This headline makes me so happy

Ace: "Stephen Colbert's Ratings Hit New All-Time Low

Update: Washington Post Braces for a FIFTY PERCENT Cut in Jobs."

I think these "comedy" shows and newspapers should talk about Trump more.

The theater kids are out in force

OMG, the drama in this Boston Globe opinion piece: "ICE brought fear to Minneapolis. Now we are standing up for ourselves."

After ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good, 37, a poet and mother of three, my son called me at work. ICE had been at his high school, and he didn’t feel safe walking home. He didn’t feel safe walking in his own neighborhood. And this was before Saturday’s killing by federal agents of Alex Pretti, a US citizen. My son, who was born in Minnesota, checks to see whether ICE agents are in the neighborhood before leaving school. He can go to his friends’ houses but must stay inside. His friends recently asked him to go sledding, but he declined because federal agents can be anywhere.

This is child abuse.  Grow up.

Mobocracy in Minnesota

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.  Jonathan Turley: "Mobocracy: Democratic Politicians Compete in Race to the Bottom Over ICE Shooting."

At this point, it may not matter. Only the mob matters.  Minneapolis Brian O’Hara explained: “even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there just- there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.”

Walz has demonstrated politics of the lowest kind, stoking anger as citizens and officers alike are injured. Walz is pledging to go to court to stop further operations—a lawsuit that would be another frivolous filing. Previously, the state, including Attorney General Keith Ellison, filed to prevent the federal government from increasing forces to investigate fraud and immigration violations.

Walz, Maye, and others are following a long line of demagogues who sought to use social unrest to advance their political careers. For Walz, sending people into the streets has the benefit of not having them at home watching and reading about the growing fraud scandal in his state.

It is not a defense of democracy, but mobocracy in Minnesota.

I had no idea there was a "people are upset" loophole to enforcing the law.  This is not merely non-compliance with the enforcement of federal law - this is obstruction with Minnesota government officials urging their pawns to "put their bodies on the line."  

Extra - Hot Air: "Minneapolis Police Chief: Yes, the Mob Should Rule."  What a cuck.

More - I watched this video this morning and it's an excellent review of immigration law.  Bookmark it.

Democrats are going to shut down the government again

Townhall: "The Minnesota Shooting Involving Border Patrol Is Going to Lead to a Government Shutdown." 

Insurrection act

Townhall: "Armed Suspect Reportedly Shot and Killed During Struggle With Border Patrol." 

Hope you're happy, Tim Walz.

Can't sugarcoat it

The Wrap: "Washington Post Cancels On-Site Winter Olympics Coverage Ahead of Expected Layoffs - Managing Editor Kimi Yoshino says the decision to not send reporters to the Milano Cortina 2026 Games comes after assessing financial priorities for the year."

Flashback to one of my favorite moments:

“We are going to turn this thing around, but let’s not sugarcoat it: it needs turning around,” he said. “We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience is halved. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”

Democracy dies in cancelled subscriptions. 

She went to Vassar

Twitchy: "Some Things Never Change: Hanoi Jane Fonda Spreads Anti-American Propaganda With Stephen Colbert."

Unlike most insufferable Hollywood mooks, Jane Fonda was well-educated.  And yet still she can't resist just making stuff up and she goes on Colbert knowing there will be zero pushback.

"American citizens are being deported?"  Name one. 

The Reign of Terror in Northampton

Western Massachusetts update.  The Boston Globe has a story about the Soviet purge in the Leftist dystopia of Northampton: "The liberal Western Mass. city where the left is eating its young — and old."

When we were younger, my wife and I used to travel to NoHo regularly for the restaurants and art scene.  In the intervening years, the arts scene that used to attract top name stars has disappeared.  The restaurant scene still exists but it's nothing special (anymore) and way too expensive.  The sidewalks are dirty and full of beggars and the police won't do anything.

Now the purity tests and struggle sessions are in full swing because the Communists will not allow the slightest bit of deviation from the Party line.

Powerline on the church invaders

Powerline: "Guilty, guilty, guilty."  Now go get Don Lemon.

Update - Townhall: "Well, We Know Why Don Lemon Wasn't Charged in the Minneapolis Church Storming Incident." 

Do I have a radio?

Saw this story: "What Americans should stock up on to prepare for this weekend's massive winter storm" and one of the items listed was a battery-powered radio.

Gosh, do I still have a battery-powered radio anymore?  I used to have a camping radio with a crank on the side you would turn to charge up the battery but I don't know where it is.  Then I thought that so many electronics run off USB-recharging that batteries themselves are going out of style.

I know they're cheap and available at Walmart.  I should pick one up.

