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?

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CONGRESS: Tis the season for impeachment? Courtesy of “Obviously Shot on an iPhone by Think Tank Amateurs” Media, a temporary division of the R Street Institute.

AH, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS THE SENATE TRIAL WILL BE DIFFERENT: Trump may be impeached within a week or so, but whenever it happens, everything changes when the scene shifts to the Senate.

ARE YOU REMINDED OF JOHN GALT BY THE 2020 DEMS? The R Street Institute’s James Wallner reminds us of the regime’s last plan in “Atlas Shrugged” and points to the similarities with today’s Washington Establishment:

The regime promised the John Galt Plan “will reconcile all conflicts. It will protect the property of the rich and give a greater share to the poor. It will cut down the burden of your taxes and provide you with more government benefits. It will lower prices and raise wages. It will give more freedom to the individual and strengthen the bonds of collective obligations. It will combine the efficiency of free enterprise with the generosity of a planned economy.”

Definitely worth reading, as an indictment of both parties and a reminder to Trump that going along on suicidal budgets is not what he was elected to do.

PREDICTION – THIS IS A HUGE BOOST FOR TRUMP: Washington politicians and generals have lied to the American people for years about the war in Afghanistan, according to the Washington Post. Trump will say it proves him right about getting out of Afghanistan, and, more importantly, about why the Washington Establishment cannot be trusted. That this gift comes to Trump from the Post is the icing on the political cake.

ONE AMERICA NEWS (OAN) GOES WHERE MSM WON’T: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko tells OAN all about former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovich’s “untouchables” list. If OAN can go to Ukraine and interview principals in the impeachment scandal, why can’t ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, New York Times, etc. etc.?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Answer: Because they’re not interested in knowing what actually happened.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’m bumping this up because it’s very important, undercutting the thesis of the whole impeachment endeavor. And this is the evidence that the House prosecutors will be confronted with if there’s a trial in the Senate.

IS INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY EVEN POSSIBLE IF WE’RE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF DOMINOES? Dominoes have no choice about how or when they fall, they just react. Without free will, we’re kidding ourselves about preserving individual freedom because we’re merely matter in motion, acting and reacting according to material forces.

This is the fundamental dividing line separating Right and Left. As with its Marxism root, identity politics makes us all slaves of our group, based on ethnicity, gender, income level, etc. Conservatives and libertarians know individuals have free will, and make choices for which they are responsible. But making choices requires reasoning, which is an attribute of agency. See where this is going?

NADLER SAYS HOUSE CAN READ TRUMP’S MIND, THEN IMPEACH HIM: It’s an extraordinary claim in the House Judiciary Committee’s just released report on the constitutional grounds for impeachment.

You will find it on page six in the graph beginning “Fourth” where it is stated that: “The question is not whether the President’s conduct could have resulted from permissible motives. It is whether the President’s real reasons, the ones in his mind at the time, were legitimate. Where the House discovers persuasive evidence of corrupt wrongdoing, it is entitled to rely upon that evidence to impeach.”

UPDATE: Question for Nadler — If “the House discovers persuasive evidence of corrupt wrong-doing,” why is it necessary to determine “whether the President’s real reasons, the ones in his mind at the time, were legitimate”?

SPARE US, LORD, OF THIS HOOTENANNY OF INSUFFERABLE ELITISTS: That’s the plea of today’s Issues & Insights (I&I) analysis of the 25th annual United Nations Conference of the Parties on the environment.

Notes I&I: “How long have we been hearing this? Prince Charles has been predicting imminent doomsday for more than a decade, as has Al Gore. Before the conference began, Vice was trying to convince the world that “The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun,” while Extinction Rebellion has been barking madly that “billions will die” and “life on Earth is dying” because of man’s use of fossil fuels.”

And that’s just a taste of the inanity, arrogance and lunacy in I&I’s well-aimed sights.

IMPEACHMENT IS ABOUT GETTING TRUMP, NOT JUSTICE: Just in case anybody had any remaining doubts, former Obama Solicitor-General makes it clear.