Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’ ridiculous offer.
The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment. The House Oversight Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas require the Clintons to appear for depositions that are under oath and transcribed. Former President Clinton has a documented history of parsing language to evade questions, responded falsely under oath, and was impeached and suspended from the practice of law as a result.
The absence of an official transcript is an indefensible demand that is insulting to the American people who demand answers about Epstein’s crimes. As part of our investigation, the House Oversight Committee has released transcripts of interviews with former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, which has provided much needed transparency to the public. Without a formal record, Americans would be left to rely on competing accounts of what was said.
Former Secretary Clinton’s on-the-record testimony is necessary for the Committee’s investigation given her knowledge from her time as Secretary of State of the federal government’s work to counter international sex-tracking rings, her personal knowledge of Ms. Maxwell, and her family’s relationship with Mr. Epstein.
Contempt proceedings begin tomorrow.
Shooting Your Own Foot
There’s a lot of talk these days about how the European Union is going to “stick it” to the US by potentially selling trillions of dollars worth of US treasury bills. But there’s a problem. Since every currency on earth is just a derivative of the US dollar, and has been since the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, Europe wouldn’t be “dumping” US dollars. Whatever financial instrument they get in return, they all share the same root: the US dollar.
One of my favorite financial commentators, Rafi Farber, explains the problem fully in this short video.
Sign of the Times
I woke up this morning to see that a TDS-ravaged Facebook group administrator had lost his/her/their/its mind:
Wednesday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: The Islamic Games. Arrest Them! The Munichian Candidate.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Problems with the evidence. Blackie in Davos. A Cairo junket. Cost Overruns.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Cousin marriage. A lesson for Canada? Somalis in Britain. Paul Joseph Watson – She let slip more than intended.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Carney’s Davos speech
Mark Carney’s speech in Davos, verbatim, and in video.
I informed some people I was with on Tuesday I am starting a new drinking game. Every time I hear an otherwise conservative politician say something nice about Mark Carney, drink.
It turns out that bottle of Scotch I got for Christmas could go pretty quick. The people I was with were conservative politicians. Take that for what you will.
January 21, 2026: Reader Tips
Here’s a very interesting story about alcohol: The Fireball Whiskey Scam
Your tips, about your favourite alcohol, or even just news, are much appreciated!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Historical photos of small town Saskatchewan.
New Rules
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday served subpoenas to at least five top Minnesota Democrats — including Gov. Tim Walz — as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the obstruction of ICE and of the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown in the state, U.S. officials confirmed to Just the News.
Beyond the subpoena issued to Walz for allegedly obstructing law enforcement activities, the DOJ also subpoenaed Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty over their alleged anti-ICE actions and obstruction activities, the U.S. officials said.
“If you cannot defend yourself, then how can you possibly defend Greenland?”
What most people don’t understand about the strategically worded letter to Norway’s leftist Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, is how President Trump has just framed Støre as the defacto head of Brussels, representing the interests of the EU toward the framework of Greenland.
It’s not about the Nobel Peace Prize; it’s something far bigger. President Trump did not initiate contact with PM Støre; the contact was first made by Støre calling President Trump to notify him that their position was to defend Greenland against any threat from a non-NATO nation. President Trump asked how Norway was going to secure that pledge and Støre had no response.
The days of US taxpayers paying to defend territories that others extract wealth from seem numbered.
It’s ridiculous that Europe was more than happy to accept 81 years of free-of-charge American security guarantees, but the moment the United States needs land to maintain that protection, the answer suddenly becomes no.
A More Perfect Bromide Festival
A cultural movement has to be dedicated to something more specific than “problem solving” to be remotely effective. Marxists, for instance, are as keen on solving problems as anyone, but view class warfare as the go-to solution and we know where that leads. It’s no shock that the backers of this vacuous nonsense are comprised of the usual gang of mainstream celebrities and non-profits.
Founding members range from nonprofits — including GivingTuesday, Goodwill Industries and Habitat for Humanity, businesses like Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and the National Basketball Association, to funders like the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and More Perfect.
Hooks said this is a 10-year commitment toward trying to achieve what would be a profound shift in behavior and culture. He referenced a 2024 Pew Research Center survey that found most Americans in 2023 and 2024 did not believe that the U.S. could solve its most important problems, saying it was a “red alert” for the country.
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Starmer Clears China’s “Mega-Embassy” Near Tower of London.
