OF INTEREST:  Here, there, and everywhere: politics downstream from culture, Spanish language edition; the real scandal of January 6; Netanyahu embarrassed by remarks to Jordan Peterson about his present coalition allies.

IT’S JUST PINING FOR THE FJORDS:  Joe Biden blurts out Iran nuclear deal ‘dead’ — but he can’t ‘announce’ it.

AT THE CDC THEY GOT FAT BONUSES FOR THAT:  Wells Fargo hit with record $3.7B fine for ‘rinse-repeat cycle’ of loan violations.

THE PLASTIC CONTAMINATION DANGER IS GREATLY EXAGGERATED:  Yet Another “Plastic Kills” Story.

NOR IS CIVILIZATION:  The World is Not Ending | Bjørn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson.

These are the death throes of collectivism. It’s dying ugly, as it lived. It’s going to hurt us a lot. But it will die and not in a long time. Be not afraid.

GOOD FOR JAPAN:  Japan Embraces Nuclear Power, Cancels Phase Out Plans.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS THE MAIN PAYEE FOR SCIENCE:  The Ideological Capture of Our Scientific Institutions Accelerates.

WE NEED MORE LIKE HIM:  Rand Paul’s Festivus $482 Billion Waste Report Includes Fauci, Thanos, and Parrot Romance.

HE MIGHT ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE NONSENSE:  Grandpa Gates’s Fraudulent CO2 Fetish.

YEAH, BY LAST YEAR WE COULDN’T AFFORD FLORIDA:  Florida Fastest Growing State While California, Illinois, and New York Leak Residents.

WILL YOU BE THE FIRST TO STOP CLAPPING FOR STALIN?  NBC Historian Michael Beschloss Demands to Know Why Some Lawmakers Didn’t Applaud for Zelenskyy.

HE TENDS TO TELL THE TRUTH:  Trump issues a fiery rebuttal to January 6 committee.

AND THEREIN HANGS THE PROBLEM:  The Election Integrity Battle Must Be Won before It Is Fought.

MOSTLY FOR HAVING OPINIONS THAT AREN’T APPROVED:  Today’s blacklisted American: Professor fired by a North Carolina school for having opinions.

RIGHT NOW THIS SEEMS IMPORTANT:  Cold Weather Preparedness & Survival.

THEY HAVE TO BE DISHONEST. THEY DON’T HAVE REASON ON THEIR SIDE:  Gun control gets underhanded with the courts.

THE LAST FREE SHORT STORY BEFORE CHRISTMAS:  The Christmas Cat.

OPEN THREAD: ‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas.

DON’T WORRY, THEY’RE ALREADY HERE: Why everyone thinks a recession is coming in 2023.

From Fox Business on September 29th: Final GDP reading shows US economy shrank 0.6% in the spring, cementing start of recession.

SPACE: Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power. If you’re worried about CO2, you should be all in for orbital solar and nuclear. Any other policy is just bullshit.

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: Mark Cuban Blasts California: ‘It’s Just About People Shi–ing On The Street.’

(Classical reference in headline.)

JEFF DUNETZ ON KWANZAA: A Fake Holiday With A Racist Goal, Created By A Criminal Madman.

Some claim that Kwanzaa is a holiday observed all over the world. However, that is a lie. Kwanzaa is a day celebrated excluIt’sly in the U.S.! It’s not celebrated in any other part of the world (including Africa). The name Kwanzaa comes from a phrase” of Swahili origin,” “Matunda Ya Kwanza,” and translates as “translates as “First Fruits of the Harvest.”

That’s right, it’s supposed to be sp “ll” d with only one “a.” This means that the very name of this supposed holiday is a typo.

Kwanzaa is supposed to be a week-long holiday honoring African culture and traditions, but it is tainted by its founder and original purpose.

The man who created the holiday, Maulana Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett), described the “celebration as “An All-Seasons Celebration and Practice of the Good.” The problem with that statement is that Maulana Karenga is anything but good. He was convicted in 1971 of torturing two women who were members of his organization, U.S. (United Slaves), a black nationalist cult he had founded.

Fortunately, the holiday was officially renamed earlier today: Pelosi mocked for wishing Americans a ‘Happy Shwanza’ during final speech as House Speaker: ‘Shawarma?’

Pelosi ends her final speech as Speaker of the House by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a "Happy Shwanza" pic.twitter.com/LtcMeA8KIT

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 23, 2022

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Kamala Harris whines media doesn’t focus on ‘strength of my leadership.’

Vice President Kamala Harris complained this week about poor media coverage — during a friendly interview with a Washington Post columnist — moaning that the press doesn’t focus on what she called “the strength of my leadership.”

“There are things that I’ve done as vice president that fully demonstrate the strength of my leadership as vice president that have not received the kind of coverage that I think Dobbs did receive,” Harris told Jonathan Capehart, referring to the June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and returning the question of abortion to the states.

“What you’ve been able to see,” the veep added, is “based on what gets covered.”

In his opinion piece, Capehart argued that contrary to conventional wisdom, Harris, 58, has “had a most excellent year” and cited three supposed “tent poles” of her 2022.

Narrator’s voice: Harris in fact, did not have “a most excellent year:”  Kamala Harris: Work in Progress Or Piece Of Work?

SPACEX CAN PROBABLY DO SOMETHING HERE: Soyuz Leak Forces Russia’s Space Agency to Consider a Rescue Mission.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE! Bear steals box of bagels from North Carolina woman’s porch. Well, there was salmon.