The Morning Report — 12/23/24

Good morning kids. For those of a certain age, you'll recognize the name of singer Petula Clark and might be able to hum or sing a few bars of her smash 1967 hit "Don't Sleep in the Subway." As I once heard ad-libbed by famed DJ Harry Harrison on the now defunct NYC oldies station WCBS-FM after playing the tune, "You might miss your own mugging!"

Or in this case, your own immolation. Dear Lord!

A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”

The savage killing — which happened at about 7:30 a.m. on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station — shocked commuters, MTA workers and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who said Sunday that the heinous crime “took the life of an innocent New Yorker.” “As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car … and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said at a press conference. Patrolling cops smelled and saw the smoke, then followed it to the flame-covered woman, the commissioner said.  They extinguished the blaze, but the victim died at the scene.

Officials said the 33-year-old suspect came to the US in 2018 from Guatemala. He was detained by border patrol agents in Arizona in June of that year, sources said. His legal status wasn’t immediately clear Sunday night.

He received a transit summons in May 2023, but his criminal record in New York City was largely clean otherwise, sources said. He was living at a shelter on Randall’s Island at the time of the infraction.

Horrifying video obtained by The Post showed the suspect calmly looking on as flames consumed the still-unidentified woman, who stood inside the open subway car door.

He lit her on fire, he knew he could light her on fire, and no Daniel Penny appeared to save her.

A message was sent with the prosecution of Penny that anyone trying to save people on a subway from psychopaths with fiery murder on their minds would go through the prosecution he did, acquitted or not. That horse has left the barn.

What's more, as the cops slouched by, no one stepped in to try to put out the fire or rescue the victim. One cop bumblingly told the accused murderer, sitting on the subway station bench in order to gloatingly watch the crime, to move along, rather than collar him. He should have known better but didn't, so the alleged perp got away, until a couple of alert high schoolers called in that they saw him on another train. That was much less risk than stopping him, and with all the massive media coverage, the cops got serious about apprehending him, so he was finally picked up. He easily could have gotten away otherwise.

But at the same time this horrific drama was taking place, New York's Gov. Kathy Hochul was out crowing and gaslighting about how much safer she made the subways of New York:

In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day.   Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up.

Meanwhile, just across the East River at almost the same time. . .

The audience at NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” cheered upon hearing the name of Luigi Mangione, the man who is charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City earlier this month.

It happened when “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost began to talk about Mangione being transported back to New York City by authorities after he was captured in Pennsylvania. Jost barely managed to mention Mangione’s name before the audience cheered and he stopped mid-joke to acknowledge the elation in the room.

Ignore the context, that is the disease-ridden sewer from which these words emanate:

“I think the whole country has what I call a low-grade fever,” Warnock said. “You know some mornings you wake up and you just don’t feel really well. You can’t even put your finger on it. We’ve been through four years of COVID. And people — you know, the early years of that, the early months of that, having to shelter in, all the trauma around that. Twenty years of what felt like an endless war, and then demagogues who make — you know, who exploit this moment through exacerbating the fault lines, the cultural fault lines of division in our country. And I think people just feel the full weight and the trauma of all of that.”

The unmitigated gall of this degenerate, savage, criminal vampire to dare state this when it is he, his political party and those who installed him in office (via actual legal votes or in his case, fraudulent ballots) that have utterly trashed this nation for over 200 years in an unslakeable lust for absolute power and control that at its core is the perverted vision of absolute moral superiority and belief not just that God is on your side but indeed that you and yours are Gods and that we are an evil to be eradicated.

And yet, how right he is, only not in the way perhaps he thinks. Cheering cold-blooded murder as well as what the majority of headlines in the links state, indicate how low we as a society and how much of the west has degenerated along with it.

The great Victor Davis Hanson ponders whither America and the World in the wake of Donald Trump's titanic and perhaps miraculous victory last November:

In sum, for the last four years, the world has watched aghast as the United States lost its collective mind and became a radical Jacobin revolutionary society.

So why is there not a sense of almost ecstatic relief, not just among conservatives but even among Democrats, that the years of darkness and madness are ending?

. . . Summed up, the welcomed counterrevolution is one of restoration—to dream again that nothing is impossible, and the dreary age of stasis, envy, cynicism, and nihilism is ending, replaced again by a world without limits. No one knows quite what is ahead, but all know that it is at least better already than the current nightmare.

I wish I could share the good Dr. Hanson's optimism, if indeed he is being optimistic. It's because I know as my dear mother of blessed memory taught me that evil never rests. Sadly, it is part of the human condition. It must be resisted by each of us in our own hearts and minds, and taught to the children lest we allow ourselves to be immolated on a subway car, or after a nightmarish trip in a cattle car in a gas chamber and ultimately to be turned into ashes in the crematoria.

This is where it eventually leads unless we not only pay attention but are willing to risk our own comfort and perhaps security to preserve this little slice of paradise that still in many ways is the last greatest hope for humanity. We, and the relative condition of living in peace and prosperity, faltering as it had in decades past is indeed not the norm. The notion of American exceptionalism is not that we are an exceptional people, but that the nation and society our founders created was intended to be the "exception" to history, which since the beginning of human history, in one form or another were tyrannies that placed the individual citizen at the bottom of a hierarchy that more often than not ground said citizen into the earth for the benefit of kings, tyrants, dictators and czars.

Well, for the first time in many many years both Christmas and Hanukkah fall on the same day. On that happy note, it is indeed a season and a time to celebrate holidays of salvation and of miracles.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Thad McCotter: Populism’s focus on domestic concerns may be flawed, but history proves globalist ideologies have wrought far greater destruction.
  A Distinction Between Populist Movements and Globalist Ideologies
  
• Roger Kimball: Elon Musk’s push for transparency and fiscal responsibility has reshaped the debate over government spending, exposing inefficiency and forcing Congress to answer to the public.
  Musk Derangement Syndrome
  
• “He is a politician,” Putin said of Biden. “And it is always important what is more in you — a politician or a human being. It turned out that Biden is more of a human being. I would not condemn him for this.” He’s not saying that as a complement! He’s saying that Biden is corrupt!
  Putin: Joe Biden Is Corrupt, Unpresidential… and Less Honorable than Stalin!
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Eagerness to get rid of the current nightmare is pervasive.
  Are the Years of Madness Ending?
  
• They break everything on their way out.
  Democrats Don’t Transfer Power Peacefully

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
• "We are obliged to respect the provisions of the International Criminal Court," Władysław Bartoszewski, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, told Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Friday.
  Poland Says It Will Arrest Bibi If Israeli PM Attends Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary
  
• Dozens injured as missile launched from Yemen strikes a children’s playground near Tel Aviv.
  Houthis in Yemen Hit Tel Aviv With Ballistic Missile, Launch Drone Attack

• CENTCOM also said the incident did not result from enemy fire. The incident followed precision airstrikes that CENTCOM said its forces carried out Saturday against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility run by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana’a, Yemen.
  US Navy Shoots Down Own Fighter Jet With Guided Missile, Forces Pilots To Eject Over Red Sea
  
• The new South African ambassador to the U.S., Ebrahim Rasool, told South Africa’s Daily Maverick that the country had to consider its trade interests and therefore had to scale back some of its rhetoric on issues like the war in Gaza.
  South Africa, Anticipating Trump, Backs Away from Anti-Israel ‘Megaphone’
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• A group of federal government employees, dubbed the “federal environment and energy workers for justice in Palestine,” wrote an open letter to the White House, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) published on Medium on Thursday. The anonymous career staffers are demanding that the junta disburse all designated federal funds to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and end collaboration with Israel.
  Lame Duck Biden junta Faces Mounting Pressure To Shower Anti-Israel, Anti-Cop Nonprofit With Taxpayer Cash

  ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"

• The United States military has announced the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Yusif, who was also known as Mahmud, in Syria. According to U.S. Central Command (Centcom), the airstrike was conducted in an area that, prior to the recent political changes, was under the control of Bashar al-Assad’s government and Russian forces.
  US Airstrike Eliminates Islamic State Leader Abu Yusif in Syria.

