No-Go Zones bring a touch of Paris and Malmo to the U.S.

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The Washington Examiner provides background:

What is Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang running amok in Colorado?

Venezuela‘s largest criminal gang, Tren de Aragua, is wreaking havoc in Colorado, driving national attention.

The group revolutionized crime in Venezuela and across Latin America, in the words of author Ronna Risquez, running the country from prisons and extending its reach across the Western Hemisphere. In several areas, the gang has taken complete control, usurping government authority.

One unique feature of the group is its origins as a prison gang — the entire gang was run out of the Tocoron prison, which, prior to its storming by the Venezuelan army in 2023, had been turned into a luxury palace replete with swimming pools, a baseball field, and a zoo. Before the raids, more than half of the country’s prisons were controlled by gangs, the New York Times reported.

The leader of Tren de Aragua, Héctor “El Niño” Guerrero Flores, escaped the prison before the storming and is still on the loose. The Department of State and the Department of Justice are offering up to $5 million for information regarding his whereabouts. He is believed to reside somewhere in Colombia.

While in prison, Guerrero Flores extended the gang’s reach across the continent, recently expanding into North America and the United States.

The New York Post reported that the gang has been linked to more than 100 crimes across the U.S. Among the litany of crimes the group is known for are human trafficking, sex trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, drug dealing, murder, money laundering, contract killings, smuggling, and other types of theft.

One of the group’s tentacles extended to Aurora, Colorado, where the gang is making its presence known.

You'll be glad to know that she assured her CNN advocate today that her "values haven't changed", so we can expect to get still more of this, good and hard.

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Mr.Trump, tear down this wall!

“Last year, US taxpayers shelled out some $150 billion in government services and support to help the 20 million illegal migrants in the country, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

“And most of the cost is being borne by state and local governments.”

(NYC alone has spent $5 billion on its “newcomers”, and expects that number to hit $10 billion by June 30 2025.)

And note this:

In an August 2020 article USA Today defended Kampalla against conservative posters who were charging her with hypocrisy by claiming that she had once supported a border. She absolutely did not! the paper insisted.

Our ruling: False

Sen. Kamala Harris has been a vocal critic of border wall funding, seeing the move as misguided. There is no evidence the 2011 photo's backdrop was meant to emphasize the border fencing, but rather the law enforcement personnel who appeared alongside Harris. We rate this claim FALSE, because it is not supported by our research.

Harris was one of the three senators who opposed a deal which would have granted Trump border wall funding as part of a legislative deal that also included a path to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“I’m not going to vote for a wall under any circumstances,” Harris said during a 2019 CNN Town Hall where she called the president’s wall proposal a “medieval vanity project.”

Harris again called the idea of an expanded border wall a “vanity project” while on a tour for her book “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.” Harris called the budgetary fight over funding for the wall a “distraction from the fact that you’ve got Mueller investigating.”

Harris also called the war on drugs “ineffective” and criticized the country’s cash bail system as “not reflective of a system of justice” because of its disproportionate cost and damage inflicted on poor Americans.

Harris later repeated the line during the May 2019 kickoff rally for her presidential campaign.

"Folks, on the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear: The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them,” the senator said.

Elegant, without being overly ostentatious

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15 Thornhill Road, Riverside NoPo, has sold for its full asking price of $1.250 million. By the way, if there is any sort of hill on Thornhill, it’s as modest as the houses that grace it; I’ve never seen it, personally. But the road did have one notable feature in the past: there were at least three, maybe four cops living on this short cross road between Riverside Lane and Sheep Hill and it was, a life-long resident once told me, the safest street in town and completely vandal-free.

Howard Lane

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64 Howard Lane has sold for $2.890 million. Once owned by the late broadcaster Michelle Marsh who, before she hit the big time in NYC, was a stunning young woman who brightened up Bangor, Maine’s evening news back in the day. Imagine my surprise to discover that she’d followed me south.

Marsh paid $2.775 for the house in 2004, and sold it to these owners in 2013 for $2.250 million; such are the vagaries of real estate.

Works for me

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communists in the state department, fluoride in the water, u.s. in the un, and the Warren court. after all these years, The birchers have been proved right

The United Nations is ‘terrified’ of Trump, official admits in undercover video

The United Nations is “terrified” at the prospect of a second Trump presidency, according to a leaked conversation with a senior official at the global agency. 

“I’m not sure the United Nations is going to survive a second term from Donald Trump,” Jorge Paoletti, an associate legal officer at the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York, told an undercover reporter from podcaster Steven Crowder’s Mug Club.

“Absolutely nobody wants Trump … because the purpose of Donald Trump is to end the international institutions that somehow level the playing field. He wants America first.”

Paoletti went on to explain that he dreads Trump’s “America First” policies interfering with the UN’s globalist agenda.

“One of the objectives of the UN is to create an identity of a global citizen, someone who shares an identity, a political identity, with everybody on this planet. [This idea] is a threat to the absolute power of the United States because [Americans] don’t want an institution over the US telling the US what to do.”

As the largest financial contributor to the UN, funding 22% of its budget, the US has undue influence, Paoletti complains, and under Trump, he fears it will refuse to go along with UN edicts.

“For example, say that the United Nations creates an environmental agency. And that environmental agency says that countries can only reach a certain level of pollution. How do you think all these crazy MAGA people are going to react to that? [Trump will say,] ‘Who are you globalists to tell me, the United States, what I can do?’”

From "worked her way through college" to "she worked a summer for pocket money" to "never mind".

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In the grand scheme of things, and in view of the massive fraud that put her and her sleep partner in office to begin with, this is small potatoes, but it’s telling nonetheless.

