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Ireland has entered day four of a nationwide fuel blockade, with farmers, truckers, and agricultural contractors shutting down oil refineries and fuel depots from Cork to Galway to Dublin, over 100 petrol stations have run dry, and the Irish Defense Forces are now on standby to forcibly clear the protesters. The spark was a fuel price spike driven by the Iran War — but this is decades of Irish government failure finally detonating in the streets: carbon taxes, EU green energy mandates, culture-changing mass migration, and a working class that has been systematically ignored and dismissed.
Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin called the blockades an "act of national sabotage" — a remarkable phrase from a government whose own green ideology helped sabotage Ireland's energy independence in the first place. When protesters finally pushed back, the government's Justice Minister told the Irish people that they were being "manipulated by outside actors like Tommy Robinson." That's the tell — when a government deploys the army and calls its own farmers foreign agents, you're not watching a fuel dispute anymore, you're watching a legitimacy crisis.
The larger question beyond Ireland is this: Is this soft rebellion in Ireland the first domino in a cascade of similar protests across western Europe? Is the European continent about to save itself from the shackles of tyrannical EU bureaucrats?
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Episode #1280.
Today President Donald J. Trump made a post on Truth Social that begins: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
Iran, meet hell fire. Hell fire, Iran.
That said, Trump followed immediately with this: “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”
So, you’re saying there’s still hope?
Civilization-ending deadlines certainly tend to focus the mind, and I expect Trump is seeking to have precisely that effect on the minds governing, or seeking to govern, Iran.
That said, deadlines only matter if they are adhered to, and I expect Trump will indeed follow through on his promise if his demands to the apocalyptic theocracy to stop acting like a bunch of psychopathic global bullies and terrorists aren’t met.
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Episode #1274.
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I was sitting in my office this weekend watching the news on Iran, and I couldn’t help but think that Iran’s decades-long antagonism of America and murder of Americans is finally turning out much like the Chihuahua that finally chased down the milk truck—bark around, find out.
Of course, it took Trump to make this find out a practical reality, after decades of feckless prior presidents bent the American knee to Iran’s relentless yapping—because unlike those prior presidents Trump just does the things that America can and should do.
Now the word on the street—or should I say, the word on the Strait of Hormuz—is that Trump is eyeballing Iran’s Kharg Island like a hungry bear eyes a fat rabbit. If you don’t know, Kharg Island handles about 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports—you can think of it as Iran’s big fat wallet. Seize that asset and suddenly Iran goes from rich boy living large on a trust fund to the kid restocking shelves on the night shift.
Without Kharg Island, Iran simply can’t keep distributing the fast sums of money that maintain its theocratic death-cult grip on the nation—and that theocratic death-cult will find itself eviscerated in precisely the same manner as its several layers of leadership have been eviscerated by American & Israeli bombs and missiles.
Even better is the strategic impact on China. Traditionally, China purchased as much as 80% of Venezuela’s oil exports, and as much as 90% of Iran’s oil exports. With Venezuela now a secured American partner and Iran demonstrably unable to ensure exports as the United States has begun to explode its tanker ships, China is facing a tightening petro-energy noose around its economy. Hear that gagging sound? That’s Xi as the rest of China’s political leadership see his rule of the nation resulting in its economic collapse.
Again, Trump can just do the things America ought long have been doing.
As for America’s enemies, foreign and domestic, black-pilling about sky-rocking prices of oil as a consequence of Trump’s military action against Iran—the brief spike in oil prices immediately after the bombs started dropping has already begun to collapse. Why? Because price setters of crude oil recognize that the world actually has a current oil surplus, America itself floats on an ocean of oil, the US has just secured Venezuela’s oil resources, Trump’s savvy offer of maritime insurance has already brought Lloyds of London back into the market, and any energy spike is likely to be short-lived at worst.
Once more: America's back, baby. Under Sleepy Joe, we'd be begging the UN for permission slips while oil hits triple digits. But with Trump? We're talking leverage on every strategic front, baby—enforce the Donroe doctrine in the American hemisphere, seize Iran’s wallet, stabilize the energy prices, and make China suffer sufficiently to neuter it’s own strategic ambitions against Taiwan, against America, against anybody.
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Episode #1242.
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OK, let’s talk about why ICE doesn't need an article III judicial warrant to detain someone for deportation. Yeah, you heard that right.
The outrage machine is already in overdrive after an illegal migrant working as a Nashville reporter—one who often criticized US immigration policies and enforcement!—was arrested for deportation, supposedly “without a warrant.”
Of course, Estefany Rodriguez-Flores WAS detained for deportation on a warrant, but it was an entirely appropriate Article II administrative warrant, rather than an Article III judicial warrant.
