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ICE agent shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis
Left and right describe the incident very very differently. For example, from the right: Dramatic video purportedly shows the moment an ICE agent opened fire and killed a 37-year-old woman who attempted to barrel her SUV into the officer’s path … Continue reading →
Neves Valente – remember him?
The killings of the Brown students and the MIT professor weren’t that long ago (less than a month), but so many events have intervened that those murders may seem more distant in time. Even the killer’s name – Claudio Neves … Continue reading →
Did Rubio and Cruz change their minds about J6?
Commenter “Niketas Choniates” asks: If Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, just to name three from the top of my head, have repudiated their earlier remarks on what J6 was and what legal consequences should happen to those … Continue reading →
Venezuela is about the oil, but not in the way the left says
Here’s an article about the Venezuelan oil industry. Venezuela’s oil is very thick and needs to be mixed with thinner oil to be usable: … [T]he oil that in the past has been used for this [thinning process] is American … Continue reading →
The US seizes tankers
Breaking news – perhaps important, perhaps not so very: The U.S. carried out operations Wednesday to seize two oil tankers linked to Venezuela — one in the North Atlantic and one in the Caribbean Sea, officials said. The U.S. European … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/7/2026
It’s been five years since J6
Time flies; things change. There’s still plenty that we don’t know about J6. One thing we do know is that the Democrats made sure their narrative of the day got cemented in people’s minds very early. Here’s Victor Davis Hanson … Continue reading →
Mamdani’s Rental Ripoff theatricals
Mamdani is staging a series of struggle sessions in which people complain about bad kulaks landlords. These events have been given the alliterative title of “Rental Ripoff” hearings: New Yorkers will be able to lament about their rental woes – … Continue reading →
Democrats on the capture of Maduro
I was wondering whether any prominent Democrats had broken ranks and praised the Venezuela operation that netted Maduro. And so of course I thought of John Fetterman, and he didn’t disappoint: “I don’t know why we can’t just acknowledge it’s … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/6/2026
Who will be the next long-term head of Venezuela?
Late last night I wrote a draft for this post, and in it I said the following: Was Maduro’s VP Delcy Rodriguez the mole? Did she cooperate to bring him down? It’s a weird thought and I doubt it’s the … Continue reading →