PRIORITIES: With law taking effect, California strengthens plastic bag ban.

CANADIAN DEATH PANELS: Where Does Sarah Palin Go for Her Apology? “Palin was called a loon and a crank. Even today, a simple search on Microsoft’s Copilot for the date when the former governor coined the term ‘death panel’ carefully notes that her accusation quickly became a viral talking point despite ‘being widely debunked as a myth.’ Fifteen years after Palin’s remark, disability advocate Krista Carr testified before members of the Canadian parliament that her organization receives weekly reports of medical assistance in dying (MAID) services being suggested unprompted to disabled individuals during routine, non-terminal care visits. . . . Canada, whose lawmakers, celebrities, and influencers often boast about their “free” healthcare and stringent anti-gun laws, recorded an astonishing 16,499 MAID suicides, or legalized doctor-assisted suicides, in 2024. . . . Put another way, a Canadian is nearly three times more likely to die by MAID than an American is to die by a gunshot, whether intentional or not. How’s that for perspective?”

(Emphasis added.)

ICYMI: Kathleen Kennedy, Destroyer of Star Wars, Finally Out in 2026?

WTF HAS HAPPENED TO MAINE? Democrat Graham Platner Marched with Somali Activist Tied to Nonprofit Accused of Fraud To Show ‘Solidarity’ With Minnesota’s Scandal-Plagued Somali Community: Tiny Maine’s relatively large Somali community is also coming under scrutiny for Minnesota-style fraud.

WHAT THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE HAS WROUGHT:

Psychopathic communist is actually a median, not-that-bad outcome when your parents are divorced professors. https://t.co/uUqelMa9RQ

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 7, 2026

90% of left-wing politics is just rich kids trying to assuage the guilt they feel for their privilege. https://t.co/bHs4SYrFya

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 7, 2026

Earlier: Marxism In The Metropolis: NYC’s New ‘Tenant Czar’ Has Targeted White Homeowners, Private Property.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo. #CommissionEarned

I LOVE WHEN A WRITER I ADMIRE SAYS SOMETHING NICE ABOUT MY WORK: Robert Bidinotto on Facebook.

And if you don’t have facebook, I saved it for my clips. (Yes, I know, Like a deranged actress, isn’t it?)

AS SURELY AS NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY: Trump predicts he will be impeached for a 3rd time if GOP loses midterm. “I’ll get impeached,” he said. “We don’t impeach them. You know why? Because they’re meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things.”

Democrats might say they won’t impeach, but they almost surely will.

OLD HIPPIES AND YOUNG MENTAL CASES:

This is footage from the protest against ICE and Border Patrol here in Asheville NC.

I could not find a single person of color protesting yesterday, not one.

At least 80% of the people at the protest were white and over the age of 50…

Why is it only older white people? pic.twitter.com/ja604raQpw

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) January 9, 2026

WELL, YES: Trump’s Venezuela Raid Changes the Map: Cuba, China, and Russia Face a New Reality.

As I was saying.

STEVEN CALABRESI: Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1881 to 1901. “During the oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked counsel for respondent Slaughter how long independent agencies had existed for and counsel suggested to her, incorrectly, that they dated back to the last twenty years of the 19th Century. In fact, as I will show in a series of posts on this blog, no truly independent agency ever existed prior to the decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States in 1935.”

WHAT WAS CHINA’S TAKEAWAY FROM OUR MISSION TO GRAB MADURO?

This is an extremely important point that I've been thinking about ever since we got an unexpected audit of Venezuela's air defenses. Russian SAM-300s and BUKs, Chinese anti-air radar, all proved completely worthless against U.S. gear and operators.

I guarantee you that if you… https://t.co/gNVkDnBEmJ

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) January 6, 2026

The lengthy tweet concludes:

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.

In his 2004 book Dresden, historian Fredrick Taylor wrote that during WWII, the Allies dropped thousands of propaganda leaflets on the Nazi Reich that read, “Europe is a fortress. But it is a fortress without a roof.” The CCP may have reached a similar conclusion about Asia.

JOHN LUCAS: The Wall Street Journal Scores Maggie’s Drawers: There is sedition and then there is sedition. And Sen. Mark Kelly’s comments cross the line.

Personally, I think that “raw political retribution” — which in other circumstances the Journal might describe as “consequences” — is entirely merited here.

THEY NEVER WANTED HIM GONE: ‘We All Wanted Him Gone’: Fetterman Cheers Maduro Strike, Blasts Democrats.

YEP:

The biggest story of last year, and probably the biggest story of the coming year, is the widespread discovery of the fact that we have never been more accountable to government, which can see into our lives with unprecedented clarity and monitor our utterances to the word, while…

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) January 6, 2026

GEORGE ORWELL GIGGLES:  ‘Safeguarding’ protects ideology, not children.

REPULSIVE: IS THIS HOME-BASED DAYCARE A PAYOFF TO ASHLI BABBITT’S KILLER?  On Jan. 6, Questions Emerge About Michael Byrd’s Taxpayer-Funded Maryland Daycare.

I PITY THE FOOL:  Here’s What Happened When Some Guy Tried to Doxx the Commander of Delta Force.

COOL:  Tim Allen Was a Guest on Bill Maher’s Podcast, and Spoke About the First Time He Met Donald Trump.

INTERESTING. IT AND THE COMMENTS. I’VE OFTEN OBSERVED THE SAME PHENOMENON:  At any given time, the Left will valorize whatever group they think is most useful for wrecking civilization so it can be replaced by the totalitarianism of their dreams. Muslims. Black criminals. Sexual deviants. The mascot group changes; the goal never does.

AND FOR THE: Cast out from X.

CLIMATE EXTREMISTS IS A FUNNY WAY OF SPELLING “HUMAN HATING SH*TSTAINS*:  Berlin Plunges Into Darkness After Climate Extremists Set Fire to Power Lines. 

HE CAN’T COMPLAIN. THEY HAVEN’T DUMPED CUBA OR IRAN ON HIM (YET. PLEASE LET IT BE YET):  Greenland, Denmark Press Rubio for Fast Meeting Over Trump’s Greenland Quest.

WELL, WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO FOCUS ON? It’s not as if they can teach. heck, I promise you half of them can’t read with any degree of fluency.  Chicago Teachers Union Focused on Protesting ‘War on Venezuela’ for Some Reason.

AND MORE ON THE MADURO CAPTURE THING:  This is an extremely important point that I’ve been thinking about ever since we got an unexpected audit of Venezuela’s air defenses. Russian SAM-300s and BUKs, Chinese anti-air radar, all proved completely worthless against U.S. gear and operators. I guarantee you that if you are a Chinese military planner contemplating how to get an invasion army across 100 miles of the Straits of Taiwan, you are shitting your pants right about now. Because you have just learned that if you had tried to bust that move yesterday, your nice shiny new invasion fleet would have gotten absolutely gacked by U.S. airpower and missiles that you wouldn’t see coming BECAUSE YOUR FUCKING RADARS DON’T FUCKING WORK.

And for the Cancelled of X.

MORE THOUGHTS ON THE MADURO OP:  Venezuela and (West) Taiwan. What does Winnie the Flu do about Taiwan now?