Gavin Newsom’s $30 Billion Fraud Magnet

Christopher F. Rufo, Kenneth Schrupp, City Journal

California Governor Gavin Newsom is embroiled in a national fraud scandal. Thus far, much of the coverage has focused on alleged schemes related to unemploymentinsurance, hospice care, and food stamps. In this exclusive investigation, we shine a light on one of California’s largest initiatives: the In-Home Supportive Services Program, or IHSS, which pays family members and other individuals to provide home-based care for the elderly and disabled—at a cost of nearly $30 billion per year.

On the surface, IHSS presents itself as an instrument of compassion, directing billions to caregivers who help with cooking, personal care, laundry, and other daily needs inside recipients’ homes. But a growing number of experts and critics argue that the program is rife with fraud, losing roughly an estimated $6 billion to $12 billion yearly to scammers. Meantime, the state’s powerful home-care unions collect more than $149 million in membership dues, funneling money into the political network supporting Newsom and California Democrats.

What Trump Didn’t Say In His Masterful Iran Speech Was As Important As What He Didn't

By Bob Maistros, Issues & Insights

It was a very different Donald Trump the nation saw Wednesday night than “the showman president” they experienced in his last prime-time address. Then, an “affordability”-addled America was force-fed the chief executive’s version of “P.T. Barnum, the Prince of Humbugs, blaring hard-sell and hyperbole, mixed with equal measures of vitriol and vituperation.”

This time around, 47 stepped forward in a very different, and far more appropriate role: a calm, contemplative, and consolatory commander-in-chief accompanied concerned countrymen and women on a solemn but straight-to-the-point “sojourn” – to use his description of the current incursion – down Memory Lane.

A Marin County Tax Tsunami is Coming!

How many new taxes will YOU be asked to pay?

In 2026, Marin County voters will face the largest wave of tax proposals in local history.

At the same time, special interest groups are pushing to make it even easier to pass new taxes – with loopholes that allow them to pass with only 50% + 1 vote instead of the long-standing two-thirds requirement. If you live in Marin County, your cost of living is about to get hit from every direction. Most voters will see 3-6 new tax measures on their ballot. Some neighborhoods may see even more.

This isn’t business as usual. This is a TAX TSUNAMI.

Click below to learn what is coming.

How to end California’s worsening cost-of-living crisis — politicians must stop lying

By Carl DeMaio, New York Post

California has by far the highest cost of living of any state in the nation — and it’s getting worse every year.

But instead of fixing the problem, state and local politicians are dodging responsibility and spiking costs even higher with insane tax hikes and costly new regulations. 

The Transparency Foundation recently released a study showing the cost of living in California for a typical middle-class family of three is a shocking $29,753.16 higher than the national average.

The study compared every line item in a household budget to determine how much more expensive that item is in California versus the average cost nationally.

Color Revolution Tactics: Why The Left Must Break The Men Who Enforce The Law

Alexander Muse • amuse on 𝕏 January 27, 2026

A republic cannot survive if it teaches its citizens to hate the people charged with enforcing its laws. That is not a rhetorical flourish. It is a plain institutional truth. Law is not self-executing. It lives in ordinary human beings who wear uniforms, sign paperwork, make arrests, and carry out removals. If you can be made to see those people not as fellow citizens performing a difficult public function, but as monsters, then the law begins to look optional, and violence begins to look like virtue.

That is the point of the current campaign to demonize federal immigration officials. For simplicity, I will refer to all immigration officials as ICE, even though the work is carried out across ICE, CBP, and DHS. The campaign is not merely a set of criticisms of policy. It is a moral downgrade, a relentless effort to push a class of public servants outside the circle of normal human sympathy. It is also part of a broader color revolution attempt to remove President Trump and Republicans from power by delegitimizing the state’s basic functions, provoking disorder, and then blaming the resulting disorder on the administration tasked with restoring order.

Oil Matters In Venezuela, But Not For The Reason Democrats Think

Oil isn’t just a commodity anymore. It’s a strategic weapon.

by Larry Behrens, The Federalist

From the moment the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro hit the headlines, out came the recycled slogans that have been gathering dust for more than 20 years: “No Blood for Oil.” Right on cue, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predictably declared that U.S. policy toward Venezuela was “about oil and regime change.”

It’s a tired worldview recycled by eco-leftists — one where the United States is forever cast as a cartoon villain scheming to seize foreign oil fields. Yes, oil is part of the Venezuela story, but not in the simplistic bumper-sticker way the left keeps chanting.

Today, the United States is the world’s largest energy producer. American oil and gas don’t just power our economy — they stabilize global markets. Meanwhile, China is the world’s largest oil importer. Beijing’s economy survives only because tankers sail halfway around the world to feed its refineries. And one of the places China leans on most heavily is Venezuela. In 2025 alone, Beijing took in 470,000 barrels of oil per day from Maduro; that’s about 4.5 percent of China’s sea imported oil.

That’s the part the protest signs conveniently overlook.