AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SOLUTION: So simple even a cave man could do it.

OUR U.S. NAVY HAS “INSUFFICIENT GENDER EXPERTS?” The Soviet military called them zampolits.

In The Hunt for Red October the zampolit was killed early on. Not a bad thought....

SHOOTING PEOPLE who are in the process of committing violent crimes isn’t socially “dangerous.” It’s socially virtuous.

JEEP has gone DEI.

I had one too, but that was before DEI became a thing....

POWERLINE: The under- and over-estimated Jimmy Carter, RIP.

BECAUSE MURDERERS ARE ACTUALLY PROSECUTED? Female murder rate plummets in Milei's Argentina and you'll never guess why.

PROGRESSIVE SENATOR: "This 'magic words' thing has to go away."

Magic words -- and feelings -- are all they have.

MORE BIDEN REGRETS about stepping aside.

With Biden, it wasn't about his party, it was about his dynasty.

WITHOUT JEWS, THERE IS NO NEWS: Internecine wars within the Palestinians aren't newsworthy.

IT'S A HEAD FAKE: University of Iowa claims it's closing gender, women's studies department.

THIS ONE IS AMUSING: The twelve woke days of Christmas.

POLITICO LOOKS AT TRENDS KILLED OFF BY THIS ELECTION; their woe over the death of Democrat power is tangible.

CALIFORNIA -- the great destroyer.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES Christmas edition. My favorite:

See? Die Hard is a Christmas movie....

THE RECKONING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Why Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education has academia shaking.

I'd like to see the Department of Education gotten rid of, but maybe this is the better solution.

MEANWHILE REPUBLICANS ARE HARDLY FAILING: Democrats are failing hard at winning over the normies.

HE LEARNED; THEY/THEM DIDN'T: What was so different this time about Trump’s election?

SO MUCH FOR COMPASSION: Homelessness skyrocketed under Democrats and the Biden administration.

AUSTIN SLOWS; FORT WORTH GROWS: Fort Worth bumps Austin to become fourth-largest city in Texas.

Austin is clearly the 'wokeist' city in Texas; my guess is that the less woke Austinites are fleeing to less woke cities....

A LEGACY OF FAILURE: How will Joe Biden be remembered?

And Jimmy Carter, who died today at the age of 100, will become known as the second worst President of the United States.

NOT FOR ME, BUT PERHAPS FOR MY FAMILY: Demographics and conservative futures.

Progressives are voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool

DROP HIM OFF IN GUATAMALA -- from 30,000 feet.

He'll likely be DOA, which would be appropriate justice.

SKYNET SMILES: Foul play in the death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji?

AMMO GRRRLL: Year-end random thoughts, questions, and two resolutions for the new year.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? White House aides were hiding Biden’s mental decline.

MERRY CHRISTMAS and Democrats can go to hell.

Tell us what you really think....

TRANS INJURIES in women's sports....

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, drone edition. My favorite,though, because this is an 'every Christmas' thing:

Now go see the rest.

SHUT UP AND SING! Most Republicans don't want to hear celebrities' political opinions.

Replacing 'Republicans' with 'Americans' is probably more accurate.

SINCE WHEN did Republicans start being against punishing criminals?

My thought: Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord but retribution is a whole 'nother question.

BRIAN STELTER (AND CNN) fail to understand that they are the idiots.

But the rest of us have known that for years....

WHAT HAPPENS when we are all on the dole?

For most it takes a while to sink in. I've known it ever since Romney lost in the 2012 presidential election.

MORE EVIDENCE THE DEEP STATE IS LYING TO US? Mystery drones could be identified faster using new detection tool, but the FAA lacks resources.

FLORIDA IS NOT A SANCTUARY STATE: Florida homeowner fatally shoots masked intruder.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: The progressive Left’s glossary of terms (2024 edition).

POSTING WILL BE LIGHT to nonexistent for the next few days through Christmas. Back by the weekend.

KASH PATEL, onetime FBI target, now on track to run the FBI.

POWERLINE: The least successful conspiracy.

DRONE ENCOUNTER UPDATE: White House Isn't Telling the Truth About Coast Guard Encounter With Drones.

