DON SURBER: Temu Radar failed Venezuela: Chairman Xi lost the war without Trump firing a shot at him.

The utter failure of Chinese air defenses inspires these thoughts from Eric S. Raymond: “Before this went down I was figuring a very high probability that the Chinese make their move on Taiwan in 2027. Now? I guarantee you that their confidence in their previous risk assessments has evaporated. They no longer know what they’ll be facing, and there’s a significant possibility that mainland China’s domestic air defenses are worthless too. Now I’m going to suggest that you juxtapose two phrases: ‘thermobaric bombs’ and ‘Three Gorges Dam.’ A China that’s naked from the air has the biggest glass jaw in human history. Now I think there’s pretty good odds that the invasion of Taiwan will never happen at all.”

Not sure a thermobaric bomb is the best ordnance for that job, but the point is sound.

TRUTH:

The entire Democrat Party ceases to exist without taxpayer money, election fraud, and the mass importation of foreigners. It’s a 20% Party without those things.

Understand that and you’ll understand why they fight so hard for those things.

Their entire existence is on the line.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 7, 2026

OF COURSE HE IS: Mamdani’s First Test: He’s Sticking By His Racist, Communist ‘Tenant Advocate.’

ROGER KIMBALL: The Case For Annexing Greenland.

Anyway, the talk in Trump world about Greenland has given mouthpieces like Jake Tapper a case of the sads. After Katie Miller’s post, Tapper anxiously pestered her husband Stephen Miller about Greenland. “Can you,” quoth Tapper, “rule out that the US is ever going to try to take Greenland by force?” “Greenland should be part of the United States,” replied Miller. He then offered him a lesson in realpolitik. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Has Miller been reading his Thucydides (see Book 5.89)? Miller then asked an interesting question: by what right does Denmark have Greenland? Is it because Erik the Red founded a settlement there around AD 1000? I think the Danes will have to do better than that.

And besides, Jake Tapper can rest easy. Trump will not be sending in a Delta Force squadron to seize Greenland. That’s not how things will evolve. How will they evolve? Trump wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. There will be tears and some foot stamping by the Danes and other members of the EU. But Greenland will soon come under the orbit of the United States. Maybe Trump will make the sort of deal that Arthur Guinness struck when, in 1759, he leased St. James’s Gate for his brewery for £45 per year for 9,000 years.

I am sure a tidy sum will change hands over Greenland. Maybe Trump will also extend some face-saving tokens. But Greenland is essential to America’s, and Europe’s, security in the region. Therefore, notwithstanding the Jakes and the Margarets of the world, Greenland will be ours.

My take is that Trump has written off Europe, and expects it to go Islamist, and is fortifying North America against that prospect.

ICYMI: Trump’s ‘Peace on Earth’ Raid: The Monroe Doctrine Is Back, Baby.

LOL: Brown University Taps DEI Official To Restore ‘Sense of Physical Security’ on Campus.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: CAP Barbell Rubber Coated Dumbbell Weight Set. #CommissionEarned

PRIVACY: News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.

On Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein denied objections that OpenAI raised, claiming that Magistrate Judge Ona Wang failed to adequately balance the privacy interests of ChatGPT users who are not involved in the litigation when ordering OpenAI to produce 20 million logs.

Instead, OpenAI wanted Stein to agree that it would be much less burdensome to users if OpenAI ran search terms to find potentially infringing outputs in the sample. That way, news plaintiffs would only get access to chats that were relevant to its case, OpenAI suggested.

But Stein found that Wang appropriately weighed ChatGPT users’ privacy interests when ordering OpenAI to produce the logs. For example, to shield ChatGPT users, the total number of logs shared was substantially reduced from tens of billions to 20 million, he wrote, and OpenAI has stripped all identifying information from any chats that will be shared.

That actually looks like a pretty solid compromise.

FROM HEATHER STRICKLER:  Fairy Gold (Gates of Fairy Land).

Step through the gates of wonder, where brave children wield wooden swords and everyday magic lurks around every corner.

