TODAY'S NEWS, January 8-9, 2026
- Larry Schweikart
- 3 hours ago
- 6 min read
HEADLINES: Minny ICE attacker shot; US economy starts to rock; NJ has stunning bad news for DemoKKKrats
THE NEWS OF TODAY IS THE HISTORY OF TOMORROW
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Just getting started but MN state government (guess who, ultimately?) blocked investigators looking at the Skinny Minny fraud and blacklisted whistleblowers. New info today says Gheyboy's gubment threatened to come after their families and their homes. Who would ever want to work for this hideous, vile, evil snotbag of a state? And as many have prophesied, the violence will only increase because DemoKKKrats are out of options. Yesterday, Border Patrol shot two people in Portland. The leftoids' reaction? The Prancing Gheyboy Tampon Timmy announced that he was authorizing the call up of the national guard to protect police to "keep the peace." Watch: This will become a George Wallace in the school house door moment if they in any way obstruct ICE or federal agents: Trump will then have authority to nationalize them. Stupid move by the Tamponed One. And Congress? Yeah, they're so effective. Cong. Anna Paulina Luna has subpoenaed billionaire Neville Singham, who is flagrantly funding anti-ICE. Oh, and Renee Good, the dysfunctional woman who tried to run down an ICE officer and paid for it? She was an official "ICE watch" records show, officially aligned with anti-ICE terror groups. Sorry, no sympathy here. Then we have Scott "Hamilton" Bessent, who shut down all further Skinny transfers to the homeland.
2) I'm getting to be so right, so often, it's almost boring. I said that the Skinny Minny fraud would be found in MANY states, especially blue states. Welp, here is Washington State weighing in, with an audit showing $1.8 billion missing from King County. And here a NY state health program, riddled with fraud.
3) To no one's surprise, then, J.D. Vance rolled out a new assistant AG dedicated strictly to this kind of fraud and based in the White House, not the DOJ.
4) Saying that "we knocked out" all the drugs coming in by water, and now he will authorize strikes in Me-hee-co on the cartels. Wanna bet Scheinbaum suddenly finds the cajones to do the strikes herself? Again, though, this is concerning. Ol' Woody Wilson sent Blackjack Pershing and George Patton after Pancho Villa into Me-hee-co and they failed. Course, they were just running, as opposed to having large, stationary targets.
5) NJ has lurched far to the right as the latest voter registration there shows Rs gaining a whopping 44,000 on Ds. I know, I know, I repeat myself, but this is happening in EVERY SINGLE STATE WE CAN TRACK. In almost two years, the ONLY brief periods in ANY state where there has been a D "recovery" has been in PA and NJ during DemoKKKrat primary season. Both have lost all those gains. TX, which does not register by party, has handed over its full voter rolls to the feds, as per law. Ooh, and another D is leaving the house, making the number Rs -30, Ds -24 and growing.
6) Here is another reason Congress's approval is swirling the toilet bowl. When they do act, they do incredibly stupid stuff like extend Obamacare rather than kill that, er, witch.
7) There are Kollyfornia calls for Trump to federalize via emergency declaration Palisades where ZERO homebuilding has started after the fire a year ago. It is increasingly looking like blue states want to be seen as the Confederacy after Appomattox and want to be governed in "military districts."
8) Typical Trumpian carrot and stick. First he threatened Raytheon to get on board, that it was too slow and not delivering good enough stuff, then he announced a $1.5 trillion defense budget that sent defense stocks flying. Certain panic spoogenuggets very distraught.
9) Fat Fani Willis may be on the hook for millions in President Trump's legal fees. There's another room in the Trump Presidential Library.
10) Looks like the unhinged MTG may have tipped off protesters about Trump's visit to a restaurant, creating a security incident.
11) U-Haul records show it's not just millionaires leaving Kollyfornia. It's the highest gap between leavers and arrivals in any state in the Union.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
12) The ICE agent who in self defense fired at a nutjob MN driver who tried to run him over was nearly killed in June by an illegal alien invader rapist. President Trump spoke to the officer, who is recovering in the hospital.