Obviously there's a whole lotta lyin' going on....

BINGO! Protect your health; drink coffee and whiskey.

I do.

NEVER GET INTO AN X-FIGHT WITH ELON MUSK. Keith Olbermann did. Here's the result:

Olbermann wrote "So @elonmusk you also suck at politics lol f--- you fascist."
"You elevate Tourette’s to poetry," Musk fired back at Olbermann that evening.

Game, set, match to Elon.

(NOT) AMAZING: Here's where a missing Congresswoman was found.

It tells you something about Congress, doesn't it? -

GOOD ON HIM: Los Angeles Times owner reportedly 'alarming' staff with demands for editorial board to relax on Trump criticism.

PRESIDENT-ELECT MUSK? The Democrats new tactic is next-level dumb.

Below kiddiegarten dumb.

THE DAILY CHART: Media lies.

I don't think anyone with an IQ above room temperature (in degrees Celsius) will be surprised....

SCIENTIST STUNNED by vole-hunting predatory squirrels.

My cats have been observed eating the multitudenous squirrels in and around our house. Perhaps I should stop them to prevent being overrun by voles (except for the fact that the cats eat voles, too).

BIDEN'S ENIVRONMENTAL 'PROTECTION' AGENCY just rubber-stamped a California ban on new gasoline-powered autos after 2035.

Will Trump reverse the ban? Probably, but there is an argument for not banning it. Read the whole thing.

ELEPHANTS DON'T FORGET: Elon Musk issues ominous threat to any member who votes for the 'cramnibus'.

Good on him. I also like the term 'cramnibus'.

OBAMACARE is killing people.

I’VE FIGURED OUT TRUMP’S ENDGAME WITH TIKTOK. It’s brilliant.

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER WAILS ABOUT GOP KILLING THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION. Elon Musk floors him with reality.

The Democrats' government is on life support; let help it die.

THIS IS WHY I quit using a calculator for basic math. I was losing the ability to do it in my head.

Same here.

AND THE AWARD for the state with the worst drivers in the nation goes to ... Massachusetts.

Yep. When I was working we had a contractor in New Hampshire requiring me to land in Boston and drive north. Boston drivers are so bad that if you give them an inch they'll try to park in it.

Also yep. D.C. has the lowest speeding rate. I commuted to Arlington, next to D.C., for 11 years. The reason for the lowest speeding rate is that the roads are so congested that you cannot possibly even hit the speed limit, much less exceed it.

Read the rest.

STILL GRIFTING: Crazy Joe’s Discount Pardon Warehouse.

DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Alaska governor calls on Trump to roll back drilling restrictions.

NEARLY EVERYTHING: What was so different this time about Trump’s election?

TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN FIRSTS: "the first candidate for presidential history to beat two Democrat nominees in the same damn election."

LIZ CHENEY throws a hissy fit after accusations against her.

I'll be curious to see if her name is in the next round of Biden pardons....

ELON MUSK: Yesterday's continuing resolution; today's continuing resolution.

Heh.

Update: even this bill hasn't passed the House.

THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE has apparently decided to release former Rep. Matt Gaetz's [R-FL] ethics report. Gaetz responded aggressively.

Someone suggested the following plan to him:

1. Show up 1/3/2025 to congress
2. Participate in Speaker election (I was elected to the 119th Congress, after all…)
3. Take the oath
4. File a privileged motion to expose every “me too” settlement paid using public funds (even of former members)
5. Resign and start my @OANN program on January 6, 2025.

I'm no fan of Gaetz, but I certainly respect his aggressiveness. Republicans desperately need to show more of that fighting spirit.

Fight on....

MORE THAN ENOUGH: How much voter fraud in 2020?

HERE'S A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

for U.S. Postal Service CEO Louis DeJoy.

REP. VICTORIA SPARTZ [R-IN], an immigrant from Ukraine, announces she's going to DOGE.

Good for her.

NEW ZEALAND DOES SOMETHING RIGHT: Quit funding social studies research.

