NEWS YOU CAN USE? Donald Trump’s 1997 Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster is Up for Auction:

Built to succeed the fabled Lamborghini Countach, this 1997 Lamborghini Diablo VT roadster is one of 132 produced for the U.S. market between 1997-99. The Diablo carried on Lamborghini’s tradition of naming cars for fighting bulls; it was named for a legendary bull that battled famed matador “El Chicorro” in the 19th century. What makes this Diablo stand out is the fact that it was ordered new by former President Donald J. Trump, who owned and drove it until he sold it in the summer of 2002. Trump was allowed to custom-order this Diablo because of a special relationship with Lamborghini, which provided him with some “loaner” Diablos for brand and model promotional purposes. Trump special-ordered this Diablo in a Blu Le Mans paint color, which was not offered in 1997, making it the only Diablo painted in this shade for 1997. The car was further personalized with a “Donald Trump 1997 Diablo” plaque installed on the door. This Diablo is powered by a mid-mounted 5.7-liter 48-valve V12 engine that channels 492hp at 7,000 rpm and 430 ft/lbs of torque through a 5-speed manual transmission and all-wheel-drive system.

The car was previously up for auction in 2016, when the starting bid was $460,000, so plan your budget accordingly.

#JOURNALISM: BBC: Yeah, Our ‘Summary Executions by IDF in Gaza’ Report Was Full of Crap.

WHAT WERE ONCE VICES ARE NOW HABITS: Martin Hackworth: The Assault on Virtue. “Courage is another virtue that is universally praised but seldom demonstrated. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the modern academy. Universities are populated by people whose job is precisely to stand up for excellence in scholarship, research, and service Despite the fact that most of these folks enjoy the benefit of some form of tenure to help them, they repeatedly fail to counter assaults on free speech, the free exchange of ideas, excellence, and merit. Colleague under duress for not kowtowing to DEI madness? Throw them under the bus. Observe obvious research fraud? Look the other way. Exams too difficult, too stressful, too laborious to administer, inequitable, and not empathetic? Don’t stand up for pedagogy; just bin them. Don’t even get me going on integrity, which is so rare these days that I’m flat-out amazed when I encounter it.”

MATT MARGOLIS: The White House Is Trying to Cover up the Real Scandal of Austin’s Absence

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The Patagonian Enigma: China’s Deep Space Station in Argentina. “New Argentine President Javier Milei may have railed against China but he’s taken a pragmatic track since. Still, the new government should look closely at China’s Argentine space station.”

AMERICA: McDonald’s Double Big Mac coming soon to US restaurants. The Big Mac is already a double burger, so the Double Big Mac would be a . . . double double.

IT IS UNWISE TO ANGER CZAR VLADIMIR, JOE BIDEN TAKES NOTES: Kremlin foe Navalny says he’s been put in a punishment cell in an Arctic prison colony. “Navalny, 47, is jailed on charges of extremism. He had been imprisoned in the Vladimir region of central Russia, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of Moscow but was transferred last month to a ‘special regime’ penal colony — the highest security level of prisons in Russia — above the Artic Circle.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Drug Cartels Are Taking Over Another Country, and We Might Be Next.

READER FAVORITE: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. #CommissionEarned

UNEXPECTEDLY! Hunter Biden Crashes Hearing Debating Whether to Hold Him in Contempt.

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REPORTER TO HUNTER: “What kind of crack do you normally smoke Mr. Biden?!” 🤣 pic.twitter.com/L2sFJMPWwE

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 10, 2024

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Global economy set for its worst half decade of growth in 30 years, World Bank says.

Global growth is forecast to slow for the third year in a row in 2024, dipping to 2.4% from 2.6% in 2023, the organization said in its latest “Global Economic Prospects” report released Tuesday.

Growth is then expected to rise marginally to 2.7% in 2025, though acceleration over the five-year period will remain almost three-quarters of a percentage point below the average rate of the 2010s.

We were someday going to have to pay the bill for shutting down the global economy and then pumping the economy full of funny money, and here it is.

HATE: Retired faculty protest hiring of Republican as new Youngstown State president.

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Megyn Kelly says if Michelle Obama launches 2024 presidential run ‘it’s a whole new ballgame.’

BLUE ON BLUE: The Latest Accusations of ‘Voter Suppression’ Aren’t What You Would Expect.

THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT: Dept of Ed opens investigation into treatment of Jewish students at Brown University.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA delays first moon landing in decades.

NASA is delaying its long-awaited return to the surface of the moon by a year over crew safety concerns.

Why it matters: The landing was one of two postponements to the Artemis program announced by the space agency, as it also pushed back a slingshot around the moon that was scheduled for next year.

The crew of four astronauts for Artemis II will now have to wait until 2025 before they can make their planned flyby, while their lunar landing as part of Artemis III was bumped from 2025 to 2026.

Artemis IV, the first planned mission to an extraterrestrial space station, dubbed the Gateway, remains on track for 2028, NASA said.

NASA said anomalies during the unmanned Artemis I test mission prompted the delays.

This is a disappointment but it isn’t a surprise.

NOW OUT FROM ROGER SIMON: American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States. I got an advance copy and I highly recommend it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Georgia Trump Haters Are Getting Their Fani Handed to Them. “The people who are most vehement about keeping Trump off the 2024 ballot because it’s the ‘right’ thing to do have long struck me as a collection of bottom-feeders who would sell their mothers for beer money. Until now, New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg has seemed like the biggest reprobate of the bunch. He may yet prove me right but, for the moment, there is a new lowlife champ in town.”

DON SURBER: The unelecting of a president: The left seems determined to end Biden’s presidency.

A NEW STATEMENT OF PRIORITIES FROM THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, and there’s nothing about diversity, equity, or inclusion. Or “climate.” As a military friend wrote a while back, sometime mid-2023 the big boys and girls in the military seem to have decided that it was time to get serious about actually fighting a war.

WOEING: Workers at Boeing Subcontractor Told to Falsify Records, New Investigation Finds. “Less than a month before a door plug on a Boeing aircraft blew off midflight, employees at Spirit AeroSystems, a subcontractor for Boeing, had tried to warn corporate officials about serious safety problems with parts for 737 MAX jets. But those warnings went unheeded, and the employees were told to falsify records, according to a new investigation by The Lever on a federal complaint filed by workers at Spirit.”

IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE, BUT IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO SATIRE IN 2024? ‘MAGA Is A Cult,’ Says Party Doing Chants For Politician Inside Church.

GOOD: Court serves defeat to Biden’s dishwasher police. “A federal court on Monday declared that President Joe Biden’s team went too far in imposing new water and energy regulations on the two machines that make life easier, dishwashers and washing machines. In ruling against Biden, the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said former President Donald Trump’s administration got it right when it moved to let consumers choose between machines that take longer and use less water and those that can do the job in an hour or less.”

LEFTISM IS A DEATH CULT: Far-Left Journalists Caught on Hot Mic Joking About What They Really Want for Trump.

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