CHANGE: Christmas Day Gasoline Prices Set To Fall To Covid-Era Levels.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, DAD: Hunter Biden rips dad Joe’s presidency over immigration, Afghanistan in stunning interview: ‘Obvious f–ing failure.’

IT’S IN THE CONSTITUTION AND EVERYTHING: Impeaching Judges Is Not an Abuse of Political Power.

COLE/COLLINS SPENDING DEAL: Only they and their staffers know the specific numbers, but House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) have agreed on spending totals for the remaining nine appropriations for Fiscal Year 2026. Could a return to “regular order” actually be in the offing?

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

You are the former communications director for the Lincoln Project, where your job was covering up for actual pedophiles! https://t.co/5UmH3NUYfW

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 23, 2025

EARLY THIS WEEK, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Trump’s Big, Beautiful Battleships Are… What, Exactly?

OF COURSE SHE DOES: 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Beats Solo 4 – Wireless On-Ear Bluetooth Headphones. #CommissionEarned

WAR AND PEACE: EU’s roughly $105B loan allows Ukraine to keep fighting Russia, changes dynamics of any peace deal.

The outcome, which was the result of difficult and uncertain negotiations, provides dramatic support to Ukraine’s medium-term fiscal viability. It means Kyiv can continue paying soldiers, maintaining domestic weapons production, and resist the temptation to accept an early and unfavorable settlement with Moscow.

The loan is structured so that repayment is designed to be covered by future Russian reparations or proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

The European Union and over 30 other countries signed what is known as the Council of Europe convention establishing an international claims mechanism for Ukrainian losses, a plan designed to increase pressure on Russia and reduce the possibility there could be a “normalization” of the country’s relations with Ukraine without consequences.

Exit quote: “The loans are likely to provide enough support for the Ukrainians to continue their fight for another year or more. And perhaps just as significant, they represent a rare example of European states acting in their own interests without any outsourcing to Washington.”

Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe is working.

INTELLECTUAL NEUTRALITY: Surprise! Duke Names Longtime Anti-Gun Advocate to Run Its Center for Firearms Law.

CHANGE:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! The U.S. military recruitment numbers under President Trump are the highest in 15 YEARS

Got what I voted for again!

SEN. MULLIN: "[Lloyd Austin] was more worried about DEI and having some dude in a dress…Hegseth said, no, we're talking about lethality, and we're… pic.twitter.com/y5pNIaPMCY

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 24, 2025

ROBERT SPENCER: Cops Avert the ‘Deadliest Terrorist Attack in UK History’ — Guess Who the Target Was.

WHY ISN’T IT NUCLEAR? CDR Salamander: So, we have a USS Defiant (BBG-1).

NO, REALLY:  Let It Go.

FUN STUFF:  Curiosity’s exploration of boxwork on Mount Sharp.

OUR COLLEGES ARE A PROBLEM. THE FASTER WE MAKE THEM IRRELEVANT, THE BETTER:  Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses.

PEOPLE’S “PARADISES” ALWAYS MAKE THEIR PEOPLE PRISONERS:  Stopping The Drain.

THIS IS URGENTLY NEEDED:  GOP governor lays out plan to ‘purge’ terrorists and terror supporters from state. ‘Any organization that supports terrorism, that harbors people who have provided material support for terrorism, is not allowed to exist in our state,’ said Abbott.

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN OUR SCHOOLS IS MORE EFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING THE KIDS FROM READING:  Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read.

AT LEAST THIS ONE WAS CAUGHT?  Chinese Researcher on US Visa Charged with Smuggling E. Coli Into the Country.

THE FED GIVETH, THE FED TAKETH AWAY:  Trump official freezes millions in SBA aid to Minnesota, slams Walz’s policies as breeding ‘endemic’ fraud.

Which is why you should never ask the fed for anything.

WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE:  For everybody saying that the United States doesn’t have a working railgun we do. “The system works. It stopped because it wasn’t, you know, fieldable in an operational environment. The reliability aspects of it, right? But in terms of the technical challenges, the technical challenges have been solved. It’s pulling it all together and making it so soldiers and sailors can operate it”.

AND FOR THE X-CANCELLED:  

OF COURSE IT IS A PEOPLE PROBLEM:  People Problem, not a Gun Problem.

FOR BOOK LOVERS:  Books for Thought (and Christmas Gifts!)  Know a book lover? Here is one author’s picks of some of his favorite books covering history and science that would make perfect Christmas gifts.

SURELY DREADFULLY ABUSED BUT THANK GOD THEY’RE BACK:  Christmas miracle: Kidnapped Catholic school kids in Nigeria freed.