THE CHAINSAW ISN’T DONE CUTTING:
🇦🇷 MILEI: IN 2025, WE’LL SLASH EVEN MORE REGULATIONS AND TAXES
"We’ve made our first big cuts, and now we’re going deeper.
In 2025, we’ll continue removing regulations, pushing economic freedom further.
This year, we jumped 70 points in economic freedom—going from the bottom… pic.twitter.com/Myi1OJT3yq
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 23, 2024
It can be done. And it must be done.
STAY WARM: Dreo Space Heater, Portable Electric Heaters for Indoor Use. #CommissionEarned
DON SURBER: NYT goes Wile E. Coyote again. “The New York Times is out of touch with the times. In 2016, the left’s anger over Hillary losing fueled efforts to stop Trump like Democrats were the French resistance taking on Hitler. This time, no one over 25 cried when Kamala lost because she sucks. . . . At the New York Times, the wounds are all self-inflicted. They are going back for more.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Are Finally Coming to Grips With Joe Biden’s ‘Stutter.’ “Having a man who can’t tie his own shoes holding the most powerful political office in the world is terrifying. Now that the Dems don’t care anymore, we’re finding out just how bad it’s been.”
DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YA WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YA:
BREAKING: According to Politico, Federal Workers are considering quitting their jobs over the holidays before President Trump takes office in January.
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— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) December 22, 2024
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THANK YOU: It has been my great privilege for a number of years to post on my friend Glenn Reynolds’ amazing Instapundit. The variety of voices Glenn opens Instapundit to is a perfect illustration of how the First Amendment is supposed to work, for all of us.
During the past year, I’ve posted a great many links to events and reports that in my judgement bear great importance to the struggle to preserve individual liberty and restore the blessings of the limited government America’s Founders gave us.
I’ve also posted many links to material on HillFaith that, judging from the comments, many found interesting, some even uplifting, while others, well, as Glenn so often puts it, not so much.
To the former, I thank God for the opportunity to add something positive to your day, and to the latter, may we both always be open to understanding how and why others think and believe as they do. I mean that for myself as much as for anybody else.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and God “bless us all and everyone” in the New Year.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Love having you here, Mark! Right back atcha.
ANTITRUST: Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps. “Instead of breaking off Chrome, Android, or Google Play as the DOJ’s filing considers, Google’s proposed fixes aim at the payments it makes to companies like Apple and Mozilla for exclusive, prioritized placement of its services, its licensing deals with companies that make Android phones, and contracts with wireless carriers. They don’t address a DOJ suggestion about possibly forcing Google to share its valuable search data with other companies to help their products catch up.”
TRUE: Fetterman believes ‘fascist’ label of Trump did not connect with people. That’s because it’s stupid and obviously wrong.
BREAKING BOMBSHELL: Draft of House ethics reports slams Gaetz, according to Just the News who reported this morning that the House Ethics Committee said Gaetz had paid women for sex, taken inapropriate travel and — hold your breath — statutory rape of a 17-year old high school junior.
“The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” stated the draft of the report slated to be released this week.
The draft report also said it did not find evidence that Gaetz had engaged in sex trafficking as some had alleged, concluding that all the women who traveled with Gaetz out of their home states did so voluntarily even if they accepted payments for sex.”
The story includes detailed denials from Gaetz. Becuase the report was a draft version, JTN checked and confirmed its authenticity, but did not publish the draft because the final released version may have some changes or redactions.
That’s good journalism, people.
EXCLUSIVE: J6 Prisoner Explains DC Event This Jan. 6.
So why did he vote with them nearly all the time?
LOWEST RATINGS IN NETWORK HISTORY, SO FAR. CNN Sees Lowest Ratings in Network History in 2024.
COLD WAR II: US Says China to Build 1,000 Nukes by 2030 in Staggering Annual Report.
China’s stockpile of operational nuclear warheads has also increased from more than 500 last year to more than 600 in 2024, the report said.
It will have more than 1,000 by 2030, the Pentagon said, as Beijing pushes “to modernize, diversify, and expand its nuclear forces rapidly.”
This, it said, would enable China to “target more US cities, military facilities, and leadership sites than ever before in a potential nuclear conflict.”
Previously: Don’t Look Now, But There’s a Nuclear Nightmare A-Brewing. “China is engaging in what the Pentagon calls a ‘strategic breakout.’ Over the last few months, it’s been revealed that Beijing is constructing silos for an additional 230 nuclear-tipped ICBMs.”
That was three years ago. We’ve been mostly treading water all that time.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Our National Science Foundation Has Given Over $2 Billion to DEI Projects.
YES. That’s why the Left hates him so much.
The thing about Elon’s alleged political power is that it mainly flows from just saying things out loud that are obviously true.
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) December 22, 2024
DEMS HATE A LOSER: The Dominoes Are Falling Fast Over the Biden Mental Health Cover-Up. “Democratic donor and operative Lindy Li hasn’t held back in her critiques of the party. For weeks, she’s been relentless, taking aim at Kamala Harris for squandering a billion dollars, criticizing her selection of Tim Walz, and calling out her embrace of radical positions. Li has even provided intriguing insider details about how Joe Biden was ultimately ousted, and what Pelosi and Obama really think of Kamala. Now, she’s dishing on Joe Biden’s mental decline.”
ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There’s also a fun vignette challenge. And at the bottom of the promo-ed books, before the challenge is a link to the free short stories I’ve done in the last month, and also to the free readings.
TELLING US THAT EVIL PEOPLE ARE THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY’RE OPPRESSED IS A LEFTIST TROPE: Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil. “Wicked in particular is a product of a therapeutic culture. The dangerous message of Wicked is that once you understand somebody’s origin story, you realize that the evil they do is a result of their victim status.”
Leftists like this because they strongly suspect that they’re awful people and want a get-out-of-jail card established in advance.
CLARITY OF THOUGHT AND WORD IS THE ENEMY OF THOSE HOLDING POWER: Grammar a tragic victim in war on free speech.
IT HAS ABANDONED SCIENCE IN FAVOR OF DOCTRINE: The rise and fall of Western science.
THE ‘WOULD YOU STEP A LITTLE FASTER’ ACT: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – some thoughts from an ill adult.
TRAIN WRECKS GET BORING AFTER A WHILE: MSNBC’s Ratings Have Gotten So Bad That Joy Reid and Others Are Facing Pay Cuts.
SQUIRRELS WILL EAT ANYTHING THAT MOVES OR STANDS STILL. PROVIDED IT’S SMALL THAN THEY ARE: California Reported to Have Quasi-Cannibal Ground Squirrels.
TO BE FAIR, I DON’T THINK HE KNEW WHERE HE WAS, OR WHAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING: Biden Reportedly Kept Families of Service Members Killed in Afghanistan Waiting While He Slept on Air Force One.
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