December 12, 2025

WEAKNESS BEGETS AGGRESSION: China Is Quietly Breaking America’s Pacific Defense Chain.

China is methodically chipping away at America’s Pacific defense architecture, and Yap’s Woleai airfield is the latest warning sign.

Despite the Federated States of Micronesia’s Compact of Free Association with Washington, Beijing has secured a deal to refurbish the airfield—just 450 miles from Guam.

That puts a potential dual-use Chinese facility inside the second island chain, complicating U.S. plans for agile air dispersal in a Taiwan war.

Naval expert Brent Sadler argues that Interior, regional commands, and legal advisers have all failed to enforce CoFA protections, risking billions in U.S. investments and eroding America’s positional advantage in Micronesia.

We paid for those islands with American blood. China is buying them with American dollars.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

ROBERT SPENCER: ‘Minnesota Somalis Are as Minnesotan as Tater-Tot Hotdish,’ But There’s Just One Catch. “The Center for Immigration Studies revealed Wednesday that ‘nearly every Somali household with children (89 percent) receives some form of welfare.’ Even worse, ‘altogether, 81 percent of Somali households consume some form of welfare, compared to 21 percent of native households.’ Nor does this dependency lessen with time: ‘Somalis with 10 years of residency have welfare consumption rates that are only marginally lower than the Somali population as a whole.'”

Posted at 10:11 am by Stephen Green

JUST TRULY TERRIBLE PEOPLE: Newsom Press Account Had NO IDEA the Hell They Would Unleash Trolling Elon Musk With His Mentally Ill Son. “It takes someone really, really, really low to use one’s mentally ill child to hurt them. Still, then again, we are dealing with Governor Newsom and his broken, hateful, thin-skinned, troll press office account run by whack-job haters, so we’re not exactly surprised they’d go after Elon Musk by exploiting his son, who thinks he’s a girl.”

UPDATE (From Ed): Newsom would enjoy seeing many more families ripped apart:

Posted at 9:53 am by Stephen Green

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: OCC Fingers Big Banks That De-Banked ‘Controversial’ Business Like Gun Makers, Retailers. ““It is unfortunate that the nation’s largest banks thought these harmful debanking policies were an appropriate use of their government-granted charter and market power. While many of these policies were undertaken in plain sight and even announced publicly, certain banks have continued to insist that they did not engage in debanking… Going forward, the OCC will hold banks accountable for these actions and ensure unlawful debanking does not continue.”

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Quiet, Captivating Genius of Kamala Harris. “We all saw Harris for four years. Rare was the occasion when she could string together three coherent sentences. Typically, she would get stuck on a word or phrase and then repeat it. I called it the hamster wheel in her brain. Once she realized that she wasn’t getting off the wheel, she would begin gesticulating wildly, as if that made everything clearer.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

THIS IS THE CORRECT TAKE:

“Brussels saps the economic power and the morale of our European allies while purporting to unite and strengthen them.”

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

HOW TDS BLINDS DEMS TO REALITY: A Senate SBA hearing earlier this week gave a host of uniquely vivid illustrations of how Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) blinds its victims like Democratic senators Ed Markey and Mazie Hirono to the reality of chronic, deeply rooted, and horrendously costly waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.

Posted at 8:28 am by Mark Tapscott

OH, CANADA:

You can look in vain for a Community Note, but there aren’t even any pending.

Yesterday, I wrote about the five steps of “postmodern reverse colonization,” and here they are again:

  • Migration, often at the behest of the local population or their elites.
  • Non-assimilation.
  • Formation of ethno-religious political blocs.
  • Street violence/mob tactics/mass rape as power tests.
  • Demographic tipping points.

Parts of the UK are well into the fourth step, and it looks like Canada is doing its best to catch up.

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: One Cheer for Colonialism! “It is unseemly, untimely, unjustifiable, distasteful, and surely flat-out wrong to offer even one cheer for colonialism. So here I go.”

Posted at 8:07 am by Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Viagra goes pink (finally!): First-of-its-kind cream promises to jump-start arousal in women.

The topical treatment — which contains sildenafil, the same active ingredient in Viagra — is filling a long-overlooked need.

Studies show that women experience sexual dysfunction as much as men, and it can be treated with similar drug mechanisms, said Sabrina Martucci Johnson, president and CEO of Daré Bioscience.

“We have this scientific evidence that sildenafil as an active ingredient can work if only it were designed and formulated specifically with women in mind,” Johnson told The Post, “and that’s really then where we came into the equation.”

Well, good.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds