Sinn Fein leaders announce they will boycott the White House St. Patrick’s Day festivities again this year even though they have not been invited to attend St. Patrick’s festivities this year.
Sinn Fein is an Irish political party with republican and democrat socialist branches. It is active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, having won the largest share of first-preference votes and the most seats in the 2022 election, the first time an Irish nationalist party has done so.
The Sinn Fein leaders confirmed that the party will not attend St. Patrick’s Day festivities at the White House again this year. They also skipped out last year.
It was a noble gesture and they felt quite proud of themselves until reporters notified them that the American Embassy in Ireland had not yet invited them this year.
Mikie Sherrill transformed so quickly into Orval Faubus that people barely noticed. Or is it George Wallace? Tim Walz, perhaps?
New Jersey's new governor has decided to step up and become the next US governor to learn basic civics only while in office. And only when a federal judge has to provide tutoring, it seems:
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing New Jersey to overturn Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s executive order limiting ICE agents’ presence on state-owned property, arguing it violates the Constitution’s supremacy clause.
“Such blatant disregard for federal laws that have been on the books for over three decades is not merely a political statement, but is instead deliberate action that jeopardizes the public safety of all Americans. But the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits a state from usurping Congress,” reads the three-count lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Newark and announced Tuesday in a press release.
Sherrill, a Democrat who won the November election in a landslide, issued Executive Order 12 this month, which bars immigration authorities from non-public parts of state-owned property unless they have a judicial warrant. It also prohibits them from using state property as a “staging area, processing location, or operations base.”
That's not how the Constitution works. That's not how any of this works. Orval Faubus and George Wallace learned that lesson decades ago; Tim Walz got taught it last month, although it's still not clear that he learned anything.
To put it briefly: the federal government has jurisdiction to enforce federal law throughout the United States, including on property owned by state and local governments. This is not an esoteric function of sovereignty; it's the core of sovereignty. It springs directly from Article VI, Clause 2 of the US Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause, which reads:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
In this case, the conflict doesn't even involve a law. Sherrill issued an executive order, not a statute passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor. Such a law still would not overrule the Supremacy Clause, and an executive order has even less weight.
Interestingly, the lawsuit uses a kitchen-sink approach. It argues for the application of the Supremacy Clause and that Sherrill is, in fact, illegally discriminating against federal officers by blocking access to public spaces. That is a novel and somewhat amusing argument, but also accurate and actionable:
8. On its face, the Executive Order prevents federal immigration agents from using stateowned property accessible to local and state law enforcement. The sole reason for the exclusionary treatment of federal immigration agents enforcing our Nation’s federal immigration laws is New Jersey’s disagreement with the substance of the laws written by Congress that have remained on the books and largely unchanged for half a century. ...
10. The New Jersey Executive Order intentionally discriminates against the Federal Government by treating federal immigration authorities differently than other law enforcement agents through access restrictions to property.
11. The Supremacy Clause prohibits New Jersey and its officials from singling out the Federal Government for adverse treatment—as the challenged Executive Order does— thereby discriminating against the Federal Government. Using publicly owned property such as a parking lot, office building, or public garage for staging, base operations, or processing reduces the safety risks to the public, illegal aliens, and law enforcement officers.
Even without the Supremacy Clause, on what basis can the state of New Jersey deny public access to public spaces to federal employees? The Supremacy Clause is sufficient for a court to tell Sherrill to pound sand, but the court – or more likely, an appellate panel – might be interested in lecturing the governor on this point as well.
Bet on the application of the Supremacy Clause to be the main point, though. The lawsuit cites precedent in the same circuit that applies directly to the conflict at hand:
14. As this Court decided in CoreCivic, Inc. v. Murphy, “a state law that wholesale deprives the federal government of its chosen method of detaining individuals for violating federal law cannot survive Supremacy Clause scrutiny.” CoreCivic, Inc. v. Murphy, 690 F. Supp. 3d 467, 478 (D.N.J. 2023). The Third Circuit affirmed that decision, holding that “thevery essence of supremacy empowers the federal government to remove all obstacles toits action within its own sphere . . . [and] exempt its own operations from [state]influence.” CoreCivic, Inc. v. Governor of NJ, 145 F.4th 315, 321 (3d Cir. 2025) (internalquotations and citations omitted). ...
