WELL, OKAY, THEN: Harvard offering course on ‘Sexual Life of Colonialism,’ will cover ‘queer desires’ and ‘transgender rights.’

DO TELL: Small Business Optimism Hits New High.

CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT:

https://t.co/SuSiKuJBSS

🚨 BREAKING: Labour’s Head of Operations, Sophia Patel, has deleted her LinkedIn profile and locked her Twitter after explosive allegations surfaced that she organized 100 Labour staffers to meddle in the 2024 US election—allegedly to prevent Donald… pic.twitter.com/Z1xUxhw6nz

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 14, 2025

THEY MADE GEORGE FLOYD A SAINT BUT NOW SUDDENLY BEING A FELON IS BAD? Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will forever be a ‘convicted felon.’

HARSH BUT FAIR:

What's the difference between fact-checkers and fire departments?

Democrats will fund fact-checkers. https://t.co/bAj6RbIZoG

— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) January 13, 2025

REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD: The Tiger Mother Roars Back: Yale tried to run Amy Chua out. Now her former students, J.D. Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy, are headed to Washington. So is she.

ENFORCE THE LAW:

Breaking: 🚨 Labour Staffers Could Face U.S. Charges for Election Meddling! 🚨

The 100 Labour Party staffers who traveled to the U.S. to campaign against Donald Trump and in support of Kamala Harris may face serious legal consequences under the Foreign Agents Registration Act… pic.twitter.com/1b6SQwnZmy

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 13, 2025

AND THEY DON’T NEED TO BE: Greenland to Trump: ‘We Don’t Want to Be American:’ Prime Minister Múte Egede says his country plans to seek closer defense and business ties to the U.S.

Egede said Monday that his country has no desire to do business with Russia. He also said the country needs to be “more prepared” to manage security in the Arctic, but didn’t give details of how. Denmark said last month, before Trump’s comments, that it would increase military spending to enhance its presence in Greenland.

Greenland’s resources have been talked about excitedly for years, but opportunities in its mining industry haven’t materialized because it has been difficult to persuade investors to risk the capital necessary to get projects off the ground. Greenland also lacks a large number of people who could work in mining, meaning that the country would have to rely on large-scale immigration to staff the industry.

With a COFA you can get all that without becoming Americans.

THINK OF UNIVERSITIES AS INTELLECTUAL WUHAN LABS, DOING GAIN-OF-FUNCTION WORK ON DANGEROUS IDEAS:

The lesson of the past two decades is that it's important to reject pious bullshit issuing from the academy. The consequence of failing to do so include turning some of the wealthiest cities in the world into zombie apocalypses, thousands of children placed on a conveyor to a…

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) January 13, 2025

LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE FROM DAVOS, IT’S MEANT TO: How the War on Farmers Threatens Western Values and Global Food Security.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese sea launch sends 10 navigation enhancement satellites into orbit.

I KEEP MEANING TO TRY THIS: Weighted Vests Are Making a Comeback – But Do They Really Work?

DOESN’T OHIO HAVE A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE? Ohio State: The public college in a deep-red state that blows $13M on DEI and fighting ‘whiteness.’

BETTER ANTIBIOTICS NOW: Genetic Breakthrough Reveals How Superbugs Outsmart Our Defenses.

INTERESTING: Was Zuck Right about Chinese AI Models? Model censorship happens in the cloud. “The best case growth scenario is countries that actually prefer clouds that are good at censorship or control would want to work with a Chinese cloud vendor, in much the same way that some oppressive governments prefer to use Huawei or Sensetime for their telecom equipment or smart cameras. That is a limited, undesirable addressable market. . . . So was Zuck right in calling out all Chinese AI models as always censored and won’t answer questions about Tiananmen Square or Xi Jinping? No really. But he is not wrong about the undesirability of Chinese AI in general, when the albatross of censorship will always hang over otherwise very capable technology.”

VINAY PRASAD: What is the truth about alcohol consumption: I take a deep dive into the question: How much alcohol should a person drink?

SELF DEFENSE: Living With Your Defensive Gun–Part II: Your defensive firearm is only useful if it’s near you when you need it.

I REMEMBER THE DISCUSSIONS AROUND BJO TRIMBLE MAKING THE FAN MAILING LIST AVAILABLE. How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle.

ARE YOU SURE IT’S NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? Melting Antarctic ice sheets may be causing larger volcanic eruptions.

MORE OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, TOO: Research finds women spend more of their money on health care than men.

“Per capita health care spending for females was 32 percent more than for males.”

Plus: “Although women tend to love the notion of government control more than men do, it is women who will be told they’ll have to cut back. On treatments. And years. You know we’ve been taking more than our share.”

WELL, THERE YOU GO: Donald Trump ‘major health scare’ predicted in 2025 — by world’s only ‘asparagus fortune teller’ known for accurate readings.

OUR ELITES SUCK. Ilya Shapiro Guest-Blogging About “Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites.”

VIDEO: NCLA LEGAL TITANS EXPLAIN HOW THEY STOPPED NASDAQ AND THE SEC FROM IMPOSING DEI RULES ON BOARDS. Reminder/Disclosure, I’m on the NCLA’s Board of Advisors.

FAR FROM THE FONT OF MISINFORMATION CLAIMED BY LEFTISTS, X IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE GREATEST COUNTER TO MISINFORMATION EVER CREATED:

Lmao pic.twitter.com/vDPZcwudCM

— Callum (@AkkadSecretary) January 12, 2025

Does this look like "cutting funding" to you? https://t.co/bz6WvLmNrC pic.twitter.com/3cIKkUBkM4

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) January 13, 2025

No, this is the scam. https://t.co/bz6WvLmNrC pic.twitter.com/omBM7tfKyj

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) January 13, 2025