The Morning Report — 1/27/26

Good morning kids. Remember back in the halcyon days of Barack Hussein Obama when he proposed the creation of some kind of a domestic national security force that was to have more funding, perhaps even double that of the Defense (now War) department. Try as I might, I'll be damned if I can find an actual link to that scheme. I know I'm not imagining it, and if anyone can find it, just send me an e-mail or put it in the comments.

Update, Here is a link Obama's Civililan National Security Force, and thanks to commenter Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy!

Be that as it may, the jug-eared bastard was actually on to something, especially given the sucking chest wound to whatever is left of our Republic as founded that is Minneapolis Minnesota. Speaking of the Republic as founded, perhaps one of the jewels in its crown that made it a milestone of human societal advancement that defines the phrase American exceptionalism (that we as a people and society are the exception to the tyranny and despotism that came before us) is that of free speech and that we must tolerate even the most repugnant and abhorrent of views of our fellow citizens — also makes it one of if not its greatest Achilles heels. When the abuse of free speech leads to the kind of violence we are witnessing, it tears at the very fabric that is supposed to bind us together.

The Left is so fond of trotting out the Chestnut that "The Constitution is not supposed to be a Suicide Pact." Well, they're right about that and the longer we are forced to tolerate a political party and movement that seeks the destruction of our Republic by any means necessary, then we face the prospect of national assisted suicide if not fratricide at the hands of our supposed fellow citizens.

Along with Islam, I assert that Leftism is not compatible with an advancing, Western Judeo/Christian society. Its twisted vision of a society based on the bloody failure of Marxist/Leninist Communism/Socialism must be torn out root and branch from the American political and cultural landscape or it will be our undoing. Period full stop. A bitter irony is that those who have benefited mightily from America and free market capitalism have an enmity for both that is beyond comprehension.

Sunrise Movement is bankrolled by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. The Minneapolis hotel smashed up overnight by anti-ICE rioters was on a target list created by the Twin Cities chapter of Sunrise Movement, a radical group funded by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.Video footage shows dozens of anti-ICE rioters descending on Home2 Suites by Hilton near the University of Minnesota late Sunday night. The group used noisemakers and pounded on trash bins before turning violent—the rioters hurled items at people, smashed windows, destroyed the hotel’s façade, lit fireworks, and graffitied the building. As they attempted to force their way in, those inside were forced to use two vending machines to block the hotel’s entrance.

Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured?

What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?
. . . The broader consistent principle at stake isn’t federalism: it’s leftism. The entire political and cultural machine that has been mobilized over Minneapolis opportunistically supports wielding federal authority over states and state rejection of federal authority on immigration law only when the end result, whether state or federal, is open borders and mass illegal alien invasions.

This is true in all areas. The Left has no legal, let alone constitutional, principles, only goals. . . What this means in the broader sense is that we are not a nation of laws, but of leftists.

The Left does not believe in or follow any laws or principles other than its own politics. There is no rule of law (and certainly not of the Constitution) that applies consistently at all times. Laws are just a means to a leftist end. If a law is momentarily suited to that end, it will be upheld and suddenly trumpeted as the great pillar of democracy and all that separates us from the beasts. . . Don’t get the idea that the Left doesn’t believe in anything. It believes in a great many things. But those things don’t include the Constitution, the rule of the people, any laws that they don’t make and any limitations on their power to fundamentally transform America and the world. Everything else is transactional and disposable. . . America will either have the rule of law or the rule of leftists. That’s what this is about.

Daniel Greenfield gets totally gets it.

May God bless every bullet from every barrel of every ICE agent's weapon. May they find their mark right between the beady eyes of every brain dead zombie programmed by the Democrat Left to destroy us.

Here's to the founding of the Tailgunner Joseph McCarthy Defense of the Republic Department. Amen.

Have a great day.

