Happy New Year, everyone!

See you in 2026.

The Jussie Smollett-ing has begun

NY Post: "Minn. Somali-run day care bizarrely reports all their important documents about child care were stolen in mysterious break-in."

He said the alleged prowler stole “important documentation” including children’s enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.

What are the odds that the prowler stole nothing of value but did take the very documentation needed for a federal audit?

Somebody - correctly - predicted that these daycares would be hit with fake "hate crimes" like rocks through the windows and there would be zero CCTV evidence.  Accurate. 

They write the same story every year

Associated Press: "A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope for things to turn around."

If you think there might be some self-reflection in the mainstream media about its obvious bias and America's plummeting trust in its mission, you'd be wrong.  If, however, you imagined this piece might chew over the enduring trauma of one reporter being called "piggy" by Trump, you win a cigar.

This story pops up every year and it always seeks to paint these clowns as glorious revolutionaries, printing out their "truth" on hand-cranked mimeographs.  Or coloring their faces blue, a la William Wallace, and screaming "press freedom!"

This made me chuckle, emphasis added:

Long angry about a perceived bias against conservatives on PBS and NPR newscasts, Trump and his allies in Congress successfully cut funding for public broadcasting as a whole.

Keep it up.  You'll all be working for Bari Weiss and Nick Shirley soon.

We're over the target

Twitchy: "Republicans pounce! The Hill 'Zeroes In' on the REAL Problem in Minnesota (Take One Guess)."

There we go again, noticing stuff. 

The math isn't adding up

Newsbusters: "New York Magazine Already Fearing Mamdani Could Flop as Mayor."

Seems like some of these questions should have been asked during the campaign. 

The kids are learing

NY Post: "Misspelled Minnesota day care Quality ‘Learing’ trucks in children after viral fraud video: ‘Never seen kids go in there until today’." 

Who could have done this stabbing on the Paris Metro?

I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count: "Illegal African migrant with deportation order suspected in Paris Metro mass stabbing."

He was imprisoned last year for - wait for it! - sexual assault.  But then he was released in July with a deportation order and - you'll never believe it! - he didn't leave. 

The tolerant French are getting sick of this merde:

Unsurprisingly, there is widespread appetite in France for a reform of the status quo. A survey taken earlier this year found that nearly nine in ten French voters would support a system in which those issued with deportation orders were remanded in jail until they are removed from the country.

That is a step in the right direction.

This is a new one

PJ Media: "Illegal Aliens Busted for $14 Million Gift Card Fraud."

These Latvians would steal unactivated gift cards, steal the ID on the back, then reseal the card and return it to the store kiosk.  When somebody activates the cards with funds, they would track it online using the security ID and then drain the funds before the card could be used. 

Today's lesson: check gift card packaging before buying.

Switching off the BBC

Echoes of American late night television here: "The BBC’s Christmas collapse is nothing short of catastrophic."

What makes this failure more serious is that it comes after years in which the BBC has insulated itself from almost every form of accountability. Complaints about bias are filtered through systems designed to reject them. Regulators defer to process rather than outcome. Governments hesitate to frame vital reform. Critics are marginalised. The one judgement that cannot be procedurally neutralised is audience behaviour.

And that judgement is now devastating. People are not marching in protest, though millions are refusing to pay the licence fee. They are doing something far more damaging. They are ignoring the BBC, even at the moment when it is trying hardest to matter.

We had the same problem in America with NPR and PBS, paying for something we didn't want.  Had.

In which I say something nice about a Democrat

The incoming governor of Virginia Abigail Spanberger has an article on Fox News: "I’m the new Virginia governor and affordability is what everyone needs - New administration plans to address housing, healthcare and energy to boost economic competitiveness."

This piece is remarkably straightforward, clear-eyed, and absent the partisan rancor that seems to attend every one of these political statements.  She says a kind word for Governor Glenn Youngkin and only mentions Trump a single time (I checked) and the context was she's "ready to work with anyone" that would help Virginia.

Kudos.

He's a sad, sorry man

Sasha Stone: "No Jimmy Kimmel, You Didn't "Win" - Except in your own mind." 

The mainstream media avoided this story

Fox News: "Walz slammed in wake of viral video that raises daycare funding questions: 'Needs to be held accountable' - YouTuber's video shows seemingly inactive Minneapolis center that allegedly received $4M in state funding."

The video (below) follows independent YouTuber Nick Shirley doing the kind of work the mainstream media used to do.  But the MSM is beholden to the narrative of anti-racism, open immigration, and protecting Democrats/demonizing Trump at all costs.  This story was first broken by City Journal, scooping all the major "news" sources, and Nick Shirley takes up the baton.  His video is both shocking and at times mordantly funny as he visits a series of Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota, all the time asking "where are the children?"

Spoiler alert: not a single kid was found,

Extra - Twitchy: "Minnesota Star Tribune's Year in Review Ignores Massive Fraud Scandal: Protecting Dems at All Costs" 

It's Harrison Bergeron IRL

Post Millennial: "Mamdani's new lesbian FDNY fire chief never worked as a firefighter - "There are some young LGBTQ members that maybe don’t see this as a possibility for them and I want them to know that there’s nothing that can stop them from finding success."

Sometimes I wonder what year we'll just start handing out certificates saying "you're a surgeon!"

This soy boy wants attention

Townhall: "Adam Kinzinger Took Revenge on CBS Over 60 Minutes Drama. There's Just One Problem."

This stunt reeks of low testosterone and bad journalism. 

What happened to Australia, part 2

Twitchy: "Premier of New South Wales Says They Don't Have Free Speech Like America Because of Multiculturalism." 

For unto us, a Child is born

Merry Christmas

Mark Steyn called it

Don Surber: "America Alone updated."

Mark Steyn's book came out in 2006 and, boy, was it prophetic.  Europe needs workers to fund their lavish government spending but, without enough native workers on hand due to plunging birth rates, the continent imported from the Muslim world.  How's that working out?

Meanwhile in Japan, it's resembling the fiction book "The Children of Men."  NY Times: "Dogs in Kimonos: Japan Reinvents a Children’s Holiday for Pets - A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of children." 

Sad.

Surprise

CNBC: "U.S. economy grows by 4.3% in third quarter, much more than expected, delayed report shows."

