What Is Ilhan Omar’s Real Name? New York’s Adult Day Care Scam. Columnist: Yes, French Riots Are Caused by Immigration. Le Pen. Polls. Legislator’s Bucket List. More

Do you know if you ever married your brother?

When Rep. Ilhan Omar was asked this seemingly innocent question, she eschewed a clarifying “yes” or “no.” Kirsten Fleming writes:

Embattled Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s usual bravado disappeared on Wednesday night as she was forced to answer the question that so many of us have grappled with: Did you marry your brother?

In the bizarre exchange with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes, the Squadette turned meek and uncomfortable as the topic turned to her second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her alleged brother-husband.

The story that she tied the knot with her sibling, she said, “started with the Somali blog . . . Somebody put it there, that he had to have been my brother or something to that effect. And right wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of it.”

Then Hayes asked if she was related to her now ex hubby at all.

“Not to my knowledge,” she said, squirming like a toddler.

Not to her knowledge, folks.

Meanwhile, George Washington University law professor and Fox Contributor Jonathan Turley lists the unasked questions that Chris Hayes should have asked Omar. 

Oh, and Ilhan Omar might not be her real name. A “bombshell” filing in federal court, released in connection with an immigration fraud investigation into Omar, says Omar is not her real last name. Elmi, same as the alleged brother-hubby, appears to be the real last name of the Minnesota congresswoman. Could Omar be in the United States illegally? The feds reportedly have obtained DNA purported evidence of both brotherly love and immigration fraud. I am going to go out on a limb and suggest (based solely on a picture of bro-hubby) that the “marriage” was platonic. Omar-Elmi is fundraising on the scandal. Don’t miss “Listen, Ilhan Omar — if that really is your name,” a fun Powerline post by inveterate Ilhan watcher Scott Johnson. Johnson also scrutinizes three clues in the Omar/Elmi case.

The Trump administration’s war on entitlement fraud isn’t getting enough ink (probably because the mainstream inksters tend to support expanding entitlements). “Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ isn’t just about scams — it’s about restoring America’s trust,” is the headline of a New York Post story. The story observes that “fraud has become almost a byword within federal programs meant to help the most vulnerable.” An editorial in the Wall Street Journal headlined “New York’s Adult Day Care Racket” shows how President Trump and Dr. Mehmet Oz are trying to force Albany to clean up the state’s rampant Medicaid fraud:

What is social adult day care, you might ask? These centers are supposed to provide meals, personal care and social activities to “functionally impaired” adults. Anyone who claims to need assistance with everyday activities or “supervision due to cognitive and/or psycho-social impairment” can qualify. Such broad eligibility is ripe for abuse.

CMS officials said centers paid seniors kickbacks up to $1,000 a month to enroll in their programs and then billed Medicaid for services not provided. In some cases, sign-in sheets at centers documenting a senior’s attendance were filled out in advance. The schemes resemble the Medicaid fraud in Minnesota for autism therapy and housing services.

Similar runaway entitlements are factors in the French riots (“France Is Running Out of Other People’s Money“). Immigration may be an even more powerful factor, as John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist writes in “Yes, The Riots in France Are Because Of Mass Immigration“:

In these smaller towns we beheld the fruits of a failed French immigration policy that stretched back decades, to the 1960s and 70s when large numbers of migrants began arriving in France from North Africa. This cohort and their children and grandchildren never assimilated to life in France, never became Frenchmen in any meaningful way. After two or three generations, they are still clustered in their own neighborhoods, insular and unacculturated to their host country.

…. In Béziers, we went looking for an old Catholic Church we’d read about in some travel guide. It turned out to be in a migrant neighborhood, where a group of Muslim North African men followed us for blocks yelling at us to leave. We saw no women on the street, anywhere in that part of the city. The entire place, it seemed to us, was a vast migrant slum erected on the ruins of French civilization. …

There is only one course of action France can take to save itself, and it’s the same course of action that every western country must now take, since every western country has for decades embraced a policy of mass migration, together with multiculturalism and non-assimilation. All of them must go. Mass deportations, mass remigration, total closure of the borders.

Heather Mac Donald has a great X post on the MSM’s “fuming” that Marine Le Pen, longtime foe of unbridled immigration and head of France’s National Rally party, is “exploiting” the riots for political gain (best place to read the entire post is here). Wall Street Journal columnist Joseph Sternberg is skeptical that even Le Pen can do what John Daniel Davidson (above) says must be done:

What conservatives in France and elsewhere really want from her is an overhaul of France’s failed immigration system and a revival of confidence in French political and cultural traditions. Ahem. Does France have the state capacity—and do the millions of French who won’t vote for Ms. Le Pen have the stomach—to uproot France’s problematic migrant communities wholesale?

Meanwhile, I’m thinking that this is one illegal alien who failed to assimilate: “Illegal Alien Reportedly Arrested for Beheading Iwo Jima Monument in Virginia.” He was a dreamer:

Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriono, 27, of Mexico, entered the U.S. in 1999 and was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status until the Trump administration ended it, Fox News reported.

Kudos to naughty Ann Coulter for an X post:

Virginia man: Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano.

“What Do Michigan’s Undecided Voters Think? We Asked Them.” City Journal finds Michigan voters frustrated with President Trump, but that this hasn’t translated into enthusiasm for Democratic candidates:

Even some participants skeptical of [Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed] acknowledged his intelligence and education, but those qualities did little to ease concerns about his judgment, temperament, and ideological priorities—or, for one Democrat who described El-Sayed as “anti-American,” his basic outlook on the country. Was he focused on Michigan’s problems? Was he too extreme?

Candidate El-Sayed’s support for Medicare for all is a hallmark of his campaign. “Medicare for All Is Popular—Until People Find Out How It Would Work” is a City Journal headline. The story examines a pilot program in Maryland that gives us a glimpse into what a single-payer plan would be like. Journalist Ashley McGuire is too young to have known JFK, but she’s on solid ground when she says to El-Sayed, who compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the Catholic Church, “You’re No Jack Kennedy.”

On the GOP front, Kimberly Strassel writes that those controversial gerrymanders could cut the losses even if the Republicans fail to hold their majority. However, some Republicans say that the candidacy of Texas Senate hopeful Ken Paxton “tests the limits of party loyalty.”

“What’s Ahead If the Polls Are Right — or Wrong,” asks Michael Barone, perhaps the most knowledgeable political chronicler in the country. There are two questions, Barone writes:

The first question is whether polls are understating Republican support, as they did in the presidential cycles of 2016, 2020 and 2024. The second is whether the move away from Republicans and toward Democrats will turn out to be a realignment away from the rough partisan parity that has prevailed for more than 30 years.

There’s another question: How do you tell if a poll is absolutely and utterly fake? And a follow-up: How do fake polls influence campaigns? Real Clear Politics is the only major news outlet that did not fall for two recent fakes. Carl M. Cannon explains why RCP rejected the fakes that respected news organizations ran with.

Legislator’s Bucket List. Prominent Virginia Democrat State Sen. L. Louise Lucas, 82, has been busted leading a criminal marijuana distribution enterprise. Ms. Lucas was joined by her daughters in the alleged criminal enterprise. Apparently, Ms. Lucas heard time’s winged chariots hurrying near:

In one intercepted phone call in February with an alleged co-conspirator who has not been indicted, Lucas allegedly said that this was their “last chance at generational wealth,” adding, “I’ve gotten too old to not be greedy.”