Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Easting Contest Now a Spring Roll Eating Contest

Hot Dog Champ, Joey Chestnut, now must down spring rolls in the summer

Well, it was destined in the realm of things: Communist China has bought one of America's signature companies, Nathan's Famous, the hotdog king that started its journey in Brooklyn's Coney Island in1916. The franchise cost the commies  mere $450 million; they got a good deal.

I remember going to Nathan's as a kid after spending a day at the beach in Coney Island. We'd go as a family and with friends, play "lava" as the waves came in at the beach. We'd run back from the edge of the water onto the sand before the 'lava' hit our feet. Then go for a swim in water we dared not swallow.

The Smithfield Group, was itself bought by the Shuanghui Group in 2013, and now goes by the name WH Group. This group is owned by the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership is loaded with CCP honchos whose long-range goal was to buy American farmland. No big deal, other than being a national security threat. They owned roughly 150,000 acres of American land across 29 states, but has since reduced its land holding, perhaps to look less conspicuous.

Imagine, the first Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held under the mayoral authority of none other than Zohran "Allahu Akbar!" Mamdani, New York's first anti-Zionist [aka antisemitic] mayor. How fitting that the CCP sponsored event will have a socialist in office.

You can't get more American than Nathan's, a company that began 110 years ago by a guy named Nathan Handwerker, four years after landing on our shore. He started out small with a little hotdog stand, and sold his products at a lower price than his competitors. By the time Major League Baseball named Nathan's as its official hotdog in 2017, the company became synonymous with baseball, barbecues, and America.

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The big question on everybody's mind will be whether the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest will eventually become the Nathan's Famous Spring Roll Eating Contest. And can Joey Chestnut, the king of the contest, still win with downing spring rolls?

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DHS Drops the Hammer: Mahmoud Khalil's Algerian Vacation Is About to Get Real

Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals did what appellate courts occasionally remember to do: side with sanity and smack down a lower-court judge who thought he could play king of the immigration hill. The ruling was a clean win for the Trump administration in the long-running deportation saga of former Columbia University darling Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil, the 30-year-old Syrian-born so-called Palestinian activist who's spent the better part of the last year lawyering his way out of consequences, got nabbed by ICE back in March. He cooled his heels in a Louisiana detention facility until June, when a New Jersey judge decided he was special and ordered him sprung. 

Turns out, that judge was swinging way above his pay grade. The appeals court politely informed him that no, he didn't have the authority to issue such a ruling. Shocking, I know, but judges have been misjudging their absolute power since there had been laws on the books.

Now comes the fun part. A top Department of Homeland Security official spilled the beans to NewsNation's Katie Pavlich: Khalil's about to get rearrested and shipped off to beautiful, sunny Algeria.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian-born activist the Trump administration has sought to deport over pro-Palestinian demonstrations he helped organize in New York, will be retaken into custody and sent to the North African country of Algeria, a top official with the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.

Khalil and his attorneys have spent months playing constitutional whack-a-mole with the White House's efforts to remove the green card holder, who is of Palestinian heritage, insisting it would violate the Constitution. An appellate court decision last week, however, was widely seen as a victory for the Trump administration.

"It looks like he'll go to Algeria. That's what the thought is right now," said Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs.

"It's a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card. You are a guest in this country, act like it," McLaughlin said.

The Trump team has been saying since early last year that Khalil was providing support to Hamas and that he got creative with the truth on his residency paperwork. Khalil, never one to go quietly, has countersued the administration for $20 million, claiming false imprisonment and "malicious prosecution." Because nothing says "I'm being persecuted" like organizing campus chaos and then crying foul when the bill comes due.

Look, this isn't rocket science. You come here as a guest, whether on a visa or a green card, and decide the best use of your time is helping organize protests that cozy up to terrorist sympathizers and generally make life miserable for everyone else, don't be surprised when the door hits you in the butt on the way out. McLaughlin nailed it: act like a guest. Or don't. 

But Algeria is waiting, and it doesn't do campus tents and chants.

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Score one for borders, rule of law, and not letting Ivy League protest tourism turn into permanent residency. Welcome back to reality, folks. It's refreshing out here.

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FBI serves subpoenas asking for records and communications, source says

The Department of Justice has dropped the subpoena hammer on some Minnesota Democrats who apparently thought obstructing ICE was just another day at the office. Grand jury subpoenas went out Tuesday to five state and local government outfits, including the Governor's Office, the Attorney General's office, and the Minneapolis Mayor's Office, in a federal probe into what sources describe as a possible conspiracy to mess with or straight-up obstruct federal immigration enforcement during ICE ops in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (and apparently endless sanctimony).

The FBI handled the deliveries, demanding records and communications. The DOJ, in classic fashion, had no comment, because hey, why spoil the surprise?

Late last week, Fox News got the scoop that federal prosecutors were eyeballing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly throwing sand in the gears of law enforcement. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche didn't mince words when he chatted with Fox:

"When the governor or the mayor threaten our officers, when the mayor suggests that he's encouraging citizens to call 911 when they see ICE officers, that is very close to a federal crime," Blanche said.

Walz, never one to let a federal investigation pass without a dramatic pivot, immediately cried foul on X, accusing the Trump administration of "weaponizing the justice system."

"Two days ago, it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly," Walz wrote in an X post. "Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

Frey chimed in with his own brave stand on social media, vowing he "will not be intimidated.""This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis, local law enforcement, and residents against the chaos and danger this Administration has brought to our city," Frey wrote on X. "I will not be intimidated. My focus remains where it’s always been: keeping our city safe."

Sure, Jake. Because nothing says "keeping our city safe" like turning a blind eye—or worse—to federal officers doing their jobs while your rhetoric gets people whipped into a froth.

The White House wasn't having any of the chaos theater. After a mob of anti-ICE agitators reportedly barged into the Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday, right in the middle of services, no less, disrupting worship because they decided the pastor was secretly an ICE honcho, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson unloaded on Fox News Digital.

"There is no low these radical leftists won’t stoop to," Jackson said Monday morning. "Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have whipped these rioters into a frenzy and turned them loose to wreak havoc on Minneapolis."

"Frey and Walz should be ashamed for inciting such chaos, but the Trump Administration will continue enforcing the law," she added.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Sunday that the DOJ was launching an investigation into the church disruption, zeroing in on potential federal civil rights violations for "these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshipers."George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley weighed in on the legal side of things, breaking down the potential ramifications of the Justice Department’s look into the agitators who targeted that Minnesota church they thought housed an ICE official.

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All in all, it's another chapter in the ongoing saga of blue-state officials discovering that federal law doesn't come with a "sanctuary" opt-out clause. The subpoenas are out, the whining is predictable, and the left is once again shocked—shocked!—that there might be consequences for treating immigration enforcement like an optional suggestion. Stay tuned; this one's got legs. Or at least grand jury intrigue.

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Donald LeMon may be in deep poo over disrupting church services

The Justice Department under the new administration isn't messing around when it comes to defending houses of worship from disruption — and former CNN host Don Lemon has found himself squarely in the crosshairs.

A top DOJ official is signaling that federal charges could be coming for those who stormed a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, including Lemon for his embedded role with the anti-ICE protesters.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon laid it out plainly in an interview with podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday, warning of serious consequences and pointing to statutes that could bring lengthy prison time.

“I see various crimes that have occurred,” she told Johnson. “Exactly what they are I’m not going to flag, but the FACE Act has been mentioned as one of the predicates there. In other cases, the Biden DOJ used the Klan Act conspiracy charges tacked onto the FACE Act in the case of protests outside abortion clinics to bring much longer sentences.”

Dhillon didn't hold back when turning to Lemon's involvement, dismissing any notion that "committing journalism" provides immunity.

“Don Lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility. He went into the facility, and then he began ‘committing journalism,’ as if that’s sort of a shield from being a part, an embedded part of a criminal conspiracy, it isn’t,” she said.

The potential charges could invoke the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act — which protects access to religious services just as it does abortion facilities — and the Ku Klux Klan Act (the Enforcement Act of 1871), which targets conspiracies to deprive people of their civil rights, including religious liberty. Violations can carry more than a decade behind bars and steep fines.

As Benny Johnson highlighted in his post:

BREAKING: DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act.The KKK Act makes it illegal to threaten, hurt, or intimidate people to prevent them from exercising their God-given rights.

HARMEET DHILLON: “The Klan Act is one of the most important federal… pic.twitter.com/GWnXAMtWc9— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 19, 2026

Dhillon noted that these same tools were once deployed against peaceful pro-life demonstrators outside clinics, a reminder that civil-rights enforcement cuts both ways, depending on who's in charge.

"The FACE Act is just the start," she continued. "Like I said, you have material support for disruptive activities, you have conspiracy to violate civil rights, you have potentially the use of other instrumentalities to commit crimes."

The incident stemmed from protesters targeting the Cities Church because one pastor reportedly works with a local ICE field office. Demonstrators entered the sanctuary, shouted at worshippers, and disrupted the service.

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The DOJ, Dhillon said, is still putting its "ducks in a row," but the message is unmistakable. "Come next Sunday, nobody should think in the United States that they're going to be able to get away with this. Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down and prevent this from happening and put people away for a long, long time," she added.

This is the Trump-era DOJ making clear: Houses of worship aren't protest zones, and claiming press credentials doesn't grant a free pass to join the fray. So sorry, Donny boy. Deal with it.

This story is still developing.

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Trump says Ilhan Omar should be jailed or deported to "Make Somalia Great Again"

If you thought the Minnesota progressive squad couldn't get any more unhinged, Rep. Ilhan Omar just raised the bar to stratospheric levels.

During a Democratic field hearing in St. Paul on Friday, Omar didn’t mince words. She expressed outright horror at what she called the “U.S. god---- states.” Yes, you read that correctly. That’s the sitting congresswoman from Minnesota casually dropping an f-bomb on the entire country she was elected to serve.

Meanwhile, President Trump lit up Truth Social Sunday night with a flamethrower. "There is 19 Billion Dollars in Minnesota Somalia Fraud. Fake ‘Congresswoman' Ilhan Omar, a constant complainer who hates the USA, knows everything there is to know. She should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalia, considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World. She could help to MAKE SOMALIA GREAT AGAIN!"

Boom. Mic drop.

For those keeping score at home, Omar was born in Somalia, came to the United States as a refugee, and became a naturalized citizen in 2000. She's been in Congress since early 2019. Trump clearly believes that résumé should come with a one-way ticket back to Mogadishu. The president wasn't done.

"ICE is removing some of the most violent criminals in the World from our Country, and bring them back home, where they belong. Why is Minnesota fighting this? Do they really want murderers and drug dealers to be ensconced in their community? The thugs that are protesting include many highly paid professional agitators and anarchists. Is this really what Minnesota wants?"

And then, the cherry on top: "The crooked Governor and 'Congresswoman' Omar, who married her brother, don't mind because it keeps the focus of attention off the 18 Billion Dollar, Plus, FRAUD, that has taken place in the State! Don't worry, we're on it!"

Trump is basically running the table here: fraud allegations, deportation threats, the infamous "married her brother" line (which Omar has repeatedly denied), and a not-so-subtle suggestion that the congresswoman belongs anywhere but the U.S. Capitol.

Over on the Republican side, Utah Sen. Mike Lee was equally livid after seeing Omar's "U.S. Goddamn States" remark. "No member of Congress should ever refer to our country as the ‘U.S. Goddamn States,'" Lee posted on X. "What should be the consequence of saying that?"

Elon Musk, never shy about weighing in, had the perfect one-liner reply. "Whatever the penalty is for treason."

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So there you have it. In the span of a weekend, Ilhan Omar managed to call the United States a godforsaken dumpster fire, trigger a full Trump Truth Social barrage, and get the world’s richest man to casually drop the t-word.

Just another relaxing Sunday in American politics, 2026 edition.

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DOJ Drops the Hammer on Minnesota Church-Storming Wackos After Anti-ICE Meltdown

Well, folks, the Trump administration isn't messing around when it comes to people who think interrupting a church service is the height of civil discourse.

A pack of anti-ICE screamers stormed the Cities Church in Minneapolis smack in the middle of Sunday worship, apparently convinced that one of the pastors moonlights as the head honcho of ICE's St. Paul office. Dozens of these geniuses burst in, turning a sanctuary into their personal protest stage. Churchgoers told Fox News Digital the mob even tailed them into the parking lot afterward, surrounding cars and playing human barricade.

President Trump's team didn't take long to respond with something stronger than a sternly worded tweet.

Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to the situation. "I just spoke to the Pastor in Minnesota whose church was targeted. Attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law."

She then added, for those in the back: "If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness, this Department of Justice will remain mobilized to prosecute federal crimes and ensure that the rule of law prevails."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt piled on via social media, after footage showed the crowd yelling through the service like it was open mic night at a bad comedy club. "President Trump will not tolerate the intimidation and harassment of Christians in their sacred places of worship," she said.

The AG continued: "The Department of Justice has launched a full investigation into the despicable incident that took place earlier today at a church in Minnesota."

And Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, chimed in with the kind of resolve we haven't heard from that office in years: "We will not rest until we are able to deliver justice."

Of course, while the feds are mobilizing to protect houses of worship from being turned into flash-mob venues, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is out there doing his best impression of a community organizer who never quite got over 2020.

Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," Frey basically shrugged off the whole thing and defended the protesters as misunderstood patriots. He pushed back hard on any suggestion that local leaders might bear some responsibility for the chaos.

"This is not about safety. What this is about is coming into our city by the thousands and terrorizing people simply because they're Latino or Somali," Frey said. "People in Minneapolis are speaking up. They're speaking up peacefully. They're standing up for their neighbors. And this is not just about resisting Trump. This is about loving and caring for the people that call this city home. And it's been inspiring."

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Sure, Jacob. Storming a church, chasing families to their cars, nothing says "inspiring" and "peaceful" like that.

The DOJ's civil rights investigation is officially underway, and it's nice to see federal law enforcement treating attacks on Christians and law enforcement personnel with the seriousness they deserve. In other words, the adults are back in the room, and the tantrum crowd is finally getting the timeout it so richly earned.

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Ilhan Omar Drops an F-Bomb on America, Calls It the 'God***n United States' in Wild ICE Rant

If you're wondering just how far the anti-ICE hysteria on the left has gone, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) just took it to a whole new level. During a Democratic field hearing in St. Paul on Friday titled "Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump's Deadly Assault on Minnesota," Omar compared U.S. immigration enforcement to the authoritarian nightmares she fled in Somalia, and then she let slip that she never expected to see this kind of thing in the "goddamn" United States.

"I don't want to curse, but those of us who escaped places like that, the one place where we thought we would never experience this is the U.S. goddamn states," the woman who married her own brother said, clearly wanting to curse.

She didn't stop there, the witch doubled down, declaring that Americans should be ashamed. "And we should all be ashamed that it is the United States that is allowing for this to take place, and it is being… broadcast to the rest of the world, where people are calling and saying, 'Are you sure this is America?' I am ashamed, and we must do everything that we can to bring back the America we all escaped into."

This came amid escalating tensions in Minnesota, where thousands of federal agents have been deployed following a massive fraud scandal late last year. The flashpoint includes the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent, which critics have seized on to claim strong-arm tactics and intimidation. President Trump has even floated invoking the Insurrection Act to restore order, though he seemed to walk that back on Friday.

Omar didn't hold back on her GOP colleagues either, accusing Republicans of being fine with an "occupation that is terrorizing people in Minnesota that live in Minneapolis and St. Paul."

"When my constituents call for help, we don't ask them who they voted for, because that is what it means to be an elected U.S. representative," she said. "So it is appalling for our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to be OK for the president to carry out retribution here in Minnesota. "It is appalling for our Republican colleagues to be OK for there to be cell detentions in ICE for American citizens," she continued. "It is appalling for them to be OK for there to be checkpoints in American cities where people are asked for their papers. And it is appalling for Americans to have to carry their citizen papers only to be told they are not sure those papers are correct."

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Needless to say, the comments lit up conservative corners of the internet. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) fired off on X: "No member of Congress should ever refer to our country as the ‘U.S. Goddamn States.' What should be the consequence of saying that?"

Elon Musk said in response: "Whatever the penalty is for treason," which can be as severe as execution. Trump administration's immigration crackdown. But dropping the "goddamn" bomb on the entire country? That's next-level garbage and it's not going over well with folks who think, that at the very least, members of Congress should show a shred of respect for the nation they swore an oath to serve.

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Latest in Charlie Kirk Assassination Trial

The Utah judge overseeing the assassination case of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has yet to rule on the defense's motion to disqualify the Utah County Attorney’s Office from prosecuting the case over an alleged conflict of interest.

The defense team for the scumwafer, whose name will not be used here, has been charged with the murder of Kirk, the 31-year-old husband and father of two, on September 10 at Utah Valley University, says the office has a conflict of interest in the case due to a Utah County prosecutor's daughter being present at Utah Valley University when the assassination took place.

The prosecution says the family member saw nothing direct and a conflict of interest has not been established. They’ve also accused the defense of stall tactics.

Judge Tony Graf said on Friday that there's not sufficient evidence yet to warrant the expulsion of the office, but has allowed the defendant's team to begin examining witnesses in relation to the supposed conflict of interest.

Additionally, Judge Graf blocked a pool video camera from showing the defendant after his defense team complained that shots of the accused speaking with his legal team could potentially be seen by lip readers and unfairly impact the trial.

A court “decorum” order prohibits visual recordings of conversations at the defense table, even if they're inaudible, that could potentially be deciphered by lip readers. It also bars close-ups of written communications. The defense argued that the video feed photographer violated such a provision twice on Friday, NewsNation reported.

The sanction of the pool video camera pertained to Friday's hearing specifically, and is not permanent. The next hearing is scheduled for February 3, and will focus on the defense’s requests to boot the Utah County Attorney's Office from the case and limit video footage in the trial.

Separately, new reporting on Lance Twiggs, Robinson's roommate and alleged lover, indicates that Twiggs is no longer being protected by federal agents.

Twiggs, who lived with Robinson at the time of Kirk's murder, has been linked to text messages about the assassination. Relatives of Twiggs say the 22-year-old identified as transgender and was "transitioning" to female.

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Twiggs had an FBI security detail due to threats before he moved out of state, according to media reports. He has not been charged with any crime in connection to the assassination.

This case continues to highlight the raw tensions in our divided nation, folks. Stay tuned for developments.

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