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PAUL KRUGMAN HARDEST HIT: “Once again, the experts were wrong. President Trump did not kill the world economy. In fact, the opposite happened.”

REPORT ON THE OPINIONS OF CRAZY CAT LADIES: Merry Christmas from Amanda Marcotte: Hallmark’s Yule movies are basically Nazi propaganda.

WELL, THAT’S WHAT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS DO: China Will Rewrite the Bible to Fit the ‘Values of Socialism.’

Earlier: The Nazis Fought the Original War on Christmas.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Second Amendment Sanctuary Cities For The Win. “Democrats have finally found a kind of sanctuary city they won’t goo goo over – one that protects the constitutional rights of American citizens instead of one that undermines and breaks the duly-enacted laws passed by the American people’s representatives for the benefit of foreigners who shouldn’t be here in the first place. This kind of civil disobedience is absolutely justified in the face of manifestly unconstitutional threats to the Bill of Rights. The liberals think the Constitution is some sort of cafeteria, where they get to pick and chose the rights they will enforce – usually rights that aren’t even in the Constitution in the first place. But this only works if American citizens go along with it, and they are not going to.”

JUST NBC THE GASLIGHTING: In supposed apology to Richard Jewell, Tom Brokaw revises history. “There are some who may feel compelled this week to give Brokaw an ‘attaboy’ for apologizing to a dead man 23 years after the fact. I am not one of those people.”

Read the whole thing.

THIS IS WEIRD: Nobody cares about freeing Tibet anymore. What could account for the change?

PROFESSOR JACOBSON: Trump As Human Shield: Trump may not be the only thing standing between “us” and the deranged Resistance mob, but he’s one of the things.

Of course, just as law enforcement is there not so much to protect us from the criminals as to protect the criminals from us, the “human shield” thing goes both ways. There are a lot of people in America eager to string politicians from lampposts, and Trump’s presidency makes that less, not more, likely. But the beneficiaries are not equipped to appreciate that.

I MISSED THIS INTERESTING NEWS WHEN IT WAS REPORTED LAST WEEK: Southern Poverty Law Center employees vote to unionize. (More on the SPLC and its history here.)

GOOD ADVICE THAT WILL BE IGNORED: The left needs to drop the woke nonsense: 2019 showed us yet again that wokeness loses elections.

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What the Hell Is Wrong with Nancy Pelosi?

The First Rule of Holes states: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

VodkaPundit’s Second Rule of Holes says: “When your opponent is in a hole, get them a bigger and nicer shovel.”

Whatever Nancy Pelosi is trying to accomplish, it isn’t working. She’s in a hole, she’s digging furiously, and with such dedication to her craptaculent efforts that she wouldn’t even notice me handing her a bigger and nicer shovel.

Dig, Nancy, dig!

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THEY’RE WORRIED: Democratic lawmakers insist Durham resign from Justice Department probe of Russian meddling in U.S. elections. But when your “ethics” charge is led by the likes of Hank Johnson, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Richard “stolen valor” Blumenthal, well . . .

ADVERSARY TECHNOLOGY: Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Think 2019’s Box Office Was Bad? Wait ‘til 2020.

Consider 2019 featured not one but two films capping epic franchises. “Avengers: Endgame” certainly delivered on its promise, both creatively and commercially. The film, tying up loose ends from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), became the highest grossing movie of all time.

It also pleased most fans and critics, a massive win given our fractured age.

Compare that to “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” The just-released film put an exclamation point on a nine-film series that captivated the culture for 42 years.

That kind of film event doesn’t happen every day. It’s a safe bet “Rise of Skywalker,” which generated mediocre reviews, will top $1 billion at the global box office. The movie’s opening weekend earned roughly $44 million less than the debut frame for 2017’s “The Last Jedi”

For a “Star Wars” project it’s still a disappointment.

That’s the kind of “disappointment” any studio wants, of course. Still, 2020 lacks a film with anything approaching that level of pop culture gravitas. In fact, the 2020 lineup generates huge question marks and precious few sure things.

The numbers could get ugly before next Christmas rolls around.

Plus:

If stars dubbed President Trump “Hitler” during his first term, imagine what adjectives they’ll hurl in the heat of campaign season?

Think that will help or hurt the box office? That’s rhetorical.

Get woke…

THAT’S SWEET: UNCC Hero Riley Howell Was Just Immortalized By Lucasfilm As A New Jedi Warrior Character.

SCIENCE! Physicists measured forces behind why Cheerios clump together in your bowl.

DON’T GET COCKY: Why Trump Will Cruise to Victory Next Year.

PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

Today: Nasdaq Hits 9,000 for First Time Ever. “The S&P 500 also posted a fresh all-time high at 3,235.46 in late morning trading while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 77 points, reaching a peak of 28,596.22 before leveling off.”

AND YET, STILL NOT TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING: Pence Chief of Staff: Trump Is Getting Impeached ‘Because He’s Winning.’

CULTURE MATTERS: Geographic Evidence that Gun Deaths are Cultural.

ENDING THE MOST EVIL EMPIRE IN HUMAN HISTORY: A Great Day in History: The End of the Soviet Union.

TYLER O’NEIL: Trump Goes Nuclear on Dem ‘Liars!’ for Deeming Him Security Threat … Then Delaying Impeachment.

RIP: Songwriter Allee Willis, Whose Work Spanned ‘Friends’ And ‘The Color Purple,’ Dies.

Maybe not a household name, but just her work with Earth, Wind & Fire was enough to achieve musical immortality.