THIS DOESN'T SURPRISE ME. Ivy League professor addresses UnitedHealthcare murder suspect's possible radicalization in college.

REVOLT OF THE PUBLIC: "The failure of the Biden-Harris experiment in governance has brought elites to the edge of a stark ideological wilderness, where the only justification for power is the will to attain it."

'Will for power' is the sole justification for the Democrat party. It seeks power for the purpose of having power, not for accomplishing anything of significance. Read the whole article.

CRIB NOTES VERSION of 'Why I Hate the CR' aka 'Shut It Down'.

Read the whole thing to understand that they really, really hate us.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY EXPLAINS why the House continuing resolution must fail.

I wanted to read the full 1,500+ page bill & speak with key leaders before forming an opinion. Having done that, here's my view: it's full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics. If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should VOTE NO.

Keeping the government open until March 14 will cost ~$380BN by itself, but the true cost of this omnibus CR is far greater due to new spending. Renewing the Farm Bill for an extra year: ~$130BN. Disaster relief: $100BN. Stimulus for farmers: $10BN. The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement: $8BN. The proposal adds at least 65 cents of new spending for every dollar of continued discretionary spending.

The legislation will end up hurting many of the people it purports to help. Debt-fueled spending sprees may "feel good" today, but it's like showering cocaine on an addict: it's not compassion, it's cruelty. Farmers will see more land sold to foreign buyers when taxes inevitably rise to meet our obligations. Our children will be saddled with crippling debt. Interest payments will be the largest item in our national budget.

Congress has known about this deadline since they created it in late September. There's no reason why this couldn't have gone through the standard process, instead of being rushed to a vote right before Congressmen want to go home for the holidays. The urgency is 100% manufactured & designed to avoid serious public debate.

The bill could have easily been under 20 pages. Instead, there are dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into the 1,547 pages of this bill. There's no legitimate reason for them to be voted on as a package deal by a lame-duck Congress. 72 pages worth of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy; renewal of the much-criticized "Global Engagement Center," a key player in the federal censorship state; 17 different pieces of Commerce legislation; paving the way for a new football stadium in D.C.; a pay raise for Congressmen & Senators and making them eligible for Federal Employee Health Benefits. It's indefensible to ram these measures through at the last second without debate.

We're grateful for DOGE's warm reception on Capitol Hill. Nearly everyone agrees we need a smaller & more streamlined federal government, but actions speak louder than words. This is an early test. The bill should fail.

Which explains my contacting my congresscritters.

I'M WITH ELON MUSK: If you want to remain in office, I want either a clean continuing resolution or a complete government shutdown through Jan. 20, 2025.

Sent to all my congresscritters this morning.

OH, YES, AND IT DOES SEEMS FISHY: The November 5th presidential elections have finally been counted.

ARE THERE ANY ADULTS LEFT IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY? Anti-gun activist David Hogg to run for DNC vice chair.

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Woke' is the new useless idiot.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Tulsi Gabbard's iconoclasm is exactly why we need her.

NEW YORK MAYOR ERIC ADAMS: “I’m seeing our bench is hating the team [America], and we better start acknowledging and focusing on that.”

Democrats not happy....

POST-POSTMODERN AMERICA: The Woke Revolution depends on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others.

STOP THE PRESSES! We have the lie of the year.

Don't forget P'Nut the squirrel.

POWERLINE'S DAILY CHART: Blue media blues.

Since Fox News has been pissing me off by insisting I give them my email address to read their posts, I'd kinda like seeing the before/after for Newsmax.

KILL THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION: However much contempt you have for Congress, it isn’t enough.

It has the addeded benefit of shutting down the U.S. government, hopefully until Trump's inauguration....

Update: Elon Musk tweeted "don't do it" and today's vote has apparently been delayed (cancelled?).

ISRAEL IS BUSY saving the world.

IF YOU’RE IN A FAIR FIGHT, you’re doing it wrong.

Instapundit is coming around to my point of view....

KELLYANNE CONWAY Needed only two words to explain why more women didn't turn out for Kamala Harris.

THE REESE’S PEANUT BUTTER CUP APPROACH: Why not put the Palestinian homeland in Syria?