13) If we have to bankrupt these jerkweeds, so be it. Department of Transpo has pulled $160 million from Kollyfornia for their practice of handing drivers' licenses to illegal piddledippers.
14) Hilton Hotels gave the boot to a Hampton Inn member hotel that refused reservations for ICE in Minny. Just a few days ago, Jeff Childers at "Coffee and Covid" reminded us (in the context of DEI at that time) that all invoices to the feds are basically a statement of compliance. Meaning, Hilton would have risked ALL its fed contracts if it allowed this goofball hotelier to stand.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
15) The U.S. trade deficit dropped to the lowest level in years, decreasing by $19 billion and prompting the Atlanta fed forecast 5.4% growth for the 4h quarter of last year. Imports DECLINED 9% exports ROSE 6%.
16) According to ADP, the increase in 41,000 jobs last month came mostly with mid-sized employers and saw small companies have their first payroll gain in five months. Here's the really important number: total employment increased to 232 million. Native born Americans gained over 2 million jobs in 2025, foreign born lost over 660,000. Good trend. Oh, and inflation fell to a stunning 1.9%.
17) Trump has announced the federal government will buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds by the Federal Home Financing Agency to bring down mortgage costs. This came a day after he issued an executive order banning "institutional" investors from buying up housing. Dunno. Government activism like this rarely works, and those "institutional investors" make up a tiny % of all home mortgages. If you're a free marketeer, this isn't good news. But as in so many areas, Trump sees the gubment as flat broken, and is going to fix things regardless of which branch does it. Do you really think Congress could get off its partisan ass and do this?
18) Anyone who has followed me knows I've been beating the drums for any and all types of power for Big Data/AI, which is coming. Now Meta ("Meta" means death in Hebrew) is launching a "sweeping" campaign for nuke power. Who in the world would have guessed this 10 years ago?
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
19) Attacking the global energy-electricity problem, so that millions don't die, will require a U-turn from idiotic unproductive green energy.
20) Recall on Wed. I said that the Venezuelan raid, which I have called Operation Manuro Maduro, was a big blow to both Russia and Chy-na? Yeah, leftwing Politico, a Russkie-hating rag, says it hurt Russia, but hasn't figured out it hurt the ChiComs just as badly.
21) President Trump will meet with Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Machado next week, and says he would be honored to receive her Nobel Prize from her--cuz she said he deserved it, not her.
22) Far left sodpimples called "Volcano" set fire to power plants in Germany plunging tens of thousands into the cold and dark in the middle of winter. Aren't these little greenie climate change fleshtubes cute? They think endangering peoples' lives is just a little political prank.
23) Just the latest country to look at Uncle Sam and see Sydney Sweeny is Guyana, which has a semi-formal military alliance with the U.S. Guyana, like Venezuela, as awash in oil A former student of mine has a company working the waters off Guyana, and if he hits big, he'll fund some of my movie! Go GUYANA!
24) I've been honest with you guys, I just don't trust the Tuckster, no matter how many things at one point he said that were positive. Now Iran's mullahs have cut internet power to 80 million people but are playing the Tuckster on a loop!!
IN MEDICAL NEWS
25) RFK, Jr. restored red meat and dairy to the top of the food pyramid where it belonged until that teflontoucher Ansel Keys buffaloed the American Heart Association into saying the cholesterol, hence meat, was bad back in the 1960s.
See my chapter here on Ike's heart attack for more details.
26) Jeff Childers explained it this way on his "Coffee and Covid" blog: The Food Pyramid "shaped school lunches, hospital trays, airline meals, food labels, supermarket configurations, and dinner-table guilt— all enforced by gold-star committees and white-coated prestige."
AND FINALLY . . .
27) Seattle drug addicts cheer new mayor who will let them shoot up on the streets. Mabye he should first watch that episode of "The Wire" where Major Bunny Colvin blocked off a section of Baltimore & let people shoot up there---and see how that worked out.
Larry Schweikart (@WallsOther)
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