DON’T TRIFLE WITH U.S. EXPORT CONTROLS: Cosmonaut removed from SpaceX’s Crew 12 mission for violating national security rules: report.

OF COURSE. HAS TO BE. Actually, the bar exam failed Kim Kardashian.

It’s a very hard bar, even for very smart people who went to law school and who studied hard for it.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Discover a Way to ‘Recharge’ Aging Human Cells.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Scientists Uncover New Evidence of Ancient Airbursts That Ravaged Earth Without Leaving Craters.

THERE DOES NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABILITY. SO FAR THERE HAS BEEN NONE.

Actually no, let’s declare a pandemic tribunal and start building gallows. pic.twitter.com/Tt0M5O8IOG

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 1, 2025

GOOD: Exercise slows tumor growth in mice by shifting glucose uptake to muscles.

IF IT’S AS FAST AS THE NAME IS LONG, IT’S A ROCKET: Tested: 2025 Mercedes-AMG GT63 S E Performance Courts Controversy.

IT’S LIKE NORTH KOREA WITH WORSE WEATHER: Elon Musk Slams UK After Man Arrested for Posing With Legal Gun in Florida.

OOPS: The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again.

WELL-KNOWN: Childhood instability accelerates women’s sexual strategies, study suggests. “Faster strategies align with earlier sexual debut, more short-term mating, more lifetime partners, and more offspring at younger ages. Slower strategies align with later sexual debut, safer reproductive behavior such as monogamy and contraceptive use, fewer lifetime partners, and greater parental investment.”

SPACE: Trump White House appoints Taylor Jordan space commerce chief.

HMM: Tai chi as effective as therapy for insomnia, researchers say.

“THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS” IS A CAPITALIST MESSAGE? Holiday classic ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ has ‘dangerous’ capitalist message: professor.

LAWLESS CAMPUS: Video shows students vandalizing TPUSA leader’s patriotic poster at UW-Madison.

“THE AVERAGE SQUATTER HAS NO MELEE EXPERIENCE.” Meet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes.

ROGER KIMBALL: Federal judges crave the spotlight: In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason.

Some of these injunctions and temporary restraining orders are still pending. Many, perhaps most, have been resolved by the Supreme Court in ways that favor the Trump administration, not always categorically but usually by affirming the broad scope of executive power envisioned by Article II of the Constitution. “The executive Power,” quoth that magisterial document, “shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.” “A president,” mind you, a single one. Not a president and hundreds of district court judges.

The rousing start to Article II of the Constitution is neatly put, isn’t it? But those judges took it as a challenge. Trump is an affront to what every right-thinking, i.e., left-leaning, person believes. He wants to make America more prosperous, freer and more secure than it has become in the hands of Democrats and other disciples of hegemonic bureaucracy.

He moved quickly to secure the border. Can you believe it? He is deporting scads of people who are here illegally. Outrageous. He outlawed the racist practice of DEI throughout the federal government and made federal funds contingent upon ending the scam. Horrible. He thinks that the military should be an institution specializing in fighting wars, not promoting “social justice.” Clearly he must be stopped.

Like many pro-Trump commentators, I have weighed in early and often on this legal-political charade. It is a legal charade because what we have witnessed since Trump took office again in January 2025 has been a mind-boggling misuse and hypertrophy of judicial power. Whoever would have thought that a lowly district court judge (there are some 700 of them) would successfully arrogate to himself the authority to tell the President what executive agencies he should pay for and which he should close?

The judiciary has substantially undermined its legitimacy in the past several years. It will not end well.

ROGER SIMON ON THE TENNESSEE SPECIAL ELECTION: “GOP leadership in Tennessee and elsewhere better not be complacent. . . . Regarding the passivity, it’s not the voters who are passive so much as the Republican leadership, starting at the top. This is true of several red states, but definitely of Tennessee. (Neighboring Georgia is worse.) The local GOP, with a few exceptions, never got in gear to seriously win this election against the target-rich Behn until the last couple of weeks. The Democrats had been going full tilt for a long while. Don’t blame the GOP voters.”

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Minneapolis mayor suggests he won’t cooperate with federal law enforcement while speaking Somali.

DON SURBER: No room for Third Worlders. “America is full up. It is closing time for Chinese spies, Somalian fraudsters, Mexican welfare queens, Haitian cat eaters, Afghanistan assassins, Muslim terrorists, European anti-Semites, Venezuelan drug-runners, Nigerian princes, Palestinian protesters and filthy French fifth columnists. This is America’s last call for alcohol. Like the bartender always says, you don’t have to go home, but you just can’t stay here.”

ABOLISH THE TSA: 12 years ago today, this column was the most popular item on the entire USA Today site.

GOOD: An anti-woke counter-revolution is sweeping through the media: From Hollywood to the newsroom, the hegemony of the ‘progressives’ is finally faltering.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

Like many parents, my wife and I remember the early 2020s as a time when schools descended into hyperpoliticized groupthink. We also learned that the frustrating on-again-off-again COVID shutdowns offered a silver lining — they gave us the opportunity to compare school with homeschool. Or at least our first attempts at it.

Even the frustrating period of “virtual learning” came with some upside. Parents got to peer inside schools, often for the first time. When my wife and I peered inside, we didn’t like what we saw. We’ve been a homeschool family ever since.

Smart.

THE GOP IS THE MULTIRACIAL PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS. THE DEMS ARE THE PARTY OF AWFLS, BILLIONAIRES, AND DEPENDENTS.

My biggest takeaway from visiting Del Rio, TX, where I’m sure neither of these white ladies who brunch have ever been, was not how many border agents are Hispanic, but how much the local Hispanic community supports them. They should really go there. https://t.co/x99JyCGyZk

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 2, 2025

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: AI is Destroying the University, and Learning Itself.

Universities were already dysfunctional and losing prestige. This is just accelerating the trend.

SEDUCTIVE AI: Bride weds AI-groom she created using ChatGPT in dual real-life and virtual reality ceremony.