So far the market is shrugging this off, probably because it will push off federal rate cuts.

What happened to Australia?

Hot Air: "Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: You Must Give Up Your Freedom for Multiculturalism."

The Land of Convicts used to be known for rugged self-reliance but now it's copying the British model of cultural suicide.

Not one lie was spoken

Fox News: "Media ‘complicity’ blamed as feds say Minnesota fraud crisis could reach $9B: 'Shown their true colors' - Federal prosecutors said last week the fraud in Minnesota could be as high as $9 billion"

The media faced a dilemma and did what it always does: protect Democrats.  They didn't want to be called "racist" or "anti-immigrant" and they certainly didn't want to do anything to damage the reputation of the then-VP nominee in the 2024 election, Tim Walz.

Every time.

Toughen up, buttercup

Sasha Stone: "No, Words are Not Violence - A bad social media post is not a shot in the neck."

Let's check in on Seattle's good intentions

Reason: "Seattle's Delivery Minimum Wage Failed Drivers and Raised Costs - Increased hourly rates corresponded with lower tips and fewer orders to share between drivers, leaving gig workers no better off than they were before the law passed." 

Wrong President

The Left clamored for the release of the Epstein files in its insane witch hunt against Trump.  Instead, it looks like we're going to see a lot of pictures of Bill Clinton.  

Why would Trump do this?

Twitchy: "'PANIC MODE'! Tim Walz Says Trump's Weaponizing Federal Gov't Against MN Just Because of MASSIVE Fraud."

This is the last refuge of a scoundrel: invoking Trump to drum up sympathy for your crimes. 

Dark times at MSNOW

PJ Media: "Inflation Drops 'Unexpectedly' to 2.7% for November. Media Hardest Hit." 

OMG srsly?

Hot Air: "Kamala: We Didn't Release the Epstein Files Because Our DoJ Was Soooo Independent."

She's really committed to insulting the American intelligence. 

A sign of the times

The Corner: "Oscars Ceremony to Get Dumped on YouTube"

In a different era, the Oscars were one of the premier events on broadcast television, a sort of entertainment equivalent of the Super Bowl.

Even as the shows became boring for most Americans because of insufferable political speeches, there were still enough people who cared about movies and celebrities to tune in each year.

I used to be the annoying guy at work who would poll office mates who they thought would win Best Actor.  Now I could not care less.  Not one of those people on stage have ever turned down a private flight but they insist you should use a paper straw to save the environment.

"One Battle After Another" will sweep the Oscars this year because it's the perfect reflection of Hollywood sanctimony. 

Comedy gold

Red State: "Hoo Boy: Fani Willis Has an Epic Meltdown When Grilled by GA Senate Committee About Trump Case."

These videos are a hoot, especially when Fani tries to explain how her lover worked 160 billable hours/week.

White men need not apply

Hot Air: "Hey Boomers and Gen X, if You Think DEI Has Been Bad for You, Ask a Millennial or Gen Z Guy"

The source essay for this post is long but worth it.

A conservative is a liberal...bitten by a dog?

Of course it used to be "who has been mugged" but in the case of writer David Sedaris, he's aghast at toxic tolerance on the Left: "Liberal Comedian Pens Piece Explaining Why Liberals Are Impossible to Talk To."

This story totally mirrors Ana Kasparian's "Road to Damascus" moment. 

Let's see: David Sedaris, Ana Kasparian, soon...Bill Maher.  

Read the room, Trump

The Hill: "Massie blasts Trump’s ‘disrespectful’ Reiner post: ‘I challenge anyone to defend it’."

This is Trump at his worst, endlessly nursing his malevolence against anybody who said a discouraging word about the Donald.  The political right had to endure the ugliness of the Left after Charlie Kirk's murder with the implication that we're better people.  Most are but Trump can't help himself, dragging everybody down into the gutter.

Chicago is descending into Thunderdome

Washington Post: "Chicago has lost its mind - The city’s fiscal situation is dire, and Mayor Brandon Johnson is determined to make things worse."

They've run out of funding gimmicks and the slightest hiccup leads to chaos:

Springfield recently passed a sweetener bill for police and firefighter pensions, which already had less than a quarter of the assets needed to ensure that beneficiaries get paid what they’re owed. The funding ratio will now drop to less than 18 percent. The situation is so bad that when a computer glitch delayed property tax collections earmarked for the pensions, the firefighter’s fund didn’t have enough cash to mail its checks out, forcing the city to step in with an emergency loan.

The Chicago Teachers Union is the Master Blaster of Chicago Thunderdome.  They whole government will be fighting over the scraps soon.  

Evil spreading

Quillette: "Bondi Was Not a Surprise - The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable."

RIP Rob Reiner

Sheesh, he didn't have to go out like this.  Fox News: "Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele found dead - LAFD said the bodies of a 78-year-old man and 68-year-old woman were found inside the home"

Spinal Tap is one of my favorite movies.  Terrible tragedy. 

A staggering display of incompetence

NY Post: "Person of interest in Brown University shooting released as investigation ‘now points in different direction’."

So they let that Benjamin Erickson kid go and it seems they have absolutely no idea what they're doing next.  There are hundreds of cameras on the Brown campus but they can't find a single one that might show the killer's face.  All we have is a single long-distance shot of a guy all in black.

Total clown show.  Imagine spending $88K to send your kid to Brown and they can't offer the protection you have on a Ring camera. 

Then there's the madness in Australia

Fox News: "Australia terror attack: 16 dead, including gunman, after father-son duo opens fire on Jewish community - At least 16 dead, including one alleged suspect, and 40 injured in mass shooting on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia." 

Looks like they globalized the intifada. 

Extra - Red State: "Death Toll Climbs in Sydney Terror Attack; Shooters Identified as Father/Son Duo."  At least one guy says the cops at Bondi Beach pulled a Uvalde. 

Infuriating waste of a press conference

The authorities at Brown just wrapped up a press conference that revealed almost no new information, other than the shooter is in his twenties.  What was the point?  Why are we not allowed to know anything about the identity of the alleged shooter? 

Update: Benjamin Erickson

The person of interest authorities took into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University is Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old originally from Wisconsin, two people briefed on the investigation told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity.

He drove 17 hours to Brown?  What.

The absolute balls on this guy

Daily Mail: "Bondi Beach terror attack: Video shows hero creeping up behind the gunman and disarming him."

