I'LL START WATCHING 'WOKEBALL' AGAIN WHEN IT RETURNS TO ITS ROOTS: Dhar Mann named NFL’s ‘Chief Kindness Officer’ as league kicks off Super Bowl creator blitz.

Quoting Stephen Green, "What fresh hell is this?"

RANDOM THOUGHT: Fox News is an advertising agency disguised as a news source. Unfortunately it's not the only one....

There was a time when advertising supported journalism; today it seems like 'journalism' is being used to support advertising.

THEY'RE SCATTERING: Anti-ICE Leftists consider fleeing country after their Signal chats got exposed.

Please help them. I understand Iran is nice this time of year.

AT LEAST THEY'RE USEFUL FOR SOMETHING: 'Celebrities' cite Trump re-election victory in their move out of the US.

Move please, and take your bubble with you.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP. The FCC will vote on requiring that federal subsidies flow only to people that are both living and lawful beneficiaries.

DON'T WATCH MY MOVIES: Don't worry, I haven't and won't in the future.

Just go away and get a real job.

SCHLICHTER: Say it ain’t so, Ro Khanna.

IT’S HARD TO STRIKE SUCCESSFULLY when you produce nothing of value.

MORE: Democrat slacker mobs schedule another day of protest cosplay.

'MENSTRUAL MUTUAL AID' WORKSHOP for 'non-cis menstruators' hosted by UC Davis LGBTQIA.

The stupidity is overwhelming.

THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE HE IS: Mamdani shovels snow like a communist.

ARE WE IN THE LATTER? "Some decades nothing happens, and some weeks decades happen."

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS HAD ONE JOB FOR 2026 - not look crazy. And they failed.

HE GAVE THE DOG 3 SECONDS to voluntarily leave his house.

More: Catman.

CONSERVATIVE OUTLETS NOT MENTIONED: The worst news outlet of the week.

I wonder why....

HEH: "The New York Times is basically a game and cooking app, with occasional detours into the news when I want to feel enraged about something."

CAPITALISM WORKS: No one is in charge.

[VIP] EDUCATION DEPARTMENT CELEBRATES SCHOOL CHOICE while Leftists dumb down standards.

PAM BONDI, ARE YOU LISTENING? Of squids, ink, and Minnesota's corrupt machine.

TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: don't bring a gun, bring a billboard.

OLD AND BUSTED: 2020’s Summer of Love. The New Coldness? 2025’s Winter of Love!

TRUMP BLASTS LAWSUIT AGAINST WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM: It's 'too late' to stop.

Look at the pictures. That's why I like Trump; he cares about detail. And that attention to detail extends to his philosophy of government.

TRUMP'S PENGUIN BREAKS THE INTERNET — and sends the Left into a frenzy. The viral penguin meme is symbol of rebellion against secular modernity and Western decline.

PR FALLOUT OF THE SECOND ICE FATALITY: This one is so much worse. And bloodier days may be coming.

MY FAVORITE from PowerLine's Week in Pictures.

Now go see the rest.

WHAT SHE SAID: Meme account drops jokes for a straight fire post about leftists and immigrants.

INSTAPUNDIT ASKS "Is this an insurrection yet?" It should be. If the rioters want a fight, it should be with armed and trained military units.

THE DRUNK REPUBLICAN was right.

MINNESOTA CHAOS: Getting neurotic and angry people to give their lives to cover your billion-dollar fraud.

NINE BUREAUCRACIES WALK INTO YOUR BROWSER AND ASK FOR ID: A global coalition of regulators is quietly turning the open web into a gated community where every login begins with an ID check.

STILL WAITING FOR ARMEGEDDON. It's been rescheduled for next week.

REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE STEVE HILTON: Newsom is 'useless at being Governor'.

I think 'dangerous' is a better descriptor.

HARD TO BELIEVE but things are actually worse now in Seattle than during the COVID lockdowns.