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: There’s a sinister method to this madness.
  German Interior Minister: Magdeburg Vehicular Attacker was ‘Obviously Islamophobic’
  
• At least 5 people have died and more than 40 had life threatening injuries.
  Saudi Man Who Mowed Down 200+ People Was Reportedly Mad At Refugee Treatment In Germany
  
• And can you guess what Bangladeshi authorities did?
  Bangladesh: Muslims Raid Over 100 Hindu-Owned Properties, Loot Millions Over Alleged Blasphemy
  
• Iran seeks to have proxies recruit and hire the children because they want a level of plausible deniability. (And Pliable Detonatability! - jjs)
  Iran Reportedly Hiring Children To Carry Out Terror Attacks Against Jews In Europe

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

• "Some mornings you wake up and you just don't feel really well," said Sen. Raphael Warnock. (Warlock, a degenerate, malignant, heathen, criminal slumlord - jjs)
  Democrat Senator Says U.S. Has ‘Low-Grade Fever’
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: Exposing the deep state collaborators.
  Thy Rod and Thy Staff
  
• Ancient Jewish study techniques, if applied to the FBI, would break the leftist groupthink that plagues this too-powerful organization.
  Redeeming The FBI By Forcing Them Out Of Their Intellectual Prison
  
• “I am asking you — pleading with you: stay. Your decision isn’t just about your career, or a single president. It’s part of a larger war, one waged throughout American history, over what the federal government can and should be.” (Fire any insubordinate bureaucrat for cause and confiscate pensions - jjs)
  Politico Oped Urges Federal Workers to Resist Trump from Inside Administration
  
• on Reddit we read about Portland's tolerance crowd going after people's inanimate possessions. Leftist have an intolerant attitude toward inanimate objects that symbolize what they hate. They torch factories, labs, police stations, churches, federal buildings, and places where businesspeople dare sell SUVs. 
  Tesla Owner Is Sent a Uniquely Portland 'Message'

  UHC CEO MURDER

• The Post said that according to corrections officials, the messages included emails, physical letters, and 163 deposits into an account so he could buy commissary items
  Report: ‘Groupies’ Send Love Letters to Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Luigi Mangione in Jail
  
• "You're wooing for justice right?" asked "Weekend Update" anchor Colin Jost.
  ‘SNL’ Audience Cheers For Man Charged With Murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• A Guatemalan migrant has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the police commissioner called “one of the most depraved…
  Guatemalan migrant arrested for setting sleeping NYC subway rider on fire, watching her burn to death: cops (If only Meathead Reiner was there to upstage the victim - jjs)
  
• A truly sickening crime on the New York subway with a cowed public not wanting to step in and stop it.
  No Daniel Pennys: Migrant sets woman on fire in New York subway as cops bumble and Gov. Hochul touts making subway 'safer'

• Daniel Greenfield:Also a monster who raped and murdered an 8 and 9-year-old girl out riding bikes
  Biden Considering Clemency for Mother Emmanuel and Tree of Life Killers

• “…anyone who supports commuting their sentences will and should be painted as soft on crime in campaign ads.”
  Report: Biden Mulling Over Idea of Commuting Sentences of Some Federal Death Row Inmates
  
• Gendarmes, the police force responsible for fighting cyber crimes in France, revealed Thursday that they have seized some 122 computers, 152 smartphones, and 330 other digital media devices containing 375,000 photos and 156,000 videos totaling 217 terabytes of data as it dismantled a large-scale international child pornography operation.
  French Police Arrest 95 in Major International Child Pornography Ring Bust

  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “We’re going to do the job. They’re not going to stop us. They can make it difficult. They can make it less efficient. They can make it dangerous. What they need to understand, and every sanctuary city needs to understand, we can arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a jail,” Homan said.
  Tom Homan Sends Clear Message To ACLU’s ‘Gameplan’ Attempting To Block Trump’s Mass Deportation
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden’s border policies created a humanitarian, economic, and legal crisis that dismantled immigration enforcement and overwhelmed American communities.
  Fixing the Biden Border
  
• The U.S. has lots of leverage for getting such tasks done.
  Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget: Deporting Millions of Criminal Aliens Won’t Be as Hard as the Left Suggests
  
• The crackdown is seen as a significant step against Tren de Aragua, a gang that has infiltrated the U.S. among waves of asylum-seeking migrants since 2022. The gang is known for recruiting within publicly funded migrant shelters and engaging in various criminal activities, including drug, gun, and human trafficking in New York. John Fabbricatore, former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief in Denver, expressed concerns over the gang’s growing influence and its expansion in sanctuary cities.
  Feds Bust Tren de Aragua Gang Hideout in NYC Using GPS Ankle Monitor.

