Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

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• Homeland Security reported Monday that during the Biden administration the Border Patrol apprehended 400 known suspects on the Terrorist Watch List at the US Border. It's now painfully obvious a few of them made it through. This week, Hamas claimed credit for Cracker Barrel's new logo.

• Cracker Barrel apologized Monday for mishandling its logo change and promised that Uncle Herschel will appear on menus and billboards. For 56 years the Southern-themed restaurant has operated by one principle. Blood is thicker than water, but nothing brings the family together like gravy.

• The Texas Longhorns will play Ohio State on Fox Saturday to start the 2025 college football season in a game between two storied programs. Some rivalries go way back. My Dad always told me that an atheist is anybody who watches Southern Methodist play Notre Dame and doesn't care who wins.

• Gavin Newsom is reported to be looking for a campaign manager for his 2028 run. His website is selling a red cap that reads Gavin Newsom Was Right About Everything. If you'd like to buy this cap, you have to apply for a California cap permit, wait 9 months, pay the 60% sales tax and pick it up via high-speed rail.

• Pew Research reports the foreign-born population in America declined in 2025 for the first time in 50 years, a net loss of 1.5 million people leaving the US and going back to their home countries. It feels a little eerie. There are so many Americans in America today it hardly feels like Mexico anymore.

• NBC News aired illegal alien Abrego Garcia being taken into federal custody Monday and he's slated to be deported to Uganda. Democrats reacted swiftly to keep him in Maryland. In response the state's Governor Wes Moore just redrew the map of Maryland's congressional districts to include Africa.

• The Democratic Party hosted a conference in Minneapolis this week to try to come up with ways to inspire support, assure party donors and raise their low poll numbers. The New York Times survey last week said the Democrats have lost 4.5 million voters. The first place I always look is under the cushions.

• President Trump vowed to expand his crackdown on crime in Chicago and order the National Guard to patrol the gang-infested neighborhoods there. Patience is running thin on both sides. It's been 2 weeks since he sent the National Guard into Washington, DC, delaying hundreds of murders.

• Attorney General Pam Bondi reported over a thousand street arrests in Washington, DC, in the Guard's two weeks. That's amazing since the teen criminals are much faster and more agile than the troops and they know every hideout. To be honest, I don't think the police dogs are getting enough credit.

• President Trump ordered the elimination of cashless bail in Washington, DC, that prosecutors in Democratic-run big cities use to reduce incarcerations. Nowadays, committing murder is not what gets you jail time in progressive cities. Not properly disposing of the body is what gets you jail time.

• President Trump confirmed Monday he will travel to China at the end of the year to meet with President Xi. Trump added his Asia trip will include another summit between himself and North Korea's Kim Jung Un. Dennis Rodman will attend to provide some much-needed gravitas to the meeting.

• A California high school girls volleyball team walked off the court on Thursday and refused to play against a Jurupa Valley girls team that had one transgender player. The girls chose to forfeit the game instead. They cited the first rule of women's volleyball which allows only one ball on the court.

• The Texas GOP legislature finally succeeded in redistricting the map to add five more Republican districts Saturday after three weeks of dramatics. In other news from the Lone Star State, the CDC just announced that the measles outbreak in Texas is over. Yes, and the Epstein files have been released.

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