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No politician is more of an enigma than Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
For years she has been rumored to have married her brother – allegations she has called 'absurd and offensive'. Her family fortunes, steered by her white, American husband, have curiously skyrocketed to $30million.
And more recently, her Minneapolis community has been mired in shocking fraud allegations.But even more disconcerting is the question about her citizenship.
Is Ilhan Omar really an American?
Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) The cultists in the Church of Climate Change Alarmists sure are resilient for people who are convinced that we're all so fragile that the weather is soon going to kill us. Maybe I'm simplifying their message; it's difficult to pay close attention to those who are permanently in the throes of hysteria.
One of the greatest upsides to writing about politics is that I can vent my frustrations with the lunatic left and enjoy myself while doing so. The climate cultists are particularly enjoyable to mock because the aforementioned hysteria makes the poor dears so easy to trigger. One mention of "Floaty
Six years after it was founded, a rightwing party is poised to rise to power in today’s presidential election in Portugal.
No less than 11 candidates are involved in the election, making it likely that the two top candidates will have to compete in a runoff ballot next month in the likely event that no one gets over 50% of the vote.
“Almost 11 million people are eligible to vote in the election, with most results expected late in the day. The winner will replace President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has served the limit of two five-year terms.Among the front-runners, according to recent opinion polls, are André Ventura,
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent never disappoints when he makes a Sunday show appearance. That held true Sunday morning as he joined Kristen Welker on NBC News' Meet the Press. Whether the topic was Greenland or the Fed, Bessent was well prepared to address the questions Welker raised.
Right out of the gate, Welker zeroed in on Greenland, noting that both Denmark and Greenland insist it's not for sale, and asking: "What makes President Trump think it is?" Bessent emphasized its strategic value.Welker followed up by asking Bessent whether Trump is serious about annexing Greenland, or instead, using the discussion as a negotiating tactic.
What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th birthday?
America is a far different place from the nation that saw King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 at the young age of 39; different even from the country that made this a federal holiday in 1983.
Black Americans still face real inequities. Look at the huge numbers of crime victims, disproportionately black, generated by terrible progressive policies on public safety.
Or the decay of America’s public schools, once an engine of black social mobility:
Trump tells Norway PM he no longer has
obligation to ‘think purely of peace’
after Nobel snub replies
obligation to ‘think purely of peace’
after Nobel snub replies
US President Donald Trump tells Norway’s prime minister he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in a message published today.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump says in a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
The authenticity of the message is confirmed to AFP by a source close to the matter, and by Store to Norwegian newspaper VG.
Even in the heyday of the liberal democratic order, the conceit of the World Economic Forum induced skepticism: Once a year, the wealthiest, most powerful people on earth gather in a village in the Swiss Alps to devise solutions to the most critical problems in modern life. The slogan of the forum, “Committed to Improving the State of the World,” has long encapsulated the reason for doubt. People with the greatest stake in the status quo — billionaire executives who run the largest banks and technology companies — are cast as change agents, uniting with world leaders to pursue the betterment of humanity.
But this year, Davos seems especially challenged
A high-speed train derailed and hurtled into another train in Spain on Sunday evening, killing at least 39 people and leaving dozens more injured in one of the country’s worst rail disasters in more than a decade.
The train, operated by rail company Iryo, was traveling from Malaga to Madrid with 371 people onboard when its rear three carriages derailed and crashed into the front two carriages of another high-speed train traveling in the opposite direction, officials said.
The collision, near Adamuz in the southern region of Andalusia, caused both trains to overturn at speed, news agency EFE reported, with the front carriages of the second train sent plunging down an embankment.
Hotels are closing in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region because of safety concerns as tensions escalate between federal immigration authorities and anti-ICE protesters. The Double Tree in downtown St. Paul informed some guests with a notice slipped under the door of their rooms saying their reservation would be canceled as of noon Sunday. Staff would help guests find alternate accommodations, it said. “Please know that your safety and well-being will always be our top priority,” said the written communication, a copy of which was obtained by NewsNation. “We are taking this step out of care for you, our team members, and
U Visas: Another Path to Citizenship Illegal
Migrants Have Mired in Fraud and Abuse,
Report Says replies
Migrants Have Mired in Fraud and Abuse,
Report Says replies
A report claims that the U Visa program has become just another path to citizenship that illegal migrants have mired in fraud and abuse.