Damn, that guy is an bona fide hero.  Did it with his own two hands.  Video at link.

I always tell my kids: carry a knife.

Transactional President learns his worth

PJ Media: "Joe Biden Is Getting a Brutal Lesson on How Irrelevant He Is."

Maybe Hunter can help fund Joe's library by selling some paintings. 

Brown University shooting

Breaking: a person of interest is in custody. 

They just concluded a press conference where the Brown people said virtually nothing.  The person in custody is a man.  That's all they said. 

You can't possibly believe this

PJ Media: "Tim Walz Is So Toast Over Minnesota’s Medicaid Fraud Scandal."

I'll believe it when I see it, brother.  Matt Margolis ridicules Walz's press conference but - let's face it - he hit the critical talking points for any Democrat: race and Trump.  Know why that midwit Elizabeth Warren keeps getting re-elected in Massachusetts?  She just spits out words containing "fight" and "Trump" and Bay Staters ignore her empty record. 

It's OK: I've been reliably told they can't get benefits

This data is mind blowing

“Non-citizens Social Security numbers issued during the Biden Administration

2021: 270,425
2022: 590,193
2023: 964,163
2024: 2,095,247

- The Biden administration gave more non-citizens Social Security cards in 4 years than live in the state of Iowa
-… pic.twitter.com/dAgdNnqGGU

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 12, 2025

Experts are smart. S-M-R-T.

Matt Taibbi: "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's Blunt Call for Government By "Independent" Experts - Independent from what? Dumb voters, of course. On this week's potentially transformative Supreme Court case, and the revival of Woodrow Wilson's vision"

Trump v. Slaughter concerns more than the fate of the Federal Trade Commission. It’s about competing visions for the future of Western democracy, both implicitly recognizing the same problem: the world, and governments the size of America’s, may have become too technical and complex to be managed in the old way. The Trump Administration's argument, also articulated in this case, calls for enhanced presidential power to take on “headless” bureaucracies, seen as the source of problems. The flip side argued by Brown Jackson (and increasingly by former allies in Europe) calls for more “independent” agencies, who need independence from what they see as the real problem: ignorant voters.

This (inevitably) circles back to questions of free speech and online censorship.  The Left loves to say that of course they want free speech but with "guardrails" and "limits" to protect the people.  It's for their own good!  Who shall determine these guardrails and limits?  The "experts."

William F. Buckley had it right: "I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University." 

Bring it on, Spartacus

PJ Media: "Dems Would Last Maybe 5 Minutes in the Civil War They Think They Want."

Democrats are tough guys when speaking unchallenged or doing an interview on MS-NOW (pretty much the same thing.)  The most illustrative example of what happens when a Democrat is directly confronted can be found in Hakeem Jeffries' hallway argument with Republican Congressman Mike Lawler.  Jeffries fell back on small insults instead of defending the Democrats shutting down the government.  When he was later confronted by CNBC host Melissa Quick, he had a meltdown.

This was an aberration for the media which usually treats the Left with kid gloves.  Wanna go toe-to-toe?  Let's do it, tough guy.

Living it up in the PR

NY Post: "AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performed."

Remember when AOC was too poor to help her suffering grandmother in Puerto Rico so conservative Matt Walsh raised $100,000?  And then they turned down the gift?  I 'member. 

Sorcery!

Ace: "In Astounding Coincidence the "Experts" Cannot Explain, US Oil Production Hits Record Highs as Gasoline Prices, Inexpicably, Fall to Lowest Levels Since the Chinese Engineered Bioweapon."

Caleb Hammer: super-extreme MAGA

I had to share this video exploring the Left's reaction to financial vlogger Caleb Hammer.  His main schtick is to sit down with very irresponsible people and go over their insane finances.  Since the majority of these people are both broke and woke, he's being accused of being a right-winger.  Of course.

Now it can be told

NY Post: "The NY Times suddenly discovers the Biden border crisis — long after it matters."

One interesting tidbit from the Times' reporting is that the Senate was pushing for a bipartisan immigration bill long before the February 2024 vote but the Biden White House "didn't want its fingerprints on the legislation."  Otherwise, it's all stuff we already knew but the New York Times ignored because it would reflect poorly on Democrats. 

Charlie Kirk unavailable for comment

Twitchy: "Arsonist Laments Fire: Elissa Slotkin Wishes We Could All Get Along and Have 'Healthy Conversations'."

AYFKM?  The Left absolutely does not want a dialogue which is why they run away from even Bill Maher's show for the safe haven of MS-DNC.

Here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts

Boston Globe: "1 in 3 voters say they’ve considered leaving Massachusetts — even if they want to stay. ‘Just outrageously expensive.’." 

The cost of empathy, part 2

In a very similar vein to the post below, people are starting to notice that educational performance has plummeted since standardized testing was ditched in the name of "equity."  We don't want to hurt the kids' feelings as they plan for their futures as Tik Tok influencers.

NY Post editorial: "America needs to restore high standards before our schools become completely worthless."

Boston Globe: "Young people are getting dumber. Here’s why. - A precipitous drop in academic achievement demands an urgent response." 

The cost of empathy

Daily Caller: "The Somali Welfare Fraud Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think" - "We believe the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history."

This story is as old as time: a new benefit program is set up and then the slightest cutback is deemed "starving children" or "throwing Grandma off a cliff."  So the program expands with new participants and scamsters but calling out the fraud is heartless and (usually) racist.

That retard Tim Walz is just the kind of squish to let this fraud run out of control. 

They *have* to believe this

Ace: "Here We Go Again: Leftwing Propaganda Media Claims the Anti-Trump, Anti-ICE BLM Supporter Is Akshually MAGA." 

The end State of class warfare

Jonathan Turley: "Welcome to Hotel California: Democrats Push Retroactive Billionaire Tax"

The “2026 Billionaires Tax Act” would impose a one-time 5% tax on individual wealth exceeding $1 billion. While technically using 2026 wealth figures, it would apply to billionaires who resided in California in 2025. So you cannot hope to flee… at least with your wealth intact. It is a penalty for those who stayed too long hoping that rational minds would prevail in California.

The tax is a familiar tactic of many in politics who attack the wealthiest citizens as somehow ripping off the poor. If states can do this for billionaires, it is likely to do it for those in lower tax brackets as they face the choice between financial discipline and tax increases.

