I HEAR HE’S ALSO WORRIED ABOUT A TEXT TELLING HIM TO REPORT TO SELECTIVE SERVICE FOR INDUCTION: Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman Draws Ridicule, Sympathy, After Credulous Response to IT Scam.

SECOND TIME LUCKY: Will John James Become Michigan’s First GOP Senator in 20 Years?

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Reza Aslan to Face the Music For Calling Nick Sandmann’s Face ‘Punchable’ In Now-Deleted Tweet.

SURPRISING ABSOLUTELY NO ONE BUT HUNTER, WHO MIGHT NOT REMEMBER THE NIGHT OR EVEN THE WOMAN IN QUESTION: Hunter Biden is ‘biological and legal father’ of child with former stripper, judge rules.

A Biden White House would be a complete circus, but if he’s the nominee the press will push him as the man to restore dignity to the Oval Office.

“JOYLESSLY ACCUSATORY” IS A PRETTY GOOD SUMMARY OF THE DEMS’ 2020 FIELD, TOO: The Left’s ‘joylessly accusatory’ lexicon, explained.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Triggering A Recession Tops The Dems’ Presidential Agendas.

FASTER, PLEASE: New Semiconductor Technologies Driving Down Cost Of Electric Vehicle Batteries.

COVERING CORRUPTION IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOOK. Exclusive: Peter Schweizer book, “Profiles in Corruption,” out Jan. 21.

You can pre-order Profiles in Corruption now, if you like.

BAN ALL THE THINGS: MSU student gov votes to BAN cafeteria trays.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Seem Disappointed That Trump Won’t Bomb Tehran. “If you’re wondering whether I am implying that Democrats wouldn’t care if American troops were in harm’s way if it would help them defeat Trump in November, I am not. I’m saying it outright.”

I’M SURE MR. EPSTEIN WILL BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THAT THERE’S NOTHING TO THIS AND IT’S ALL A BIG . . . OOPS. REPORT: Bill Clinton Caught In Photos On Jeffrey Epstein’s Plane With ‘Sex Slave.’

“ETHICAL CULTURE:” ‘No Zionists’ and ‘No Straights’: Tweets From Teacher Rattle Elite New York City School.

HOW DARE YOU! Greta Thunberg Is a Joke:

Joan of Arc became Veruca Salt.

Ricky Gervais (a lifelong lefty) saw the opportunity at the Golden Globes Sunday when he smacked the audience and the tiny Nordic doom-monger with a classic double punchline: “You know nothing about the real world,” he told a ballroom full of celebrities. “Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.” BBC Scotland ran a skit in which comics playing Thunberg’s parents talk about all of the fun they’ve been having while she’s been away and blanch when she returns. When the BBC starts making fun of Greta Thunberg, it’s like L’Osservatore Romano satirizing the pope.

Meanwhile, Thunberg has become shorthand for environmentally based vapidity, which becomes all the funnier the more clueless earnestness with which it is delivered. After fashion designer Stella McCartney presented Joaquin Phoenix as the new world champion of climate-change activism for committing to (top this!) wearing only one tuxedo during Hollywood awards season, the deluge of mockery that followed on Twitter included lots of collateral comic damage to Thunberg. Personal favorite: the British man who replied, “f*** me. I wore the same undercrackers for over a month before I got some new ones for crimbo [Christmas]. I’m basically a sexy, bald, bloody Greta Thunberg.”

Read the whole thing. As Steve Hayward of Power Line noted a month ago:

The media is so self-unaware that it cannot conceive that the whole St. Greta phenomenon represents the nadir of the climate crusade. After all, if a Nobel Prize and Academy Award for Al Gore didn’t do the trick, what makes anyone think a 16-year old Swedish girl will cause everyone to sit up and say, “Well, I guess I better buy a Prius now!”

I’m still awaiting a media story that discloses the massive and organized PR operation behind St. Greta. You don’t really think she emerged spontaneously? Who pays for the travel of her retinue, for her hotel rooms and meals, and organizing the public events and other moveable feasts where she appears? I suspect she and her parents (reportedly leftist artists and actors of one kind or another) are banking some nice coin on this whole scene.

But afterwards, Mascots of the Anointed have a rough go of it, when their freshness date expires.

UKRAINE AIRLINER CRASH: What we know so far about the victims and how it happened. “Ukraine and Iran have agreed to jointly investigate what happened to the Boeing 737-800 plane, but Iran said it would not give the black boxes to Boeing or U.S. aviation authorities. ”

If they still won’t turn over the black box, then they’re hindering the investigation, not joining it.

HE’S HAD A GOOD WEEK, FROM IRAN TO THE GOLDEN GLOBES: GOP senator: ‘Trump’s stock level is at an all-time high.’

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING, AND I’D BE LAUGHING HARDER EXCEPT I ALREADY DIED FROM NET NEUTRALITY’S REPEAL: Michael Goodwin: The Chicken Littles got everything wrong on Trump and Iran. “If you went to bed early Tuesday, you were surprised to wake up Wednesday and learn that World War III has been delayed. No doubt you were also shocked that Iran blinked, oil prices were tumbling and the stock market was soaring. Once again, the Chicken Little chorus got everything all wrong. The sky isn’t falling and Donald Trump pulled off a huge victory. Oh, and he’s still president.”

UPDATE: I just got a PR email about this article from yesterday, and it’s already laughably out of date and, basically, just wrong about everything. This Will Be Trump’s War. The image of Trump as an angry toddler responding to “right-wing bravado-addicts at Fox News” is embarrassingly off the mark. And that was obvious before yesterday.

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments:

It’s no longer “embarrassingly off the mark,” it’s an alternate universe.

Everyone, including the Iranians, clearly understands that Trump has a strategy in Iran and exactly what it is. Yet the entire Dem/media establishment is screaming 24/7 that it doesn’t exist.

Meanwhile the “warmonger Trump” killed fewer Iranians in WWIII than Iranian funeral planners and air defense operators did.

It’s fair at this point to start asking Dems and reporters: “which planet or alternate dimension are you on?”

When your views of Trump are taken as axiomatic, then everything is evidence supporting those views, whether it fits or not.

IT’S SATIRE. OR IS IT? Deceased Iranian General Soleimani surges into 4th place in Democratic primary race.

NEO ON TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND TRUMP: Big Stick Diplomacy, Then And Now.

SO YOU’RE SAYING THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL GO BROKE? Why is Meghan ditching her duchess role? Because she wants to be the global Queen of Woke.

Related: Your Country Sucks, by Meghan Markle.

STEFAN HALPER LOOKING EVER MORE SKETCHY: The Federalist’ Margot Cleveland has more details. Geez, I met Halper very briefly at the Reagan-Bush headquarters in Arlington, VA. during the 1980 campaign. Seemed like a nice guy, though rather nerdy. If we’d known then what we know now …

UPDATE: Just remembered that the occasion for meeting Halper was that he was one of the people with George H.W. Bush who came over after Reagan named Bush as his veep nominee.

IT WOULD BE A REAL SHAME IF THEY HAD TO FALL BACK ON HER LUCRATIVE TV CAREER: How Will Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Earn Money?