December 11, 2025

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: What, Me Worry?’ — Taking the Alfred E. Neuman Approach to 2026. “This is a point that I have been making about President Trump and this administration from the beginning — there’s always been a plan to undo the damage that the Puppet Biden Cabal did. They’re going about it methodically too. It’s not easy to rebuild after the wrecking ball has had four years to destroy the place.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY:

Posted at 8:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER?

I mean, even if he was bat-guano the whole time, he used to do a much better job at hiding it.

Unlike Joy Reid, who never bothered.

Posted at 8:52 am by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

IMPRESSIVE. MOST IMPRESSIVE:

Posted at 7:50 am by Stephen Green

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.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE:

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.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

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?

Posted at 7:11 am by Mark Tapscott

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.

Posted at 7:01 am by Sarah Hoyt