WHAT WHO WANTS AND HOW THEY WILL GET IT: Dr. Bret Weinstein sits down with Tucker Carlson to explain just how enormous a fraud the COVID “vaccine” was and what the World Health Organization (WHO) is now doing as it pushes for a new global public health order that appears to be modeled on Beijing.

Be forewarned – this is an hour-long interview but it is the kind of interview that is like the book you can’t put down until you’ve read the last page. Once you engage with Weinstein’s analysis, you won’t want to stop. And yes, Tucker, has done some weird stuff in recent days but he’s performed a genuine public service by giving Weinstein a huge platform.

HIDDEN ‘TRUMP OR BUST’ VOTERS MAY DECIDE 2024: Janice Hisle of The Epoch Times points to the millions of voters who only vote when Donald Trump is on the ballot as the key voting block in understanding the 2024 election. Quoting pollster Rich Baris, Hisle writes:

“Many pollsters might label these people ‘unlikely’ or ‘less-likely’ voters and may discount their responses or weed them out, based on the assumption that they won’t cast ballots.

“But Mr. Baris said that in the case of President Trump’s voters, that premise is flawed. He sees a pattern: These previously unmotivated, sporadic voters now seem to behave rather predictably.”

MAN OF THE YEAR: Washington Free Beacon names the White House Cokehead as 2023’s most illustrious personality. Now all that is necessary is for the Secret Service to come clean on what his name is! We can only assume that when Hunter is confirmed, WFB will provide the associated recognitions.

THEY JUST CAN’T LEAVE CHICK-FIL-A ALONE: New York State Assemblyman Tony Simone thinks the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious expression and practice is less important than making sure an unknown number of Sunday travelers on the New York Thruway be able to eat at Chick-fil-A. Just the latest instance of Empire State officials seeking to shut down Christian public expression and practice. It’s my latest column on PJ Media.

TWO LITTLE DISCUSSED BUT MAJOR FACTORS IN MCCARTHY OUSTER: One of these two huge but mostly unreported factors that helped move the scale against Kevin McCarthy won’t surprise Instapunditeers, but the second one almost certainly will. Check it out in my Premium Report for The Epoch Times.

WHY LEFTIES DON’T GET IT: There’s a flood of depressing news these days, but buried behind the headlines are some genuinely positive developments for the American body politic. Issues & Insights explains, for example, why the crazies on the Left just can’t understand why important folks among their cohorts are heading Rightward.

“This drift is obvious enough, since it includes journalists once heralded by the left such as Matt Taibbi (who won a Young America’s Foundation award) and Glenn Greenwald, and Democratic politicians, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (whose speech at a Daily Caller award ceremony drew many loud cheers from the conservative audience), and Sen. John Fetterman (who recently declared that ‘I am not a progressive’).

“Celebrities such as Russell Brand, David Chappelle, and Bill Maher (who ‘has been riding an asphalt roller over the far left,’ according to Townhall) are part of the shift, as are a handful of prominent business leaders, Elon Musk for instance.”

STAR OF THE MAGI OR A GREAT COMET? Physicist/astronomer Eric Hedin digs into the evidence for possible explanations of the star that led the Three Wise Men to baby Jesus in Bethlehem. He concludes it’s doubtful that the most common explanation — a triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter — suffices. More on HillFaith today.

ROUGH CHRISTMAS? PLEASE READ THIS: PJ Media editor Paula Bolyard is a gifted writer who is blessed with a powerfully candid self-awareness and a courageous heart for sharing her faith.

In the following column she wrote several years ago in the midst of an especially difficult Christmas season, Paula shares her heart about the real struggles we all face from time to time, not just in this season, and how the grace and love of Jesus Christ alone provides the true path forward, no matter the challenge.

And if you missed it Friday on HillFaith, the latest edition of “What Would You Say” from the Colson Center demonstrates that Christmas is not merely a pagan celebration “stolen” by Christians. As Reagan said, “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Merry Christmas to all Instapunditeers, and, as Tiny Tim said, “God bless us, everyone.” If you’ve never watched George C. Scott as Scrooge, it’s a wonderful performance of the classic Dickens tale. (UPDATE: And let’s not forget “Christmas Vacation.”!

DEAR SANTA – WHY IS CHRISTMAS SO !@%$# EXPENSIVE IN 2023? Biden and his defenders can argue all they want that the economy is in great shape, but the bottom line is the essentials of life cost much more today than they did in 2020. Issues & Insights has the facts, not just an opinion.

MORE ON BIDEN’S POTEMKIN PRESIDENCY: There is a Mitch McConnell angle, and, as seems always to be the case with Joe Biden, a hugely important China connection. It’s my latest column for PJ Media.

OVERSIGHT PROJECT SUES DOD ON ‘SOUND OF FREEDOM:’ The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is suing the Biden administration and the Department of Defense (DOD) in federal court for all documentation on the abrupt decision by SOUTHCOM to cancel a screening of the moviementary “The Sound of Freedom.”

The litigation was prompted by DOD’s refusal to supply the documentation that was first sought by the Heritage group via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Speaking of the FOIA, somebody should do the research on the huge importance of that 1966 law that was mostly ignored by the Right for decades after its passage.

BIDEN IS A POTEMKIN PUPPET: Hard not to reach such a conclusion from reading The Hill this morning. The headline says “Biden Kept At Distance from McConnell in Border Talks.” But the lede of the story puts it differently, suggesting that Biden himself avoided the talks: “President Biden has kept a distance …”

Deep into the story, an unnamed Democratic senator gives away the game – they don’t know what Biden might agree to, it might even mean moving back to Trump’s border policies, which would send the Left Crazies into, well, even more Crazy:

“And some Democratic senators are worried that if Biden got into a room with McConnell or other Senate GOP negotiators, he might end up cutting a deal on border and asylum policy that will enrage their party’s base.

