AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK:  Pentagon to ‘refocus’ military newspaper Stars and Stripes away from ‘woke distractions’ .

HMM. HOW CONVENIENT. James Pethokoukis: Humanoid robots arrive just as humans stop showing up.

THEY’RE HOLDING RESIDENTS HOSTAGE:   The disturbing reason Iran appears to have stopped slaughtering protesters.

Mr President? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

HARD LESSONS, BUT IMPORTANT ONES:  Don’t trust your doctor . . . and the other lessons covid taught me.

SO THIS IS FUNNY: TRUMP ALWAYS SEEMS TO WIN IN COURTS THAT FOLLOW THE LAW:   Appeals Court Just Handed the Trump Administration Major Victory in Mahmoud Khalil’s Case.

PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS? THAT’S A HUGE IMPEDIMENT TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM!  Cea Weaver Identifies the ‘Huge Problem’ Obstructing Her Communist Housing Agenda, and Guess What It Is.

IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:  Remember When CNN Did Ride-Alongs With ICE? Here’s the (D)ifference.

AS THEY SHOULD:   Feds Sue Minnesota Over Discriminatory ‘Affirmative Action Regime’.

IT WAS ALWAYS A GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED BOONDOGGLE:  Net Zero Goes Sub-Zero: Investors Flee Climate Craze as Clean-Tech Venture Cash Drops Almost 50%.

THEREBY SLAPPING THE NOBEL COMMITTEE IN THE FACE:  Machado Presented Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize.

Which, after their farcical award of a Nobel peace prize to the despicable Obama before he did anything, is the least they deserve. A series of kicks in the rear all around the major capitals of Europe is more like what they need.

HE IS TEMU JEFFERSON DAVIS:  Don’t Underestimate Tim Walz. He called himself Knucklehead.

PRETTY MUCH:  “The Left is a death-cult that seeks the destruction of its own people, chasing delusional exaltation”.

WELL, OF COURSE HE IS:  Newsom says he is blocking Louisiana’s push to extradite doctor accused of mailing abortion pills.

OKAY, I’M FAIRLY SURE REDUCING THE WORLD SUPPLY OF CHOCOLATE IS LISTED SOMEWHERE AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY OR AT LEAST WOMANHOOD:  FDA Announces Nationwide Recall Of Chocolate Bars Made In North Carolina. Keep an eye out for Mint Leaf chocolate bars from Raleigh-based Spring & Mulberry.

THERE WILL BE NO CIVIL WAR HERE. SORRY, GUYS, BUT THE LEFT AIN’T GOT IT IF IT EVER DID:  A New Free Europe.

Unfortunately there won’t be a a free Europe is. Look, it would be nice, but you can’t recover for someone else. Even when the someone else is a continent. There might be countries that pop free here and there. But Europe as a whole? There’s so much to recover from, and so much pride to swallow there.

CHILL:  Front Seat For the Ghost Dance.

OPEN THREAD: All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make tonight’s Open Thread possible.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Who’s Funding the Domestic Terrorist and Insurrectionary Groups in the US? Why, George Soros, the Ford Foundation, and Democrat Dark Money Groups, Of Course.

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: The Golden Globes Happened, I Guess…

Back in 2010, when the gulf between reality and what the legacy media was reporting was too big to ignore, I wrote, “A few years ago, the news industry built a mausoleum of their own — remember the Newseum? And that’s not the only place where they’ve entombed themselves. Their news product, particularly on TV, is essentially a closed-circuit system designed to assuage the ruling class. That you and I can choose to also watch is merely a byproduct.”

But that’s the news. I’d call the material released by Hollywood the industry’s own closed-circuit system, but I doubt the people who make this material are actually sitting down to enjoy it themselves. Who is consuming Hollywood’s “entertainment” product these days?

QED:

Ouch! The premier was free and flopped.

This is their own fault. And the sad part is they will never admit why it failed, because it would be “problematic” to discuss the truth.

Nobody wants fat diverse Star Trek with “modern” morals.

They want OG Starfleet. https://t.co/PpjezqfGZM

— Grummz (@Grummz) January 15, 2026

UPDATE: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Already a Flop — Free YouTube Premiere Draws Shockingly Low Viewership.

MORE: Dispatches from United Earth’s Newspaper of Record:

New Starfleet Vessel Unable To Reach Warp Speed Because Crew Is Too Fat https://t.co/7NxyYNXyAM pic.twitter.com/ONOic9mDJ6

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 15, 2026

OBVIOUSLY THEY MUST BE STOPPED FROM TAKING POWER — BY, TO COIN A PHRASE, “ANY MEANS NECESSARY.” To protect our democracy.

they keep telling us that when they’re back in power they’re doing mass incarceration for political dissidents as if this is as normal a thing to say as “we disagree with your views on abortion” or something https://t.co/f1nHNtPBWk

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) January 15, 2026

REDNECK NATION:

That’s right. States don’t get to decide which federal laws apply to them. We settled that question decades ago, at great cost, and the answer hasn’t changed.

These are the same people who constantly warn about “threats to democracy,” yet believe they can bypass the Constitution…

— Nicholas Giordano (@PasReport) January 15, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Didn’t you just say SEVERAL times that Minnesota is “at war” with the Federal Government?

It’s almost like your actions have consequences… pic.twitter.com/dcx6nk3bRa https://t.co/OBqkLKqaob

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) January 15, 2026

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WHEN HE INVOKES THE INSURRECTION ACT, THE FIRST THING HE SHOULD DO IS CUT OFF ALL FUNDS TO MINNESOTA. That will hurt more than a couple of divisions of paratroops.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law & stop the professional agitators & insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done…” – President Trump pic.twitter.com/d7XJMA7qUU

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 15, 2026

PLAIN SPEAKING:

This is remarkable to watch on multiple levels. There is the diplomatic dimension, where an American Under Secretary of State is not supposed to call a spade a spade. But when the people demanding deference to those outdated conventions are the very same elites who fear their own… https://t.co/neIazN9ciO

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) January 15, 2026

NOTHING IS SAFE: Quantum computing promises extraordinary power, but that same power may expose new security weaknesses. “Published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the study argues that protecting quantum computers will require more than software safeguards, emphasizing the importance of securing the underlying hardware as well.”

This is, of course, true for existing systems too.