"National Review was unable to reach Hampton Inn Lakeville by phone and the hotel’s website is currently out of service."
"A Minnesota hotel operating under the Hilton Hotels brand canceled reservations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents earlier this month, a decision that led Hilton to cut ties with the independently owned location.
"“The independent hotel owner had assured us that they had fixed this problem and published a message confirming this,” Hilton said in a statementTuesday morning. “A recent video clearly raises concerns that they are not meeting our standards and values. As such, we are taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems.”
" 'Earlier this month, upon booking hotel rooms at the Hampton Inn Lakeville location, government agents received an email from the hotel explaining that their reservations would be canceled due to “information about immigration work connected to your name.”
"“We have noticed an influx of GOV reservations made today that have been for DHS, and are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents stay at our property,” theemail, posted by DHS, reads. “If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know and we will have to cancel your reservation.” . . .
"Yet, even after the independent hotel promised the situation would be remedied, a social media user posted video of an interaction with a hotel employee which suggested that the policy was still in effect." More...
"WILMINGTON, DE — With the successful military operation to topple the authoritarian Venezuelan government, former President Joe Biden was notified that he was being forced to pay Donald Trump the $25 million bounty his administration had put in place for capturing Nicolas Maduro.
In the waning days of his presidency, Biden increased the U.S. government's bounty on Maduro to $25 million, which the former president was informed he would now have to pay out personally to President Trump for bringing the dictator into custody.
"This is a bunch of malarkey, Jack," Biden reportedly said after being told to pay Trump. "I wasn't even the one who decided to raise the bounty. I wasn't the one in charge of any of that. I was just the president. Now, Trump gets the money. Can you believe that? The idea… that this… this… this dog-faced… the guy who… when all of the… he didn't even… didn't… anyway…"
Inside sources said Biden seemed unconcerned with being able to come up with the money to pay the bounty. "Get Hunter on the horn," Biden reportedly said. "Tell him the Big Guy needs his cut of the… his cut of the… of the… my share of the Ukrainian… the Ukrainian thing that… from that Ukrainian fella who gave us the… gave us… the stuff. Tell him to wire me some cash. Sell a painting if he has to. Tell him I need it before I go to bed at six o'clock. Breeharbingsarnit."
At publishing time, Biden had reportedly asked Trump's administration if the bounty payment could be made in the form of classified documents."
"Fraud, crime, theft, corruption, hypocrisy, gaslighting, projection, power. These are just a few of Democrats’ favorite things. They use them like they use American citizens and illegal aliens. Indiscriminately and in the service of their own power."
. . . "Where did all the moolah go? To pay for certain special interest groups and the future votes of “undocumented immigrants.” And, of course, through graft, money-laundering, and kickbacks, much of it also ultimately ended up in the pockets of “Democratic” politicians. How do you think so many ended up with net worths in the tens of millions of dollars or more in a few short years whilst making $175,000 or so annually? It’s a good — if remarkably evil — gig if you can get it. And keep it.
"The Democrat party feeds off the American taxpayer like a wolf gorging on a freshly killed carcass. It could not survive without graft of staggering proportions, with a hefty dose of cheating thrown in. It banks on Americans being too generous, too tolerant, or too ignorant to seriously push back -- all the while libeling and slandering the roughly 50% of Americans who dare to question or disagree with them. (“Racist, bigot, homophobe, misogynist, Islamophobe, fascist, Hitler!”)
"Today’s Democrats are skilled at using Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, now called Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA), in that they claim to be helping the allegedly ill, downtrodden, or “marginalized” even as they fabricate— or even deliberatelycause — the very problems they profess to be solving." . . .
"There is no version of the story in which Walz escapes culpability. He was governor while the fraud flourished. Either his administration was grossly incompetent at best, or it deliberately looked the other way — but neither possibility [jibes] with the glowing national profile that Walz has enjoyed in recent years after being catapulted to the spotlight when then-Vice President Kamala Harris tapped him to be her running mate in 2024."