33. Thus, a state enactment is invalid if it “stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment andexecution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress,” Hines v. Davidowitz, 312U.S. 52, 67 (1941), or if it “discriminate[s] against the United States or those with whomit deals,” South Carolina v. Baker, 485 U.S. 505, 523 (1988).34. The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause also embodies the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity, which “generally immunizes the Federal Government from state laws thatdirectly regulate or discriminate against it.” United States v. Washington, 596 U.S. 832,835 (2022) (citing Baker, 485 U.S. at 523).
35. A State or local law violates this doctrine if it “regulates the United States directly ordiscriminates against the Federal Government or those with whom it deals.” NorthDakota, 495 U.S. at 435. Discrimination occurs when a state or locality “treats someoneelse better than” the federal government, id. at 438, or singles out the federal governmentfor “less favorable ‘treatment.’” Washington, 596 U.S. at 839.
The relief sought in this case seems simple and reasonable, especially given the basic nature of the constitutional violation:
WHEREFORE, the United States respectfully requests the following relief:
1. That this Court enter a judgment declaring that the challenged Executive Order violates theSupremacy Clause and is therefore invalid;
2. That this Court issue a permanent injunction that prohibits Defendants as well as theirsuccessors, agents, and employees, from enforcing or implementing the challengedExecutive Order;
3. That this Court award the United States its costs and fees in this action; and
4. That this Court award any other relief it deems just and proper.
The first and second requests are con-law no-brainers. Request #3 should be granted as a disincentive for equally specious attempts to defy federal authority and jurisdiction, but the court may just decide to let everyone pay their own court and attorney costs. The amount in question won't disincentivize other blue-state governors from attempting the same stunt; it's not about the costs to taxpayers.
If Sherrill is lucky, the court will impose a TRO without comment. If Sherrill is really this dumb, she'll push it to the appellate circuit and force them to comment on her basic civics illiteracy.
If you're anything like us, you are beyond sick and tired of listening to lefties whine, cry, and complain about Olympic hockey in general. Either they're angry at the men's team for celebrating (and doubly angry about Kash Patel, REEEE), or they're claiming that the women's team are HEROES because they hate Trump.
Or something.
They lie so much, they make up so much insanity, that it's honestly even hard for us to keep up with the BS.
And speaking of BS, there's this:
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... on the world stage, and complete disregard for freedom and democracy. Their polite 'no thank you' says more than any corporation, or tech billionaire, or media company is willing to say. Amid so much cowardice, it’s those who stood up who will be remembered for meeting the moment. It’s Jimmy Kimmel fighting back. It’s Perkins Coie fighting back. And now, it’s the American women’s gold medal winning hockey team that decided their own dignity was worth more than a fleeting moment of proximity to power."
We're not sure if Cohen started this lie or just fed it, but people are calling all of them out.
But they're not dissing Trump for any of this virtue-signaling nonsense that Cohen seems to think means something.
In fact, the reason they're not showing is pretty boring (which is likely why our pals on the Left are lying):
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... extremely gracious in their statement explaining why they couldn’t come. They are patriots who love their country. Get over your TDS.
And stop using young women for your own repugnant agenda.
AI image prompted by VodkaPundit using a PAID VERSION of OpenAI's ChatGPT. The irony is thick.
Too fast, too risky, too disruptive. The AI "revolution" has become a juggernaut, a powerful, world-changing event that is frightening many Americans with its speed and technical wizardry while unsettling many more with its implied threat to people's livelihoods.
I am an artificial intelligence booster. Bring it on, I say, and let the chips fall where they may.
But what's happening now is beyond the scope of our ability to guide and control it.
