CHASER TO MUSK’S POLL:  29 House Republicans want Trump to scrap the IRS’s free direct tax filing tool on day one of his presidency.

DEAR SANTA, I’VE BEEN A VERY GOOD GIRL THIS YEAR, AND I THINK I DESERVE SOMETHING NICE:  Elon Musk asks if the IRS should be ‘deleted’ after agency  begs for $20 billion – here’s how X users responded.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE. NOT!  Government Funneled Unprecedented Amount Of Money To Criminal Gangs Through COVID Relief, Oversight Report Finds.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Pfizer hid vaccine deaths, research team alleges.

THE HATRED AT HEALTH INSURANCE WOULD BE BEST DIRECTED AT GOVERNMENT THAT MAKES US USE INSURANCE AT ALL AND MAKES HEALTHCARE PROHIBITIVE:  Vigilante Assassination May Be OK.  United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is not necessarily a good example though.

THIS IS JUST THE FIRST STEP …  Patagonia Hit With FEC Complaint Alleging Straw Donor Operation That Funneled More Than $1 Million to Democrats.

JUSTICE WILL FIND HIM, SOONER OR LATER:  Adam Schiff: New Senator, Same Old Hypocrite.

NO CREDIT, JUST KASH:  FBI Director Christopher Wray Will Step Down Early January.

SHOOT THEM DOWN:  Rep. Chris Smith: Drones Trailed Coast Guard Ship Off New Jersey Coast.

GOOD:  Court Rejects Anti-Israel Activist’s Claim Against Major Law Firm For Revoking Job Offer.

SO WE’LL HAVE TO MINE OUR OWN:  China Begins Ban of Rare Earth Minerals to the US.

SUBVERSIVE STREET ART AT ITS BEST:  Oregon city authorities are looking for the hero who’s been improving their modern art with googly eyes.

IT’S MUCH MORE NEWSWORTHY WHEN A MIDDLE-AGED WHITE GUY GETS GROPY THAN WHEN A THOUSAND+ YOUNG MUSLIMS GET RAPEY:  Why report the mass rape of white schoolgirls when you can pick on Gregg Wallace?

SHE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, TOO, IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR THOSE DARN KIDS:  Liz Cheney Whines Over Potential Consequences to Do With J6 ‘Unselect Committee’.

If Biden issues the j6 committee a blanket pardon, that opens the way for a house investigation to revisit how the committee went wrong and craft new house rules to prevent another such corrupt committee.  And all testimony would be under oath without risk of criminal consequences (because of the pardon) but carrying current perjury threat.  The reputational damage will hurt such as Cheney far more than any criminal penalty.

I’M TOO OUT OF IT TO EVALUATE HIS PLAN TONIGHT, BUT HE NORMALLY BEARS READING:  Part 1 of 2: What NASA’s next administrator should do if SLS and Orion are cancelled.

SHE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, TOO, IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR THOSE DARN KIDS:  Liz Cheney Whines Over Potential Consequences to Do With J6 ‘Unselect Committee’.

SOUNDS LIKE A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO GO TO JAIL:  San Diego County Board of Supervisors Prohibits Helping ICE Deport Illegal Aliens.

LONG BUT INFORMATIVE AND AMUSINGLY WRITTEN ARTICLE ABOUT “DEBANKING”:  Debanking (and Debunking?).

HE HAS A POINT:  I’m British. I recently spent 10 days in the USA for business. And discovered the ocean between us isn’t water. It’s mindset. 7 uncomfortable truths about US v UK culture.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Educators Sound Alarm as College Enrollment Drops by ‘Very Large and Very Discouraging’ Amount.

MARXISTS ARE STONE COLD RACISTS:  This is telling.

I’M SORRY, WHAT DO WE CARE FOR THE TALIBAN’S “LAW”?   “Illegal Under Taliban Law”: CNN Seeks Summary Judgment Under a Curious Claim in Defamation Case.

A VERY THIN, TRANSPARENT SMOKE SCREEN:  Biden’s Pardon: A Smokescreen for Corruption.

APPEALS TO AUTHORITY? IN 2024?  RFK Jr. And The 75 Plus Nobel Laureates.

UK GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE COMMITTED:  UK Government ‘Commits’ to Forcing Cattle to Consume Anti-Flatulence Feed Additive.