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Another Shooting…Another Death…Part Two

grampslcf January 27, 2026 Comments Off

As was noted yesterday, Federal agents are in Minneapolis executing lawful warrants. This is not new. Deportations happened under most presidents if not all, and they will continue under any administration that enforces federal law.

The amount of violence is off the scale in Minnesota. This is trending towards being another “Summer of Love” there. Is this because there is far more deportation activity going on there?

Definitely not. 23% of all ICE arrests occur in Texas. Only 2.2% occur in Minnesota. Why such violence in Minnesota? Because Democratic leaders are promoting and encouraging such violence. Violence is their goal. Why?

Another Shooting…Another Death…Part One

grampslcf January 26, 2026 Comments Off

ICE agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Saturday. This was not random. There were no innocent bystanders that ICE was attempting to scoop up. It was a federal operation taking place in a major U.S. city, carried out by trained agents doing their job under lawful authority.

The target was JOSE HUERTA-CHUMA, an ILLEGAL ALIEN from Ecuador, with a documented criminal history, including DOMESTIC ASSAULT, ATTEMPTED BODILY HARM, AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT. In other words, a violent criminal.

A Win

grampslcf January 26, 2026 Comments Off

This is the reality-check the Left has been dreading! In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that U.S. passports will officially recognize only two genders: male and female. No more “X” markers, no more invented categories, no more bureaucratic bowing to activist pressure. As noted elsewhere recently, trannies seem to be getting the boot even by previous supporters such as, California Governor Gavin Newsom.

The Court struck down Biden-era regulations that allowed self-identified gender markers, declaring them an overreach that undermined the integrity of federal identification documents. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, delivered the hammer blow: “Biological sex is an immutable fact, not a fluid preference. Passports are travel documents grounded in objective reality, not ideological experiments.” ...

Trannies Getting The Boot?

grampslcf January 24, 2026 Comments Off

Are trannies getting the boot by the Democratic Party? Only 3 of the almost two dozen 2028 potential Democratic presidential candidates responded to an Axios survey about transgender policies. And one of them, Rahm Emanuel, dared to just say no to boys in girls’ sports and no to the idea that a man can become a woman.

Arrests

grampslcf January 23, 2026 Comments Off

Every time a conservative points out how the progressive Democrat left is actively engaged in eroding American traditions, norms, and governance—bordering on or venturing into insurrection—the screaming begins.

“Trump! Fascism! J6! J6! J6! J6!”

It has taken on the form of a mystical incantation to protect the speaker from challenge.

Are You Paying Attention Now?

grampslcf January 22, 2026 Comments Off

In 2015, the Obama White House awarded Tom Homan the Presidential Rank Award. President Obama bestowed the award himself. That’s the highest honor a federal employee can get. The official citation praised him for removing 920,000 people in three years.

A Free Society

grampslcf January 21, 2026 Comments Off

Law and order don’t collapse all at once. It is eroded one issue at a time. It usually starts small like not having a regular order of business for funding our government. The last time that was done in this country was 2006. One might call it normalization of deviation. It is laws left unenforced. What we’re watching now in Minnesota and in other areas of the country aren’t random protests. It is a coordinated effort to delegitimize institutions, intimidate Americans, and replace the rule of law with mob rule. This is a repeat of what America saw in the “Summer of Love” in 2020.

Churches disrupted. Witness the recent actions in St. Paul. Courts smeared and threatened. Witness judges and their families being shot and assaulted. Police demoralized. Police knowing that despite doing everything right, they may be sacrificed on the altar of wokeness. Their families may be placed in danger from howling insurrectionists.

Gaza Board of Peace

grampslcf January 20, 2026 Comments Off

What is the Gaza Board of Peace? The Gaza Board of Peace is part of the peace plan worked out by the Trump administration. It is an international transitional mechanism aimed at managing Gaza in the aftermath of prolonged conflict. Most recently this has been the war that was started by Hamas through its October 7^thatrocities.

Its core objective is to support stabilization, reconstruction, and civilian governance while preventing a power vacuum that would occur after Hamas had been defeated. The body is envisioned as a temporary arrangement involving international stakeholders, regional actors, and Palestinian technocrats to oversee aid delivery, rebuilding of infrastructure, and basic administration. It is meant to create conditions for long-term peace, security, and economic recovery in Gaza during a sensitive post-conflict phase. It has been supported and approved by the United nations.

What Trump has announced this week in connection with this is breath-taking in its vision and potential downstream ramifications.

Real Democrats

grampslcf January 19, 2026 Comments Off

America has always had two major parties, sometimes even three. For most of our history, we argued hard, debated honestly, and still loved this country together. Real Democrats worked for a living, paid their taxes, raised families, sat in church pews, respected the flag, and wanted their children to grow up safe and free and have a better life. Just like real Republicans.

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am

grampslcf January 17, 2026 Comments Off

One of the things that are guaranteed in the current Big Media environment is that they will frame all of their narratives as anti-administration. They will use hyperbole, they will lie, they will obfuscate. They will try to undermine the country and return the American people to being serfs to the cause of the elite politicians.