SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: Dragon’s Daring Return: SpaceX Capsule Heads for Florida Splashdown.

THEY LIKE TO WEAPONIZE THESE THINGS: Duke lacrosse rape hoax accuser’s confession teaches a lesson the left won’t learn. So they don’t want to learn.

IN 2017 THIS WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED: World’s Shortest Boycott Ends as D.C.-Area Anti-Trump Waitress Fired for Discrimination.

OUR VERY, VERY SERIOUS RULING CLASS: Ketanji Brown Jackson Goes Broadway: Why choose tragic love, when self-aggrandizement is still an option? The Supreme Court Justice acts out the answer in a cheery agitprop romp.

WHO IS THIS WE, KEMOSABE? Political Violence Happens Because We Let It.

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month appears to be what it looked like: a political attack. In this case, one motivated by hatred of the American insurance system. In a leaked manifesto, the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, blames the insurer’s corruption and greed, and claims to be the first to face it with “brutal honesty.”

If true—and a grand jury in New York will soon decide—that makes the murder another in a string of ideologically motivated violent attacks over the past few years, including:

Assassination attempts—two against Donald Trump as well as the shootings of Rep. Steve Scalise and (further back) Rep. Gabby Giffords;

Political riots, from the BLM violence of summer 2020 to the riot in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to the pro-Hamas riots of last fall;

Intimidating protests against Supreme Court justices, or individual attacks like the assault on Paul Pelosi;

A wave of bomb threats as well as the pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats in 2018, reflecting domestic terror hitting its highest level in decades.

None of this is new. The late 1960s and early 1970s were wracked by political violence.

To be more exact, political violence occurs because those responsible for stopping it choose not to, presumably because they believe they benefit from it.

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OF COURSE THEY ARE, AND SO ARE THEIR SUPPORTERS:

Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia University revealed they are "fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization."

Why are taxpayer dollars going to Columbia University when they are teaching students to take down Western civilization? pic.twitter.com/Y4n6vz28BZ

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 16, 2024

AS ARGENTINA DEMONSTRATES, IF WE SLASH GOVERNMENT WE’LL ALSO GET FASTER GROWTH EVEN AS WE CUT THE DEFICIT: How faster growth can offset America’s debt problem. Really. “Well, that in addition to making us all a lot richer.”

PROFESSIONAL COURTESY: Biden Granted Clemency to a Bunch of Democrat Criminals.

FROM CELIA HAYES:  West Toward the Sunset.

#CommissionEarned

It’s the year 1846, and Sally Kettering is just twelve years old. Her parents have decided to sell their farm in rural Ohio and go west … west to California. Sally and her six-year old brother Jon must leave everything they knew – friends, kinfolk and the little town where they had lived all their lives so far. Pa and Ma Kettering packed what they could take into a single covered wagon, and they set out to follow a trail through the wilderness west, along with a party of other families and adventurers. Unknown dangers lay around every bend of the trail … wild animals, wilder Indians … Indians who might be hostile or friendly, and no way to know for certain … treacherous river crossings, trackless deserts, and jagged, dangerous mountain passes.
And still, the Kettering family and their friends boldly set out … following the trail that led west toward the sunset!

THOUGHTS ON Team Players and Group Think. “On balance, women tend to be more groupish, while men tend toward the team-ish.”

DOG BITES MAN DEPARTMENT:  We Have Another Democrat Making Excuses for Murder of United HealthCare CEO.

IT’S NOT THE FACT ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE THEATER KIDDIES THAT IS INFURIATING. THE RIDICULOUS THING IS HOW STUPID THE PLAYS THEY LIKE PLAYING IN ARE:   Ketanji Brown Jackson Performed in a Woke Broadway Production.

And of course, they think they’re being transgressive and not ridiculously boring and puerile.

STOP TAXING TIPS – THE MONEY GAINED DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE LIBERTY INFRINGED:  Youngkin Pushes for New Trump Inspired Tax Policy.

MAY THE LORD BLESS US WITH IDIOTS FOR OPPONENTS:  Comer Explains Why He Backs AOC’s House Oversight Committee Bid.

HOLY RED PILL FOR THE LEFT:  It’s interesting to see how many people in media are waking up to all the lies we’ve been told. Here’s Stephen A. Smith on January 6th revelations.

AND THEN THEY WONDER WHY WE MAKE HELICOPTER JOKES:   Socialist Creates “Most Wanted CEO” Deck of Cards After United Healthcare Shooting.

I KNOW, I KNOW:  They’re starting to take it as a challenge.

CNN, WHATEVER YOU THINK OF IT, IT’S WORSE THAN THAT:  Report: Syrian Man ‘Freed’ by CNN a Member of Assad’s Torture Squad.

WELL, DUH:  Veteran Journalist Dismantles Liberal Case Against Trump’s Deportation Plans: ‘It’s Easier Than You Think’.

DEMOCRATS DANCING ON THE BLOOD OF THE RECENTLY DEAD. SAME OLD, SAME OLD:  Biden Demands Gun Control After School Shooting But Pardoned Hunter for Gun Crimes.

AND WHILE WE’RE WISHING:  Politics Gives You Wings.

ONE CAN CERTAINLY HOPE SO:  “It’s Just a Circus of Lies:” Democrat Megadonors Want the “Obama People” Out of the Party, Claiming They Caused the Historic Loss and Are Just “Grifters”.

WE CAN CERTAINLY HOPE SO:  Are the Years of Madness Ending?

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.