AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS, THERE’S STILL TIME FOR LAST MINUTE GIFTS: On sale, 99c each:  So Little and So Light.

Bowl of Red.

Lights Out and Cry

AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, AREN’T WE ALL?  The night I was Mr Scrooge.

PROFITABLY:  How Activists and Dark Money Are Pushing to Criminalize Climate Change.

SHE’S ALSO REPORTEDLY IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR ENDORSEMENT A BRAND OF KNEE PADS:  Harris Suggests Mocking Her Laugh Is Sexist, As She Gives Young Women Dating Advice.

I WAS AUTHORITATIVELY ADVISED THE DEMS HAD WON THE LAST SHUTDOWN:   Progressive Dems Don’t Seem Eager for Another Government Shutdown…for Now.

THE LEFT IS VIOLENCE INCARNATE. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN:  Mass Casualty Attack Averted.

ALL THE RAGE… AND INSANITY:  Intersectionality is all the Rage – Just Ask “Turtle Island Liberation Front”.

ON STILTS AND WEARING A FUNNY HAT, AT THAT:  Stupid Stupid Stupid.

NEWS FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE:  Boston Mayor: Somalis are Lifting the City Up, Setting Example for Rest of the Country.

AND OUR ANSWER IS VERY SIMPLE:  Don’t touch our boats. OR our free speech:  Everyone freaking out over European sanctions today simply hasn’t done the reading. What is happening now is the resolution of a 60-year-old question that the world has not (yet) answered: in a world where law is confined to borders, who gets to write the laws of the Internet?

And for the x-cancelled. 

NOISOME THINKS HE’S RULING ZIMBABWE:  Newsom Loses More CA Business and Wants to Take Away the Farm.

DEMOCRATIC STATES HATE CHILDREN, ANYWAY:  Democratic states sue to block cuts to US children’s gender-affirming care. 

HAPPY “WE CROSSED A FROZEN RIVER IN THE DARK TO KILL OUR ENEMIES IN THEIR SLEEP” TO EVERY USAIAN OUT THERE:  Praying is a good idea too. Like praying we’re not forced to do it again:  Washington’s Resounding Prayer at Valley Forge

DANCES WITH ALIENS IS MOSTLY STUPID, BUT WELL OBSERVED:  Zoe Saldaña sparks backlash for claiming her ‘Avatar’ character is ‘racist’.

FROM JACK BARUTH:  Cat Tales: Short Stories Of Friends And Ferals.

Four years ago, writer and racing driver Jack Baruth left the suburbs, with his wife, to build a home in rural Ohio. Their twelve empty acres proved to be anything but. In this collection of short stories, he details a bitter and bloody feline struggle for control of field and forest between scar-faced, furtive Albino Kitty and muscular, pitiless Tiger Dad. Against a dark background of deadly winters and relentless coyotes, Albino and Tiger fight tooth and nail against each other, a few formidable interlopers, and their own ambitious sons. Each believes that only one of them can survive, and they are right.

IT NEEDED DOING:  Into the Woodshed for Long Past Due Education.

THE RULERS OF AIR STRIP ONE SEEM TO HAVE DECIDED TO COPY THE GERMANS:  A Cheerful Message of Yuletide Tyranny. Baby, it’s cold pretty much everywhere.

MERRIEST OF CHRISTMASES TO ALL: From us here at Instapundit headquarters.  And from me and Indy-cat as well. (I tried to put a Santa hat on him.  The bleeding has stopped. But no Santa-hat-cat picture for you. Sorry.)

NO, REALLY:  Let It Go.

FUN STUFF:  Curiosity’s exploration of boxwork on Mount Sharp.

OUR COLLEGES ARE A PROBLEM. THE FASTER WE MAKE THEM IRRELEVANT, THE BETTER:  Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses.

PEOPLE’S “PARADISES” ALWAYS MAKE THEIR PEOPLE PRISONERS:  Stopping The Drain.

THIS IS URGENTLY NEEDED:  GOP governor lays out plan to ‘purge’ terrorists and terror supporters from state. ‘Any organization that supports terrorism, that harbors people who have provided material support for terrorism, is not allowed to exist in our state,’ said Abbott.

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN OUR SCHOOLS IS MORE EFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING THE KIDS FROM READING:  Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read.

AT LEAST THIS ONE WAS CAUGHT?  Chinese Researcher on US Visa Charged with Smuggling E. Coli Into the Country.