STAY WARM, AND STAY OFF THE ROADS IF YOU CAN: Maps show where winter storm threatens to bring heavy snow, brutal cold this weekend.

This will make temperatures drop well below average for this time of year and even bring record-breaking temperatures to some locations. Frostbite can occur in as little as 5-10 minutes if exposed to this dangerous cold. Wind chill temperatures are forecast to feel like 40-50 degrees below zero in some places across the northern U.S.

Ice is expected to accumulate along the southern side of the storm’s track, but considering its slow movement, the amount of accumulation is expected to be between two-tenths of an inch to up to half an inch. Impacts of this magnitude can bring down power lines. With the harsh cold in place, power outages can lead to lack of indoor heating, crippling communities.

Possible snowfall amounts are fluctuating as the forecast models continue to come together. Up to 5-10 inches of snowfall is already expected across the southern Plains as the system takes shape over the region on Friday into Saturday.

Looks like a nasty one. The best time to get prepared was before winter, but the next best time is right now, before the weather hits.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Greenland or Bust! “A purchase of Greenland would be legitimate, of course, but Dems don’t know that because they don’t read real history books. They’re not aware of how a lot of this continent became part of the United States. I live in a city that was part of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. As far as I know, there were no radical loons back then who were bent out of shape because President Franklin Pierce made a land deal.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Appeals court upholds most of Maryland ban on weapons in schools, parks, other public places.

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld Maryland’s law banning guns in a wide range of public settings, from school grounds and government buildings to parks, sports venues and areas within 1,000 feet of a public demonstration.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that most of the dozen places identified in Maryland law fall under the U.S. Supreme Court’s definition of “sensitive places,” where government has the authority to restrict the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The only area where the appeals court said the sensitive places exception did not apply was in “private property held open to the public,” where the law prohibits guns without specific permission from the property owner. That restriction is unconstitutionally broad, Circuit Judge Robert L. Gregory wrote for the court.

“Maryland’s rule would effectively declare most public places ‘gun-free zones,” Gregory wrote. “But that likely stretches the sensitive places doctrine too far.”

Maybe those places would be less sensitive with more guns.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Did Trump Lose It Over Greenland?

Well, wasn’t that an entertaining few days we just had over…

…Greenland?

Really?

Really.

On Monday and Tuesday, it looked like President Donald Trump was going to take us to war with our own NATO allies, or at least destroy the eight-decade-old alliance while Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping rubbed their hands together with glee.

All over a bunch of rock and ice that neither China nor Russia could ever hope to seize.

At least, that’s how more than a few pants-wetting you-know-whos told it.

I could share a few of the more panic-mongering X posts with you, all from names you’d recognize, but it’s nothing but same stuff/different issue yet again. Last week, Trump was going to send the 3rd Armored Division to occupy Minneapolis. The week before that, he was going to sell Venezuela’s oil at below-market rates to Trump Station franchises along the Acela AMTRAK line he wants to tear up and replace with a superhighway that doesn’t allow electric vehicles.

After ten-plus years, the hype just doesn’t seem worth it any longer.

Besides, you know the well-worn routine.

Much — much — more at the link.

Link was missing before — sorry! Fixed now.

YES, I VOTED FOR THIS, TOO: ICE Launches Maine Operation.

The action follows a similar operation in Minnesota and is focused on individuals with criminal histories, officials told The New York Times on Wednesday.

ICE Deputy Assistant Director Patricia Hyde said in a televised interview that approximately 1,400 people are being targeted in the state.

The Department of Homeland Security declined the Times’ request for comment on specific enforcement actions.

Maine has seen growth in its Somali population over the past two decades, particularly in Lewiston, as well as an influx of African asylum seekers during the Biden administration.

State officials claimed immigrants have helped address labor shortages in an aging, predominantly white state.

The phrasing makes it sound like being “predominantly white” is problematical, and I suppose for the state’s governing Democrats, it is.

NICE: Blue Lives Matter Says It Decoyed Anti-ICE Crazies.

KRUISER IS A GIVER: I Not So Humbly Offer My Services as Trump’s First Territorial Governor of Greenland.

WELL, THEY STILL HAVE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY TO GO: ‘The View’ Sinks to a New Low… and Then Another. “Once again, ABC proved it has no shame by not only airing this garbage but not correcting the record in any meaningful way.”

LONGEVITY: Tiny improvements in sleep, nutrition and exercise could significantly extend lifespan, study suggests.

GOOD QUESTION: Why Do We Let Commie Chinese Pilots Train in America?

HEH: Hawaii Basing its Defense of Vampire Rule Carry Restrictions On the Black Codes Didn’t Go Well in SCOTUS Arguments.

BREAKING: Trump Announces Greenland Deal Framework.

CNN, LOL: CNN’s New Kid ‘Apologizes’ for Telling a Complete Whopper About Trump and Then Makes It Even Worse.

ADRIAN VERMEULE: The ‘Trial’ and Martyrdom of Louis XVI.

This is a previously published essay of mine in memoriam Louis XVI, which I plan to republish annually on January 21 — the day in 1793 when, as Pius VI put it, “[b]y a conspiracy of impious men, the most Christian king Louis XVI” was put to martyrdom. Americans have particular reason to hold his memory in reverence, as explained below.

On this day in 1793, Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution, now the Place de la Concorde, in Paris. The United States might well never have come into existence without the massive aid, military and financial, provided by Louis’ government; and the budgetary strains incurred by that aid contributed rather directly to the calling of the Estates-General in 1789 and thus to the Revolution itself. Hence it is fitting for Americans to honor Louis’ end. What follows is a bibliographic essay in memoriam, presenting a set of sources, written in or translated into English, on the pseudo-trial of the King and his subsequent martyrdom.

