ANALYSIS: TRUE. Stephen Miller: ‘Deep vein of anti-Semitism running through Democratic Party.’ As with Labour, it’s become increasingly obvious and unhinged. Say, where are we on that whole it’s-okay-to-punch-Nazis thing now?

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Comey or ‘Corney’? Stalking a Half-Popped Kernel of a Deep-State Kerning Conspiracy.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACTIVISTS WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Buttigieg Peddling Fake Poll Showing His “Popularity” In His Failed City.

Buttigieg commissioned a poll of his own supporters and found that they support him. Good thing the media is reporting this important news.

Why commission a poll of the 15% of voters, 8 out of 10 of whom voted for you? Because you’re trying to fake support that doesn’t exist.

When a tiny fraction of voters and residents actually voted for you, that suggests there’s a problem. And South Bend is one big heaving mass of problems.

Evergreen:

GRINCH: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo blocks some federal judges from officiating at weddings — because they might be Trump nominees.

VIRGINIA: Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment.

THE HITS KEEP COMING: Ira Stoll: Economy Eclipses Foreign Affairs As Trump Triumph.

The real explanation, though, has to do with Mr. Trump himself, and the way he looks at the world. The President doesn’t see the current national security landscape as particularly threatening to America, at least in comparison to the Cold War. The countries that others see as threats — Iran, North Korea — Mr. Trump kind of shrugs off, figuring that if he wants to, he could nuke them. One may disagree with that assessment, but that is how Mr. Trump sees it.

Mr. Trump does see the world, and the current challenges and opportunities for America, more in economic terms. Perhaps it’s the result of a career that Mr. Trump spent trying to accumulate wealth and work his way up the Forbes magazine rich list, but Mr. Trump sees the world in terms of which country gets the most money. That explains all the time spent on negotiating trade agreements with Canada, Mexico, China, and Europe. Economic warfare, the President understands. He doesn’t just understand it, he cares about winning at it.

Which is a change.

GRINCHES: Columbia University Faces Second Recent Complaint Alleging Antisemitic Discrimination.

ALL RIGHT, CENTER OF A NEUTRON STAR IT IS, THEN: Study Finds Almost 40 Percent of People in Eight European Nations Would Like to Live “in a World Where Chemical Substances Don’t Exist.” “Such scientific ignorance is common in the US as well, and can have a harmful influence on government policy.” Ya think?

AMERICAN THINKER: Fisa Court Committed a Fraud upon America. “Imprisonment and/or disbarment for the lot of them is required. After that, abolish the FISA court itself. It is an unelected fourth branch of government with no real accountability. We have sacrificed our liberty for its bogus promise of security, putting our democracy at risk. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we see that happening before our very eyes.”

QUIETLY? Is Iran Quietly Infiltrating Congress Through Democrats Like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib?

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

TYLER O’NEIL: The Atheist Attack on Hanukkah Exposes the Modern Threats to Religious Freedom.

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MEDIA WARS: VICE News: Breitbart Facebook Page Beats NYT, WSJ, USA Today, WaPo Combined.

WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO KNOXVILLE AS A KID, there were still enough farmers in Knox County that the local paper warned regularly about silo gas. Now, not so much. In fact, I wonder how many people there are there who even know what silo gas is. But it’s still a thing.

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

Tonight: Stocks kick off Christmas week with record highs.

Merry Christmas!

OPEN THREAD: The goose is getting fat.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Won’t Let All Judges Officiate Weddings Because Some Were Trump-Appointed.

THE NYT UPDATES THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Discouraging bums from loitering on your property is now “hostile architecture.” The various measures that the NYT decries are made necessary by the collapse in standards for public behavior in public spaces.

OLD AND BUSTED: America first.

The New Hotness? Jill Biden Hands Out Christmas Gifts at Mexico Border Camp.

Earlier: Tomorrow’s October Surprise, Today:

“Vice President Biden, I’d like to ask you, three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of explosive economic growth due to oil and gas production,” Tim Alberta said. “As president would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers in the interest transitioning to that greener economy?”

“The answer is yes,” Biden responded.

And even after all that leftist virtue signaling by the Bidens: Obama tells big-money Dem donors to back Warren if she wins nomination: report. “Obama has refused to endorse any candidate in the Democratic primary race, which includes his former Vice President Joe Biden. However, in private meetings, he has talked up Warren and made it clear he views her as a formidable and capable candidate.”

IT’S AN ANSWER AS CLEAR AS DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE: Study Finds Almost 40 Percent of People in Eight European Nations Would Like to Live “in a World Where Chemical Substances Don’t Exist.”

WELL: Hunter Biden Is the Subject of a Criminal Investigation Involving Burisma, Legal Filing Claims.