NOW CHINA SAYS CHRISTIANS ARE SPREADING COVID: Don’t miss my latest PJ Media Culture column, this one on how China is a——, I mean, imitating Nero.

REP. LAUREN BOEBERT EXPLAINS WHY SHE CARRIES IN D.C.: She’s only five-feet tall, but I wouldn’t mess with her. She’s Video #2 on Thom McKee’s Daily Gouge for today. A little further down, check out Thom’s response to NR’s David French.

ANIMATED POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY: It’s a jointly produced product from the Capitol Research Center (CRC) and Dangerous Documentaries, and it’s first episode of the first season (10 episodes, each 10-12 minutes long) debuts this week.

While we’re here, don’t miss CRC’s recent vidumentary on George Soros funding radically lefties seeking local prosecutorial offices. Soros has had a lot of success in this particular effort and is in part responsible for the spiraling crime rates in those jurisdictions, including Philadelphia and Chicago.

‘IT’S GOT A GREAT BEAT AND YOU CAN DANCE TO IT:’ Wonder if that’s what they’d said on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand of “Graves Into Gardens” by Elevation Worship. Christian music sure isn’t what it used to be. I miss the old hymns, but there is a boatload of raw talent doing Gospel music these days.

HOW MANY MORE THOUSANDS OF JOBS WILL JOE KILL? The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz surveys the unemployment wreckage for His Fraudulency’s first day on the job in the Oval Office.

OREGON PREFERENCES PEOPLE OF COLOR FOR COVID VACCINES: I don’t know, I’m just an Okie but isn’t that a violation of the equal protection clause? Hans Bader, who isn’t an Okie but is a Harvard Law guy, says it is.

CHINA PUSHING HARD TO CLOSE MILITARY DRONE GAP WITH U.S.: The Epoch Times’ Eva Fu has an exclusive report, based on a leaked file. Beijing’s military build-up is on all fronts.

TRUMP’S FOUR YEARS REALLY WERE FULL OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Issues & Insights takes a look back and compiles an impressive look at Trump’s record. How long before “Miss Me Yet? photos of Trump proliferate?

HEY, JOE, CAESAR CHAVEZ WAS A VIRULENT FOE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Maybe our 46th chief executive should spend more time reading journalists like The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.

GHOSTS OF MILLIONS OF ABORTED BABIES HAUNT U.S.: Indeed they do. Nathaniel Blake, writing in The Federalist, observes:

“Most people’s consciousnesses are not as seared as those of the zealots of ‘Shout Your Abortion’ and similar campaigns, so, for the majority of abortion supporters, any rhetorical dodge will do if it avoids invoking the violent reality of abortion. They prefer to cover abortion in the moral haze of a necessary evil in an imperfect world, and then not think about it.

“They justify abortion as the distasteful protector of the individual autonomy, personal achievement, material riches, and sexual satisfaction that our culture glorifies. But the effects of abortion are not so easily ignored. It is, of course, obvious how abortion has broken our politics.”

HOUSE DEM FRESHMAN WANTS TO ABOLISH ‘AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:’ Looks like Critical Race Theory has another proponent in the Democratic House of Representatives. We just don’t understand how evil we are until we listen to our betters like Rep. Jamaal Bowman. But The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz is not impressed.

IS SEX BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS A PRIVATE ACT: Of course it is. But as the Colson Center’s Brook McIntire explains, it’s all but impossible to avoid the reality that there can be public consequences for all of us.

CHINA’S NORTHEAST BEING RAVAGED BY COVID: If you think our lockdowns are draconian …

HOUSE GOPERS SAY ‘STOP TRASHING COVID VACCINES:’ Republicans Ted Budd of North Carolina and Mike Garcia of California want the CDC to tell New York, Washington and other states to get the red tape out of the vaccination process.

COMEY WANTS TO ‘BURN DOWN’ THE GOP: Well, that sounds like incitement to insurrection, does it not? And now he thinks maybe the Pee Tape was for real? As His Fraudulency might say, “c’mon man, that was just for the rubes.” The former FBI Director is not wearing irrelevance well.

WHY MLK TODAY WOULD BE A MAN OF THE RIGHT: Re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 makes it crystal clear there was no room in his vision for the poisonous hate of Critical Race Theory. In fact, had he lived to the present day, I am convinced King would be the sort of American who reads Instapundit!

INSIDE THE LEFT’S ‘HOGWARTS FOR DIGITAL WIZARDRY:’ Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Hayden Ludwig does a deep dive on the Center for Technology and Civic Life, the far-Left voter registration colossus. The result is a detailed description of what may be the most effective GOTV ever and why 2020 may have been merely the first act of a long-running play.

NO, THE ALAMO IS NOT A SYMBOL OF ‘WHITENESS:’ Do not miss Bryan Preston’s superb deconstruction of the claims that those famous 13 days at the Alamo were not a “tactically significant battle” and that the siege was later turned into a racist symbol. In case you wonder why I care, and deeply, about this issue, it’s because I was born an Okie of Texas blood and am immensely proud of both.

MLK WOULD BE REPULSED BY CRT: Honest celebration of the man requires recognition of the truths he proclaimed, including the one that black and white Americans “cannot walk alone.”

And that means also recognizing, as retired Vanderbilt Professor Carol Swain explains, that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a poison. So today would be a good day to give King’s “I Have a Dream” speech a good, close reading.

GOPERS TALK THE MOST IN CONGRESS: That’s according to C-SPAN, which compiled the data for the House and Senate in 2020. Six of the top 10 in the House are Republicans.

A POST-PRESIDENCY PERKS INVENTORY: Being a former President is one of the cushiest retirements anybody could hope for, but Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) may well result in the withdrawal or reduction of such benefits. This Roll Call post does a good job of listing the present perks and where the reform urge is heading. But be prepared for the predictable TDS bias.

NUKE POWER, NOT WHAT IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO: Remember nuclear power? It may be set for a huge comeback, argues Jonah Gottschalk, thanks in significant part to the Trump years.

THEY FOLLOW CHINA’S MODEL, NOT SWEDEN’S: Issues & Insights points out that for decades it was thought the Left sought to implement in the U.S. a government modeled on that of Sweden. But if 2020 made nothing else clear, it showed what the Left really wants is to implement the China model.

NO AGITATORS/PROVOCATEURS JANUARY 6? He saw four distinct groups of them and J. Michael Waller knows professional agitators when he sees them, having been trained to be one and observing hundreds of demonstrations and protests since the 1970s. Just a sample:

“Then, from the north, a column of uniformed, agile younger men walked briskly, single-file, toward the inaugural stand. They came within two feet of me. Their camouflage uniforms were clean, neat, and with a pattern I couldn’t identify.

“Some had helmets and GoPro cameras. Some uniforms bore subdued insignia, including the Punisher skull. These were the disciplined, uniformed column of attackers. I had seen them in groups of two or three among the marchers on Connecticut Avenue from the Ellipse.

“Now there were a good three dozen of them, moving in a single, snakelike formation. They were organized. They were disciplined. They were prepared. ‘We’re taking the Capitol!’ the first or second announced.”

NEXT UP FOR CENSORSHIP WILL BE RIGHT MEDIA: But, as with AOC’s comments quoted by Just the News, it will be called “media literacy.” That’s another term for what I believe Orwell called enforcing RightThink.