Maggie's Farm

20 Big Cats at a Washington State Sanctuary Die of Bird Flu. Two cougars infected with bird flu die on the Olympic Peninsula.

No, Diet and Exercise Are Not Better Than Drugs for Obesity

The Birmingham Church of England no longer believes in Christ

80% Believe Global Temps Will Rise In 2025, See More Extreme Weather Events

"Doesn't Fit MSM Narrative": Latest Arctic Ice Data Shows 26% Larger Than 2012

Kwanzaa and Kamala

TGIF: Welcome to America, Greenland

The Left Is Pushing Congress for an Insurrection on Jan. 6, 2025

Cuba Runs Out of Sugar

Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World

Why These Christmas Songs Could Only Be Written in America

I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret It

The Cross and the Machine - After years of atheism, I went searching for the truth. I found Buddhism, then witchcraft, and eventually, Christianity.

Almost half of young adults in Canada use marijuana, survey finds

Yes, 2024 had some good moments for higher ed. Here are our favorites.

Poll Shows Americans Are Hopeful For 2025, and the Reason Why Might Make You Smile

The Musk-Led Manufacturing Revolution Nobody Is Talking About

The Joy Is Gone: A Liberal Hate-Fest For The Holidays

Best of The Free Press: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind. In the
latest installment of our holiday series, Joe Nocera celebrates the
stories that caused him to rethink some deeply held beliefs.

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Trump Effect: Seattle Mayor Concedes a Criminal Alien or Two Less Might Be, Like, Okay

UK's Energy Secretary Net Zero Mania a 'Threat to National Security'

Steyn: The depravity of diversity

In a Christmas season of renewal, Trump’s boldness is bringing hopeful change

Canada, the Panama Canal, and Now Greenland. What’s Behind Trump’s Expansionist Rhetoric?

'Hope Trump makes this hell less hot': Trump's threats to take out Mexico's cartels has Mexicans cheering

I Am Proud of My 17-Year-Old Self Who Bravely Chose Life

Why Are Federal Buildings So Ugly?

Europe Is Canceling Christmas

The Persistence of the Media Meta-Narrative

How Big Cities Are Dealing with Sanctuary City Status as Trump's 2nd Term Approaches

Our National Near-Death Experience

Tuesday Potpourri

“Stop spinning, stop lying, and stop the condescension.”

Brandon Commutes 37 Federal Death Row Sentences Because Trump

Hochul Erupts in Callous Flames of Subway-Terranean Hubris UPDATE

Kamala Harris Campaign Advisor Lindy Li Quits Democrat Party: ‘It’s Like Leaving a Cult’

NYT Never Trumper Repents

Supercharged Monroe Doctrine: First Panama Canal, Now Trump Revives Greenland Purchase Talk For US Security

India: It's Worse Than You Think

The Absurdity of NATO Worrying About Russia

 Tiger Woods' son Charlie hits his first ever hole-in-one while playing alongside his dad

The case for banning cell phones in schools

Cautious Optimism On The Demise Of The Green Energy Fantasy

Don’t Expect Media Apologies—Ever—for the Duke Lacrosse Case

Never Give Up. Never Surrender. Lessons from the past year

 NYPD Chief resigns amid allegations of demanding sexual favors for overtime hours. The
accuser recently came under scrutiny for her exorbitant overtime pay —
upward of $200,000 — during her role in a desk job in Maddrey’s office

Best of The Free Press: We’re All Gonna Make It

They'll do anything to sell the narrative

WHY DO THEY ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THIS?

Musk Derangement Syndrome

I think Tom Homan means what he says.

The Dominoes Are Falling Fast Over the Biden Mental Health Cover-Up

Lesley Stahl Can’t Figure Out the Decline of Legacy Media

Trump is President Now

Donald Trump’s cultural renaissance - He will lead by example

Pete Buttigieg’s Rocky Legacy

New research shows the massive hole Dems are in

Dem Rep. Crockett: Hispanic Voters Have "Slave Mentality" And "Can Barely Vote"

The Magdeburg Christmas market attack will change Germany. Whatever motivated the perpetrator to do what he did, his actions were an attack on an intrinsic Western institution

Everything in the Middle East Means the Opposite

The American university is rotting from within. The modern academy is a threat to reason, liberty and Western civilisation.

Fauci holds several ‘professor’ titles at Georgetown but never teaches

What We Learned This Year - Mayor Eric Adams, David Sedaris, Bill Maher, Amy Chua, and more on what they learned in 2024.

