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Drive-by media The late, great Rush Limbaugh had a phrase, “drive-by media,” to describe the national press corps that would swoop in for an event or disaster to claim credit, assign blame, and then move on. We are witnessing the phenomenon around the massive Minnesota Somali fraud scandal. And it’s a welcome thing. In this round, we had the City Journal piece, followed by the New York Times report. The U.K. Daily Mail followed up on the Times report with, How Somali fraudsters ran riot allegedly stealing more than $1BILLION of taxpayers’ money on Tim Walz’s watch: ‘We’re losing our way of life’ A whistleblower Twitter (X) account operated by employees of the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) posted a response to Gov. Tim Walz that has received 22 million views so far. They begin their post, Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Fox News picked up on the viral post under the headline, Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. The man himself, Tim Walz, appeared on NBC News this morning to blame the whole scandal on…Donald Trump. As quoted by Fox News, Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail. For the record, Walz has put exactly zero people in jail in connection to the multi-billion-dollar, Somali-ethnic-based fraud. But, he is running for a third term as Minnesota governor. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/drive-by-media.php So there’s that.

Democrats’ Calls For Violence Are Succeeding As I have written before, I don’t know whether Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., killing at least one, is 1) a raving lunatic, 2) a devout Muslim–witnesses said that he shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he murdered Americans–or 3) a sucker who fell for Democratic Party talking points. The fact that it is hard to distinguish among these alternatives is revealing. In all likelihood, at least two of the foregoing categories apply. More broadly, we can see that the Democrats’ war on law enforcement is succeeding. It has been focused mostly against America’s immigration laws, which Democrats hate but don’t have the votes to repeal. Democrats have viciously attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, denouncing its agents as a modern-day “Gestapo,” and trying at every turn to interfere with their work. Most recently, Oregon Governor Tina Kotak has threatened to criminally prosecute ICE employees for doing their jobs. As a legal matter, that threat is absurd. But the real threat lies underneath–the threat that people who are deranged and/or unusually loyal to the Democratic Party will be emboldened to try to kill ICE agents. That threat is deadly serious: Assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have skyrocketed 1,150% so far this year compared to the last year of the Biden administration — with nearly 250 attacks recorded since President Trump took office. The disturbing surge comes amid a climate of heightened danger for immigration authorities, including stalking, death threats, online doxxing and outright assaults, which the Department of Homeland Security says is being encouraged by lefty politicians opposed to Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown. That is quite a record–a 1,150% increase. Congratulations, Democrats! https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/democrats-calls-for-violence-are-succeeding.php

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The Rapidly Imploding Tim Walz By John Hinderaker I was on Australian television tonight, and one of the topics was Tim Walz and the Minnesota fraud scandal. What was striking to me is that Walz has become an international laughingstock. His ineptitude is recognized around the globe. And yet, there is nothing new in the revelations of the past week or two. Bill Glahn of my organization has been writing about Feeding Our Future and the related Walz administration scandals for nearly four years. The fraud story is so far from being new, that in Feeding Our Future alone, the U.S. Attorney’s office has charged 78 defendants, two criminal trials have been held, resulting in convictions, and more than 50 defendants have pleaded guilty. Power Line readers have known about the scandal for a long time, but it is nice to see the rest of the country finally taking notice. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/12/the-rapidly-imploding-tim-walz.php

The commander on the scene made the call, but he made it within the directions he'd received from the Secretary of War. Leavitt's answer should put this story to rest in mainstream circles. This is not now, nor has it ever been, about "war crimes." It has two purposes. The first is to attack Pete Hegseth, who is definitely making changes in the Pentagon that the left sees as a direct threat to their "long march through the instittutions." The second part is a direct attack on the authority of President Trump to issue orders to the U.S. military. The same claims of illegality that have been aimed at this incident have also been directed at, for example, National Guard deployments. https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/12/01/karoline-leavitts-statement-on-the-drug-boat-attack-should-close-the-issue-but-it-wont-n2196716