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• The WSJ reports Biden met infrequently with his cabinet, while emails show he interacted ‘countless’ times with his degenerate son’s clients.
  Joe Biden Met With Hunter’s Business Associates More Times Than With His Cabinet

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

• Clarice Feldman: The big story this week is how X (formerly Twitter) worked to dramatically change the American legislative process.
  Trump and Musk Demolish the Obama Hallucinatory Permission Structure
  
• Court records and documents obtained by The Federalist show there’s far more to the story than the Times lets on.
  Court Records Blow Holes In The New York Times’ Latest Anti-Hegseth Smear
  
• These legacy media outlets can't lie to Americans anymore, not because they don't want to but because no one believes it anymore.
  Legacy media is dead—they just don’t know it yet
  
• MAGA must avoid the Tea Party’s fate.
  How the Left Will Defend Its Censorship Regime Against Trump
  
• Lesley Stahl and Peggy Nonnan keep digging.
  Lesley Stahl Can’t Figure Out the Decline of Legacy Media
  
• It’s time to scrap the Pulitzer Prize and start issuing the more appropriate Duranty Prize for flagrant attempts to lie to and mislead the public to push a leftist agenda.
  Walter Duranty Would Be Proud Of How The Press Covered For Biden

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

• Climate Defiance took credit for Biden's attacks on oil and gas projects
  Hollywood Elites Bankrolling Environmentalist Group Disrupting Events Across the US, Tax Forms Show
  
• At this time, global warming is about the farthest thing from Americans’ minds.
  A Cold Christmas
  
• NASA seems intent on ignoring the very real possibility that fluctuations in the earth’s magnetic field have anything to do with “today’s climate change.” 
  Real Science and the Earth's Magnietic Field

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• According to a report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, college enrollment in 2023 dropped by 5% from the previous year, suggesting that high school students are beginning to question the value of attending colleges where anti-Semitism and bigotry is promoted and white and Asian students are treated like dirt.
  Enrollment in colleges nationwide dropped 5% in 2024
  
• Daniel Greenfield: What are your tuition dollars buying these days? Well, let’s see. At the University of South Carolina, you can learn all about how “Islamic Magic” can be used both as a weapon against the evil Western world and a remedy for the damage it has done. Yes, this is the kind of thinking that gets formerly ordinary kids joining Antifa and living in pup-tents for Hamas.
  ‘Islam Is Magic; Magic Is Science; Science Is Empire’

• The Panel for Education Policy passes a contract preserving the specialized high schools’ admissions exam.
  A Win for Merit in New York City’s Schools

  ABORTION

• The lawsuit accuses Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, a New York doctor and founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, of illegally supplying abortion drugs to a Collin County woman, in violation of the state’s prohibition against  mailing abortion pills and prescribing drugs through telehealth without holding a valid Texas medical license. 
  Texas Sues New York Doctor for Sending Abortion Pills Across State Lines in First-of-its-Kind Lawsuit

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS

• Catherine Engelbrecht: True the Vote’s bold ten-point plan empowers citizens to safeguard election integrity with innovative reforms that prioritize transparency, security, and liberty.
  Election Reform: The Way Forward and a Call to Action

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• If the only time you come out swinging in defense of funding for childhood cancer research is when you can use it to smear your political opponents and push through pork spending, but you stay silent when your own party sits on the legislation (after Republicans passed it), you’re not the good guy. You’re a hypocrite using sick children as leverage to further your pet projects. DEMOCRATS ARE CANCER - jjs
  Dems Refused To Pass Kids Cancer Research Bill Until They Could Use It To Push 1,500 Pages Of Pork
  
• Granger’s absence spurred questions from her Tarrant County and Parker County, Texas voting base about why she hadn’t voted during the crucial continuing resolution battle.
  GOP Rep Kay Granger Hasn’t Voted In Six Months, Turns Up In Nursing Home
  
• . . .Congress’ dirty little not-so-secret secret is that its main business isn’t the people’s business, and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s getting reelected.  . . There wouldn’t be a need for a DOGE if Congress, and even just conservatives in its lower chamber, had been as dogged and diligent about daily dishing the details about an increasingly omnipresent Nanny State as about their desperate “dialing for dollars.”
  Where Were Conservatives Whining Over The ‘Cramnibus’ The Last, Oh, 27 Years?
  
