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Mick Jagger, Blondie, Run-DMC, Robert Palmer, Steve Winwood, and David Lee Roth are some of the biggest names music has to offer, let alone from the ‘80s. Grandeur aside, one thing they all have in common is that their music was forever changed by session maestro, Eddie Martinez. Palmer’s “Simply Irresistible,” and “Addicted to Love,” Roth’s Crazy from the Heat EP, and Run-DMCs “Rock Box,” and “King of Rock” are a few notable examples of Martinez’s heavy-hitting, yet tasteful playing. With that, it’s obvious that Martinez is nothing short of a guitar hero, albeit in a different form than the The post An Interview With Session Legend Eddie Martinez appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting—then years of elevated criminal violence—should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, Good’s tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement—not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation’s democratically enacted immigration laws. It’s the protesters’ veto, an assertion by activists of a right to cancel laws they don’t like. And it’s already cost lives, including Renee Good’s. She was shot and killed by an ICE officer when she drove her car toward him. Why was she having any interaction with ICE at all? She wasn’t a bystander—she and her wife were activists trying to prevent ICE from doing its job. “We had whistles, they had guns,” Good’s widow said in a statement that reveals more than she intended. Law-enforcement officers are supposed to have guns, after all—they risk their lives when they confront criminals. But the whistles? Their purpose is to alert the criminals that law enforcement is approaching. The Goods had whistles to help illegal immigrants evade officers of the law. According to ICE spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, the Goods were “stalking” ICE. Leftist organizations train activists like the Goods to harass and interfere with law enforcement in a variety of ways, including by using vehicles to block their movements. This “activism” is not only in support of illegal activity, it creates dangerous situations for law enforcement officers, bystanders, and the activists themselves, as Renee Good sadly discovered. The organizations that train activists to thwart law-enforcement know the risks—in fact, they’re part of the plan. If ICE agents get killed as a result of interference, that’s a win in the eyes of those who brand law enforcement as “fascists.” And if bystanders or anti-ICE activists get killed as a result of the activists’ meddling, that’s a win, too, since it serves to embarrass law enforcement and hurt the agency politically. Groups that teach people like the Goods how to endanger themselves and others know they can count on sympathetic coverage from much of the media whenever something violent occurs—it’s a publicity windfall. So why would they stop promoting these tactics, even if they get people killed? If one Renee Good can close schools and conjure up protests against hotels said to be housing ICE agents in Minneapolis, imagine what three or four more martyrs will accomplish. The only obstacle is the victims have to be sympathetic. On Jan. 8, an ICE agent in Portland, Oregon, shot two people in a car that tried to run him over—yet inconveniently for anti-ICE activists, the injured duo were illegal immigrants with ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. Portland Police Chief Bob Day nonetheless broke down crying at a press conference describing the incident, bemoaning “historic injustice of victim blaming.” He knows that in a city as progressive as his, it’s politically smarter to side with lawbreakers than with other officers of the law. Cities like Portland and Minneapolis are hostages to the whims of progressive activists. The result is a situation that’s been called “anarcho-tyranny”—freewheeling anarchy for activists and criminals, tyranny for ordinary citizens who have to pay taxes even though they receive little protection from society’s predators. The political movement that gained momentum from George Floyd’s death in 2020 didn’t make America safer for people who looked like Floyd. It only weakened police and subjected Americans of all colors to more violence. Voters nationwide had several opportunities to register their feelings about that, culminating in the 2024 presidential election, which put Donald Trump back in office with a mandate to enforce the law, especially immigration law. But what’s the use of an election if activists can negate laws simply by hassling and endangering those charged with enforcing them? For all the liberals’ talk about dangers to democracy and the rule of law, they’re remarkably complacent about this danger, not only to the law and the democratic process but to people’s very lives. Not police but criminals are obviously the greatest threat to Americans’ well-being. Yet a small number of unelected activists have mastered tactics and publicity techniques that demonize law enforcement while letting illegal immigrants and hoodlums with rap sheets as long as their arms run free. Activism that abets law-breaking is the moral equivalent of racketeering, and it might meet the legal definition, too. The only way to prevent more deaths like Renee Good’s—and more mayhem like that unleashed by the exploitation of George Floyd’s killing—is to stop giving in to activists who think they have a right to resist and obstruct law enforcement. COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Renee Good Endangered Her Life and Yours appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim, and a refugee from Somalia. It’s a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian, and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It’s a born-on-third-base situation in national politics and media. So when Omar submits herself to television interviews from liberal networks, she knows she can say inflammatory things and not be seriously challenged. On CBS’s Face the Nation, the topic was Renee Good being shot after she drove into an ICE agent with her SUV. Omar claimed Good was “sitting in her car peacefully,” and then the ICE agent “shouldn't be trying to get in front of a moving car.” Good was right whether she was in Park or in Drive. On top of that, Team Trump shouldn’t defend the ICE agent, because “we can see in the videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place.” This is engaging in denialism. It’s obvious from the ICE agent’s video that he was struck by Good's car. CBS host Margaret Brennan didn’t challenge Omar on that, or anything else about the incident. She only pushed back by vaguely stipulating there has been violence against ICE agents. This agent was previously run over by a car in his official capacity. That’s not relevant when you’ve decided that in every instance, ICE and Trump are the villains. That wasn’t as outrageous as Omar’s appearance later on MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime. Over half an hour, all the questions were designed to elicit her talking points. Co-host Antonia Hylton asked: “In the wake of someone being shot and killed. Are you worried that more of your constituents’ lives will be at risk? Are you worried at all as they pull out their cell phones, as they interact with these officers, that that might just frankly, not be safe?” Omar came on to break out the conspiracy theories: “What this administration is looking for is for there to be deadly encounters so that they can invoke the Insurrection Act and have martial law. And it is a dangerous, dangerous escalation that they're looking for.” MS NOW airs Ilhan Omar's conspiracy theory on the Minnesota ICE surge: "What this administration is looking for is for there to be deadly encounters so that they can invoke the Insurrection Act and have martial law." pic.twitter.com/OTRHUjCMRM — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 14, 2026 But it’s the second segment of this interview that shocked the conservative world, when they asked Omar about fighting welfare fraud, as if Omar isn’t connected to Somalis who benefited from fraud schemes, including employees of her campaigns. MS NOW star Ayman Mohyeldin disparaged “conservative YouTuber” Nick Shirley and complained “we have politicians making decisions based off of conspiracy theories. I'm just wondering what you make of that and how dangerous that is, that our politicians are falling for this.” Omar lamented that anyone would fall for the idea that “Democrats condone this fraud,” and suggested all the fraud prosecutions occurred under the Biden administration. That’s not true. But Omar was on a roll, attacking Team Trump: “I'm so exhausted in trying to ask what any of this, you know, information has led to you finding any criminals that you have indicted, that explains why you are wasting so much of our taxpayer resources.” Ilhan Omar is a part of a Somali fraud scheme that robbed $9 billion from American taxpayers. Omar going on TV to argue that investigating that fraud is “wasting our taxpayer resources” is a level of brazen shamelessness I don’t think I’ve seen in politics. https://t.co/NY1pnzBgs3 — Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) January 12, 2026 U.S. attorneys under Biden achieved about 60 fraud convictions, many of them Somalis, and that effort continues under Trump. That’s not “wasting” taxpayer dollars. It’s trying to punish people who stole money from social programs. Shameless Ilhan Omar doesn’t have to worry about journalists bothering her with challenging questions about her conspiracy theories or her connections to fraudsters, or her booming net worth and if that was ethically gained. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” goals translate to media coddling, polishing, and defusing.

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