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'....