Gavin Newsom
Tim Walz is a man of character, strength, and compassion. He has served Minnesota with heart and dignity. Minnesota -- and America -- is better off thanks to his lifelong public service. Wishing him all the best in this next chapter. Thank you," . . . Brianna Lyman
Minnesotans Should Own Their Fraud. . . "The scandal is pressuring Minnesota’s fully woke, fully DEI governor Tim Walz todrop his reelection bid. Walz, along with a bevy of state officials, including the fully BLM attorney general Keith Ellison and that laughingstock lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, who, around Christmas, wore a hijab to a Somali market in a show of solidarity with a community wherein massive fraud is being perpetrated, are either ideologically blinded gross incompetents or -- dare we say -- culpable in some way, which doesn’t exclude incompetence but means it isn’t the distinguishing characteristic.
"He attempted to pass legislation that would strip Jewish nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if they supported Israel. Yes, you read that right"…JPost
. . . "A strong collective of Zohran Mamdani’s core brain trust are 30-somethings or even younger Gen Zers with little to no experience in government — but long histories of radical left-wing politics, a review by The Post found.
"Mamdani’s front-runner status in the Big Apple mayoral race puts these untested youths — who variously have ties to billionaire George Soros, grew up in swanky homes and went to posh private schools — a stone’s throw from the levers of power." . . .
"This week, New York City sent a message — and for Jews, it’s chilling.
"Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and anti-Zionist State Assemblyman from Queens, just won the Democratic Primary in a landslide. But this isn’t a local political story. It’s the story of how antisemitism, cloaked in social justice language and weaponized by extremist ideologues, has gone mainstream in America. And now it's winning.
Let’s be honest about who Mamdani is — and what he stands for:
What Zohran Mamdani stands for
He has refused to condemn Hamas after its October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians, blaming Israel for the massacre on October 8, before it even retaliated.
He refused to support Holocaust remembrance legislation." . . .
. . . "In the days since Mamdani’s win, antisemites online have only grown more emboldened. I’ve seen people openly posting “The intifada has been globalized,” telling Jews to “leave New York,” and even saying “Hitler would have loved this.” This is the climate Mamdani has helped create — one where genocidal slogans are no longer fringe, but viral. Like many grifters these days, he surfs on the algorithmic waves of antisemitism." . . .
Jan. 3, 2026 — U.S. military forces capture Maduro. Within minutes, the same network activates with graphics, slogans, protests, like a switch flipped on. This wasn’t solidarity. It was a long-running relationship, tested, rehearsed, and ready.
"For the past 22 years I have watched, written about, broadcast, and cross-referenced the groups, messages, and protests by the left in Portland, Oregon. For a long time, before the Occupy Wall Street movement, I was one of the few in Portland talking about the derivations of these groups on my blog and the radio. Before the category-killing Antifa movement subsumed the anarchists and BLM activists, these groups always came from one place: the ANSWER Coalition. This anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, anti-anything-opposed-to-America organization gave cover to the wildest and most extreme groups in Portland. Earth First!, Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and anti-Semites, the Wobblies, and any group with a fist in their logo found a home in the ANSWER Coalition. Republicans were not invited.
"When ANSWER discovered I was outing them in public, they removed the individual groups from their website. Apparently, they didn't want anyone to know they were associating with terrorist organizations. But—what ho!—the group, which stands for Act Now to End War and Stop Racism, began right after the al-Qaeda attack on the United States in 2001, in fear that the U.S. would retaliate for that whole flying airplanes into the Pentagon and New York skyscrapers thing.
"Whose side are they on, anyway?
"Not yours.
"Just take a look at their last few months of activity that I screenshotted from their website:" . . .(See above and others herein) More...
"One such woman wears "Free Luigi" buttons. Another is thrilled that the song "Bread and Roses" was sung. A third strongly shares Mamdani's verbal commitment or rather promise to make the "rich" pay more for the "poor."
"This may have been among the worst New Year's of my life.
"The only thing missing was Leni Riefenstahl’s camera to capture the symbolic pageantry of this second inauguration, a record of the grandiose promises made and cheered.
"NYC's new mayor is an out-and-out Islamist even more so than a democratic socialist. This is what the Red-Green alliance looks and sounds like. On Mamdani's very first day in office, he jettisoned the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism/anti-Zionism and lifted preexisting restrictions on boycotting Israel.
"Excuse me? How will doing so improve housing and childcare in NYC? Then again, Mamdani is a smooth, ambitious, and charismatic figure--and he knows exactly to whom he is pandering.
"The loudest and longest ovation Mamdani received was when he referred to the Palestinian communities in Bay Ridge Brooklyn as if they were forgotten, under represented, or the victims of "Islamophobia" (a false concept but no matter). He failed to describe them as having been among the loudest and most visible of Jew and Israel haters in the city. What he said, exactly, was this: "Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge will no longer have to contend with a politics that speaks of universalism and then makes them the exception."
