THIS WILL GO ABOUT AS WELL AS THE WAR ON POVERTY:  War on Microbes: The murky agenda behind the covid ‘pandemic’.

THE TWO-BODY PROBLEM: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education.

ARROGANT RESIDENTS, DO THEY IMAGINE DA MAYOR NEEDS THEIR VOTES?  Chicago Mayor Boots Angry Residents From Meeting After Being Criticized for Prioritizing Illegal Aliens.

He has illegals and fraud for that!

SURE AM GLAD THESE PICKS ARE GETTING VETTED:  And With That Post on X, It Doesn’t Look Like Jared Moskowitz Will Be Trump’s FEMA Director.

IF YOUR LEGAL CASE IS SOLID YOU SHOULDN’T NEED TO TAMPER:  Bombshell Report Calls for FBI Investigation Into Liz Cheney.

IF ONLY WE HAD A FEDERAL AGENCY TO HELP WITH DISASTERS AND NOT JUST TO FEED AND HOUSE ILLEGALS, EH?  North Carolina Straining to Fund Hurricane Relief Efforts Over Two Months After Helene.

WHEN HE LEARNED SHE HAD THE NOMINATION:  Harris’ Digital Director Reveals the ‘Ominous’ Moment Where He Knew Something Was Wrong.

GOOD. POLITICIZED JUSTICE AIN’T NO JUSTICE: Federal Judge Grants Derek Chauvin’s Request To Examine George Floyd Heart Tissue and Fluids To Contest Cause of Death.

YOUTUBE: DEMONETIZING PEOPLE FOR “REASONS”. [Video]

DO IT:  CAIR’s fear of bill targeting pro-terror charities is reason enough to pass it.

THE ‘RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY’ IS LOSING DOWN UNDER:  Vindication in the Federal Court.

OH, COLORADO:  How to Get Rid of a Tenured Professor.

AND AGAIN, WHERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE?  ‘Going to be painful’: Venezuelan expert sounds alarm about what’s next if sanctuary city policies continue.

YOU DON’T SAY!  Tren de Aragua is terrorizing Utah — as Venezuelan dissident warns that local authorities ‘are not ready’.

GOOD FOR POLAND:  Poland has become the first EU country to introduce compulsory gun & shooting classes in all its elementary schools.

IF WE ARE TO WIN THIS CULTURE WAR, WE CAN’T IMPOSE PURITY SPIRALS:  The Pure.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: The Democrats’ Anti-Israel Future. It all changed with Barack Obama.

More alarming for Israel was the change Obama made in American policy toward Iran. The Iranian regime has sworn to wipe “the Zionist entity” off the map. And it was with this regime that Obama sought closer relations as he pulled the U.S. away from Israel.

Some background. In 2002, an exiled opposition group revealed the existence of two nuclear facilities that Iran had kept secret, despite Tehran’s obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Although Tehran insisted that these were intended only to generate electricity, neither clandestine site was connected to the electric grid.

The embarrassment of exposure, and the intimidating implications of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, prompted Iran to suspend much of its nuclear program; subsequently, a leaked U.S. intelligence report implied that Iran had abandoned it entirely. This was false, but it made President Bush feel he could not resort to military action, which may have been the ulterior motive of those who wrote it and leaked it. Although Washington and our European allies agreed on various sanctions and inducements, the problem remained unresolved when Obama took office.

Within a month of his inauguration, Obama sent a secret letter to Iran’s ruler, Ali Khamenei, seeking “cooperation in regional and bilateral relations.” In his memoirs, Obama reports that “Khamenei’s answer was blunt: Iran had no interest in direct talks.” Obama claims that this is what he expected. But he writes, “I’d sent the letter anyway because I wanted to establish that the impediment to negotiations was not America’s intransigence—it was Iran’s.”

Hey remember when the New York Times claimed during the 2008 campaign that:

Senator Obama has said he would do anything in his power to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and has spent much of the campaign defending his willingness to negotiate with Iran. He argues that a big mistake the Bush administration made was being unwilling to talk to enemies. When Mr. Bush finally relented in the case of North Korea, he has said, the United States began to make some small progress.

But Mr. Obama has also said he would keep “all options on the table,” the code words for possible military strikes, and he has said that at the end of a negotiation, Iran should not be producing any nuclear fuel on its own territory. His aides stress the need to make clear to Iran how it might benefit by abandoning its nuclear ambitions and ending its support for terrorism.

Good times, good times.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Thailand signs Artemis Accords.

I ALREADY SUPPORT HIM, YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME: Canada Conservative likely to unseat Trudeau has Trump-like tendencies.

WATCH: SYRIAN ‘MODERATE REBEL’ REMOVES ISIS PATCH AT PROMPTING OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST.

