1.19.2026

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The truck had just been serviced by Siddons-Martin Emergency Group in Denton, and the company was returning the vehicle to the fire station when the crash occurred. 

  • I-30 right below downtown Dallas was completely closed over the weekend for major construction. The photo below is from Saturday.  And they actually had it opened back up this morning.

  • Remember the employee who was killed after he got off work at Flip's near Western Center boulevard? Police now say the shooters were the dead man's robbery victims 4 years ago when he made them strip naked and videoed it. 

  • Have you visited the McDonald's in Springtown? "A teen has been arrested for charging McDonald's customers double in Springtown, police say. According to a press release, 19-year-old Giovanni Primo Blount of Poolville was arrested after discovering he allegedly was part of a scheme targeting customers who paid with credit or debit cards at the Springtown McDonald's [where the extra funds were transferred to his personal account.]"

  • Lot of inter-family conflict these days. Story

  • Texas politics: 
    • In the senate race, Ken Paxton released an AI ad showing John Cornyn dancing with Jasmine Crockett.


    • Gov. Abbott filed his campaign finance report and it turned out to be over 10,000 pages long and showing that he had raised $22.7 million and has $105.7 million in the bank.  He has no Republican primary opponent. 

    • Dan Patrick is hob-knobbing this week. .

  • Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will decide two interesting cases:
    • In a case near and dear to my heart, Roundup may be saved. 

    • The decision to hear a geofence case out of Texas comes as somewhat of a surprise since Google no longer produces the data. 

  • Welcome to the The Handmaid's Tale.

  • In an insane move, Trump said he will impose tariffs on our most prominent NATO friends, and that the "Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."


    • The Supreme Court is currently considering whether Trump can justify his imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.  So what's the emergency about the tariffs to obtain Greenland? Here was the Orwellian answer yesterday: 

  • Minneapolis updates: 
    • What would send shockwaves across the nation a few years ago is now hardly a blip on the radar: 

    • This post by Homeland Security is 100% wrong.  You can be arrested only for probable cause. You can only de detained if there is just reasonable suspicion. 

    • Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marched through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents and shouting at protestors.  Others have pointed out that his attire seemed a little familiar. 



  • In total, three people were pardoned in this scheme on Friday. But the lede was buried: The daughter of one of those pardoned "donated $2.5 million to a Trump-linked super PAC in 2024 while the felony indictment remained pending. She donated another $1 million in July 2025."


  • The First Amendment used not to work this way. 


  • This story was weird even before this morning's news that Trump has invited, of all people, Vladimir Putin to join this board. 

  • Trump bizarrely vowed to protect the Army-Navy football game this weekend: "I will soon sign a Historic Executive Order securing an EXCLUSIVE 4 hour Broadcast window, so this National Event stands above Commercial Postseason Games. No other Game or Team can violate this Time Slot!!!"


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1.16.2026

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Back when Trump said Cruz was ineligible to be president. 

  • Oh, my. 




  • I would share this story, but the Star-Telegram's "gift link" has been non-functioning for weeks. 


  • From the Denton Record Chronicle: 

  • Wise County state representative Andy Hopper filed his campaign finance report yesterday. It seems like trial lawyers and trial lawyer PACs are at the top of the donor list. The biggest exception is the TUCM PAC which is funded by the West Texas Oil Men. 

  • Pretty wild allegations. 


  • Don't worry. The press secretary said yesterday that Trump was "only joking."



  • Speaking of the press secretary:

  • The Business Second™. "The 14-acre site is on the south side of U.S. 287, not far from the traffic circle at the exit ramps."

  • With the ease and proliferation of online gambling, I don't see how this is not going to continue to be a problem. 


  • Last night, the Dodgers signed this guy for $60 million a year for four years.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 197 days.


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1.15.2026

Random Thursday Morning News





They were released the next day. 

  • It was just a motion which was filed filed: “Mr. Horner’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reduces his moral blameworthiness, negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment and exposes him to the unacceptable risk that he will be wrongfully sentenced to death,” the motion states. (The long process of jury selection will begin at the end of this month.)

  • We've got what looks like a a big apartment fire near Ridgmar Mall this morning. 

  • "Students must be Texas residents, a graduate of a high school in the state and come from a family with a total income of $100,000 or less. They also must be either eligible for the Pell Grant or rank in the top 25% of their high school class and have a financial need. The program will cover four years of tuition."

  • So far, there's not any evidence either one of these people did anything wrong.  

    • And this seems odd. A state legislator being judge, jury and executioner.  This is especially true when one of his close buddies in the legislature. Mitch Little, is actually suing the school district under a new law Little authored making it easier to sue school districts.

  • Oh, my.

  • Another shooting in Minneapolis last night. I haven't seen any video of this one, but ICE did release a statement that the agent "was in fear for his life." 

    • New this morning. Get ready. It's over. 

  • Three quick thoughts: (1) Is CBS just going to republish government statements now? , (2) a bruise is "internal bleeding", and (3) how does Elon even find his way to the office every morning? 

  • This reporter is not accused of a crime. Her house was just searched, and computers seized, because the government was looking for evidence to prosecute someone else.  You never see that happen.  But, now, do you think any confidential sources within the Trump Administration will be less willing to talk to any reporter about anything?  That's the point. 



  • “It’s not every day, of course . . .  you get to meet someone who was convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States. Hasn’t happened in 30 years," Moskowitz said at yesterday's hearing.


  • The Business Second™. The ranch is near Weatherford. The purchasers are "Jason Itkin who is a partner and co-founder of the Houston law firm Arnold & Itkin LLP, and his wife, Kisha, who began her career in the oil and gas industry. The pair are also major donors to University of Texas athletics."


  • Dateline Houston. A New York Post story which they thought was salacious enough to run with.


  • Messenger - Above the Fold


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