THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CODDLE MENTAL CONDITIONS INSTEAD OF TREATING THEM: TSA Agent Who Say’s He’s a Woman Claims ‘Civil Right’ to Grope Women.
December 3, 2025
In Ashburn, the city doesn’t sleep—it twitches.
It grinds men down, chews through their souls, and spits out what’s left with a crooked grin.
Once, Robert Tucker wore a badge polished bright with idealism. Fresh out of the academy, he thought he could make a difference in a city built on vice, velvet lies, and rain-slick corruption. But a decade under the neon hum and coal-smoke skies of Ashburn turned that badge into a paperweight and that hope into bourbon.
Now he’s a private eye working out of a one-room office with a bottle in his drawer, a secretary who files extortion notices under “routine,” and a conscience held together by the rules his dead partner left behind—Fallon’s Rules. Twelve of them. Not one guarantees survival.
The syndicate boss Vincent Crowe owns the city’s shadows, but when Crowe gets in over his head the rot only deepens. Tucker’s caught between crooked judges, dying reporters, and a government experiment that makes the fog itself lethal. Everyone’s selling something in Ashburn—even redemption.
In a city that eats its own, Tucker knows you don’t fight to win. You fight because you’re still breathing.
Rule 13 — a hardboiled descent through smoke, blood, and brass where justice is a rumor, truth burns like cheap whiskey, and the only clean thing left in Ashburn is the rain that never stops falling.
YOU DON’T INVESTIGATE WHAT YOU DON’T WANT TO FIND: Minnesota’s Somali scammers scandal is what happens when officials blindly believe the ‘racism’ grift.
IF YOU HAVE TO ASK … Why we must ban the Muslim Brotherhood.
LABOUR’S ENERGY POLICIES WILL MAKE THAT UNNECESSARY, BUT SOMEBODY SHOULD BLOW OUT THE CANDLE: Will the last Briton to leave please turn out the lights?
MAYBE SHE SHOULD HAVE JUST STUCK TO, Y’KNOW, ACTUAL CRIMINALS: Letitia James’ Lawfare Against Pro-Life Groups Just Crashed and Burned.
GOOD: Make Highways Safe Again: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Announces Crackdown on Trucking Schools.
TODAY’S DATE MUST END IN A ‘Y’: Grinches: Democrats Caught Lying About Melania Trump and Christmas.
DON’T YOU HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS? Would Walter White Still Cook Meth in 2025? Or: How Modern Oncology and Employer Insurance Would Have Ruined the Entire Premise.
MOST US JOB GROWTH IN THE LAST DECADE HAS BEEN UNPRODUCTIVE BUREAUCRACY JOBS: Why Modern Institutions Expand Forever. The internal logic of big, rich institutions that slowly takes over politics, science, and culture.
I SUSPECT A LOT MORE IF YOU COUNT LATE TERM PREGNANCY DEATHS: FDA Review: Covid Vaccine Responsible for Deaths of at Least 10 Children.
STORY THREE OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY CHALLENGE: Star Shepherd. Free, complete short story.
December 2, 2025
ED MORRISSEY: Live Results: Special Election in TN-07!
Earlier, from Glenn in the New York Post: Tennessee vote a GOP warning — damning the left isn’t enough.
UPDATE: Considering how much she hates the city, I’d say both Behn and Nashville dodged a bullet tonight:
Poor Aftyn Behn spent millions in donor dollars trying to leave the city she hates for DC. Shame it didn’t work out for her. https://t.co/tqeUjWqqEC
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) December 3, 2025
I ONLY KNOW HER VIA SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT WE HAVE SOME MUTUAL FRIENDS WITH JANNA ABRAHAM, and her new PreservePress clothing site is now live. Not too late to order for Christmas. Or even Hanukkah.
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
WORST. HITLER. EVER: Ellen DeGeneres Leaving UK to Return to U.S. After Fleeing From Trump.
Former talk show host and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and her “wife” Portia de Rossi have had enough of the United Kingdom and reportedly plan to head back to the good old U.S. of A., just months after fleeing the country to get away from President Donald Trump. However, they claim they’re returning to California to avoid the super-chilly temperatures of the Cotswold region of Britain. In other words, America’s climate beats the dreary atmosphere of the UK, and the celebrity couple miss it so badly they’re willing to put up with a few months of President Trump.
