HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS while we muddle through somehow.

FROM MICHAEL RAMIREZ: How to solve the EV oversupply problem.

Enlist Santa.

BIDENOMICS -- the rising cost of voting stupid.

Seen on Newsmax television today.

RUNNING ON EMPTY: Maine forced to delay vote on EV mandate amid widespread power outages.

SEEN ON TELEVISION: "Sometimes it takes months - even years - for Congress to do nothing."

Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA], paraphrased.

GREG GUTFELD: "If I'm in my car and you've glued yourself to the road, you're a speed bump."

Opening monologue on December 19th.

THAT SOUND YOU HEAR is Gen-Z snowflakes voters running into the arms of the Democrats.

[Y]oung voters tend to live in the here and now — they want their student loans forgiven, they want cheaper homes, they want everything handed to them on a silver platter, even as they vote for Democrats who have caused most of the problems they're complaining about. (Note: That by no means includes all young voters. Many of them are bright, well-informed, and understand the world as it is, not as the fairy tale the Democrats try to sell them.)

There's not a lot Republicans can do about that.

And banning TikTok isn't going to change that significantly.

THIS SHOULD GET INTERESTING: Jeffrey Epstein associates in for New Year shock as judge orders release of sealed documents.

INSTAPUNDIT ON SUBSTACK: The wheels are coming off Obama's third the Biden administration.

IT'S JUST HARVARD: After blaming almost everyone for gun crime, Harvard man David Hogg now goes after ... white women.

THE DAILY CHART: Envy as a motive.

I THINK IT'S A BIT LATE: Resign, Ronna.

THE DAILY CHART: “Environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) investing is failing fast.

WANT TO? Hospitals want to sell your health care data to big tech.

My experience is that they're already doing so.

BECAUSE HE'S A VULGAR TRUMP HATING JOURNALIST. How has this vulgar Trump/Republican hating 'news director' kept his job?

IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING: National Christmas Tree topples to the ground at White House.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seemsto me to be the first highly visible, widely disseminated demonstration of the Biden administration's incompetence. It opened America's eyes and people are now beginning to pay attention.

IT SHOULD BE DAILY: Trump derangement syndrome media meltdown of the week.

HEH! GAO report warns Artemis 3 landing may be delayed to 2027.

IMPERIALISM: Lessons from history.

It's Victor Davis Hanson on Imprimis. Read it all.

SO YOU'RE ADMITTING YOU HAVEN'T BEEN DOING YOUR JOB? FBI director says terror threats elevated to all-time high since Oct. 7.

Too busy spying on Catholics and parents concerned with their child's education?

WELL SAID: Disinformation starts at the top -- with America's elites.

ELON MUSK: DEI must die.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: How were the universities lost?

And a prediction come true:

At the present rate, a Stanford law degree, a Harvard political science major, or a Yale social science BA will soon scare off employers and the general public at large.

These certificates will signify not proof of humility, knowledge, and decency, but rather undeserved self-importance, vacuousness, and fanaticism -- and all to be avoided rather than courted.

Read it all.

OF COURSE NOT. Will the Sierra Club apologize if the lights go out in Baltimore?

And in Washington DC, which is on the same grid? Well, umm....

WHAT SNOWFLAKES! Gen-Z now plagued by 'menu anxiety'.

Decisions are not their strong suit.

I AGREE: Give them free one way tickets to Gaza.

THE DAILY CHART: More “racist” test results.

KURT SCHLICHTER: You can draft this.

JOIN TEAM HELL NO: You will eat bugs -- and like them.

Luckily no city in my state is on the list.

BECAUSE HE'S BLACK? The possible probable reason CBS blurred out face of Ryan Carson's murderer but didn't do that for Daniel Penny.

And Daniel Penny is white?

NEITHER HAVE I:

But I've seen plenty of MAGA hats....

IMPRIMIS: Inside the transgender empire.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The correct acronym for 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' should be DIE or IED, not DEI.

AMMO GRRRLL HAS A THOUGHT: Just say no to taxpayer financed grocery stores for neighborhoods that drove out their corporate grocery stores!

GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT]: Rethinking the Civil Service.

He's right. And government unions should be banned as well.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Left is 'oblivious' to history.

MEMBERS OF THE ELITE think they're untouchable.

They're beginning to find out they're not.

FINALLY, I'm getting back to PowerLine's This Week in Pictures. Here's my favorite this week:

The (poison) Ivy League isn't doing too well this week. Go see the others.

NO! Confederate memorial to be removed from Arlington Cemetery.

Maybe not.

JUST NUKE THEM FROM ORBIT: How to fix higher education.

Then bury the bones and start anew.

THE EPOCH TIMES writes on Trump's legal challenges.

A very interesting timeline if the link holds....

MILLENNIAL HIRES are just DEI window dressing. The real work is done by their elders.

BIDEN FINALLY BUILT AN EV CHARGING STATION but there's one little proplem.

No one uses it.

I THOUGHT PREGNANT PEOPLE WERE CALLED 'WOMEN': Pregnant people can get a shot to protect babies from RSV, but some hit hurdles.

IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE, quit breathing.

Looking at you, Al Gore. And John Kerry.

THAT YOU'RE A LOUSY PRESIDENT DOESN'T WORK? Joe and Jill Biden frustrated about dismal poll numbers, reportedly demanding answers.

Kind of reminds you of the 'Jack & Jill' nursery rhyme doesn't it?

AS LUNATICS. JOYLESS LUNATICS. How to describe the Left?

RANDOM THOUGHT: It's December 7th and with almost certainty I can predict two things. One, the Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor) 82 years ago today, will be ignored by the mainstream media. And two, the invasive Medicare commercials won't stop tomorrow despite today being the last day of the annual enrollment period.