Fill a failed state with failed people. And use it as a transfer point for our indigenous antisemites....

NUKE IT FROM ORBIT WOULD BE MY SOLUTION: How Congress can end DC’s lawfare and one-party federal bias.

I'M SURE RFK WILL BE HAPPY TO LISTEN TO HER EXPERTISE: San Francisco Health Department hires 'fat positivity' expert.

GOING, GOING, (IF WE'RE LUCKY) GONE: The evaporation of the Obama mystique.

FORMER GOOGLE CEO: Computers could soon make their own decisions.

Remember HAL 9000? We should be ready to pull the plug at a moment's notice....

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY to provide 'gender affirming' haircuts.

Is high & tight gender affirming?

TRUMP CONSIDERS privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.

At a minimum fire the idiot running it.

I am sick to death of having to waste hours of my time on the telephone getting late fees recinded when my checks have been delayed in the mail by 20-30 days (and more!) by Joe Biden's postal service. It never happened -- not once -- when Trump was in office.

AS I'M WONT TO SAY, "NO,SHIT, SHERLOCK": More than three weeks after dozens of mysterious drones began popping up in the New Jersey night sky, the public has still been offered no clear insight on what the phenomenon could be.

I think it's relatively obvious by now that the government is, and has been, lying to us.

Maybe we'll find out after January 20th, but frankly, I doubt it.

NO, IT'S NOT THE EDIBLES; it's really UFOs. This UFO report from the West coast is interesting:

Two medevac pilots in a fixed-wing plane were confronted with a bevy of three or four unidentified flying objects "moving at hypersonic speeds" over the night skies along the Oregon Coast on Saturday night.

Listen to the pilots ask air traffic control how to proceed around the aircraft, which were red circular craft that could zip up to 50,000 feet at "extreme speeds." At one point, a Horizon pilot came on comms to inquire about the UFO chatter and asked the air traffic controllers to share any video they got of the bizarre activity.

At least two sets of pilots, one a Horizon Air (United affiliated) flight and an emergency medevac fixed-wing aircraft, saw the objects.

Pilot 1: We're seeing three or four targets, they're all altitudes. It's pretty crazy. There was [sic] at 30 probably [thousand feet]; they're shootin' up to the 50s [thousand feet] it looks like.

Pilot 2: Is air traffic actually out about at our 2 to 3 o'clock, I don't know, 20-30 miles?

Air Traffic Control: No. Is that the uh, four different lights going up and down? I'm getting a few reports, but. you're seeing it right in front of you now?

Pilot 2: Uh, it's 2-3 o'clock off of, from our position. It's about 20 miles. Going in circles.

Air Traffic Control: Yeah, we're not seeing anything. Gettin' lots of different reports out there. Some at 30. Some up to 50,000 [feet]...about 3 or 4 different lights. Does it look like they're around your altitude now?

Pilot 2: Uh, no, there's one waay up high and one about my altitude. Uh, moving, like a circle, like a corkscrew pattern. Alright I'm, I visually have eyes on what looks like an aircraft strobe at my 2 o'clock and 22 miles at my altitude and I'm actually showing them on TCS. Do you see them?

Air Traffic Control: I do not —

Pilot 2: He, uh, it looks like it's moving toward the north. Like I said 22 and a half miles off my right wing. Just had another one show up about my 1 o'clock at about 1,000 feet high zipping towards us and then back out towards the ocean. And red, red in color...moving at extreme speeds, uh, I don't know even know how to describe how fast it's moving, 661 Lima Foxtrot.

Air Traffic Controller 2: 661 Lima Foxtrot, Roger. You are cleared to maneuver as necessary left and right to avoid the UFO out there.

Pilot 2: It's weird, it's a red circular shape and it keeps zipping out towards the ocean and then coming back in about 20 miles or closer to us and then zips back out over the ocean and we can't see it.

At one point Air Traffic Controller 2 asked if the pilots could film any of the craziness. "We're trying right now," Pilot 2 says to the tower. He adds that his "med crew in the back" is trying to film the UFOs too. The air traffic controller said he was trying to get the Coast Guard to go out and take a look.

