January 4, 2026

BLOOD IN THE FACE: Blushing May Have Hidden Social Advantages, Experts Suggest. “This can actually help build trust, because people often see blushing as a sign of honesty or sincerity – especially as it’s involuntary. Blushing can signal a non-verbal apology for a social misstep that can help to maintain social bonds after a transgression. Different emotions can make us blush – but the mechanism is the same: increasing blood flow to the face and making us feel hot.” Can’t read my, can’t read my, can’t read my poker face.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YOU CAN TELL THINGS ARE GETTING SERIOUS WHEN THE RECRUITING ADS FEATURE WHITE GUYS AGAIN, AND THIS IS WHY:

It’s not just me noting this:

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Plus:

Posted at 3:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SACRE BLEU!

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

MENTALLY ILL THEATER KIDS SHOULD STAY OUT OF POLITICS:

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Posted at 12:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SOROS COORDINATE! SOROS COORDINATE!

Meanwhile, in Venezuela:

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

THEY NEED A NEW SCAM. WHAT WILL IT BE?

Whatever it is, the “solutions” will involve higher taxes, expanded government, more regulation, censorship, and worse standards of living for normal people. The solutions are always the same, only the crises change.

Posted at 12:17 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS BEING UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN: Kamala Harris Humiliates Herself Condemning Capture of Maduro.

“Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable,” [Harris] claimed. “That Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We’ve seen this movie before. Wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos, and American families pay the price.”

Her post continued:

The American people do not want this, and they are tired of being lied to.

This is not about drugs or democracy. It is about oil and Donald Trump’s desire to play the regional strongman. If he cared about either, he wouldn’t pardon a convicted drug trafficker or sideline Venezuela’s legitimate opposition while pursuing deals with Maduro’s cronies.

The President is putting troops at risk, spending billions, destabilizing a region, and offering no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefit at home.

America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and — most importantly — putting the American people first.

As I pointed out yesterday, Trump has not gotten us into another war. This was a surgical strike that accomplished its objective without a hitch. The statement is curiously similar to pretty much every other Democrats’ statement on the successful mission.

But what makes her statement even more absurd and hypocritical than those of other Democrats is that the Biden-Harris administration approved a $25 million bounty for information leading to Maduro’s arrest just days before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris left office.

Oceania has never been at war with Nicolás Maduro:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Nuremberg Should Crush TDS Once and for All.

“Nuremberg” offers a slick, satisfying look at critical trials following the Third Reich’s demise.

Until it doesn’t.

Buried in the middle of this well-packaged drama is shocking footage of the Holocaust’s atrocities. What might seem tonally imbalanced is actually a perfectly deployed smart bomb.

It’s vital to the story in play, while reminding anyone cold enough to compare President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler that they should be ashamed of themselves.

This may be a bit of a spoiler alert, but then Nuremberg has been in theaters for a couple of months now (and is now available for online streaming), so you’ve probably already read about it in reviews, but Toto is referring to this scene:

The first half is often comic. One fellow prisoner is Rudolf Hess (Andreas Pietschmann) who is feigning amnesia, and whose backstory is a farce. When Göring and other Nazi leaders are subjected to Rorschach tests, it’s done for laughs. But the second half is the trial itself, where real footage from the concentration camps is shown. It’s so horrifying it makes everything else feel phoney. This is the moment when the penny finally drops for Kelley and he sees that Göring is a monster and not his pal. Well done.

By late 1942, the Allies knew the Holocaust was ongoing. Americans have been exposed to newsreel footage of the horrors of the concentration camps since the war’s end in 1945. Hellish shots of the ovens with charred bodies in them were seen midway through Stanley Kramer’s Judgement at Nuremberg in 1961. The soul-wrenching clip of emaciated bodies being pushed into a mass grave by a bulldozer driver, after the Allies liberated the concentration camps, was a centerpiece of the documentary TV series The World At War’s episode titled “Genocide.” Despite all of that, because gnosticism runs so strongly on the left, they’ve been comparing Republican presidents to the man with the tiny toothbrush mustache since 1944. Another Hollywood movie on the evils of National Socialism isn’t going to stop them.

Posted at 10:44 am by Ed Driscoll