MAID IN CANADA: Sask. woman considers assisted dying because she can’t get needed surgery for rare disease.

For the past eight years, Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT).

It causes extreme bone pain, nausea and vomiting.

“Every day I get up and I’m sick to my stomach and I throw up and I throw up,” Van Alstine said.

She visited the provincial legislature on Tuesday to plead for help getting surgery to remove her remaining parathyroid gland.

Currently there is no Saskatchewan surgeon able to perform the operation.

Van Alstine said she must be referred out of province, but she can’t obtain a referral without first being seen by an endocrinologist — and none of them are accepting new patients.

Van Alstine said the pain has become so unbearable that she has applied and been approved for MAID on Jan. 7.

This one seems to have flown under the radar in the US since it broke a couple of weeks ago, but resurfaced thanks to an offer from Glenn Beck to help the woman.

JOURNALISM! EXCLUSIVE: In Wake of Free Beacon Report, Trump Administration To Investigate Federal Contractors That Say They Won’t Hire US Citizens.

BUT ARE THEY WRONG? They Think Their Voters Are Idiots.

CHANGE:

Addressing the people justifying Charlie Kirk's murder on the basis of his beliefs, Erika Kirk said: "You're sick. He's a human being. You think he deserved that? Tell that to my 3-year-old daughter."@MrsErikaKirk sat down with @bariweiss for a CBS News Town Hall, just days… pic.twitter.com/8P31w4JQQR

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 10, 2025

60 years ago, Walter Cronkite and Daniel Schorr were claiming on air that Barry Goldwater was a crypto-Nazi, so the fact that CBS can now show empathy to an actual Republican is significant progress. I hope they can continue in this fashion.

But as Steve noted yesterday, Bari’s got her work cut out for her, and large percentage of staffers who openly despise her for not being as far to the left as they are: Bari Weiss Named a New CBS News Anchor, and the Response Is the Funniest News Ever.

SENATE DEMS HEAR NO FRAUD, SEE NO FRAUD, SAY NO FRAUD: A combative Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing Wednesday documented multi-billions of fraudulently awarded Section (8)a-set-side contracts, but Democrats insisted the crook in the White House is the real villain. Haven’t we heard this somewhere before?

NO BAILOUTS: Education Department Ends Biden Student Loan Bailout.

THE GOVERNOR HAS NO CLOTHES: Joel Kotkin: California job cuts will hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House run.

FROM JEFF DUNTEMANN:  The Camel’s Question.

In this short Christmas fable, three camels carry the Wise Men to Bethlehem, where the Christ Child speaks to them in their own language, and grants each their heart’s desire. For two of the camels, their desires are simple and easily granted. The third camel asks a difficult question of the infant Christ, but Christ answers Hanekh the Camel nonetheless, in a way that Hanekh could not have predicted.

LOL:  How the SgtMaj Stole Christmas.

YEP, THAT ABOUT DESCRIBES IT:   Honest, direct and damning – Trump’s home truths about the world today.

WELL WHY NOT?  MS-13 leader with ties to Honduran assassin squad obtained California driver’s license using real name: feds.

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS OPPOSED FEDERALISM AND WORKED TO IMPOSE FEDERAL LAW UNIFORMLY THROUGHOUT THE NATION (SEEMS ONLY YESTERDAY …):  AAG Harmeet Dhillon Announces DOJ Suit Against Loudoun County Public Schools.

WHEN THE DEMS HAVE LOST JOY REID …  Joy Reid Drops a Sane Line…and It’s Brutal Toward Merrick Garland.

WHAT? ANOTHER ONE? AND EVEN LESS BELIEVABLE:  Slotkin Drops Stunning New Explanation for Releasing ‘Seditious Six’ Video.

BUT BUT BUT OTHER CULTURES ARE ALL SO LOVING AND ACCEPTING!*  Iran, Egypt Furious About Having to Play in Seattle’s Pride Match in World Cup.

*In related news, are there specialists who help remove your tongue from your cheek, when it becomes welded there?

ANOTHER REASON NOT TO HAVE CARS THAT NEED TO CALL HOME:  Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car.

I AM CONTINUOUSLY BEWILDERED BY WHAT PEOPLE THINK IS AI:  This will be the new -ist and -phobe by freaks who just want to hate. We see it with artists on x already being falsely accused. The accusers do not care about the damage they will cause.

Look, there are indeed AI tells — not that I care, if the thing is readable. Only mostly it isn’t — but it certainly isn’t stuff like m dashes which are used by every fiction writer, and twice as hard by those with ADD.  Again, ultimately the only question should be “do you like it?” Not “how was it made.” On the other hand, deciding — mostly wrongly — that things are AI and hating them for it is very on point for people who only love books if they’re written by people on the approved list, or there’s a male name on the cover, or the cover is purple, or whatever. So, there’s that.

GOOD:   Real Second Amendment curriculum could be headed to high schools soon.

ON THE ONE HAND BOTH NETFLIX AND PARAMOUNT ARE WOKE AS ALL GET OUT:   Movies and Other Things.

On the other hand, so is WB. And on the third hand, these are the desperate actions of drowning men. Ain’t no merger gonna save them. They are falling apart. The way forward is not mergers for the ever dwindling market for woke movies. The future is small, fractured, and indie.

SORRY, BUT THE LACK OF THOUGHT BEHIND THE PLATITUDES REALLY BURNS ME:  Land, Genes and Culture, Oh My.

THE “NON PARTISAN” CIVIL SERVICE IS A PROPAGANDA MYTH:

Barbara thinks it’s OK that 75% of these allegedly non-partisan civil servants refused to work under a Republican president. She further thinks that we should respect them. https://t.co/frVxXVIOYN

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 10, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THINK OF IT AS EVOLUTION IN ACTION:

People dying due to their own stupidity and fanaticism is a good outcome.

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 10, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: 1st human missions to Mars should hunt for signs of life, report says.

STEP ONE: You’re racist to even suggest this.

STEP TWO: We didn’t stop it for fear of being called racist.

STEP THREE: We were doing the raping too all along.

This is why the rape gangs got away with it for so long. The authorities were, as we suspected, part of it. https://t.co/w6ZyOyosH6

— Christopher Talbot (@Lord_Talbot64) December 10, 2025

STOP RAPING PEOPLE!!!