THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION SHOULD HAVE BOOSTED THE COUP THAT NEARLY REMOVED HUGO CHAVEZ: Dealing With Maduro Is No Distraction. It’s a Necessity.

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO TRUMP:

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— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 7, 2025

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Snowmaggedon is eyeing America: experts predict harshest winter in 12 years as maps show coldest states.

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DAN HANNAN: Not all immigrants are equal.

Minnesota may be the single largest source of funds for the Somali terrorist organization al Shabaab. An investigation by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute found that schemes established in the state to provide healthcare, children’s services, and food distribution have been subjected to such gargantuan fraud that Minnesotan taxpayers may, in effect, be simultaneously funding several sides in Somalia’s civil war.

This is a reminder that not all cultures are equal. Minnesota‘s political structures were designed for Scandinavians, who are famously industrious, with a high level of social trust that has allowed them to sustain ambitious welfare programs with little abuse.

In the New World, as in the Old, they designed institutions that reflected their character. Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, which was supposed to provide housing for seniors, disabled people, and drug addicts, is a good example. With its client groups in mind, it was deliberately built to have “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.”

It turns out that Somalis do not respond to such schemes in the way that Swedes do. Instead of simply over-claiming, as your unambitious American fraudster might, locals set up bogus companies to make fictitious claims running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of the money went on cars and holidays, but a chunk found its way to al Qaeda-aligned Islamists in Somalia, where remittances from overseas amount to a larger sum than the state budget.

As Kevin Williamson once wrote of Bernie Sanders, “Sanders is particularly taken with the case of Finland, which he holds up as a model of what a long-term commitment to democratic socialism can produce…A critic once asked Milton Friedman what he thought about the fact that Sweden has basically no poverty, and Friedman answered: We don’t have many poor Swedes in America, either.”

But perhaps we do have some in power who failed to project into the future where mass importation might lead:

I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that a bunch of Swedes transported themselves to a different continent 150 years ago, chose to move to the coldest bit, and then, independently of their cousins across the pond and in perfect synchronicity
– Built a high-trust… https://t.co/OsxtFOkrkw

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) December 4, 2025