The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke Kurt Schlichter It’s almost painfully obvious what a scam and a setup this whole “Pete Hegseth is killing innocent drug dealers!” thing is. Mysterious anonymous sources just happened to say exactly what the Democrats needed said following their illegal orders nonsense of last week, and exactly when they needed to change the subject from the murder of a soldier that was arguably contributed to by their illegal orders nonsense of last week. This is just the latest in an endless series of lies designed to undermine the will of the voters by undermining the Trump administration – throw it in the pile with Russiagate, trying to frame Trump, and Hunter Biden’s laptop, et al. But this latest phony scandal does raise an important question in American politics. Are the people pushing this transparent nonsense cynical operators who know it’s ridiculous, or are they idiots who actually believe it? Now, you wouldn’t know it from the coordinated regime media/ Democrat narrative tsunami, but, Pete Hegseth denies what the Washington Post claims were two anonymous sources saying that his instructions were to kill all the drug dealers in some unspecified illegal manner. Putting aside that it’s both legal and good to kill drug dealers hauling poison to our shores to kill our people, the hearsay claims of individuals who don’t have the courage of their convictions to come out and say it, or to report this allegedly illegal conduct officially, and also who don’t exist, the regime media/Democrat complex instantly accepted these anonymous slanders as gospel truth. Anonymous claims are the best claims because you can’t defend against them other than to deny them, which is exactly what the liars want. It’s all part of the okey-doke. Suddenly, overnight, all the Democrats and all the regime media were on exactly the same message. I wonder how that happened. Well, that’s a key component of the scam. It’s an operation, albeit an ineptly executed one, and one which was disrupted by a subject of a different operation to undermine America, so it had to be accelerated to take the dead Guard soldier out of the news. Regardless, you’re either stupid or think we’re stupid if you’re pushing it. https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/12/01/the-democratregime-media-plot-against-pete-hegseth-is-a-joke-n2667173

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Projection.

The Democrat/Regime Media Plot Against Pete Hegseth Is a Joke. Even if this story were true — which it pretty clearly isn’t — most Americans would approve of blowing up narco boats. https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/12/01/the-democratregime-media-plot-against-pete-hegseth-is-a-joke-n2667173

The man is facing a potential court-martial over this shoddy stunt, but Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) opted to continue digging his own grave on the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday. Democrats have nowhere to go, so they’ve manufactured this crisis where President Trump has issued illegal orders. To clarify a crucial point here: President Trump has not done that. When pressed, these Democrats fold, because they’re peddling a hoax. Several made some cockamamie videos urging American service members to commit sedition, essentially. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/01/how-this-dem-senator-dug-his-own-grave-during-this-sunday-morning-interview-n2667179

Just a friendly reminder that the US kill chain for engaging military targets includes find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess (or detect, track, identify, plan/assess, engage, assess for naval operations). Yes, all of those gates must be completed and verified sufficiently, and generally go in front of two to four commanders, before an engagement is cleared hot. So, next time you hear some journalist or whiny politician claiming unlawful orders this or that, just understand they are claiming (without evidence) that multiple officers within the kill chain are committing war crimes, not just the President or the SECWAR (even though they frame it to sow distrust in all levels of the military). This is why you cannot believe a word these people say, especially when their articles are full of “sources close to the operation” or “sources with knowledge of.”

No surprise.

Why would the Post lie ?

They're requiring 2 tiny fields on every federal payment: 1. A proper congressional authorization code 2. A comment field that actually says something That's it. And suddenly, hundreds of billions in pure fraud and waste just... stops. Before DOGE, massive payments were flying out the door with both fields completely blank, making real audits literally impossible. That's why the Pentagon has failed every single audit for decades: the data doesn't even exist. Elon: "Fraudsters don't confess. They scream that you're hurting children in Africa." Then DOGE asks for the wiring instructions. "Oh it's going to Deloitte & Touche in Washington DC... Okay, cool, can we just talk to the actual kids in Africa?" Crickets. The best part? When you block the scam, the grifters instantly spin up sob stories and accuse you of being heartless. This isn't complicated rocket science. It's basic financial hygiene that any normal company does on day one. Yet the federal government never did it... until Elon and DOGE showed up. The swamp is absolutely seething.

LOL. .

It sure is. The Left is out of ideas. Projecting is all they have.

Wow. A worse than usual post from Roundabout. Filled with false opinions. Meanwhile: The Democrats’ Latest Faux Scandal By John Hinderaker Here are my thoughts on the controversy: 1) The story is based on anonymous “sources,” i.e., deep state leakers. Unless and until someone steps forward, identifies himself, tells us what he knows and how he knows it, and takes responsibility for his statements, I assume everything in the story is probably a lie. 2) Given the lack of regard for the “law of armed conflict” that is consistently shown by our enemies, my reaction is: boo hoo. 3) Is there really a “law of armed conflict” that says you can only shoot at a target once? And if someone escapes an initial bombing, or burst of fire, or whatever, he is home free and can’t again be targeted? I’d like to see that law. I haven’t seen any news source cite to it. 4) If such a rule exists and applies in the present context, it is stupid. If it applies, and one were determined to follow it, it would incentivize a massive first strike that would eliminate any chance of survivors. And would also increase the risk of collateral, unintended damage. Meanwhile, it appears that the Trump administration may be intent on bringing about regime change in Venezuela. If armed conflict develops, the fate of the narco-traffickers will soon be forgotten. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/the-democrats-latest-faux-scandal.php