THAT ’70S SHOW: Guardian Angels resume NYC subway patrols for first time since 2020 after shocking arson murder.

The Guardian Angels are resuming their patrols of the Big Apple’s subways as if it were crime-riddled Gotham in 1979, after the horrifying arson murder of a sleeping straphanger on a train last week, founder Curtis Sliwa said Sunday.

The red-beret-wearing volunteer vigilante squad is beefing up its ranks to its level 45 years ago, Sliwa said.

“We’re going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979,” Sliwa said at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn where the woman was killed.

“We went from 13 to 1,000 [members] back then within a period of a year,” he said. “Because the need was there. The need is here now once again. We’re going to step up. We’re going to make sure we have a visual presence just like we had in the ’70s, 80’s and ’90s.”

Mister, we could use a man like Rudy Giuliani again.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Silence of the labs: How a censorship campaign failed to kill a COVID origin theory. “The chilling suggestion is that, despite the virus ultimately killing more than 1.2 million Americans and over 7 million people worldwide, there was still an overriding interest in the administration to downplay the Chinese responsibility for the pandemic.”

To be fair, they were on the Chinese payroll.

MY LAST NEW YORK POST COLUMN OF 2024: Merrick Garland corrupted the Justice Department with political persecutions.

LAW FIRMS NEED TO BE ON NOTICE THAT IF THEY HIRE THESE PEOPLE, THEY WILL BE PUBLICLY SHAMED, AND MAYBE PROTESTED:

Another article confirming DOJ officials including the bottom feeding J6 line prosecutors are looking for new jobs and worried about prosecutorial payback.

As @StarChamberMaid and I have discussed–white shoe law firms who either (1) hire these thugs or (2) offer pro bono… pic.twitter.com/0qqrhuTQxN

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) December 29, 2024

Remember what the left did to lawyers for the “crime” of representing Trump. These guys are guilty of actual crimes, as well as the very worst sort of betrayal of their office. They should not be rewarded with six- or seven-figure positions where they can pretend they did nothing wrong.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN 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.

UGH: Gruesome Details Emerge About the Horrific Conditions Faced by Hostages in Gaza.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

If the goal was to leave the American people in as much danger and debt as possible before they exit Washington, this administration has succeeded.

— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) December 29, 2024

Biden came in like a bum, governed like a bum, and is going out like a bum.

MOSSAD APPEARS TO HAVE PENETRATED HIM MORE THAN HE PENETRATED THOSE MISTRESSES:  Israel’s deeply-entrenched spy network uncovered elusive Hezbollah commander’s 4 mistresses – and plans to marry them: report.

IN OTHER PREDICTIONS, LONDON WILL EXPERIENCE FOG IN THE COMING YEAR:  GOP pundit Scott Jennings slaps down CNN commentator’s rosy view of Biden presidency: ‘He’s going to leave office in disgrace’.

THE DONALD KNOWS IT’S NOT AN EASY JOB:  Donald Trump reacts to Jimmy Carter’s death with heartfelt statement: ‘We all owe him a debt of gratitude’.

I guess acting presidential means doing the gracious thing, sometimes.

PREVIOUSLY PREDOMINANTLY BLUE:  Trump Support Surged In the Predominantly-Blue Bronx.

WHEN DID THEY START THINKING FOR THEMSELVES?  What Shocked a Dem Strategist When Speaking With Hispanic Voters in South Texas.

SEND THIS ONE TO A CRAZY LEFTIST:  Insurrection and Treason: What Did the Words of the 14th Amendment Mean in the 1860s?

WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF HAMAS DIDN’T HIDE BEHIND THE INNOCENT?  DF Raids Gaza Hospital Doubling as Hamas Base; Captures 240 Terrorists, Including 15 October 7 Perpetrators.

AS HE SHOULD:  Jordan Peterson Slams Liberal Mindset of Treating Criminals as Victims.

SURE THING. THEY’RE ABOUT TO FIND THE DEFINITION OF “FUNNY ONLY ONCE”*:   They Are at It Again. Prominent ‘Public Health’ Voices Lay the Groundwork for a New Pandemic for Trump.

Before you tell me it wasn’t funny even once…  It’s a The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress thing. You wouldn’t understand.

IN CASE YOU DOUBTED HE’S OUT OF HIS MIND:   NEW: Biden Has Two More Truly Warped Regrets About His Time in the WH.

