THE DAILY CHART: A saga of fire and water.

NEPA stands for the National Environmental Policy Act.

LINCOLN BROWN: a story about 'human-caused' fires.

IT AIN'T REPUBLICANS: Which is the authoritarian party?

NEUROSURGEON: BOOZE IS BAD. America: another round, please.

IT'S HARD TO AVOID THE RECORD: What started the Los Angeles firestorms?

EXPLAINING INFLATION in two minutes.

Linked from Instapundit here.

A LONG WINDED WAY OF SAYING 'KAMALA FAILED': Now Leftists say Trump didn't win the popular vote.

CLUELESS: We Democrats lost elections because Americans didn't realize how much we had done.

No, they lost the elections because we did realize how much they had done.

EXPLAINING WHY public education is getting worse and worse.

IT TAKES A LOT OF MONEY to buy elite government incompetence.

MORE: Incompetence pays well among California officials as thousands of homes burn to the ground.

DO SOMETHING, DAMMIT: The most disgraceful scandal in America today.

ANOTHER REASON WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TURNED OUT TO PASTURE -- IN THE SAHARA DESERT (without water): Trump will be criminally sentenced by New York judge on January 10th.

RIDICULOUS: Senator Chris Murphy [D-CT)] says Trump's second term will be an 'oligarchy' in service of Elon Musk.

Murphy, of course, is a long-standing member of the Democrat Dumb party, but I have to wonder if even he's stupid enough to believe that crap.

PJMEDIA'S KEVIN DOWNEY JR revisits his 2024 predictions and looks into his shot glass to see what 2025 will bring.

“DISINFORMATION EXPERTS” are grifters selling snake oil.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: 2025 awaits.

Now go see the rest.

A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR IMPROVING HIGHER EDUCATION: "Five years of manual labor, or working with the public in retail or food service, would do wonders for most academics."

IF ANY IS REALLY NEEDED: Here’s proof that environmentalism doesn't motivate the ‘green energy’ industry.

TURNAROUND IS FAIR PLAY: Eric Swalwell [D-CA] Skates Straight Into Brick Wall in Swipe at Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA].

Kennedy is a great, honorable man, leader, and national treasure. Swalwell, on the other hand, well, in the interests of keeping this piece family-friendly, I'll leave it to readers to debate who and what he is.

Needless to say, it didn't go well for Swalwell.

WARNING: Trump's life is in danger.

I think the lede's a bit over the top, but "without the benefit of hindsight, we mistake aberrations for trends, fads with classics, and anomalies as the new status quo."

Read it all.