SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GIGGLE FIT: Larry Page Leaves Calif. Amid Billionaire Wealth Tax Push.

Page has shifted the registrations of several key entities — including his family office and a flying-car venture — from California to Delaware, according to state filings.

He has also personally relocated out of California ahead of a potential statewide vote on a wealth tax. Page told friends last month he was considering a move to Florida.

The proposed measure would impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals with assets exceeding $1 billion.

5% of nothing is how much?

HMM: President Trump and NASA Administrator Isaacman: Please Take the Crew Off of Artemis II.

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ANALYSIS: TRUE. What Separates Tim Walz From Other Democrats Is He Got Caught.

Now, however, Walz is most known as the Minnesota governor who oversaw and enabled a years-long scam in which Somalis occupying large swaths of his state were pocketing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with fake child care and health care operations that provided no services to anyone at all. The scheme was uncovered mostly through federal prosecutions, which were then covered by our dying national news media. But most devastating for Walz and the state’s whole government was a 45-minute video produced by a 23-year-old YouTuber who demonstrated just how brazen the fraud was by simply knocking on “child care center” doors — only to be greeted by savage Somalis who spoke next to no English and had no kids inside.

The mass fraud was made possible by obscene welfare programs that Democrats like Walz — especially Walz — champion in order to lock in votes from impoverished foreigners and otherwise ne’er-do-wells who have no interest in working. “We have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that,” Walz said at the vice presidential debate last year. “We were able to do it in Minnesota.”

Read the whole thing, including a lovely use of the word “presumably.”

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO KEEP THEM SECRET? Transparency or threat? UNC policy to make syllabi public draws mixed reactions. “Starting next week, the University of North Carolina System will begin requiring all course syllabi to be made publicly available, joining a growing number of states pushing for greater transparency at taxpayer-funded universities. However, the new policy has received pushback from a number of faculty, who argue the change could open them up to ‘bad-faith critique and extremist threats.'”

Oh, grow up.

EVERYTHING? Here’s What Dems Don’t Want You to Know About the Woman Who Attacked ICE Agents.

CHANGE: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Anatomy of the Death of a Daily Newspaper.

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FREE SPEECH: Court rules University of Washington violated professor’s First Amendment rights: The University of Washington violated the First Amendment rights of a professor who mocked land acknowledgments in a course syllabus, a federal court has ruled.

THEY’LL PROBABLY AWARD THE PHOTOG A PULITZER:

A masterclass in propaganda. One photo, zero context. The caption says “terrorized innocent man.” The reality – he grabbed the officer’s weapon moments earlier, and that’s pepper spray, not a firearm. This is how outrage is manufactured. https://t.co/qNLQxw8Dpt

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) January 8, 2026

DREAM BIG: Trump calls for $1.5T budget for ‘dream military.’

“After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives, I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion Dollars,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.

“This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” he said.

Trump said that if it were not for the revenue from his administration’s tariffs on other countries, he would say the budget should be kept at $1 trillion.

$1.5 trillion is 4.84% of GDP, or about 22% smaller in GDP terms than Ronald Reagan’s peak defense budget in 1986.

BRINGING SOME SANITY WITH THE NEW ALCOHOL GUIDELINES:

In a press briefing on Wednesday, Oz claimed that previous drink restrictions on alcohol were not based on any specific scientific evidence of the amount of alcoholic drinks per day to recommend — despite studies that show an increase in health risks from consumption of alcohol. . . .

When asked at the White House press briefing to explain the science behind the new alcohol guidance, Oz said that alcohol was a “social lubricant” that helps bring people together.

“So alcohol is a social lubricant that brings people together. In the best case scenario, I don’t think you should drink alcohol, but it does allow people an excuse to bond and socialize,” Oz said.

“And there’s probably nothing healthier than having a good time with friends in a safe way. If you look at the blue zones, for example, around the world, where people live the longest, alcohol is sometimes part of their diet. Again, small amounts taken very judiciously and usually in a celebratory fashion. So there is alcohol on these dietary guidelines, but the implication is don’t have it for breakfast, right?”

This is consistent with the thrust of Edward Slingerland’s recent book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, which I reviewed here.

CHANGE:

What has changed is that in the past you could always count on the left to keep up the pressure until their foes got tired and became 'reasonable'. Now, through some self sustaining chain reaction the right can stay angry indefinitely. This has not happened before.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026

Where else does the far left go if their world is falling apart domestically and internationally but toward some sort of resistance? If shoplifters bolt and people with expired licenses take off high speed what more those who have played for the biggest stakes and lost?

What a…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hear It for the (Red-Blooded American) Boy! “In Wednesday’s Morning Briefing, our own Kevin Downey, Jr. talked about AWFLs, the affluent white female liberals who are ruining our country. In an effort to be fair and balanced, I’d like to add that behind every one of them is usually some effeminate, affluent, white, liberal ‘man’ who wishes he could menstruate, watches Property Brothers, and secretly wishes his favorite AWFL would paint his toenails to match hers.”

Sarah Anderson is filling in for Kruiser today.