"Many people think AI is either a science fiction movie or something that is going to take their jobs," Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), vice chair of the National Governors Association (NGA), told Axios. "Government hasn't done a good job helping people separate fact from fiction. When people think about AI, they need to move beyond what they saw in a Will Smith movie."
It's moving far too fast for that. In the last six months (September 2025-February 2026), the AI landscape has shifted from chatting to acting. While 2024 was about making models smarter, this recent period has focused on "Agentic AI" — systems that can autonomously use software, browse the web, and manage physical hardware.
Major providers have moved beyond general chatbots to "agentic" models designed specifically for executing multi-step workflows.
Anthropic released its newest flagship, including Claude Sonnet 4.6, which achieves near-human performance on coding and terminal-based tasks while maintaining affordable pricing.
xAI introduced a unique parallel agent architecture. Instead of one "brain," Grok 4.20 uses four specialized agents (Fact-checking, Logic/Coding, Creative, and Coordination) to handle every complex query simultaneously.
Google regained the top spot on several benchmarks with Gemini 3.1 Pro, emphasizing deep reasoning for science and engineering.
To the ancients, a telephone or television would seem magical. To a broken-down, 72-year-old writer, what's happening with AI isn't far off.
58% of Americans don't trust AI much or at all. 63% say AI will decrease the number of jobs in the U.S., according to an Economist/YouGov poll out last week.
In a separate YouGov survey out in December, 77% of Americans were concerned AI could pose a threat to humanity. It's one thing to fear higher taxes. It's another thing to worry about the existence of your species!
"I've followed tech for 25 years and I've never felt a larger gap between the ~1 million people using Codex/Claude and the rest of humanity," tweeted James Wang, director of product marketing at Cerebras.
The AI haves and have-nots, or more accurately, the AI "enlightened" and the rest of us. Those who are going full throttle, 100%, pedal to the metal to incorporate AI into everything they do understand the potential of AI, but from my vantage point, don't care enough about what AI is doing to us, our economy, and the world.
Just as a chess player aided by a computer could once beat any standalone machine, an engineer paired with an AI agent may now be the most powerful unit in tech.
Amodei argues that this hybrid phase may be "very brief" — perhaps only a few years before AI systems can independently outpace even the best human-led teams.
Major AI labs have spent the past year pitching "agentic workflows" as the industry's next frontier.
That vision snapped into focus last month with the explosive rise of OpenClaw, an open-source tool that lets developers spin up AI agents to plan, code and ship software end to end.
Unlike chatbots that live in a browser or an app, OpenClaw gives agents "hands" on a user's local machine — letting them autonomously manage files, run terminal commands and message teammates.
The popularity of the project was supercharged by Moltbook, a viral, AI-only social network where OpenClaw agents "hang out" and post autonomously.
Austrian developer Peter Steinberger created OpenClaw, which became the fastest-growing repository in GitHub history.
"[Steinberger] is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. "We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings."
I'm still bullish on AI as a product/process that has the potential to change the world for the better. I am also becoming increasingly concerned about the perceived arrogance and dismissive attitude of some tech gurus in this industry. Wanting to take the technology forward is fine, as long as the pitfalls and dangers are thought through.
I'm not saying take no risks. I'm saying, slow the hell down. Racing to be first with this or that mind-blowing breakthrough isn't worth it if it results in unforeseen, catastrophic changes to the labor force, our economy, or to humanity.
They say an empty vessel makes the most noise. That's probably why, whenever anti-Second Amendment nutcase David Hogg opines on firearms and gun laws, he sounds like a cement truck with a bad muffler driving through an alarm clock factory. And, while he's loud, he's also predictably wrong, every time, and that's as sure as shootin' (hah).
His latest foray into the nonsensical comes in reaction to the ongoing cartel war in Mexico; young Mr. Hogg, desperately trying to stretch his 15 minutes of fame to half an hour, took to X to make, yet again, a claim that has been debunked a million times.
There's just one problem with that claim: It's the purest of stuff one finds at the aft end of a horse.