On a personal note, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and my thoughts turn to my mother of blessed memory who somehow survived Mauthausen, the labor brigades and a death march before finally making it to America to become an American and indeed a truly great one! God bless the Angels who the Lord sent in the form of the GIs from the 11th Armored Division who liberated her and her family.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• What the civil war in Minneapolis is really about.
  A Nation of Laws or Leftists
  
• “I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education,” Florida nurse Erik Martindale recently wrote on Facebook. “I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
  After the post went viral, Martindale conveniently claimed he was hacked on Facebook and Instagram. Sure you were.
  The left is truly sick for threatening to deny medical care — and wishing physical harm — to people they disagree with (Do like Muslim doctors do to Jews and shoot air or rat poison in their veins - jjs)

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “If that leads to a break in the federal statute or a violation of some law, then we are going to arrest people. You cannot create a scenario that illegally entraps and puts law enforcement in harm’s way.”
  FBI Investigating Minnesota Anti-ICE Signal Chats
  
• Several key organizers of DRUM’s pro-Mamdani get-out-the-vote operation have close ties to the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party—a radical socialist political party in Pakistan widely considered a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
  Mamdani-Allied, CCP-Linked Activist Group is Training Anti-ICE Rioters.

• “This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,” Vance wrote in a social media post . . .
  JD Vance: ‘Engineered Chaos’ in Minneapolis Is Consequence of Leftists Working with Local Officials
  
• Sunrise Movement is bankrolled by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation
  Minneapolis Hotel Smashed by Anti-ICE Rioters Was on Soros-Funded Group’s Target List

• Trump: “[Walz] is happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!”
  Trump, Walz Have a ‘Very Good Call’ Regarding Minnesota Violence

• The Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) arrested three protesters on Friday at the Whipple Building in Minneapolis for alleged obstruction of legal process, unlawful assembly and public nuisance, an MSP spokesperson told the DCNF. They were released with citations. The agency also arrested one person on a riot charge in the area of 26th Street and Lyndale Avenue on Saturday.
  Minnesota Cops Surrender Entire City Blocks To Lawless Rioters
  
• Kyle Wagner called on his followers to "Get your f*cking guns, and stop these f*cking people."
  Crossdressing Antifa Leader Who Incited Violence In Minneapolis Kicked Off Venmo, Instagram

• Law enforcement loses legitimacy the moment officials indicate they’re unwilling to engage in it because of political opposition — even when that opposition is fatalistic.
  Democrats Are Willing To Die To End Deportations. That Can’t Stop Law Enforcement
  
• But where Obama truly goes off the rails is in his appeal to Trump administration officials to “… start finding ways to work constructively with Governor Walz and Mayor Frey.”
  Obama, Clinton Statements About Minneapolis Reveal Democrats’ Midterm Playbook

• Minneapolis chaos followed leaders’ inaction on a costly fraud probe, with anti-ICE rhetoric fueling tensions that spiraled into violence, National Guard deployment, and lost lives.
  Peace in Minneapolis Won’t Come From Stoking the Fire
  
• The saddest thing about this is that the Republicans will work with the left to ensure their victory.
  Minnesota Shows Why the Left Will Win America’s 2026 Civil War
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• Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat, the agency posted on its Facebook page. The arrest was announced at 9:31 p.m. Eastern time, hours after Libs of TikTok posted the videos on X earlier Sunday evening.
  Police Charge West Virginia Librarian For Allegedly Recruiting People To Assassinate Trump

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

• Separate from any criminal investigations by the FBI, which has primary jurisdiction to investigate shooting incidents involving federal agents, the actions of Border Patrol agents who use force while performing their duties are measured administratively against the strict standards contained in the current CBP Use of Force (UOF) policy. Border Patrol agents receive months of use-of-force policy training, both at the U.S. Border Patrol Academy at the start of their careers and on a recurring basis throughout each year of employment.
  Analysis: Border Patrol Agents’ Actions in Minneapolis Shooting Will Likely Fall Within Agency’s Policy
  
• Many of the illegal immigrants detained in Minnesota, in the face of fierce resistance from Democrats and anti-ICE activists, are criminals with convictions for offenses including homicide, child rape, and drug trafficking. The National Pulse has found many examples of dangerous offenders who are in the U.S. despite having been issued final deportation orders as long ago as the 1990s:
  GET THE FACTS: Here’s Who ICE is Arresting and the Left is Protecting in Minnesota.
  
