MARY, DID YOU KNOW? The most misunderstood Christmas song.

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR wishes you a Merry Christmas.

IT'S THAT SEASON: H-E-B Grocers' computers fail, so they take an opportunity to spread unexpected Christmas cheer.

THE MAGIC BEGINS: Christmas eve.

SEND IN THE MARINES. Powerline comments on the Supreme Court ruling on National Guard deployment.

HE'S GOT THE IDIOT VOTE LOCKED UP: Eric Swalwell's incredibly cringey California Governor ad shows just how clueless and out of touch Democrats are.

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: We need more people ready to fight, military chief says.

The cartoon says it all.

YES, OF COURSE: Is the Deep State trying to frame Trump as a 'malignant narcissist'?

If you want to see 'malignant narcissism' just look to your Left ... it's their home.

A VIEW FROM THE WINDOWS on Winter Solstice.

Finally, Finally ... days are getting longer. If only it'd get warmer.

HOW TO STOP PROGRESS(IVES): Turn out their lights.

Heh.

I CONTRIBUTED. HAVE YOU? Wreaths Across America Continues its mission to remember, honor, and teach.

VERIZON REFUSED TO UNLOCK MAN’S IPHONE, so he sued the carrier and won.

THE WEEKEND'S GUN TRAGEDIES show why you must buy even more guns. And ammunition.

And carry if you can.

THIS IS WHAT 'SECURE' MEANS when Liberals talk about voting.

DEEP BLUE STATE deals massive blow to trans agenda, axes LGBTQIA+ mandate.

GERMANY’S “WELCOME CULTURE” COLLAPSES: Majority now want immigration halted and deportations ramped up.

Linked from Instapundit here.

LOVELY: Ten dollar gasoline coming soon to California.

IT'S A BIT LATE FOR ME, but let the punching back twice as hard begin.

IS BROWN UNIVERSITY protecting a suspect in the campus shooting?

No, they're covering their collective asses. I'm sure there'll be more to come....

I BELIEVE IT: More holiday terrorist attacks are coming.

AI KEEPS GETTING DUMB AND DUMBER, and I've got the receipts.

I once described AI as the world's first Garbage-In/Garbage Out device that generates its own garbage, but in some cases, that might prove optimistic.

He's right, and that's one reason why I never (knowingly) use AI for anything. Even Duck Duck Go, which I occasionally use for a search, has an AI augmentation which I keep turning off permanently keeps coming back. Every time I do a search, I have to turn the damn thing off (again!) and then repeat the search.

THIS IS GEORGIA: The “stolen election” really was.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Can the Dark Ages return?

Since we're already nearing sunset, my guess is 'yes'.

IMPRIMIS: Lawlessness is a choice.

TRUMP WANTS TO RAISE MONEY AND HEGSETH WANTS WARRIORS; an ancient institution might please both.

EMAILS REVEAL FBI AGENTS did not believe they had probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago.

SEAL WISDOM: 'Find, Fix, Finish' drug smugglers at sea.

I'D SUGGEST you check out the White House's Media Bias web site regularly. Here's the latest.

IMPRIMIS: Today’s firestorm and the Declaration of Independence.

A NEW BARBARISM HAS EMERGED: Time to make America civilized again.

DEMOCRATS, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LEADERS, not followers.

GOP SUPERCUT VIDEO takes up Jasmine Crockett's [D-TX] challenge on finding a 'clip of a Democrat invoking violence'.

IN ALASKA: A pilot turned an old plane into a two-bedroom apartment.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Immigration gone wild.

TIME MAGAZINE’s MAN MEN OF THE YEAR continue to knock it out of the park.

Into foul territory. The Washington Post offers proof.

SENATE FRAUD HEARING displays how Trump Derangement Syndrome blinds Democrats to deep corruption in federal contracting.

THERE’S NOTHING FUNNIER than fussy, furious Euroweenies.

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS’ BACKGROUNDS always fake?

Fake is their reality. Democrats are well-known for rewriting history, so why not rewrite personal history as well?

WOKE WARS HEAT UP IN DEMOCRAT SENATE PRIMARIES. The party continues its identity politics clown show.

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: Minnesota to lose Medicaid funding.

If only it expands beyond Minnesota....

UNITED STATES seizes massive crude oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.

Stay tuned ....