• The COVID relief money disbursed to Auberge du Soleil corresponds with a 2021 ethics report in which former Speaker Pelosi reported that her family’s income generated from their stake in the hotel jumped from $1 million to $5 million. In most years, Auberge du Soleil has reported losses ranging in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  How a Luxury Hotel Lined Malig-Nancy & Paul Pelosi’s Pockets with COVID Cash.

  POLITICS

• The swamp dwellers are now in a quandary. They desperately need to derail this Trump train.
  The Democrat Trump-Musk Feud Strategy
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Obama is over. What will the Dems do next?
  After Obama

• When 80% of your counties want to secede, it is only a question of time before they secede.
  Oregon and secession

• Host Manu Raju asked, “Do you still consider yourself a Democrat?” Manchin said, “I am not a Democrat. in a form of what? What the Democratic Party has turned itself into the national brand? Absolutely not. And they know that. They’re all good people on both sides.”
  Manchin: Democrat Party Brand ‘Toxic,’ They Have Tried to ‘Mainstream the Extreme’ (Where have you been since 1804, Joe? - jjs)
  
• Since Trump’s first term, Democrats, along with a handful of Republicans, have been vocal critics of the president-elect, with some Democrats refusing to commit to certifying the election results prior to Trump’s win in November. On ABC’s “This Week,” co-host Jonathan Karl questioned the Pennsylvania lawmaker on what he is “most optimistic” about in a second term under Trump, as well as what he fears.
  ‘I’m Not Rooting Against Him’: Fetterman Expresses Hope For Trump’s Presidency

• “After an incredible amount of thought, contemplation, and encouragement from so many, I have decided to remove my name from consideration for the United States Senate,” Lara Trump, 42, said.
  Lara Trump Withdraws Her Name From Consideration For Florida Senate Seat
  
• Biden brought true chaos.
  Biden Promised A Return To Normalcy, Looks Like Trump Will Deliver It
  
• In addition to publishing offers, there is speculation regarding potential interest from streaming services such as Netflix, which is considering producing content related to Harris after her tenure as Vice President. Similar endeavors have been pursued with other political figures, though outcomes vary.
  Kamala Poised for Lucrative Book Deal Despite Landslide Election Loss.
  
• Miranda Devine: The mendacious minders around Biden, including his ambitious wife, were having too much fun abusing the powers of his presidency. They justified their malfeasance by giving the president free rein on his “good days.” Considering Biden in his prime was an incompetent blowhard, dire consequences for America and the world were inevitable.
  Joe Biden has been president-in-name-only since he was inaugurated (Obama in Pagliacci white-face - jjs)

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• The strikes came days after Russia launched sweeping attacks on Ukraine’s already battered energy grid, threatening to plunge thousands of homes into darkness as winter tightens its grip over the region, and as Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor nears the three-year mark.
  Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Russian Fuel Depot for Second Time This Month

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Trump noted that the U.S. was the top user of the canal, with more than 70% of the ships that move through the port “heading to, or from, U.S. ports.”
  Trump: Panama Must Stop ‘Ripping Off’ U.S. Or America Will Take Panama Canal Back

• “[R]eplace a professional universally respected Ambo with an absolute moron – he should stay home! SAD!” LaCivita added, noting that Mandelson previously described President-elect Trump as “a danger to the world and ‘little short of a white nationalist.'”
  Trump Team Unhappy with UK Govt Choosing Epstein-Linked ‘Moron’ as Ambassador to USA.

• New data suggests that at least one in six people arrested in Britain’s anti-mass migration protests and riots earlier this year were children. The riots erupted after three young girls—Alice da Silva Aguiar, age nine, Bebe King, age six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, age seven—were stabbed to death during a dance class in Southport, England, on July 30. Several others were wounded in the attack, allegedly by Axel Rudakubana, born in Wales to African migrant parents.
  Immigration Riots: One in Six Arrested Were Children, Data Reveals.
  