• As the president sends Tom Homan to Minneapolis, sources tell The Daily Wire Kristi Noem "lost control and never knew what she was doing."
  Inside The Trump Administration’s Growing Divide Over Mass Deportation Raids

• The move mirrors the party’s ill-fated embrace of the Defund the Police movement
  Potential 2028 Democratic Hopeful JB Pritzker Joins Squad Radicals in Call To Abolish ICE

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• The biggest Somali fraudster of them all?
  BRO-FO Ilhan Omar’s Sudden Good Fortune Now Being Investigated

• A whistleblower speaks out on the department’s incompetence and negligence.
  Minnesota DHS Employee on Welfare Fraud: “This Is Real”

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• If the red state’s new projects become white elephants, taxpayers will be the ones to pay the price.
  Texas’ $8 Billion Convention Center Gamble

• The lower chamber passed two bills on Jan. 22, providing $1.3 trillion in funding for seven government departments. The bills also included billions of dollars in earmarks — projects in members’ congressional districts — a practice that the Republican Conference rejected for a decade.
  Republicans Splinter Over Billions Some Sneaked Into Bills To Fund Their Pet Projects

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• What would the world be like without Islam?
  ‘Without Muslims, Europe Would Be Centuries Behind’

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Waleed Shahid advised AOC and Jamaal Bowman before joining Mamdani's mayoral administration
  Mamdani ‘Economic Justice’ Appointee Blamed Israel for Oct 7 Attack and Defended ‘From the River to the Sea’ Slogan in Since-Deleted Posts

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Jack Smith doesn't like it when the spotlight is turned on him. 
  Jack Smith: The Three-Time Loser

  
  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Sorry, but I will never apologize for enjoying the implosion of a newspaper that 1) hates me, 2) pretends to be objective in order to further the left’s fascist agenda, and 3) has relentlessly spread misinformation and disinformation.
  Staff Melts Down as Serial-Lying Washington Post Faces ‘Massive Layoffs’

• BBC News reports that the EU’s executive body announced the investigation following similar action taken by the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom earlier this month. The probe centers on whether X has violated provisions of the EU’s Digital Services Act in its oversight and management of the Grok AI tool’s image generation capabilities.
  European Commission Opens Investigation into Elon Musk’s X over AI Deepfake Scandal
  
• Polling tells a different story from common media coverage.
  What the Polls Reveal -– and the Media Conceal
  * * * * *

• AI cannot add anything to the information it has. It might be able to compile that information well, but its analysis is always going to be limited because it has no true creative spirit. It is merely a software program, albeit a very sophisticated one.
  “AI isn’t getting smarter. We are getting dumber.”

  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Where are the obligatory mention of “climate change” as the cause.
  Notice Anything Missing From Those Winter Storm Stories?
  
• The record‑breaking storm exposed the Northeast’s fragile energy infrastructure, highlighting how political resistance to natural gas pipelines has left the region dependent on costly oil and vulnerable to future cold‑weather crises.
  Snowmageddon 2026 Sparks Appreciation for the Reliability of Energy From Coal, Oil
  
• Making China richer and America weaker.
  How China Sold America the Wind Turbine Scam

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The National Environmental Education Foundation Receives Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Each Year
  Government-Funded Activist Group Teaches Kids US Is ‘Occupied’ Territory and Offers Tips on Dealing With ‘Climate Change Emotions’
  
• Let’s hope blue states will jump on the bandwagon, too.
  Red States Have Many Wins to Celebrate for National School Choice Week

  ABORTION

• HHS issued a Notice of Violation to Illinois on Jan. 21, informing the state that the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found the state’s Senate Bill 1564 in violation of federal law. The Illinois law mandates pro-life healthcare professionals, against their moral and religious beliefs, refer patients for abortions — a law HHS contends violates the Coats-Snowe and Weldon amendments. Those amendments prohibit government entities receiving federal funds from coercing healthcare professionals and organizations into referring or facilitating abortions.
  HHS: Illinois Law Forcing Pro-Life Doctors to Provide Abortion Referrals is Against Federal Law

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Reps. Kweisi (Modo) Mfume (D-MD) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced Friday their re-introduction of legislation to limit the online sale of ammunition.
  More Restrictions: Democrat Reps. Push Bill to Limit Online Ammo Sales

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Moore says he's 'too busy' to verify his unproven academic claims
  Wes Moore Says He Won't Waste 'A Second' To Find His Missing Thesis as Oxford Refuses To Confirm He Was Ever a Doctoral Candidate (Which/Witch Doctor - jjs)

  POLITICS

• Newsom proves once again that he is a national embarrassment.
  California’s ‘Sparkle Beach Ken’ Fizzles Out at Davos

• That may be what Virginia chose, but it is not what Virginia got. It was all a lie. 
  Abigail Spanberger's leftist pivot in VA shows there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat

  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• As Iran reels from protests, Tehran and its proxies warn of escalation across the region.
  Iran, Terrorist Allies Threaten U.S. Carrier Fleet Headed To Middle East
  
• The first among an expected flood to follow.
  High-Ranking Iranian Diplomat Defects

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Prime Minister Netanyahu: “We have returned the late Ran Gvili, a hero of Israel. There are no more hostages in Gaza.” 
  Israel Recovers Body of Last Remaining Hostage, Ran Gvili, in Gaza Covert Operation

• The war with Hamas has no end. (because the war is with ISLAM - jjs)
  Former Hostage Eitan Mor on Hamas: ‘They Are Obsessed With Us’

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Greenland belongs to the North American tectonic plate, and its population is predominantly Inuit.
  ‘Just the Facts, Ma’am:’ The Vital Importance of Greenland for U.S. Defense
  
• This lingering permissiveness towards China not only in the State Department, but also across American institutions, is one of the most important reasons why Trump’s Greenland bid, as well as his general tough-on-China stance, matters.
  Trump’s Greenland bid is a step in the right direction to curb the CCP’s influence – but there’s a long way to go
  
• Carney suddenly makes a U-Turn.
  Trump Threatens Canada With 100% Tariffs if Carney Concludes Deal With China
  
• "For the first time in history, you will have the Americas free of communism, dictatorship, and narcoterrorism," she said. Machado has long held the view that if the Nicolás Maduro falls, the dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua will follow. 
  Trump's Berlin Wall Moment?
  
• An antisemitic act that is a strong predictor of future danger in a community is cemetery desecration. In Manchester, for example, attackers defaced 100 graves in 2005 at a Jewish cemetery in the heart of the city’s Orthodox community. In a report on another attack on a Jewish cemetery in London a week later, The Guardian said it was the 117th attack on a Jewish cemetery in 15 years. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the last. In 2014, vandals attacked another Jewish cemetery in Manchester, covering it with anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas. In 2016, attackers smashed 14 headstones at the same cemetery. Against the backdrop of such attacks on Jewish cemeteries, Jewish groups are condemning the attack on the Jewish section of Les Corts graveyard in Barcelona this past weekend. Over 20 graves were desecrated.
  Is It Time to Offer Spain's Jews Asylum?

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• This source specifically pointed to how Trump sent Ratcliffe down to Venezuela just 12 days after the daring mission in which U.S. forces captured now-ousted leader Nicolas Maduro. Ratcliffe met with acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez, Trump’s highest-ranking and first Cabinet-level official to visit the nation since Maduro’s capture.
  Exclusive — Trump’s ‘Quiet Hammer’: How CIA Director John Ratcliffe Has Revitalized Spy Agency in President’s First Year Back

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• In other words, this is another hardware-poor NASA project. What they build is what they have. No time or money for testing of prototypes.
  Dragonfly’s rotors complete testing for Titan mission

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The rapper took out a full page Wall Street Journal ad to apologize for his antisemitic rants.
  Kanye West Apologizes For Antisemitism: ‘I Lost Touch With Reality’
  
• Christian Toto: Guy Hochman's indoctrination attempt mostly ignored, but he's far from alone
  Kimmel’s Free Speech Army Silent As Jewish Cancellations Spike
  
• The pro-family establishment’s half-measures on the LGBT agenda only accelerate cultural decline, while real reform demands total resistance and no compromise in schools.
  How the Pro-Family Movement is Failing in America

  
  HITHER & YON

• While the reason for the Arnold and Itkin-connected jet being in Maine remains unknown, it is notable that immigration is a major field of practice for the law firm, and Maine has seen significant U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the last two weeks.
  Private Jet Belonging to Immigration Attorneys and Dem Mega Donors Crashes.
  
• Such art is rare in life. When it arrives we should never dismiss it, but enjoy it to the fullest. Sadly, modern culture too often now treats the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein as passe and overly sentimental, a very unfair criticism illustrating more the ignorance and close-mindedness of the critic than anything about the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
  Such art is rare in life. When it arrives we should never dismiss it, but enjoy it to the fullest. Sadly, modern culture too often now treatsthe musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein as passe and overly sentimental, a very unfair criticism illustrating more the ignorance and
  close-mindedness of the critic than anything about the work of Rodgers
  and Hammerstein.

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