The Morning Report — 1/1/24

Good morning, kids. Happy and healthy new year to you all! Over the years, as I've become politically conscious, I've learned to dread election years. Whether it was the Democrat-Leftist propaganda machine sliming our candidates, and then later on discovering the awful truth that "our candidates" were just kabuki-bukkake eunuch frauds, Simon & Garfunkel's lyric about "every way you look at it you lose" went from hippie generation pop tune to emmes truth.

That is, until Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator over eight years ago. Or more accurately, when what I cynically thought at that moment to be a farcical publicity stunt proved over the course of three incredible years to be a pivotal moment of actual hope for revival and reversal of the trajectory that Trump's predecessor – who no doubt still runs the show behind the scenes – had put the nation on. In point of fact, we had always been on that road that took us over a cliff, as my realization about the nature of the GOP I think shows. What Obama did was switch vehicles from a Corvair to a Lamborghini. And then he floored the accelerator.

On the other hand Trump, if not succeeding in throwing it in reverse, was to be the first Republican president to slam on the brakes and put a halt to the insanity. At least temporarily. Of course, Obama and his acolytes and comrades were not going to allow that. He's part and parcel of the counter-American Revolution that took almost a century to rot us out from within and put absolute power in his and his fellow travelers' hands. That was the other eye-opening moment; the in-your-face shredding of even the tiniest modicum of ethics and featly to the rule of law that exposed corruption not only in Congress but in our legal and judicial systems and vast swathes of the soon-to-be-extinct private sector. All because these degenerates crave absolute power.

It's out in the open. Despite the fact that the Left is wearing the rapidly decomposing skin-suit of liberty's defenders, they have no compunction. There is no nakedly criminal, banana republic act, nor red line which they will not cross to destroy our nation, or whatever's left of it, to transform it and wipe out anyone who stands in their way. That means us. Whether or not regular order and elections mean anything anymore, and readers of this column for any length of time over the past several years know that I believe they don't (on the national level anyway), at the very least, you'd think or you'd hope that there'd be an opposition party that is every bit as committed to going to the mattresses, as it were, to fight even a losing battle with the same kind of fury and anger that the Left does when in those increasingly rare occasions they have the shit end of the stick.

Here's just the latest example of having even a tiny bit of hope in that regard is a sucker's bet:

Detransitioner Chloe Cole had some tough words to offer Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine days after he shot down a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors in his state, lambasting his decision for allegedly being “complicit” in the “sterilization and mutilation” of children.

“Parents don’t have a right to abuse their children. This is no different from any form of abuse,” Cole said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “This is the sterilization and mutilation of thousands of children happening within a state that is being entirely complicit in the choice to continue this.”

DeWine, a Republican, vetoed the GOP-backed Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act on Friday, sparking outrage from conservatives who blasted him as a “coward” for his decision. The bill would have banned gender-affirming procedures for minors in the Buckeye State and would have additionally barred transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.

“Were I to sign Substitute House Bill 68 or were Substitute House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that the State, that the government, knows what is best medically for a child rather than the two people who love that child the most, the parents,” DeWine said in his veto message. He additionally cited the “profound” consequences the bill could have on children struggling with gender dysphoria as well as their families and said his decision boiled down to input from parents who believed their children’s lives depended on the treatment they received.

Cole, who formerly took steps to complete a female-to-male transition and has since been among the most outspoken critics against gender-affirming care for minors, claimed DeWine’s veto came just days after she shared her story with him during a Zoom call. . . “He knows just how horrific this is to do to children. His decision to continue this… it’s not just a matter of pure incompetence or ignorance.”

She's right. It's a matter of pure, fucking graft:

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio received thousands of dollars in donations from donors who provided transgender medical services or opposed efforts to ban the procedures for minors.

DeWine vetoed House Bill 68 on Friday, which would have prohibited doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors and banned boys from competing in girls’ sports, just hours before the deadline. A review of donations from 2018 to 2023 found that the governor received $40,300 from the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA), Cincinnati Children’s, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and ProMedica Children’s Hospital, all of whom support transgender medical care.