When I heard about this my first response was: "Are retroactive taxes legal?"  As Professor Turley explains, the question of legality is complicated.  What is not complicated is unfairness of reaching back in time to pick a man's pocket. 

The Left hates free speech

Federalist: "Democrats Would Like To Suppress Free Speech The Way Britain Does" - "The American left doesn’t look at the United Kingdom and see a cautionary tale, it sees a template to follow." 

This again?

Hot Air: "Boston Judge Steps In to Rescue Planned Parenthood Again."

The Judiciary branch is destroying its credibility.

Media-on-media catfight

PJ Media: "NYT to WaPo: You Lied About Hegseth."

Hot Air: "It Sure Looks Like WaPo Hegseth Story Is Another Hoax."

Townhall: "The New York Times Just Blew WaPo's Hegseth War Crimes Story Out of the Water."

I've said it before and I'll say it again: litigation is the only proper response to this "journalism." 

It is the year 2025, almost 2026.

Our major American media is indistinguishable in terms of accuracy and impartiality from the Soviet Union's Pravda, circa 1970.

Fact.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) December 2, 2025

Follow the money

Washington Post: "New York won’t reign forever. Bring on Y’all Street. - As Dallas gets a Nasdaq exchange, Texas looks more like America’s financial center."

The timing could hardly be better. Just as New York prepares to install a radical democratic socialist as mayor, Nasdaq Texas is being launched. It will join NYSE Texas and the Texas Stock Exchange in turning Dallas into a serious financial center. Indeed, the city’s mayor, Eric L. Johnson, confidently predicts that “Y’all Street” will replace Wall Street as the beating heart of American business. And the really interesting possibility is this: That might be an improvement.

It remains to be seen how Zohran Mamdani’s experiment in creating East Berlin on the Hudson works out. One point is clear, however: If he is successful in imposing the higher corporate and income taxes he wants, not everyone will stick around to pay them. Florida would be one potential alternative. But Dallas is starting to look even better. Nasdaq Texas expects to open for business early in the new year, the NYSE announced in February that it would relocate its Chicago operation to Dallas and the new Texas Stock Exchange has backing from big hitters including BlackRock and Citadel. If you want to spend the morning trading Tesla and Nvidia before heading off to your ranch, you won’t be short of options.

The Left is fond of opining that the "rich" will never leave New York City because it's the financial center of the world.  To which I say: impose your socialist policies and call their bluff.

See what happens.

The end of clapter

Hollywood in Toto: "2025: The Year Late-Night TV Collapsed - Colbert canceled, Kimmel benched and Gutfeld stayed the course." 

Not worth it (except for engineering)

NBC News: "Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost - The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago."

Appropriate musical interlude. 

TDS only strengthened Trump

That's the upshot of this article by Jason Willick in the Washington Post: "Georgia’s prosecutor drops a Trump case. If only Garland had done the same. - The decision to bring a flawed Jan. 6 case led to presidential immunity."

Maybe the voices urging caution shouldn’t have been stigmatized as riot apologists. Leonnig and Davis report that some lawyers in Garland’s department believed that while Trump “behaved reprehensibly by pushing a lie,” the evidence that he “plotted to defraud the American public seemed thin.” It was a “great story,” one said, “but not a great criminal case.”

Bad cases make bad law, as the saying goes. The first case criminalizing a president’s official acts should have been overwhelming and airtight. Instead, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department jammed the Supreme Court with a legally vulnerable prosecution of Biden’s top political rival on a rushed election timeline. It was foreseeable that this would disturb the justices. Their sweeping immunity opinion, in turn, has given Trump leeway to take more radical actions in his second term.

Congratulations, Democrats: you created a king. 

He rode his bike until the lights came on

Twitchy: "NYT Finally Exposes Walz's MN Fraud Fiasco: $1B Stolen from Safety Nets, Somali Schemes Ignite Firestorm." 

The New York Times reported something critical of a Democrat?  Wow!

Great job, hair pick

PJ Media: "Klobuchar Humiliated Herself and Accidentally Destroyed Biden." 

Yet they have "Tolerance" bumper stickers

Jonathan Turley: " 'Fight Fiercely Harvard': Harvard Club of New York Cancels Dershowitz Book Event." 

Not long ago, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on the lack of ideological diversity at the school. I respect Kennedy and I do not view him as anti-free speech or intolerant. Yet when I noted the statistics on the vanishing number of conservative students and faculty in comparison to the nation, Kennedy responded that Harvard “is an elite university” and does not have to “look like America.”

The problem is that Harvard does not even look like Massachusetts, which is nearly 30 percent Republican.

Hey, I'm in that 30%!  I've said this many times before but the Left has no interest in "dialogue" - they only want monologue.  Sheesh, look at the dozens of YouTube channels of conservatives risking life and limb to challenge the positions of the Left.

LARPing for Luigi

Legal Insurrection: "The Purpose of the ‘Illegal Orders’ for Military Narrative is Beginning to Take Shape - “It’s about the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis after World War II — and following orders is not a defense. So these soldiers have to pay attention”

Sasha Stone (natch) has a similar take here. 

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody

The detritus of Biden's Afghanistan disaster

Hot Air: "Shooter Identified as Illegal Afghan National."

That's right: if you read the full post at Hot Air, this was an Afghan rushed into the country with zero vetting after Biden's pullout from Afghanistan, all so he could say he ended the war on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

That f'n guy.  Worst President ever.

What a way to start Thanksgiving, normally the best holiday of the year.

48-hour rule applies

Red State: "Investigators Say National Guardsmen Shot Near White House Were Ambushed in Targeted Attack." 

But they sure feel good about themselves

Reason: "The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing." 

Speaking of grifters

Twitchy: "NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani Says ‘Free Stuff’ Is Coming but First He Needs $4 Million to Fund His Transition." 

Kafkaesque

California regulation or inspectors looking for a bribe?  You make the call.

Now that everybody is above average

Megan McArdle: "The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore - UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math."

That’s what happens when you silence the alarm instead of responding to it: The fire burns out of control. It should be a warning to the growing number of politicians who think they can fix other problems — like soaring rents or rising electricity costs — by simply freezing prices. The prices are telling us that there’s too little supply to meet demand, or that something (such as renewables mandates or too few natural gas pipelines) is driving up supply costs. Freezing prices doesn’t fix that any more than a courtesy A gives students what they actually need to succeed in college.

