January 15, 2026

REPORTS: New York Giants, John Harbaugh finalizing $100M contract. “According to multiple reports, the Giants offered Harbaugh a five-year deal that could be worth as ‍much as $100 million. The 63-year-old head coach was only out of work eight days after the Baltimore Ravens fired him over the phone last week, ending their 18-year partnership after missing the playoffs.”

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

JIM GERAGHTY: Trump’s Sudden Reversal on Iran.

To be fair, Iran’s mullahs are doing a fair job of imploding the nation all by themselves:

I cannot say with certainty that the Iranian regime will topple in the coming year. But I can say with certainty that this current Iranian regime will never be able to fix the country’s deepening economic problems. Earlier this week, Jason Malsin of the Wall Street Journal had a spectacularly reported account of how a bank collapse illuminated the deep-rooted destructive rot running throughout the country’s economy:

Late last year, Ayandeh Bank, run by regime cronies and saddled with nearly $5 billion in losses on a pile of bad loans, went bust. The government folded the carcass into a state bank and printed a massive amount of money to try to paper over all the red ink. That buried the problem but didn’t solve it.

Instead, the failure became both a symbol and an accelerant of an economic unraveling that ultimately triggered the proteststhat now pose the most significant threat to the regime since the founding of the Islamic Republic half a century ago. The bank’s collapse made clear that the Iranian financial system, under strain from years of sanctions, bad lending and reliance on inflationary printed money, had become increasingly insolvent and illiquid. Five other banks are thought to be similarly weak. . . .

The director of bank supervision at the Iranian central bank last year called Ayandeh “a Ponzi scheme.” For many Iranians, it was a symbol of a system whose few resources had been diverted to a well-connected few while they suffered.

The regime in Tehran is running out of money. And it’s not helping when every elite in Iran can see the cracks in the foundation widening and is trying to get every portable asset out of the country.

As Geraghty writes, “You don’t move tens of millions out of a country on a whim. You don’t fly planeloads of gold to Moscow unless you think there’s a good chance you’re going to lose it if you keep it in the country. The people within the regime and closest to the regime are moving their money out, risking its seizure. You only take that risk when you’ve concluded that keeping your money in the country is more dangerous.”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

SO TRUE: The white women turning to ‘Dark Woke’— They turn private despair into public rage.

I think this comment from the article sums it up best: “Why are white liberal women especially eager for battle?” Because most of them have enjoyed the female privilege of being able to be aggressive, insulting and even violent towards men with no consequences. They think they can transfer this immunity into this arena and – as the deceased woman found out – it doesn’t work there. In videos of violent female protesters getting taken down by police their facial expression often goes from rage to complete shock.

Posted at 2:08 pm by Helen Smith

DUDE. SO CLOSE! LOL! Mayor Jacob Frey’s Whiny ‘ICE Invasion’ Meltdown Backfires Spectacularly (Watch).

UPDATE: Great moments in losing the plot:

Posted at 1:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

REAL MONEY: Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals $1 Billion In 2025. “Funny how Libertarian sorts claiming that illegal aliens are a net benefit to the economy always seem to leave a lot of “externalities” out of their calculations: Higher crime rates, more sex trafficking, enabling transnational criminal organizations, more voting fraud, higher government spending and higher taxes to provide government services for illegal aliens, higher prices for citizens for limited housing, depressed wages for citizens, etc.”

Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephen Green

KAMALA HARRIS BUYS $8.2 MILLION SEASIDE MANSION AFTER WARNING ‘SEA LEVELS ARE RISING’ DUE TO ‘CLIMATE CRISIS:’

Former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff purchased an $8 million mansion in an exclusive oceanside Malibu neighborhood last month. The move came after Harris spent years warning that such communities could be threatened by the “climate crisis.”

A real estate listing for the mansion, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, says the luxury pad is “perched in a prime coastal location” with “breathtaking ocean views.” The property sits right near a coastline that—according to climate scenarios endorsed by Harris—is at risk of facing extreme flooding. A climate model issued by the Biden-Harris administration determined that Point Dume State Beach, the beach a short walk from Harris’s new property, would be severely damaged by sea level rise even under the model’s most modest projections. The Trump administration discontinued that model in June 2025.

The purchase, which was first reported by the New York Post, calls into question Harris’s earnestness when discussing the threats posed by what she calls the “climate crisis.”

“Our oceans are warming. Sea levels are rising,” Harris wrote duringher short-lived presidential campaign in 2019. “Extreme weather is destroying our communities. We are poisoning the planet.”

2019 was also the year that AOC claimed, “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” so I hope Kamala and Doug enjoy their mansion while there’s still time…

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

TODAY’S DEMOCRATS ARE NOT ONLY MORE ABSURD THAN YOU IMAGINE, THEY’RE MORE ABSURD THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE:

But wait, it gets better:

Best advice: Don’t mess with the Foo.

Posted at 1:31 pm by Stephen Green

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: States Now Taking On the Fight Against Anti-Gun Lawfare.

As state legislatures across the country grapple with how to address the criminal misuse of firearms, South Carolina lawmakers have taken a decidedly different path with the introduction of House Bill 4723 — a measure aimed at strengthening legal protections for the lawful manufacture, distribution and sale of firearms and related products.

The proposal, known as the “South Carolina Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA),” reflects a proactive effort to block what supporters describe as “opportunistic lawsuits” that seek to hold honest businesses, like South Carolin-based FN America and Palmetto State Armory, liable for criminal misuse of their products.

More like this, please.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green

IT DOES A BODY GOOD: Trump signs a law returning whole milk to school lunches.

The action allows schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% fat milk along with the skim and low-fat products required since 2012.

“Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, whole milk is a great thing,” Trump said at a White House signing ceremony that featured lawmakers, dairy farmers and their children.

Previously: Kids, parents tweet their white-hot hate for Michelle Obama’s school lunch regs.

I had no idea my kids even knew who Michelle Obama was, until the subject of school lunches came up. She’s still a sore subject.

And ICYMI: RFK Jr. Vs. Indestructible Trump’s ‘Poison’ Diet.

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green