NEWS YOU CAN USE: Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: A Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth.

DELICIOUS: Scientists Discover Heart-Saving Powers in Olive, Grape, Garlic, Rosemary, and Saffron.

METH WILL DO THAT TO YOU: In rural America, heart disease is increasingly claiming younger lives.

YEP: Thank Luigi Mangione for Demonstrating the Increasing Uselessness of Gun Control Laws in the 21st Century.

WHERE WE ARE:

Very worried about billionaire genius running the country, no concern about corrupt elderly dementia patient running the show https://t.co/9lKqzZVrZW

— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) December 22, 2024

BRYAN CAPLAN: Why we should separate health and state. “On the surface, a free market in health care seems like the best approach. When you look a little deeper, the free-market approach seems naïve and dangerous. When you look deeper still, however, the free market approach turns out to be the best after all.”

BRAVE NEW WORLD: FDA approves weight-loss drug Zepbound to treat sleep apnea.

CHANGE: Two major banks leave UN Net Zero Banking Alliance in two weeks.

BIGOTRY ON CAMPUS: ‘Deeply troubling’: Top universities ‘refused’ to stop antisemitism, house report says.

CULTURE OF RACISM: UC San Francisco med school to hold event led by unhinged prof who said ‘Whites are psychopaths.’

HEH: Don Lemon Has ‘President Musk’ Narrative Thrown Back in His Face by Man on the Street.

WELL, THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE THEY CLEARLY WERE: GOP majority say Jan. 6 protesters ‘treated worse’ than BLM rioters.

LOCKING UP JEWS AT AUSCHWITZ IS A BAD LOOK FOR POLAND: Poland Says It Will Arrest Bibi If Israeli PM Attends Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary.

HOLLYWOOD AND BLAKE LIVELY: “Here’s where things got weird. The producers hired a crisis communications team. Texts and emails which Lively got via a subpoena suggest that this team wasn’t there to simply advise Baldoni on how to talk about the issue, they were there to turn the press against Lively while he continued promoting himself as a Hollywood feminist.”

Show me a “feminist man,” I’ll show you a probable predator. Show me a Hollywood “feminist man” and I’ll show you a definite predator.

DEMOCRATS ARE LOSING ENTHUSIASM FOR THE “EMERGING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY” AS HISPANICS VOTE FOR TRUMP: Dem. Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Hispanic Voters Have “Slave Mentality” and “Can Barely Vote.”

JONATHAN TURLEY: The joy is gone: A liberal hate-fest for the holidays. “In my recent book, I discussed how addictive rage is. People do not like to admit it, but they like being angry. Sometimes, people can choose madness as a release from reality. It offers a righteous license to slip from the bounds of civility and decency. It allows people to harass Republicans in restaurants or to scream profanities outside of their homes.”

WHY DO THEY ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THIS? “There is an answer, of course: because radical, revolutionary politics, which promises to bring down society’s winners and replace them with society’s losers, are naturally favored by society’s losers. . . . Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 2 Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in ‘friendly fire’ incident.

THE ONLY MORAL THING IS TO EXTERMINATE HAMAS:

These two childhood friends Lin & Ziv attended the Nova Festival in Southern Israel on Oct 7

They were so 𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 murdered that their own parents were advised not to view their bodies. They were identified at a later date. They were both 22

Hamas has no right to exist. pic.twitter.com/5r3vN5QacM

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) December 21, 2024

And their well-insulated funders.

OPEN THREAD: Can’t stop the signal.

YOU CAN’T TAKE THE SKY FROM ME: Firefly wins NASA contract for third lunar lander mission.

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT POINT. It took a combination of persistence, intellectual foundation-laying, and grassroots politics, but the progress has been unimaginable by the standards of the 1990s.

Gun rights were dead in the '90s. Now AR-15s are everywhere, Constitutional carry dominates, and the 2A is stronger than ever. If conservatives can win that fight, the MAGA agenda is absolutely winnable. Enough with the rampant defeatism! How many wins do you have to see before…

— Blake Kuhn (@blakekuhn) December 21, 2024

BIDEN ISN’T “CONSIDERING” ANYTHING. HE’S INCAPABLE OF IT. WHOEVER CONTROLS THE AUTOPEN IS DOING THE CONSIDERING. Biden considers commuting the sentences of federal death row inmates: report.

And we don’t even know who controls the autopen.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Least Successful Conspiracy. “I don’t doubt that various people, including the press, conspired, but the fact that Joe Biden was senile was open and obvious. . . . What is striking to me is not the conspiracy to cover up his condition, which was hardly more successful than the alleged conspiracy to cover up the fact that smoking is bad for you. What is striking is how few people on the Left–approximately zero–cared about the fact that we didn’t have a functioning president. Why were Democrats so unconcerned about having a president who was basically a cardboard cutout? Because they don’t really think the president is very important. They were content to have the Executive Branch run by nameless White House aides and by party grandees like Barack Obama.”

Plus: “I think this narrative helps to explain why Democrats are so horrified at the prospect of a Trump presidency. Trump, a real, non-senile president? A president with a mandate from the voters to bring about important changes? A president who will re-assert control over the ‘fourth branch?’ A president who won’t be a pawn in the hands of Washington insiders? A president who actually understands and carries out his duties under Article II? A president capable of standing up to the Washington establishment? This is what passes for revolutionary change in our late-stage republic.”

OUT: “REVOLVERS DON’T JAM.” In:

The "ReVoLvErS NeVeR jAm" tards are awfully quiet. pic.twitter.com/49nqUFNARK

— Rando Kneanderthal (@RKneegrow) December 19, 2024