December 12, 2025

JULIE KELLY: DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher’s Wray’s FBI. “If Cole’s arrest proves to have solved the mystery of who planted the bombs, it presents another perhaps even more consequential question: Why did it take law enforcement so long to find him? Although there are no clear answers as of yet, Bongino’s description of the efforts that led to an arrest seems to contradict public comments and congressional testimony regarding the pipe bomb case previously provided by Wray.”

Posted at 4:54 pm by Stephen Green

THIS SOUNDS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY THAT WE WERE PROMISED:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Supergirl — More Superhero Slop?

Related: The new Supergirl poster is trying too hard.

I’d like to preface that the poster itself isn’t the worst (nor is it the best). Featuring a trench-coated Supergirl against a spray-painted logo background, it’s a fairly inoffensive design. With her tousled hair, sunglasses and wired headphones, it’s clear DC are going for a laidback ‘cool girl’ vibe that I feel comes across a little forced, but I can suspend my disbelief.

Well, I could. That was until I saw the new tagline: “Truth. Justice. Whatever.” A quote befitting of my teenage Tumblr blog, the attempt at an edgy tagline simply comes across as a desperate attempt to capture a young audience. It’s giving ‘how do you do, fellow kids?’ in the worst way.

It also seems like a way to goad the right into giving the film a little free extra PR, given that it reads like a callback to the 2006 Superman’s infamous slogan, “Truth, justice and . . . all that stuff,” and Gunn’s own earlier efforts to tweak Superman’s motto to be more woke: James Gunn Doesn’t Just Omit “The American Way” In ‘Superman’ – He Changes It To “The Human Way.”

As the Drinker notes, after going through all of trailer’s myriad and exhausted cliches, “the party’s over, James. It’s been over for like five years now. You’re just too wrapped up in your own PR to realize it.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHARLIE IS TOO KIND:

Posted at 3:58 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: His Dirty Bomb Was a Filthy Lie “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how not to frighten away the police, where not to hide things from the police, and why roller skates aren’t the best way to flee the police.”

Posted at 3:21 pm by Stephen Green

GUMMINT IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST AFFORDABILITY CRISIS: What Reagan told America in 1981 is even more true in 2025. But will Dems or the MSM ever level with American people on this issue? I’m back up on Substack.

Posted at 3:18 pm by Mark Tapscott

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Obama administration ICE chief says Trump deportations are ‘remarkable accomplishment.’

Former acting ICE Director John Sandweg told MSNOW on Thursday, “I got to say two things quickly. One is that the way in which the White House structured this immigration enforcement operation with Stephen Miller running the policy, with Tom Homan being the border czar, but very interested … ,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

He also said, “There’s always a little tension between the department and the White House, but especially so when you have three, you know, cooks in the kitchen, so to speak,” likely referring to the Department of Homeland Security.

Sandweg added that he’s aware that “there’s frustration at these numbers, but I have to tell you, this is a — it is a remarkable accomplishment. These numbers are stunning to me.

“When I look at, let’s say, 600,000 deportations this year, those are all from the interior. And I think this is a critical distinction. When you’re doing the immigration enforcement, you divide the world into the border and the interior. And during the Obama Administration, when there were 400,000 deportations, the reality is about 250,000 of those were people caught right at the border. And it’s not as impactful because those are people trying to get into the United States. This is all people in the interior.”

Amazing what you can do when you try.

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green

RAVING AND DROOLING: Sharon Osbourne nearly mailed Roger Waters a box of poo for his attack on Ozzy after his death.

In the new interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she ultimately decided not to send a similar parcel to Waters.

“Even that is a waste, to send shit to him. It’s a waste because he’s really insignificant,” she explained. “But I just thought, anybody that passes has a family… you don’t do that.”

Later in the interview, Sharon went on to say that she thought Waters’ comments on the podcast were actually aimed at her, instead of Ozzy, and alleged that they could have stemmed from anti-Semitism. Waters has previously strongly denied any accusations of being anti-Semitic, and has not yet commented publicly on the comments made by Sharon in the new interview.