The week in whoppers: NY Times changes its tune on Biden, Washington Post slams Trump in push ‘poll’ and more

 Saturday Miscellany

Brazile:  Biden is one of our greatest presidents

What Happens When We Are All on the Dole?

Tree too close to the fire? Yes.

The Dustbin of Literary Criticism

Good points. I used to use ideas from essays by Updike, Stanley Fish, etc. for college essays. Not without attribution, though. I think it's just too easy to write about cultural trends than to dig into writing.

How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die

Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI’s Future

A reckoning with DEI pedagogy - We researched the impact of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion rhetoric on our subjects’ biases. Here’s what we discovered

Racist messages found on Tennessee college campus were ‘fabricated,' school says

Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

I’m an Ivy League undergrad — here’s why my campus sides with Luigi Mangione

Why Is Trump Suing the Media?

FAFO

‘Censorship has a perfect failure record’. Jonathan Turley on why the exercise of free speech is at the core of our humanity.

Governments hate free speech - except their own

How Barack Obama built an omnipotent thought-machine, and how it was destroyed

 The terrifying scandal is that Biden was NEVER president. The full truth about the cover-up, Bad Doctor Jill and all the enemies within must be exposed

Bye, bye Biden

Nobody ever thought he was the boss

TGIF: The Lame Duck

Scientists Say They Are Stunned by Vole-Hunting, Predatory Squirrels

Meet My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher. How friendship with long-dead thinkers can help us live better.

Bluesky is getting nasty

Curious Timing: The Liberal NY Times Admits Biden Couldn’t Handle Presidency for Another Four Years – A Month After the Election

Democrats Still Aren’t Listening. Texan Sheriffs vs. Mexican Cartels. Plus. . .

The Never Trump Failure

I do not like to begin the links with something somewhat political, but this shows what Trump can do:  Donald Trump's Remarkably Normal Press Conference

SCOTT ALEXANDER: Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House.

I read that book. Good.

I ate nothing but red meat for a year... here's why the health experts are so wrong

Our Depraved Young People

Liz Cheney Referred For Criminal Investigation For Witness Tampering Related to J6 ‘Star Witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson

"This Is A Bloodsport For Them" - Lara Logan Exposes "The Age Of Information Warfare"

She is good

Wednesday Potpourri

As Woke Falls, What Rises?

Harris' Digital Director Reveals the ‘Ominous’ Moment Where He Knew Something Was Wrong

Michael Goodwin: The left-wing media created their own crisis and now
have to pay the price for repeatedly attacking Donald Trump

Biden Admin Sent $300M to Reuters to 'Look Into' Musk and His Companies?

Nearly 8 Million Illegals Living in Sanctuary Cities Across U.S.

"Depressed" Biden Bureaucrats Can't Find New Jobs

What jobs can they do? In a way, I feel badly for federal workers right now.

Trump Wants to Fire Federal Employees Who Refuse to Return to Working in Offices

Some work can be done from home. Not government jobs.

China: Garlic and sewage

Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market

NY Times: The Woke Movies Era Is Dead

Biden Orders Scientific Agency To Expand Use of 'Indigenous Knowledge' in Final Days

Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

The problem with saving academia

More Lawsuits for ABC? Network Lies About Linda McMahon

Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad regime torturer

Until journalists start correcting their misbehavior, they are going to continue to feel nervous.

Billionaire Marc Andreesen on the Horrifying Conversation That Red-Pilled Him

‘Polio Ravaged My Family.’ Political Violence Is Back. Plus. . . Caitlin
Clark’s greatness, why Georgians have taken to the streets, and much
more.

Are the Years of Madness Ending?

California Certifies It’s 2024 Election Despite Huge Issues – It’s NOT Certifiable

University of Iowa paid MSNBC host Joy Reid $55k to speak on campus

Veteran Journalist Dismantles Liberal Case Against Trump’s Deportation Plans: ‘It’s Easier Than You Think’

Partitioning Ukraine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

NATO Head Says "Wartime Mindset" Needed; Redirect "Pensions, Health, Social Security" To Military Spending

Bummer. When I pushed "publish" they all disappeared.

They were good. I blame either the Russians or climate change. 

 Greenpeace: Plastic recycling is a dead-end street

Writers On Other Writers' Writing

Saint Ann’s insane ex-con hire exposes the progressive ‘shame’ con

The Movement to Free Schools of Smartphones Is Winning. Evidence shows that phones harm children and education. A growing number of schools are paying attention.

Woodrow Wilson, in a Darker Key - Chris Cox’s biography of the 28th
president reads like a long overdue reassessment of a man who doesn’t
stand up well to contemporary scrutiny.