SOMALI-BORN ACTIVIST AYAAN HIRSI ALI said "Trump is right."

And so is she.

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY [DHS] reports massive surge in website traffic as millions of illegals choose to self-deport.

I suspect these are the ones who want to come back legally. If so, we should welcome them back.

[VIP] KURT SCHLICHTER: being emotionally incontinent does not help.

Stay calm, and stay in for the long haul. Celebrate then.

MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY has become the aggresively obnoxious panderer-in-chief of the city that elected him.

JAMES CARVILLE explains the Democrats.

There's one sensible Democrat left....

CAPITALS PLAYERS BUCK LEAGUE PRESSURE, refuse to use LGBT pride tape on their hockey sticks.

With that in mind, I watched both the college National Championship game and NFL football playoff games the last two weeks. I came away mostly disgusted. I had the misfortune of tuning in the the college championship game during the opening ceremonies (flag, color guard, National Anthem, etc.) and saw nothing more than an attitude of "we gotta do this, so let's get it over with as soon as possible" on the part of the participants and crowd. I try not to partake of the opening ceremonies as NFL games (usually missing the first few minutes of the first quarter) and was annoyed in all six games by the woke signage on the fields, behind the goalposts, and on the backs of players' helmets.

It's football dammit, not wokeball. When the next season rolls around, I'm not sure I'll be watching....

In the meantime, hockey is looking good.

EUROPE DOING WHAT EUROPE DOES BEST: posture.

MAJOR POPEYES FRANCHISEE with over 130 locations files for bankruptcy. The comments are mostly not kind....

GOOD RIDDANCE: 'Avatar' director flees America for 'sane' New Zealand after [COVID-19] pandemic response.

I'll believe him if he gave up his U.S. citizenship and stays there.

THE BEER-SWILLING CURMUDGEONS have a pretty good track record.

Click on the link to read the whole post.

RANDOM THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The world has gone full batshit crazy.

CAN YOU FEEL THE EXCITEMENT? Kamala is back and in the lead!

AND A LOT LESS 'A': The AI race needs a little more ‘I’ in it.

DAVOS: The condensed version.

HOT AIR: Virginia's 'make fraud legal' bill.

Thank goodness we're long gone....

DEMOCRATS hate humans.

STOP PRETENDING that colleges are nonprofit institutions. And stop pretending they are educational institutions.

FROM X [FORMERLY TWITTER]: Make this make sense.

ACCORDING TO HOYT: Memes dropping. My favorite:

Now go see the rest. They're good.

I PREDICT THIS WILL BACKFIRE ON THEM: DHS says anti-ICE agitators 'going after the dogs' following Minneapolis kennel incident.

DESTROY IS WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS COMMUNISTS DO: Mamdani’s rent czar wants to destroy the private housing market.

The Mamdani administration is hellbent on implementing the dictatorship of the proletariat idiots but I corrected it.

THANK GOD WE LEFT EARLY: Top 5 craziest things [Abigail] Spanberger and the Democrats are now trying to do in Virginia.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES just crossed the Rubicon.

SHOT:

To all members of the Trump administration the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice.

CHASER:

You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. And the Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.

Read it all.

PENTAGON LEAKER charged with possessing classified documents on the Venezuela raid.

When I worked at Lockheed Martin some 30 years ago, one of our employees was escorted from the facility tout suite for a rules transgression not involving classified data. That's the way it used to work and should again.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? I choose option one.

[FUTURE SOMALI CITIZEN] ILHAN OMAR curses about United States in speech at Democratic hearing.

MAYBE TRUMP SHOULD PRE-DATE BLANKET PARDONS and tell the Democrats to get stuffed.

Just tell them to get stuffed. The pardons, if needed, can come later.

BIDEN-APPOINTED JUDGE [TRIES TO] NEUTER ICE — you can't use non-lethal weapons or arrest 'peaceful' agitators.

So we can use lethal means?

