GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Virginia’s ‘Make Fraud Legal’ Bill.

UPDATE:

Doing away with minimum sentences for rape and child pornography.

Making it impossible to verify eligibility for federal benefits.

Explicit ideological indoctrination in schools.

Anyone who thinks that in 2025 Dems are capable of moderate governance is an idiot and a mark. https://t.co/vhl1r4wj8l

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 22, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Appeals court upholds most of Maryland ban on weapons in schools, parks, other public places.

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld Maryland’s law banning guns in a wide range of public settings, from school grounds and government buildings to parks, sports venues and areas within 1,000 feet of a public demonstration.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that most of the dozen places identified in Maryland law fall under the U.S. Supreme Court’s definition of “sensitive places,” where government has the authority to restrict the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The only area where the appeals court said the sensitive places exception did not apply was in “private property held open to the public,” where the law prohibits guns without specific permission from the property owner. That restriction is unconstitutionally broad, Circuit Judge Robert L. Gregory wrote for the court.

“Maryland’s rule would effectively declare most public places ‘gun-free zones,” Gregory wrote. “But that likely stretches the sensitive places doctrine too far.”

Maybe those places would be less sensitive with more guns.

IT’S A HOTEL NOT A PANOPTICON: Hotels Are Getting Rid of Proper Bathroom Doors and Guests Are Revolting: Lodgers looking for peace and quiet are struggling in the era of sliding barn doors, frosted glass panes and sometimes no separation at all.

Damn designers are full of themselves:

“So when designing this we wanted a door that allows you to both see and hear everything that’s happening behind,” comedian Becca Herries said in a sketch about sliding doors that racked up 336,000 views on TikTok. “This door is designed to either move your relationship forward or end it.”

No thank you.

HERE’S A CHANCE FOR POLAND TO DO THE FUNNIEST THING EVER AND SEIZE EAST GERMANY:

Germany is basically 2 separate countries now.

The people who lived under communism in East Germany are desperate not to do it again.

The West Germans are running head first into it. pic.twitter.com/2O54fkZdmE

— Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Landeur) January 21, 2026

ODD TASTE IN YOUR CITY WATER? Might be from the fetal tissue that was flushed down the toilet and into the local municipal waste water system. Or maybe not. Bottom line is, we don’t know.

What we do know is that 60 percent of all abortions are now the result of Mifepristone used at home by pregnant women who are often advised to flush the chemically tainted aborted tissue.

Is that a public health threat? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being pressured by a group of Hill GOPers to undertake a comprehensive analysis to answer that question. The EPA workforce has successfully resisted doing it for more than a year.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Did Trump Lose It Over Greenland?

Well, wasn’t that an entertaining few days we just had over…

…Greenland?

Really?

Really.

On Monday and Tuesday, it looked like President Donald Trump was going to take us to war with our own NATO allies, or at least destroy the eight-decade-old alliance while Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping rubbed their hands together with glee.

All over a bunch of rock and ice that neither China nor Russia could ever hope to seize.

At least, that’s how more than a few pants-wetting you-know-whos told it.

I could share a few of the more panic-mongering X posts with you, all from names you’d recognize, but it’s nothing but same stuff/different issue yet again. Last week, Trump was going to send the 3rd Armored Division to occupy Minneapolis. The week before that, he was going to sell Venezuela’s oil at below-market rates to Trump Station franchises along the Acela AMTRAK line he wants to tear up and replace with a superhighway that doesn’t allow electric vehicles.

After ten-plus years, the hype just doesn’t seem worth it any longer.

Besides, you know the well-worn routine.

Much — much — more at the link.

Link was missing before — sorry! Fixed now.

LOL, HAWAII: The Perversity of Citing The Black Codes To Defend Gun-Control Laws.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: EF ECOFLOW Portable Power Station. #CommissionEarned

YES, I VOTED FOR THIS, TOO: ICE Launches Maine Operation.

The action follows a similar operation in Minnesota and is focused on individuals with criminal histories, officials told The New York Times on Wednesday.

