Source: Townhall
by John Stossel
“Home prices keep rising. One reason is that today’s houses are bigger. Buyers now want more rooms, washers and dryers and air-conditioning. But even if you adjust for the improvements, houses cost more today. Why? Politicians blame big companies like Blackstone, Invitation Homes and JPMorgan because they’ve been buying thousands of homes. … The opposite is true. The biggest reason for rising prices is intrusive government. Regulations now account for almost a quarter of the cost of a new home.” (01/28/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2026/01/28/politicians-make-things-worse-n2670182
Source: Fox News
“Adults who consider themselves ‘night owls’ tend to score lower in cardiovascular health assessments and face a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. That’s according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which examined how a person’s chronotype — their natural tendency to be active in the morning or evening — is linked to overall heart health. The researchers looked at 14 years of UK Biobank data for around 300,000 adults averaging 57 years old, according to a press release for the study. … people who were more active in the evening (‘night owls’) had a 79% higher risk of poor cardiovascular health compared to the intermediate group, and a 16% higher risk of heart attack or stroke, the release stated. People who identified as being more active in the morning had slightly better heart health scores. The link was more pronounced in women than men.” (01/28/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/sleep-timing-could-directly-impact-chances-heart-attack-stroke-study-suggests
Source: US News & World Report
“Montenegro could face fuel shortages due to region-wide protests and a blockade of the Adriatic port of Bar by truck drivers over restrictive EU entry rules that have left them facing deportation for exceeding Schengen visit limits. The port of Bar is the biggest entry point for overseas fuel imports into Montenegro, which has no oil refining capacity of its own. It also houses the country’s largest fuel depots. Blockades of border crossings in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and North Macedonia that began on Monday have halted transport along a critical road corridor linking the EU with Turkey and the Middle East. In a statement late on Tuesday, the Montenegrin Energy Ministry said it asked oil companies for information on stocks, and on the estimated period during which regular fuel supplies could be maintained.” (01/28/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-28/montenegro-could-face-fuel-shortages-due-to-truckers-blockade
Source: Politico
“The immigration divides.” (01/28/26)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL8613000652.mp3
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“A little background: a ‘color revolution’ is a widely used term for the nonviolent uprisings that overthrew some of the autocratic regimes that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The most famous of these uprisings was the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought democracy to Ukraine. Ukrainian democracy has had its ups and downs since then, but it’s still standing — and still standing up to Russia’s brutal attempts at conquest. Early in the second Trump administration it was clear that something like a color revolution was the only way to reverse the destruction of American democracy.” (01/28/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/minnesota-is-the-beginning-of-an
Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“In his seminal book On Bulls— (the actual title isn’t censored), philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt argues that lying implies a certain respect for, and knowledge of, the truth. ‘It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bulls— requires no such conviction.’ What this administration does is worse than lying because they don’t care whether something is true or false, only whether it will be believed. The Trump White House is a bulls— distribution hub, that connects via tubes, canals, and sluices across the media landscape. Like some vast Rube Goldberg contraption, the guy on the giant hamster wheel powering the whole thing is a president who spent his life saying whatever he needed to say at any given moment to make a deal, get out of trouble, whatever.” (01/28/26)
https://archive.is/oeWex
Source: Politico
“The top federal judge in Minneapolis backed off a plan to haul the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into court Friday, but delivered a brutal condemnation of the agency for repeatedly defying judges’ orders in cases stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz tore into the agency in a Wednesday order for what he characterized as a pattern of unprecedented defiance — violating dozens of court orders in ways that abused the rights of immigrants facing deportation proceedings. … Despite the judge’s fury, his order amounted to a reprieve of sorts for ICE’s acting director Todd Lyons, whom Schiltz had previously ordered to appear before him Friday to address potential contempt of court.” (01/28/26)
https://archive.is/OHFqs
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“‘Nobody in the White House, including President Trump, wants to see people getting hurt or killed in America’s streets.’ So claimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday, apparently as part of a strategy to separate the president from the second killing in Minnesota perpetrated by federal immigration agents. The plan also included demoting Greg Bovino, who held the title of Commander At Large at the U.S. Border Patrol, and removing him from his role as head of Minnesota’s mass deportation initiative, ‘Operation Metro Surge.’ Leavitt is wrong. Trump has a well-documented record of expressing his desire for protesters and immigrants to get hurt, and to get hurt by law enforcement officials. Bovino’s fall, after a fact-challenged defense of his trigger-happy agents, may provide some short-term schadenfreude. But let’s not allow Trump to get away with scapegoating Bovino.” (01/28/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/bovino-the-fall-guy-for-the-violence-trump-wanted/
Source: Reuters
“A South Korean court sentenced former first lady Kim Keon Hee to 20 months in jail on Wednesday for accepting Chanel bags and a diamond pendant from Unification Church officials in return for providing political favours. The wife of ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted from office last year, was cleared on other charges of stock price manipulation and violating the political funds act. Prosecutors will appeal against the not-guilty verdicts, media reports said. The ruling comes amid a series of trials stemming from investigations into Yoon’s brief imposition of martial law in 2024 and related scandals involving the once-powerful couple.” (01/28/26)
https://archive.is/xPb8O
Source: The American Conservative
“Trump’s Crisis in Minneapolis & Divorce from Europe.” (01/28/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-trumps-crisis-in-minneapolis-divorce-from-europe/
