Theater kids are holding Texas hostage
The Democrats’ antics are holding up aid to damaged communities
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Wednesday
Jailed for embarrassing the Canadian government
At what point did the perfectly legal Freedom Convoy protest turn into a crime worthy of seven to eight years of jail?
Tuesday
Trump starts Christmas now
Plus: Gerrymandering from sea to shining sea
Jim Acosta’s AI interview is a Black Mirror monster
He spoke to Joaquin Oliver – but the teenager was killed in the Parkland shooting in 2018
The Spectator and Douglas Murray win UK defamation claim
The videos Mohammed Hegab publishes are ‘at least as reputationally damaging to him’ as Murray’s article, a judge found
How to reform judicial review responsibly
The judiciary should defer to legislative judgments on fundamental rights – but only if legislatures actually make such judgments
Monday
Is Bukele a tyrant or a triumph?
One thing is clear: Bukele is riding high in El Salvador and in Washington
Trump is winning. That’s the GOP’s biggest problem
The Republican case for 2026: make the Trump agenda permanent or watch it all disappear
Ann Coulter: On immigration, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein Files
Bits from Ann Coulter and Freddy Gray’s interview
Democrats don’t hate gerrymandering
Fleeing Texas isn’t courage; it’s a photo-op for a party that’s run out of wins
Trump eulogizes Woke on Truth Social
The theater kids lose, normal America wins
Sunday
Sydney Sweeney, Gwyneth Paltrow and the misogynists
The American Eagle ad campaign is a societal Rorschach test
The internet doesn’t know what a Nazi is
Today’s youth see Nazis everywhere except where they actually are
Saturday
The judiciary picks another fight with Trump
The President should win the battle over who has authority to appoint US Attorneys
Thursday
The Art of the Dealmaker-in-Chief
With Trump’s international agenda, scratch beneath the hilariously crazy surface and you find a more serious campaign to isolate China, China, China
Trump must end the National Endowment for Democracy once and for all
Perhaps the President had thought he had gotten rid of the NED already, but that essential piece of work is but half done
South Park has lost the plot
The show has become a shitlib parody of itself
Wednesday
Mamdani, the fraud abroad
The mayor-in-waiting is the latest Democrat to be away from home when tragedy hits
The UK censorship files: Jim Jordan’s crusade against Britain
British officialdom’s zeal for online regulation is setting it on a collision course with a resurgent and energetic US free-speech lobby
Tsunami hits Hawaii and US mainland
The waves have so far proven less serious than originally feared