The approval comes in the wake of the Starmer government’s decision to wind down a counter-intelligence case alleging that two former China-based language teachers penetrated Westminster and passed sensitive political information on Conservative lawmakers pushing a tougher stance on Beijing—sending real-time reports up the chain toward senior Chinese intelligence, in an operation that reports alleged was tasked by a top Politburo figure close to President Xi Jinping.
Washington’s China hawks had already framed the collapse of that case as possibly linked to the mega-embassy approval, and characterized the embassy decision as a test of allied intelligence cohesion.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
It’s kind of amazing the way Liberal politicians live up to my headlines, if I do say so myself.
Last week, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Canada and the People’s Republic of China will enhance law enforcement cooperation on drug trafficking, transnational and cybercrime, and money laundering. On paper, this sounds reasonable. Fentanyl is devastating communities. Cybercrime drains billions. Organized crime adapts faster than borders.
But experience teaches me that cooperation with the PRC is never just technical, never apolitical, and never insulated from the priorities of the Chinese Communist Party. Canadians deserve to understand the risks.
In Canada, policing is constrained by courts, disclosure rules, independent prosecutors, and an entrenched—if imperfect—commitment to individual rights. In the PRC, law enforcement is an extension of state security. Its primary function is not public safety as Canadians understand it, but regime stability.
Well, to be fair, regime stability is important to Ottawa as well.
Related: Liberals are now claiming that CLIPS of bureaucrats testifying in Parliament are a “safety risk” to officials
Is Our Diversities Learing?
David Murrell, in the comments:
CTV news writes an utterly one-sided article quoting solely only one source, the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association, complaining that the Immigration backlog of 1-million applications must be speeded up. The author of this piece? One Aarjavee Raaj.
Born and raised in Mumbai, India.
Related: The Minnesota Governor funds Somali “day cares”. Mark Carney funds “Southeast Asia”.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Somali fraud. Leftist White Women. Don Lemon. Al Gore.
Big Chief Carney’s Canada: The pitiless savagery. Our Supreme Court. Carney’s New World Order. 86 hour course on colonialism.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Net Zero Conservatives. Paul Joseph Watson – Everyone is sick of noticing. The Great Replacement in Germany. Masters of the Universe.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Crack And Badger
Come to think of it, I’m not entirely sure what loving one’s body might mean, beyond the obvious off-colour jokes. But apparently, it’s something that one is supposed to proclaim as an accomplishment, a credential of progressivism. I have, however, noted that it tends to be announced by people whose declared triumph in this matter is not altogether convincing, and whose basis for doing so is generally much slimmer than they are.
On the ideological gratification of thwarting clever children; on shoehorning pretentious racial guilt into the world of dentistry; and on not wearing knickers in a terribly radical way.
All this and more.
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and God Save Amelia.
Goth Waifu Amelia is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.
Make UK great again. pic.twitter.com/ocaaC0CIEF
— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) January 17, 2026
January 20, 2026: Reader Tips
Tonight, we offer a double header of The Corrs performing Breathless: Director’s Cut and Live in London.
Bonus: Not my joke, but I found it amusing: On February 14th, the U.S. play Denmark in Ice Hockey at the Olympics. The winner gets Greenland, the loser gets Minnesota.
Got some good tips to share? You know how, you know where!
US Bars Five European Speech Nannies
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations, fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. […]
The action to bar them from the U.S. is part of a Trump administration campaign against foreign influence over online speech, using immigration law rather than platform regulations or sanctions.
The five Europeans named by Rogers are: Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index; and former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for supervising social media rules.
It Goes Without Saying
But I’ll say it anyway, for our neighbors to the south and east about to face Saskatchewan winter conditions in the coming days.
It’s winter. Don’t leave home without a good blanket or sleeping bag, a jar of nuts, bottled water. It could be a long night. https://t.co/2xp2MZNRbK
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 20, 2026
I like cashews. What’s coming is no joke.
Elbows Up Cheerleaders
In an expanding economy, mergers and acquisitions can streamline productive capacity to meet growing demand. In a shrinking economy, the purpose of a merger is often to sweep up the pieces of a dying business to salvage whatever is left of their capital. I’m not so sure that the upbeat tone of the article reflects the reality of the Canadian economy.
Canadian dealmaking activity is expected to pick up this year, driven by nation-building efforts and a stronger business outlook, according to a new survey by KPMG Canada.
Thirty-three per cent of business leaders polled indicated plans to make a major acquisition in the next 18 months to capitalize on potential growth opportunities, the survey released on Monday found.