Video footage has recently emerged taken by journalist James Longman advising ‘rebels’ in Syria that the ISIS logo on their uniforms will be misunderstood by Western audiences. Longman, who is ABC News’ Chief International Correspondent, demonstrates a trend of American journalists going to war zones to essentially coach combatants on how to better present themselves to the outside world. Mainstream media has for many years pushed the myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria seeking to topple Assad, which they finally did this month.

Shades of “The Mao Tse Tung Hour” segment in Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 film Network, where television executives haggled with a Symbionese Liberation Army-inspired revolutionary group over the best way to portray their terrorism on network television. Chayefsky thought he was writing satire; he instead gave American network television an endless catalog of ideas for shows.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Congress can end DC’s lawfare and one-party federal bias.

TODAY IN HISTORY: The Wright Brothers’ First Flight: A 12-Second Leap That Changed the World Forever.

On December 17, 1903, on a cold morning in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the world changed forever. What began as an improbable dream, the obsession of two brothers who built bicycles for a living, culminated in 12 historic seconds. Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved what no one else had before: powered flight.

Though the first flight covered a mere 120 feet, humanity crossed an invisible threshold between the possible and the impossible. This was not just a technical achievement—it was an act of unwavering determination and faith in the future. It was the moment humanity took its first step into the skies.

Indeed.

Incidentally, while employing language that at one time couldn’t be said on terrestrially broadcast television, the popular Super ’70s Sports Twitter account also recently described the enormity of the risks the Brothers Wright undertook.

THAT PRETTY MUCH COVERS IT:

Stop calling it a CR. It’s a massive K Street Christmas tree omnibus with giveaways to every special interest in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/iy6C8p5PX5

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 17, 2024

ROBERT SPENCER: Elizabeth Warren Demands Conflict-of-Interest Rules for Musk, and Trump Camp’s Response Is FIRE.

Heap big trouble for Trump and Musk, eh? No. Not only is Warren’s demand patently one-sided and politically motivated, but Trump’s team is not disposed to take it lying down. Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on Monday sent Warren a teepee-shaking response: “President Trump,” Leavitt wrote, “has assembled the most impressive and qualified team of innovators, entrepreneurs, and geniuses to advise and staff our government. Pocahontas can play political games and send toothless letters, but the Trump-Vance transition will continue to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards possible—a standard unfamiliar to a career politician whose societal impact is 1/1024th of Elon Musk’s.”

This statement should be preserved as an example of how patriots should fight back against the left. “Pocahontas,” of course, was Trump’s unforgettable nickname for Warren after she was unmasked as a fake, having claimed for decades to be a Native American while not having any actual native ancestry. Leavitt’s statement that Warren’s “societal impact is 1/1024th of Elon Musk’s” was a riotous reference to Warren’s disastrous decision in 2018 to prove Trump wrong with a DNA test, only for it to show that she was no more than 1/1024th Native American, at best.

And note that the Democratic Party operatives with bylines at the Washington Post are far angrier at Trump’s spokeswoman referring to Warren as “Pocahontas” rather than Warren having used a fake ethnic identity to advance her career:

As Kevin Williamson wrote in 2018 in “The Blackface Party:”

Senator Warren is the main offender of the moment, a significantly-whiter-than-the-average-white-woman white woman who has for years been masquerading as a Native American, telling transparent bumfodder stories about how her parents had to elope because her mother was part Cherokee and part Delaware, an obvious attempt to claim some of that victimhood juice secondhand. She allowed herself to be advertised as a woman of color by Harvard, happy in the coincidence that “her major professional advances — to the University of Pennsylvania and then to Harvard — came after she began formally identifying as Native American, a distant descendant of Cherokee and Delaware tribes,” as the Boston Globe put it.

(She is a woman of color: Pantone 11-0602.)

Warren, previously a mostly obscure academic and an author of dopey self-help books — The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan — needed a little extra kick to stand out from the crowd of sanctimonious white ladies who rest like a dollop of low-fat sour cream atop the nation’s educational institutions. And so she went all in on her fictitious Indian ancestry: You’ll remember the recipe for “Pow-Wow Chow” and other “Indian” dishes plagiarized from the New York Times.

The Cherokee Nation is not buying it, denouncing Senator Warren’s extraordinarily tenuous claim to native ancestry as “a mockery,” “dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens,” “inappropriate and wrong,” etc. “Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage,” Cherokee Nation secretary of state Chuck Hoskin Jr. wrote.

Identity politics is generally goofy and often trivial, but this is no trivial thing: The Cherokee Nation is a separate sovereign nation, with the rights and dignity that implies. It deserves to be treated with respect, not used as a prop by an ambitious low-rent hustler from Oklahoma.

White people did some pretty rotten things to the Indians over the years. But making them take Elizabeth Warren on top of it? That’s just mean.

Incidentally, some of us on the right are also extremely angry with Trump’s spokeswoman referring to Warren as “Pocahontas.” It’s Fauxcahontas, dammit — Fauxcahontas!