This is the end result when your primary goal is to not hurt anybody's feelings. 

The new secessionists

Victor Davis Hanson: "Insurrection Chic - Democrats now celebrate the very nullificationist tactics they once decried, embracing a neo-Confederate defiance of federal authority to undermine a president they despise." 

Imagine believing this

Twitchy: "Jen Psaki and Katie Couric Say the ‘Sycophantic’ Press Is Throwing Softball Questions at Trump." 

Margaret Atwood: "banned" into riches

T. Becket Adams: "Margaret Atwood, Patron Saint of Non-Martyrs - Come down off the cross. We could use the wood." 

Everybody's a victim. 

Parents choose homeschooling

Reason: "Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers - Last academic year, DIY education grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research." 

It's pretty funny at this point

Hollywood in Toto: "‘Acolyte’ Creator Plays The Fascist Card (Yawn) - Leslye Headland attacks 'Star Wars' fans for daring to dislike low-rated show"

Damn you, Trump for [checks notes] not watching this terrible Star Wars series!  

Temu Obama never answers questions

Hakeem Jeffries is the Karine Jean-Pierre of Congress: he never answers the question he's asked.  It doesn't matter if it's a yes/no question or "what's your favorite ice cream?"  He won't answer.

Maybe - just maybe! - the mainstream media is catching on: "'Shame On You': Jeffries Loses It on CNBC When Pressed on ObamaCare."

ICYMI: "CNN Asks Hakeem Jeffries About Soliciting Money From Epstein AFTER He Was Convicted." and "Hakeem Jeffries Goes Full Obama-Spin When Asked About Epstein Donating to His Campaign." 

New gif for your future Hakeem replies pic.twitter.com/0KMglxsTwS

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 21, 2025

Quite suddenly, this is an issue of concern

Washington Post: "How billionaires took over American politics."

What changed? Republicans long characterized Silicon Valley as a bastion of liberalism. But over the past half-decade, many of tech’s wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration’s criticism and policing of their industry. Last year, many tech barons threw their support behind the GOP, which they saw as more aligned with their often-libertarian ideals and their companies’ economic interests. Trump and his party actively wooed influential tech leaders, embracing cryptocurrency and promising to limit AI regulation. His vice president, JD Vance, formerly worked as a venture capitalist in San Francisco, forging ties to Thiel, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Let me get this straight: the Democrats alienated billionaires with their policies and class warfare while the Republicans listened to their concerns and forged personal relationships?

Those monsters.

The unicorns will provide!

Red State: "Magic Fairies and Pixie Dust: Listen to What Mamdani Says About Funding for 'Free' Buses in NYC."

It's sure nice that Mamdani is giving precise details on his spending plans now that the election is over.  Great job, NYC.

Fang Fang's boyfriend is running

NBC News: "Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell enters crowded California governor's race."

He went on Jimmy Kimmel to announce his candidacy.  Gee, I wonder if Trump came up.

40 million people, and the two most likely individuals to become governor of California are a dude who fell for a Chinese honeypot and a woman who poured scalding mashed potatoes on her husband’s head.

Cooked. Absolutely cooked. pic.twitter.com/m5Qbf22Awh

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 21, 2025

The clowns are out again

Federalist: "Theater Kids In Congress Vaguely Urge Military To Disobey Commander-In-Chief." - "More mush from the wimps. Donald Trump is very bad, because mumble mumble mumble." 

ABC is about to make another contribution to Trump's library

I don't know all the details of what constitutes defamation so I often depend on the lawyers over at Power Line or Legal Insurrection.  John Hinderaker is pretty sure there's a case against Joy Behar on "The View":

On paper, it is hard to imagine a clearer case of defamation. Behar’s only defense would be the supposition that it is open season on Donald Trump–liberals can say anything they want about him, without recourse, because we all hate him, right? But that is not, technically speaking, the law.

In the past, a producer has whispered to those demented hens to "clarify" their remarks before they land in hot water but I guess that didn't happen this time.  

Extra - PJ Media: "Joy Behar Just Put ABC on the Brink of Another Huge Trump Lawsuit." 

Take the mainstream media with you

Ace: "Hollywood Is Dying and Good Riddance."

What's funny about both the American press and Hollywood is that they're both in Year 10 (since Trump came down the escalator) of their own self-destruction.  You would think that with all the accumulating evidence that Americans no longer want their respective products they would change direction but, no, they're too wedded to their sense of moral vanity.

Don't change now and learn how to code.

Defenders of democracy

Hot Air: "House Rebukes Rep. Chuy Garcia Over Dishonest 'Coronation' Scheme." 

Epstein claims his first Democrat

Boston Globe: "Senator Warren tells CNN that Harvard should cut ties with Larry Summers over Jeffrey Epstein emails." - "He was a treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and a top economic adviser in the Obama administration." 

The updated headline for this story is now "Ashamed Larry Summers to step back from public commitments amid Senator Warren criticism." 

You'll be shocked he didn't answer the question

Shocked and surprised, I say.  Twitchy: "Chuck Schumer Quizzed on Why the Biden Administration Didn't Release the Epstein Files." 

Extra - PJ Media: "The Most Important Question About Epstein Files the Dems Don’t Want You to Ask."

Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for two years under Joe Biden, yet the Epstein files remained sealed. Now that they’ve tried weaponizing selective emails against Trump, the question becomes unavoidable: if they were really about transparency, where was their urgency when they had the power to release everything?

We all know the answer.

We sure do. 

"How many packs ya want?"

Reason: "Cigarette Taxes Are Costing States Billions in Lost Revenue - Punitive levies drive black markets, fuel criminal enterprises, and—perhaps counterintuitively—help people evade the tax man."

Obligatory Goodfellas reference:

Field of weeds

Watts up with that?: "Green dreams turn to rust." - "The Napa fiasco isn’t just an accident—it’s the logical destination for a sector riddled with hype, corporate churn, regulatory quicksand, and political FOMO. “Build it and they will come” has turned into “build it, and ten years later, call a demolition crew.” 

Trump's Presidential library is going to be plated in gold

Looks like another donation is incoming: "Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology." 

Straight fire

Twitchy: "Bill Maher Has a Socialism vs. Capitalism History Lesson That Mamdani Voters and Dems Will Ignore." 

The Lefty Awards

The Ringer: "Can You Win Best Picture If You Flop? - ‘One Battle After Another’ won’t turn a profit. ‘Sinners’ was a bona fide smash. Does any of it matter come Statue Season?"

Antifa love letter "One Battle After Another" will win best picture for the same reason that Steven Colbert (finally) won an Emmy and Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and Bad Bunny will sweep the Grammys.

There's a reason why nobody watches these award shows anymore. 

They don't care

Sasha Stone: "The Left's Gender Cult is Worse Than Anything in the Epstein Files." - "So I don’t want to hear it now. I don’t want to hear them pretend to care about children under SNAP benefits or potential victims of Epstein and his black book of mysterious billionaires, oligarchs, and foreign nationals. As long as hundreds of thousands of children are still sucked into the cult, they can’t pretend to care about them. They do not care." 

This woman is straight out of central casting

NY Post: "Katie Wilson — a 43-year-old socialist who still lives off parents’ money — wins Seattle mayoral race."

The 43-year-old, who moved to Seattle in her 20s with her now-husband, admitted last month that she relies on her parents, both New York professors, to help with childcare expenses.

The money goes toward day care for Wilson’s 2-year-old, which costs $2,200 per month, she told KUOW.

Wilson also dropped out of college just six weeks before graduation — but debt-free, thanks to her generous parents, the outlet said.

This female-Mamdani, nepo-baby AWFL is like something from a piece of conservative fiction: a life-long parasite with zero real world knowledge but boundless ideology.  This know-nothing recently declared that her solution to food deserts is to (somehow) deny the ability for supermarkets to close.

“Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores that will leave behind food deserts,” Wilson said.

Oh brother.  Good luck with this loon, Seattle.

The walls are closing in

Twitchy: "Investigative Reporter Unearths Another 'Bombshell' Connecting Trump with Jeffrey Epstein."

What a scoop!  Surely somebody would have noticed the sitting President attending a meeting with Epstein.  In Paris.

Journalism!

BBC backtrack

BBC: "BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation." 

I've seen this movie before.  That's what CBS and ABC said, too. 

I thought we were fighting the Orange King

Fox News: "California to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants amid Trump admin pressure." 

Somebody help this girl

Or woman, really.  Federalist: "Kelsea Ballerini’s ‘I Sit In Parks’ Exposes The Heartbreak Of Buying Girl Boss Lies."

This story is kinda sad: the country music star voices her regrets at not starting a family while she pulls on a vape.  The song closes with her wistfully (jealously?) noting that her friend's baby is due in June. 

It's called journalism

Ace: "To Honor Veterans Day, the Repulsive Traitor Media Launches a Military-Cemetery Race Hoax."

It's Newsweek, so only like a dozen people saw this story anyway.

Dude totally called it

October 11th: "Senator John Kennedy recently said that he believes Schumer will ask eight Democrats in the Senate to vote to end the filibuster to extricate him from this stupid standoff."

PJ Media: "Sen. Kennedy Perfectly Called How the Shutdown Would End Weeks Ago." 

These "renegade" Democrats were chosen carefully: "And, the Democrats who crossed over to reopen the government were not exactly profiles in courage. Every single one of them either plans to retire or won’t face voters for years." 

This is a crazy story

Red State: "The End Is Near. Tehran Faces Evacuation As Water Supplies Reach Zero and the City Sinks Into the Desert."

They're (nearly) out of water and the depleted aquifers are causing Tehran to sink at a rate of about 5 inches/year.  That's a lot! 

Invest in popcorn futures

 

is there a more perfect portrait of the average mamdani voter than “I arrived thinking everything would be free” https://t.co/7jxFLx2sBR

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) November 8, 2025

Good

PJ Media: "Thune Will Keep the Senate in Session Until a Funding Deal Is Struck." 

The decline of Aaron Sorkin

The Continental Congress: "What Would it Look Like for Hollywood to Moderate its Politics?" - "I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the Variety op-ed assuring me that “no, really, The Social Reckoning is not a left-wing movie, you fascist dope.” 

They had 38 days to write something down

Twitchy: "A Fuming Chuck Schumer Did NOT Like a GOP Senator's Questions About His Proposal So He STORMED OFF."

This is incredibly telling: the Democrats haven't even written down the ransom note to re-open the government.  It's another "we need to pass it to find out what's in it" proposal.  Clown show.

Scope creep

NY Times: "The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart. - The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration."

Instead of focusing on the environment, the Sierra Club went woke then broke.

You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out

Washington Post editorial: "Zohran Mamdani drops the mask - The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors."

Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity. It isn’t about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word “growth” didn’t appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions.

People’s lives, in Mamdani’s world, can be improved only by government: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” The crowd cheered, of course, but a thinking person might wonder whether it’s good for the institution that has a monopoly on violence to insist that nothing is beyond its purview.

As the editorial concludes, Mandani won among newcomers and the "educated" while long-time New Yorkers were skeptical of his promise of free stuff and his message of victimhood. 

Conjunction junction, what's your function?

I saw this video today and, man, what a rush of nostalgia.  At the risk of dating myself, "Schoolhouse Rock" was the defining learning experience for Generation X.

So sexy

Outkick: "Sydney Sweeney Turns On America With Something Bigger Than Her Boobs."

Jim Treacher: "Sydney Sweeney Rejects the Premise." 

Never give these clowns an inch because it will never be enough.

Republicans lose the messaging war

Byron York in the Washington Examiner: "Fighting the government-closing Democratic filibuster."

If they do press on, if they do keep the government closed, Democrats will be acting with confidence that comes from a number of polls that show more people blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame the Democrats, who actually caused the impasse. Two polls out just before the election, one from the Washington Post and the other from NBC News, both found that more people blamed Republicans for the shutdown than blamed Democrats.

That seems odd, given the plain facts of the case: Democrats are filibustering the government-opening bill. But it makes more sense after looking at media coverage of the standoff. In a new report, the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters studied broadcast newscasts for October and noted that “the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock.”

This is maddening.  Of course the mainstream media was going to cover for the Democrats!  Have Republicans forgotten all the alternative media skills that won the last election?  Go on podcasts, flood social media, hold daily press briefings.  For heaven's sake, stop depending on the media to play fair. 

At least we can still laugh

 

Zohran Mamdani Horrified To Discover He Now Has A Job https://t.co/wvmNh6NjJ8 pic.twitter.com/MHYO3AiqCT

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 5, 2025

The song remains the same

I saw this story linked through Real Clear Politics and knew it would yet the latest rehash of the same tired "solutions" to fix Social Security.  Washington Monthly: "How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections."

Spoiler alert: it was.  Here comes raising the income cap, once more with feeling is taxing financial transactions and capital gains, stop me if you've heard about means-testing again.  These remedies are at the heart of every single "fix" for Social Security and there's nothing new under the sun.

Social Security is supposed to be a universal system with benefits proportional to what people paid into the system.  The Left insists on turning it into a welfare program and will not offer any solutions that do not lead to that end.

Blue states hiding their SNAP rolls

PJ Media: "I'm Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?"

Lots.

Illegal immigration in England

Spiked: "A stabbing in suburbia - The senseless murder in Uxbridge demands a reckoning on illegal migration."

You may have noticed… it is never the elites who pay the price for their own feckless virtue-signalling. Poor and working-class communities have borne the brunt of the small-boats crisis, simply because the hotels and rental properties are cheaper there. One analysis found that a quarter of all asylum seekers housed by the Home Office had been placed in just 10 local authorities, nine of which are among the most impoverished in the country. Illegal migration is a class issue. The bin man slain on a once-safe street is perhaps the grimmest symbol of this.

Sacrifices need to be made...by you.

It's "clown nose off" time

"How did we get to this terrible state?" asked the guy who set the standard.

Extra - Hollywood in Toto: "Jon Stewart Betrays 9/11 Work with Fawning Mamdani Interview"

"How did we get here?" lamented the navigator https://t.co/Uf1QT1wALw

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) November 1, 2025

If only *somebody* had warned us this would happen

Remember when Obama said Republicans would stop calling the Affordable* Care Act "Obamacare" once it became successful?  I 'member.

Boston Globe: "A $33,000 increase for a Vermont family? Obamacare marketplace insurance prices slated to skyrocket."  

It's a shame nobody warned Americans that the individual mandate was unworkable and the resulting insurance pools would not have enough healthy, young participants to make it economically viable.  If only.

* not affordable.

Extra - Washington Post: "The unaffordability of Obamacare comes home to roost - ACA subsidies are a Band-Aid for a fundamentally broken health care system." 

Tiresome

Red State: "Michelle Obama Takes Victimhood As Currency to Another Level in Latest Interview."

Good heavens.  I'm old enough to remember the absolute tongue-bath given to the Obamas by the mainstream media, Hollywood phonies, and a huge chunk of the public.  Michelle Obama is the Meghan Markle of first ladies. 

The Washington Post again

You know, when you've been beaten down so long by the mainstream media, it's jarring to see a little fairness and objectivity.  Here's the Washington Post blaming the Democrats, again, for the government shutdown:

Nevertheless, this program [SNAP food assistance] is vital. The quickest solution to protecting it is for Democrats to join Republicans in voting to reopen the government, and then they can fight over public policy.

It's the Schumer Shutdown now the Schumer starvation.

It's a sacrifice Democrats are willing to make

Hot Air: "Everything's 'For the Children' Until Democrats Need 'the Leverage'."

Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants https://t.co/QbPfrmwa2K pic.twitter.com/F3oUGA3EXb

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 29, 2025

Gotta commit to that obvious lie

There's a funny YouTube video called "How to get out of a speeding ticket" where a guy gets pulled over and tells the cop he's racing to the hospital because his wife is giving birth.  The cop follows him to the hospital where the speeder finds an accomplice to pretend he's the father.  But the cop follows the (new) couple for decades as "their" child grows up and the guy has to stick to the lie.

That's how I feel about both the Kamala Harris and Karine Jean-Pierre book tours: they're just going to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears.  Mediate: "‘Really?’ Kamala Harris Stuns Jon Stewart By Declaring Biden Was ‘Competent’ To Serve Another Four Years."

I think the reason this question gets asked over and over is because there's a kind of disbelief that people can lie so obviously and boldly.  It's also the reason why Joe Biden was asked dozens of times whether he would pardon Hunter.  Nobody believed his denial.

Story of the year

Twitchy: "Wrong Bill de Blasio Pranks Times of London With Fake Endorsement via Ring Doorbell—Real Bill seethes."

The Times of London asked a guy on Long Island named "Bill deBlasio" his opinion about the NYC mayor's race without ever checking to see if he was the former mayor.

Extra - National Review: "The Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year." "Yet there was no fraud at play, only reputation-torching irresponsibility. Get this: the Times in its infinite wisdom apparently interviewed the wrong Bill de Blasio." 

She done gone and did it

Me, on Monday: "Go, Bari, go"

Ace: ""BLOOD BATH," "WAR ZONE:" Purge Begins at CBS; Biased Trump-Deranged Anchor John Dickerson Out, Gayle King Says She's Leaving, Trump-Deranged and "Geriatric" 60 Minutes Facing Shake-Up."

Since it looks like I'm now wishing things into existence: fire Scott Pelley.  Do it, Bari!

Fiscal sanity is bigotry

Makes sense to me, what's your problem?

Capitulation is at hand

Hot Air: "The Dike Holding Back Democrat Discontent on Schumer Shutdown Is Cracking."

What a stupid shutdown.  All because Schumer wanted to save his phony-baloney job from AOC.

Go, Bari, go

NY Post: "CBS News boss Bari Weiss eyes major shakeup at ‘60 Minutes’ — and star anchors could get the ax: sources."  

Nobody is above the law

Isn't that what we were told?  A vital review from Byron York: "How John Brennan lied to Congress."

Taken together, these passages show that significant portions of Brennan’s congressional testimony about the dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment were untrue. When he said the dossier “was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment” — that was untrue. When he said “I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all” — that was untrue. When he said “the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier” — that was untrue. When he said “The CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment” — that was untrue.

Here’s the bottom line, which Republicans have believed for a long time. In the politically supercharged atmosphere of late 2016 and early 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS. They knew they had no business including it in their assessment of Russia’s 2016 activities. But they included it anyway because it told them what they wanted to hear — that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia. And then, under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it.

