The Motors: Dancing the Night Away

A great buildup to a great song, after that buildup comes the Kinks-type riff.

Here are the Motors from the late 1970s with "Dancing the Night Away." 

If the song sounds familiar, it's because Cheap Trick covered it a few years later.

Chicago man sentenced for massive $1.5M welfare fraud scheme | Wake Up America

If you live in a blue state and you wonder why services are getting worse and infrastructure is crumbling?

Here's part of the answer.

This Chicago thief is likely just the tip of the iceberg that is sinking blue states.

$13 million Medicaid scam exposed in family fraud ring | Wake Up America

Medicaid fraud isn't just a Minnesota problem. Let's look at a North Carolina family.

Lefties Losing It: ‘Sadistic’ Oscar attendees demand ceasefire in Iran

 The great Rita Panahi scorches Hollywood phonies.

The Tossers - Emerald City

Great work for a Chicago Irish band, the Tossers. 

The video has lots of Chicago scenes, including "dibs" parking chairs.

Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady (Live At The Cork Opera House, Ireland / 1987)

Last spring I visited Ballyshannon, Ireland, the birthplace of Rory Gallagher, a great blues rock guitarist who is little remembered in the United States, but he was quite popular here in the Chicago area.

Gallagher's most productive years were in the 1970s and 1980s, he died in 1995.

Cork was where Gallagher began his professional career, so it's fitting that I present a blazing hot performance of Tattoo'd Lady from Cork in 1987.

Before there was Thin Lizzy, before U2, there was Gallagher.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

‘They don’t care’: Schumer has meltdown over Trump’s SAVE America Act

Chuck Schumer is a lifetime government employee and elected official. 

Retire.

Mamdani under fire for response to explosive attack on New York mayoral residence

Zohran Mamdani, New York's anti-Semitic mayor, has unleashed demons in his city.

John Hiatt: Have a Little Faith in Me

John Hiatt is simply brilliant. Here he is performing one of his greatest compositions, "Have a Little Faith in Me."

Tim Walz is a ‘guy who knows that he's caught’: Rep. Tom Emmer | National Report

 America dodged a bullet by choosing Trump-Vance over Harris-Walz.

Iranian woman absolutely gives it to the ‘fake humanitarian’ Dems

More leftist hypocrisy.

Lefties Losing It: Hollywood celebs abandon the people of Iran by Rita Panahi

The great Rita Panahi, a refugee from Iran, does fantastic journalism for Sky News Australia.

Here she is exposing a bunch of Hollywood frauds.

 

Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

 At least in America, one of the great but overlooked folk rock acts is Richard and Linda Thompson.

You can make the same claim about Richard's long solo career.

Here are the then-married Thompsons with "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight," the title track from their first album.

The View shown up by an economic expert

 The View, always left-leaning, has been a propaganda arm for ABC for a long time.

'You should be ashamed': Trump shuts down heckling Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar is a national disgrace.

AOC breaks silence with desperate meltdown after humiliating word salads in Munich

Conservatives have been wise to the fact that US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an intellectual lightweight, but the mainstream media has been cheering her on anyway.

But thanks to some recent word salads and late night ramblings, we've been proven right. Again.

We're still not tired of winning.

Van Morrison on the Midnight Special: Domino

In the 1970s, as variety shows faded from the television scene and cable was in its infacy, rock music found a safe harbor on late night weekend TV. 

One show of note was NBC's Midnight Special. 

Van Morrison appeared on it in 1977, performing his hit from earlier in the decade, "Domino."

 

'GETTING IT ALL WRONG!': Fury over Mamdani's tax hike plan

New Yorkers, you were warned. And you didn't listen. 

As they old saying goes, you made your bed, now sleep in it.

And for the dopes who say to themselves, "I rent, I don't own property, this will cost me nothing," well, you have a lot to learn.

ABC7's Leah Hope relives terrifying moment man attacked her in Loop: 'I was fighting for my life'

For starters, repeal the SAFE-T Act!

But of course, the media, not Ms. Hope, and most of the politicians in Chicago and the rest of Illinois tell us not to worry, because crime is down.

Left only growing more dangerous, obnoxious, brainwashed: Rob Schmitt

 We live in perilous times.

The Kinks - Victoria (Official Audio)

Although it was released years ago, I'm currently watching the Victoria miniseries on Netflix, which is, as you probably guessed, about Great Britain's Queen Victoria. 

Which got me thinking about the Kinks' classic tune which opens their Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) album, "Victoria."

This song is much more historically accurate than the miniseries.

'TERRIFYING': Hosts STUNNED as sheriff fails basic question

Blue cities and counties are not putting the best in charge. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden in North Carolina, where Charlotte is, gives us an example.

SAVE Act ensures ‘one citizen, one vote’: Rep. Claudia Tenney | Wake Up America

You need an ID to do so many things. Voting needs to be one in all 50 states.

Mark Dice: Super Bowl Halftime Show DISGRACE! - Cultural Insurrection Bad Bunny Backlash - Full Analysis

 No, I didn't watch the Bad Bunny Super Bown halftime show. 

I switched over to the Turning Point USA All American Show instead.