An alert reader DM'd ... to give me some insight on the New Jersey drone activity. I've been writing about the drones here and here. His observations:

The reader is a drone hobbyist and knows that the New Jersey area has a drone proving ground nearby. He believes all of the drone activity is part of some secret squirrel operation and I tend to agree, having been in Southern California when all the stealth bombers and fighter "UFOs" were being tested and spotted (some in the daytime).

I also know that Pendleton, Ore., has a drone proving ground.

We may finally be getting somewhere with this.

It's not clear from the excerpt above whether this conversation is from both aircraft or just the one medevac aircraft. There is more at the link.

What is most interesting is this comment at the end of the post:

[The commenter] believes all of the drone activity is part of some secret squirrel operation and I tend to agree, having been in Southern California when all the stealth bombers and fighter "UFOs" were being tested and spotted (some in the daytime).

It's obvious that there is more going than meets the eye.

MAKE ROOM. MAKE ROOM. For the homeless.

Another way California just found to make life hell for its citizens....

TACTICS, TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES to keep deep state bureaucrats from obstructing Donald Trump’s agenda.

Three words: fast and furious.

I'VE NOTICED from the television commercials I'm seeing that the Canadian state of Ontario is lobbying to become our 51st state.

WASHINGTON DC RESTAURANT WORKERS plan to sabotage Trump administration personnel.

And I'll clap and cheer when they get laid off.

FRED FLINTSTONE WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME: By 2035, all California vehicles to be replaced by Little Tikes Cozy Coupes.

The Babylon Bee is reporting news again....

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IS ROTTING FROM WITHIN: Democracy dies with the progressive monopoly on education.

HEH: The Left’s infatuation explained.

WHERE'S THE DOWNSIDE? 'Thousands' of Federal employees may resign before January.

FUN? FACT: More US Representatives have been injured at the Capitol by attacks from violent LGBTQ activists than from people on January 6th.

Via Libs of TikTok, Nancy Mace post-attack.

A PERFECT ENCAPSULATION OF GOVERNMENT: Citizens are resources to be farmed for fun and profit.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Republicans and conservatives tend to believe that rules are for everyone; Democrats, liberals, and especially progressives, tend to believe that rules are for everyone else.

ACT FAST; ACT DECISIVELY: Open letter to the Trump administration.

THE SUICIDE OF THE ISRAEL HATERS: They tried to destroy the Jewish State and will end up destroying themselves.

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE BUTT AS YOU SCUTTLE OUT: Los Angeles Times columnist quits amid owner's Trump support.

DON'T TEST US! Incoming border czar warns sanctuary city mayors 'Get the hell out of the way' or be prosecuted.

Frankly, I hope they don't. Jail time wonderfully concentrates the mind....

THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN and the Establishment gets washed away by a preference cascade.

A well-deserved preference cascade.

HISTORY DOESN'T ISSUE PREEMPTIVE PARDONS; only Presidents do.

HUBRIS LEADS TO NEMESIS: San Francisco liberal who wants to defund the police now demands they help her recover her stolen stuff.

Too stupid for words ... I hope she stays in San Franciso; it deserves her.

LET DEMOCRATS HAVE THEIR BLANKET PARDONS: In the end they'll still lose.

FORTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER: The final goodbye coming soon.

Following my Master's degree I worked briefly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Voyager telecommunications system before returning to finish up my doctorate. My dissertation is based on some of the work I did there.

It's still hard to believe that I have since retired and the Voyager spacecraft have not.

ENJOY YOUR STAY: Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land.

IT'S NOT SATIRE, it's common sense.

THE 80/20 RULE (PARETO PRINCIPLE) STRIKES AGAIN: Speaker Mike Johnson, backed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is plotting to eliminate 75% of federal government agencies.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Pretty soon there will be so many satellites in low earth orbit that the Earth will be in shadow and global warming will no longer be a problem.

Instead global cooling will....

THE INTERREGNUM HAS BEGUN:

Perhaps that's why the UFOs are flying around theTrump National Golf Club in Bedminister -- they're looking for a real President.

