THE NEW SPACE RACE: Second H3 launch planned for February.

OUT NEXT WEEK FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The Attack. An October 7 style attack in the United States? It could happen. (Bumped).

GOOD NEWS FOR OTTERS: Thriving Otters in North America Linked to Nuclear Weapons Tests. Here’s Why.

REALLY? SO WHY DO PEOPLE SEEM DUMBER NOW THAN WHEN SMOKING WAS COMMON? Alarming Study: Smoking Causes Brain Shrinkage – “It Sounds Bad, and It Is Bad.”

BEWARE: FDA Warns Amazon Over Supplements Containing Erectile Dysfunction Drugs: Agency bought and tested products that were found to contain tadalafil and sildenafil.

I’m surprised people put those in.

WE KNOW ENOUGH: Why the full extent of Hamas’s sex crimes may never be known: First responders to massacre saw raped and abused bodies, but the rapidity of events – and cultural taboos – may leave the truth uncovered.

The truth of Hamas’s depravity runs counter to the preferred narrative of many in the West.

WELL, GOOD: A Home Invasion That Failed: And it failed because the invadees had done their homework beforehand.

BUMMER: Food-as-Medicine study finds no improvements in type 2 diabetes patients.

“IMMIGRANTS.” Cali. becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Out partying on New Year’s Eve? Here’s a safety checklist.

LOOKING FOR A YEAR-END DONATION IN A GOOD CAUSE? Consider donating to FIRE, a campus free speech organization I’ve supported for years. They do excellent work.

I also recommend the New Civil Liberties Alliance. I sit on their board and they’re making major legal inroads against the administrative state.

LOL: Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains.

More here. “In other words, though the Navaho have no plans to ever go there, have done nothing to try to explore it, and have no remains of any tribal members on the flight, he wants to claim the Moon as controlled entirely and forever by the Indian tribes of North America because of a law designed solely to protect specific archeological sites on Earth, where Indian remains are discovered.”

I dunno, kinda sounds like someone’s holding out for a payoff to get out of the way.

LOOKING FOR A YEAR-END DONATION IN A GOOD CAUSE? Consider donating to FIRE, a campus free speech organization I’ve supported for years. They do excellent work.

I also recommend the New Civil Liberties Alliance. I sit on their board and they’re making major legal inroads against the administrative state.

CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS: Charges dropped against UChicago ‘United for Palestine’ sit-in trespassers.

GOOD MORNING! Happy 123123!

MAYBE PUTTING THE ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION IN CHARGE OF EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN WAS A BAD MOVE: SHOCKING POLL: 30% of Gen Z thinks Osama bin Laden’s ideas were a ‘force for good’.

WELL, GOOD: ‘Trump Democrats’ helping destroy ‘Obama coalition’ of black people, Hispanics, and youth.

HARSH, BUT FAIR.

CAN WE EXPAND THIS TO UN OFFICIALS? ‘Not a Crime’ To Kill an Israeli Soldier, UN Official Says. But seriously, if it’s total war then let the spirits of Arthur Harris and Curtis LeMay govern.

HE’S CLEARLY UNFIT: The New Rules Dictate That Biden Be Struck From the Ballot With the 25th Amendment.

MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S A POLICY GOAL: Biden Admin Targets Fridges, Freezers in Latest Slew of Appliance Crackdowns.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Degenerate Animals. “Upon re-reading this post, I realize that I may have inadvertently maligned the animal kingdom. To be clear, there is no animal species, no predator, anywhere near as cruel, as heartless, as vicious, as ignorant, as the Muslims who carried out the atrocities of October 7–and the much larger number of Muslims and Western liberals in the press, at Harvard, Penn, MIT, etc., who cheered those atrocities. No animal species has sunk that low.”

OPEN THREAD: Happy New Year’s Eve Eve.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Japan’s ispace shows off a tiny moon lander for its 2nd moon mission in 2024.

HMM: Intermittent Fasting Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to The Human Brain.