Everybody has a price, right? Apparently, feeling physically uncomfortable is all it takes to make Ellen come crawling back. These folks refuse to commit to their own causes. They show no principles they’re willing to suffer for. Their actions say that rich and famous celebrities often perform for the public on social or political issues they claim to care about so they can look good, but when the rubber meets the road, they fold like a first-time poker player against Kenny Rogers.
DeGeneres has stated she plans to live in the UK until Trump leaves office; however, reports say she’s been telling her friends she wants to come back to Los Angeles for the winter. “She’s been telling friends they are coming home soon because they miss them and can’t take the winters over there, and Portia wants to act again. They will be here for the holidays and longer by the sound of it,” sources told the Daily Mail.
What is causing DeGeneres to dump the Cotswalds? Her attempt to flee the eeeeevil Trump Reich risks becoming a massive quagmire:
Well, according to a “source” who blabbed to the Mail on Sunday, Ellen will soon be heading back to California, and it’s not because the ongoing omnishambles of the entire UK political scene is beginning to make team Trump appear sane. No, Ellen simply, allegedly, cannot face another Cotswolds winter.
I know, bless, poor little Hollywood millionaires, are their tootsies getting cold in their Fendi wellies? Are their self-care saunas not working? Or has their heating bill just arrived? It’s risible, obviously. And yet, speaking from experience it would seem that, to paraphrase the bible, let he who has actually experienced a so-called Cotswolds winter cast the first stone. And I have, and so I won’t.
A Cotswolds winter is essentially the same as an average British winter, but for one key difference. Mud. Mud everywhere. Mud on everything. Mud in the car, mud in the house, mud on the floor, mud on the dogs, mud on the walls (yes, all over the walls!), mud on your clothes, mud on the furniture, mud, mud, mud! Sometimes, in the morning, you step out of the shower, put on some crisp clean clothes, skip down the stairs and take one final reassuring look at yourself in the hall mirror only to find that, somehow, inexplicably, you’re already covered in mud.
And it’s not a generic countryside thing. It’s a Cotswolds thing. The soil here is thin, Jurassic and lime-rich, meaning you add a single raindrop and it becomes lethal brown super glue. Even if you’re lucky enough to make it back indoors relatively unscathed, the tons of ambient mud around you (on the dog, on boots, bags and waterproofs) will soon harden, dry and puff insidiously outwards into a suffocating nano-cloud of silt that transforms your entire abode into post-Vesuvius Pompeii.
Exit quote: “And so my heart goes out to DeGeneres. I feel that she was sold a lie, or that she stared into the celebosphere and thought, ‘Cool. I’ll go to the Cotswolds! It’s full of fabulous people in big houses enjoying stylish soirees in fashionable outfits!’ And what did she get? Mud.”
I’m so old, I can remember when the Stalingrad winter was supposed to trap Hitler, not the communists.
PEOPLE ARE CALLING THE TN-7 RACE FOR MATT VAN EPPS, but Aftyn Behn was in the lead for a while and it’s still closer than it should have been. With her views and history she should be in the single digits.
UPDATE: Tennessee’s 7th District Special Election. “Victory for Behn, a progressive some dubbed the “AOC of Tennessee,” was once unthinkable in a district President Trump won by 22 points just last year. Despite her record of backing controversial policies, including transgender surgeries for minors, defunding the police, and even saying she hates Nashville, the very city she sought to represent, her support surged into the margin of error, leaving a tight race for today’s election. Her near-upset could have flipped a deep-red seat for the first time in more than four decades, validating Democrats’ new strategy and signaling a dark warning for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms.”
Helen and I watched an AppleTV show called Physical, set in the early 1980s. The protagonist’s husband, a lefty Democrat, was running for state Senate and thought he might win because his poll watchers reported a lot of voters in Birkenstocks. Then a whole fleet of buses showed up, full of conservatively dressed Mormons who put his Republican Mormon opponent over the top. Dems have built their turnout apparatus, but the GOP — especially in my rather complacent state — hasn’t built a system to deliver its equivalent of the busloads of Mormons. It needs to get going on that, pronto.
#RESISTANCE:
Northern Ireland Protestants force pro-Palestinians to retreat. Sinn Fein in Belfast thought it was a good idea to fly the Palestinian flag outside City Hall, it has provoked violent scenes.
The flag has been taken down. pic.twitter.com/4nqpTO3Szk
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) December 2, 2025
I ALWAYS EXPECTED THIS: 1st European to fly to the moon will be German.
THANK THE LORD: Virgil Walker delivers the welcome news that Rap/Hip-Hop is dying, if not already dead, at least among guys.
