MARK STEYN: Back from the dead.

KNIFE RIGHTS ALERT: Knife Rights’ Mississippi bill to enact knife law preemption, SB 2383, sponsored by Sen. Mike Seymour, is stalled in committee. The deadline for a hearing is Tuesday! Follow the link to send messages in its support. Knife Rights has been very successful in getting outdated restrictions removed around the nation.

HMM: Are ‘The Walls Closing In’ on Joe Biden? New Details Raise Questions.

IT WOULD BE NICE IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BACKED THIS: Iranian Human Rights Leader: ‘We Are in the Middle of our Revolution.’

FALLOUT: Punished By Western Sanctions, Russia’s Airlines Are Showing More Cracks And More Problems.

On January 9, a 4-year-old Airbus A320 operated by the Russian airline S7 was flying from the Siberian city of Bratsk to Moscow when it encountered a problem: Its toilet system malfunctioned. The flight was forced to divert to the city of Kazan for an unscheduled landing.

Four days earlier, a Red Wings airline passenger jet flying from Kazan to Yekaterinburg also was forced to turn around and returned to its departure airport after its landing gear failed to retract.

Two months before that, a top transport official in the Pacific coast region of Primorye sent a letter to the ministry for the development of the Far East and Arctic in Moscow: We need new passenger planes because our current planes won’t be able to fly anymore after this year.

The reason, according to the letter obtained by the news outlet RBK? The plane’s Canadian-built Pratt & Whitney engines couldn’t be repaired due to Western sanctions.

Also: Russia faces new sanctions on its energy exports – but this time China and India may not come to Putin’s rescue.

Russian fuels could instead find buyers in Singapore and Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, then head to larger Asian markets from there, but not the big ones, he added.

Russian products could also flow to West Africa and Latin America, while Europe will likely start sourcing more of its diesel from the US and Asia in a “round of musical chairs,” Katona said.

Inconvenienced travelers and distorted commodities markets aren’t going to stop a war.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Your Credit Score, Please, Comrade.

IT’S GOOD TO BE QUEEN: Well, it’s good to be California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife anyway. Washington Free Beacon’s Susannah Luthi describes Mrs. Newsom’s very profitable Woke film business and how the Golden State’s public schools make it possible.

TRUMP: ‘We Are at the Brink of World War III.’

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR INDIE AUTHORS ON MY BLOG:  Book Promo and Vignettes by by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

It includes a fun vignette challenge.

CDR SALAMANDER: The People’s Liberation Army Navy in 2023, with Toshi Yoshihara. “From a navy of peasants to professionals on par with any Western navy; from coastal patrol to global reach, the slow and steady growth of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) crept up on some policy makers in the last decade.”

PROGRESSIVES ARE LIARS AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN THEM:  Left-wing think tank responsible for thousands of fake Russia stories: new Twitter Files.

OH CANADA!  Illegal crossings at ‘freezing’ Canadian border surge during migrant crisis.

Officials in the states, which make up the federal agency’s eastern “Swanton Sector,” saw a 743% increase in apprehensions and encounters between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 compared to the same period in 2021, sector chief, Robert Garcia said last week in a press release.

In December, a record 441 people were detained by US Border Patrol and Customs at the Canadian border in the region after flying to Canada from at least 19 countries, according to The Center Square. Fourteen others abandoned their illicit journey to America, and at least 135 foreign nationals evaded authorities and are now in the US illegally, officials told the outlet.

AS IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY GROUD DOWN YOUR TEETH OVER OFFICIAL ACTS OF JANUARY 6TH:  Doctor Who Tried to Save Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 Charged With 4 Misdemeanors for Time at the US Capitol.

#justiceforashlibabbit #sayhername

WE CAN’T STOP PAYING ATTENTION. IT’S IMPORTANT:  Twitter Files #15: More glimpses behind the Potemkin village the left built.

DEVOUTLY TO BE WISHED FOR:  Justice for John Eastman.

IT’S NOT, BUT ONLY BECAUSE ARSENALS ARE NOT IN THE STATE THE UN WOULD LIKE THEM TO BE:  A nuclear World War III may be closer than you think.

YOU NEEDED MORE PROOF THAN THE FACT THAT PEOPLE WHO WERE NEVER ENSLAVED DEMAND MONEY FROM PEOPLE WHO NEVER OWNED SLAVES?  More proof that the reparations hustle is all about greed and inciting race war.

OH. IS THAT WHERE OUR WEAK ANTI-DEFAMATION LAWS COME FROM:  The Supreme Court Is At The Heart Of America’s Racial Division.

WITH RARE EXCEPTIONS, FOX NEWS IS ON THE OTHER SIDE:  Fox News is helping the Democrats’ Biden document narrative.

IT WAS INEVITABLE:  Great Moments in American History, Revised According to AP’s Inclusive Style Guide.

EVERYONE DID. EXCEPT THE SENILE AND THE WILLINGLY DUPED:  #TwitterFiles: Twitter Execs Knew The Russian Misinformation Hysteria Was Based On A Dubious Source.

AND SO, IT’S COME TO THIS:  Van Jones: Five Black Officers Who Beat Black Memphian Tyre Nichols Might’ve Been Motivated by Racism.

It’s racism, all right: all white people are guilty, even when they aren’t present. Bah.

DOES ANYONE CARE?  Elizabeth Warren Won’t Say if She Backs Kamala Harris for Biden’s VP in 2024.