OCHA donated $10,000 to the Mike DeWine and Jon Husted Transition Fund on Dec. 28, 2018, and another $10,000 on Dec. 7, 2022, according to the report. A transition fund allows candidates to spend donations for “transition activities and inaugural celebrations,” according to Ohio’s campaign finance handbook.

Cincinnati Children’s, an affiliate of OCHA, donated $300 on Dec. 15, 2022, to the fund and ProMedica, another affiliate of OCHA, also donated $10,000 in December 2018, according to the reports. Nationwide Children’s, a third affiliate with OCHA, donated $5,000 in December 2018 and another $5,000 in January 2023 to the transition fund.

It's one thing if this Swifty Lazar-looking stooge truly believed the crap that some flunky wrote for him. That would be bad enough insofar as we're supposed to be the party of sanity and normalcy, opposed to this insanity of equating child mutilation with that of being Rosa Parks, or keeping men who tuck their junk the hell out of girls locker rooms, where their junk magically springs to life.

But Mike DeWine has no principles. He takes payoffs and pretends to be concerned "for the children." Bad enough our election system is at best compromised and at worst rigged in advance for Democrats. But to be saddled with unmitigated scumbags like this guy is just the bitter end.

With that, I welcome you to 2024. If 2020 didn't finish us off completely, this year certainly will which is why I have dreaded it almost since the day Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants was installed almost three years ago. But, as we discussed on the 2023 Year in Review podcast, we can never know the future. Our enemies hold the high ground and then some, but they are not infallible. I sense a change in the mood of the nation in its entirety, even across political lines among reasonable people who have had enough of the past three years and want no more of it.

Elections, rigged elections or no elections, change is coming. Buckle up, kids.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Clarice Feldman: "While it seems unlikely that 2024 will be better than this one has been, there are some reasons for optimism."
  Happy New Year, Anyway
  
• "Goodbye, 2023; Hello, 2024."
  A Reckoning Approaches
  
• "A conversation with Shelby and Eli Steele."
  Race, Innocence, and Power
  
• Roger Kimball: "Benevolence is a curious creature. Its operation tends to be more beneficent the more specific it is."
  The Pitfalls of Benevolence: Unpacking the Toxic Mix of Universal Good Intentions and Political Correctness in the New Year

ISRAEL AT WAR
• "According to the Cumta Telegram channel, which tracks Israel’s Red Alert system, the barrage targeted the cities along the corridor from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, just seconds after 12:00 a.m."
  "Palestinian" Terrorists Ring in New Year 2024 with Rocket Barrage at Israeli Cities
  
• Ynet News: “Advanced weapons include precise missiles, surface to air missiles and air defenses transported mostly via Damascus airport which has come under repeated strikes attributed to Israel.”
  Israel at War: Iran Steps Up Delivery of Advanced Weaponry to Hezbollah Terror Group 
  
• "Israeli-American recounts what it was like entering the battlefield in southern Israel."
  Meet the Chicago Jew Who Dropped Everything to Go Fight Hamas
  
• "Decoupling Israel from the shackles of Washington’s dealers would yield far more peace and
  prosperity."
  Israel’s Opium Addiction
  
• "The Israeli government is considering relocating some Gazans to Latin America. Better late than never?" (Cuba FTW! - jjs)
  What if There’s a Real Solution in Gaza?
  
• "Israel winning its war against Iran’s proxies in the Gaza Strip is an opportunity to implement reforms necessary for reconciliation and long-term peace."
  The Saudi Road to Peace
  
• Robert Spencer: ". . . the international media is far too uncritical when reporting from Palestinian sources. The low opinion that Western leftists generally have of Israel is a direct result of the negative coverage the Jewish state routinely gets in the establishment media, and that coverage depends in large part on what Palestinians tell Western journalists. Whoever Sabreen/Salwa/Manar/Tasnim/Afnan/anonymous really is, she could end up putting more than a few innocent people in danger."
  The Girl With Six Identities
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• "This incident is part of a series of acts of public unrest carried out by pro-"Palestinian" and pro-Hamas [degenerate vermin] in the United States since the start of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict."
  Pro-"Palestinian" Scum Deface Lincoln Memorial with Red Paint
  