"Unless I missed it, Mamdani said nothing about the rise in attacks on Jews in our once fair city; he did mention pastrami on rye and having enjoyed lox and bagels in his formative years--as if such food is all that Judaism is about. Harmless enough. Nothing else to see here.
"But if, or rather when, the mayor fails to deliver on all his pie-in-the-sky promises, he has two ready-made scapegoats to blame and to feed to the rage of the masses: The millionaires, the billionaires--and the Jews.
"Our new mayor said nothing about the massive looting, the street- and train-based violence, or the fetid encampments that have sprung up like poisonous mushrooms. All he mentioned was something rather Orwellian about dealing with mental illness. Mamdani will "create a new Department of Community Safety that will tackle the mental health crisis and let the police focus on the job they were signed up to do." And how, Sir, do you plan such a "tackle"? Given that there are no medications or therapies that can turn around schizophrenia and other serious forms of psychiatric illness?" . . . More
More voices of young women; the same voices that cheer for the murderers of Jewish families, assaulting Jewish students attending college classes, adore Luigi Mangione for killing a father and husband.
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired academic and psychotherapist.
"So in October 2023, I reached out on social media to all the Jewish women I knew, to offer them my love and support. I looked for tiny signs from other feminists that they supported Jews, and tried to gather them together. I spoke up in feminist circles. I went to the first march (actually more of a shuffle) against antisemitism. I have never felt so welcome – or so horribly humbled and embarrassed by the gratitude Jewish women expressed for what, to me, is a basic act of humanity and feminism.
"I will stand shoulder to shoulder with Jews forever. I do not want to live in a world where Jews are not safe. Hence, I am a Zionist. I stand with Israel."
“Without landlords how to do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes],” said Humberto Lopes, founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance. “You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?,” he said.
"Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.
“ 'Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.
“ 'Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.
"Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.
"She also unloaded on law enforcement in a May 2020 rant that came during the furor over the death of George Floyd.
“ 'The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity,” she posted.
"Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, also served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign in 2025.
"She was a key player in lobbying the Democrat-run state Legislature to tighten the city’s rent stabilization laws in 2019, making them more pro-tenant." . . . More...
“Paying providers upfront based on paper enrollment instead of actual attendance invites abuse,” said Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill. “In Minnesota, we’ve seen credible and widespread allegations of fraudulent daycare providers who were not caring for children at all. The reforms we are enacting will make fraud harder to perpetrate.”
"The more the onion gets peeled back, the more it looks like the Democrat Party has been heavily invested for years in perpetrating fraud via daycare centers. First, it was the mostly Somali-operated "learing centers" in Minnesota, and, now, it looks like upwards of $19 billion in taxpayer money was sent by the Biden admin to daycare centers without first verifying that children were actually attending the centers.
"As we've learned from Nick Shirley's fantastic coverage from Minnesota, there's apparently a booming market of "ghost centers" that have the signage and the storefronts, but not so much the children. Shirley visited several centers that looked like legitimate operations from the outside, but were revealed to be ghost care businesses operating without children, despite receiving taxpayer funding for child care services.
"It turns out that taxpayers have actually been sending gobs of money to daycare centers across the country that weren't required to confirm attendance records – and it's all thanks to former President Joe Biden. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration for Children and Families, Biden implemented a series of rules in 2024 "that required states to pay providers before verifying any attendance and before care was delivered."
"On Monday, HHS announced it was rescinding the Biden-era rules and rolling back "provisions in the 2024 Child Care and Development Fund rule that weakened oversight and increased the risk of waste, fraud and abuse in federally-funded state child care — including programs now under investigation in Minnesota." . . . More
“People are tired of legacy media, they want change, and that change starts on January 26.” The California Post will be available on web at californiapost.com, in your app store, print and all social channels " . . .
"A new era of common sense and accountability arrives in California on January 26.
"That is the launch date of the California Post — the brand new, seven-days-a-week digital and print newspaper for the Golden State.
"The sister publication to the New York Post brings all the hard-charging, plain-spoken journalism of The Post to the West Coast.
"In announcing the date, California Post editor-in-chief Nick Papps said, “It’s time to hold the powerful to account and start fighting for hard-working Californians.