‘I Did Fries’: Kamala Harris Claims She Worked at McDonald's, but She Never Mentioned It Until She Ran for President. Did She Really Toil Beneath the Golden Arches?

Harris's résumé a year after she graduated college makes no mention of McDonald's

The first all-female audience ever on The Drew Barrymore Show was whooping and cheering for Kamala Harris, its guest of honor, this April when Barrymore’s sidekick, Ross Matthews, threw a softball at the vice president.

"I heard a rumor that you worked at McDonald’s?"

"I did. Yes, I did work at McDonald’s," laughed Harris. "When I was at school … I did fries. And then I did the cashier."

"I didn’t know that about you," gasped Barrymore.

Neither did anyone who followed Harris’s long career in public life—that is, until she ran for president in 2019 and began to make the job a centerpiece of her biography.

Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she "was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s."

McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as "her humble background." (Harris is the daughter of an eminent cancer researcher, whom her campaign calls "a working mother," and a tenured Stanford economist, who split when Harris and her sister were children.)

Early this month, Harris’s campaign said she used her McDonald’s wages to pay for college. "Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college," campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said this month. A pro-Harris super PAC ad said she "work[ed] her way through school at McDonald’s." And former president Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, joked that "she’ll break my record as president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s."

At the same time, however, Harris’s image makers tweaked the story ever so slightly. According to an August 14 item in Politico, an early cut of a Harris campaign ad said she worked at McDonald’s to "pay her way" through college. Aides changed the script to reflect that "she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money," as Politico put it.

The Politico story, which was published just hours after the Washington Free Beacon reached out to the Harris campaign with a series of detailed questions about Harris’s claims regarding her job at McDonald’s, didn’t say when exactly—or where—Harris worked at the restaurant. The campaign did not respond to the Free Beacon’s inquiries.

It is possible that Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s in the early 1980s. But the absence of that detail in public records and her campaign’s coyness and refusal to provide any further details raise questions about what is now a foundational narrative.

There’s much more at the link, including documentation that she never stepped foot in a McDonalds kitchen in her life, but enough’s enough. More important, how did her interview taping go yesterday, and have her handlers cleaned it up enough to make it safe to broadcast tomight?

East side, west side, Colorado is dividing

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The eastern side of the Front Range has illegal aliens and transgender politicians; the western side, thanks to the same eastern liberals who brought the criminals and boys who think they’re girls into the state, now have wolves. It’s not going well for either side.*

Colorado’s First Gentleman [sic] quits social media after Facebook spat over wolves: ‘Truth is I don’t care’

Colorado First Gentleman Marlon Reis deactivated his social media accounts after getting into a howling match about wolves on Facebook over the weekend.

Reis, who is Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ husband, had posted online about grants the state was offering for nonlethal wolf deterrents when he got into a heated exchange in the comments with David Gittleson, according to 9 News.

Gittleson is a rancher in Walden — a town of about 600 people 150 miles northwest of Denver — and for years has dealt with wolves killing his livestock even before Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) formally reintroduced them to the state in December, the outlet reported.

“The truth is I don’t care. I don’t care what you do or don’t eat. I don’t care what you think you know or what you think you’re qualified to comment on,” Rais railed at Gitttleson, according to screenshots obtained by the outlet. 

The far-left, urban voters of Colorado voted to release wolves into cattle country, but not, of course, on their side of the Front Range, but over the mountains and into cattle country, with the Rockies serving as a barrier to protect Denverites’ Labradoodles and golden retrievers. This has not gone well, for the ranchers.

April 18, 2024: Reintroduced wolves kill 4 yearling cattle in latest string of livestock attacks

Wolves that killed were part of group reintroduced in December

Wolves killed several yearling cattle in north-central Colorado this week, bringing the total number of wolf kills of livestock this month to six.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Thursday confirmed that wolves killed three yearlings on a Grand County ranch between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The carcasses were discovered Wednesday, agency spokesman Travis Duncan said in an email.

On Thursday, wildlife officials investigated a fourth yearling killed on the same property and determined the animal was killed by a wolf.

The wolves in the area at the time of the attacks were among the 10 wolves released in the state in December as part of a voter-mandated reintroduction effort to restore the predator to the Colorado landscape, Duncan said.

One of the wolves released in December killed a calf April 2 in Grand County. A few days later, a wolf killed a calf in Jackson County, which borders Grand County to the north.

The risk of wolves preying on livestock fueled strong opposition by ranchers to the reintroduction measure, which found most of its support from urban voters. Owners of livestock killed by wolves are eligible for compensation from the state.

December 9, 2022:

Wolf reintroduction was approved by voters in 13 of 64 Colorado counties


In case you missed it, the draft plan of Colorado's wolf reintroduction program was released today. It's the result of a 2020 ballot item in which 50.91 percent of the state's voters approved the initiative by a narrow margin. A common gripe about the plan is that while wolves are set to be released west of the Continental Divide, counties that voted to mandate the reintroduction program lie heavily east of that natural barrier.

Believe it or not, the measure passed with only 13 of Colorado's 64 counties voting in favor of reintroducing wolves – roughly 20 percent. The heavily-populated Denver metro area proved to be highly supportive, with 66 percent of Denver County voters and 68 percent of Boulder County voters voting in favor of approval.

Voting yes: Flatlander transplants in ski country, and the arrivistes of denver and boulder

*Video shows armed gang at troubled Colorado apartment building believed to have been taken over by migrants. One anonymous resident told Fox News Digital, 'there's no help coming for any of us'