Source: Brownstone Institute
by David Bell
“The pandemic agenda, important to maintaining a healthy market for mRNA vaccines, is reliant on a general sense of fear and urgency to achieve success. Mitigating against this is the decline in infectious disease and dearth of recent naturally derived pandemics. With Covid-19 fading and looking worryingly unnatural in origin, the pandemic industry is developing an increasing interest in ancient history, when its offerings may have proven more useful.” (01/21/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-importance-of-medieval-rats-to-pandemic-profit/
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Ten days ago, I quoted Veronique de Rugy, warning that Minnesota’s day-care fraud scandal was ‘only the tip of the iceberg.’ Beyond subsidized daycare? Health care, home health care, Medicaid. Fraud, fraud, fraud. But it wasn’t just a lone Reason scholar saying it. ‘What we’re seeing in Minnesota … is dwarfed by what I saw in California,’ The Epoch Times quotes Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Minnesota, Dr. Oz said, ‘is just the tip of the iceberg.'” (01/21/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/21/oz-in-fraudland/
Source: United Press International
“Peru’s interim president, Jose Jeri, is facing a preliminary investigation over his dealings by the Attorney General’s Office just 100 days into his term after replacing ousted former President Dina Boluarte. Jeri has come under scrutiny amid suspicions that he may have sought to favor a businessman of Chinese origin in award contracts without a public bidding process. The probe began Thursday with allegations of illegal sponsorship of interests and influence peddling after reports that Jeri held meetings with businessman Zhihua Yang outside the Government Palace that were not recorded on the official presidential agenda, the newspaper La Republica reported.” (01/21/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/01/21/latam-peru-president-jose-jeri-investigation/4981769018798/
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan’s governing party and a controversial South Korean church. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier pleaded guilty to killing Abe in July 2022 during his election campaign speech in the western city of Nara. … Yamagami pleaded guilty to murder in the trial that started in October.” (01/21/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shinzo-abe-shooting-death-trial-9.7054161
Source: Washington Post
“What it will take to fix American policing.” (01/21/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/what-it-will-take-to-fix-american-policing/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Robert G Natelson
“Elite opinion aside, the Supreme Court has not aggressively attacked the bad precedents of the past century. Maybe it should.” (01/21/26)
https://lawliberty.org/overturning-the-twentieth-century/
Source: Fox News
by Mike Davis
“The freedom of worship is a cornerstone value of our Republic, enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Last Sunday, a group of anti-ICE agitators violated this most sacred right when they stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul, MN, during church services to protest the pastor’s supposed ties to ICE. This mob of leftist bigots included fired CNN anchor Don Lemon, who stunningly claimed they (somehow) had the First Amendment right to target, trespass into, terrify and disrupt a church service – even based upon the race and religion of the congregants. … For his outrageous criminal behavior and total lack of remorse, Lemon must face legal accountability – including federal felony charges under the FACE Act and Ku Klux Klan Act. In short, Lemon must go to federal prison – and for years.” (01/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mike-davis-don-lemon-his-church-storming-mob-must-face-ku-klux-klan-face-act-charges
Source: Quillette
by Patrick Whittle
“Hitler left blood. Richard III left bones. Lenin left an entire body, preserved like a specimen. For centuries, historians and biographers have understood the powerful by scrutinising their words and letters, dissecting their decisions, and weighing the testimony of those they governed. But the recent rise of ancient DNA research has opened unsettling possibilities for analysing the actions of our rulers both past and present on the basis of their biology. This new perspective complicates but does not replace traditional interpretation; it could challenge old assumptions or further reinforce them. More significantly, however, genetics offers a tantalising — and possibly distorting — shortcut to understanding the minds that have shaped, or are now shaping, our world.” (01/21/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/01/21/bodies-of-evidence-adna-genetics-history-hitler-richard-iii-stalin/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Donald Trump has quit numerous international organizations. Many of his choices are good and long overdue. A few others, though, present real dangers to peace.” (01/21/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/01/20/quitting-international-agreements-and-organizations-the-wisdom-varies/
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum, Rebeccas Crosby, & Noel Sims
“In 2025, 32 people died in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That figure was the largest in more than two decades and tied for the highest number of deaths among ICE’s detainee population ever. 2026 is only three weeks old, and it’s already shaping up to be much worse. In just 21 days, at least six people have died in ICE custody.” (01/21/26)
https://popular.info/p/in-2026-ice-detainees-are-dying-at