Louis’ eloquent last will and testament is helpfully provided by Andrew Cusack. The King forgives his enemies (while rejecting the legitimacy of their actions), asks for the forgiveness of anyone he has offended, professes his Catholic faith, and exhorts his son that “should he have the misfortune of becoming king, to remember he owes himself wholly to the happiness of his fellow citizens.” It reveals a monarch sincerely devoted to his family, to the welfare of his realm, and to the Church.

That the trial of Louis was indeed a sham — a proceeding for which “one can find neither pretext nor means in any existing law,” as Louis put it in his testament — is not seriously contestable

Read the whole thing, and understand that the French Revolution is where modern leftism got its start.

CHANGE: Trump Signs EO to Block Wall Street From Buying Single Family Homes.

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED, AMERICA:

Before you go writing off Virginia know this, Abigail Spanberger has been groomed to run for President(the new Hillary).

Being governor is just a stepping stone. So while everyone is distracted with Gavin she is the plan.

The VA Legislature will push crazy, radical stuff&she…

— Michelle Maxwell ™ (@MichelleMaxwell) January 21, 2026

Related (From Ed):

Spanberger just put KKK/Blackface Northam on the VMI Board of Visitors …

After she called him a bigot in 2019.

She's a joke.
A fraud and a liar https://t.co/Dtt98nc4hu pic.twitter.com/YXpAHSiox5

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 21, 2026

AS IF ON CUE: Month after Bondi Hanukkah attack, Australian MPs pass stricter gun, hate crime laws. “On firearms, Australia will set up a national gun buyback scheme, tighten rules on imports of firearms and expand background checking for gun permits to allow input from intelligence services.”

GOOD QUESTION: Have We Become so Cynical, so Jaded, That $9 Billion in Fraud Against the Taxpayer Isn’t a Huge Issue?

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: Entitlement fraud costs taxpayers billions … or trillions, dwarfing Minnesota.

Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota’s federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found.

The Center Square reviewed all the statements about entitlement fraud cases issued by the U.S. Department of Justice from 2020 to last year, which did not include many of the cases prosecuted by U.S. Attorney’s offices in the various districts and any state prosecutions.

Public safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid lost billions of dollars to scams each year, according to a review of 2,500 DOJ statements, press releases, and fact sheets. The amount ranged from $2.7 billion in 2022 to $14.5 billion in 2025.

Fraud experts said, if anything, the $36 billion figure is too low.

I doubt $36 billion would cover just Sacramento since 2020.

Even at $3 trillion, you might want to take the “over.”

VICTORIA TAFT: Sorry to Break up Your Narrative About Renee Good, Lefties, but I’ve Got Some News. “If you look closely, however, the story is changing. The narrative about Good’s later-in-life lesbian ‘marriage’ is quickly evaporating, given an old Irish goodbye by the news media. That doesn’t mean the media have corrected the record, but they have begun to quietly make the inaccurate portrayal of her marital status disappear.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Supreme Court appears likely to strike down California law banning guns in stores and restaurants.

I’LL SELL A KIDNEY IF THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES TO BUY A SHARE: What Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO Will Tell Us About Mars.

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns.

Wealthier institutions may have the resources to withstand the transition, but many others do not. Levine said that elite schools, such as Harvard, can afford to wait out disruptions, while smaller institutions face immediate pressure to adapt.

“Higher education is undergoing a transformation. Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said, pointing to the shift from a national, industrial economy to a global, digital, knowledge-based one.

That shift, he said, is driving demographic, economic, technological, and political change that universities have been slow to address.

The challenges facing higher education, Levine said, are not new. He pointed to three longstanding criticisms that date back to the early 19th century, including that colleges change slowly, resist change, and cost too much.

“Outcomes better be worth the price paid,” he said, adding that when society changes, higher education often lags behind and scrambles to catch up.

Glenn tried to warn them. For more than 20 years.

YES: Your Church Isn’t Immune: After Minnesota’s Church Invasion, It’s Time to Prepare.

YOU DON’T SAY: Gov. Polis’ State of the State energy claims fail the smell test.

Governor Jared Polis addressed the Colorado legislature in his final State of the State address last week. Polis repeatedly invoked his efforts to build “low-cost clean energy,” but it’s the very same wind, solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles that will make higher energy prices for Coloradans his legacy.

Between January 2019, when Polis entered office, and October 2025, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration, the average residential electricity price in Colorado has risen from 11.91 to 16.26 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). That’s up 36.52 percent, compared with an increase of 30.78 percent in the wider Mountain region. Since 2004, when Colorado enacted its first renewable portfolio standard, all-sector electricity rates in Colorado have risen from an average of 6.95 to 12.80 cents per kWh in October 2025

That isn’t a coincidence. The legislature passed an aggressive bill in 2019 requiring the power sector to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2030 and, with a 2023 law, reach 100 percent renewables by 2050. Meeting those mandates will require retiring ten more major coal-fired units before 2031, or 4,200 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity, which planned wind and solar cannot reliably replace. It’s worth noting, too, that Colorado fell short of its first statutory requirement to reduce emissions overall by 26 percent by the end of 2025, though not for lack of trying.

The Independence Institute, in conjunction with Always On Energy Research, found that the Polis administration has underestimated the costs of getting Colorado to 100 percent zero-emissions by 2040. The true costs would add $114.3 billion compared to operating the current grid, and another $214.6 billion through 2050, while creating massive blackouts.

First, “low-cost clean energy” is two lies for the price of one. Second, I plan to be long gone from Colorado before the worst of Polis’s madness kicks in.