SO, MR. PRESIDENT, CROSS THE RUBICONl Threatening to prosecute your opponents when they give up power is a bad idea.

REFORM, OR RISK: Fixing California's frightening and broken mental hospitals.

ERASING BIDEN'S DEI LEGACY one font at a time.

NEW YORK MAYOR-ELECT ZOHRAN MAMDANI is about to cannibalize the Democrat party.

'Cannibalize' is a bit weak; 'destroy' is better.

HOT AIR: It's always lies.

TEXAS DEMOCRAT’S TAKE ON TAXING ELON MUSK shows just how radical they’ve become.

The radicals are no longer on the fringe — this is who the Democrat Party is.

X [TWITTER] RESPONDS to the European Union's fine.

MEMO TO THE GOP: Stop enabling your destroyers.

POOR GOV. TIM WALZ [D-MN] IS SCARED, and it’s Trump’s fault.

MAYBE AMERICANS don't want to be 'protected' by an overweening federal government.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES Minnesots meltdown edition has my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

PRESIDENT TRUMP pays tribute to slain National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom.

HERE'S WHAT THE MEDIA won't tell you about Trump's poll numbers.

VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO former insider turns snitch. Here's an excerpt:

The regime I served is not merely hostile — it is at war with you, using drugs, gangs, espionage, and even your own democratic processes as weapons. President Trump’s policies against the Maduro criminal regime are not just justified, but necessary and proportionate to the threat. He may even be underestimating what the regime is prepared to do to hold onto power. They have contingency plans for every extreme scenario to ensure they never relinquish control.

Read it all.

CALIFORNIA'S ASSEMBLY BILL (AB5) smothers it's gig (freelance) economy's big boost.

WELL, THEIR VOTERS ARE DEMOCRATS. Democrats think their voters are idiots.

IS BOTH AN OPTION? Is SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson not that smart, or is she extremely partisan?

ERIKA KIRK TELLS FORUM it's not a gun violence problem we should be worried about — it's something worse.

FADING ECHOES: Pearl Harbor survivors' absence marks new shift in remembrance.

EXACTLY 84 YEARS AGO, Japan woke the sleeping giant with its attack on Pearl Harbor. Today that giant is waking again; only this time the attack is from within.

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'University' is the Left's most dangerous weapon against civilization.

IDIOCRACY: English has been taken over by 'Woke'.

Best comment (so far): Has the concept of “White supremacy” become synonymous with “civilization”? Do a find/replace and prove me wrong.

MINNESOTA GOV. TIM WALZ FILES HURT FEELINGS REPORT over 'dangerous' name-calling.

If the shoe fits....

DEMOCRATS HUMILIATE THEMSELVES AGAIN with another Epstein drop.

They can't help themselves.

PR JIU JITSU: The Trump administration should agree to a full, independent investigation of the boat strike — but with one condition.

THE DEMOCRATS always take sides against normal people like us. "Time to take our own side in this fight because no one else will."

TWELVE YEARS IS ENOUGH! How to end Obamacare and improve coverage.

I'm old enough to take advantage of traditional Medicare: hospitalization plus an 80/20 split on traditional medical coverage. It worked in my youth and it's working now.

NO COURTS NEEDED: A squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis.

BOOKMARK THIS SITE. The White House's media offender of the week.

It appears to be updated regularly.

HERE COMES THE CLOWN: Did a Democrat Senator just call for a military coup against Trump?

I never voted for him and am forever glad I'm no longer a Virginian.

NO ROOM FOR THIRD WORLDERS: "[Y]ou don’t have to go home, but you just can’t stay here.”

GOOD FOR HER: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that after speaking with President Donald Trump, she will recommend a full travel ban "on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies."

SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: Putting narco-terrorists 'at bottom of the ocean'.

Next up, a Democrat-sponsored lawsuit alleging the Trump administration is drugging innocent fish....

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION threatens blue states' food stamp benefits over withheld data.

About time....

TRUMP: Somalis should go home and fix Somalia.

They can afford it; they've already stolen millions of dollars from Minnesota taxpayers.

[VIP] REMEMBER WHEN KIDS USED TO ROAM FREE? Society's greatest villain (Karen) is to blame for that going away.

