IF THIS GOES ON, I’M GOING TO NEED A NEW SHOCKED FACE: US Expert: Hamas, not Israel, Killed Boys on Beach in Gaza War.

WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST ANY ECONOMIC REPORTS: Inside Wall Street’s disastrous start to 2016.

WHEN BILL NEEDED A WAR ON WOMEN AND HILLARY WAS HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP: The Clintons are in denial about Bill’s sex scandals

HASN’T HARRY REID DONE ENOUGH FOR TO AMERICA: Harry Reid demands retirement ‘slush fund,’ FEC defers.

RAISE UP THE CHILD AS YOU INTEND HIM TO GO: Strangling the free mind.

TO QUOTE LARRY CORREIA:  Things are about to get massively stupider. Meet the new gun control – same as the old gun control, but with more dumb.

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO FIGHT THE NARRATIVE: How Stories Deceive.

MY SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING SHOP WORN:Progressives are actually the barrier to fighting homelessness.

THE ONION, AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Study Finds College Still More Worthwhile Than Spending 4 Years Chained To Radiator.  Barely.

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION 2015 IN SUMMARY: The 13 Most Ridiculously PC Moments on College Campuses in 2015.

BUT IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THIS DOESN’T EVEN STAND OUT: Flashback 2013: “Climate Change” Expert Jailed for Conning EPA out of $900K.

AND NOW LET’S PUSH OFF THE ROCK, SHALL WE: The Artist Who Helped Invent Space Travel.

I THINK IT’S DEMENTIA: “You know, if we put the money into Alzheimer’s that we otherwise would put into some additional military asset, just think of the lives it would save,” Clinton said…

THE RIGHT TO BE OFFENSIVE: Charlie Hebdo editor: Censorship must not win. Paid for in blood. Are we at absolute moral authority yet?

AT THIS POINT, REALLY, IT SHOULD MAKE A LOT OF DIFFERENCE: Here’s the bottom line of the Hillary e-mail dump.

MAD DUCK: President Obama’s lame-duck drive for disastrous ‘success’.

THIS IS NOT NEWS TO ANY PARENTS OF BOYS WHO HAVE BEEN AWAKE THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS: And personally it p*sses ME off. Campus Turmoil Begins in High School. Oh, and we’re not doing girls any favors either.  You want to know why women fail at life and become unhappy adults?  Look to the mollycoddling of girls in most schools.

EVENTUALLY HE’LL REALIZE IT’S JUST DIFFERENT, NOT WORSE: The Web We Have to Save. The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?

I FOR ONE WELCOME: Erica, the ‘most beautiful and intelligent’ android, leads Japan’s robot revolution.

FASCINATING (AND SAD) STORY: An 18th-century outrage. Lèse humanité.

FOR THE SAME REASON I SO OFTEN END UP METAPHORICALLY SETTING FIRE TO SOMETHING ON MY BLOG: As much as I’d prefer the simple (and quiet) life, someone has to do it, and I can. Why ‘Draw Mohammed’? The Artist Explains.

SPEAKING OF SF/F FANDOM: This is what I mean (With “Amazing” Update).  (And that link is to The Liberty Zone, so language warnings are in effect, though Nicki uses swearing so creatively it’s almost poetry.)

WELL AT LEAST SOME THINGS AREN’T BAD: Trekkies rejoice: New ‘Star Trek’ stamps are coming in 2016.

SO, HE HASN’T WATCHED WORLD NEWS IN OVER 90 YEARS? Secret to a long life is not to worry, says 109-year-old.

THAT CHUNNEL WAS A BAD IDEA: New threat to British border as France builds first official refugee camp for 13 years.