HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR EVERYONE. MAY 2026 BE BETTER THAN 2025: And remember, every year takes us a year away from 2020. So, getting older is worth it!

THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:

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PETER THIEL: FLORIDA MAN.

CONGRATS TO THE FINNS. WELL DONE!

WHEN A GUY NAMED “CATTURD” IS THIS OPTIMISTIC, ATTENTION MUST BE PAID:

Actually, I kinda think he may be right.

WELL, DAVID FRENCH:

OPEN THREAD: Party on. 2025 has exceeded my expectations, and I expect 2026 to be an excellent year.

ROGER SIMON: The New Year Will Be Great Says This Positivist.

By the time you get this, or open it, it will probably be 2026, or close to it.

If you are celebrating until the crack of dawn, more power to you. We’re not, having spent the last few days in Miami, eating our heads off. That city has fantastic restaurants to go with the weather.

Nevertheless, my optimism for the new year abounds for two reasons:

One, the older I get, the more I know that staying positive is the best way to live. Optimism and pessimism are self-fulfilling prophecies.

More importantly, perhaps, I don’t think I am looking through rose-colored glasses, maybe just slightly tinted ones, when I say the world has never looked better.

Read the whole thing.

GODSPEED, IRANIAN CITIZENS:

Related: Iran says regime loyalist killed as protests turn violent.

Chances of Iran regime falling surge as unrest spreads.

Iranian protests expand beyond economy as students demand freedom, end to regime rule.

UPDATE:

#JOURNALISM:

POWER ISN’T THEIR CHIEF VALUE. IT’S THEIR ONLY VALUE.

DAVID IS TOO KIND HERE:

UPDATE (From Ed): The Hater’s Guide to Woodrow Wilson. “I come now not to explain Wilson, but to hate him. A national consensus on hating Wilson is long overdue. It is the patriotic duty of every decent American. While conservatives have particular reasons to detest Wilson, and all his works, and all his empty promises, there is more than enough in his record for moderates, liberals, progressives, libertarians, and socialists to join us in this great and unifying cause.”

FIGHTING TRIM: Navy doubles annual PT test requirement, updates failure guidelines. “The new policy also stipulates that sailors who fail three physical fitness assessments within four years will be processed for administrative separation, whereas the previous policy stated that two or more consecutive PFA failures would lead to the administrative separation process.”

QUESTION ASKED:

Of course it is. But Ohio’s Republican governor responds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :