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.

WELL, YES: CNBC Panel Says Biden Owns The Affordability Crisis: ‘Full Stop.’

ICYMI, HERE’S SOME SOLID ADVICE: BUY. PHYSICAL. MEDIA.

IT’S NEEDED: Shock Therapy for Our Lawless Legal System.

IMPRESSIVE. MOST IMPRESSIVE:

A senior IRGC General just admitted on Iranian TV that the team that assassinated #Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was made up of Iranians, trained by Mossad.
Fakhrizadeh was the architect of Iran’s nuclear weapons project
• Killed in 2020 near Tehran in a… pic.twitter.com/PoQKTKLbSG

— SK Chakraborty (@sanjoychakra) December 10, 2025

GREAT GIFT FOR YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE: Apple 2025 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M4 chip. #CommissionEarned

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Median Democrat. https://t.co/VBD0qlD5Oz

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 10, 2025

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.

JOURNALISM! EXCLUSIVE: In Wake of Free Beacon Report, Trump Administration To Investigate Federal Contractors That Say They Won’t Hire US Citizens.

BUT ARE THEY WRONG? They Think Their Voters Are Idiots.

CHANGE:

Addressing the people justifying Charlie Kirk's murder on the basis of his beliefs, Erika Kirk said: "You're sick. He's a human being. You think he deserved that? Tell that to my 3-year-old daughter."@MrsErikaKirk sat down with @bariweiss for a CBS News Town Hall, just days… pic.twitter.com/8P31w4JQQR

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 10, 2025

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.

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?

NO BAILOUTS: Education Department Ends Biden Student Loan Bailout.

THE GOVERNOR HAS NO CLOTHES: Joel Kotkin: California job cuts will hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House run.

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.

LOL:  How the SgtMaj Stole Christmas.

YEP, THAT ABOUT DESCRIBES IT:   Honest, direct and damning – Trump’s home truths about the world today.

WELL WHY NOT?  MS-13 leader with ties to Honduran assassin squad obtained California driver’s license using real name: feds.

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS OPPOSED FEDERALISM AND WORKED TO IMPOSE FEDERAL LAW UNIFORMLY THROUGHOUT THE NATION (SEEMS ONLY YESTERDAY …):  AAG Harmeet Dhillon Announces DOJ Suit Against Loudoun County Public Schools.

WHEN THE DEMS HAVE LOST JOY REID …  Joy Reid Drops a Sane Line…and It’s Brutal Toward Merrick Garland.

WHAT? ANOTHER ONE? AND EVEN LESS BELIEVABLE:  Slotkin Drops Stunning New Explanation for Releasing ‘Seditious Six’ Video.

BUT BUT BUT OTHER CULTURES ARE ALL SO LOVING AND ACCEPTING!*  Iran, Egypt Furious About Having to Play in Seattle’s Pride Match in World Cup.

*In related news, are there specialists who help remove your tongue from your cheek, when it becomes welded there?

ANOTHER REASON NOT TO HAVE CARS THAT NEED TO CALL HOME:  Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car.

I AM CONTINUOUSLY BEWILDERED BY WHAT PEOPLE THINK IS AI:  This will be the new -ist and -phobe by freaks who just want to hate. We see it with artists on x already being falsely accused. The accusers do not care about the damage they will cause.

Look, there are indeed AI tells — not that I care, if the thing is readable. Only mostly it isn’t — but it certainly isn’t stuff like m dashes which are used by every fiction writer, and twice as hard by those with ADD.  Again, ultimately the only question should be “do you like it?” Not “how was it made.” On the other hand, deciding — mostly wrongly — that things are AI and hating them for it is very on point for people who only love books if they’re written by people on the approved list, or there’s a male name on the cover, or the cover is purple, or whatever. So, there’s that.

GOOD:   Real Second Amendment curriculum could be headed to high schools soon.