• “And they say some of their support comes from Democratic Party insiders and elected officials who have offered their backing behind the scenes, but are avoiding ‘front-facing roles’ . . . ”
  Muslim Leaders Hold an #AbandonBiden Conference in Chicago
  
• Local journalist Jonathan Choe said, "THE BIG ONE: They’re trying to take over the Space Needle. Unless the Mayor and cops publicly come out and say they’re prepared to handle the pro- Hamas activists, this is just another reason to stay away from Seattle on New Year’s Eve. You’ve been warned. #Seattle"
  Pro-Hamas Nazis Vow to Sack Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve
  
• Speaking at the UIC campus during a Muslim Student Association sermon on the Friday following the October 7 massacre, student Sadik Froukh expressed his personal joy over the wholesale slaughter of innocent Israelis — mostly civilians. “Today, I stand here on the pulpit to give a sermon with a smile on my face, although it may not show,” he said. “[I am] standing here with pride, honor, dignity, and happiness with the recent events that have been going on in the past six days, which everybody has heard of.” (Be a real tragedy if his house burned down and he had to put the flames out on the backs of his family - jjs)
  WATCH: University Of Illinois Chicago Student Lauds "Courageous" Hamas for Oct. 7 Massacre: "Brought Pride to Islamic Nation"

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "The numbers are drawn from police crime statistics, which reveal more than 8,590 reported cases of rape and sexual assault by migrants. Over 90 percent of victims of sexual crimes are female."
  REPORT: Over 7,000 German Women Raped or Assaulted by Migrants Since 2015

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "It's long overdue for the good Rabbi to shed himself of his willful blindness."
  Rabbi Shmuley, Meet the Rabidly Jew-Hating "World’s Most Influential Muslim"
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• "The spree continued with the burning of St. Gabriel Catholic Mission in Janvier on December 15th. This was followed by the suspected arson of a Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Beiseker on December 20th."
  4 Canadian Churches Burned Before Christmas

  COLORADO'S DISGUSTING REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM 2024 BALLOT

• Raskin said, “Well, finally, the Supreme Court has developed what they’re describing as a code of ethics. It’s not binding in the sense that they’re not going to anyone else. They could have gone to for example, circuit court justices, so they’re deciding for themselves again whether they’re in violation of their code of ethics.”
  Scumbag Raskin: Clarence Thomas Should Recuse Himself from Trump-14th Amendment Decision
  
• “This is hyper-partisanship on full display. A Secretary of State APPOINTED by legislative Democrats bans President Trump from the 2024 ballot so that she can jockey for position in the 2026 Democrat Primary for Governor. Banana Republic isn’t just a store at the mall,” he said. 
  ‘Raw Partisanship’: Republican Moves to Impeach Maine Secretary of State After Trump Kicked Off Ballot
  
• "Funny how a statue from another century is a sign of hatred that must be smelted, but mimicking the Confederate chicanery of banning their political foe is somehow acceptable."
  Facepalm: Confederate Statues Bad, Confederate Ballot Banning . . . Good?
  
• "The establishment’s attempts to stop Trump by any means available are so blatantly absurd and have only become increasingly so."
  A Nation on the Brink: Ballot Challenges Against Trump Must Be Forcefully Condemned
  
• "Imagine the hubris to literally suspend democracy — actual democracy, not Democracy™ — outside of legitimate authority, as a non-elected technocrat, and then have the audacity to assume the role of put-upon victim while simultaneously basking in the limelight as a #Resistance hero. This is really sick stuff, but sadly a perfect microcosm of the state of affairs in American politics."
  WATCH: Maine Secretary of State Cries About Death Threats

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• The indictment is “unlawful and unconstitutional,” said Trump’s legal team, arguing the district court’s order should be reversed and Smith’s case dismissed because the former president is being subject to a double jeopardy violation.
  Jack Smith Urges Appeals Court To Reject Trump’s Immunity Defense

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "2024 will be a fascinating election year indeed if this nonsense is allowed to stand. But even if SCOTUS strikes it down, how much longer can our country hold together when such ridiculous people already hold so much power? Or, more to the point, when our population places such ridiculous people in power?"
  The New Rules Dictate That Biden Be Struck From the Ballot With the 25th Amendment

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• “We are grateful to the Fairfax police officers who were highly professional and supportive in responding to this harassment.”
  George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley Swatted at His Virginia Home
  
• "A petition campaign against ACA7, an underhanded bill to repeal the state’s equality-supporting Proposition 209 based on The Science™."
  The Fight to Stop California Politicians from Enshrining Racism in State’s Constitution
  
• “The FBI Headquarters should not be moved to a far away location, but should stay right where it is, in a new and spectacular building … They should be involved in bringing back D.C., not running away from it…”
  Trump Influencers Hardest Hit After He Calls for ‘New and Spectacular’ FBI Building in Washington, D.C.
  
• "According to him, much of the backlash emerged from the stereotype that 'Black people can’t manage money.'”
  The Loser of the Year: Ibram X. "Krement" Kendi
  
• "Forget whatever you think about former president and current GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. This isn’t about him, even though Kinzinger is obsessed with him. No, this is about Kinzinger believing he is the arbiter of which people are truly or not followers of the Christian faith."
  Asshole Adam Kinzinger Bashes Christian Trump Supporters: "You Don't Understand Your Own Religion"
  
• "One of the ways in which our liberal friends advertise their virtue is their support of the global 'decolonization' movement."
  How to Understand the Woke Colonization Project
  
• "The struggle comes down to the question of authority."
  2024: Freedom or Tyranny?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• “The FCC is dishonestly claiming that it is promoting equity and fairness. However, the FCC is just seizing control over business decisions, funneling resources to politically preferred constituencies.”
  Biden’s FCC is Adopting New ‘Diversity’ Rules to Take Control of the Internet
  
• "“Woke are always scared of the truth. The standard you probably violated was ‘telling the truth.’ They have to punish that” . . . “Trying to protect children from getting abused goes against Facebook’s standards. Mark Zuckerberg has never had morals.”
  "Censorship Is Ramping Up": Facebook Suspends Libs of TikTok for "Going Against Community Standards"
  
• "What kind of city do they have over there amid all the bums and poop maps?"
  San Francisco Goes Full Mao, Forces Asian-American Rapper to Issue Groveling Apology for Criticizing Mayor
  
• Robert Spencer: "The establishment media, however, has long since made it clear that it is not at all interested in reporting the facts. The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and all the rest of them are just propaganda arms for the hard left, reflecting whatever view that the political elites want you to hold on any given issue. And so the low number of Republicans in the Syracuse University study is not what’s surprising. What’s surprising is that, amid all the propaganda and misinformation coming from today’s media outlets, there is even one patriotic journalist."
  Number of Journalists Saying They’re Republicans Hits Record Low
  
• "Welcome to the dystopian clown show."
  Video: Jean-Pierre’s Best of the Worst of 2023
  
• "The conversation about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) has now passed from the halls of nerdism to the House of Representatives and industry and has landed squarely on America's kitchen table."
  No Man is a Digital Island

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "The lies coming from Biden and the press will come fast and furious in the coming months as the false promises of 'Bidenomics' become more apparent."
  Bidenomics Bogus Will Unravel In 2024

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "When you combine horror stories like this one with: range anxiety that pops up any time the weather isn’t perfect; the lack of charging infrastructure; the unreliability of the infrastructure that does exist; the non-recyclability of the battery materials; the increasing restrictions on charging due to the massive load EVs place on the grid; and all the other significant issues EV makers have yet to address, you see an industry that is almost doomed to failure before it really gets up and running."
  The One Simple Reason Electric Vehicles are Doomed to Fail
  
• "Today’s ‘climate change’ communism is just another iteration of the King Cotton economy."
  Ending the Democrats’ "Plantation World Order"
  
• "Black '47 was not a how-to manual."
  "Dying to Save the Planet," by Clarice Feldman
  
• "The scientific basis of climate change theory is junk science made to seem authoritative by dressing it up with lengthy reports based on dubious computer models."
  Junk Climate Science

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “Mexico is very interesting. They came to me—we were having a lot of people come in as soon as I got there, through Obama they were coming in very substantially but nothing like today. In history, there’s been anything like this,” Trump said. “In any country, there’s never been a migration like this. It’s an invasion—and it’s a migration of civilization into our country. Take a look at the mental institutions all throughout the world. They’re empty. Some are literally empty and some are down 50, 60, 70 percent. They’re all here.”
  Donald Trump: Biden Allowing "Invasion" at Border, a "Migration of Civilization into Our Country"
  
• “And, frankly, the strategy that these red state governors have had of sending a lot of these migrants up to blue states has worked from a political perspective.”
  XiNN Woefully Notes That GOP Govs Busing Illegal Immigrants to Democrat-Run Cities "Has Worked From a Political Perspective"
  
• "With more than 20,000 migrants arriving in Chicago since last year, Johnson has sounded the alarm about the struggle to take care of so many people as have mayors in other big cities such as New York and Washington, D.C." (When you have zero excuses, zero defense and zero shame, just cry "racism!" - jjs)
  Marxist, Incompetent Chicago Mayor Claims Texas Governor Clinging to "Vestiges" of Confederacy With Migrant Transports
  
• "What chance will Joe Biden’s millions of illegal immigrants have in this country?"
  The Center’s Not Holding. What Center?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Federal prosecutors said on Friday that they will not hold a second trial against Bankman-Fried, claiming there was a public interest in a resolution to the Bankman-Fried case."
  Justice Department Covering for "Deep State" by Not Charging Gargantuan Leftwing Dem Donor Sam "Bank-Fraud" Bankman-Fried
  
• "He had the right progressive politics, but now people are afraid to go out on the street."
  Will the Pendulum Shift Against Gascon in California?
  
• "Unless punishment ensues, thieves will keep stealing goods and praying that they don’t stumble across Rober’s latest retaliatory invention."
  ‘GlitterBomb’ Creator Mark Rober Is Doing More To Foil Crime Than Democrat Cities Like San Francisco

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Judge Stephen Locher, appointed by President Joe Biden, ruled that an Iowa law, approved by Republican Governor Kim Reynolds earlier this year, was “unreasonable” and “puritanical.” The judge did allow a provision in the law that required schools to tell parents if a child was using pronouns different to the child’s biological sex. 
  Judge Blocks Iowa Law Keeping Sexually Explicit Books Out of Schools
  
• "Cultivating a new breed of moral intellectual."
  Re-Envisioning the University

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• The admission is stunning given the warnings from anti-lockdown advocates during the [Fauci-ChiCom] COVID-19 pandemic, and the claims from NIH officials and others that they were simply “following the science,” and that those worried about knock-on effects were conspiracy theorists or death-mongers.
  WATCH: Fauci’s COVID Boss, NIH Chief Francis Collins, Confesses Lockdown Damage Was "Another Mistake We Made"
  
• "In this particular case, the mass, which did not appear infected, was 3 cm in diameter. Doctors confirmed it as pilomatrixoma upon its surgical removal. The researchers noted that the tumor did not recur after surgery."
  REPORT: [Fauci-ChiCom] COVID Vax Caused Tumor in 65-Year-Old
  
• ". . . the public — even in left-wing California — has become deeply suspicious of mask mandates, not least because the politicians who impose them are often the first to flout them." (Call me when even Lefties tell their own leaders to get fucked and defy the edicts - jjs)
  Pandemic Forever: L.A. County Reinstates Health Care Facility Mask Mandate

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Amid frequent mass shootings across the United States, left-wing activist groups and Democrats have sought to pass legislation that would restrict the availability of guns to persons by imposing administrative requirements to own them, such as background checks. Many of these were opposed by Republicans and conservative activist groups through litigation, with those measures being as follows."
  Day-Ending-in-Y Dept.: Democrats Sought Major Curbs on Gun Rights In 2023

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "DeWine vetoed House Bill 68 on Friday, which would have prohibited doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors and banned boys from competing in girls’ sports, just hours before the deadline. A review of donations from 2018 to 2023 found that the governor received $40,300 from the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA), Cincinnati Children’s, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and ProMedica Children’s Hospital, all of whom support transgender medical care."
  GOP Gov Mike DeSwine Who Vetoed Trans Bills Received Over $40,000 From Children’s Hospitals Supporting Sex Change Procedures
  
