THERE ISN’T ENOUGH COVER UP TO KEEP THIS UNDER WRAPS:  Walz And Lapdog MN Media Cover Up $9 Billion Somali Fraud.

MUCH SHOCKED. VERY SURPRISED. WOW. WOW. WOW: As though this weren’t par for the course:  Elite Massachusetts boarding school rocked by teacher scandal and institutional cover-up allegations. Former Miss Hall’s School history teacher allegedly groomed students while leadership failed to act.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT CELIA DID RIGHT: But all my fans who read her advance snippets are jumping up and down waiting for this to drop:  The Hallmark-Style Flannel Romance.

AND THE NEW CAUSE IS JUST AS IRRATIONAL AND STUPID:  There is a big play to make AI the next outrage topic for the Left. Does this headline sound familiar? “everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic, and you have to point it all out to everyone all the time.” That was the Sarkeesian attack that changed the entire AAA game industry and created a billion dollar tech industry consultancy focused on DEI. Now that DEI is dried up and viewed as toxic, they need a new cause.

And for the XCANCELLED.

AND THAT’S HOW THE FUTURE ARRIVES:  The Day I Became a Believer. 10 years ago, reusable space vehicles stopped being just a dream.

WHAT ACTUALLY IS WRONG WITH TUCKER?  TPUSA’s AmFest kicked off last night and hoo boy was it spicy. Enjoy the clips.

Yes, I know, we need a bigger blog.

I REFUSE TO IDENTIFY AS “GENERATION JONES” SINCE THE BOOMERS GAVE US THAT NAME:  Boomers – A vampiric generation battening on the blood of the young.

I don’t “jones” for anything they have.  And to be fair, this is not exactly the “boomers” fault as a weird confluence of demographics, impact of mass media, and–  But yeah, in the main, we’re eating seed corn to keep boomers comfortable in old age. Just like price of college has gone through the roof so Beardo the Weirdo can be comfortable.

I’LL BE HONEST, EARTH NEEDS MOTHERS:  Women are walking away from the corporate world.

GOOD:  U.S. Pursues Third Oil Tanker Near Venezuela.

CALIFORNIA IS NOT AS STUPID AS EUROPE:  California Keeps Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor Running 5 More Years.

I know, I know, praising with faint damns.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

VIDEO: Watch this amazing time-lapse of SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage view of Earth.

LAW IN THE AGE OF AI: Duty to Alert Court to Opponents’ “Fictitious Citation[s]” and “Misrepresentation of Case Law.” “To be sure, lawyers often need no prompting to alert the court to errors by the other side. But sometimes they might feel reluctant to look like they’re piling on with objections, especially when the erroneous citation is on a tangential point, or when they think they’ve already destroyed the other side’s arguments on the merits. And sometimes they might be reluctant to spend their time and the client’s money on putting together a list of errors by the other side (especially when that requires a whole new supplemental filing). These decisions show that, despite that, alerting the court to all the citation errors you found in the other side’s filings may be important to maintaining the court’s confidence and goodwill.”

TRAMADOL: Scientists Warn Popular Painkiller May Do More Harm Than Good.

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NOT ADMITTING THE OBVIOUS: BBC Can’t Admit the Obvious. “The Australian Broadcasting Corporation insists that the Bondi Beach terrorist attack had nothing to do with religion. Not to be outdone, the British Broadcasting Corporation says, ‘Hold My Beer,’ and refuses to admit that the Intifada(s) were all about killing Jews.”

GUNS FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE:

Isn’t it ironic that this bloke needs about 25 people escorting him around, all armed to the teeth, just to get in and out of a public memorial?

Every single one of them has a gun to protect him — the same tools he’s happy to restrict or take away from everyone else. The… https://t.co/ZW3OmUSdMo

— The Dusty Bogan (@TheDustyBogan) December 21, 2025

ROGER KIMBALL: Reflections on the revolution: an introduction.

STAY STRONG: Toniiq NAD+ Supplement 1500mg. #CommissionEarned

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THAT IT’S BANNING GUN OWNERSHIP BY PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T DO IT: The Key to Gauging Public Safety is Measuring Time-To-Effective-Resistance. “The people who commit these kinds of mass murders tend, fortunately, to be morons. “Speed, surprise, and violence of action” cuts both ways. They rely on it to get the jump on innocent people, but they are ill-equipped to be on the receiving end.”

READER FAVORITE: 5 Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener. #CommissionEarned

SUNDAY SMILES:

WE NEED A TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF AUSTRALIA UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE:

Why would Australia give a non-citizen on a Visa, SIX gun licenses?

And why would he be given six licenses when his son has known links to ISIS?

Then he trains for a month with ISIS in November, and he STILL has six guns?

Big questions to answer. https://t.co/4VuyvFs28M

— 0pinionistNZ (@OpinionistNZ) December 21, 2025

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— Lagertha333 (@Lagertha333) December 21, 2025

IN THE 21ST CENTURY, PEANUT THE SQUIRREL WAS SHOT: During WWII, a dress-wearing squirrel sold war bonds alongside FDR: US bomber crews even carried photos of Tommy Tucker on missions.

JOHN NOLTE: RINO Romney Calls for Tax Hikes, Raising Retirement Age.

Here are his suggestions for outright tax increases…

“I long opposed increasing the income level on which FICA employment taxes are applied (this year, the cap is $176,100). No longer[.]”

Currently, once your income reaches that $176,100, the government stops taking taxes for Medicare and Social Security. It sounds like Romney wants to tax people no matter how much they make.

He also argues for closing loopholes, increasing the estate tax, and similar measures.

This has always been Romney’s problem.

Actually, two of Romney’s problems.

The first is that you can always count on him to eventually cave to Democrats. There’s death, taxes, and Romney caving to Democrats.

Second is his dazzling lack of imagination.

How do we fix entitlements, Mitt?

Uh, raise the retirement age and tax increases.

Way to think out of the box, Mitt.

America cannot tax its way to either prosperity or fiscal solvency. Tax increases always-always-always slow economic growth, which — and this is key — decreases tax revenues. Romney acknowledges this and then, without evidence, wrist flicks it: “Yes, taxes can slow growth. But most of the measures I propose would have a relatively small impact on economic growth.”

In other words, I’ve acknowledged it, so I don’t have to really address it, you know, because I acknowledged it.

As the late Robert Novak famously said, “God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don’t do that, they have no useful function.” But Romney himself can pay more in taxes anytime he’d like:

You can write a check to the US Treasury anytime you want. Don’t forget to write “Gift to the United States” in the memo line.

You’re welcome. https://t.co/9k4VNct0j5

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) December 20, 2025

Bush 41 is, however, an object lesson in how Republican presidents are treated by Democrats should they accede to their wishes, and increase the taxes that Americans are paying: Clinton attacked Bush from the right for raising taxes.