Quick Hits: Volume CDXXV

 - Upon receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Republican US Senate candidate out of Minnesota Michele Tafoya put forth this statement. 

#MNPol: "I'm a pro-choice Republican, I'm not afraid to stand up to my party. When Trump is right, I'll work with him. When he's wrong, I'll stand up for Minnesota." Michele Tafoya is up with a new #MNSen ad. Future reservations: 🔴$1.1M 🔵$896K https://t.co/jUpPC11oIP

— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) October 10, 2026

Of course, there are a good number of staunch pro life Minnesotans who are offput by this message and thus will leave the US Senate portion of their ballot blank. But will that number be surpassed by Independents or moderate Dems who realize DFL candidate Peggy Flanagan is too much of a far left kook, thus would be willing to vote for Tafoya? No way to know for sure. 

I would be interested, however, in knowing how many of these pro life purists who vow to now vote in this Senate race actually cast a vote for Trump in any of his elections. After all, Tafoya's actual stance on abortion is indistinguishable from that of Trump's. 

- Trump made it official on Thursday: the execution of murderer Nidal Hasan will not be live streamed. 

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump CANCELS the livestreaming of the execution of Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan, but announces that the immediate families of the victims can watch IN-PERSON if they choose The firing squad is still happening 47 even exposes OBAMA for failing to stop the shooting "I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device." "He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed." "That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose. They deserve to witness JUSTICE!" At the very least our enemies will know how he died but won't have video of it Hasan m*rdered over a dozen people at Fort Hood in 2009, while shouting "Allahu Akbar." He's waited 17 years on death row, and his execution date is set for December 3. It'll be the Army's first firing squad execution since 1945. Obama's administration called the attack "workplace violence" rather than terrorism. DISGUSTING The families waited nearly two decades for this.

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 15, 2026

This is the correct decision in that America ought not be using similar tactics of terrorist organizations who flaunt their power by executing enemies. Yes, I realize the difference is jihadist factions typically behead innocent people as opposed to those who commit atrocities on the level Hasan has. But still, live streaming such an event would appeal to far too many blood thirsty individuals who would become even more deranged after witnessing a live execution via firing squad. 

Kudos to Trump for having one of the few clear, concise moments of his presidency over the past year-plus. 

- Multiple things can be true: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) may well have committed immigration fraud upon entering America. The Monday raid of Omar's home by Federal authorities smacks of lawfare and an abuse of power by the Trump administration. 

Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) says she will “not be silenced” after federal agents carried out an early-morning raid at her Washington-area home on Monday as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork.

She decried the search as the ‘latest escalation’ in President Trump’s ‘intimidation’ campaign against his political adversaries.

The investigation into the Democratic lawmaker’s immigration paperwork is being led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the agency’s criminal investigations arm, with the Department of Justice assisting. The paperwork in question was filled out by Omar’s late father when she came to the country as a child, Fox News reported.

“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed ​a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement ​action is part of an ongoing federal investigation,” a Department of Justice ⁠spokesperson said in a statement.

National Review legal analyst Andrew McCarthy believes Omar has committed fraud in the past, but this current investigation likely won't yield any punishment. 

 

(T)here have long been allegations that Omar committed marriage fraud by marrying her brother (on paper) to help him establish a legal basis to enter the United States. Omar has denied the allegations (not very convincingly, in my opinion). The current reporting indicates that Omar is under investigation in connection with the establishment of her own basis for admission and naturalization, not her brother’s immigration paperwork. Yet, even if we assume the brother’s status is part of the investigation, any criminal prosecution would almost certainly be time-barred. The marriage in question occurred in 2009 and ended in 2018. The statute of limitations for this kind of fraud is five years. And even if Omar violated tax law by filing joint returns with a different husband while she was technically still married to her brother (something that hasn’t been established), those returns (as Brittany reports) were filed over a decade ago. Again, the SOL has expired.

I hope there is some teeth this investigation not because I detest Omar as a person or politician, but that I loathe to believe Trump et al would give in to their worst impulses in a situation like this. And sadly, this will only perpetuate the "tit for tat" lawfare once the Democrats regain any meaningful power. 

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