And yet oddly, these reports just keep happening: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters accused of antisemitic behavior including swastika confetti, ‘Jew food’ remarks: report.

 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

SKYNET SMILES: Europe faces Robocop-style dystopia by 2035, EU police claim.

Angry mobs of unemployed citizens riot in the streets against the hordes of service robots that have stolen their jobs. Police officers armed with “robo freezer guns” and “nano net grenades” shoot down swarms of drones deployed by terrorists to attack electricity and water supplies.

This is not the plot of a new Robocop sci-fi film but what may await Europe in the next 10 years, according to a report from the EU’s police agency.

The 48-page Europol document details how law enforcement will need to tackle robots and unmanned systems (drones, satellites and remote-controlled boats) in a dystopian vision of the future.

Experts have dismissed the predictions as fanciful but the EU believes its report outlines “plausible future scenarios”.

While the EU scares its subjects over Robocop scenarios, it’s fully prepared to implement futuristic dystopian strategies of its own: Chat Control: The EU’s Plan to Read Your Messages — All of Them.

In Europe, the controversy surrounding what is popularly known as the “Chat Control” project — proposed EU regulation officially aimed at combating child sexual abuse material — has, for months, been crystallizing massive opposition on both technical and civic fronts.

The core principles of the legislation are clear:

“Detection software would be embedded in the messaging app or the operating system to scan chat content and automatically forward any material flagged as prohibited to law enforcement agencies.”

The automatic scan of private content (texts, images, videos) sent through messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, or prompts sent to AI platforms (e.g. ChatGPT) would take place “client-side,” before its encryption, meaning directly on your phone, tablet or computer. Welcome to 1984. In the first proposal for a Chat Control project in 2022, such scanning was mandatory. In the current proposal, it is optional — but strongly recommended.

Whenever there is a desire to expand control over European citizens, “terrorism” or pedophilia is invoked. It is a clever tactic: who would want to be perceived as supporting terrorists or sympathizing with pedophiles?

Of course, however, that does not seem to be the regulation’s true objective. The real issue appears to be the government’s desire to control, regulate, police and monitor European citizens down to their smallest gesture.

Exit quote: “I happen to be the happy father of an 18-month-old girl. For professional reasons, her mother and I do not always live together, and we constantly exchange photos of our daughter — up to ten times a day. All it would take is for an algorithm to flag a single image, just once, for us to become suspects, quietly entering countless criminal databases, justifying surveillance, official intervention, and more. Even East Germany’s Stasi never dreamed of such power.”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

COL WAR II: Communist China Still Infiltrating Texas. “Communist China is always looking to steal technology from the West through its ‘Thousand Talents’ espionage program, and this week brought two more instances from Texas.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

SOMALI PIRATES UPDATE:

Full interview here.

I’m so old, I can remember flying with large amounts of cash was a surefire way to trigger the authorities: Carrying A Lot Of Cash Through TSA Comes With One Unpleasant Risk.

If you’re like lots of folks, paying for something means pulling out your card or phone and tapping away. Same thing goes for traveling abroad, even in countries typically overlooked by travelers in lieu of big-name destinations like Italy or Spain, cash seems to be less and less common. Nonetheless, cards aren’t universal. As a traveler, having some cash is still a good backup in case your cards stop working — just don’t carry too much. If you’ve got over $10,000 on you when you’re trying to cross country borders, you’re going to have to declare it to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The idea of carrying $10,000 in your wallet may seem ridiculous to plenty of people. Especially considering that a cash amount of $50 to $100 per day per person is considered generally reasonable for a vacation. But if you do have loads of cash on you for some reason, $10,000 is the United States’ threshold for declaration. Within the national borders of the U.S., like crossing from state to state, you don’t have to declare your money. However, when traveling in or out of the U.S., you do.

And: More Than $100K Seized After K-9 Officer At Dallas Love Field Airport Sniffs Out Bag.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll