HOW DARE YOU STOP US FROM FREELOADING OFF AMERICAN DRUG DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES! Canada vows to defend its drug supply against Florida importation plan.

IT’S LAME, UNLESS IT’S DEPLETED URANIUM. What is Lead Free Ammunition?

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Citing “crew safety,” NASA delays upcoming Artemis missions by about a year.

FRUITS OF DISTRUST: Philadelphia measles outbreak raises concern as vaccination rates fall.

WELL, GOOD: Injectable hydrogel electrodes open door to a novel painless treatment regimen for arrhythmia.

NOBODY’S PERFECT: Astrobotic: Peregrine spacecraft won’t land on moon after propellant loss.

#JOURNALISM: BBC: Yeah, Our ‘Summary Executions by IDF in Gaza’ Report Was Full of Crap.

WHAT WERE ONCE VICES ARE NOW HABITS: Martin Hackworth: The Assault on Virtue. “Courage is another virtue that is universally praised but seldom demonstrated. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the modern academy. Universities are populated by people whose job is precisely to stand up for excellence in scholarship, research, and service Despite the fact that most of these folks enjoy the benefit of some form of tenure to help them, they repeatedly fail to counter assaults on free speech, the free exchange of ideas, excellence, and merit. Colleague under duress for not kowtowing to DEI madness? Throw them under the bus. Observe obvious research fraud? Look the other way. Exams too difficult, too stressful, too laborious to administer, inequitable, and not empathetic? Don’t stand up for pedagogy; just bin them. Don’t even get me going on integrity, which is so rare these days that I’m flat-out amazed when I encounter it.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The Patagonian Enigma: China’s Deep Space Station in Argentina. “New Argentine President Javier Milei may have railed against China but he’s taken a pragmatic track since. Still, the new government should look closely at China’s Argentine space station.”

AMERICA: McDonald’s Double Big Mac coming soon to US restaurants. The Big Mac is already a double burger, so the Double Big Mac would be a . . . double double.

HATE: Retired faculty protest hiring of Republican as new Youngstown State president.

THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT: Dept of Ed opens investigation into treatment of Jewish students at Brown University.

NOW OUT FROM ROGER SIMON: American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States. I got an advance copy and I highly recommend it.

DON SURBER: The unelecting of a president: The left seems determined to end Biden’s presidency.

A NEW STATEMENT OF PRIORITIES FROM THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS, and there’s nothing about diversity, equity, or inclusion. Or “climate.” As a military friend wrote a while back, sometime mid-2023 the big boys and girls in the military seem to have decided that it was time to get serious about actually fighting a war.

IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE, BUT IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO SATIRE IN 2024? ‘MAGA Is A Cult,’ Says Party Doing Chants For Politician Inside Church.

GOOD: Court serves defeat to Biden’s dishwasher police. “A federal court on Monday declared that President Joe Biden’s team went too far in imposing new water and energy regulations on the two machines that make life easier, dishwashers and washing machines. In ruling against Biden, the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said former President Donald Trump’s administration got it right when it moved to let consumers choose between machines that take longer and use less water and those that can do the job in an hour or less.”

PUSHBACK WORKS: Under Fire, Biden Admin Scraps Plan To Remove William Penn Statue From Philly Park.

MARTINEZ, NOT GIULIANI: The Dangerous Pro-Palestine Protests Have a Common Thread … His Name Is Rudy.

Related: SEIU Leader Participated in Palestinian Protest That Shut Down Brooklyn Bridge: Union leader Larry Alcoff was joined by his wife Linda and son Jose, an Antifa member who was charged with felony assault in 2019.

NBC TRIES A HIT PIECE ON PRAGERU, but the Prager folks brought their own camera.

Hey, good idea.

MORE, PLEASE: Woke activists are finally experiencing much needed accountability due to the action of outside forces.

Related: A new alliance?

Thank you Elon for your support. https://t.co/YPf8Fy9k9x

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 9, 2024

HOPE THEY’RE TREATED BETTER THAN THE CANADIAN TRUCKERS:

🇩🇪 German farmer @AnthonyLeeLsvD tells me about the farmers’ uprising:

“We’re sick of the lies. We’ve been here for generations, we work 24/7, we’re the people who put food on your plates!

We are all united in getting rid of the politicians who are trying to get rid of us!” 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Z69cjvSmYF

— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) January 8, 2024

Though the truckers basically won in the end.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Right now Ecuador is experiencing an all-out cartel takeover. They’re executing hostages, taking over prisons, and stormed a news station on live TV.

I used to live in Ecuador. My dad took an oil job there for a year and half while I was in middle school. Nothing like this was… https://t.co/uNqnbZ5an1

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 9, 2024

LOL: Blue on Blue: Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Mayor Wu’s State of the City address.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.