DIFFERENTIAL TUITION: Should English majors pay less?

No, they should pay more. From the comments: "Do we really need to push people into majors that will give them impaired thinking, make them impoverished, miserable, and ripe to become faithful Democrats?"

There are others who disagree -- scroll through the comments and make up your own mind.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Trump needs to pardon all the J6 political prisoners on Day One.

MORE FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. My favorite:

Now go see the rest.

GOOD ADVICE: Fire your whiny employees too upset over the election to do their work.

Better yet, don't hire them in the first place.

OUTGOING DNC CHAIR defends 'identity politics'.

"When I wake up in the morning, when I look in the mirror, when I step out the door, I can't rub this off," he said, waving his hand in front of his face. "This is who I am. This is how the world perceives me.

What chutzpah. Just because he sees himself as black, and thus a victim, doesn't mean othere see the same thing. Maybe he should quit looking at himself in the mirror.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT defects.

MORE: Yet another Democrat defects.

Is this the beginning of another preference cascade?

CHANGE: The California bar will consider campus protests in moral character review for lawyer licensing. The unanswered question is whether it will be a positive or negative change. I'm betting negative.

DEMOCRATS HAVE 'CONCERNS' about Elon Musk saying stuff they don't like. Let the hand-wringing begin.

And ignore them.

HE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR: Sanctimonious Obama warns 'one side' is going to 'rig elections and weaponize the justice system.'

THANK UNIONIZATION: America's stone age ports.

EXCELLENT ADVICE: Be hard to kill and dangerous to attack.

AMERICA'S FUTURE depends on Trump's promise to punish woke universities.

WILL DEMOCRATS REDISCOVER THE CONSTITUTION? Probably not.

The only things they are capable of 'discovering' are victims.

MORE PARDONS TO COME? If Biden is going to issue blanket pardons he should pardon all Democrats for the crime of voting for him.

WELL, HE IS PRESIDENT ALREADY: Just go ahead and take the ‘elect’ out of ‘President-elect Trump’.

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: A different kind of adventure in the mountains.

This happened in my neck of the woods (my wife and I have been to the Jacks River Fields Campground) and I'm pleased to report that most of my neighbors are that kind.

THAT MEANS 94% ARE SUPERFLUOUS: Only 6 percent of federal workers show up in person every day.

The fish are in the barrel for Elon and Vivek to shoot....

THEY FAIL, we pay.

WHAT'S NEXT IN IDIOCY? Customized bottled water.

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HUNTER. It's always been about Joe.

GLENN REYNOLDS ON SUBSTACK: Worried about experts, and their dubious performance and questionable actual expertise? Read on:

Leaving aside the undemocratic nature of technocracy, technocracy has failed the ultimate in technocratic tests: It doesn’t work. Putting “smart” – which turns out to mean “credentialed” – people in charge of everything, and letting them run things with no real constraints except the blinkered and self-serving opinions of other members of their social class, has turned out not to work very well. Whether in agriculture or in governance, monocultures are unstable, and our ruling class monoculture has been a narrow and increasingly incestuous one. Its performance has failed to justify its existence.

Reynolds' earlier substack thoughts on our 'expert' monoculture is here.

BEHIND THE BLACK: The real proof that the American political scene is about to experience a new revolution.

MINIMIZING THE STATE as co-parent.

The post is about micro-schooling, but the scene depicted in the opening paragraph happened in Mineral Bluff, Georgia, about 2 miles from my home.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Universities have a 2025 rendezvous with reality.

I hope it hurts.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

THE 'SECESSION' WORD appears again and has a venerable tradition in American history.

Kurt Schlichter's People's Republic book series considers the possibilities in modern America. They're not positive.

COULD [MORE OF THE SAME] turn out to be the Democrats' most viable candidate for 2028?

[I]t’s quite clear from each and every name touted for 2028 that the Democrats are quite clear about one thing they want for 2028: more of the same.

