December 13, 2025

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Posted at 1:30 pm by Helen Smith

A FACE IN THE CROWD: 

I’m so old, I can remember when Al Sharpton was the person who approved all Democratic Party presidential candidates:

An amazing thing has happened in New York, and in Democratic politics: Al Sharpton has become King. He is Mr. Big, The Man to See, the straw that stirs the drink. Nothing has made that clearer than the prelude to the New York primary, and the budding New York Senate race. They come in a steady parade to him, even if they show flutters of reluctance: Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton. Everyone refers to this as “kissing his ring”; at times, Democrats seem willing to kiss even more. Not long ago, he was a demagogue, a race-baiter, a menace — and acknowledged as such, by all but a fringe. Day and night, he worked to make an always difficult city — New York — even more difficult, more tense. Now, however, he practically rules. He is a kind of Establishment. His record — as galling as any in our politics — is overlooked, excused, or shrugged off. It is to him that every (Democratic) knee must bow.

I’m also old enough to remember right around this time a year ago, when Democrats wondered why men abandoned them in droves, and sought to create a Joe Rogan-style podcast of their own: Wait, You’re Telling Me This Person Is Shifting the Overton Window?

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Animal Farm review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation. “Originally conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the subsequent struggles of the USSR under the rule of Joseph Stalin, Animal Farm’s political ire is redirected in this lively CG-animated adaptation directed by Andy Serkis. Rather than Stalinism, Serkis takes aim at greed, rapacious consumerism and corporate corruption and malfeasance. There’s also a timely dig at populist political movements.”

This isn’t the first attempt at a mirror universe Animal Farm; Roger Waters did the same thing nearly 50 years ago on Pink Floyd’s Animals: “Whereas the novella focuses on Stalinism, the album is a critique of capitalism and differs again in that the sheep eventually rise up to overpower the dogs.”

(Via, appropriately enough, Small Dead Animals.)

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

CRISES BY DESIGN: This New York Times Story Gets Everything Hilariously Wrong About Democrats and Immigration.

There isn’t a single reason to continue giving Democrats the benefit of doubt on their destructive, anti-American policies, least of all on immigration, and yet The New York Times is here this week to do just that.

In an unnecessarily long article out Sunday, Times reporter Christopher Flavelle sought to recast the Joe Biden era’s catastrophic mess at the Southern border as a matter of misjudgment and political failure rather than what it really was — deliberate harm inflicted on the nation. “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration,” reads the headline for Flavelle’s story. In it he asserts that Biden was repeatedly advised to get some kind of handle on the influx of destitute foreigners coming to America — though he never says exactly how or in what way — while also saying that Biden as president “seemed to grasp the risk,” but simply “failed to act. …”

Laughable. The day Democrats can be trusted on immigration is the day they can identify a single illegal alien they’re willing to deport. They don’t want to do that. That’s not their position. Their position is the opposite. It’s why a sitting Democrat senator this year literally flew to Central America for the explicit purpose of re-importing a professed illegal alien who had been sent back to his home country. That Democrats are the party of open borders is a matter of record.

Nevertheless, Flavelle wrote that Biden “and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster” and that his administration “made two crucial errors.” (Just two!)

At the beginning of the year, Morning Joe’s Steve Rattner hilariously said, “The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly.” When actually, from a leftist’s point of view, it really was:

● Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”

● Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller in February of 2021: Biden’s Immigration Plan Would “Erase America’s Nationhood.”

● “Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ‘truly multicultural’ country, a former Government adviser has revealed.”

● Tom Cotton’s Response to Kamala Harris’ Border Failures Should Be the Default for All Republicans: “‘You know, Laura, Kamala Harris didn’t have to go all the way to Guatemala and Mexico to find the root causes of this border crisis because they’re not there,’ Cotton told Fox News host Laura Ingraham [in June of 2021]. ‘The root causes are in the White House.’ He further explained that it ‘happened on January 20th when Joe Biden took office, and he essentially opened our borders, reversing very effective policies that had our borders under control.’”

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

In this case, it’s probably safe to skip a step and conclude that twice is enemy action.

Posted at 12:14 pm by Stephen Green

MORE ON THE SOMALI SCANDAL: Open the Books maintains the largest government spending database ever assembled, and it is proving its immense value on nearly a daily basis. Today, an initial assessment of federal social welfare spending going to the Minnesota Somali community provides a glance into what will undoubtedly prove to be much bigger.

Posted at 11:49 am by Mark Tapscott

IT’S LIKE EVERY INSTITUTION TAKEN OVER BY LEFTISTS: John Stossel: Wikipevil? “An editor of my page even posts pictures of Lenin and Che on his website profile!”

Yes, Wikipedia is run not only by leftists, but by moronic ones.

Posted at 10:33 am by Glenn Reynolds

MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY:

Posted at 10:19 am by Stephen Green

THIS IS JUST A DELIBERATE LIE TO TRY TO KEEP THE EPSTEIN DISTRACTION GOING: Unredacted Trump photos from Epstein files dump reveal glamorous group of adult models: ‘He was very gentlemanly.’

Unredacted photos of President Trump from the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s estate — which oddly blurred the faces of women he posed with — reveal he was standing with “adult women models,” according to exclusive images obtained by The Post.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a trove of images from Epstein’s estate Friday, including two shots of the president with women whose faces were blacked out — fueling speculation they could be the disgraced financier’s victims.

But a pair of pictures obtained exclusively by The Post show Trump standing next to beautiful grown women. . . . The outlet reported the women were models representing the Hawaiian Tropic, the American suntan lotion brand, at an event at Trump’s Florida home.

So they weren’t underage women on Epstein’s Island. They were grown Hawaiian Tropic models at Mar-a-Lago. And the Democrats knew that, and covered their faces to make it seem like they were minors.

From this we know two things: (1) Democrats are garbage people (to be fair, we knew that already); and (2) They’re really worried about what’s coming out in the Epstein documents about to be released, so they launched this rather pathetic spoiling attack.

UPDATE: An appropriate response:

Posted at 8:48 am by Glenn Reynolds

PARDONS ARE IN THE CONSTITUTION, SOMETHING DEMS WOULD BE POINTING OUT SUPERCILIOUSLY IF THE SITUATION WERE REVERSED:

Posted at 7:13 am by Glenn Reynolds

HOMESCHOOLING AND UNSCHOOLING OFTEN BEAT PUBLIC-SCHOOLING: “This term, Maya has been ‘unschooling’ in the truest sense. She completed a first aid and paramedic certification, trained as a barista and learned special effects makeup. She got a part-time job at a café, traveled to China to understand global sourcing and came with me to New York for real-world business learning. She’s been living, not just sitting at a desk.”

You could write a book on this.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds