ONCE THEY TAKE OUR GUNS, WE’LL BE AT THEIR MERCY:  Why We Fight Them Tooth and Nail.

WE SHOULD DO LIKEWISE:  Japanese Language Proficiency Could Become A Requirement For Permanent Residency.

Language is the foundation of culture.

THIS WAS NEVER SOMETHING TO HAVE MADE ABROAD:  China’s Chokehold in Pharma: A ‘Nuclear’ Option in the Trade War?  In addition to rare-earth elements, China may use its near monopoly in some pharmaceuticals as artillery in its trade war with the West.

COMMUNISM IS BAD FOR CHILDREN, AND ALL LIVING THINGS:  Commie Environment Fails: The Aral Sea. A great Soviet technical achievement in shameless deliberate environmental destruction.

YES, BUT HOW MANY CHILDREN WERE ABORTED OR KILLED, HOW MANY WOMEN STERILIZED?   China social media thrashes one-child policy after population control czar dies.

DON’T TOUCH OUR BOATS, AND DON’T CONFINE OUR SPEECH, AND WE’LL ALL GET ALONG:  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 Cancelled of X.

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.