The Re-Skilling of America - Instead of subsidizing America’s greedy and unequal diploma mills, how about dropping degree requirements and rewarding skills?

Saturday Miscellany

What Is a Woman?

How Much of the Harris Campaign Was a Scam?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Evaporation Of The Obama Mystique

How stupid is Trump?

Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus.

Hamas Backing Down Over 'Trump Pressure'

President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time.

Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It
“People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture.”

The American university is rotting from within. The modern academy is a threat to reason, liberty and Western civilisation.

The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada

Niall Ferguson: The Vibe Shift Goes Global. At home, Yale Law School and DEI committees are out. Abroad, strength and escalation are in.

Janet Yellen "Sorry" After Presiding Over $15 Trillion Increase In US Debt

Good-bye, Paul Krugman

EXPLAIN HOW FLOODING JOB MARKET WITH ILLEGAL MIGRANTS HELPS AMERICANS:

Dems Get Strange New Respect For ...

THE DAILY CHART: THE FAILURE OF OBAMACARE

 TGIF: It All Comes Out. Janet Yellen admits we’re in the red,
immigration is in fact very high, Elizabeth Warren thinks the UHC CEO
had it coming, Rudy can’t get a cab home, and much, much more.

‘Clean’ energy powered by ‘dirty’ means

The reason Americans fear for Britain  - The old England, which cherished liberty, is dying and a more sinister society is emerging in its place

The NY Times finally tells the truth about Biden’s border failures — AFTER the election

Hating the Other Side Doesn’t Work for Democrats. The most successful Democrats in history have embraced American optimism, core national values, and hope for a better future.

Tactics, Techniques and Procedures to Keep Deep State Bureaucrats From Obstructing Donald Trump’s Agenda

Warmists Are Very Upset People Have Free Speech On Social Media

TNR:  Biden’s Got One Last Chance to Cancel Student Debt

Why not cancel mortgage debt?

U.S. Educators Sound Alarm as College Enrollment Drops by 'Very Large and Very Discouraging' Amount

Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border

Wednesday Potpourri

The Curious Case of Luigi Mangione. Plus...

Rufo:  The Coming Fight to Abolish DEI - An open letter to Donald Trump’s Cabinet

NY AG Letitia James Won’t Drop Trump Civil Fraud Judgment. “Presidents
do not have immunity from civil lawsuits arising from unofficial
conduct, and such lawsuits may proceed while the President is in
office.”

True, but the case is fraudulent

Glenn Reynolds:  What happened? It’s like a spell broke. Since November’s election
(re-election?) of President Donald Trump, the woke is going away, and
all sorts of problems are resolving themselves. But why?

Republicans Have to Learn How to Stop Being Pansies When They Have the Majority

180 Dead: Haitian Warlord Orders Massacre Of Elderly For Using 'Sorcery' To Sicken Son

Nice place to visit?

This baboon is helping his dog friend to get rid of bugs.

HIDDEN 4,000-YEAR-OLD TOWN DISCOVERED IN ARABIAN OASIS

Americans for Assassination

Is It Any Wonder That No Sane Person Takes Fact Checks Seriously?

An Open Letter to Everyone Who Will Have Their Rights Taken Away on Jan. 20, 2025

BLM mad about Penny's acquittal

Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg.

The Daniel Penny verdict is a hopeful sign that sanity can rule in our cities again

Rand Paul Warns Musk & Ramaswamy About The Swamp's Upcoming DOGE Dodge

In Britain you can and will be arrested for "misusing" social media

Democracy Is Dead: A Coup Against Right Wing Movements Is Underway In Europe

Ukrainians Are Sick of the War. But We’re Not Allowed to Say It.

It's Time To Stop Blaming Russia For Europe's Woes

Conservatives Can Curate Art for Themselves

Stone Age Ports in the US

Are the Boeing astronauts actually stuck in space? Nope. ‘Living in space is super fun.’

Mayor Adams Says He is Looking to Bypass New York City’s Sanctuary Laws to Help Trump Deport Illegals

Trump Shreds FBI Director Christopher Wray—'He Invaded My Home'

Joe Biden, corrupt career politician, crawls offstage

Donald Trump is poised to have a successful 2nd term as Commander-in-Chief

Harris raised and spent twice as much as Trump in final days of 2024 election

 A Bob Dylan tweet

California Fast Food Restaurants Shed Thousands of Jobs after $20 Minimum Wage Hike

Pediatric Gender Medicine and the Moral Panic Over Suicide

A Safe Bet: Politicized Consensus "Science" Is Wrong

U.S. math scores show 'devastating' decline

What Health Insurance Should Be, But Isn’t

TGIF: Pardon Me? America’s president, Dr. Jill, pardons Hunter. An
executive is shot; people celebrate. Test scores plummet. Pamela
Anderson looks great. RFK Jr. bares his chest. Again. Plus: Do not
colonize Canada.

