January 15, 2026

WE’VE SEEN THIS BEFORE: Kamala Harris Buys $8.2 Million Seaside Mansion After Warning ‘Sea Levels Are Rising’ Due to ‘Climate Crisis’: Harris’s new home features many of the same amenities—such as a gas stove and fireplace—that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with regulations.

Related: ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners Are a Huge Problem’: Mamdani’s Communist Housing Czar Called To ‘Undermine the Institution of Homeownership.’

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

STARMER SEEMS TO BE SCARED OF THIS YOUNG WOMAN:

Posted at 7:53 am by Glenn Reynolds

REPORT: Trump questions Reza Pahlavi’s ability to garner support in Iran.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi “seems very nice” but expressed uncertainty over whether Pahlavi would be able to muster support within Iran to eventually take over.
In an exclusive Reuters interview in the Oval Office, Trump said there is a chance Iran’s clerical government could collapse, blamed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the stalemate in negotiations with Russia over the war in Ukraine, and dismissed Republican criticism of a Justice Department probe of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene in support of protesters in Iran, where thousands of people have been reported killed in a crackdown on the unrest against clerical rule. But he was reluctant on Wednesday to lend his full support to Pahlavi, the son of the late shah of Iran, who was ousted from power in 1979.
“He seems very nice, but I don’t know how he’d play within his own country,” Trump said. “And we really aren’t up to that point yet.
“I don’t know whether or not his country would accept his leadership, and certainly if they would, that would be fine with me.”
Trump’s comments went further in questioning Pahlavi’s ability to lead Iran after saying last week that he had no plans to meet with him.

Presumably, Trump is playing his cards very close to the vest when it comes to offering any opinions about what is to come in Iran, especially when talking to Reuters, the home of the “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” worldview.

Related: New video from Mark Felton: The Man Who Would Be King — Who is Reza Pahlavi?

Earlier from Felton: The Last Shah — How Iran Changed from Western Ally to Enemy.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

OH: Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic.

The “Intelligence Outlook 2025” report on the security of the Kingdom of Denmark, released just last month, had warned at great length that “China is preparing for a military presence in the Arctic” and that “China’s long-term Arctic interests include Greenland.” The report highlighted Chinese air-based, seaborne, and submersible activities in the Arctic.

The Danish intelligence report had further assessed that the militaries of China and Russia were collaborating more closely in the Arctic, displaying the growing “DragonBear” alliance between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The report noted that Russia “uses every available tool to monitor and chart the waters between Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the United Kingdom” as “part of the preparations for a potential confrontation with NATO” and as the Kremlin deploys submarines, ships, and planes near Greenland.

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s annual threat assessment in 2025 also detailed Russian and Chinese ambitions in the Arctic, specifically stating that both U.S. foes had specific strategic interests in Greenland. The Pentagon’s Arctic Strategy — penned in 2024 during the Biden Administration — also warned about growing Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the Arctic.

Europe’s pride is hurt, and they don’t want to turn over a vital territory they can’t properly defend or exploit.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

GOOD: Victor Davis Hanson recovers after surgery.. “It was cancer surgery, and Victor had a part of his lung removed, and that’s major surgery, and I think it’s fair to say the surgery was successful. It got what it was looking for.”

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE PRESIDENT IS A HEARTLESS NAZI! “You know why you haven’t heard about this story? Because it happened under Obama. Imagine if this happened under Trump. Imagine how many Democrats would fly to Mexico to find this woman and exploit her story,” the tweet goes on to note. 

Earlier:

Related:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

PROBABLY, YEAH: Bill Maher Says Free Speech Cost Him the Golden Globe. “During a recent episode of the 69-year-old comedian’s Club Random podcast, which aired before the Golden Globes on Sunday, Maher told guest Joel Edgerton, ‘I’ve been nominated for 33 Emmys, and they would never give it to me. That’s not a gag number. That’s a real number. It’s crazy.’ He then rattled off a list of the many categories in which award groups have nominated him over the years.”

Says a lot more about Hollywood awards than it does about Maher, though.

Posted at 7:04 am by Stephen Green

MATTHEW YGLESIAS: GET SOME DRESS SHIRTS THAT FIT! “I want to address the young men of America on the subject of buttoning your top button and wearing a necktie: If this is uncomfortable, that’s because your shirt doesn’t fit. It is annoying that simple S/M/L/XL sizing makes it kind of a crapshoot as to whether any given dress shirt will have appropriate length sleeves for your arms and fit your midsection and also your neck. But if you go to Brooks Brothers or Charles Tyrwhitt (just to name two stores that exist in most cities), they size their shirts with separate neck and arm lengths, and you can get one that fits. Or you can go to Proper Cloth or another “made to measure” place where they’ll sell you a shirt that fits exactly. Unfortunately, all of these options are a little more expensive than what you’ll pay for a shirt that doesn’t fit. But you either don’t need to wear a tie very often, in which case getting one shirt that fits is not a major investment, or else you do need to wear a tie frequently, in which case you shouldn’t be uncomfortable all the time.”

This is good advice.

I have always had a fairly big neck, even when I was skinny and didn’t lift weights; when I was in college I generally covered that my top button wasn’t buttoned by pulling my tie up. Now that I do lift weights, my neck is big (19 inches), and shirts sized for my neck fit me like a tent since they assume you have a big neck because you’re fat, not because you do high pulls and deadlifts and farmer’s carries. I get some shirts custom made at a local fancy clothing shop. I don’t wear a tie all that often, but that means that when I do, the occasion is important and I want to look nice. Shirts that fit aren’t that much more expensive, and they look a lot better. In fact, I remember John Malloy of Dress for Success fame saying that most people can’t tell much difference between an okay suit and an expensive one, but that it’s easy to tell the difference between a cheap shirt and an expensive one.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT IF DRUG BOATS CARRIED MIFEPRISTONE? President Donald Trump has ordered the destruction of at least 35 Cartel-linked boats on the high seas carrying deadly drugs like Fentanyl destined for America. But thousands of unborn American children are killed every month using a lethal drug — Mifepristone — that is routinely delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to anybody.

Pro-lifers on Capitol Hill wonder if Trump would destroy such boats if they were known to be hauling Mifepristone?

Posted at 7:00 am by Mark Tapscott

HE’S WRONG. NONE OF THIS IS REAL. IT’S A GHOST DANCE:  Trouble coming.

Posted at 3:33 am by Sarah Hoyt