WHY ARE IVY LEAGUE CAMPUSES SUCH CESSPITS OF VIOLENCE? An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation. “It’s difficult to grasp. It just seems like it keeps happening.”
December 17, 2025
WE NEED FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE:
This will go down as one of the most consequential articles in U.S.history.
And yes, it is super fucked up.
10 million views at the time I’m writing this.
May it help end the scourge of DEI forever.
And lead to a rapid cultural correction. https://t.co/JK2sv6zHl2
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) December 17, 2025
ERIK DURNEIKA: The Myth of an American Retreat From the Indo-Pacific Debunked.
A Financial Times article alleges, based on anonymous sources, that the Japanese government feels abandoned by Washington amid an escalating row with Beijing. The same Financial Times published a now-debunked piece claiming that the Trump administration had blocked the Taiwanese president’s planned transit through the U.S.
None of these stories and talking points align with reality, though. The Trump administration isn’t turning away from the Indo-Pacific region and doesn’t plan to do so in the foreseeable future. In fact, quite the opposite is happening.
The NSS’s main priority is the Western Hemisphere, in line with the administration’s focus on protecting the homeland. Much of this focus is due to China’s and other adversaries’ expanding influence on America’s doorstep. China, for example, weaponizes migration and drug trafficking to the detriment of the U.S. and the rest of the free world.
At the same time, the Trump administration remains committed to the Western Pacific. The NSS covers a range of topics relating to the region, from China’s economic warfare and coercion to Taiwan, the South China Sea (SCS), the First Island Chain, and defense burden-sharing.
Contrary to attempts to paint the NSS as a dark, isolationist, “far-right” document, there is an emphasis on strengthening Indo-Pacific alliances and partnerships, including with Japan and India — another country Democrat elected officials claim President Trump has left behind.
A quibble or two aside, this is the best set of foreign policies and national defense priorities since Reagan.
BUCK ROGERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING: Gil Gerard, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Star, Dies at 82.
THIS CALLS NOT MERELY FOR FIRINGS, BUT FOR PROSECUTIONS: Is Anybody Shocked That Biden’s DOJ Pressured FBI to Search Trump’s Residence?
WELL, WELL, THE LEFT WON’T BE HAPPY: The November Jobs Numbers Are Here, and It’s Good News for American Workers.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China.
The trend began with the Chinese government. In November 2024 the government announced a significant shift in the design of its super-heavy lift rocket, the Long March 9. Instead of the previous design, a fully expendable rocket with three stages and solid rocket boosters strapped to the sides, the country’s state-owned rocket maker revealed a vehicle that mimicked SpaceX’s fully reusable Starship.
Around the same time, a Chinese launch firm named Cosmoleap announced plans to develop a fully reusable “Leap” rocket within the next few years. An animated video that accompanied the funding announcement indicated that the company seeks to emulate the tower catch-with-chopsticks methodology that SpaceX has successfully employed.
But wait, there’s more. In June a company called Astronstone said it too was developing a stainless steel, methane-fueled rocket that would also use a chopstick-style system for first stage recovery. Astronstone didn’t even pretend to not copy SpaceX, saying it was “fully aligning its technical approach with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.”
And then, on Friday, the state-aligned China.com reported that a company called “Beijing Leading Rocket Technology” took things a step further. It has named its vehicle “Starship-1,” adding that the new rocket will have enhancements from AI and is billed as a “fully reusable AI rocket.”
Presentations and buzzwords are easy. Space is… you know.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Ding-Dong! The Obamacare Subsidies Are Dead!
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: WSJ:. Ford Learns a Brutal EV Lesson: The car maker takes a $19.5 billion write-down on its electric-vehicle business. “Ford has lost $13 billion on its EV business since 2023, with bigger losses expected in years to come. Last year Ford lost about $50,000 for each EV sold. The truth is that the business case for EVs has always rested largely on government subsidies and mandates. Now that this combination of government favoritism and coercion is mostly going away, most car makers have much less reason to make EVs.”
Do tell.
BRITAIN’S ‘CHARLIE KIRK’ MUST BE ELIMINATED, EVEN IF IT MEANS PLYING A 17-YEAR-OLD WITH DRINKS AND SECRETLY RECORDING HIM: Hope Not Hate’s sordid attempt to smear ‘Young Bob’.
TODAY (WELL, YESTERDAY WHEN YOU READ THIS) WAS JANE AUSTEN’S 250TH BIRTHDAY: Just a year older than our beloved Republic! Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen!
And if you read Jane Austen Fanfic, this one is appropriate for Jane Austen’s Birthday: .
You’ll see why!
GOUT IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL BUT IT IS EASILY TREATABLE (WITH LESS SEVERE MEANS THAN MAID): Del Dimmock – the gout patient who died on end-of-life ‘care’ pathway.
MEANWHILE IN WASHINGTON STATE: More information about the flooding in Western Washington. Water, Water, Everywhere!
SERIOUSLY, DO THEY GET THESE ON A DRISTO? The Left Pivots Away From ‘Islamophobia’ With New Euphemism for People Who Notice Islamic Violence.
DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET: A reminder that “the cloud” is someone else’s computer. 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple.
I BELIEVE THEY’LL FIND THE ANSWER IS YES: HHS probes whether billions in taxpayer money sent to Minnesota fueled ‘illegal and mass migration’.
UNFORTUNATELY, YES: The Fall Of The Commonwealth Continues.
