On Monday, Tim Walz announced he was dropping his bid for a third term as Minnesota’s governor amid an ongoing fraud scandal. I said that dropping out of the race wouldn’t save him from being held accountable, and sure enough, on Monday evening, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the Department of Justice has launched a sweeping criminal investigation into Walz for his potential role in the fraud.
The seizure and removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their official residence in Caracas, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, with no American casualties, has been an astonishing strategic and tactical success.
It eliminates one of the few anti-Western governments in the world, reinforces the general move to the democratic right in Latin America, and strikes a deadly blow against the narco-terrorists who have severely provoked the United States. It probably cuts the lifeline from Venezuela to the dismal Marxist regime in Nicaragua, and has already been cited as a warning to the erratic president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, whom Trump has named as head of the vast Colombian illegal narcotics producing and exporting operation. Trump also revoked Petro’s visa to enter the United States after he gave a speech in New York, urging American armed servicemen to ignore orders to engage with Hamas and other terrorists.
President Trump had a vague but tantalizing message for a couple of American oil executives roughly a month before the U.S. captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro: “Get ready.”
Big changes were coming to Venezuela, Trump hinted.
Although Trump gave the executives a hint, he didn’t provide them with specific details of the strikes on Caracas that unfolded early Saturday, according to people familiar with the matter. Nor did he seek their advice on a plan unveiled the same day to have U.S. energy companies revitalize Venezuela’s dilapidated oil fields with multibillion-dollar investments.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has played down concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to boost oil production from Venezuela will have an impact on Canada’s energy sector.
Mr. Trump has made it clear that the U.S. military action in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro was precursor to taking control of the country’s vast oil reserves and its energy infrastructure. That could ultimately lead to a surge of Venezuelan oil on global markets which would pose a challenge to Canada’s oil production.
Forecast of Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’ was part of call for pro-growth reform, says Trump official
Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down on its recent criticism of Europe, saying last month’s US national security strategy was an attempt to “jolt” an ally back to economic life.
The document was widely condemned in Europe as representing a seismic shift in the 70-year transatlantic alliance with its dark references to a purported threat of “civilisational erasure” with migration and censorship creating “strife”, “cratering birthrates” and “loss of national identities”.
Its threat to interfere in European politics and oppose what it termed as “elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe” was condemned as unacceptable by the president of the European Council of leaders, António Costa.
It seems clear that there was great excitement in the Poilievre household on Saturday morning, as news of the surgical strike by U.S. special forces in Venezuela filtered through.
Pierre Poilievre’s wife, Anaida, is Venezuelan, and like many of her fellow citizens, she likely rejoiced in the arrest and deportation of the illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro.
By 9:36 a.m. the Conservative leader had posted on social media his congratulations to American President Donald Trump for arresting the “narco-terrorist and socialist dictator.”
Summary: Trump bad, Poilievre bad.
So, this is the “peace president?”
Donald Trump promised that under his leadership the U.S. would eschew “nation building,” “forever wars,” “regime change,” and violent foreign engagements more generally.
Yet since his second inauguration, he’s ordered military action in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Iraq; bombed Iran’s nuclear weapons complexes; and blown up more than a score of boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean. In just the past two weeks, he has launched missiles against Islamic terrorists in northern Nigeria, declared that the U.S. was “locked and loaded” for another attack on Iran, and now decapitated Venezuela’s government.
Pssst … Elbow people …Canada is already a vassal state – of China and their stooges of the Laurentian elite, WEF and the rest of the globalist 5th columnists.
Canada can’t offer itself as a reliable ally to either the EU or America in any meaningful way.
We don’t even have a real “armed forces” just a DEI pantomime. A GI Joe and Jane non-binary action figure with removable anatomy!
The US may annex Canada simply to keep China and Russia out of the Arctic and America’s backyard.
It won’t take much. Who will sign up to defend Ottawa and their corporate cronies efforts to flood Canada with cheap 3rd World labour or lavish tax dollars on themselves & foreigners?
It’s not as if all those shiny new Canadians Ottawa imports are going to rush the recruiting offices.
The Canada of university studies departments does not exist.
Nick Shirley’s video tour of 10 Somali daycare sites in the Twin Cities has drawn attention yet again to the massive public programs fraud committed by an almost exclusive cast of Somali Minnesotans. Shirley may have made some mistakes, but he seems to be on to something.
Shirley’s video raises an alarm about the administration of the Child Care Assistance Program by Minnesota’s Department of Human Services. In 2019, a devastating report by Minnesota’s nonpartisan Office of Legislative Auditor investigated a whistleblower’s claim that the program was riddled with fraud to the tune of $100 million. Legislative Auditor James Nobles limited his findings of fraud to amounts established in criminal convictions—$5 to $6 million at the time. However, Nobles called out the program for lax oversight and laughably inadequate controls. As he stated in a column last week, the department’s permissive approach “made it easy for fraudsters to steal.”
