If you feel like Chinese cars are suddenly right around the corner, you’re not alone. The notion has received a groundswell of both direct and indirect support lately, and as affordable new cars drop like flies from U.S. lineups, American consumers are becoming more open-minded about the prospect of allowing Chinese OEMs to enter the market.
Given the political climate, it’s no wonder that dealers feel caught a bit off-guard by this development. And now they’re getting vocal about it.
Iran has revealed its vision for war with the United States, detailing how it would overcome the world’s most powerful military and hold the global economy to ransom.
In a detailed battle plan published by Tasnim, the news agency affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), Iran’s leadership envisages strikes on US bases, new fronts opened up by proxy allies, cyber warfare and the paralysis of the global oil trade. Middle Eastern geography would win out against American technology, Iran insists.
OTTAWA — Canada has only one thing that Chinese President Xi desperately needs that he hasn’t been able to get elsewhere: a path to Arctic nation status. China has only one thing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney desperately needs that he can’t get elsewhere: a trade pact large enough to make credible his vow to pivot away from Canada’s dependence on the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump has reacted harshly to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s acclaimed speech at Davos. First Mr. Trump claimed Canada was a small-power satellite dependent on the U.S. Then Mr. Trump threatened 100-per-cent tariffs if Canada made a deal with China.
Till this day, we are still feeling the aftershock of the speech. Some observers have criticized Mr. Carney for provoking Mr. Trump. McGill University’s Andrew Potter called Mr. Carney “reckless.”
I bet the author of this love letter caught the clap from Carney.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the recent Davos conference — where he called for decoupling from the U.S. while entering a “strategic partnership” with China — was greeted rapturously abroad. His tough on Trump rhetoric is certainly winning political points at home as well.
Yet, in listing towards China, Carney is not only ignoring geography, but embracing an authoritarian regime far more dangerous than anything coming from MAGA. China’s clear intention is to seek global hegemony based on trade with an array of vassal states. All are then expected to follow Beijing’s party line.
The Democratic Party has come a long way from 1996, when President Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign declared that America “cannot tolerate illegal immigration” and added, “We continue to firmly oppose welfare benefits for illegal immigrants.”
When we seek explanations for why today’s Democrats refuse to call those here without permission “illegal,” oppose lawful deportations, and seek government benefits for those who’ve snuck into the country, we probably need to look no further than the population woes of Democratic states. At a time when states are governed increasingly by one party or another, the latest migration trends, released last week, show Americans continuing to move heavily away from states with politics dominated by Democrats, and toward Republican locales—significantly shifting population, political power, and economic resources.
On Wednesday’s The Situation Room, a CNN report on the biolab raid in Las Vegas left out a key piece of information: the connection of the lab to a Chinese national suspected to have connections to the Chinese government.
In one sense, Saddam Azlan Salim is a classic immigrant success story. Born in Bangladesh, he grew up in northern Virginia and quickly demonstrated an aptitude for the political rough-and-tumble of his adoptive land. Now he is 36 years old, a Virginia state senator, and a rising star in that state’s now-dominant Democrat Party establishment. In another sense, however, Saddam Azlan Salim clearly retains at least some of the sensibilities of the land of his birth, and he wants to bring them to his new land: He has just introduced a bill to criminalize “Islamophobia” in Virginia.
MARIJAMPOLE, Lithuania—European governments are preparing for war with Russia. A newly released wargame suggests they aren’t ready.
A Russian incursion, or outright invasion, into countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union has become more likely because of Europe’s tensions with President Trump over Greenland, Ukraine, trade and other matters, many European security and political leaders say.
They point out that Russia has switched to a war economy, focusing national resources on a rearmament program and military recruitment that goes well beyond the needs of the campaign in Ukraine.
OTTAWA — After meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday, Conservative MP Jamil Jivani said he has a message to Canadians from U.S. President Donald Trump: “Tell the Canadians I love them.”
Jivani announced on Wednesday that he was in Washington, D.C. to meet representatives from General Motors and to attend Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast in the U.S. capital.
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“No libtards allowed on this boat!” 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/rm3jipShkc
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 3, 2026
The unrest surrounding immigration enforcement in Minnesota is a flashpoint for a much deeper struggle over U.S. sovereignty.
A sovereign nation, by definition, must be able to enforce its laws within its own territory.
When federal immigration law is openly resisted, and elected leaders excuse, rationalize, fail to deter, or even encourage violence against those tasked with exercising constitutional authority, both the federal government and the nation lose their fundamental legitimacy.
🚨 LMAO! DHS agents showed off an “ICE OUT” poster they captured in Minneapolis
And of course, the white liberal women start screeching about it
These videos never get old 🤣 pic.twitter.com/FEQXLyUxoj
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2026
“I think this is the end for ICE,” Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, Minnesota (CAIR-MN), bragged, as the violent riots against immigration enforcement continued. “This is the moment where we continue to double down.”
The Somali Muslim leader’s aggressive rhetoric showed the role that his people were playing in the campaign to protect illegal alien criminals, some of them fellow Somali Muslims, from deportation as part of a network of extreme groups engaging in intimidation against ICE.
The Trump administration will draw down 700 federal law enforcement officers from Minnesota “effective immediately,” border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.
After that partial withdrawal, around 2,000 federal agents will remain in the state — a roughly 25% reduction — with most concentrated in the Twin Cities area encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul, Homan said at a press conference.
Homan announced the pullback after touting “unprecedented cooperation” between the federal government and state and local entities.
It was the rhetoric no one saw coming from a President supposedly dedicated to law and order: threats not just to limit or alter trade with Canada, but “absorb” the country altogether as the 51st State. Falsely labeled as a solution to fentanyl abuse and alleged subsidies, coupled with “liberating” Canada from its far-left leader and lowering taxes, the 51st state narrative sprung to life from nowhere, dispersed like wildfire, and directly influenced an election handily going to Pierre Poilievre straight into Mark Carney’s hands.
In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union.
Not all Unionists believed a civil war was inevitable: Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see the stain of slavery gone from the Union.
Similarly, others agreed that the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble and costs of war, and the secessionists could just form their own nation and stew in their own backward, servile juice.