First of all, he's wrong about the 90 percent claim. It's not 90 percent of the guns used by cartels. It is 90 percent (give or take) of the guns submitted by Mexico to the United States for tracing by serial number, because they were already presumed to have come from the United States. In other words, 90 percent of the guns presumed to have come from the United States were confirmed to have come from the United States.
Well, duh. This was debunked way back in 2009. The correct number of firearms seized in Mexico and tracked to the United States was, in 2009, about 17 percent. Similar numbers have been reported as recently as 2021. Mr. Hogg is either monumentally ignorant or deliberately misstating the facts - or both. I'm inclined to embrace the power of "and" in this case.
Also, young Mr. Hogg has apparently never heard of the Obama administration's Operation Fast and Furious, otherwise known as the ATF gunwalking scandal, wherein the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder let thousands of American-made guns slide across the border, bound south, in one of the most incompetent cluster foul-ups that the United States government has ever attempted.
A year or so back, I remember seeing a video taken from the Texas side of the border. The video portrayed events on the Mexico side that was said to be a clash between civil authorities and cartels on the south side of the border, and while you couldn't see much, the audio was clear; the cartels were employing at least two full-up, crew-served machine guns. Not AR-15s, not AK-pattern rifles, that people who don't know their fourth point of contact from a hole in the ground about guns describe as "machine guns." No, these were real, no-kidding machine guns, the sort that you can't just buy at the local gun shop - these had to have come, one way or another, from the Mexican military or some other military source.
Also, our recent reporting indicates that the cartels are also fielding grenade launchers and rocket launchers. Does Mr. Hogg presume those are somehow coming from the United States as well?
David Hogg is like so many on the left: He has a pet cause. He knows little or nothing about the object of his cause, but he speaks freely on this topic he knows very little about, and in every news piece, no matter what the topic, he manages to do a verbal lateral arabesque to make it about his pet cause and somehow manage to maneuver himself back into the spotlight. The problem he has is this: He's utterly reliable in that every time he opens his mouth, every time he vents his spleen on X, he says something dumb. This case is no exception.
Hong Kong protests after Panama takes control of two key ports on the Panama Canal once run by a Hong Kong company
Hong Kong protests after Panama takes control of 2 key ports on the Panama CanalBy HUIZHONG WUAssociated PressThe Associated PressBANGKOK
BANGKOK (AP) — Hong Kong is protesting Panama’s seizure of two ports on a canal vital for global trade that were operated by a Hong Kong-based company for decades, the city’s government said Tuesday.
Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau said in a statement it had lodged “stern protests” with Panama’s consulate, adding that it had expressed strong opposition and dissatisfaction and would “staunchly support the legitimate rights and interests of Hong Kong corporations overseas.”
The ports located at the mouth and tail of the Panama Canal, which have been operated by a subsidiary of CK Hutchison since 1997, became embroiled in a legal dispute after getting caught in the middle of the U.S. and China’s competition for influence in the region. The ports became the focus of global attention after U.S. President Donald Trump accused China of “running the Panama Canal.”
Panama’s government took control of the two ports on Monday after the country’s Supreme Court struck down a law approving the concession contract for Panama Ports Company, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison. That ruling stripped the port of legal basis for its operations, and the company is now bringing arbitration proceedings against the country.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also weighed in Tuesday. “China will firmly safeguard the company’s legitimate and lawful rights and interests,” said spokesperson Mao Ning at a daily press briefing.
Panama said it would ensure smooth operation of the waterway.
The director of ports for Panama’s Maritime Authority, said at a press conference that the agency “took possession of its ports and will guarantee continuity of operations.” He added that the entity’s board of directors will approve a plan for transitional operation for up to 18 months until long-term operators are selected.
Later in a televised message to the nation, President José Raúl Mulino said that the seizure was not an expropriation, but the government would keep control of the ports “until their real value is determined for corresponding actions.” He also assured that “everything done was not against anyone, but in compliance with the law,” referring to challenges from the company and China’s government.
The ports are also due to be sold as part of a deal struck by CK Hutchison with a group of buyers including Blackrock after Trump began putting pressure on Panama to reduce Chinese influence last year.
