STRIDES TOWARD SPACE HIBERNATION: Successful hypothermia in nonhuman primate paves the way for future application in human torpor during spaceflight.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Reminder: Husbands, It’s Time To Start Christmas Shopping.

DETECTION IS GOOD, CURE IS BETTER: Japan approves blood test to detect Alzheimer’s. “The blood test kit, codeveloped with Eisai, will give doctors in Japan an easy, inexpensive and minimally invasive tool to screen people quickly for the disease, which is currently done through PET scans, MRI or painful spinal taps. Convenient testing will also help physicians decide who’s qualified to receive a novel therapy — lecanemab, being developed by Eisai and Biogen — that may get approved in the U.S. early next year.”

THE FBI DESTROYED ITS ONCE GREAT REPUTATION: The FBI’s response to the Twitter Files Is just like a guilty criminal blaming someone else.

YES. Did The Ways & Means Committee Play The Supreme Court On Trump’s Tax Returns? In the long run, the Supreme Court may be less-deferential to House oversight requests.

DON SURBER: Just do what Trump did.

“Author Chris Whipple claims in The Fight of His Life, out Jan. 17, that Biden became ‘furious’ as the number of migrant encounters at the US-Mexico frontier spiked almost immediately after he took office in January 2021.”

The story went on to say that Biden asked a staffer, “How would you feel if you were me and these were the solutions you had?”

But the solution has been there all along. All Biden has to do is do everything President Donald John Trump did.

Biden needs to resurrect the Remain in Mexico policy in which those seeking asylum in the USA had to stay in Mexico until an administrative law judge determined whether asylum should be granted.

And Biden needs to talk Mexico into having its National Guard patrol the border.

Finally, Biden needs to complete the 30-foot-tall wall that President Trump began.

Why would Biden be angry over the skyrocketing number of illegal immigrants?

● Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”

● Former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller: Biden’s Immigration Plan Would “Erase America’s Nationhood.”

● “Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ‘truly multicultural’ country, a former Government adviser has revealed.”

Fortunately though, ABC News knows who to blame: Martha Raddatz Blames Border Crisis On Republicans Warning That Border Is Wide Open.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Hovercraft used to rescue swan stuck to lake ice in Michigan.

KARI LAKE COULD WIN IN ARIZONA SENATE RACE, NEW POLL SHOWS:

Kari Lake may have come up short in her bid to become the governor of Arizona but there is good news for her. A new poll has shown that she is still loved by many in the Copper State and she could become its next Senator, Newsweek reported.

Public Policy Polling asked respondents to pick from three candidates that included Lake, Democrat Representative Ruben Gallego, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who recently announced that she is an independent.

The poll showed that by choosing between the three candidates, Lake would achieve victory.

Why, it’s as if: Democrats made Kari Lake a star. Why did Biden’s party labor to put ‘election-deniers’ on the ballot?

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Merry Christmas Edition.

GET IN SHAPE: Schwinn Fitness Indoor Cycling Exercise Bike. #CommissionEarned

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Santa’s Sleigh Mistakenly Shot Down By Ukrainian Missile.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant jobs.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Guess What NY Times’ Late Night Year in Review Left Out?

Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” debuted in April 2021, the first right-leaning late night show since the network’s ill-fated “1/2 Hour News Hour” in 2007. “Gutfeld!” quickly established itself as a sly alternative to the other, hard-Left showcases.

This year, Greg Gutfeld’s showcase finished either first or second in the late night ratings race. A cable-based show with no A-list stars or fawning media coverage became the format’s biggest news story since David Letterman hung up his mic.

The New York Times published an exhaustive ode to 2022 late night TV, and guess what the Gray Lady forgot to mention?

“Gutfeld!”

It seems impossible, but it’s true.

“Best of Late Night 2022: A Rebuilding Year” touches on Trevor Noah’s retirement from the low-rated “Daily Show,” the cancellation of hate comic Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” showcase on TBS and how comedians torched Donald Trump early and often.

Nothing about the show Yahoo! news called the new king of late night.

Let’s face it: the Gray Lady’s readers would dive for the fainting couches if the Times allowed the news of Gutfeld’s meteoric success into print. And they’d never let the writers hear the end of it. Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported in 2019:

SOUNDS LIKE THEY PLAN TO GO BEYOND JUST THE TREE-HUGGING PART: Protesters at UC Berkeley get nude for trees.

The photo illustrating the story does not look like a Berkeley student.

NEW YEAR SALE is here. #CommissionEarned

IT’S NOT PRETTY: A deep dive into what’s behind TVA’s unprecedented rolling blackouts in the face of not-unusually cold weather.

I’ll just repeat: This “unprecedented” cold is just high single-digit temps, which are hardly unknown in Tennessee. We’ve had below-zero temps in the past without these problems. TVA’s failure to maintain adequate capacity to meet this situation is unforgivable.

IN THE MAIL: Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower (Tom Vargas Mysteries), by Moe Lane.

FALLING, LEAPING, WHATEVER: Omnibus spending bill split shows Republicans falling into familiar spending trap.

FTX: Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex Caroline Ellison faced 110 years in jail before plea.

JULIETTE OCHIENG: The World Is A Ghetto.

CHRISTMAS IN NAZI GERMANY: How Nazis Stole Christmas & Turned Adolf Hitler into Messiah (Video).

Earlier: The National Socialists Fought the Original War on Christmas.

Who knew? Other than everyone who read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism in 2008, or this London Daily Mail article the following year. But it’s good to see this sort of thing in the Smithsonian’s house organ. Or as author Dave Shiflett quipped in 2002 at NRO, “A shocking story has been revealed: Adolf Hitler was not a Christian after all. Instead, he hoped to destroy Christianity.”

To borrow a line from another 19th-century born socialist God killer, as a reminder of the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce — while killing time before engineering the next tragedy — I found that above quote in a post of mine from right around this time in 2012. A few years before Angela Merkel turned the lights out on 21st Germany, Yahoo was reporting that “A minister in Angela Merkel’s government has sparked a pre-Christmas row among Germany’s ruling parties by suggesting God be referred to with the neutral article ‘das’ instead of the masculine ‘der.’”

But then, political correctness is what governments do in order to ignore their nation’s real, structural problems.

SCIENCE!

GREATER EXERCISE ACTIVITY IS TIED TO LESS SEVERE COVID-19 OUTCOMES, A STUDY SHOWS.

This seemed perfectly logical even during the early days of COVID. So why did we see all of these headlines in 2020?

● Crackdowns on Lone Surfers and Paddleboarders Threaten to Erode Respect for Law Enforcement Even Further.

—Jack Dunphy, PJ Media.com, April 6th, 2020.

● Former police officer arrested in park for throwing ball with daughter due to coronavirus social distancing rules.

—ABC News, April 8th, 2020.

● Coronavirus: San Clemente Fills Skatepark With 37 Tons Of Sand After Skaters Ignore ‘No Trespassing’ Signs.

—CBS L.A., April 17th, 2020.

● Shocking moment cops arrest mom for taking kids to playground during coronavirus outbreak.

—UK Metro, April 22nd, 2020.

● NJ Can Shut Down Gym That Defied Coronavirus Closure, Court Rules.

—NBC Philadelphia, July 25th, 2020.

● As Rioters Destroy New York, Cops Kick Jewish Families Out of a Playground.

—Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media.com, June 4th, 2020.

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