Surprised it's not the internet? Me, too. That said, we did have our own run-in with Karen back when out daughter was a teen. We had set up a basketball goal on the sidewalk in front of our house (in a cul-de-sac) so the kids in the neighborhood could play. Anonymous Karen (or Kayden, if male) objected, called the police, and made us take it down. In the 4-1/2 years we lived there we never saw anyone on that sidewalk (except me, when I walked our dogs).

CAN WE THANK TRUMP? Hurricane season ends with no landfall in the United States.

Even hurricanes are afraid of him....

THE BABYLON BEE reports the news (again).

HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD: Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-NY] says three of his New York offices were targeted with bomb threats.

Wasn't it Sen. Schumer who stood on the Supreme Court steps and said "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price." Why yes, yes, he was. And the whirlwind came back destroy him.

Just desserts.

THE HISTORY OF JIHAD AND CRUSADE with Victor Davis Hanson.

This is a podcast, not a post. It's long (about an hour), but very, very good if you are interested in history. Both Hanson and Ibrahim (a former student of Hanson) are subject matter experts.

WHY TRUMP’S NEXT PR PIVOT must be total, absolute political WARFARE on socialism.

ALASKA MAN MONDAY: Just for the halibut.

The video at the end is a bit off-sync, but the meaning is clear. Watch it anyway.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? Claims that Afghans were 'vetted' contradict federal investigations.

Maybe to Dumbocrats Democrats....

THEY BROKE AMERICA AND BLAME TRUMP: A country waking up from an abusive relationship.

Long, but worthy. Read it all.

[VIP] EXCLUDING FATHERS: New feminist blueprint for a man-free childhood.

[T]hese days, the attempts to eliminate fathers are by design. And now, in the United Kingdom, it seems to be a matter of policy. In a column at the New English Review, author Janice Fiamengo has some startling news.

Reaction in North America has so far been muted to what is being hailed as a significant victory for anti-father groups in Britain.

As reported by The Guardian newspaper in almost giddily triumphant prose, “The family courts will no longer work on the presumption that having contact with both parents is in the best interests of a child.”

This may be a significant victory for anti-father groups, and, amazingly, there is such a thing as "anti-father groups." But it's a slap in the face of the human family structure, a structure that goes back thousands of years.

If you can, read the whole thing.

FROM POWERLINE's Week in Pictures, my favorite:

There are many more; go see them.

THERE: I fixed it.

They're 'woke' reporters; English is a second language.

A QUESTION FOR TRUMP: Is it time to take a page from Abraham Lincoln?

ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S still begging the working class New Yorkers for money.

Wait until he's Mayor; then he won't have to beg, he'll just take it.

JUNIPER AND HIS BROTHERS ARE EXPANDING THEIR NETWORK.

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: The white coat has become a prop in the Democrat media playbook.

Maybe HHS Secretary Kennedy can change it back, but I'm not sanguine....

CHARLIE McCARTHY IN A BLUE SUIT: The puppet show than ran America.

THE A'S ARE BOUGHT, NOT EARNED: Harvard report warns of ‘damaging’ grade inflation.

AN EX-SLAVE answers the affordability crisis.

Read it all.

[VIP] THERE’S AN ANGER IN THE COUNTRY, simmering, slowly coming to a boil. What happens when it boils over?

The left has been pushing, pushing this for months, for years. They vilify Republicans, they call us fascists, they call us Nazis, they call us racists. Sooner or later, the rest of the people, the rest of us, will decide we’ve had enough. The rest of us will decide, no more burned businesses, no more murdered women, no more judges letting criminals run free after 10, 30, 60 arrests. No more unchecked thousands of “asylum-seekers” from every third-world hellhole on the planet. No more.

But the far left won’t give up. They won’t stop. They will escalate. Sooner or later, the rest of us, the great silent majority, will decide, fine, we’ll match you, tactic for tactic, blow for blow.

We'll simply kill you and be done.

YIMBY (YES, IN MY BACK YARD): Most YIMBYs don't have back yards.

Read it all.

PARTICLE FOR MEN: "aesthetic science for [narcisstic] men".

There. Fixed it. And yes, their television commercials do rankle.

WHY DO YOU THINK KAMALA HARRIS SELECTED TIM WALZ AS HER VP CHOICE? Is Minnesota the nation’s most corrupt state?

DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE: Want to reduce violent crime against women? Get more of them to carry a gun.