THE WHAT?  Kirby: Drones Over New Jersey are ‘Lawfully Operated Manned Aircraft’.

YEAH, NOT LOSING SLEEP:  China Bans Exports – Where, Oh Where, Will We Get Our Critical Metals From?

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, TOO FAKE:  Treasury Sec. Yellen Worried About Fiscal Sustainability, ‘Sorry’ She Didn’t Do More on Deficit.

UNFORTUNATELY THE REASON WON’T BE “WAS PUT IN A CORNER AND FORCED TO READ BOOKS ON ETHICS UNTIL SHE ACQUIRED A MODICUM OF RESPECT FOR HONOR AND DUTY”:  Susan Wild absent from Ethics Committee meeting after Gaetz leaks to press.

Seriously. How long are we going to let people be scum who disrespect their oaths and act as they please without even shaming them?

AGAIN, DON’T RAGE AT INSURANCE. RAGE AT THE GOVERNMENT:   The Daily Chart: The Failure of Obamacare.

Second, the dirty secret of health policy since the failure of Hillarycare in 1994 is that the government demands that private health insurance systems do cost containment, so that they, and not the government, will take the heat. One of the superficial claims you hear from the left is that Medicare has something like a 1% administrative cost, while private insurance has something like a 25 to 30% administrative cost, the lesson being “See, government health care is cheaper!”

THESE GIRLS HAVE A SPINE:  150 California high school students punished for wearing “Save Girls’ Sports” shirts.

WELL, WHAT IS ALL THE IMPORTING OF HUMANS FOR, IF NOT TO HAVE SOME SLAVE LABOR?  Another company investigated for child labor violations tied to border crisis.

THIS PART I THOROUGHLY AGREE WITH:  Part 2 of 2: De-emphasize a fast Moon landing and build a real American space industry instead.

MORE ON FEMA FROM O’KEEFE:  OMG INVESTIGATES FEMA – Part 1: “FEMA Doesn’t Want These People”: North Carolina Residents Still Stranded as FEMA Fails to Deliver Aid After Hurricane Helene.

AND:  OMG Investigates FEMA – Part 2: O’Keefe Calls FEMA’s Mysterious ‘HAL’ Robot-Like Representative for Answers on Disaster Relief Response.

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’.