MINNESOTA'S STATE BIRD used to be a loon; now it's the screaming lesbian....

ONCE AGAIN, Michelle Obama proves herself to be an insufferable racist.

ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS A SURPRISE? Newly revealed filings reveal NEA [National Education Association] bankrolled far-left activist groups.

FAFO: AN ANTI-ICE ACTIVIST TRIED INTERFERING WITH AN ARREST IN CALIFORNIA. Guess what happened next.

WHY CAN'T DEMOCRATS speak frankly about Iran?

I note Instapundit has come around to the view attributed to Gen. Curtis LeMay: "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." It's one I share.

HUMOR FROM UNITED EARTH'S NEWS OF RECORD: "New Starfleet vessel unable to reach warp speed because the crew is too fat."

Here's why.

Linked from this Instapundit post.

[update] I almost watched Starfleet Academy so you don't have to.

WHO’S FUNDING the domestic terrorist and insurrectionary groups in the US?

My wife brings up Soros all the time. She's right.

IMPRIMIS: The dangers of undermining U.S. civil–military relations.

THE NONPROFIT POLITICAL SCAM:

One of the worst-kept secrets in DC is the fact that “non-profit” doesn’t mean non-partisan, and there are a lot of people making some pretty big profits from these “charities.” As tax season gears up, remember there are major organizations and corporations that laugh at April 15th…and you.

Tax them. And don't fund them.

AND I EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN SOON: Yes, Trump would be totally justified if he invokes the Insurrection Act.

THE REAL AI RISK ISN’T INTELLIGENCE; it’s abdication of responsibility.

That's the real problem with artificial intelligence; the smarter faster it gets, the lazier dumber its human user gets.

AS I'VE LONG EXPECTED. Minneapolis ICE protester: "We have to show up with guns and end this."

I would simply suggest to those on the progressive side of the aisle that we also have guns, ammunition, and in non-urban areas, plenty of practice shooting rodents.

[update & bump to top] ATF data shows the number of guns in Americans’ hands now tops half a billion. Is whose hands are most of them?

THE TIMES, they are a changin'.

THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE. The woke billionaires and Democrat-loving corporations are on their own.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: "Federal Agent Shoots Immigrant in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Says." That's how The New York Times framed the ICE ambush in Minneapolis last night.

Now read the whole thing.

LEFTIST WOMAN TRIES DOXXING ICE AGENT, loses her job as a result.

Linked from Instapundit.

HOW THE DEMOCRATS LOST THEIR MANHOOD: "Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice."

Democrats chose poorly.

SUPERVILLIAN OR SUPERHERO? For the Cuban regime, he's a supervillain — but in the U.S.?

SEN. MARK KELLY [D-AZ] sues Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over censure.

Personally I think it's a tempest in a teapot that should be dismissed, but with one caveat: make sure Kelly pays his own way.

JUST SAYIN': There has never been a hurricane in the Gulf of America.

Without graft and corruption there's no need for hurricanes....

STUPIDITY, NARCISSISM, AND AN OVERWEENING DESIRE FOR CONTROL? Why are so many Leftists such trash?

WHO KNEW? Seattle order to stop drug arrests ‘creating havoc’ for people fending off addicts surviving on theft.

LIMIT SIX FLUSHES PER DAY: Conditioning you for socialism.

WHAT HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH? Democrat bill would force teachers to label Jan 6 a 'violent attack' when teaching to students.

Or more precisely, honest speech.

POWERLINE: The mire this time.

[Just updated] The person who stole a weapon from an ice vehicle is a criminal illegal alien. He has been arrested and is in custody.

MINNESOTA AS A SYSTEMS FAILURE: How NGOs process dissent until reality no longer matters.

It's time to defund NGOs.

DETAILS MATTER: A detailed explanation of a Leftist activist's attempted murder.

HUBRIS COMBINED WITH INCOMPETENCE: Congress has two dozen lawmakers 80 or older; more than half seeking re-election in 2026.