"“The California Post will be a game-changer across news, sports, opinion and entertainment,” Papps said." . . . More...
. . . "What I predicted was that the ruling regimes, both Iran and Venezuela, would go by the boards, and the benefits coming to everybody in America not affiliated with the Democrat Party would be manifold.
"Iran, I noted, is going to collapse on its own, mostly because the ayatollahs are so incompetent at the basic functions of government that they’ve allowed the reservoirs which supply water to the 15 million people who live in and around Tehran to go almost completely dry. And with a pretty rough drought hitting that country, they’re now talking about moving Iran’s capital and relocating — assumedly by force? — most of the population elsewhere. (RELATED: Unmasking Iran’s Hidden Footprint in the Americas)
"This is quite possibly the single most pronounced confession of governing failure in world history. Especially in light of all the money wasted by the Iranian regime on utterly idiotic things like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and a nuclear program that American and Israeli airstrikes reduced to ash last year. The desalination plants and water pipelines Iran desperately needs could easily have been built over the course of the past couple of decades, and everyone knows it. (RELATED: Trump’s Declawing of Iran Is Reshaping the Middle East)
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a back-up plan to flee the country should his security forces fail to suppress protests or desert, according to an intelligence report shared withThe Times.
Khamenei, 86, plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 20 aides and family, should he see that the army and security called on to quell the unrest are deserting, defecting, or failing to follow orders.
“The ‘plan B’ is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Mojtaba,” an intelligence source toldThe Times.
Beni Sabti, who served for decades in Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime eight years after the Islamic revolution, toldThe Timesthat Khamenei would flee to Moscow as “there is no other place for him.”
Nationwide protests triggered by economic hardships have gripped cities across Iran, including in the holy city of Qom, over the last week.
Protesters accuse anti-riot forces — made up of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Basij militia, the police and the army — of using violent means including live fire, tear gas and water cannons to suppress the demonstrations.
The forces are under the total command of Khameini, who is the supreme source of power in the Islamic republic, overruling the army, courts and media. He relies on the IRGC to enforce his bidding as a central source of power.
The escape plan will be activated should Khamenei feel his security forces are not following orders. Desertion and defection are not easily undertaken, with Khamenei protecting loyalists, controlling key appointments and their safety, according to a psychological profile of the leader done by a western intelligence agency and seen byThe Times.
But the same assessment said Khamenei was “weaker, both mentally and physically” since last year’s 12-day war with Israel. He has barely been seen in public and, notably, has not been seen or heard from during the last several days of protests. For the duration of war, Khamenei holed up in a bunker, avoiding the fate of several other high-level IRGC officials and feeding his “obsession with survival.” . . . More...
. . . "In Europe, where collectivist anti-fossil-fuels “green” policies have been enacted in the name of combating a conjured-up climate emergency, many people get dangerously cold in the winter. So far, this hasn’t happened on a large scale in America, where the climate collectivists have not been as adept in imposing their lethal program as their European counterparts. Freer markets keep people warmer in winter.
"Zero-sum thinking, which is at the heart of socialism, also has a knack for creating a frigid attitude toward one’s fellow man. When you believe that one person’s gain is another’s, perhaps your loss, you don’t view your successful neighbor with warmth. The victims of Stalin’s collectivist famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, some of whom were driven to cannibalism to survive, probably did not regard their neighbors or even their family members benevolently. Envy, suspicion, and hostility were characteristic of other places where ostensibly well-meaning rulers condemned selfishness and imposed various forms of collectivism. The death toll beggars belief. Some remain in denial about it. We can be certain that those catastrophes did not befall those tens of millions of innocent victims because they were deprived of a chance to vote on which clueless bureaucrats would administer society’s central plan, as Mamdani and his “democratic” socialist followers suggest." . . .
"If it sounds ominous, it's because it is. We Americans like to make our own destiny, chart our own course. The only "warmth" in collectivism is when we all gather around the last lump of coal, hoping it lasts through the night as our leaders take refuge in their mansions. Or the warmth that comes from the flesh of those being burned at the stake for crimes against the collective."
"Zohran Mamdani is a dangerous communist who is likely to DESTROY NYC through his dedication to communist ideology. Let’s be clear: COMMUNISM HAS FAILED everywhere it has been tried. NYC will be no different,"[Rep.Lisa McClain] asserted in a post on X."