The anti-American, pro-migrant screamers need to relax and stop lying to the American people. Immigration law treats illegal presence as a civil violation, not a crime—unless you're talking re-entry after deportation, which is criminal, but that's the exception.
Congress set this up decades ago: 8 U.S.C. § 1226, § 1357 allow for immigration detentions without need of a judicial warrant. ICE officers get the power to arrest and detain aliens they have reason to believe are removable.
Oh, the pearl-clutching! "Administrative warrants aren't real warrants!" cry the lawyers in their safe spaces. True—they're not signed by a "neutral and detached magistrate." That's the point! Immigration isn't criminal prosecution; it's removal. The "warrant" is basically an internal green light saying, "Yeah, this guy's deportable—go get him." For folks with final removal orders? Even easier—I-205 says the immigration judge (who's executive branch, not Article III) already ruled. Due process? Check. They've had their day in immigration court.
Liberals act like this is some Trump-era power grab. Nah, it's been the law forever. Biden's ICE used the same tools—just slower and with more apologies. Now with mass deportations ramping up, suddenly it's "tyranny." Funny how the Constitution only matters when your side's losing.
Bottom line: Judicial warrants are for criminal stuff—searches, probable cause for felonies. Deportation detentions? Administrative all the way. It's efficient, it's legal, and it's exactly what keeps the system from grinding to a halt. If we required judges for every ICE pickup, we'd need a thousand more federal benches and a budget the size of Ukraine aid. No thanks.
In other news, I’ll also cover the insane decision out of the DC Court of Appeals affirming a lower court’s preliminary injunction that strips out the word “Temporary” from “Temporary Protected Status,” and forces Trump to keep hundreds of thousands of Haitian barbarians in our nation, as unelected federal judges prove once again that they have zero respect for our Constitution’s separation of powers.
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Yesterday anti-American paramilitary forces invade a Christian church in Minneapolis during services, terrorizing the parishioners—men, women, and weeping children.
Their “justification”? One of the senior leaders of the church is employed by ICE.
Leading the invasion was former CNN journalist Don Lemon, a self-identified homosexual black man, who cavorted with the invaders before, during, and after the invasion. The invaders also included various well-known professional agitators.
Now the Department of Justice is looking into bringing federal charges against Don Lemon specifically and the other invaders generally.
Yesterday foreign-born anti-American agitator Mahmoud Khalil received a well-deserved set-back from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which in a 2-1 vote reversed a lower district court ruling that ordered Khalil released from immigration detention while he sued to avoid deportation ordered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Khalil had for months been leading often-violent anti-American protests at Columbia University calling for the eradication of western civilization. During this period he transitioned his immigration status from student visa to preliminary “green card,” following his marriage to an American woman soon after his 2022 arrival in the US.
Secretary Rubio, noting that America has no compelling reason to allow to remain in our nation foreign nationals advocating against America’s national interests, ordered Khaliil detained and deported. That initial March 8, 2025 detention set off a series of detentions and releases and federal litigation that continues to this day.
On June 20, 2025, federal district trial court Judge Michael E. Farbiarz ordered Khalil released from immigration detention, a decision appealed by the government. Yesterday’s Third Circuit ruling reverses that release order—though this change in status is paused for 45 days to allow Khalil to appeal to either the Third Circuit en banc or directly to the Supreme Court, so he will remain free during that period.
The great and powerful democratically elected Article II Executive Branch President Donald J. Trump has long butted heads with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome “Too Late” Powell, particularly criticizing Powell for abusing the Feds monetary authority to keep interest rates artificially high, and thus choking off American economic growth.
Now the Trump administration has sent the Federal Reserve grand jury subpoenas regarding Powell’s recent testimony to Congress regarding the multi-billion re-build of Federal Reserve buildings, suggesting that Powell may have committed perjury and be subject to criminal prosecution.
In response, Powell released a video this past weekend claiming that these subpoenas were merely an illegitimate effort by Trump to pressure Powell into reducing interest rates.
What’s the real deal with all this? I would suggest that the real problem with the Federal Reserve isn’t that Powell is stupidly keeping rates high or that the Feds building project is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. Rather, the real problem with the Federal Reserve IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE!
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Yesterday the US Supreme Court heard oral argument on a pair of cases involving men playing in women’s sports—Little v. Hecox, and West Virginia v. BPJ.
As usual the justice line up appeared to be Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Roberts on the side of reason and law, and the three SCOTUS crones—Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson—as the liberal lunatics in the conversation.
And once again Justice Ketanji “I’m not a biologist, how would I know what a woman is” Jackson presents herself as the dumbest Supreme Court justice to have ever existed.
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