Federal and local authorities in Idaho have finally apprehended the radical suspect accused of attempting a domestic terror attack against a DHS/ICE facility.
The Gateway Pundit reported last week that an anti-ICE agitator stole an ambulance, packed it with gas cans, and rammed the emergency vehicle into a DHS office in Meridian, Idaho.
Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea said the suspect stole the ambulance from St. Luke’s Hospital and poured accelerant inside of the vehicle.
“We want to emphasize that this was a serious criminal act,” Police Chief Basterrechea said.
“The theft and destruction of an emergency vehicle not only created a risk to responding personnel, but it also temporarily removed a critical medical resource from the community,” he said.
The police chief said “there has been a lot of rhetoric surrounding the Department of Homeland Security leasing office space at this location.”
“Comments on social media, such as ‘property damage isn’t violence,’ is absolutely false,” he said.
“This was absolutely an act of violence, and if the suspect had not been interrupted, there is no doubt this building would have been burned, putting the lives of first responders and others at risk,” he added.
According to authorities, 43-year-old Sarah Elizabeth George of Boise was taken into custody Monday evening after Meridian Police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives executed a search warrant at her Boise residence.
Police Chief of Meridian Police Department Tracy Basterrechea:
“Today, I’m glad to announce that we have made an arrest of Sarah Elizabeth George, a 43-year-old female from Boise, Idaho. The Meridian Police Department, along with the local Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, served an arrest warrant on George and executed a search warrant at George’s residence earlier this evening.
Agents and detectives are currently processing the scene at the residence now, collecting evidence. The investigators standing here are responsible for this timely arrest.
The first thing I would like to point out is that the men and women of the Meridian Police Department and the men and women of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the FBI, did an amazing job over the last five days—working long hours and working diligently—to positively identify Ms. George and bring her into custody.”
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According to a federal criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, Sarah Elizabeth George has been charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire and malicious destruction of property used in interstate commerce.
The affidavit, submitted by FBI Special Agent Daniel Ramirez, outlines a chilling sequence of events that unfolded on the night of February 18, 2026.
Investigators allege that George stole a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance from outside St. Luke’s Hospital in Meridian at approximately 11:00 p.m.
Minutes later, surveillance footage reportedly shows the stolen ambulance crashing through the south entrance doors of the Portico Building at 3330 E. Louise Drive.
The building contains office space leased by the U.S. General Services Administration for DHS and ICE operations.
According to the affidavit, the suspect did not stop at ramming the building. CCTV footage allegedly shows her retrieving gas cans from inside the ambulance and pouring gasoline throughout the lobby floor in what authorities believe was an attempt to ignite the structure.
A Walmart bag containing lighter fluid and two red gasoline jugs were recovered at the scene.
Federal investigators describe a methodical paper trail leading to the suspect’s identification.
Surveillance footage from Walmart shows a woman matching George’s description purchasing gas cans and lighter fluid hours before the attack.
Credit: US District Court for the District of IdahoCredit: US District Court for the District of Idaho
Additional footage from a nearby Fred Meyer gas station reportedly shows the suspect filling gas cans and fueling a Dodge Dakota pickup truck, using a loyalty card in the name “Sarah Elizabeth George.”
Credit: US District Court for the District of Idaho
Investigators also identified a blue 2005 Dodge Dakota registered to individuals with the same last name and observed similarities between that vehicle and the one captured on security footage.
The affidavit further notes that investigators located a Facebook page believed to belong to George containing posts critical of ICE and DHS.
One post from the morning of February 18 reportedly stated: “If it can be destroyed by the truth then it should be destroyed; it was built in lies anyways.”
Credit: US District Court for the District of Idaho
After reviewing the Idaho DMV database, authorities discovered that George had been pulled over during a traffic stop just weeks earlier.
Her driver’s license photo matched the suspect.
Credit: US District Court for the District of Idaho
If convicted on federal arson and terrorism-related charges, Sarah Elizabeth George could spend decades in prison.