Come to a place where dragons hide under beds and in garden willows, fairy queens feast beneath the sea, and determined young heroes sail among the stars. These poems celebrate the fearless imagination of childhood, where protective big brothers guard against nighttime terrors, space explorers claim distant worlds, and wooden swords are mighty enough to defend all that’s good.

Written with the timeless, read-aloud quality of classic children’s poetry, Fairy Gold offers families a fresh collection that honors both the wonder and courage of young hearts. Perfect for bedtime stories, classroom sharing, or any moment when magic feels just within reach.

Welcome to a world where children are the heroes of their own fairy tales.

TO BE FAIR, THEY WEREN’T AFRAID HE’D FAIL, THEY WERE AFRAID HE’D SUCCEED: The Experts Were Wrong About Pete Hegseth: Hegseth’s Pentagon delivered where others failed.

MATT TAIBBI: The Unchecked Rise of Crazy Race Theory in Academia: Expressing support for a loony housing appointee, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the latest politician to ratify a truly evil set of academic race theories.

CDR SALAMANDER: The Unfortunate Greenland Kerfuffle: We Need A New Approach.

WELL, IN HER CASE, IT PROBABLY STARTS WITH BEING YOUNG, WELL-ADJUSTED, AND PRETTY: Kai Trump Reveals the Secret to Driving Liberals Up the Wall.

WELL, BYE.

🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: The Hampton Inn by Hilton Lakeview can NO LONGER be booked through any travel website, and has been NUKED from Hilton’s site

FAFO, clowns.

MASSIVE financial losses incoming! Hope your anti-ICE virtue signaling was worth it! 🤣 https://t.co/XeOUZ1GOsZ pic.twitter.com/qAH6py2d48

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 6, 2026

NEVER SAY I DON’T SUFFER FOR MY BLOG:  Blogging the Future of The Past, Donovan’s brain by Curt Siodmak.

IT ISN’T AS IF THE VAXXERS HAVE EARNED THEMSELVES ANY CREDIBILITY:  US announces major overhaul of childhood vaccines.

HE NEEDS TO MAKE THE OFFER TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM WHOM THE DANES STOLE IT:  Marco Rubio Has Informed Congress That Trump Wants to Buy Greenland.

Serve them up some Land Acknowledgements with pickled herring sauce.

OF COURSE THEY DO:  Leftists in Oregon Want Segregated Swimming Pools.

Have they ever really stopped?

YOU CAN ASK BUT HE WON’T DELIVER:  An open letter to the Prime Minister: Please tell the truth about our energy bills.

Two Tier Keir couldn’t find the truth with two hands and a seeing eye dog.

THE HUMILIATION HE NEEDS IS TO BE WHIPPED THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF LONDON, BAREFOOT AND TIED TO THE TAIL OF A DONKEY:  Humiliation for Starmer as Lords inflict FOUR defeats on Chagos Islands ‘surrender’ legislation and demand he reveal the REAL cost of the handover.

Of course, the bastage might enjoy it.

SILLY ME, I THOUGHT ‘MEDICAL TRANSPORT COMPANIES’ EXIST TO TRANSPORT PEOPLE NEEDING MEDICAL CARE:  Nick Shirley’s Second Minnesota Fraud Video Is Just As Insane.

CAN YOU HEAR IT? THE SCREAMING OF THE PROGGIES? Ten years in the making! The United States Press Secretary, Karoline Claire Leavitt: “Now, nearly ten years later, thanks to the declassification of documents by the Director of National Intelligence, the truth has finally come to light—and it vindicates President Trump and his family. Barack Hussein Obama attempted to overthrow the United States government in 2016, the sitting president in 2017 as part of a ‘seditious conspiracy,’ overthrew it in 2020 to cover it up—and now he’s been caught.”

AND FOR THE: Exiles of x.

I hear it, growing in the distance. It sounds like justice.

BUT I THOUGHT TRUMP WOULD MAKE THE WORLD BURN:  Israel, Syria agree to share intelligence, seek military de-escalation after Paris talks.

REP. GOLDMAN SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL STUPIDITY:  Rep. Goldman: ICE Agent Who Shot Woman ‘Needs to Be Charged With Murder’.

OH, IAN. THAT’S TOO GOOD FOR HIM:  Roast in hell, you bastard.