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Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Argus Hamilton

By Argus Hamilton

Published Oct. 24, 2025

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report
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The Toronto Blue Jays won Game 7 of their playoff series with Seattle and advanced to the World Series where they'll play the Los Angeles Dodgers. This year it's a truly world series. We have a contest between Canada and the U.S. to see which nation has the best ballplayers from Japan.

President Trump was ripped by mainstream pundits for tearing down the east wall of the White House to build a ballroom funded by Trump and donors. It's nothing new. Richard Nixon built a bowling alley, Barack Obama built a basketball court and Bill Clinton installed mirrors above the beds.

President Biden's press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Biden's mental acuity in office on The View. When we look back someday, Joe's mental fitness may look good compared to future presidents. In 1973, Richard Nixon famously said, I am not a crook, and he wasn't, by today's standards.

Robert DeNiro went off the rails again on a CNN panel Sunday denouncing President Trump and Stephen Miller in Third Reich terms. DeNiro called Trump, who got a peace deal for Israel, Hitler, and he called Stephen Miller, who's Jewish, a Nazi. So what's next, Harrison Ford was a Storm Trooper?

The No Kings parades on Saturday featured crazy costumes, songs and chants and millions of old white women. I've seen younger faces on money. However to be fair, many of the No Kings protestors looked like they were alive the last time we had a King, so perhaps we should hear them out.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was welcomed in the White House Monday to sign a deal to provide rare earth minerals to the U.S. While the prime minister was in Washington there was some very sad news reported from Australia. The inventor of the boomerang grenade died Monday.

The New York Post reported a census survey which revealed that 27% of California residents were born in a foreign country. It helps to keep the Golden State beautiful. Democracy is welcoming people from other lands and giving them something they can hold onto, usually a broom or a leaf blower.

The Louvre Museum was looted of priceless jewelry by daring thieves Monday who smashed, grabbed and escaped on motorcycles. All the world loves a great heist. Within the hour, Paris police issued an all-points bulletin for Peter O'Toole, the Pink Panther and Audrey Hepburn's father.

The New York Times released a poll in October showing most Americans do not think today's bitter political divisions can be healed. The partisanship in this country has got me very upset today because I just opened a brand-new deck of playing cards and there were no Kings. Thanks, Democrats!

USA Today claimed that seven million Americans took to the streets for No Kings Day protests 242 years since America was last governed by a King. The protestors are clear-eyed in their political mission. Next Saturday millions more have been summoned to protest in the streets for No Martians Day.

Chicago protestors took sticks and bashed a President Trump pinata on the streets of Chicago during Saturday's No Kings rally. Their leaders called for ICE agents to be shot and wiped out. I haven't seen Democrats in Chicago this angry since the Dave Matthews Band tour bus rolled into town.

The New York Post reported thousands of protestors marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday. Seeing a helicopter view of the march, I've only seen one outdoor rally in Washington, D.C., that was bigger than Saturday's No Kings rally. And it was the rally welcoming Queen Elizabeth in 2007.

Arnold Schwarzenegger went on Bill Maher's HBO show Friday to introduce a 3-point plan to save democracy. There's no issue affecting a diversity of opinions that cannot be resolved, either rightly or wrongly, than by simple show of hands. Today I asked myself if I was crazy and we all said no.

President Trump met Australia's leader at the White House Monday and signed a rare earth minerals trade deal to counter China's embargo. The Aussies are a seafaring people. In the 2024 Olympic sailing competition Australia took the Gold, England took the Silver and Somalia took the Boat.

The White House ripped Hamas Monday after they shot two Israeli solders in Gaza resulting in a massive IDF airstrike, threatening to end their agreed-upon cease fire. It was ever thus. Last week, my one-minute egg timer went out so I used the Israel-Hamas peace truce as a timer to boil my egg.

Congressman AOC headlined a CNN Town Hall Thursday and for two wonderful hours the jokes wrote themselves. At one point AOC declared we need more drinkable air. AOC moved on to denounce the study of Civics in high school, asking why Hondas are more important than other cars.

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