TIME IS RUNNING OUT, MADAME SPEAKER: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) appears to have support among Senate GOP leaders for his proposal for a 25-day deadline for the House to send impeachment articles to the upper chamber.

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF: He wants a hearing on why President Donald Trump ordered the drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani.

CAN THERE BE ‘REASONABLE FAITH’ ABOUT JESUS’ RESURRECTION? If it’s true, it’s the central event of all history. If not, it’s an outrageous hoax. Philosopher William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith group has produced two superb videos that address the issues involved.

By the way, regardless of your view on the Jesus issues, the narrator of Craig’s video has an absolutely superb Scots’ brogue. Being a descendant of a Scots clan (MacFarlane, which is ironic, given the subject of the videos and my ancestors’ well-known expertise at cattle thievery), I have to admit possibly being a bit biased here.

IMPEACHMENT IS THE DEMOCRATS’ STALINGRAD: The parallels are a bit startling.

ATHEIST GROUP WANTS IRS TO INVESTIGATE CHURCH THAT HOSTED TRUMP RALLY: There they go again.

INDIANA REP. ASKS WHY CHINA DAILY IS DELIVERED FREE EACH MORNING TO ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: Good question, since China Daily is a product of the Chinese Communist Party and thus represents pure propaganda.

EVEN THE IG MISSED THIS LIE BY DOJ/FBI TO THE FISA COURT: Margot Cleveland explains why Christopher Steele’s dossier source(s) were NOT developed during his tenure with British intelligence. This is highly significant, as it puts the dossier yet further from the realm of credibility. (I know, who would have thought that possible?)

GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, RIP: She was a voice for honest history and historians.

Related (From Ed): Links to Himmelfarb’s articles at Commentary, and their reviews of her books.

IT’S NOT PARANOIA IF THEY REALLY ARE COMING FOR YOU: Casey Chalk at The Federalist explains that religious folks worry Democrats and the Left-Mob will take away their liberties because that’s exactly what Democrats and the Left-Mob have tried repeatedly in recent years.

WELL NOW, ISN’T THIS INTERESTING! Check out the pro-Iranian terrorist helping lead those “protests” at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

DID YOU CATCH CHUCK TODD MOCKING TRUMP VOTERS AS BIBLE THUMPERS ON ‘MEET THE PRESS’? The NBC host’s point in quoting a letter-to-the-editor was that Trump voters are gullible dummies who believe “fairy tales,” like those deplorable legions who accept as truth biblical accounts like Noah’s Ark. Todd would have done well to talk to NBC’ “Dateline” cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace about all that before the red light blinked on the camera Sunday.

DONORS STARTING TO SOUR ON WARREN: Zachary Stieber of The Epoch Times reports contributions are down for the fourth quarter. Even if another $3 million is in the bank by Dec. 31, bringing the quarterly total to $20 million, the campaign will still be nearly 19 percent down from the third quarter total.

DAVE RUBIN EXPLAINS HOW HE CHANGED HIS ‘FACTORY SETTINGS OF THE LEFT:’ A former progressive, Rubin calls himself a “classical liberal” these days, but there was a time when it took a frank interview with the great Larry Elder to rid himself of some lefty baggage. Now, it’s hard to find a more incisive and thoughtful critic of the woke-ness disease: “Woke-ism is whatever it wants to be on any given day,” he explains to The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek.

DOES ALASKA’S SENATOR THINK HER NAME IS ‘LADY MACBETH?’: Maybe she does, but the folks at Issues & Insights aren’t having it.

SMUGGLERS SOUTH OF THE BORDER LOOK FOR NEW CUSTOMERS: They are finding them from, literally, all over the Earth.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER, WHILE STARING DOWN THE BARREL OF A GUN: The photo tells the story but Evan Fu of The Epoch Times provides the dramatic details. The poster being held up by the unarmed protestor reads: “Heaven will judge the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

YEAR OF CRISIS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER: The Epoch Times’ Charlotte Culbertson explains how things were bad in January, got worse through May, but then the cumulative impact of multiple Trump measures began to be felt, especially the Migrant Protection Protocols.

MARYLAND GUN LAW CHALLENGED BY 21 STATES’ AGS: Speaking as the proud owner of a Remington R1 1911 handgun and a Maryland resident who has been threatened and would like very much to have a conceal-carry permit, I hope this case wins and soon. Will need something smaller than the R1, though. Any recommendations?

YEAR-IN-REVIEW SHOWS TRUMP BOOM LONGEST EVER: Let’s see, 126 straight months. Beats Clinton in the 90s. Beats Reagan in the 80s. What’s not to like?

TOP 20 SPYGATE STORIES OF 2019: How’s your list compare with this one?

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE IG’S NEW FBI INVESTIGATION? Probably not because the MSM was too wrapped up trying to spin the Horowitz report as a vindication of the FBI Russia hoax against President Donald Trump. But, as Jeff Carlson explains in this interview with The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek, the new IG probe means continued critical oversight and pressure for reform of the FBI.

BORIS JOHNSON HAS CRACKED THE CODE OF REAGAN COALITION FOR THE UK: Not sure I completely agree with this case, but it’s well worth reading.

WHY SHOULD ALL OF US FUND CALIFORNIANS’ VIRTUE-SIGNALING EVS? A coalition of 33 groups led by the American Energy Alliance is pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) to kill a “tax extender” to continue and increase the federal credit for buying a plug-in electric vehicle.

HALF A MILLION FOIAS TO HHS FROM 2008 TO 2017: Here’s your crowd datapoint stumper for those Christmas party convos. Turns out that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its constituent agencies received 530,094 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the years between 2007 and 2018, according to a study by the Research Integrity Journal.

Nearly 70 percent of the total went to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), while another nearly 19 percent were submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FOIA requires federal officials to provide copies of all government documents requested by any individual as long as it isn’t covered by exemptions for factors like personal privacy, national security, commercial secrecy and on-going law enforcement investigations.

BIDEN PAID MEN WORKING FOR HIM MORE THAN WOMEN ON HIS STAFFS FOR 34 YEARS: So why would anybody expect him to change in 2021?