Congress
July 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Commie Corridor isn’t just a New York congressional district. It’s the throbbing heart of the Democratic Party. In a Colorado primary yesterday, DSA member Melat Kiros handily defeated 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in the Colorado’s 1st District. The district covers metropolitan Denver. Kiros handily defeated DeGette, by nearly 10 points with 93 percent of the vote counted. It’s a Democratic district — D+29. Minnesota’s 5th district, represented by Ilhan
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June 8, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee released a comprehensive report on fraud in Minnesota. The headline from the committee’s press release, Oversight Committee Releases Bombshell Report Exposing Rampant Fraud Plaguing Minnesota’s Taxpayer-Funded Social Programs. The report itself runs some 205 pages (including appendices) and makes five key findings. You will not be surprised by Finding No. 1, Finding #1. Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison Knew about Widespread Fraud
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May 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Tom Brown’s famous translation of one of the Roman poet Martial’s epigrams begins: “I do not love thee, Doctor Fell / The reason why I cannot tell.” Brown himself might have trouble rhyming the name of New Jersey Democrat Dr. Adam Hamawy in a couplet. However, Dr. Hamawy’s patients have had no trouble explaining why they do not like him. Dr. Hamawy, you may recall, is the congressional candidate who
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April 30, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From Politico, Trump signs DHS legislation, ending record-breaking shutdown. Record-breaking? Politico reports, After more than 10 weeks, the president’s signature restores funding to the Coast Guard, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with other sub-agencies that don’t touch immigration enforcement. What about those sub-agencies that do touch immigration enforcement? The Hill newspaper reports, ICE and border enforcement, though, still remain unfunded. Republicans are seeking
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April 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I confess that I don’t recall having heard of Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who resigned from Congress today. The New York Times explains: Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Florida Democrat charged with embezzling $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency money, announced her resignation on Tuesday, just minutes before the House Ethics Committee had been set to vote on whether to recommend that the House expel her. The Ethics Committee had found her
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April 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn
No, really! The celebrity gossip platform TMZ took notice of Ilhan Omar’s ridiculous 3,500 percent accounting error under the headline, My Accountant Made Me Rich on Accident!!! As you will recall, the Wall Street Journal first reported on the story where the Minnesota congresswoman blames her accountants for reporting that she and her (third) husband, Tim Mynett, were worth up to $30,000,000, when their combined net worth tops out at
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April 13, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, Swalwell to resign from Congress amid sexual assault allegations. In my decades of observing the political scene I don’t think I’ve witnessed a swifter and more complete fall from grace. From memory, I think that even Rep. Anthony Weiner hung on longer than this guy. “Grace” isn’t quite the word. I don’t recall ever hearing about the guy before his dalliance with that Chinese spy (Fang
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March 29, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, Top House Democrat on Biden immigration policy: ‘We should have the border more secure than it was’ More secure than what? More secure during the Biden Administration. The Democrat quoted is Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), appearing on the Fox News Sunday morning talk shows. The Hill quotes Rep. Smith, The Biden administration did not do immigration enforcement the way it should have. We should have [had]
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March 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appears to have lied to the United States Senate in testimony he gave last month before the Senate’s Homeland Security committee. The occasion was a February 12 committee hearing at which Ellison appeared to discuss the subject of ICE operations in Minnesota The untruthful testimony from Ellison involved a different issue, namely, $10,000 in campaign donations received by Ellison from figures linked to the Feeding Our Future
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March 17, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K Daily Mail, The two enormous airports plunged into travel hell by ongoing TSA staff shortages and nightmare spring storm. The two airports are Houston’s Intercontinental (IAH) and Florida’s Ft. Lauderdale (FLL). The latter, of course, is a big spring break destination. The Daily Mail reports, Frustrated passengers dealing with delays in Houston, Texas, have now been given cots to sleep on, while others in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
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March 15, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, Airline CEOs ask Congress for TSA agents to be paid during shutdown. “Congress” isn’t the problem. Senate Democrats refuse to put up a handful of votes so that TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, and a handful of other agencies under the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) can get their budgets approved through the end of September. The Hill reports, A group of 10 airline CEOs sent
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March 4, 2026 — Bill Glahn
There are probably fewer than 100 people in America who would understand the importance of a 47-second exchange during today’s marathon 4-hour and 20-minute U.S. House Oversight committee hearing at the capitol. But the brief sequence gets to the heart of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s nonfeasance/misfeasance/malfeasance in regard to the multi-billion-dollar welfare frauds plaguing the state. Today’s committee hearing was headlined, Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds
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February 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In a new column at his own site, Professor Jonathan Turley takes up the case of Rep. Ro Khanna and his “outing” the names of six men — four of whom had no connection to Epstein whatsoever — found in the Epstein files made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Khanna himself “wrote” with Rep. Thomas Massie. Proressor Turley reports that he has spoken with members who were
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February 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We must be well into the Salem witch trial phase of the Epstein file mania. Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna are deep into it. They “wrote” the Epstein Files Transparency Act. You may have heard that Khanna read a list of six names on the House floor last week while asserting that they were “wealthy, powerful men that the DoJ hid” in the files recently released pursuant to the
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February 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Day 1 of the latest government shutdown has already claimed its first victims. From The Hill newspaper, Johnson’s delegation cancellation upends lawmakers’ travel to critical global summit Following “shutdown” protocols, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled the official Congressional delegation to the Munich Security Conference. I can’t recall of hearing of this “critical” conference before today. But, maybe that’s just me. As for the ongoing shutdown, The Hill tells us
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February 13, 2026 — Bill Glahn
You may not notice it, but we will have another federal government “shutdown” at midnight tonight. Well, not all of government, just parts of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), such as the Coast Guard, FEMA and TSA. Democrats are complaining about a different part of DHS: ICE, which enforces federal immigration law. Oddly enough, ICE will hot be impacted by the shutdown, with Congress having already passed their
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February 8, 2026 — Bill Glahn
I guess we’ll have another federal government “shutdown” starting on Friday night. Except it will only impact a single federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security. And not even all of that, as I understand that ICE and Border Patrol already have approved budgets. Congress worked out a full budget covering all agencies through the end of September. Republicans have already conceded much ground on spending, and everyone on both
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