• A Western nation just killed democracy, and no one who is supposed to care about this sort of thing does.
  Romania and the Iranization of the West
  
• Fico arrived in Russia on a “working visit” and met with Putin one-on-one on Sunday evening, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s RIA agency.
  Putin Holds Talks With Slovakia PM Fico in Rare Meeting With EU Leader

  BIDEN/HARRIS AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden apparently kept the grieving families of the Marines who died during the botched U.S.-Afghanistan withdrawal so he could take a nap, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.
  Biden Reportedly Napped On Air Force One While Grieving Family Members Waited After Botched Afghan Withdrawal

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The Pentagon’s “China’s Military Power Report” exposes Beijing’s military growth but neglects the PRC’s belligerent ambitions, leaving the U.S. unprepared.
  More Threat Deflation: The Pentagon’s China Study Is the Last Gasp of Biden’s of Neo-Engagement
  
• Can Trump 2.0 deliver the “cyber-safe” America that the past year has shown we desperately need?
  Biden’s CISA Was Largely a Failure: 2024 Cyber Review and 2025 Preview

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Its domestic migration loss since 2020 has been the largest of any state.
  What’s Behind New York’s Population Swings

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Bird-flu cited as the reason for limited supplies. However, experts project shortages will be localized and short-lived.
  Egg Shortages Reported Across the United States as the Holiday Baking Season Begins
  
• Unfortunately, misguided public health policies, driven by misinformed lawmakers, have resulted in unjustified opposition to safer alternatives for nicotine delivery, thereby hindering progress in overcoming smoking addiction.
  Nanny State Nonsense Hinders Smoking Cessation
  
• Despite the decrease in COVID-related deaths, Kochanek said that the virus continues to pose a threat, noting that future trends remain uncertain. In addition to COVID-19, the CDC report outlined the top causes of death in America: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. While death rates fell for nine of the top 10 causes last year, cancer rates saw minimal change.
  U.S. Life Expectancy Surges to Post-Pandemic High.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Not only will these companies provide a better service faster and at less cost than the NASA TDRS satellite constellation, that there are four of them provides redundancy as well as fosters competition.
  NASA awards four companies contracts to provide communications for operations in Earth orbit
  
• Overall the military launched nine satellites of this design, while NOAA launched three. Of these twelve satellites six have now broken apart. We should expect a large percentage of the remaining six to also break up.
  Defunct Pentagon weather satellite breaks up

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

• The docket cited public comment and pending lawsuits for the withdrawal.
  After Public Blowback, Biden Finally Withdraws Insane Title IX Rule About Gender In Schools
  
• If you are a student at a woke university, what’s a girl to do? You go along until the fashions change. 
  Are Liberal Women Suffering From Preference Falsification?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The Public Religion Research Institute’s (PRRI) survey posted on December 13 found that “As the holidays approach … Democratic voters (23%) are nearly five times as likely as Republican voters (5%) to say they will be spending less time with certain family members because of their political views.”
  Survey: Democrats ‘Significantly’ More Likely to Slash Family Time During Holidays over Political Differences
  
• Robert Spencer: ” It seems that “longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Amazon — which bought MGM studios in 2021 — are in an ‘ugly stalemate’ over decisions about the future of the franchise.” If you suspect that this “ugly stalemate” has to be over whether this dashing, upper-crust, womanizing agent for the forces of good is going to be turned into a woke shadow of his former self, you’re right on the money.
  Will This Be the End of Bond — James Bond?
  
• “What it conveys is quite specific: grandeur, beauty, dynamism, and power.”
  A New Deal for Architecture
  
• Christian Toto: Rogan and rebel comic Tim Dillon tee off on diminished Commander in Chief
  Joe Rogan: Biden, Harris Like Last Blockbuster Managers
  
• It looks like people aren’t putting up with intentionally offensive page displays being shoved in between the manger and the menorah this year. Just a few days after the Satanic Temple’s second attempt at erecting a demon goat statue outside the New Hampshire State Capitol was thwarted by vandals - or heroes, depending on how you see it - a group of Minnesota Satanists found themselves facing similar pushback after putting up a similar satanic display at their own state house.
  O Holy Fight: Minnesota Satanic Display OK'd By Tim Walz Gets Destroyed

  HITHER & YON

• Henderson was a 10-time All-Star player, notching up 3,055 hits and 297 home runs with a .279 batting average in his 25-year career starting with the Oakland A’s in 1979 and retiring with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003. He also played for the Yankees, Blue Jays, Mets and Padres, among others. Henderson scored the most career runs in MLB history with 2,295 runs. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.
  Baseball Legend Rickey Henderson Dies At 65
  
• The joltingly novel aspect of “September 5” the film is that, for the sportscasters, it was so new. Over more than five decades, we’ve normalized the inconceivable.
  ‘September 5’ film on 1972 Munich Olympics captures the truth about terrorism

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