In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I've noticed a steady trickle of stories about how Somali fraud businesses in Maine seem to be emulating the same overall pattern of those in Minnesota: 🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Journalist finds $2M "home health" center in Maine located next to a SOMALI MONEY WIRING SERVICE They don't even freaking hide it. In one building, TEN businesses are home health. Nobody is ever there. They are funded by our tax dollars. IT'S FRAUD. "That's a… pic.twitter.com/w5TPHk9C3x — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 21, 2026 ICE seems to be belatedly on the case: As ICE Begins Enforcement Raids in Maine, New Allegations of Somali Fraud Emerge : Somali-led fraud is a nationwide epidemic. Minnesota is the epicenter due to excellent reporting from Nick Shirley and the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed after she tried to ram an ICE agent in Minneapolis. But Washington State, Ohio, and Maine also have fraud issues, and now ICE is heading north The piece quote...

🚨 Byron York nails Trump’s Greenland play: Classic Art of the Deal! “He asks for ten times what he wants, the other side freaks out, huge news cycle, back & forth, then they settle for what they could’ve had day one.” Trump always wins! pic.twitter.com/mC4aMf0Pms — Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 22, 2026 So, did Trump have a good week or a bad one? Scott Pinsker at PJ Media : By overwhelming numbers, the American public doesn’t like Trump’s Greenland policy or approach. His polling is in the toilet. . . . With U.S. opinion polls so dismal, Trump is in a difficult spot. Perhaps there’s a way out — and perhaps a deal can happen. Perhaps we’re just one handshake away from Denmark giving us Greenland. But despite yesterday’s blockbuster announcement, I doubt it. The Danes won’t just give Greenland away; they’ll almost certainly demand trillions of dollars and an irrevocable war guarantee. Why is anyone talking about "the polls" at this stage? Bac...

Via The Pillar : The archbishop of the U.S. military services said Sunday that he does not believe military action to take control of Greenland could be justified – and that U.S. troops in good conscience could refuse orders to do so. Speaking to the BBC on Jan. 18. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services said he “cannot see any circumstances” in which an American military operation to take control of Greenland or another ally’s territory could fulfill the criteria for a just war. Asked whether he is concerned about Catholics serving in the military who might be asked to participate in a military operation to take control of Greenland, Broglio responded, “I am obviously worried, because they could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something which is morally questionable.” In this case, I think Abp Broglio is obscuring the difference between a clearly illegal order and one that a particular individual may feel violates ...

From Don Surber Monday : The frenemy countries want NATO to stand up to the United States. This is laughable because the USA created NATO after the Eurocide of World War II. NATO was an excuse for America to place troops along the Iron Curtain. The curtain fell but the troops are still there. Hey, we are not immune to idiocy. However, Denmark, France and Germany act like they invented idiocy. This weekend’s warrior cosplay by the mousey mites on the ice in Greenland was farcical. Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said, “Imagine 15 Italians, 15 French, 15 Germans in Greenland. This seems like the beginning of a joke.” Just this morning : European opposition ⁠to President Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland and his proposed "Board of Peace" initiative has disrupted plans for an economic support package for postwar Ukraine, the Financial Times reported ‍on Wednesday. A planned announcement of an $800 billion prosperity ‍plan to be agreed...

INTENT: The opening to Don Lemon’s insane livestream is an admission of foreknowledge that the group he was in contact with was going to storm a church, based on his prior communications with its leader. pic.twitter.com/g0GVHB4871 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 19, 2026 It's intriguing that two high-profile leaders of the Minnesota ICE riots are has-beens, Tim Walz, who ended his reelection campaign after revelations of Somali fraud, and Don Lemon, who was fired by CNN in 2023 : Don Lemon landed in hot water earlier this year after comments he made about Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador and governor of South Carolina. Ms Haley was not "in her prime", Lemon said in February, a remark widely decried as sexist. . . . "I'm just saying what the facts are - Google it," he added, in response to objections from his female co-hosts, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins. Lemon issued a statement on the same day sayi...

Julie Kelly reports : An attorney representing Renee Good’s estate acknowledged in an interview with the Washington Post that Becca Good was not her wife. Antonio Romanucci, the Chicago-based attorney who also represented the family of George Floyd and succeeded in winning a $27 million settlement for the Floyd family, said Renee’s “partner, parents and four siblings want ‘to honor her life with progress toward a kinder and more civil America.” Romanucci further confirmed the pair “were not married.” On Friday, just a few days after publishing the story about Thompson, the Times had to admit in a separate story that Becca and Renee “were not legally married.” But a review of Times articles published since the shooting does not show that the paper has corrected any previous articles describing Becca Good as the “wife” or “widow” of Renee Good. This brings back a number of questions I had in the immediate wake of the shooting. Reports at the time characterized Becca as Rene...

The one thing that's kept bothering me about Scott Adams's "conversion" is that it's a little too much like a three-panel Dilbert strip. In panel 1, a "Christian" tells Dilbert the way to get to heaven is to say, "I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior". In panel 2, Dilbert, on his deathbed, says this and dies. In panel 3, there's a punch line -- I'm not sure what that would be, I'm not Scott Adams, but it would undercut the whole thing the "Christian" told him in panel 1. Actually, I don't think it would be too far from the sequence below. The context is Adams's revival of the Dilbert strip in March, 2023 as "Dilbert Reborn" following the cancellation of the original strip in the wake of harsh remarks he made about African-Americans that February. The strip's distributor severed ties with Adams, ending the comic's syndication, while his publisher canceled his upcoming next book and re...