The party of Jackson, Truman and JFK has gone all-in on America-Last internationalism, contempt for ordinary people, the fetishization of deviance and fantasy, and the forcible impoverishment of American citizens through inflation and mass migration, and there’s no turning back now. Not a single Democrat hopeful for 2028 at this point is articulating any pathway back to sanity, patriotism, or sound economic and immigration policies. And so while a slim majority of Americans may have chosen not to commit national suicide in 2024, the Dems can always hope they’ll vote for a civilizational slashing of the wrists in 2028.

Attila the Hun is their logical successor ... or AOC, his female equivalent.

THAT'S THE DIVIDE? Big versus Little.

It's an interesting article (read it all) but I'm not sure I agree it's big versus little. To me it's about choice -- individual choice versus group choice (in other words, control).

THE FBI GOVERNMENT is a font of misinformation.

I struck out FBI because it's not just the FBI, it's true for the Deep State as a whole.

ABSOLUTELY: Should Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson be in jail for trying to frame Trump for 'insurrection'?

They will skate ... unfortunately.

IMPRIMIS: Populist conservatism and constitutional order.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Useful idiots remain idiots when their 'sell by' dates expire.

TECH BILLIONAIRE tells Joe Rogan the government plan ‘to control AI’ is why he left a White House meeting and endorsed Trump.

The Left is always about control -- their control.

MORE LIES FROM THE LEFT: 'MAGA' supporters are the ones threatening Democrats.

And Democrat supporters are simply angels....

LOOKS LIKE IT TO ME: Insurrection at the DoD?

The new Trump administration must, repeat must, adopt a take-no-prisioners approach with recalcitrant Deep Staters.

MORE: Pearl Harbor remembered.

AMERICA'S DAY OF INFAMY WAS 83 YEARS AGO TODAY.

REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR: John Finn, Medal of Honor winner.

LESSONS STILL UNLEARNED: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1944.

DECEMBER 7TH 2024: Only the teenagers are left.

And I've seen almost no remembrance on the mainstream media (with the exception of the Fox News cable channel). For the MSM to relegate what is perhaps one of the most important events in American history to the dustbin is, well, just disgusting.

America needs to be reminded. Every year. From now until the United States of America ceases to exist.

IMPRIMIS: Drain the swamp.

It may become possible to restore constitutional government in place of the administrative or bureaucratic state that has almost overtaken it. That is the issue that matters the most. The worst evils stem from it. The strongest resistance guards its entrenchment.

We must replace 'may become' with the single word 'was'.

DENVER MAYOR WHO THREATENED TO STOP DEPORTATIONS folds like a (cheap) lawn chair after Tom Homan threat.

Democrats are all performance art; none of these so-called progressives have the courage of their 'convictions'.

THE ESTABLISHMENT’S SCANDAL SCAM TACTICS won’t work anymore.

AT LEAST IT'S NOT IN THE UNITED STATES: Guess which city is the antisemitism capitol of North America.

ALSO: a Canadian town is facing a fine of $10,000 for refusing to participate in Pride Month and fly the "LGBTQ2 rainbow flag" outside its municipal building.

THE THIRD TURKEY finally got pardoned.

OH.MY.GOD. Hydrosexuals, queer theory, and the posthumanities’ descent into madness.

To quote Beege Wellborn: "They are all barking mad."

YOU THOUGHT THEY COULDN'T DIG DEEPER: New York Times hammered for article referring to biological women as ‘non-transgender women’.

Zealots and idiots. Notice I've used the healing power of 'and'....

P'NUT THE SQUIRREL MUST BE AVENGED! Couple takes action against nasty government overreach.

Reinforcements are arriving....

DENVER MAYOR WHO THREATENED TO STOP DEPORTATIONS folds like a (cheap) lawn chair after Tom Homan threat.

It's all performance art; none of these progressives have the courage of their 'convictions'.

GO PRIVATE: How to stop transanity in women's sports.

FROM RETALIATION TO REFORM: A case study for correcting higher education.

Linked from Instapundit.

60 MINUTES IS SHOCKED: People might go to college to have their minds expanded and learn from people they disagree with?

It helps to get out of the progressive bubble occasionally. Why the university was put in Austin, Texas, though, is beyond me. I left years ago, when I decided Austin was irredeemable.