Oil prices already dropping after U.S.-Iran peace announcement

There is good news this morning!

Rory Gallagher - Nadine (Loreley 1982)

The great Rory Gallagher, at the Loreley Festival in Germany in 1982, covers "Nadine." a Chuck Berry tune, in a way only he could.

Harris Faulkner: The walls might be closing in on Ilhan Omar

The end might be near for Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

Is the United Kingdom on the verge of insurrection over mass migration?

One thing people know how to do well in Northern Ireland is fight their neighbors.

The strife might spread to the rest of the UK.

Lefties Losing It: Wild scenes after Karmelo Anthony's guilty verdict

Karmelo Anthony is a thug and a convicted murderer.

But leftists are still rallying around the killer.

Indiana Wants Me: R. Dean Taylor

The late 1960s and the early 1970s were the golden years for rock music's one-hit-wonders. Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" was probably the best of the lot. 

But another great one was "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor.

This song come to mind after the Chicago Bears announced they are pursuing a move to Hammond, Indiana.

Indiana wants them.

This song, however, has a much different narrative, it's about a husband who kills a man in Indiana after he insulted his wife.

Go Bears! I'll always be a fan!

Jesse Watters on Graham Platner: He is TOAST…

The base of the Democratic Party is unhinged. So, it shouldn't be surprising that a lunatic--an abusive one, at that, is poised to be the Democratic nominee from Maine for the US Senate.

Lefties Losing It: Marco Rubio savages hapless Democrats

Marco Rubio just might be President Trump's best cabinet pick.

Pratt takes second in LA mayoral race, Steve Hilton LEADS in governor's race

California may not be turning red, but it appears to be a little less blue this morning.

Family of ‘CONGENITAL LIARS’: Columnist RIPS Jill Biden’s reaction to 2024 debate

The Biden family is a bunch of sponges, grifters, and liars. 

Van Morrison - Summertime In England (Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London 24-05-1989)

Van Morrison's Common One album from 1980 divided fans and critics. It was his last album before his New Age period, and to be fair, the album is a bit disjointed. 

One indulgent track is the jazzy "Summertime in England." The studio version is 15 minutes long. Nine years later, the Belfast Cowboy performed a powerful, and much better, six-minute version at a London jazz club.

Oh, happy summer to everyone!

 

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Van Morrison at 80, his Belfast in words and photos

Chicago’s mayor ‘doesn’t have a plan,’ Paul Mauro says

On a very good day, Chicago's flailing mayor, Brandon Johnson, is winging it. 

The city voted in a loser.

Lefties Losing It: ‘Commie Mamdani’ now wants to seize people’s properties

These communist and socialist movements always begin so innocently. 

Then its leaders start stealing things. 

Jerry Lee Lewis: What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)

Schlitz beer, whose slogan was "The Beer that Made Milwaukee" famous, is no more.

And that slogan was not an empty boast--it was true. 

Schlitz was once the biggest brewer in America--just as Sears was our biggest retailer. 

Although this song doesn't mention Schlitz, everyone knew who Jerry Lee Lewis was singing about when he recorded his hit "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)."

DOMINATING: Trump-backed candidates continue CRUSHING GOP primaries

Meanwhile, the lamestream media keeps pushing the false narrative that the GOP base is abandoning Donald Trump.

'NOT IN DANGER': Chicago resident pushes back on Democrats’ voter ID claims

Lies upon lies build up. 

And then people stop believing. 

It's happening to the Democrats.

 

NYC may not ‘recover’ under Mamdani’s $124B budget, panelist warns

Zohran Mamdani's "balanced" budget got to that point by deferring $2 billion in pension payments.

Such a reckless financial strategy was a common practice in Illinois for decades, not Illinois' public pension plans are among the worst-funded among the 50 states. 

Illinois' credit rating is the lowest of the states too.

 

Van Morrison: Crazy Jane on God

What does a William Butler Yeats poem sound like when Van Morrison sets it to music?

Find out!

 

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Van Morrison at 80, his Belfast in words and photos

Chicago has lost track of 244 people on electronic monitoring | Wake Up America

Chicago is becoming a Netflix crime drama.

[Deep male voice]: 

"They put electronic monitoring bracelets on 244 criminals. Then they disappeared."

California prisoners are using tablets to watch pornography: Chris Rufo

Welcome to Gavin Newsom's California.

$189 million was spent on this porn initiative.

ICE issues MAJOR crackdown on visa fraud: 'TIP OF THE ICEBERG'

Interesting.

This is a ‘COMPLETE HUMILIATION:' Former Virginia AG

This Virginia humiliation is on the level of a 16 seed defeating a top seed in the NCAA basketball tournament.

The Democrats are losing big time.

Lefties Losing It: NBC shocked by MAGA landslide in Indiana

The media is clueless on so many levels.

Blue city mayor UNDER FIRE after horrific attack video surfaces

Seattle may have elected the biggest dope ever as mayor. 

And the competition is steep.

Seattle's mayor can't even handle an obvious question that a 10-year-old could see coming.

It's ‘VERY LIKELY’ Rep Omar was involved in billions of dollars of fraud, GOP rep says

Ilhan Omar is a disgrace to Congress in so many ways.

Whistleblower reveals the depth of Minnesota fraud scheme | The Right Squad

Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Daily Scams.

Lefties Losing It: Socialist mayors see millionaires fleeing in record numbers

The old saying, "You can steal more with a pen than a gun" has never been more true than now.

DEVELOPING: Fraud raids in Minnesota target 22 businesses

Minnesota used to be famous for honest, if a bit left-leaning, government. Now's it's a leftist rathole have rife with corruption.

Democrats ‘extremely complicit’ in the rise of political violence within the US

Calling, incorrectly of course, President Trump a fascist and dictator has predictible consuquences. For the third time in less than a year there was an attempt on Trump's life.

Don't forget, in the Pennsylvania attempt, a bystander was killed. 

The Clash: The Street Parade

While the Clash's Sandinista! album, in my opinion, has aged poorly, this song still stands out. And it's an ignored track, "The Street Parade," despite the bizarre sound effects that kick it off.

I suspect that Topper Headon, the Clash's drummer and a huge fan of Stax and Motown, was behind it. Because this tune has a real soul feel to it.

And if by any chance you were dumped recently, this song has great advice. 

Get out there and join The Street Parade.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal FRAUD charges

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been a farcical organization for many years.

 

DETAILS: Ilhan Omar finance controversy EXPLODES

If you ever trusted US Rep. Ilhan Omar, then you need professional help.

Lefties Losing It: Mamdani and Obama 'brainwashing' young minds

The great Rita Panahi exposes Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani brainwashing kids who are only a couple of years removed from wearing diapers.

Van Morrison: Queen of the Slipstream

Here's a highlight from Van Morrison's "New Age" era, "Queen of the Slipstream" from Poetic Champions Compose."

It's the title track of sorts.

Related post: 

Van Morrison at 80, his Belfast in words and photos

California Dems ADMIT state is unaffordable

New York and Illinois aren't cheap either. Democrats run those states too. 

Kimmel, Colbert remain SILENT on Swalwell allegations

The leftists are a soul-less bunch with no moral compass.

ESCAPE PLAN: New York faces MASS EXODUS over HIGH TAXES

Kurt Russell, also known as Snake, are you there?

The Kinks: Full Moon

In honor of the successful Artemis II mission, here are the Kinks with Full Moon.

‘DESPERATE’: Dems RIPPED for embracing far-left influencer

Democrats have an anti-Semitic and anti-American problem.

And the Dems don't care they have welcomed Hasan Piker into their shrinking tent.

Investigation reveals 'sophisticated' production of costly 'No Kings' protest

Protesting is just an elaborate agitprop show. And not a cheap one.

ERASING BIDEN? Democrats under fire over Easter post

Even the Democrats want to forget the Joe Biden presidency.

It's too bad we can't wish away his many failures.

XTC: Easter Theatre

There are very few songs about Easter, and ironically an atheist, XTC's Andy Partridge, wrote it and sings one of the best ones about the holiday.

Perhaps a miracle will come Partridge's way.

Happy Easter!

$180 BILLION GONE: California’s MASSIVE fraud crisis exposed

 Wait until Illinois is exposed.

NEW: How China 'abuses' the US birthright citizenship system

We are being colonized.

 

Teen ‘takeover’ chaos spreads nationwide

 That's okay, because the media and the Democrats say crime is at a 50-year low.

Father of daughter killed by migrant says IL leaders must be voted out | Katie Pavlich Tonight

Illinois needs to be powerscrubbed.

Were it not for an illegal alien, Katie Abraham would still be alive.

The Kinks - Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)

Perhaps this was an afterthought track by the Kinks, but over the years it has grown in popularity. Just as the years go by, of course.

Yes, where have all the good times gone?

Family SLAMS response from Illinois leaders after daughter’s killing

 Let's hope the rest of the media covers this tragic story.

Chicago mayor unveils ‘ABOLISH ICE’ snowplow after student’s murder

The Brandon Johnson and the Dems have no shame.

And there was a riot last night downtown!

 

Rod Blagojevich: Pritzker was elected to keep people safe, not killed | The Record

 J.B. Pritzker needs to know his real job.

Venezuelan’s alleged killing of student was ‘100% avoidable’: Chicago alderman | NewsNation Prime

There are a few good aldermen on Chicago's generally useless City Council and Ray Lopez (15th) is one of them.

Here he denounces the policies that led to a college student being shot to death on the city's lakefront, allegedly by an illegal alien from Venezuela who skipped a Chicago court date after being arrested for shoplifting in 2023.

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.

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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.