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The J6 pipe bomber has been caught. Read:
Big news is breaking this Thursday morning, as multiple sources are reporting that a Virginia man has been arrested for placing pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee on January 5, 2021.
Details are sketchy as of this writing, but this would be the first time federal law enforcement has made an arrest in the high-profile case that has seemed to baffle investigators for nearly five years. According to one report, the suspect is a man from Virginia and the arrest by the FBI took place Thursday morning. There is no word as of yet on the charges this suspect might be facing.
A news conference is expected to take place at the U.S. Department of Justice sometime on Thursday.
BREAKING: Colleague @davidspunt reports the FBI has arrested the suspect believed to be behind the planting of pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC headquarters in DC on January 5th, 2021. Suspect is a male living in Virginia. Arrested early this morning in VA.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 4, 2025
This is great news. It’s an interesting note that the pipe bomber set explosives outside both Republican and Democratic headquarters, and his motivations aren’t yet known as of this writing.
The bomber has, however, been identified, as one Brian Cole.
The suspect who allegedly planted pipe bombs blocks from the U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2021, has been identified as Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Va., according to two sources briefed on the arrest.
The sources say Cole, 30, is in FBI custody as of Thursday following roughly five years of investigation.
The FBI arrested Cole in northern Virginia.
Authorities have not released further details about the man, but one federal law enforcement source told Fox that the FBI is carrying out “court-enforced activity” at Cole’s residence.
By “court-enforced activity,” it’s a near-certainty they mean “executing a search warrant.” In non-legal language, the FBI is turning this guy’s living quarters upside-down.
Look, we don’t know much about this goblin yet. We know he tried to place explosives at both Republican and Democratic headquarters. We know, according to the FBI, that these pipe bombs were “viable,” meaning “they could go boom.”
What we do know is that all of the violent political rhetoric and, yes, acts of violence, here in the United States, has come from the left. Not the right; the left.
Why does that matter?
Because the left, both elected officials, appointees, and just the raging shouters, will keep calling for violence. They’ll keep crying out, calling the right fascists, Nazis, anything but fellow Americans. They’ll keep pushing, and pushing, and pushing, until they find out, to their lasting and final regret, that the right will only be pushed so far. And, when it comes to violence, we’re better at it than they are.
Well, now there’s this: A Florida Congresswoman has been charged with fraudulently obtaining federal disaster relief funds, laundering those funds, and using them to pay for her 2021 Congressional campaign. To that, I can only add, what a piece of shit. Here’s what the Justice Department has to say about it.
A federal grand jury in Miami has returned an indictment charging Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and several co-defendants with stealing federal disaster funds, laundering the proceeds, and using the money to support her 2021 congressional 
campaign.
According to the indictment, Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source. Prosecutors allege that a substantial portion of the misappropriated 
funds was used as candidate contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick’s 2021 congressional campaign and for the personal benefit of the defendants.
That’s fraud and money-laundering right there, and she stole federal disaster-relief funds, money that was supposed to go to help people in need. What a piece of shit.
But wait! There’s more!
The indictment further alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and Nadege Leblanc, 46, of Miramar, arranged additional contributions using straw 
donors, funneling other monies from the FEMA-funded Covid-19 contract to friends and relatives who then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.
The indictment also charges Cherfilus-McCormick and her 2021 tax preparer David K. Spencer, 41, of Davie, with conspiring to file a false federal tax return. According to the indictment, they falsely claimed political spending and other personal expenses as business deductions and inflated charitable contributions in order to reduce her tax obligations.
“Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “No one is above the law, least of all powerful people who rob taxpayers for personal gain. We will follow the facts in this case and deliver justice.”
That’s the “Fuck Around” part of the equation; here’s the “Find Out” part:
If convicted, Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison. Edwin Cherfilus faces up to 35 years, Leblanc up to 10 years, and Spencer up to 33 years.
Let’s hope that the DOJ has them dead to rights.
People wonder why it is that Congress has the approval ratings of toenail fungus. Felonious assholes like Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick go a long way towards explaining the reason for that.
Before I start ranting on this, check out the latest installment of The Crider Chronicles – Confederacy over at Glibertarians. Remember, I’m giving away an entire novel over there, publishing in segments, so don’t miss it – unless you’ve already bought the book, of course!
Now then, take a look at this:
🚨Tyler Avalos of MN accused of putting a $45,000 HIT on @AGPamBondi
He put on tik tok – wanted Bondi “dead or alive”
Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/3ngi8XANoA
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 27, 2025
The scumbag in question is now in jail, but how many more are there out there just like him?
It’s amazing, how all this is coming from the “peaceful, tolerant” left. This asshole is of the same ideological ilk as Charlie Kirk’s assassin, as the two assholes who tried to take out President Trump during the 2024 campaign. It’s only a matter of time before one of them succeeds, again, and we have another Charlie Kirk.
And the really sad thing is this: If these assholes ever do manage to kick off the large-scale conflict they think they want, boy howdy is it ever not going to end the way they think it will.
Antifa, which stands for “Anti-fascist,” a great irony, since these people are themselves vicious little fascists, is becoming a serious problem in several of our major cities. That is happening in no small part because we allow it to happen, and police officers in places like Portland are even ordered to stand aside and let Antifa rampage. President Trump has designated them a domestic terror group.
That gives him some license to go after their funding, and boy, howdy, do they have some funding.
Antifa is a fascist, terrorist organization that has conspired to commit countless crimes across the United States. Democrats assert, absurdly, that Antifa doesn’t really exist–it is just an idea! But ideas don’t organize riots, every night for three months or more. Ideas don’t compensate the people who participate in those riots, or bail them out of jail, or pay for their signs or their plane tickets. There is a great deal of money behind the American Left, and some of it is flowing to Antifa, the militant arm of the Democratic Party, much as the Ku Klux Klan was the militant arm of the 
Democratic Party during the latter decades of the 19th century.
Taking out the goblins themselves is worth doing. Some lengthy prison sentences should take a lot of the starch out of these people, most of whom don’t give the impression of being great physical specimens. But even snakes have to eat, and cutting off Antifa’s funding has to be way up on the Trump administration’s ‘to-do’ list as well:
The Trump administration should be putting a high priority on investigating the funding of domestic terrorism, including, above all, the funding of Antifa. Happily, it appears to be doing so:
FBI Director Kash Patel tells Just the News that the bureau is “on the verge” of unmasking the command structure and financing for anarchist groups like Antifa that have unleashed unrest around America and has also identified potential new criminal activity related to the abuse of federal law enforcement and intelligence.
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Patel said one area where the FBI has made rapid progress is the tracking of financing and command structures of anarchist groups like Antifa that have fomented unrest in American cities, attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up illegal immigrants and antisemitic movements on college campuses.
Good. That’s all good. But it can’t stop there.
Some of Antifa’s funding, we are informed, comes from other countries:
He (Patel) said there are indications that some support may come from overseas enemies and U.S. nonprofit groups that have tax exemptions from the IRS.
Which overseas enemies? Well, who would have an interest in destabilizing American cities? Iran? China? Russia? There’s quite a list.
Here’s the things: We can count on three more years to get this done. In 2028, there will a new president elected, and if, fates forfend, it’s a Democrat, then Antifa will be off the leash, the borders will be once more wide open, and any of the Democrats who are on the short list will make Joe Biden look like Andrew Jackson.
I stumbled across this while cleaning up some old files, and given the state of affairs in our major cities in recent weeks, I thought it bore trotting out for you all to read again. It may be more true now than it was in the 2020 “Summer of Love” rioting.
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A comment on this article over at Glibertarians provoked some thought. Glibertarians is one of my favorite sites not only because they let me write about guns and outdoor stuff, but because the commentariat there is a good cut above the normal. The comment that got me thinking:
The social justice cadres suffer under the delusion that all of our social codes, all of our strictures on what we can do to one another are about 
protecting us from them. It doesn’t occur to them that it just might be about protecting them from us. Unremitting brutality isn’t some sort of exception or oddity in the course of human history. It’s historically been the utter norm.
Does anyone think, for a moment, that the men who settled continents, conquered the elements, and defeated any challenger who crossed their path established concepts like individual liberty, rule of law, or private property to protect themselves from bands of marauding purple-haired Women’s Studies and Literary Criticism majors?
Or is it maybe a little more likely that we’ve chosen to bury our more vicious and murderous impulses under a set of standards of bourgeois 
restraint? Now, they’re insisting that that veneer of restraint is unfair. Holy Shit! Have they thought for second about what their own damnation of bourgeois standards and values implies about the what they’ll be facing then?
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
It’s true that the vast majority of human history has been one of brutality, oppression and violence. That continued until fairly recently; the late 18th century saw, in Western Europe and the New World, the Enlightenment that led to one small group of people in North America proclaiming the blessings of liberty. But it’s true that you can see the endings in the beginnings; just as you can listen to Wagner and hear the roots of modern German death metal, just as you can look at Mozart and Freddie Mercury and see uncanny similarities, you can see a return to elitist brutality in the goals of modern statists:
“Liberty? You’ll have as much liberty as we allow you. Property? It’s only yours after we take what we want to redistribute it to others who haven’t earned it, after skimming off… well, a lot. Individual rights? You have the right to labor on other men’s behalves; the right to submit to the rule of your ‘betters’ for your own damn ‘good.”
They forget what kind of people set up those institutions that protect and defend liberty, property and individual rights. They forget how many people still value them today. They forget to what lengths people who decide they have nothing left to lose will go. Strength, true strength, does not arise from outrage; it arises from work and achievement. Confidence, real 
confidence, arises from the knowledge you can do things no matter what obstacles others try to put in your way.
