READER FAVORITE: 5 Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener. #CommissionEarned

I BELIEVE THIS: Why an After-Dinner Walk Is So Good for You, According to Experts.

OOPS: Hyundai Recalls Tucson Again Over a New Fire Risk.

READER FAVORITE: Grass Fed Colostrum Powder. #CommissionEarned

MAKE THEM PAY: Make ‘Em Pay: It’s Time to Hit Back at States That Turn Criminals Loose, Then Commit Crimes in Other States.

READER FAVORITE: 10inch Under Cabinet Lighting, 2 Pack Rechargeable Motion Sensor Light. #CommissionEarned

21st CENTURY PROBLEMS: I started a GLP-1 to save my own life. How friends reacted surprised me. I got on Ozempic after my doctor predicted I had five years if I didn’t lose weight.

SHOULD:

@SpeakerJohnson and Senate leader @johnthune should remember that GOP control of congress was due to congressmen & women running on the same policies Trump espoused & codify Trump EO's to assure lasting beyond Trump

— Mary Shubert (@mary_shubert) December 24, 2025

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE MIGHT HAVE TO BE PERMANENTLY RETIRED: Ilhan Omar’s hubby’s $30M firm quietly scrubs names from website – as ‘Squad’ member faces mounting questions on sudden wealth amid Minnesota welfare fraud.

READER FAVORITE: ASUS Laptop Computer for Home Student Study Business. #CommissionEarned

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Because their parents started a war then hid behind them like cowards and continue to do so. https://t.co/yQd0XHoHnV

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 27, 2025

Meanwhile, the usual useful idiots continue believing idiotic things.

Hey guys, I can assure you – and the 174K idiots who liked this – there is no fucking snow in Gaza. Thanks. pic.twitter.com/hCG6j1B5Tn

— נועה מגיד | Noa magid (@NoaMagid) December 27, 2025

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Return to Normalcy Edition.

STAY SAFE: Super Bright Headlamp Rechargeable 4000 High Lumens LED Head Lamp. #CommissionEarned

MAKE THEM PAY: U. Arizona professor alleges retaliation for opposing DEI hiring practices.

READER FAVORITE: Alpha Grillers Meat Thermometer Digital. #CommissionEarned

GOOD QUESTION: If DEI is so good for men, why hasn’t it been? Spoiler: It isn’t and it was never meant to be.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Minneapolis, Minnesota. The streets are empty. No longer do people come to downtown Minneapolis. People say it’s too dangerous cars get broken into and there’s no reason to come because every business has left. Tim Walz says his state is safe and secure while the residents of his… pic.twitter.com/XTA0FuY830

— Brookerteejones (@Brookerteejones) December 26, 2025

HEH:

It's a very disturbing thought… but sometimes I *feel* like AI has already achieved sentience and is already molding us as we use it more and more.

Subtle nudges. Keeping quiet.

— Grummz (@Grummz) December 27, 2025

SHUT UP, WESLEY: Disgraced BLM Sex Pest Says It’s ‘Racist’ to Think Jasmine Crockett Can’t Turn Texas Blue.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Beats Solo 4 – Wireless On-Ear Bluetooth Headphones. #CommissionEarned

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: 2025 Men of the Year: Big, Beautiful Bunker Busters. “Seeing evil turn to ash in a smoldering plume of justice gives every self-respecting American a thrill up his leg. It’s like what Chris Matthews felt watching Barack Hussein Obama, but for non-freaks.”

CHANGE:

Biggest one year drop ever in murders per ⁦@axios⁩, zero illegal border crossings, record high stock prices, plummeting inflation, Trump’s first year is objectively the greatest in any of our lives. pic.twitter.com/oPDzBPkBKP

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 24, 2025

Here’s the full graph in Travis’ tweet:

NOTORIOUS ROBOPHOBE MATT YGLESIAS CONFESSES: “How I use AI .”

I hope his robot insurance is paid up.

DAVE BARRY’S YEAR IN REVIEW:

In case you somehow missed this story: In late November, this raccoon got into a state liquor store in Ashland, Va., by falling though the ceiling. Once inside, the raccoon ransacked the store, leaving a trail of broken bottles…

…and apparently consuming a large quantity of booze before passing out in the bathroom next to the toilet. That’s where the raccoon was found by a store employee, who called an animal-control officer, who took it to an animal shelter. When the raccoon finally sobered up, it was hired as director of security by the Louvre Museum.

No, seriously, it was released into the wild. But the photo went majorly viral, and the raccoon became a huge celebrity. We, the American people, LOVE this raccoon. And I think I know why: After the year we’ve been through, we can relate to it. We have had way too much of 2025; it has left us, as a nation, lying face-down on the floor of despair, between the wastebasket of stupidity and the commode of broken dreams.

How did we get here? Perhaps it will help (although I doubt it) if we look back on the events of this insane year, starting with…

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

DECLINE AND FALL: Germany’s empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink. “The number of church members in Germany is falling rapidly. In 2024 alone, the two major churches lost over a million Christians due to people leaving the church or dying. Currently, more than 45% of Germans still belong to either to the Protestant Church in Germanyor the Catholic Church. Thirty years ago, that figure stood at almost 69%. This is why churches are now being deconsecrated or desacralized. Since 2000, hundreds of Catholic and Protestant churches were decommissioned. In response to a DW inquiry, the German Bishops’ Conference informed of the closing and decommissioning of 611 Catholic churches between 2000 and 2024. The Protestant Church estimates that some 300 to 350 churches were permanently shut in the same period; more precise figures are not available.”