 Trump Names Monica Crowley as Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State, Chief of Protocol for the United States.

The Left-Flank Albatross- New research sheds more light on the Democrats’ perception problem.

You and I Knew Taylor Lorenz Acts Like a Soulless Psychopath - When Does She Find Out?

When the Family Flourishes, Society Flourishes

We lose something when we do not relate face to face, person to person.

Return of the Masks- Ignoring the evidence of medical studies, five Bay Area counties announce mask mandates in health-care facilities.

Jews and The Closing of the British Mind

The Trump 'reckoning' for higher ed: No more easy money

Chase Strangio and the 2-Year-Old Transsexuals

Historians Stumped How Kids Throughout History Didn't Commit Suicide Despite Having No Access To Gender Surgery

Supreme Court Shows the Left’s Inability to Grasp the Transgender Movement’s Harms. No, it's not like aspirin.

Alito Calls Out Solicitor General for Ignoring Research That Exposed Risks of Trans Procedures for Kids

Trump's Notre Dame Appearance Means More Than You Think

Democrats and the Torah - If the Democrats do consult the Torah, they
will realize – right at the beginning – something that may surprise
them: They should be feeling great right now.

Awaiting Trump, Memphis Laughs at Biden DOJ Intimidation

UK Podcaster Faces Prison For Saying "Young White Girls Are Being Raped by These Grooming Gangs"

 Would you ever have expected that you would have someone occupying the
Oval Office who would leave American hostages to wallow in captivity for
more than a year?

Biden Regime Grants Protections and Secures Permanent Telework for
42,000 Social Security Bureaucrats Until AFTER President Trump Leaves
Office

A New York Times opinion piece’s ludicrous explanation for why Kash Patel is ‘unqualified’

The Mainstream Media Death Rattle Has Begun. It's Going to Be a Long One, However.

The Return of Realpolitik - Some leaders in Europe may resist a new
alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies,
sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand.

5 Mathematical Formulas from Ancient Times - Learn why the achievements
of Egypt, Babylon and Greece, though child’s play today, still stand as
remarkable feats of intellect.

128 years of Moore's Law

It’s Time for the Government to Abolish ‘Race’. Since 1977, the federal government has sorted Americans into bogus racial categories. Why?

VDH: Yes, Mexico Knows Exactly What It Is Doing. Mexico understands that an
open border, the destruction of U.S. immigration law, illegal
immigration, and emigration of millions of its own citizens to America
are entirely in its own interests.

Wednesday Potpourri

Gender-Care Whistleblowers Go to Court. Plus. . .Will Kash Patel break the FBI?, anti-Israel protests 101, the quiet corruption of flying private, and more.

Closing arguments in Daniel Penny’s trial

Netherlands plans to cap its population: Hard-right government backs
'toughest ever measures' on immigration to keep population under
20million - but citizens will have to 'work longer hours and retire
later'

The Advent Of Lousy (Christmas) Music

Gender neologisms

Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check - Why future warming isn't as "locked in" as you might think

Are Trump voters traitors?

" This is strange indeed. After all, the media promoted nothing but
positive stories about Kamala Harris and nothing but negative stories
about Donald Trump. And the American public responded by tuning out the
media."

Piers Morgan:  Trump II could be one of America’s great presidents — if he curbs his bad side

Maureen Dowd: My brother is doing the Trump Dance

The Liberal Media Is Actually Denying Biden Lied About Hunter's Pardon

Sweden Sees Children Carrying Out Contract Killings

Visualizing Ukraine's Collapsing Front Lines Amid The Steady Russian Onslaught

Tyranny in Britain

Krazy Kovid koping

Krazy Child Psychiatrist

Connecticut mansion engulfed in flames on Thanksgiving as residents fried turkey inside garage

Darwin's law

“Climate Change”: What Can’t It Do?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Universities Have A 2025 Rendezvous With Reality

A conservative at the Los Angeles Times!

Are Liberals Raising the White Flag on Immigration?

Guy feels relieved and relaxed with election over

The Real Insurrectionists: The Federal Workforce

Nobody’s buying the left's hate hoaxes

The Economist Changes Tune on Javier Milei: Actions Deserve ‘to be Watched Closely Around the World’

Trudeau promised Trump tougher border controls, says top Canada official

British Prime Minister Admits Mass Migration to U.K. ‘Happened by Design’

Xi Jinping Doesn’t Have an Answer for China’s Demographic Crisis. A call for a “high-quality population” ignores the country’s real problems.

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Are Teen Girls Suffering From Hysteria?

Yale University hosts ‘Transgiving’

Esther Rantzen is wrong about assisted suicide. What of those who might be bullied into euthanasia?

Fascism 101: Feds Move on MASSIVE, Budget-Breaking Subsidy for Ozempic, Mounjaro as Pharma Stocks Surge

John Kerry hits the circuit to campaign for an official ‘climate emergency’

Climate Cult Now Looking To Indoctrinate Pre-Schoolers

Best news of 2024: The collapse of ‘diversity, equity, inclusion’

Saturday Miscellany

Peggy Noonan's Downfall

Harvard shocker: Voters ‘abandoning’ the Democratic Party

Trump has already begun to govern!

Former GOP Rep. David Jolly rips Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski for meeting with Trump: ‘You can’t do that’

I’m Pretty F*cking Scared:’ Members of the Censorship Cartel Fear Donald Trump’s Presidency

Smirking illegal alien in New York is the poster boy for sanctuary lawlessness

Homan is not kidding

Trump Nominees Targeted With Bomb Threats As Radical Groups Plan Massive Protests For Inauguration Day

Supporting Islamic terrorism is not a crime in the UK. Speaking out
against it, falling victim to it or standing up against it is.

Russia Now Recruiting Yemen Fighters For Ukraine War

Mr Sammler's prescience - What Saul Bellow's masterpiece tells us about today

Bloomberg: American's Thanksgiving Meal Is Destroying the Planet

 The death of the American museum - The drive to inspire has been overtaken by the gratuitous need to moralize

Policing Speech

 Why Was This Groundbreaking Study on DEI Silenced? Two leading media organizations abruptly shelved coverage of a groundbreaking study that went against their narrative.

TGIF: Thankful Edition - Dr. Jill Biden, Kamala’s campaign, and parks. There’s a lot to be grateful for in 2024.

Trump and the Academic Cocoon - A New York Times op-ed by a Yale
historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an
outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not
self-correct without external intervention.

White House reporters "exhausted"

Trump taps COVID-censored Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH, says he will work with RFK Jr. to ‘restore’ agency

From 'Fringe' to Mainstream

Fauci Still Getting Chauffeur, Security Detail

Do We Still Have to Pretend the 2020 Election Was ‘Free and Fair’?

What’s the Matter with Democrats? by Walter Samuel

Perhaps there are real problems that real voters care about, and winning
elections requires persuading rather than tricking voters.

The defeat of the Biden-Harris administration revealed that paying off
every constituency under the sun, often with literal cash, cannot bribe
the electorate into ignoring the inflation and total governmental
collapse that comes with it.

Did Trump Just Solve The Border Crisis: Mexican President "Agreed To Stop Migration Through Mexico" Trump Claims

Illegal migrant crime cost $166.5 billion, three times the price of deportation

Teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten reveals how members feel about DOE being potentially abolished: ‘Don’t really care’

'Hillary 2028' Speculation Rife

Good grief. Who did she call?

Five Exciting Executive Orders Expected To Immediately Kickstart Trump’s Second Term

Image from  Why Are Urban Turkeys Thriving?

John Kerry: People need to behave

New Yorker Wonders If NY Can Fight Fascism With ‘Climate Change’

Newsom Cutting Tesla Out of CA's EV Rebate Scheme

Regulating Sausages

Sheesh

Should a Government Help People Die? UK lawmakers have proposed an
assisted suicide bill that claims to offer a compassionate death. But is
it just a way to save money?

Government runs doctors in the UK

Get police out of the playground. There’s only one solution to hurt feelings

NYT & Bloomberg Bury Rutgers Study Showing DEI Makes People Hostile

Wednesday Potpourri

‘Devastated’: Classes at Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Swarthmore and others canceled over Trump win

What about the R-voting kids?

Kamala Campaign Admits Their Entire Operation Was One Billion Dollar Lie

Why Didn’t They Riot?

How a French Whale Made $85 Million off Trump’s Win. A trader on Polymarket outsmarted the entire polling industry.

No he did not. The internal polling was correct

Trump Vows to Ban $267M 'Censorship Cartel'

World-Renowned Vaccine Scientist: RFK Is Right — Let’s Study Vaccine Risk Factors