Baby Trump Visits Minnesota & The Somalian Daycares! Ft. Ilhan Omar and Tim Walz 😭
He EXPOSES the FRAUD! 😎@BabyNetworkNews pic.twitter.com/jPl8fXI9io
— Baby News Network (@BabyNetworkNews) January 4, 2026
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is warning the federal government that the possible end of American sanctions on Venezuelan oil could displace Canadian exports to the U.S. — and is urging the Liberals to “immediately approve a pipeline to the Pacific Coast.”
In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media Tuesday, Poilievre said the action taken by the United States over the weekend has “altered the global energy landscape.”
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a military raid on the Venezuelan capital, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and bringing him to New York to face charges. Trump also has openly said that he plans to take control of the country’s oil industry and encourage American companies to revitalize the sector.
Change in oil-rich Venezuela means Canada must race to approve a pipeline to the Pacific Coast and move millions of barrels of Canadian oil per day overseas to break our dependence on one customer.
Read my plan in a letter to the Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/MF4MNmJ2H4
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) January 6, 2026
The reaction to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro roughly falls into two camps: those who celebrate the downfall of a corrupt narco-terrorist and those who condemn it as a suspected breach of international law.
Prime Minister Mark Carney chose a third option, a wishy-washy, bland statement that neither praised the detention on moral grounds nor criticized it on the basis it might be illegal.
Pro-Nicolas Maduro protesters who turned up in Times Square and outside the Brooklyn federal lock-up where the former Venezuelan leader is being held were organized by hardcore left-wing group The People’s Forum, which has close ties to China.
The group — also behind anti-Israel demonstrations around the nation — called for “emergency protests nationwide” shortly after President Trump announced Saturday US forces had captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
On cue, fake astro-turfed pro-Maduro marches. Weird how these people are expressing ZERO emotion compared to the tears of joy from the anti-Maduro celebrations.
You notice their fancy, professionally printed signs? This reeks of Soros. pic.twitter.com/CIKc1p9R3L
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) January 4, 2026
Why Yesterday's Pro-Maduro Protests Looked Like Astroturf pic.twitter.com/vthcVi2iZm
— joe t (@jtinaglia) January 5, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is not worried about U.S. President Donald Trump’s previous threats about annexing Canada in light of U.S. military action in Venezuela that led to the capture of that country’s ousted president over the weekend.
“It’s not going to frighten me. It shouldn’t frighten anyone in Canada,” Ford told reporters Monday.
Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. military had infiltrated Venezuela and apprehended ousted president Nicolás Maduro to stand trial in the U.S. Maduro entered a plea of not guilty to all charges during a court appearance in New York City on Monday on drug-trafficking charges.
The US has faced widespread condemnation for a “crime of aggression” in Venezuela at an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council.
Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Spain were among countries that on Monday denounced Donald Trump’s decision to launch deadly strikes on Venezuela and snatch its leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to stand trial in the US.
“The bombings on Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line,” Sérgio França Danese, the Brazilian ambassador to the UN, told the meeting. “These acts constitute a very serious affront to the sovereignty of Venezuela and set an extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community.”
Even Ana Navarro of “The View” had to admit that President Trump did a good thing by removing Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela: “For us, this is a very, very happy day. … It brought me to tears. It brought me great joy.” pic.twitter.com/MTZMpysiu2
— The Western Journal (@WesternJournalX) January 5, 2026
When it comes to the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, U.S. President Donald Trump didn’t mince words on why U.S. commandos seized Venezuela’s president. “They stole our oil,” Mr. Trump said.
Put aside for a moment clear violations of international law from U.S. actions and the fact “our” oil somehow ended up under Venezuela’s soil.
A picture Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro handcuffed and blindfolded in a tracksuit aboard a U.S. navy ship conjures images of other oil-rich autocrats deposed by Washington and its proxies: Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Neither of those interventions ended well.
NYC: Venezuelans who are happy Maduro is out, clash with American liberals who don't know where Venezuela is on a map pic.twitter.com/CrhG1DFnkV
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 5, 2026
So many critics cite “international law” while ignoring the sheer delight of the Venezuelan people at Maduro’s removal.
Americans do not need illegal immigrants to raise our children.
Atlantic writer Olga Khazan disagrees. She is angry at President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration because it is disrupting the easily exploited servant class that provides cheap childcare. As she explains, “Millions of parents in the United States … rely on immigrants to take care of their kids. … Immigrants make up at least 21 percent of the child-care workforce — and this may be an undercount.”