WHY BOMB CANADA? Trump knows a thing or two about real estate deals, right?

RANDOM THOUGHT ON TAX SEASON: Monday, January 26 is the start of the 2026 tax filing season.

It's damned near impossible to file a paper return any more. I doubt it'll be long before we'll getting our paychecks from IRS.gov with all the overhead, taxes, fees, and graft taken out first.

Good luck with whatever's left....

SOME NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS on the recent events in Venezuela.

HMMM: The face of the Somali refugee community.

BUT, BUT ... I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. [Thankfully former president] Bill Clinton defies congressional subpoena.

ANTI-ICE AGITATOR allegedly throws water bottle at agents, finds out it was a seriously bad choice. Watch, and enjoy.

I hope AG Pam Bondi throws the book at him/her/it.

NOT SURPRISED: The Democrat Party is pro-crime, pro-terror, and thoroughly despicable.

RANDOM THOUGHT: the 'D' in Democrat stands for 'demonic'.

YOU DON’T SAY: Minneapolis Ninnyapolis mayor Jacob Frey says ‘everybody could have done more to prevent fraud’ in Minnesota. He (and they, meaning the leadership) failed spectacularly.

WHAT A PITY: 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at age 68.

I was a fairly new engineer in the cubicle warrens at Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) when Dilbert came on scene. Many of us were convinced that Adams had to have been a Lockheed employee since the Dilbert cartoons were on point every single day.

Rest in peace, Scott.

HEH: "It takes balls to make such a bold statement."

Linked from PowerLine.

HOT AIR'S Sunday Smiles. My favorite:

Go see the rest.

NOT SATIRE: United Arab Emirates cuts funding for students in the United Kingdom because they may encounter radical Islam.

RANDOM THOUGHT: My life is controlled by cats. Last night I was working late downstairs when Martha came down to inform me that I was late for bed. Today I was working (again downstairs) when Tuxedo came down to inform me that I was an hour late for his dinner.

I LOVE IT. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth moves to censure Sen. Mark Kelly [D-Az].

MADURO'S CAPTURE puts Cuba's Venezuelan oil-dependent economy at risk.

On the other hand, Cuba could make a fortune selling vintage cars.

I could be tempted to buy one but that would be encouraging capitalism....

FAFO: Minnesota hotel that allegedly denied ICE and DHS agents has its sign taken away.

I'm sure Gov. Walz will soon need housing for 'indigent' Somalis....

THE FALL OF MADURO: Why it matters.

ALL SOCIALISM IS THEFT: Escape if/when you can.

AS EXPECTED: Iran regime cuts nationwide internet access as protests claim 44 lives across major cities.

Also as expected.

Update: Apparently Elon Musk has quietly opened free Starlink to Iranian users.

AMERICA'S news of record is posting news again.

Put the Babylon Bee on your must-read list.

YESTERDAY'S BREAKING NEWS: Greenland and Denmark request a special meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

TODAY: Have the negotiations begun? Trump admin reportedly considers paying each Greenland resident up to $100K amid US takeover talks.

Maybe we should move to Greenland. We both like danish rolls for breakfast. The cats, though, are not thrilled with snow....

FROM SARAH HOYT: Maduro capture memes.

Go see the rest.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Progressives have given virtue a bad name.

YOU KNOW THEY'RE LOSING when the mainstream media encourages violence against their competition.

'INDIGENOUS RIGHTS' IN CANADA: The white man's woodpile.

Coming soon to the United States? I think (hope) America is smarter than that....

2025 WAS THE YEAR we found out that UBI (Univeral Basic Income) exists for everyone in America except employed taxpayers.

WHY BOMB CANADA when President Trump knows a thing or two about real estate deals?

ENTITLEMENT: Rep. Jasmine Crockett [D-TX] unleashes profanity at Supreme Court after losing Texas district.