The program, launched by Congress in the year 2000, was meant as an aid to law enforcement and was thought of as a unique way to solve crimes in the migrant community that would otherwise go unsolved, mostly due to a lack of cooperation among witnesses and victims in that community.
The program allowed illegals — both victims and witnesses — to work with police to solve crimes by coming forward with tips and information on serious crimes. After working with police, the program allowed illegals to gain
Former Vice President Kamala Harris was met with mockery after she accepted the key to the city of Jackson, Mississippi, where the mayor also declared last Wednesday “Kamala Harris Day,” in honor of her many “accomplishments.”
The former Democratic presidential candidate, who is rumored to be mulling a second try at the Oval Office, was in the Magnolia State as part of a mammoth book tour promoting her memoir, “107 Days,” when she was honored by Jackson’s Mayor John Horhn (D). “Kamala, you don’t know what you mean to Jackson, Mississippi. You don’t know what you mean to Mississippi. You don’t know what you mean to America,” Horhn gushed,
In the days since Renee Good tried to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis and was shot and killed by an ICE officer, the liberal media has found yet another offensive word to whinge over.
“The far-right has coined a new derogatory term for white women, which has gained traction following the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis earlier this month,” reports The Independent. The objectionable term is the acronym AWFUL, which stands for Affluent White Female Urban Liberal. Another variant is AWFL. The New York Times was the first paper to report on this new “offensive” term.
“Beyond labels and name-calling,
Anti-ICE protest disrupted a Sunday church service in Minneapolis after a group of activists entered a congregation and forced worship to stop, according to footage shared online.
The incident occurred at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist Convention congregation, where protesters stormed into the sanctuary chanting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement slogans. The group alleged that one of the church’s lead pastors was affiliated with ICE, a claim the protesters repeated while interrupting the service.
Video from inside the church shows congregants visibly shaken with the service ultimately being shut down. It is unclear how the protesters obtained the information that led them to target the church.
Trump administration officials this week touted efforts to lower car prices through regulatory rollbacks and the deemphasizing of electric vehicles during a Midwest auto industry tour. "In this administration, we are rolling back what I would argue is illegal and unattainable for a fuel economy standard," U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters Friday at a Jeep plant in Ohio, The Detroit News reported.
Duffy was referring to ambitious vehicle emissions regulations put in place during the Biden administration.
Duffy added, "Thirty-five miles to the gallon for this new fuel economy standard... which is going to, I think, bring prices down and going to allow car companies to offer products
Chris Madel, a Minneapolis defense attorney and former federal prosecutor who launched a Republican campaign for Minnesota governor last month, is facing growing scrutiny from within the state’s GOP over his political donation history and the timing of his support for Republican candidates.
Madel has positioned his campaign as a no-nonsense, outsider effort focused on combating fraud, violent crime, education failures, and affordability challenges in Minnesota following years of Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party control. He has emphasized his refusal to accept corporate PAC, union, or lobbyist money and has highlighted his prosecutorial background as central to his campaign message.
Despite this messaging, campaign finance records have become a major point of contention.
Now that the nation’s attention has turned to Minnesota and its massive welfare fraud – fraud so large (referred to as “industrial-scale” by the assistant U.S. attorney, possibly as much as $9 billion) that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz felt compelled to end his bid for re-election — we should take the opportunity to investigate the possibility of a different kind of fraud.
This kind of fraud was made possible by Walz’s signature on the so-called “Driver’s Licenses for All” law, which enabled illegal immigrants in Minnesota to receive driver’s licenses from the state.
Let’s be clear about what this policy represents. It’s not compassion. It is not common sense.
“Won’t no ICE agent ever run up on me! I’ll put a hole in their chest the size of a window.” Chairman Paul Birdsong of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense said at an ICE protest in Philadelphia in a recent interview.
