Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) on Tuesday launched the TruckSafe Tipline for truckers and those in the trucking industry to report concerns about carriers employing or contracting with drivers who are in the country illegally.

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Venezuela's socialist strongman Diosdado Cabello celebrated the abduction and rearrest of opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa.

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While Victor Davis Hanson recovers, his show goes on, and with a connection to Ohio.

In the latest episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” co-host Jack Fowler speaks with Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, on Ohio’s energy boom and the future of America’s energy industry.

Fowler explains that Balderson’s role as chairman of the House Energy Action Team makes him the “leading voice on energy policy for House Republicans.”

The Marcellus Shale Boom

The Marcellus Shale is a unit of sedimentary rock spanning from Pennsylvania and West Virginia, as well western New York and eastern Ohio, including Balderson’s district.

Balderson brought up the relevance of the Marcellus Shale going back to 2010, when the Obama administration was closing coal mines and plants, something the congressman noted “greatly impacted” southeast Appalachia.

When the Marcellus Shale industry began making its way into Ohio in 2010, Balderson explained, “it brought great pride to those communities” and “expanded from there.” This “boom” helped build up the local economies.

As Fowler chimed in, “Nobody would have thought of Ohio as a bastion of energy before this was discovered.”

Benefits of Energy

From Fowler’s perspective, it is “lost on the Left that with energy comes actual generated power and with power comes economic growth and with that comes an escape from poverty and oppression.”

“Cheap, accessible, reliable energy is atop of that list,” Fowler said.

Davos having just taken place when the interview was recorded, Fowler invited Balderson to offer a message on American energy for those attending the forum.

It’s more than “drill, baby drill.” There’s also an “AI boom that’s happening here,” Balderson offered, with central Ohio welcoming data centers, including Intel.

In response to demands for “clean energy,” Balderson reminded that “we’re giving them clean energy,” noting that natural gas is 98% carbon free.

Balderson spoke of a need to “change that narrative,” emphasizing how “we need 24/7 base load energy.” The congressman added that “natural gas has changed all that,” with nuclear energy also playing a role. This includes nuclear investment in Balderson’s district.

It’s not merely those at Davos who need to hear this. “You also have to talk to the constituencies and making sure that we provide them with clean, affordable energy, too,” Balderson argued.

The Role of American Energy

“If America could unleash its full potential when it comes to creating energy, what kind of a world would we be living in?” Fowler asked, “What kind of economy would we be realizing? And what would the benefits be of America unleashed for the rest of the world?”

The congressman argued the world is seeing energy benefits under the Trump administration.

“By unleashing this energy dominance that we could have is very empowering of what it can do,” Balderson responded, also pointing out the “low times” in southeastern Ohio from 2008 to 2010 when the Obama administration closed coal plants.

Balderson said one of Republicans’ priorities is “to make sure that we uplift these people to provide them the jobs.”

“Now with the energy coming back and the energy dominance coming back that we have here in this country and in the state of Ohio and with the 100 years of natural gas below our feet, we’re providing those jobs back to those folks,” Balderson shared.

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Nancy Guthrie disappeared in the middle of night from her Tucson, Arizona, home and was last seen on 31 January. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. NBC narrative engineer Savannah Guthrie said on Monday that her family believes their mother is still alive and issued a new appeal to anyone with information. The […]

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Team USA hockey player Brady Tkachuk expressed that he was “truly grateful” to be competing in the Winter Olympics and to represent the United States. While speaking to reporters after practice before the men’s hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics,

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The first-place Detroit Pistons currently control the NBA’s Eastern Conference. On Monday, however, neither the Pistons nor their opponents, the streaking Charlotte Hornets, had full control of their emotions. With […]

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U.S. — In an effort to expand the global market for American football, the National Football League announced on Tuesday that next year's Super Bowl halftime show would be performed entirely in Sindarin Elvish.

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Los Angeles Mayoral candidate and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt says that if he is elected as mayor, his administration would work with the federal government on immigration enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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RICHMOND, VA — In a blatant and callous display of colonialism, local wife Jennifer Carlin refused to return the land she stole from her husband John's side of the bed last night.

Democrats aired their grievances against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, even questioning the salvation of agency leaders.

Questioning grew so contentious that Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., slammed his gavel to remind his colleagues of House “decorum” standards.

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was questioning Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on his salvation.

“Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?” McIver asked.

“Yes, ma’am,” Lyons responded.

“Oh yes, well, how do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?”

“I’m not going to entertain that question,” Lyons answered.

“Of course not,” McIver shot back. “Do you think you’re going to hell, Mr. Lyons?”

Garbarino quickly interjected, reminding McIver and all members of “standards of decorum and debate.”

The exchange took place during the over three-hour-long hearing titled, “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS.” It was one of multiple contentious moments between lawmakers and President Donald Trump’s immigration officials.

The hearing comes on the heels of the administration deploying about 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota to carry out a large immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities. Anti-ICE protests have expanded in the state after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, on Jan. 24, and an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, also 37, on Jan. 7.

After Pretti’s death, Trump deployed border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to take over the enforcement operation. Since his arrival, Homan says cooperation between state, local, and federal law enforcement has improved, leading him to decrease the number of federal agents in the Twin Cities by 700.

In addition to Lyons, Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Rodney Scott, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told members of Congress on Tuesday that under Trump’s leadership, the public is safer, the border is secure, and order has been restored to the immigration system.

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is restoring integrity, accountability, and security to America’s legal immigration system,” Edlow said.

Multiple lawmakers adamantly disagreed with Edlow’s claim during the hearing, even accusing ICE agents of acting like “secret police.”

“I have a simple suggestion: if you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one,” Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., told Lyons.

Goldman and other lawmakers have accused ICE of being similar to “secret police” because ICE agents wear masks.

The Department of Homeland Security claims the masks are necessary to protect the identities of ICE agents, who they say are facing a 1,400% increase in assaults over the past year.

Lyons directly rejected Democrats’ calls to unmask immigration agents, an issue that has become the central sticking point for Congress to pass a bill funding the agency.

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., went a step further than some of her Democrat colleagues and called for DHS to be “dismantled.”

“DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled, and something new must take its place. Because if we let DHS persist, it will continue to be a weapon that can be pointed at anyone the government considers the public enemy,” Ramirez said.

The Illinois Democrat then addressed Lyons, Scott, and Edlow directly, accusing them of having “weaponized the government.”

“You have supported a fascist enterprise at the expense of our constitutional rights. You have violated the law, but let me remind you: you will not always be in power. One day, you will be held accountable for your role in this dark moment in America, in our nation’s history. I guarantee it,” Ramirez warned the three officials.

Rep. Tim Kennedy, D-N.Y., accused the Trump administration of murdering American citizens, referring to the shootings of Good and Pretti by federal agents which are still under investigation.

“We’re a nation of laws,” Kennedy said to Lyons, adding that neither he, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, nor Trump are “above the law.”

“The American people are angry, and they’re demanding accountability and justice from those giving the orders,” Kennedy said before asking Lyons, “Do you believe that Secretary Noem should resign?”

“I’m not going to comment on that, sir,” Lyons answered.

Multiple Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have called on Noem to either resign, be fired, or be impeached following the incidents in Minneapolis.

Noem has given no indication she plans to resign, and Trump has continued to express his public support for the secretary.

The agency has stated that the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota will continue despite the opposition.

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