HMM: Jackson Radio Station Says Their Video of ICE Operations Was Simply Intended to Inform Not Incite.

LEADERSHIP ACTUALLY DOES MATTER:

It’s hard to believe that all we had to do to change the military was to stop backing down.

We went from a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan to snatching rogue heads of state in their sleep.

Ending nuclear threats with stunning precision.

Reducing drug deaths in America… https://t.co/zXrPYfMzIF

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) January 22, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Happy Thursday.

HE GENERALLY IS: JD Vance Was Absolutely Brilliant Today in Minnesota.

WHY THE GOP NEEDS WORK:

Unbelievably disturbing.

57 House Republicans just joined almost all the Democrats to ensure the government can shut off your car whenever it wants. pic.twitter.com/iLztCUNC5h

— Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) January 22, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin plans to build 5,400-satellite megaconstellation.

GREENLAND:

Greenland is badly needed by the USA to engage nuclear armed hypersonic glide vehicles and FOBS from China and Russia aimed at the continental USA.

So-called experts saying Greenland is "unnecessary" are "Cold War thinkers" focused on traditional ICBM threat geometries.
1/ https://t.co/464cIdSOLs pic.twitter.com/3E9SSX45Bm

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) January 22, 2026

WELL, WE DON’T, BUT UNIVERSITY BALANCE SHEETS DO: Do We Really Need 600,000 Chinese Students?

MICROBIOME NEWS: Scientists Discover Breast Milk Carries Key Gut Bacteria to Infants.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Strategic sex: Alaska’s beluga whales swap mates for long-term survival.

FLASHBACK: The Dangerous Rise Of Men Who Won’t Date “Woke” Women. Still rising, baby.

GAVIN NEWSOM’S PARASITE GOVERNMENT: California Quietly Adds Hundreds In Fees That Inflate Traffic Tickets.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Rifles: Find the Right Ammunition.

WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Human heart regrows muscle cells after heart attack, researchers discover. They used to say that was impossible. Now to make it happen more.

I GAVE BLOOD ON MONDAY AND GOT A REALLY NICE SWEATSHIRT INSTEAD OF THE RATTY T-SHIRTS THEY USED TO GIVE OUT: Non-monetary ‘honor-based’ incentives linked to increased blood donations. I think that’s an indicator that they’re having more difficulty hanging on to donors.

EVERYTHING? What Newsrooms Don’t Understand About the Greenland Deployments.

GOOD: Canaduh’s Latest Gun Confiscation Drive is Doomed to Fail…Magnificently.

NYU’S SHAME:

Let's be clear about this — hospital staff refused to treat plainclothes NYPD detectives injured in the line of duty. Not only that, these officers were treated with contempt completely outside ethical bounds for medical personnel.

From what I understand, staff supposedly did… https://t.co/nVhidkHZ2Y

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) January 21, 2026

BREAKING: FBI Arrests Church-Raid Leaders in Minneapolis. “Considering the evidence on hand, the DoJ took its time. The group published the evidence of its own violations of the FACE Act on social media, as well as evidence of violating other federal statutes, on Sunday. Presumably, Bondi had a grand jury review the X/Twitter streams and let them reach their own conclusions before seeking arrest warrants. The evidence was so compelling that CNN’s Erin Burnett tried to pretend it didn’t matter while interviewing Armstrong yesterday. Guy Benson noticed, and scoffed.”

Scoffing at Erin Burnett is pretty much always justified. Such a shill.

You’re not going to dispute that? It’s on video! https://t.co/XO4lxHI14z

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 22, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Yale activists strike out on oil, Israel, and weapons divestment.

EH, MY SYLLABI ARE NOTHING I’M ASHAMED OF: Georgia’s ‘public syllabi’ head-fake: The requirement to publicly post syllabi is applied in a way that allows professors to share select, edited portions of the documents.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Why We Need Legal Academics and Civil Debate on Contentious Legal & Political Issues.

DON SURBER: The Art of the Deal in Davos. “If your country isn’t worth defending, why should the USA?”

ROGER KIMBALL: Why shouldn’t the Board of Peace replace the UN? It’s not hard to be more effective than the UN, but one has to start somewhere.

The latest media palpitation about Donald Trump concerns his just-announced “Board of Peace.” Unveiled as an initiative to manage the introduction of tranquillity and physical reconstruction of that pile of rubble formerly known as Gaza, the Board of Peace seems to be filling all the empty space in the parking lot reserved for international relations. Think Big! The BoP now seems to take as its mandate international conflict more generally. Reporting on the fledgling enterprise, a story on ABC News mournfully told the world that “Critics and government leaders are decrying the board, saying it undermines the United Nations.”

Is that a promise? And more to the point, how would anyone be able to tell whether that monstrous, superannuated magnet for spies and third-world grifters had been “undermined?” Inquiring minds want to know.

I will come back to Trump’s latest action idea in a moment. First, I have something to propose for the United Nations. Many countries have the sads about the United States. Their leaders think Trump is a bully. They hate it that he plucked the dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bedroom in Caracas and flew them, free and for nothing, to New York. They are weepy about his talk of appropriating Greenland and making its 56,000 residents rich. All the Danes had to offer was forced sterilization for the ladies, but we’re not supposed to talk about that.

But back to the UN. Why should New York get all the glory? I know the assorted despots like to come to Manhattan in their cloud of all-expense-paid diplomatic immunity to rail against the evils of Israel and the United States. But shouldn’t we take a page from that great Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama and seek to spread the wealth around?

Here’s my proposal. Untether the UN from the US. Beginning next year, let’s locate that august (in its own eye) body in various spots around the world for a term of, say, three years. Since everyone is so keen on Somalia at the moment, let’s move the UN to Mogadishu for three years beginning in January 2027. Then it might go to Ukraine for three years. Then to Gaza, where its great moral authority might help restore the tissues of that unfortunate stretch of beach-front property.

Meanwhile, the hideous Corbusier structure in New York can either be demolished outright or taken apart piecemeal and shipped to Brussels, where it can be reassembled and open as a museum commemorating the unique combination of corruption and hectoring utopian blather that the UN has always specialized in. As for its site on the East River, that’s prime real estate. I suggest transforming it into some useful for once, a golf course, for example, or putting green.

If only we knew someone with Manhattan real estate development experience who could handle the repurposing.