In Hoc Anno Domini

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial in the Wall Street Journal was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. Often, the comments in the WSJ are more interesting than the article.

How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media? The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. By Victor Davis Hanson

Senate Dem: Griner-for-Bout swap "deeply disturbing," enabling future hostage-takers

Remember Sam Brinton, the Energy Department official that likes to wear women's clothes? He stole a woman's suitcase at the Minneapolis Airport. Well, it seems he also did it in Las Vegas. I guess he just doesn't like to shop in ladies' boutiques. He doesn't seem to work at DOE anymore.

Identity politics run amok: Why does the Biden administration keep making such embarrassing hires?

JUST WHEN YOU HOPED SOUTH CAROLINA HAD MOVED PAST ITS SEGREGATIONIST HISTORY: South Carolina med school faces federal investigation for excluding men, white people.

THE TWITTER FILES, Part VII: The FBI All Up in Twitter's Business

Mom sues after police arrest her for leaving kid home alone. These are different times.

There's A Reason People Suspect Fraud. Especially when you look at some of what's been reported in Georgia alone.

Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam. When the Hunter Biden laptop story broke shortly before the 2020 election, I initially experienced a brief sense of relief. It had been a tense year, to be sure: COVID, then the Floyd riots, and with the election looming I had a gut feeling that the cognitively challenged, mendacious, corrupt, newly-minted leftist Joe Biden was going to win. Now, with this laptop story, maybe enough people were going to learn about more of the family corruption, and perhaps it would change the outcome.

The Christmas Movie That Became a Classic Because of a Mistake. The role of accidents, chance and serendipity can be crucial to success. It’s the reason people still watch a black-and-white film every year.

How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie. The Ratioing of Dasha Burns

Anomie and Impunity. The unraveling of San Francisco

Guys swim faster than girls, even if they identify as female

 A Washington State high school student who, as a male, ranked 72nd in boys’ track, vaulted up to the number-one spot as a female following gender transition. Deprives other girls’ teams of the chance to compete at State

Another ‘Known Wolf’ – The Colorado Springs Shooter Should Have Been in Prison

This Is What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From the Surface of Mars

Giant Goldfish Weighing 67 Lbs. Caught by Fisherman – See the Photos! Nicknamed "The Carrot," the goldfish was caught in the same French fishery it was released into 20 years ago

Take yourself back in time to World War II and watch this film about the manufacture of 3-inch anti-aircraft shells. The amount of effort it took to make just one bullet is amazing.

One of Biden's appointments is a man who dresses in women's clothing. He/she is in the Deprtment of Energy storage of nuclear waste. He stole a woman's suitcase in Minneapolis. Theft case against Biden nonbinary aide Sam Brinton is admittedly ‘weirder.

From the NYT: What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide.

Pretty good story about a trailer-dwelling poor person rose to Rule the Best-Seller List. With legions of devoted fans and a knack for high-voltage emotional drama, Hoover has sold more than 20 million books. And she’s done it her way.

Why Are Black People Still Voting for Democrats? It's Magic!

These 15 Secular Christmas Songs Deserve the Death Penalty My wife Chris used to sing O Holy Night every Christmas. She was better than the one linked in the article.

This article by Victor Davis Hanson is notable for the summary of Biden's failures. Does Trump Really Want To Be President Again?

I was at a Walmart this week that had remarkable security measures. I wanted to buy some T-shirts. They were locked behind a glass door. I had to find a clerk to open it for me. Once selected, I couldn't put them in my cart. The clerk had to take them up to a front counter for me to retrieve later. When checking out, I located my T-shirts up front. At that point, the clerk had to take them to the self-service register and actually scanned them for me to make sure I was going to pay for them. I was incredulous, but apparently theft is a big problem in this neighborhood. I happened on this article Walmart May Hike Prices and Close Stores Due to Theft. When did T-shirts become a security problem?

Interesting back story on Twitter supressing the Hunter Biden hard disk story. Elon Musk Fires a Democrat Fox Guarding the Twitter Hen House