IT WAS NEVER A CIVIL WAR. IT WAS A SPIRITED DISCUSSION. REAL MOVEMENTS CAN SCREAM AT EACH OTHER AND HASH THINGS OUT. IT IS ONLY TO LEFTISTS THAT ANY DISAGREEMENT LOOKS LIKE DEATH:  Elon Musk changes his tune on H1-B visas as he tries to cool raging MAGA civil war over skilled immigration.

For them it is death. As a movement the left has entered its Ghost Dance phase.

JIMMY CARTER, ELECTION DENIER, RUSSIA HOAX ENABLER:

Former President Jimmy Carter: If fully investigated, it would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in office because the Russians interfered …on his behalf.
🎥 https://t.co/CYSBIK3qHF pic.twitter.com/o71Z4InVxB

— CSPAN (@cspan) June 28, 2019

UPDATE:

This is a classy statement by Trump especially considering that Jimmy Carter denied the results of Trump's election victory and attacked the legitimacy of his presidency. https://t.co/FUJ9N9HMKs

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 30, 2024

MORTI NILSI– OKAY, FINE, FOR JIMMY WE WILL MAKE AN EXCEPTION:  The Under- and Over-Estimated Jimmy Carter, RIP.

And if you click show comments and I did this right the first one should be by James Madison and is closer to how I feel than the post.

Honestly, my entire life in America I’ve heard the left praise this bag of wind as the man who would have been great if only he had a second term. Meanwhile the right talked about this evil creature with a smiley face as “well intentioned.” I’ve spoken badly of him for 39 years now. Not going to change. Without him Iran and Venezuela wouldn’t be the horrors they are. And we’d be in a lot less trouble.

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones”=William Shakespeare….  And Jimmy leaves a lot of evil living on after him.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

GREAT MOMENTS IN OBJECTIVITY:

As Jay Nordlinger wrote in “Carterpalooza,” “No one quite realizes just how passionately anti-Israel Carter is. William Safire has reported that Cyrus Vance acknowledged that, if he had had a second term, Carter would have sold Israel down the river. In the 1990s, Carter became quite close to Yasser Arafat. After the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia was mad at Arafat, because the PLO chief had sided with Saddam Hussein. So Arafat asked Carter to fly to Riyadh to smooth things over with the princes and restore Saudi funding to him — which Carter did…In The Unfinished Presidency, [Douglas] Brinkley writes, ‘There was no world leader Jimmy Carter was more eager to know than Yasir Arafat.’”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Landspace secures state-backed funding for reusable rockets.

RIP: Hal Lindsey, evangelizing tugboat captain who gripped 1970s America with predictions of apocalypse.

Hal Lindsey, who has died aged 95, was a former Mississippi tugboat captain who took the end of the world off sandwich boards and brought it into mainstream culture; his book The Late Great Planet Earth was the bestselling non-fiction title of the 1970s in America and popularised such apocalyptic notions as “the rapture” and “the mark of the Beast”.

Hailed by Time Out magazine as “the Jeremiah of his generation”, Lindsey did not present himself as a prophet along the lines of Nostradamus so much as an interpreter of eschatological predictions in the Bible. He belonged to the dispensationalist tradition of Christianity, which believes in literal readings of the scripture and in the return of the Messiah before the Millennium.

Stemming from the Plymouth Brethren in the early 19th century, these ideas had in America previously been confined to non-denominational evangelical churches. What was novel about Lindsey was that he saw in passages in Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation descriptions of events in his time that suggested the world was, in the title of one of his later books, on a countdown to Armageddon.

To be fair, many got rich with their own countdown to Armageddon in the 1970s:

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The Worst Media Lies of 2024.

SUPERCUT!

The 10 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2024

Read our wrap-up:https://t.co/djyeFa86fG pic.twitter.com/xKyLkEq475

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 27, 2024

And of course, the biggest media scandal of them all — two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal explored “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge.” Ultimately the White House functioned (very badly) because the “news media” (aka Democratic Party operatives with bylines) let them get away with it:

UPDATE:

Clyp Keeper:

“All of those that spent the last four years lying repeatedly about Joe Biden's mental acuity should be run out of Washington and never be heard from again!

"Joe Biden is SHARP" – The MAGACLIP” pic.twitter.com/pPvfMFtshV

— SweetPeaBelle (@SweetPeaBell326) December 29, 2024