December 11, 2025

CHANGE:

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.

UPDATE: Given how painfully Cronkite leaned into his biases on the air, this is absolutely perfect:

Posted at 10:50 am by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission living an energy fantasy.

Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has done it again — proving when regulators get together, they can create a fantasyland so detached from reality it makes Disneyland look like a documentary.

The PUC just adopted a new rule ordering power utilities to slash greenhouse emissions 41% by 2035, a big jump from the legislature’s original “let’s try not to panic anyone” target of 22% by 2030. And they tied the whole package to Colorado’s statewide goal of eliminating greenhouse gases by 2050.

Eliminating — as in zero. As in, “Natural gas and coal, thanks for your service, appreciate you heating our homes and powering two-thirds of our electricity. Now pack your things.”

Back in 2021, lawmakers required utilities to file “clean heat plans.” The idea was simple: reduce emissions a little, tinker around the system, maybe switch a few customers to electric heat pumps. In politician-speak, this is called incremental change. In real life, it’s called fine, whatever.

But this is no longer a clean heat plan, instead it’s a Dear John letter to your furnace. You see, “eliminating greenhouse gases” means eliminating all coal and natural gas, and therefore most all our electricity too.

No plan survives first contact with reality — or with Gov. Polis’ Colorado Energy Office, which in July suggested the PUC (also appointed by Polis) raise the target to 41%. Utilities fought the idea. Consumer advocates fought it. Even the unions said, “Um, guys?”

The PUC responded, “Great feedback, everyone. We’re doing it anyway.”

My advice to my fellow Coloradans is: either buy lots of blankets or rent a U-Haul.

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green

DAVID SOLWAY: What’s in an (Indigenous) Name? Canada’s Latest Scandal. “The latest installment of such obvious chicanery, primarily in the province of British Columbia, is the conflict between Fee Simple Rights — property owners’ absolute rights to land and buildings purchased in good faith and according to the law — and Aboriginal Title Rights — the collective right of Indigenous Peoples to land and harvesting privileges not granted by the state, but considered inherent. Thanks largely to the worst provincial premier in Canada, David Eby, a woke socialist intent on surrendering his province back to the Indians, and the trouble-making Supreme Court Justice Barbara Young, proprietors in portions of the district of Richmond, part of Metro Vancouver, have just learned that they no longer own the properties that they own.”

Posted at 10:10 am by Stephen Green

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SECOND MAI TAI AT THE SWIM-UP BAR: Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms.

The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy — measured by cost per kilowatt hour — are governed by Democrats.

In contrast, 80% of the states with the most affordable electricity costs per kilowatt hour are “reliably red,” according to IER. Twenty of the 25 states with the lowest electricity prices are red states, while only four are blue, and one is purple, the report states.

Always on Energy Research partnered with IER on the report.

“This is a blue state problem,” IER President Tom Pyle told the DCNF, arguing that prescribing any blame to President Donald Trump for soaring electricity costs is misplaced.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: What, Me Worry?’ — Taking the Alfred E. Neuman Approach to 2026. “This is a point that I have been making about President Trump and this administration from the beginning — there’s always been a plan to undo the damage that the Puppet Biden Cabal did. They’re going about it methodically too. It’s not easy to rebuild after the wrecking ball has had four years to destroy the place.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY:

Posted at 8:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER?

I mean, even if he was bat-guano the whole time, he used to do a much better job at hiding it.

Unlike Joy Reid, who never bothered.

Posted at 8:52 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Trump Admin Buys Fleet of Deportation Jets.

The Department of Homeland Security has signed a contract of nearly $140 million to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportations.

DHS will shift from relying solely on charter services to operating its own aircraft after Congress approved a major funding increase for President Donald Trump’s border and immigration agenda, according to The Washington Post.

Two officials familiar with the contract and records reviewed by the Post said ICE may have broader plans for the aircraft.

Congress authorized $170 billion for immigration and border operations over four years as part of the GOP tax bill, and the plane funding comes from that package.

The infusion of money is tied to the administration’s effort to expand enforcement and meet its stated goal of deporting 1 million people by the end of Trump’s first year in office.

And with fuel prices so low on Trump’s watch, it’s a real bargain.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

IMPRESSIVE. MOST IMPRESSIVE:

Posted at 7:50 am by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

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?

Posted at 7:11 am by Mark Tapscott

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.

Posted at 7:01 am by Sarah Hoyt