• According to ABC News, "Clinton's name is also expected to be unsealed in filings surrounding separate efforts by Maxwell and Giuffre to compel Epstein to answer questions." Attorneys for each of the "Does" were allowed to preview the court documents with their clients' names on them and afforded the opportunity to argue for keeping the records sealed. "Clinton's legal team, after reviewing the excerpts, did not lodge any objections to the publication of the documents, according to Preska's order last month," ABC News reported.
  Can You Guess Who Will Be Outed as ‘Doe 36’ in Jeffrey Epstein’s Court Documents?

  POLITICS

• "Proof positive Biden has failed beyond redemption. And no, it’s not due to sinister disinformation plots. Or Russian meddling. The [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] own policies are responsible."
  New Year’s Day Reveals Biden’s 2023 Failures Will Only Get Worse in 2024
  
• "The polling results published over the past few months suggest that Trump is currently the favorite to win next year’s election."
  What’s Behind Biden’s Sliding Poll Numbers?
  
• "A nutty cycle."
  These are the Important Dates to Know for the Jam-Packed Election Year in 2024
  
• "What a bubble the liberal media must live in to think that Biden has never had a brain freeze, taken a fall, or spoken gibberish. Are they really so insulated from reality that they don't realize the reason why the White House has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect Biden from certain mishaps? Apparently so. But when you read between the lines, it's clear that NBC News realizes that whether Biden stays in or drops out, it's a huge gamble for the Democrats because Biden had the audacity to seek a second term when people had been speculating for years he wasn't going to seek reelection in the first place."
  Whoa! NBC News Admits That Biden is a Huge Gamble for the Democrats
  
• "Nikki Haley’s flagrant defiance of the Constitution’s textual prerogative, if allowed to continue, will thrust all that remains of the Framers’ now-enervated handiwork into inexorably aimless waters."
  The Constitution Absolutely Prohibits Nikki Haley From Being President of Vice President
  
• Idan similarly lambasted those who disparaged Israel on college campuses over the Hamas-Israel war. “I want them to see the horror that caused the war on Gaza. The world is shouting ‘Free Palestine’ and it was never about freeing 'Palestine'. This is not about freeing 'Palestine' — killing innocent families and burning them alive. This is not freeing 'Palestine', this is terrorism,” Idan told Israeli media, The Times of Israel reported.
  Dem Congressional Candidate Sarah Idan Running for Adam Schiff-for-Brains' Seat Plans to Be the "Anti-Squad"
  
• Thad McCotter: "Knowing that any advice I offer the Left will be derided and disregarded, I will stick to trying to ameliorate the ulcers and angst my fellow Republican populists will endure in the coming year."
  A New Year’s Resolution for 2024?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "It is the first time that the U.S. military has killed Houthi crews in response to attack on commercial vessels and U.S. ships in the Red Sea since they began in October. There have been at least 23 attacks by the Houthis on commercial vessels since then, with some of them causing damage."
  U.S. Navy Engages in Fight with Houthis, Sinking Three Boats and Killing Crews
  
• "Iran’s mullahs hate us for allowing ourselves to be deceived."
  Reject Iran’s Lies
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• "The Japan Meteorological Agency reported quakes off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures shortly after 4 p.m., one of them with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6. It issued a major tsunami warning for Ishikawa and lower-level tsunami warnings or advisories for the rest of the western coast of the island of Honshu."
  Japan Issues TsunamiWarnings After Series of Powerful Earthquakes, Residents Urged to Flee to High Land
  
• "Tensions between China and Taiwan are increasingly high as the CCP continues to issue threats of forcible takeover with recent reports showing that Xi Jinping has ordered the Chinese military to invade the island nation and attempt to recapture Taiwan by 2027. This is according to Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns."
  CCP Leader Xi Jinping Vows to "Reunify" Taiwan with Mainland Chine in Year-End Address
  
• "The PRC has adopted a sustained coercive campaign against the Philippines to seize its sovereign territory. The world is witnessing this aggression today in the South China Sea."
  The PRC’s Aggression Is Happening Now Against the Philippines
  
• Hungary is the last place – certainly in Europe – where people can speak their minds. A country still led by elected politicians, not ruled by a bureaucratic deep state. The rest of the continent has sunk into a swamp of harmful self-deception and tragic lies. Obviously, Hungary alone cannot pull our civilization out of the “neoliberal global order’s” swamp of despair. The key is an international alliance of national forces, that should form the basis of the Right’s resilience. (Not "last" but for sure one of the few if not only - jjs)
  This Country Knows How To Stop The Woke Mind Virus
  
• "The Monroe Doctrine is the blueprint for returning to a realistic grand strategy that can preserve American liberty from threats foreign and domestic."
  200 Years Later, the Monroe Doctrine is Still the Best Protector of U.S. Interests
  
• "The United States must set a clear timeline for Europe to assume the burdens of its own defense." (And pay us back a couple trillion for the past 75 years we floated their asses - jjs)
  The Path to a "Dormant NATO"
  
• "Cuba is withering today but the communists still have the guns and the tanks to keep everybody in line."
  65 Years of Communism and Destruction

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "The outbreak of a hot war in Ukraine in February 2022 commenced as a highly mobile one, with attempts by Russian forces to take the capital Kyiv reaching the outskirts of the city in a matter of hours. This in turn was pushed back rapidly, along with fresh territorial gains by Russia in the East cancelled out by a Ukrainian counterattack from Kharkiv by May 2022."
  In 2023, WWI-Style Trench Warfare Came Back to Europe in Ukraine

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "States like California, Michigan, Illinois, Washington and Colorado are enacting laws pushing LGBTQ issues on their residents, as well as various restrictions to residents’ behavior that attempt to limit emissions or damage to the environment. Blue states are also targeting gun rights and expanding protections for illegal aliens."
  Blue States Prepare to Enact Slew of Left-Wing Laws in 2024

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "The patient is in critical condition and cannot be expected to survive."
  A Health Care Checkup on Justin Castreau-cescu's Canada
  
• "There are some common-sense limitations we need to put on the industry."
  It’s Time to Debunk the Marijuana Myth

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: "I repeat my prediction from November: No launch until March, at the earliest. The federal government continues to stand in the way of progress, and freedom."
  SpaceX successfully completes static fire tests of both Superheavy and Starship
  
• "This is a barter deal, with no exchange of money."
  Russia and NASA agree to extend ISS astronaut exchanges on each other’s spacecraft through 2025

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• “They must meet certain criteria, including declaring their new gender identity, completing gender reassignment surgery and regular hormone testing.”
  USA Boxing to Allow Transgender Women (aka Men) to Box Against Actual Women

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Robert Zimmerman: "If this interpretation is accepted in any way by the Biden [junta], it will give all American Indian tribes the legal power to claim as their own every single square inch of the entire United States, by simply claiming they worship the Earth itself."
  Navaho Indians Attempt to Claim Ownership of the Moon, Delay Vulcan Launch
  
• Christian Toto: "Neal Brennan shares 'disaffected liberal' status, slams progressive purity tests."
  ‘Chappelle Co-Creator: Doing Show Today Would Be "Pain in the Ass"
  
• Robert Spencer: "What exactly do our contemporary public buildings reflect?"
  Remember When Public Buildings Were Beautiful?

  HITHER & YON

• "Johnny Carson was a longtime fan of Greene. The comedian made 40 appearances on The Tonight Show, on which he also served as a guest host. He also appeared on The Merv Griffin Show, where he also guest-hosted."
  Shecky Greene Dies: Legendary Las Vegas Comedian Was 97
  
• "Yarborough achieved 83 victories throughout his 31-year racing career, including three consecutive Cup Series titles in 1976, 1977 and 1978, as well as four Daytona 500 wins in 1968, 1977, 1983 and 1984, the outlet reported."
  NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough Dies at 84
  
• Roger Kimball: "Benevolence is a curious creature. Its operation tends to be more beneficent the more specific it is."
  The Pitfalls of Benevolence: Unpacking the Toxic Mix of Universal Good Intentions and Political Correctness in the New Year

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