AN IMPORTANT REMINDER: Shooting vs. Fighting: The Reality Is, Bad Guys Have Guns Too…And Always Will. “A conversation regarding the current state of affairs in the United States, particularly in states and cities run by socialist Democrats, led a person I was talking to to respond that he had a gun and knew how to use it. To be fair, my friend, who will remain anonymous, does indeed own firearms. I also believe that he knows full well how to load them and then press the trigger to make them go bang. However, I also know that this same person never has time for training, having myriad excuses whenever the subject is brought up.”
January 28, 2026
FEDERAL DEPT OF ED MAKES AN INVESTMENT IN CIVIC EDUCATION: $1.9 million to The American Civic Tradition at 250, at two Texas universities. Weird, I thought my tax money was reserved for teaching people to be ignorant of and hate America.
21ST CENTURY NAVAL ARCHITECTURE: Unsinkable metal tubes could lead to resilient ships, floating platforms and renewable energy innovations.
ISAACMAN IS HAPPY WITH IT, BUT NOT EVERYBODY ELSE IS: NASA is Going Back to the Moon Next Month in a Ship That Many Experts Feel Is Unsafe.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor.
A DUMB, OUTDATED SCAM:
This is truly the stupidest concept in the world. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the clock stayed at seven minutes to midnight . . . and moved back at the next review to twelve minutes. https://t.co/LAZKNDSd4K
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 28, 2026
Related: The Clock Ticks. “‘How scared of the future are left-leaning establishment type people?’ and ‘How much publicity does the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists need?’ The upward creep of the minute hand, even as the world has gotten objectively safer, suggests that the latter plays a big role: Bad news always sells better than good news.”
A memo from before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, reportedly captured by the IDF in Gaza, quotes a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad military official dismissing Hamas’s concerns that rockets launched by the terror group during a previous round of fighting in Gaza were falling short of Israel and landing inside the Strip, with deadly consequences for Gazans.
“We are in a war; even if a thousand are killed by friendly fire, that’s the price of war,” Akram al-Ajouri is quoted as saying in the document, parts of which were first published by the Kan public broadcaster this morning.
Days after the Hamas onslaught sparked the current war, a misfired Gazan rocket that Israel said was launched by Islamic Jihad landed in Gaza City’s al-Ahli Baptists’ Hospital, killing hundreds, with Hamas and many major news outlets initially placing the blame on Israel.
Hamas doesn’t see friendly fire as the price of war, but as an opportunity for anti-Israeli propaganda.
The Complicit Media generally plays along, too.
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LONGTIME BLOGGER (POINTSANDFIGURES) AND INSTAPUNDIT READER JEFF CARTER IS Running for Nevada State Treasurer.
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THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Report From Tehran Echoes Regime Propaganda While Glossing Over Massacres.
A CNN correspondent gave a report from Tehran that effectively served as a puff piece for the despotic Iranian regime, omitting the fact that the murderous government had killed thousands of protesters while warning of the Iranian regime’s defiant message to the Trump administration.
“Iran’s leadership is sending a strong and very defiant message to the United States, and specifically, of course, to the Trump administration,” CNN International Correspondent Frederik Pleitgen said. “You could see it here on this gigantic poster on Revolution Square in central Tehran. The message on this massive poster is, ‘If you sow the wind you will reap the whirlwind,’ obviously meaning if the United States attacks Iran, Iran will retaliate in a massive way, which could, of course, lead to a major military confrontation between the United States and Iran.”
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Iran’s leadership is sending a defiant warning to the United States as tensions soar. @fpleitgenCNN reports from inside Iran, and speaks to residents on the streets of the capital Tehran. pic.twitter.com/iXNlRQCLzc
— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) January 27, 2026
CNN International fluffing America’s enemies? Roger Ailes, call your office!
You too, Eason Jordan: CNN Admits Honest Reporting Was Impossible, So Why Go To Baghdad?
Related: Trump warns Iran: Our massive armada is ready for violence.
INCITING MORE DISTURBED LEFTIES TO VIOLENCE: Philly’s Soros DA Just Threatened ICE Agents Bigly.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Haley Baylee begs judge to toss ex-husband Matt Kalil’s lawsuit over her comments about his penis size. “The model compared Kalil’s penis size to ‘two Coke cans stacked on top of each other, maybe even a third.'”
