December 23, 2025

THREE REASONS 2026 COULD BE HUGE TRUMP WIN: No President since FDR has approached the New Dealer’s massive 1934 mid-term congressional election triumph. But, as I explain in my latest PJMedia column (and first in several months, by the way), there are three solid reasons to expect Trump to have a similar win next November.

Posted at 4:45 pm by Mark Tapscott

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Rate of glacier disappearance expected to peak by mid-2050s, scientists say. The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide is expected to sharply increase.

—ABC News, December 15th.

But why would anyone in New York City care, since it’s been flooded for 10 years?

Fourteen years ago, on June 12, 2008, ABC’s Earth 2100 offered a special on the then-far off year of 2015. Correspondent Bob Woodruff revealed that the program “puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world. The first stop is the year 2015.”

The special featured one of ABC’s experts warning that in 2015 the sea level would rise quickly. An on-screen graphic showed New York City being engulfed by water. (Spoiler alert: That didn’t happen.)

—“Just How WRONG Were ABC and NBC’s Climate Predictions? (Hint: NYC Not Underwater),” NewsBusters, June 4th, 2022.

UPDATE: Merry Christmas from “Famous Ghanaian prophet Eboh Noah!”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

RESULTS:

Posted at 3:41 pm by Stephen Green

UGH: Former Republican Senator Announces Grim Cancer Diagnosis. “There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of Advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.”

Posted at 3:18 pm by Stephen Green

MORNING IN AMERICA? Boom! US Economy Grows By Big 4.3% In Third Quarter.

So, the 4.3% growth is very high and not too far away from “It’s Morning in America again.”

And it’s not even a one-quarter wonder — the last quarter showed strong 3.8% growth. It looks like it’s real and building.

Is the economic turn we desperately need for 2026 and 2028, too, finally here?

Let’s hope. It looks good at the moment.

Classical reference in headline:

 

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

FASTER? PLEASE! Isaacman emphasizes accelerating NASA programs as he takes agency’s reins.

“We cannot achieve our objectives the way they’ve been done in recent years,” he said, citing the “absolutely impressive speeds” of China’s space activities. “We must do all we can to minimize the bureaucratic drag that can slow us down.”

That effort includes companies and international partners working with NASA, particularly on plans to return humans to the moon. “We will prepare for the inevitable return by working with our commercial and international partners to ensure they’re aligned with our programmatic objectives and acting with the urgency needed” to deliver Artemis elements, he said.

Isaacman highlighted an executive order signed by President Trump on Dec. 18 titled “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” which includes provisions calling for a human return to the lunar surface by 2028 and the establishment of initial elements of a permanent lunar outpost by 2030.

“In my view, it is one of the most significant commitments to America’s space program by any administration since the Kennedy era,” Isaacman said. He attended the signing ceremony in the Oval Office shortly after being sworn in.

The agency needs a good shakeup, and an entrepreneur/astronaut has the skills, experience, and cred to get it done.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

FROM THE “FARTING COWS AND PLANES” FILES: “Ecologists understand the implications. Then environmental organizations continue campaigning to remove cattle from rangelands because they’re ‘destroying’ the environment. The Serengeti proved that 1.5 million large grazers make the land healthier, not worse. But admitting this would require acknowledging that maybe cattle aren’t the problem.”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHY YES, THIS IS TRUMP’S ECONOMY: Issues & Insights notes the new talking point among Democrats is “Trump owns the economy.” That talking point must have been conceived and distributed prior to Tuesday’s BEA GDP growth estimate for the third quarter at 4.3 percent. Next they’ll tell us that 4.3 percent growth rate must be because of Biden since Trump’s tax cuts haven’t yet taken effect?

Posted at 1:24 pm by Mark Tapscott

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The anti-Semitic delusions of Candace Owens.

In a way, I’m glad Candace Owens held up a copy of the notoriously anti-Semitic screed, The Talmudic Jew, during her latest digital rant. For it confirms what she is. More importantly, it lays down a gauntlet to the right. To the left too, in fact. It demands of them the following: are you going to turn a blind eye to this propagation of bloodcurdling lies about the Jews, or are you going to do something about it?

It’s an extraordinary image – Ms Owens, once a darling of America’s online right, sporting a demented grin as she holds aloft one of the most scurrilous and libellous texts about the Jews. She was venting about Ben Shapiro after he dissed her in his speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference last week. Shapiro called the likes of Owens ‘frauds’ and ‘grifters’ for spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

‘Ben Shapiro, f**k you’, said Owens in her wild-eyed video response. You’re nothing more than a ‘Talmudic Jew’, she spat, with extraordinary venom. ‘I encourage other people at home to learn what is in that Talmud’, she said, holding up a copy of The Talmudic Jew by August Rohling, published in 1871.

And there it was, one of the digital right’s best-known figures, a woman with more than five million YouTube subscribers, hawking a book full of anti-Semitic lies. Rohling was a German Catholic theologian. He was an infamous Jew-hater. The Talmudic Jew depicts the Talmud as a ‘repository of anti-Christian hatred’ and a ‘manual for swindling Gentiles’, says Hussein Aboubakr Mansour. And of course it’s fraudulent, Mansour writes. It relies on ‘medieval anti-Jewish polemics and out-of-context quotations’.

Conservative pollster Patrick Ruffini suggests that “Lots of people are listening [to Owens] but are totally unpersuaded by anti-Israel arguments:”

Still though, I’m curious as to why Megyn Kelly, who had been doing yeoman work over the past couple of years rehabilitating her image with conservatives, chose to detonate her career (once again) by standing with Team Candace: Megyn Kelly Blasts Ben Shapiro After He Calls Her a ‘Coward’ for Not Condemning Candace Owens’ Charlie Kirk Murder Conspiracies.

Posted at 1:23 pm by Ed Driscoll

I’M NOT HOLDING MY BREATH, BUT: JustTheNews is reporting that John Brennan’s lawyers confirm he is ‘target’ of Florida grand jury probe:

“Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers have taken the extraordinary step of confirming their client is a “target” of a criminal grand jury investigation in Florida and are asking the chief federal judge in Miami to stop the proceedings on the grounds that the Justice Department is “judge shopping.”

I have little doubt this will all be spun by media stenographers as “retribution” or “vindictiveness,” (as did Comey) but at the end of the day, any case — if even brought — will face the most extreme Due Process scrutiny lawyers can muster.

Posted at 1:21 pm by Charles Glasser