THE DIPLOMAD comments on the DOJ Inspector General's report and today's Senate Judiciary hearing. His comments are devastating. Read it, then revisit his 2016 post on the FBI.

TRUMP'S POPULARITY SURGES after nation learns he may have obstructed Congress.

Satire? I think not.

EXPLAINING WHY I DROPPED MY SUBSCRIPTION YEARS AGO: Greta Thunberg named TIME’s 2019 ‘Person of the Year’.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The legacy of low-bar impeachment.

From now on, impeachment can be used against any first-term president with a record of success. It will be used solely as a political strategy by the opposition party that controls the House to weaken a president’s reelection chances. That’s the Democratic Party’s legacy and Democrats will live to rue it.

Read it all.

'TWEAKING' IS NOT ENOUGH: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam tweaks gun ban in response to Second Amendment sanctuary movement.

FOR PROOF, LOOK AT CONGRESS: Our intellectual betters are actually dumber and worse.

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RANDOM THOUGHT: You know it's Christmas season when PajamaGram and Omaha Steaks begin advertising.

THEY SIMPLY CANNOT LET IT GO: Democrat open to impeach Trump again if he gets reelected in 2020.

SPYGATE II:

Any questions?

IF YOU TAX SOMETHING, YOU GENERALLY GET LESS OF IT. That logic undergirds a San Francisco ballot measure that would tax vacant storefronts in hopes of filling them with thriving retail businesses.

So - you get fewer vacancies by taxing them more? I think that's a wee bit disingenuous. Read it and see if you agree.

IF REPUBLICANS RETAKE THE HOUSE, censuring Adam Schiff should be their first order of business.

Not if, when.

PHYSICS KNOWLEDGE IS RACIST? The racialization of epistemology in physics.

NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WARNING SIGNS: The FBI as the Titanic.

PSST: Don't tell the Democrats.

THIS IS ENGLISH? Matt Yglesias’ humble brag about his and his Vox audience’s intelligence is a perfect showcase for his grammar skills intelligence.

And theirs....

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Democrats still show the same contempt for Americans that cost them the 2016 election.

In what they believe to be an affirmation of the popularity of their vile attacks, the Left only marches faster and blindly towards the electoral cliff. Everyone sees it coming, except for the Democrats. It is precisely this delusional mindset that made their defeat in 2016 so satisfying, and we could very well get an encore in 2020.

I am so looking forward to it....

KURT SCHLICHTER: A 'safe space' society is a totalitarian nightmare.