Armed members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense have become more visible in Philadelphia following the January 2026 self-defense shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The group appeared at anti-ICE protests at Philadelphia City Hall carrying military-style weapons, including a semiautomatic shotgun, which Birdsong displayed while advising his followers to obtain more powerful weapons than those carried by ICE.
Recently, significant policy changes have begun moving the country back toward informed consent and individualized medical care. For the first time in decades, federal health agencies are retreating from long-entrenched models of coercion and centralized control, openly acknowledging the limits of what they know. The renewed emphasis on transparency, shared clinical decision-making, and rejection of one-size-fits-all medicine should feel like a long overdue correction. (snip) Just as the federal system begins to correct course, California and other coastal blue states are doubling down on the very coercive model that failed so catastrophically during Covid -- while insisting, with growing urgency, that they alone are "protecting science."
Even after a lawyer representing Becca Good confirmed the pair were not married, news outlets and social media influencers refuse to correct the inaccurate portrayal of a "bereaved widow." (snip) Sticking with the lie that Renee and Becca were married is a critical part of the overall false narrative of their actions that day(snip)[:] A happy lesbian married couple had just dropped their young son off at school when they just happened upon an ICE operation in their community so they exercised their First Amendment rights at that moment to express their displeasure with illegal immigrant removals. But every aspect of that sympathy-promoting hagiography is untrue.
Dear Mr. Baker,
I am but one in a sea of many Americans viewed as a threat to the established order. I was once a part of that order. I helped build it. It would turn out I couldn’t survive because I couldn’t follow the rules of thought and speech that are mandated by everyone on the Left, especially those at the New York Times.
It’s personal, you see. I used to believe that if all I did was read Page One of the New York Times, I’d be well-informed. Brainwashed is more like it.
It’s easy to spot the bias now where it wasn’t before.
Democrats are feeling good about themselves right now. After some off-year election wins in 2025, they’re strutting into 2026 convinced they’re on the right side of history again. But as usual, that arrogance might be setting them up for a nasty reality check. Because one of their own—David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s former senior adviser—is waving a giant red flag.
In a New York Times op-ed titled “Democrats Will Lose in 2028 Unless They Change Course Now,” Plouffe warns that the party’s long-term future looks bleak. He says the electoral map itself is shifting out from under their feet—and unless Democrats overhaul everything, they’re heading for years of political pain.
Rep. Brad Knott: Schweizer’s ‘The
Invisible Coup’ Revelation on 1M Chinese
Votes Demands Answers replies
Invisible Coup’ Revelation on 1M Chinese
Votes Demands Answers replies
Rep. Brad Knott (R-NC) raised important questions Saturday about the Chinese infiltrating the United States to vote in elections.
Knott highlighted an article from Breitbart News’s Bradley Jaye about the “Manchurian Generation” of over one million Chinese with U.S. citizenship who could vote in the near future.
In his social media post, Knott told readers he would appreciate their responses to his questions.
“1. Why would China NOT exploit open borders; and 2. Sloppy application of birthright citizenship; in order to 3. Control millions of ‘American citizens’ who remain loyal to China?” he wrote:
Research Suggests As Many As 6.4 Million
Unwittingly Enrolled In Obamacare With
Taxpayer Subsidies replies
Unwittingly Enrolled In Obamacare With
Taxpayer Subsidies replies
Obamacare abused by brokers to sign up millions for healthcare without their consent or knowledge. As a result, insurance companies reaped windfall profits, at the expense of taxpayers. In exchange for gift cards, millions of Americans were unwittingly signed up for Obamacare by brokers who scalped their information and enrolled them in [zero premium] plans where premiums were paid by the American people, a research group says. (snip) [A]t least 6.4 million more people were enrolled in these zero-premium plans than were actually eligible. (snip) Many of the enrollees never realized they had coverage because the government paid the full premium directly to insurers (snip.)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed that Democrats would “restore most of the cuts” that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had made.
While taking part in a discussion at the Center for American Progress, Schumer received a question about what he “can do about bringing” the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) back, after DOGE came in and made cuts.
“If you look at the budget actually, we’re working on right now — and we’ll have the T-HUD budget, you know, transportation and HUD budget, we restore most of the cuts and even go higher than previous years on many of the programs that DOGE slashed,”