How much longer will regular folks allow people to be intimidated by street thugs with black masks? How much longer will people watch Berkeley cops stand by while those thugs run riot in the streets? How much longer will it be before people have had enough, before the counter-protests become counter-attacks? How much longer before the perpetually outraged suddenly, horribly, realize what wages their outrage has wrought?
The message to those who would tear down those institutions that define civilization – liberty, property, individual rights – I can only offer the warning voiced in that same comment: We’re not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with us.
If you’re not following this, you should be. RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar has up-to-the-minute updates: Stay tuned.
BREAKING: Charlie Kirk Shot at TPUSA Event at Utah Valley University https://t.co/s6WmowWPC0
— Ward Clark (@TheGreatLander) September 10, 2025
Well, this seems like a remarkably bad idea. Like so many of the nation’s cities, Anchorage has a problem with street people, setting up massive tent cities, in which prostitution rings, open-air drug markets, not to mention basic sanitation problems arise. That’s bad enough, but now Anchorage is proposing to spend $18 million for shelter services for these people – and wait until you see the punch line.
The Anchorage Assembly is holding a work session Monday, July 28, to deliberate two major contract awards totaling over $18 million for congregate shelter services aimed at chronically homeless individuals who are not adaptable to other forms of shelter because they generally cannot follow rules of more structured shelters.
The proposed awards come as part of Request for Proposal 2025P012:
Both contracts would be administered through the Anchorage Health 
Department, with the total not-to-exceed amounts contingent on all renewal options being exercised.
Did you get that? Chronically homeless individuals who are not adaptable to other forms of shelter because they generally cannot follow rules of more structured shelters. In other words, the worst of the worst, and while I suppose this may get some of them off the street, it’s a safe bet they won’t be locked in – but they will be all nicely contained in one place.
The stated goal of the funding is to provide safe, supervised, and appropriate congregate shelter environments for individuals who have not successfully transitioned to other housing models such as low-barrier shelters, hotel conversions, or permanent supportive housing.
This is almost certainly due to the fact that these incorrigibles are addicts, mentally ill, criminals, or some combination of those things. These are the worst of the worst, and Anchorage’s plan is apparently, to… warehouse them?
The city, like so many of our (Democrat-run) cities, has spent millions on this problem, and it just keeps getting worse.
A 2023 report noted that Anchorage had spent $161 million on the crisis since 2020, an average of roughly $40 million per year. That figure is likely only a portion of the real costs.
Despite the enormous outlay, residents of Anchorage continue to grapple 
with escalating problems associated with chronic hobo lifestyles, including shoplifting and camp violence fueled by alcohol and drug transactions and addiction.
Forget what the city paid out to do… nothing. What are the costs to Anchorage residents and businesses who have to deal with this, day in, day out?
The city of Anchorage is utterly failing to deal with this problem, and the bad thing is, given the municipality’s typical voting patterns in recent years, it looks like things are going to have to get a lot worse before they get better.
This may be a bit overdue, but at least now it’s happening; six Secret Service agents are finding themselves in hot water over the June, 2024 assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump.
Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year’s attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.
The personnel moves were confirmed four days shy of the anniversary of the July 13, 2024, shooting incident that left Trump’s ear bloodied.
Corey Comperatore, a firefighter attending Trump’s campaign rally that day, died in the attack.
Corey Comperatore, we should note, didn’t just die in the attack. He wasn’t just some random guy in the wrong place at the wrong moment. He died shielding his wife and daughter with his body, which is true-blue hero stuff, and it’s a bit low-rent that ABC doesn’t mention that.
Countersnipers in Trump’s Secret Service who were on-site killed the shooter, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
In the aftermath of the shooting, an independent review by the Department of Homeland Security showed a series of law enforcement breakdowns had created an 
environment that left Trump vulnerable to a would-be assassin.
“The Secret Service does not perform at the elite levels needed to discharge its critical mission,” the report found. “The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved.”
The Secret Service director at the time, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned 10 days after the shooting.
Now, the counter-snipers, yes, did a good job. But that job never should have been necessary.
There are still just too many questions about this incident. Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks, anyway? Why did he have several cellular phones, 
and who was he in contact with? How did he manage to get onto a rooftop within an easy rifle shot of the podium without the Secret Service noticing?
Why didn’t the Secret Service and local law enforcement react more positively to the several citizens who were shouting at them about a guy on the roof?
The discipline against the six agents was issued in recent months, and the agents were given the right to appeal. The suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, according to the official, who was briefed on the agency’s actions.
The positions of those suspended ranged from supervisory level to line agent level, a source familiar with the agency’s decision told ABC News.
That doesn’t sound like appropriate consequences for a screw-up that came within a fraction of an inch of killing a former and future President of the United States.
That incident, and the images that came out of it, almost certainly clinched the election for President Trump. The image of Trump standing, a fist raised in the air, blood on his face, and the American flag flying behind him – that’s the most powerful political image since Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate.
But it shouldn’t have been necessary.