T-Bone Burnett: Hold on Tight

Most music aficionados know T-Bone Burnett for his monumental production work for acts including Elvis Costello, the Bodeans, John Mellencamp, and so many more.

But he's a singer and songwriter too--and his output is also great.

Not shockingly, his own works has a power pop and Americana feel. "Hold on Tight" from his Americana album is a representative piece of work from this gifted artist.

 

'COMPLETE LUNATICS': Hosts stunned by anti-ICE agitators' new tactic in Minnaeapolis

The radicals in Minneapolis have set up their own checkpoints. Just like the cops they say they hate.

As they say, deep inside, or maybe not so deep inside, every liberal is a fascist screaming to be set free.

'SCAM ACT': Controversial bill could denaturalize fraudsters

It's time to back up the truck. 

Lefties Losing It: Rita Panahi factchecks CNN's Ana Navarro

Of course Ana Navarro doesn't know what a fact is.

 

Buddy Holly & The Crickets "Oh Boy!" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Februrary 3 will bring yet another anniversary of "the Day the Music Died," when Buddy Holly, along with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, died in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, Iowa.

Holly had a huge influence on the British Invasion bands, particularly the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks. The Lubbock, Texas singer and songwriter was once seen as one of the giants of early rock and roll, but around 1990, that changed. I suspect reverse racism, as not only was Holly white, but he sounded "white," unlike Elvis Presley. 

You can't hate the media enough.

But Holly was a giant, who wrote many of his hits, which became expected of rock artists once the Beatles and Bob Dylan became superstars. 

Dylan, by the way, saw Holly perform in Minnesota on the tour that brought him to his last gig in Iowa.

Here's Holly and the Crickets on the Ed Sullivan Show singing "Oh Boy!"

 

Lefties Losing It: Alex Pretti was no peaceful protester

Here is the type of news you won't see on mainstream media.

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MINNESOTA EXPOSED: Billionaire under investigation for funding 'far-left' network

These are not spur-of-the-moment protests.

'Frey and Walz are making it worse': Chad Wolf on armed man shot in Minneapolis

The mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota are telling the already unhinged in our society to challenge armed law enforcement officers.

Plenty can go wrong--and has.

Mumford & Sons - Winter Winds

Here's a fun song about winter from Mumford & Sons. As for the video, it's good, but winter in England is a lot different that winter in the Midwest, where I live.

I mean, where is the snow?

Lefties Losing It: Hidden camera experiment exposes anti-ICE protesters

Weapons? Bombs? You mean that some anti-ICE protesters are not peaceful?

 

DOJ sends WARNING to anti-ICE agitators who stormed church

I wonder what would have happened if these leftists stormed a mosque?

Van Morrison, Steve Winwood - Fire In The Belly (Official Audio)

Here's a love song with a wintery feel. Well, this tune, from Van Morrisson's Duets-Reworking the Catalogue, mentions January and February, I'm not sure how much this song is about winter.

Joining the Belfast Cowboy on "Fire in the Belly" is Steve Winwood. 

Oh, Northern Ireland got a sizeable snowfall this week.

Related post: 

Van Morrison at 80, his Belfast in words and photos

ICE agent 'ambushed,' ATTACKED with a shovel before shooting a man in leg

Animals are on the loose in Minneapolis, attacking law enforcement officers.

'STUNNER': NYC exodus grows as Mamdani's polices take hold

Hard-core leftists never learn.

The Jam - Smithers-Jones

Here's an underrated song from, if you live in America, a very underrated band, the Jam. Bruce Foxton wasn't the principal songwriter for the Band, Paul Weller was, but this tune, "Smithers-Jones," ranks among the best of the Jam's portfolio.

Foxton tells the sad story of Smithers-Jones, a middle manager who is not only laid off by his aloof boss, but then he learns his career is over as well.

Sadly, I know some people who have received the Smithers-Jones treatment.

This is the original version of "Smithers-Jones" was a B-Side to the British hit "When You're Young."

It was recorded for the Jam's Setting Sons album, with strings and vocals only, along the lines of "Eleanor Rigby." 

The first cut works the best. Never out-Beatle the Beatles. 

 

Walz under fire after threatening EXPLOSIVE force against ICE

America dodged two bullets when it voted to return Donald Trump to the White House. They were Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

New video angle changes EVERYTHING in ICE shooting case

Never believe the leftist media.

Independent journalist alleges Minnesota hotel lied about policy change to accept ICE agents

And now the federal government has removed this hotel from its lists of approved properties. Good.

‘Useful idiots’: Left become ‘communist sympathizers’ in wake of Trump’s strike on Venezuela

Sky News Australia's James Morrow calls it correct on the left.

Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (1968)

Christmas, unless you are an Orthodox Christian, is in the rear-view mirror. But the weather is still cold, at least it is where I live.

So, in the spirit, here is a cold temperature tune, Manfred Mann's cover of Bob Dylan's "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)."

Besides Manfred, another member of this version Manfred Mann band was Klaus Voormann, a friend of the Beatles from their days in Hamburg.

Happy New Year!

 

More cases of alleged fraud popping up across the nation | National Report

It's of course way too early to predict the biggest news story of 2026, but we may know the answer already. Public aid fraud.