“’A totally legitimate concern is if you’re not reasonably close [to a deal], there’s no reason to put him in a room … He could be dragged anywhere,’ said one Democratic senator who requested anonymity to talk about the leeriness fellow Democrats feel about making Biden the point person in the talks.”

Imagine that, a chief executive who could be dragged anywhere! Sounds like maybe somebody is tiring of maintaining the Potemkin Village Presidency they created using Biden.

CHRISTMAS IS A PAGAN HOLIDAY? REALLY? A good case can be made that Jesus was actually born in October, but, as the latest “What Would You Say” video from the Colson Center on Hillfaith makes clear, the precise date isn’t the point of the celebration.

NO SURPRISE HERE: Ahmad Kahalot, chief of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, admits on a Hamas video to being a high-ranking Hamas military officer, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s Charles Hilu. Now, will the New York Times and other Mainstream Media outlets at the very least qualify their acceptance of Hamas casualty figures as arguable Hamas propaganda?

GO-TO ‘EXPERTS’ FOR ISRAEL HATE: Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon shines light on two “experts” who are regularly cited by the Washington Post and the New York Times on the Gaza War. You would never know it from the WP or NYT, but Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir and Gaza Attorney Raji Sourani have nothing but hate for Israel.

EVS MUCH LESS RELIABLE THAN ICE VEHICLES: That’s according to a recent assessment by Consumer Reports (CR). It’s not the first time CR has reported huge reliability problems with EVs, either. See here and here previously on Instapundit.

ANOTHER LOST GENERATION: Hans Bader looks at the latest Harvard/Harris poll that finds 67 percent of the respondents in the 18-24 age bracket view Jews as “oppressors.” And an even more stunning 79 percent of those same respondents view White people as “oppressors.”

But nobody should be surprised by these results, given what is taught in most classrooms these days in publicly funded high schools and universities. Garbage in, garbage out:

“[Ibram] Kendi is very influential among progressives. The New York Times touted Kendi’s axiom that ‘When I see racial disparities, I see racism.’ If someone believes all ethnic disparities in outcomes are due to discrimination, as Kendi does, then they will naturally be suspicious of Jewish ‘overrepresentation’ in law, medicine, and other lucrative fields. Antisemites such as the Nazis have long claimed Jews were unusually successful because they were clannish and discriminated in favor of fellow Jews.

“Never mind that Jewish success in these fields is due to merit and hard work, not discrimination in their favor. Ivy League universities and many major law firms used to discriminate specifically against Jews. Yet Jews managed to become statistically ‘overrepresented’ in fields like law even at a time when discrimination against Jews was more common than it is today.”

INFOGRAPHIC FOR THE AGES: My Epoch Times colleague, Peter Svab, has compiled the most detailed and user-friendly graphic I’ve seen anywhere that explains all of the important facts, players and schedules for the four indictments and 11 lawsuits involving former President Donald Trump.

THIS LEFTY FOREIGN BILLIONAIRE MAY BE WORSE THAN SOROS: He’s from Switzerland, he spends hundreds of millions every year supporting Democrats, far-left advocacy groups and voter registration drives. It’s my latest PJ Media column and congressional testimony from the head of the Capital Research Center (CRC).

DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SAY THAT ABOUT SEX? Maybe, maybe not, depending on who you listen to and whether you’ve actually read it for yourself, according to the latest “What Would You Say” video from the Colson Center on HillFaith.

AND THE MAIL-FRAUD VOTING BEAT GOES ON: A new survey from Rasmussen and Heartland Institute claims one in five mail-in voters admit to committing fraud in the 2020 election, reports The Washington Stand’s Dan Hart.

WINDOW TO THE WOMB: Live Action, one of the most visible and active pro-life advocacy groups, released today what it describes as “a state-of-the-art, medically accurate web app with a time-lapse of every single day of a baby’s development before birth!”

HAMAS HOLDS AMERICANS HOSTAGE, TOO: Somebody should tell the White House and the Mainstream Media, according to Issues & Insights:

“Who are these hostages? Who are the families? What are they going through? It’s possible there have been news reports telling the world about the seven American men and possibly one American woman who are being held captive by these murdering, butchering, raping terrorist thugs. But we couldn’t find any. Even Biden’s unbelievable invitation foul-up was given ho-hum treatment,” I&I observes.

If you are wondering about the referenced Biden invitation foul-up, it was the failure to invite any of the relatives of the American hostages to the White House Hanukkah Celebration earlier this week.

SHE WAS A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS: Jennifer Sey was a typical San Francisco lefty until San Francisco closed its public schools and sent the children home due to the COVID Pandemic in 2020.

A top executive — Chief Marketer and Brand President — with Levi Strauss and a former U.S. women’s gymnastics champion, Sey was nobody’s fool, and she unhesitatingly spoke out boldly against the insanity. Doing so cost her greatly, professionally and personally.

Three years later, Sey is still insisting on facing reality and a recent report in The New York Times confirmed that she, along with a lot of other voices in the wilderness who similarly warned against the absurd policies, was exactly right. Her interview with Bill Walton is well-worth taking the time to watch here.

GOOD QUESTION: Issues & Insights (I&I) wonders where is America’s Javier Milei. The thinkers at I&I are correct, the Mainstream Media here and elsewhere portray Milei as “a radical, a far-right outsider and a right-wing reactionary, if the press is to be believed. But he’s not at all the demon that the mental-case media claims he is. Javier Milei is the type of elected official – note that we didn’t say ‘politician’ – that this country needs. In fact, every nation on the planet could use a Javier Milei.”

I have to confess to being skeptical that Milei will be around very long, but other people who are much smarter than me think otherwise. More here.