A stupid and futile gesture

Columbia Journalism Review: "The NPR and Colorado Stations That Took Trump to Court - “It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”

You can "reengineer thought" all you want, chief.  Just don't do it on my dime.

By Shepperd’s estimation, 6 to 8 percent of public radio stations will fail in the next three years—still fewer than the 15 percent he originally expected, since many stations have, in the wake of the funding cuts, experienced surges in philanthropic giving.

Oh, so you didn't need federal funding.

Only 6 to 8% NPR stations going out of business?

This is banana republic stuff

Twitchy: "Congressman's Defense of Bill Clinton During Contempt Hearing Contains ZERO Dem Self-Awareness."

These people, man.

Seeking affirmation

Hollywood in Toto: "Celebrities Can’t Stop Lying About Renee Good." - "Too often, artists cling to their ideological handcuffs to spread lies and make matters worse for the country at large. And no Legacy Media outlet will dare question them, let alone call them out." 

That's why they run to the safety of Kimmel and Colbert. 

This story cracks me up

Washington Post: "How tech billionaires spurred an exodus from California - The online campaign against a proposed billionaire tax was sparked by industry leaders that have long bashed San Francisco. It has consumed the tech world, and is driving some of the state’s richest residents to relocate."

Tax lawyers and advisers to California tech elites say clients began making hasty preparations in December, in part because of language in the proposal that would apply the tax retroactively to anyone who was a California resident on Jan. 1, 2026. (That language, tax lawyers said, is almost certain to be litigated.)

David Lesperance, a tax attorney, said that four of his clients, worth $600 billion collectively, have set relocation plans into motion — three to Florida and one to Texas. “Every one of my clients who ran the numbers [after Thanksgiving] came back immediately and said get me the hell out of here,” he said. “This is now a no-brainer.”

Hahaha - oh man.  Half a trillion dollars relocated to red states overnight.  Well, you're going to get your wish, California, of people over billionaires. 

Message received.

Always carry a knife

Hot Air: "Roving Bands of Leftist Brownshirts Attacking Random People in Minneapolis."

Where are the Minneapolis police?  Nowhere to be found as innocent people trying to live their own lives are harassed all over the city.  Always assume only you can defend yourself.

Related - PJ Media: "And Suddenly, about 100 Minneapolis cops disappeared." 

Sometimes the NYT reports things straight

New York Times: "Can ICE do that?"

How are the rules for ICE and Border Patrol officers different from those for local police? | Mike Bowman | Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Shaila Dewan, who covers policing, writes:

Federal officers enforce federal laws, and local police officers enforce state and local laws. Federal officers may perform local law enforcement functions like traffic and crowd control only if state laws grant them that power (in Minnesota, for instance, they may do so only by request, and the state is not asking). But federal officers may take action against people who interfere with their operations or assault an officer. While the Border Patrol is chiefly responsible for borders and ports of entry, ICE officers enforce civil immigration laws within the country.

They don’t need warrants to apprehend people for violating those laws if they have probable cause to believe that the person is both deportable and a flight risk. They cannot enter a private space like a home without warrants but can and do go in with local officers who have them. They do not have to advise immigration detainees of their rights. Local police, on the other hand, may arrest someone on the spot if a crime has just occurred, but otherwise they need a warrant, granted by a court, to put someone in custody.

Emphasis added.  The same article notes that two-thirds of all the illegals detained by ICE have either a criminal record or have been charged with a crime but not yet convicted. 

The minority party was allowed in these hearings

Jonathan Turley: "Democrats Fight to Keep the Insurrection Myth Alive in the New J6 Committee." 

Don't be AWFL

Sasha Stone: "Confessions of a Recovering Liberal White Woman." - "Liberal white women in the past 20 years have lived the most privileged lives of almost anyone on the planet. But even having everything somehow wasn’t enough. They needed to still feel like Thelma and Louise, like they had no other choice but to scream in the faces of the ICE agents, no other choice but to resist, no other choice but to step on the gas." 

CNN is such a clown show

Townhall: "What a CNN Host Said About Tim Walz Left Scott Jenning's Truly Aghast."

This isn't the first time that Scott Jennings has been told something true is not true.  It's gotten to the point that Scott Jennings need to bring his own iPad on the show with preloaded videos proving his assertions.  "Yes, Tim Walz did say this and here's the video."

Scott Jennings just caught Abby Phillip in a bold-faced LIE on CNN — and he couldn’t believe she was denying the truth.

Watch till the end to see the proof.

As the panel freaked out over the DOJ probing Tim Walz and Jacob Frey for obstructing federal immigration operations,… pic.twitter.com/wNcvdUmNPb

— Overton (@overton_news) January 17, 2026