Keep It Safer From Hackers?

Imperialism: Lessons From History - Imprimis - Victor Davis Hanson

Imperialism: Lessons From History - Imprimis - Victor Davis Hanson

Looking outward, we can see two clear manifestations of imperialism today. 

One is the Chinese brand of imperialism. 

• China de facto now controls 15 of the major ports in the world—ports that the Chinese have leased, rebuilt, and refashioned. 
• The Chinese are very farsighted, so these ports are not just random acquisitions. They control the Panama Canal. 
• They monitor the entry into the Mediterranean at Tangiers and the exit at Port Said. 
• The two largest ports in Europe, Antwerp and Rotterdam, are in the hands of the Chinese, as are the artificial islands in the South China Sea, a gateway for 50 percent of global oceanic traffic.
• In other words, the Chinese control 15 points at which, in a global crisis, they will be able to shut off trade and access to commercial goods, oil, and food, not to mention the influence they have gained over local governments. 
• China has also invested in concessions of rare earth mining, oil, and other natural resources in Africa. 
• And due to the naive policies of the current U.S. administration, the Chinese are developing very close ties not only with Iran, but also with Saudi Arabia.

China today is creating something very much like the British Empire, although the Chinese are more like the imperialists of the Ottoman Empire than those of the British, in that they are neither apologetic nor shy about what they are doing...

The Avian Influenza Trilogy

There are many uncertainties, starting from which vaccine and its content, the effects, the apparent absence of an open competitive tendering process and the UKHSA’s refusal to disclose the cost and any risk-benefit analysis they may have carried out. - Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan 

• We focused on the difficult job of understanding the whys and wherefores of the UKHSA’s purchase of more than 5 million doses of an Influenza H5 pandemic vaccine...
• Even more worrying is the fact that TTE had sight of a response from the UKHSA indicating that the purchased vaccines are “expected” to diminish mortality...
• The fragmentation of documents and persistent stonewalling are not good signs...

New FCC chairman shuts down all DEI programs after Trump executive order | Blaze Media

New FCC chairman shuts down all DEI programs after Trump executive order | Blaze Media: 

"Promoting invidious forms of discrimination runs contrary to the Communications Act and deprives Americans of their rights to fair and equal treatment under the law. It also represents a wasteful expenditure of taxpayer resources," read a statement from Carr Tuesday. "Nonetheless, the FCC joined other private and public sector institutions in promoting discriminatory DEI policies during the Biden Administration."

Unbelievable Train Crashes Caught on Film!

"Politico"??!!-----Politico editor John Harris calls Trump 'greatest American figure of his era' | Fox News

John Harris said Trump's political opponents should face the fact that Trump is not a 'momentary anomaly' - Gabriel Hays 

• Politico global editor-in-chief John F. Harris argued in a new piece that President Donald Trump’s second victory proves that he has dominated American politics so thoroughly that he will likely be counted among the country’s most consequential leaders.

Harris clarified that he was not describing Trump as a righteous or evil character, nor was he saying that Trump has been a successful president, but he reiterated that his impact is monumental either way.

• "He is a force of history," Harris declared in his column published Tuesday...

Lunch video-----The Rise and Fall of Wokeness

Noon-toon

 

Chicago police won't assist federal agents in mass deportations under Trump's illegal immigration crackdown | Blaze Media

Chicago police won't assist federal agents in mass deportations under Trump's illegal immigration crackdown | Blaze Media: 

The Chicago Police Department vowed not to assist in any actions with any federal immigration authorities with "enforcement action solely based on immigration status." The CPD stated that it can't assist in any illegal immigration arrests because the city's municipal code and the Welcoming City Ordinance forbid them to do so.

Gotta be saluting Hitler...right?

 

EU leaders urge more defense spending amid Trump push

The EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Russia is a problem "for all of us," while adding that Trump is "right" on European defense spending.

• Poland's Donald Tusk said "if Europe is to survive, it needs to be armed."
• Top EU foreign affairs official Kaja Kallas on Wednesday issued a call for EU member states to "wake up" when it comes to defense spending.
• "Russia is not the problem for some, but for all of us. Europeans need to wake up," Kallas told the annual conference of the European Defense Agency in Brussels.
• Kallas: President Trump is 'right' on defense spending
• "Europe's failure to invest in military capabilities also sends a dangerous signal to the aggressor. Weakness invites them in," Kallas said. "There is nothing that cannot be weaponized against us today."...