IT IS? I HAVEN’T EVEN TAKEN DOWN THE ANKLE HOLSTERS YET. It’s Shoulder Holster Season…How Will You Be Celebrating?

OH MY: Chase Sues Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot—$11,078 United Credit Card Debt, 17 Months Without a Payment.

TRANSGENDER WARS:  Two cases were argued before the Supreme Court today on whether “transgender women” (i.e. biological men) are entitled to compete on women’s teams despite state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that prohibit the practice.  I didn’t listen to the arguments, but I am told that at least two of the Justices and possibly more were specifically interested in the argument that Joe Bingham, Pete Kirsanow, Dan Morenoff and I made in our amicus brief on behalf of the American Civil Rights Project.  That argument was itself derived from a Comment that Pete and I filed with the Department of Education a few years ago.

One way or another, the Supreme Court should uphold the state laws that forbid such foolishness.  I personally believe that our analysis of Title IX is the correct one (though there are other arguments that get to the same result).

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ON THE CHAISE LOUNGE, ENJOYING A NICE “I TOLD YOU SO” MOMENT: Bill and Hillary Clinton Defy Subpoena, Refuse to Testify in Epstein Probe.

IT WAS:

From Scott Adams NYT obit: pic.twitter.com/PATUl0uI2U

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 13, 2026

MY FAVORITE COMPUTER: Apple 2025 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M4 chip. #CommissionEarned

NIFTY: Lockheed Martin delivers record 191 F-35 fighter jets in 2025.

The current annual production rate for the F-35 now stands at five times higher than that of any other allied fighter platform still being manufactured, according to company figures.
Earlier this year, the F-35 programme surpassed one million flight hours.

In 2025, the project team also rolled out its latest software release, TR-3, and maintained a global fleet approaching 1,300 operational aircraft.

Over the same period, the aircraft saw operational use in several military contexts.

These included its involvement in suppressing Iranian air defences during Operation Midnight Hammer, accumulating nearly 5,000 mishap-free flight hours in a US Marine Corps F-35B deployment, and the shooting down of Russian drones over Poland by NATO F-35s.

Not bad for a “failed” platform.

A TECHNIQUE THAT DRAGS ON TOO LONG BECOMES A DRAG:

Feels like this is the No Kings operation transforming seamlessly into a No ICE operation. All the same management and systems and people; just printing new signs.

— ℕ 🌲 🇺🇸 (@Shaysite1786) January 13, 2026

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

you do not hate them enough pic.twitter.com/2zv03neq3M

— Phil Labonte 🇺🇸 (@philthatremains) January 13, 2026

More:

Allow me to be the 1,000,006th person in your replies to ask, "Why do they always look like that?"

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 13, 2026

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why does orange juice taste bad after you brush your teeth?

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS GROUP THUMBS NOSE AT HOUSE JUDICIARY: A spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee told The Washington Stand that officials with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) has never responded to the panel’s June 2025 demand for multiple documents.

The House panel’s demand followed media reports that CHIRLA was helping fund the violent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. “All options are on the table,” a  committee spokesman told the Washington Stand when asked how the judiciary panel will respond.

GOOD NEWS: Fentanyl Deaths Are Dropping — And Here’s Why That’s Actually Happening. “‘An insanely powerful and addictive opioid responsible for the deaths of half a million Americans’ and ‘good news’ hardly go hand in hand. And yet some good news about fentanyl is exactly what I have for you today.”

STEVEN CALABRESI: Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1989 to 2009: Presidential non-acquiescence in Humphrey’s Executor from 1989 to 2009.

YOU’D BE AMAZED AT HOW SMOOTHLY THINGS GO IN STATES THAT AREN’T BASICALLY IN OPEN REBELLION AGAINST LEGAL FEDERAL AUTHORITY:

This is an extremely important point: you're only seeing chaotic ICE raids in blue sanctuary cities where local officials are fighting against federal law enforcement.

The chaos is created by "leaders" who would rather promote rioting in their streets than follow the law. https://t.co/GVUg0er87K

— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 13, 2026

AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION: Hey Anti-ICE Morons: ‘Texas Is Not Minnesota.’

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: AI helps fuel new era of medical self-testing.

REALLY, LET BILL SHIPLEY TELL YOU:

Let me tell you the real reason why the four prosecutors in Civil Rights Criminal Section resigned.

It has to do with the death of Breonna Taylor.

Louisville PD Officer Brett Hankison was retried after a jury in his first federal trial ended 11-1 for acquittal. These four…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) January 13, 2026

Read the whole thing, and don’t miss this cliffhanger at the end: “I have an article I’m working on re Hankison’s case that mostly focuses on the outrageous conduct by the Judge — a Trump appointee, but more important than that, a McConnell acolyte.”

HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED: Timothy Busfield MISSING: US Marshals join search for Melissa Gilbert’s West Wing star husband on child sex abuse warrant as he says claims are ‘revenge’ after kids were dropped from cast.

LOVELY: ‘Great Influencer’: Trump Pays Tribute to Scott Adams

CHANGE: Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines. After SEC v. Jarkesy this should be easy.

Contrary to agencies’ positions over decades, “civil money penalties” or “monetary penalties” are just fines, and fines need a jury.

GOOD LORD, I HAD NO IDEA:

Wow. I did not know that. pic.twitter.com/foi7vTJuNZ

— Eric CIAramella’s Dirty Whistle (@TheAndersPaul) January 11, 2026

Maybe the NYT could do a followup report, since Greenland is back in the news lately?

Nah.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Fueling research in nuclear thermal propulsion. “Nuclear propulsion, which is only used in space, not to get to space, further falls into one of two categories: nuclear electric propulsion uses nuclear energy to generate electricity and accelerate the propellant. Nuclear thermal propulsion, which is what Hampson is researching, heats a propellant using nuclear power. A significant advantage of NTP is that it can deliver double the efficiency (or more) of the chemical equivalent for the same thrust. A disadvantage: cost and regulatory hurdles.”

Costs can be driven down. As for the other thing, as the wise man once said, “Get the hell out of my way!”

TO BE FAIR, THE WESTERN LEFT ROUTINELY LIES IN SERVICE TO THE WEST’S ENEMIES:

One of the most bizarre things about Hamas is that it states explicitly that it's an Islamist movement aiming to replace Israel with an Islamist state, and the Western left insists that it's just a "resistance" movement dedicated to the Palestinian cause fighting "occupation." pic.twitter.com/il5FJxhcsk

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) January 12, 2026

FLASHBACK:

Since Democrats are once again engaged in Kristallnacht-style violence because the electorate rejected their policies, it's time once again for my periodic reminder that all Democrats are fascists.

I love the fact that whenever I point this out, some Democrat invariably…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 11, 2025

OLD AND BUSTED: Blofeld.

The New Hotness? Bezos! Private Eye magazine’s exclusive first look at the new James Bond scripts following Amazon’s takeover of the franchise.