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Editorial: Trump's broadband moves save billions

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| January 12, 2026 | By The Editorial Board, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Posted on 1/12/2026, 6:57:28 AM by artichokegrower

Even government programs can get strangled by red tape. Think back to 2021. That's when President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It directed more than $1 trillion toward transportation and infrastructure projects. That included more than $42 billion to expand broadband internet.

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Trump Wisely Chooses Limited Goals Over Maria Corina Machado’s Ambitions

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. operation that led to Nicolás Maduro’s capture, much of Washington made a familiar assumption: that Donald Trump would now formally embrace the Venezuelan opposition and usher in a U.S.-backed political transition.

Within policy circles, think tanks, and cable news studios, expectations hardened quickly. The usual people anticipated recognition ceremonies, opposition figures positioned themselves for legitimacy, and commentators spoke confidently about a “handoff” phase, as if regime change naturally culminates in international endorsement and applause. That assumption reflected Washington’s worldview, not Trump’s.

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Trump has never equated removing an adversary with an automatic claim to ownership of what follows. For him, Maduro’s capture was not an invitation to adopt a new client regime and begin nation-building. It was the conclusion of a discrete operation.

This is where the foreign-policy establishment repeatedly miscalculates Trump. The establishment’s members assume that every use of force must be followed by political sponsorship.

Trump rejects that logic. He understands that once the United States publicly embraces an opposition leader or party in a country, it also assumes responsibility for subsequent governance failures, internal fractures, security breakdowns, and economic collapse. That is precisely the trap Washington walked into in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, and precisely the trap Trump is determined to avoid.

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These women are incredibly stupid to be posting their images online in Iran, they are going to be publicly executed by the current regime.

It's being reported that Starlink has been jammed by Iranians possibly with the help of Russia or China.
 
Disagree.

Some may be, but protesting the government is a fundamental right that sets apart from many countries.

Equating protesting with being anti-American is just wrong

Were the J6 protestors anti/American?
Or just those you disagree with ?

Any group anywhere over about 10 people will have a bad apple

We have law enforcement (CBP agents) acting to enforce our legal and long-standing immigration laws. Anyone can whine about this if they want, but when they start interfering with the ability to arrest illegal aliens, and when they call for armed action against the CBP agents, it's well past the "free speech" level. And anyone who gets in this deep is 100% anti-America.

And furthermore, my post was specific to the anti-American douchecanoe who was calling for armed resistance. I never said that protesting was Anti-American. Context, man.... Context.
 
What is going on? Are we really going to give up our rights to this deranged autocrat?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration secretly reimposed a policy limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities a day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, attorneys for several congressional Democrats said Monday in asking a federal judge to intervene.

Three Democratic members of Congress from Minnesota were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Minneapolis on Saturday, three days after an ICE officer shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in the city.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked ICE from enforcing policies limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities. In a court filing on Monday, plaintiffs’ lawyers asked Cobb to hold an emergency hearing and decide if the duplicate notice policy violates her order. Cobb scheduled a hearing for Wednesday.

Cobb ruled on Dec. 17 that it is likely illegal for ICE to demand a week’s notice from members of Congress seeking to visit and observe conditions in ICE facilities. The judge said the seven-day notice requirement likely exceeds the Department of Homeland Security’s statutory authority.

Officials who turned them away cited a newly imposed seven-day-notice policy for congressional oversight visits. Last Thursday, a day after Good’s death, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a new memorandum reinstating the same seven-day notice requirement, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers.


What is next? Secret trials?
 
Hard to watch this country decay so rapidly. I mean the empire has been declining but the fall US after Trump has been precipitous. The idea of it being the moral beacon of the world is out the window. Grifter in Chief has been enriching his family to levels unseen while sowing hate toward nonwhites. It's depressing to see MAGA defend his every action.
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