ICE Deputy Assistant Director Patricia Hyde said in a televised interview that approximately 1,400 people are being targeted in the state.

The Department of Homeland Security declined the Times’ request for comment on specific enforcement actions.

Maine has seen growth in its Somali population over the past two decades, particularly in Lewiston, as well as an influx of African asylum seekers during the Biden administration.

State officials claimed immigrants have helped address labor shortages in an aging, predominantly white state.

The phrasing makes it sound like being “predominantly white” is problematical, and I suppose for the state’s governing Democrats, it is.

SUICIDAL EMPATHY:

This woman is crying hysterically because ICE was conducting a search for two child rapists living in her neighbourhood.

That’s right.
She was crying for child rapists.

This is why, as a survivor of child sexual abuse, I will never trust the left. pic.twitter.com/ffGMMO7B9M

— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) January 21, 2026

WHY CAN’T THE GOP PLAY SMASH-MOUTH POLITICS?

Republicans taking office: “We can't do these things that will allow us to gain more power. The Democrats will just do it back to us later."

Democrats taking office: “We are going to grab power, shove our unpopular agenda down your throats, and make sure you can never win an…

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) January 21, 2026

CALL HER INSUFFERABLE: Michelle Obama Laments The Objectification of Women On Sex And Dating Podcast ‘Call Her Daddy.’ “How could a woman hold the highest seat in the government when she has less rights than half the population?”

Fewer rights, Michelle. Fewer. Not “less rights.” You went to Princeton, you should know that.

NICE: Blue Lives Matter Says It Decoyed Anti-ICE Crazies.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Melanie Yazzie, a professor at @UMNews, says that her goal is to "dismantle the United States."

She wants that to become EVERYONE's political goal.

These people want to destroy the country, and they aren't even hiding it anymore.pic.twitter.com/omWzxtmbGn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 21, 2026

Why do Americans tolerate a higher education system that generates and hosts so many avowed enemies?

RAC PRESS IS DOING SOMETHING SPLENDID HERE:  From Couch to Courage: Classic-Style Adventure Books Build Real-World Grit in Boys.  What makes a king out of a slave? The flag on the mast to wave?

INTERESTING:   “A new empire has sprung into existence, and there is a new thing under the sun.”.

AT AMAZON, Shop 3 hour delivery. #CommissionEarned

IT’S NOT JUST IN BLUE STATES:  U.S. Sues Louisiana Hospital Operator Over Alleged Medicare Fraud and Kickbacks.

IT’S A LONG FALL FROM MAGGIE THATCHER TO HERE:  An open letter to Kemi Badenoch: Your party helped to break Britain.

BIG BROTHER CAN KISS MY CARBON FOOTPRINT:  Big Brother is watching your carbon footprint.

YOU CAN’T GET BLOOD FROM A TURNIP OR MONEY FROM CALIFORNIA:  Feds: California Owes $1B for Covering Illegal Aliens With Medicaid Dollars.

I’VE HELD THEM IN CONTEMPT FOR DECADES:   House Oversight Sends Contempt Resolution Against Clintons to Full House Over Epstein Probe.

HE’S NOT WRONG:  Dissolving the Comfort Monopoly.  The best way to create rugged individuals is to try very hard to break them.

THIS WOMAN IS A COMPLETE TIMWALZ:  Check Out Justice Brown Jackson’s Latest Judicial Word Salad.

My habit of calling her Queijada Brown is an insult to fresh cheese. I gather your common fresh cheese knows a lot more law and is infinitely more coherent. Remember, DEI not even once!

YES. OF COURSE. AND THE USSR’S ARMAMENT AND PRODUCTION DWARFED OURS: Who on Earth believes the reports of totalitarians. Even totalitarians can’t believe anything reported to them. The problem of information is the biggest problem of communism. And yet, these naifs will open their mouths and swallow this crap without question. It makes me despair for mankind.  China has grown by over 500 TWh in the past 12 months.

AND FOR THE X-CANCELLED:  Here

I’m going to absolutely admit their production of pretty bar charts continues to be top notch.  There’s a fool born every minute, and most of them love the PRC.