How dare you take my district away....

FROM POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, the warmth of collectivism.

Now go see the rest.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: We have become a tax-farm for politicians to enrich themselves and anyone who they can import to vote for them.

Unfortunately so.

I'M SURE NYC DRUG DEALERS WILL BE VERY HAPPY. Mayor Zohran Mamdani slams Trump's capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.

WELL, HE HAS TO SUPPORT HUNTER ... Former President Joe Biden gets largest presidential pension ever.

NOT IF WE'RE SMART: None of us are New Yorkers now.

2025 WAS A PRETTY GOOD YEAR. Here's a wish list for 2026.

THEMSELVES. What do Democrats prioritize?

THEY ALWAYS, ALWAYS ... ALWAYS threaten violence.

NONPROFITS DON'T DESERVE TRUST; they earn it.

Replace 'earn' by 'burn' and the lede would be accurate....

RANDOM THOUGHT on the 'warmth of collectivism' from Heinlein's Starship Troopers> (1959):

Mmmm .... ever see sheep huddle together in a snowstorm?

Try it.

I don't recommend it as a way to sleep; you are either in the outer layer, frozen on one side and trying to worm your way inside, or you are inside, fairly warm but with everybody else trying to shove his elbows, feet and halitosis on you. You migrate from one condition to the other all night long in a sort of Brownian movement, never quite waking up and never really sound asleep. All this makes a night about a hundred years long.

Keep in mind that NYC is looking forward to enjoying 1,461 nights of the 'warmth of collectivism'....

AUDACIOUS COLLECTIVISM: That’s the Mamdani agenda to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

THE OBAMA LIBRARY CENTER is about to be graced by these words of wisdom by the Lightbringer:

You are America. Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be. For everywhere in this country, there are first steps to be taken, there is new ground to cover, there are more bridges to be crossed. America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word “we.” “We The People.” “We Shall Overcome.” “Yes We Can.” That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone. Oh, what a glorious task we are given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours.

I call BS.

TRUMP-kENNEDY CENTER offers entertainers another dose of FAFO.

CONTROL. Control, control! What do Democrats prioritize?

WINNING: Corporation for Public Broadcasting board votes to dissolve organization after Congress defunds NPR and PBS.

FORMER PROFESSOR JAMES HANKINS slams Harvard's leftward shift in departure.

He's correct, and not kind in his departing letter. Read it all.

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR CANDIDATE ERIC SWALWELL threatens to revoke drivers licenses of masked ICE agents operating in California.

I'd vote for a fence post before I'd vote for Smallballs Swalwell if I still lived in California. Which, thankfully, I don't.

[VIP] KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democratic Party has always been a criminal organization.

LOOKING FORWARD TO IT: possibly looking at bi-costal energy price shocks for 2026.

I'm okay with that since I no longer live near either coast....

AFTER RIDING IN ONE IN OUR YELLOWSTONE VACATION, I found them appealing, but are hybrid vehicles death traps?

I'm skeptical....

PRAY FOR HIS RETURN TO GOOD HEALTH: Victor Davis Hanson to undergo major operation.

POOR BABY: Fraud fallout forces Democratic Gov Tim Walz to abandon Minnesota re-election bid.

Incompetence rewarded....

SOME LEFTOVERS FROM 2025:

Enjoy.

MINNESOTA'S SOMALI SCAMS GET WORSE BY THE DAY: Who will pay?

The American taxpayer. No one else.

I'd like to be wrong on this one, but I won't be....

PACIFIC PALISADES FIRE: Plants were more important than people.

NOT YET, BUT I'M HOPEFUL: Can you feel the vibe shift?

ATLAS SHRUGGING? California technology moguls threatening to leave over proposed wealth tax.

MAMDANI’S NEW FIRE CHIEF has never actually, you know, fought fires, but has a big resume item.

And will soon follow LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley out the door after New York City burns down....

Elon Musk comments.