FOLLOW THE MONEY BECAUSE, GOOD LORD, IS THERE A LOT OF IT:
After Benny @bennyjohnson went digging on Illan Omar, I went digging a little bit on "the squad".
Rashida Tlaib is a broke ass mf'r btw.
However, Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) has some interesting things going on.
Her husband is pulling in $1M/yr from "government funded" sources.…
— ✪ Evil Te𝕏an ✪ (@vileTexan) January 27, 2026
The Left takes care of its own. It might be their single biggest secret to winning.
Or is it in second, right behind cheating?
WE KNOW — DO BETTER: NATO leader warns Europe is unable to defend itself without US assistance.
Rutte, who spoke with Trump at the World Economic Forum last week, told European lawmakers in Brussels that they would need to double their expected economic spending on defense if they hoped to defend themselves without the U.S.
“If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can’t,” Rutte said, according to the Associated Press. “If you really want to go it alone, forget that you can ever get there with 5%. It will be 10%.
Left unsaid: Putin’s Russia is hardly the Soviet Union + Warsaw Pact, yet Europe still can’t manage.
REQUIRED READING:
The GOP needs to understand this ecosystem of NGOs and the level of organization.
They have been working nonstop on this since 2016 and the “network of networks” that are part of the “movement of movements.” It. continues to grow, tighten and organize.
📝They have their 4-B… https://t.co/Na7QthOfe0
— SKDoubleDub (@SKDoubleDub33) January 27, 2026
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TURNAROUND: Boeing’s quarterly sales jump 57% as CEO says there’s ‘a lot to be optimistic about.’
The company’s airplane deliveries last year were the highest since 2018, helping drive revenue. Boeing brought in $23.9 billion in the last three months of 2025, a 57% increase over the same period in 2024 and topping analysts’ expectations. Cash flow of $400 million was roughly double what Wall Street was expecting.
CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff that the company is making progress and that there’s “a lot to be optimistic about” in 2026.
“At the same time, with progress comes expectations, and our customers and stakeholders are going to expect more from us this year,” he said.
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Boeing delivered 600 airplanes to customers last year, nearly double the number from 2024 and the most since 2018. Ortberg, who came out of retirement to run the manufacturer in 2024, and other executives have said more production increases are on the horizon in the coming months.
Nice.
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY: Here’s Why Many Say the Ilhan Omar Assault Was Staged.
CONSTITUENT SERVICES: Boston Police ignored all 57 immigration detainer requests from ICE last year. “ICE says it lodges immigration detainers after officers or agents establish probable cause to believe that a noncitizen is removable under federal immigration law, typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes and when the noncitizen poses a public safety or national security threat.”
IT’S ALWAYS MICHIGAN STATE: MSU ‘Peace Warriors’ protest on behalf of woman who struck ICE agent with vehicle.
RESTORING THE MONROE DOCTRINE — THE DONROE DOCTRINE? — MEANS NOT TOLERATING THIS KIND OF THING:
Allow me to translate, China doesn’t want to lose their spy base in Cuba. https://t.co/PecF3GEelN pic.twitter.com/coa9jEymdi
— Denise Wu (@denisewu) January 27, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force envisions rolling awards for new RG-XX neighborhood watch satellites.
RG-XX is being designed as the successor to the Space Force’s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) constellation originally comprised of six satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 36,000 kilometers in altitude.
The flexibility of the new acquisitional approach is necessary because, for one, McClain said it’s unclear how many RG-XX satellites the Space Force will need.
“The quantity will be based off of a couple of factors,” he said, “the cost of the individual systems that we get, [but also] available funds and the mission need.”
And while RG-XX sats are expected to be more manueverable than GSSAP birds and will be the first Space Force satellites capable of refueling in orbit, McClain said it is not completely clear whether the RG-XX satellites alone will be all that is needed to replace the venerable GSSAP birds, the first of which launched in 2014.
I’m sure they’ll be impressive, but I’m less sure about the “neighborhood watch” branding that sounds less like “Keeping an eye on Chinese shipyards” and more like “HOA busybody.”