I hear 51 intelligence experts say Brennan is innocent, so it must be true.

TIL the White House used porta-potties

The Washington Post (!) comes out in favor of a new ballroom at the East Wing: "In defense of the White House ballroom."

In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.

Right this way, your majesty!  Oh man, that's just embarrassing for the nation.  As the editorial notes, the State Dining Room seats 140 which is barely enough for a visiting dignitary and his/her retinue.

How do you like that lawfare now?

Legal Insurrection: "Democrats Post Support for Tish James Amid Arraignment on Federal Mortgage Fraud Charges - “This is about all of us, and about a justice system which has been weaponized. A justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge. […] And a justice system which unfortunately is being used as a vehicle of retribution. “

The difference is that she's actually guilty of a crime.

This is an excellent tweet

I for one am shocked that NBA employees are gambling. How did they get sucked into that kind of activity?

I really hope they address this on the FanDuel Pregame show sponsored by bet365, right before the big game at DraftKings arena

— Joey- Cade Smith enjoyer (@GuardsJoey) October 23, 2025

Republicans buy sneakers, too

Hollywood in Toto: "Boss Bomb? ‘Deliver Me from Nowhere’s’ Sad Tracking - Could Springsteen's anti-Trump tirades impact biopic's bottom line?"

I grew up in New Jersey and there was a time - not so long ago it seems - that I would have been first in line to see a Bruce Springsteen biopic.  I loved "Born to Run" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and even part of the commercial grab "Born in the U.S.A."  Springsteen was a kind of blue-collar Everyman who would play the occasional surprise concert at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park.

He even played an impromptu concert to overnight workers in the main Iceland airport which is pretty cool (pun intended).

Somewhere along the way he decided to make his concerts inaccessible to the blue collar fans he cultivated for decades: "$5,000 freeze out: Bruce Springsteen fans feel betrayed by ‘crazed’ concert ticket prices."

As one of the most beloved figures in popular music, Bruce Springsteen has enjoyed decades of absolute devotion from his legion of fans. A national tour with his E Street Band typically means his hardcore followers bounce from state to state, taking in as many of the Boss’ legendary three-or-four-hour marathon concerts as their wallets will allow.

Next year might be different. When Springsteen’s loyal fanbase logged in on July 20 to purchase tickets for the opening seven dates of his 2023 U.S. arena tour, Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” program sent the face value for some floor seats to a dizzying $4,000 to $5,000 a piece. In an attempt to cut off the multibillion-dollar resale business, ticket prices jumped to a “fair value” based on demand to approximate the secondary market. Rather than scalpers, the money would instead go to the artist and promoter.

Look, man, those show horses ain't gonna pay for themselves.

The metamorphosis into a Trump-hating liberal was inevitable because you need to stay on the good side of the Hollywood set, the same crowd that will make a fawning biopic about your life.

I'd like to think that fame and fortune changed the Boss but maybe it was an act all along.

Chef's kiss

Impressive that Jesus managed to be born in a Muslim-majority county more than 6 centuries before Islam was even founded.

The Columbia School of Journalism in the bio really brings the whole thing full circle. pic.twitter.com/l3gQv7bitc

— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 24, 2025

This headline is infuriating

PJ Media: "Deadly Illegal Alien Truck Driver Failed CDL Test 10 Times." 

When I asked you to name one person I didn't expect an answer

Jonathan Turley: "The name game: Democrats keep asking for names...and getting them."

Conservatives have wised up to this game and are ready to play. 

There's no saving the mainstream media

Hot Air: "Sleazy, Unethical Journalists Ask: Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?"

Harper’s magazine, the left-wing monthly, has a cover story asking, Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? The November “forum” features three journalists attempting to answer this question: Jack Shafer, Jelani Cobb, and Taylor Lorenz.

You read that correctly. To ask why Americans don’t trust the media, Harper’s interviewed three of the most untrustworthy, hackish, godawful journalists in America. 

I did a word search on the Harper's article for "bias" - there are two mentions and they are dismissed out of hand:

The FCC is run by Trump’s appointee Brendan Carr, who has pretty enthusiastically embraced the president’s mission to combat what they call media bias.

"What they call."  Sure, sure.  The choice of these clowns for a conversation just proves what I've been saying forever: the Left doesn't want a dialogue, they want a monologue.  This round trip through their echo chamber just proves it all the more.

The government is shut down?

The Corner: "How’s That Government Shutdown Fight Going, Democrats?" 

This is overdue

Red State: "'Time to Stop the Killing': Treasury Dept. Signals Ramping Up of Sanctions on Russia."

I don't think there's any convincing Putin to back down, unfortunately.  Trump wanted to believe he could "make a deal" but there isn't one to be made. 

Amy's self-own

Twitchy: "Klobuchar’s Pity Party Flop: Posts Sob Story About Early Retirees Big Bills, Gets Roasted Instead." 

What a time to be alive

Hot Air: "Too Fun to Check: Will Bari Take Over CNN Too?" 

KJP confirms she's an idiot

Reason: "Biden Press Secretary Gets Skewered by Stephen Colbert for Defending Biden's Fitness - Former White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, has no explanation for her failure to notice Joe Biden's cognitive decline."

The uncomfortable and unavoidable fact of the matter is that the news media—conservative and mainstream—had already taken notice of Biden's diminished mental acuity well before the debate. A majority of the American people had noticed it. A majority of Democrats had noticed it. The difficulty of concealing Biden's decline was such that the president's innermost circle shielded him from press scrutiny, kept the Cabinet at bay, and scheduled can't-miss meetings with legislators during the periods of time throughout the day at which he was sharpest. She was the press secretary, and she didn't notice any of this? It's frankly unbelievable, unless she was unusually out of the loop. (She certainly isn't claiming she was out of the loop, however.)

One wonders, then, why she would bother telling her story in book format, and discussing it on national television, if she cannot honestly reckon with these incredible shortcomings.

I think it was Scott Jennings who said that there was the public version of Biden that everybody could see and then there was the White House version where he was sharp as a tack and turning cartwheels behind closed doors.  KJP needs some cash so she needs to gaslight everyone that she never saw Biden's obvious decline.  She's dumb enough to think she can get away with it.