THE COVERUP IS EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME: Minnesota Dems Blocked Auditors from Tackling ‘Avalanche’ of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Trump and Greenland.

BRITAIN: Young women are radicalising.

The 2024 voting patterns of young women tell a very different story. Nearly one in four (23 per cent) of 18- to 24-year-old women voted for the Green Party at the last general election, compared to just 6.7 per cent of the general population (12 per cent of young men voted for the Greens). Greens performed far better with young women than with any other key demographic (just 10 per cent of 25- to 49-year-old women voted Green, and only 4 per cent of 50- to 64-year-olds). In last year’s general election, young women moved to the populist left considerably more than young men moved to the populist right.

Current voting intention polls show these trends not only persisting but becoming more pronounced. Recent data from More In Common shows that one in three (33 per cent) of young women now say they will vote for the Green Party. Meanwhile, young men, far from being more right wing than the population as a whole, are as likely to vote Green as they are Reform (20 per cent) with Reform still significantly underperforming with under 25 males relative to other age groups.

In fact, the UK is not alone in seeing young women move increasingly to the left. Recent elections in the US, Germany and Portugal all show similar movements between the sexes.

As it says in the subhead, “Britain’s young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing,” and none of these things are on accident — and all three are interrelated.

Meanwhile, in New York:

Go on and laugh, but she'd order you into a cattle car just as soon as look at you. https://t.co/wX2kylTeC6

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 7, 2026

Orwell knew.

DON SURBER: Temu Radar failed Venezuela: Chairman Xi lost the war without Trump firing a shot at him.

The utter failure of Chinese air defenses inspires these thoughts from Eric S. Raymond: “Before this went down I was figuring a very high probability that the Chinese make their move on Taiwan in 2027. Now? I guarantee you that their confidence in their previous risk assessments has evaporated. They no longer know what they’ll be facing, and there’s a significant possibility that mainland China’s domestic air defenses are worthless too. Now I’m going to suggest that you juxtapose two phrases: ‘thermobaric bombs’ and ‘Three Gorges Dam.’ A China that’s naked from the air has the biggest glass jaw in human history. Now I think there’s pretty good odds that the invasion of Taiwan will never happen at all.”

Not sure a thermobaric bomb is the best ordnance for that job, but the point is sound.

TRUTH:

The entire Democrat Party ceases to exist without taxpayer money, election fraud, and the mass importation of foreigners. It’s a 20% Party without those things.

Understand that and you’ll understand why they fight so hard for those things.

Their entire existence is on the line.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 7, 2026

OF COURSE HE IS: Mamdani’s First Test: He’s Sticking By His Racist, Communist ‘Tenant Advocate.’

ROGER KIMBALL: The Case For Annexing Greenland.

Anyway, the talk in Trump world about Greenland has given mouthpieces like Jake Tapper a case of the sads. After Katie Miller’s post, Tapper anxiously pestered her husband Stephen Miller about Greenland. “Can you,” quoth Tapper, “rule out that the US is ever going to try to take Greenland by force?” “Greenland should be part of the United States,” replied Miller. He then offered him a lesson in realpolitik. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Has Miller been reading his Thucydides (see Book 5.89)? Miller then asked an interesting question: by what right does Denmark have Greenland? Is it because Erik the Red founded a settlement there around AD 1000? I think the Danes will have to do better than that.

And besides, Jake Tapper can rest easy. Trump will not be sending in a Delta Force squadron to seize Greenland. That’s not how things will evolve. How will they evolve? Trump wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. There will be tears and some foot stamping by the Danes and other members of the EU. But Greenland will soon come under the orbit of the United States. Maybe Trump will make the sort of deal that Arthur Guinness struck when, in 1759, he leased St. James’s Gate for his brewery for £45 per year for 9,000 years.

I am sure a tidy sum will change hands over Greenland. Maybe Trump will also extend some face-saving tokens. But Greenland is essential to America’s, and Europe’s, security in the region. Therefore, notwithstanding the Jakes and the Margarets of the world, Greenland will be ours.

My take is that Trump has written off Europe, and expects it to go Islamist, and is fortifying North America against that prospect.

ICYMI: Trump’s ‘Peace on Earth’ Raid: The Monroe Doctrine Is Back, Baby.

LOL: Brown University Taps DEI Official To Restore ‘Sense of Physical Security’ on Campus.

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PRIVACY: News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.

On Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein denied objections that OpenAI raised, claiming that Magistrate Judge Ona Wang failed to adequately balance the privacy interests of ChatGPT users who are not involved in the litigation when ordering OpenAI to produce 20 million logs.

Instead, OpenAI wanted Stein to agree that it would be much less burdensome to users if OpenAI ran search terms to find potentially infringing outputs in the sample. That way, news plaintiffs would only get access to chats that were relevant to its case, OpenAI suggested.

But Stein found that Wang appropriately weighed ChatGPT users’ privacy interests when ordering OpenAI to produce the logs. For example, to shield ChatGPT users, the total number of logs shared was substantially reduced from tens of billions to 20 million, he wrote, and OpenAI has stripped all identifying information from any chats that will be shared.

That actually looks like a pretty solid compromise.