The top 50 Christmas songs

The Ringer website has selected the top 50 holiday Christmas songs.  It's easy to take exception to the choices and the sequence, but this page has links to play every one of them. There are songs I've never heard of.

The Babylon Bee Christian themed satirical web site had an entry about Americans being shocked to discover Trump was still president. You can read it here.  As is often the case, the Bee turns out to be the paper of record, because lots of folk think he isn't president anymore.

Victor Davis Hanson says that the Democrats have made hate their agenda.

If you liked that, here's an even better analysis of the collusion in the dark state.

Social justice on the taxpayer's dime. Seattle is going insane.

A striking picture of the Apollo 17 lunar lander, the last one, landed 47 years ago on December 19.

For you media haters, here's a list of the twelve ways the media screwed up in 2019.

I believe the Constitution has a rule against cruel and unusual punishment. An Iowa man was sentenced to 16 years for burning an LBGTQ flag.

Christianity Today shot itself in the foot in an editorial by a guy who is about to retire and won't suffer for his actions.

How about a story about some people flying over Mt St. Helens during the eruption.

The climate con

This writer thinks the climate crisis is an attempt to take over the economy using Marxist ideas.

Of course the FBI spied on the Trump campaign. More here on the Horowitz report from the AP.

Here's a article about how the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand would devastate California.

If you haven't used up your free access to the New York Times, this oral history of technology is pretty interesting.  Click the icons to read the text.

Always informative and entertaining, a video of Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat party debates.

A gentile guide to Chanukah and a Jew's guide to Christmas.

The California law  that makes it illegal to suspend disruptive students goes in to effect next year. The problem seems to be that black students are more disruptive than white students.  Now, nobody gets to learn.

The legacy of impeachment

If the Democrats vote to impeach, it will create a legacy of low-bar impeachment.

Trumps action pale in comparison to former presidents.

This writer says that there should not be another climate conference.

The Democrats seem to be the lying party.

A pretty entertaining analysis of the Democrat's problem with impeachment.

A new missile that uses swords instead of explosives kills the bad guys without collateral damage.

Remember Kaepernik's workout for the football scouts?  It actually led to a job, just not for him.

Academic standards are deteriorating, at least the traditional critical thinking skills.

If you've been watching "The Mandalorian" Star Wars series on the Disney channel, you've no doubt become enamored with Baby Yoda, an obvious blatant merchandising ploy. Here's where to order your plush baby Yoda, but you'll have to wait until 2020. Disney obviously screwed up and missed the Christmas buying season a surprising bit of incompetence by the master of merchandising tie ins.

More evidence that the government is funding worthless degrees.

The career State Department folks are unhappy and that's a good thing.

Trumps action pale in comparison to former presidents.

Mark Steyn says there's a point where a society is too stupid to survive.

Pensacola is another example of why "gun free" zones don't work.

Professor Karlan's testimony at the hearings went poorly for the Democrats.

The cache of Lessons Learned interviews broadly resembles the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's top-secret history of the Vietnam War.

This hardware store Christmas commercial has gone viral, starring a 2-year old managing the store.

Kind of an interesting article about Buttigieg's time at McKinsey Consulting.

Walmart is selling fire logs that smell like Kentucky Fried Chicken when burned.

Why is the World Bank lending money to China? Trump wants it to stop.

The Left hates most things good

The Left hates the Salvation Army. That's all you need to know about them.

LA is building homes for the homeless using shipping containers. It is costing $600K per home, more than a condominium in the area.

This is a fascinating article on the Cholera outbreak in Haiti.  Fascination because of the UN's efforts to cover up the cause, revealed by an reporter.  I especially enjoyed the part where some scientist tried to blame global warming.

How about a puppy found frozen in permafrost for 18,000 years.

The fired Navy Secretary reveals in an op-ed his problem with the chain of command.

A collection of the year's best pictures from National Geographic.

For global warming fans, did you know there are 100 different climate models from 47 different organizations.  Some of them predict much more global warming than others; probably because there's more research funding the more warming you predict.  I am skeptical that there are so many different models if these people are so sure about global warming.

An investigation in Ohio uncovered hundreds of illegal voters. We should do that in California.

A law professor schooled the Democrats on impeachment.

Do not miss what representative Matt Gaetz did at the impeachment hearings as he educates the Democrats.

Special Thanksgiving Edition

What happens when Irish people taste an American Thanksgiving dinner for the first time?

Ten reasons to be thankful for president trump.

And be thankful for private property.

Thanksgiving for dummies, or rather college professors.

Here's a more thorough explanation of the interplay between the Europeans and the native Americans.

WKRP's episode of the Turkey Drop was the best Thanksgiving episode of all time. Watch the episode on YouTube here. Turn up your sound.

And concluding, don't miss Power Lines roundup of Thanksgiving Day Memes, including this gem:

Climate Change

Why everything you hear about climate change is wrong.

Attorney General Barr gave a terrific speech about the damage to the nation by the resistance.  It got great reviews from reasonable analysts. The Left is of course over-reacting.

More on the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella. It's like the Cheers bar, everybody knows his name.

When the villain is Obama and not Trump, suddenly the news isn't worth reporting.

If you have decent speed on the Internet, here are some very nice B&W photos of the hearings.

Sycophants who flatter child climate oracles deserve ridicule.

This ring galaxy is 600 million light years away. In the picture are more galaxies even much more distant. Kind of makes the universe seem really big.

Soldiers have been in the news lately. The most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war had almost as many article 15's and medals.

King Sobieski defeated the Muslims on the outskirts of Vienna, preventing them from taking over Europe in 1683. His statue is too controversial to be placed in Vienna.

A new Clint Eastwood movie is coming out. "Richard Jewell" paints the press as incompetent.

There are so many Muslim immigrants in Sweden that it's turning into a war zone. Of course the media doesn't even mention the demographics of the folk causing the problems.

Vaping isn't a good thing, but it's safer than smoking. The scary news you've seen lately has been the result of black market marijuana infused products, not commercial ones. Of course the media has failed to take recognition of that subtle detail. Trump was right to not ban vaping products.

The media is ignoring Hunter Biden's latest baby from an unwed mother, unlike the reaction to Bristol Palin's pregnancy. Joe Biden didn't appreciate getting a question from a reporter about it. Hunter has yet another kid from his late brother's widow.

Here's a review of a book detailing the deep state plot against the President

The Whistleblower and the Lt Colonel

Eric Ciaramella is the whistleblower and LTC Alan Vindman is the guy who was so concerned about the phone call that he told Eric about it.  Here's the real mystery of those two. On the same subject, here's ten reasons the hearing is really a coup.

Clint Eastwood has a new movie out: Richard Jewell, about the guy who found a bomb in Atlanta during the Olympics. The FBI decided he was the bomber and leaked the information to the press. He was innocent of course. The movie is based on this article in Vanity Fair.

Remember Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Somebody made one.

It seems like a daily occurrence that California Governor Gavin Newsom does something stupid, though it may be more often than daily. Here's an example: California owns over 50,000 cars; Newsome has decreed that the state can only buy electric cars.

Jessica Meir is on the space station. She has a twitter page which is kind of interesting. The space station looks kind of junky in some photos.

Three Indiana judges were suspended after a brawl that left two of them wounded.

People in Zimbabwe are complaining that those Chinese manufactured condoms are too small.

These people had half their brains removed and they are still getting along fine. Of course they vote Democrat.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg claims to be a Christian, so we should vote for him even though he's gay. A close look at his theology makes one suspect.

How the Japanese bombed Michigan in WW2.

Why Trump held up the money to the Ukraine.

Much has been made about Trump firing some ambassadors. Obama fired every ambassador that had been appointed by Bush.

We have talked before about the SPLC. They have declared Franklin Graham as a leader of a hate group.

The Democrats and the media have been trying to spin the connection between old Biden and young Biden as much ado about nothing. Old Biden has a record of asking the government to do what young Biden's firm wanted.

Here's a guy who moved from LA to a small town in Idaho. He experienced culture shock.

Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia, delivered the annual Global Warming Policy Forum lecture in London on October 9. The title of his lecture was “Daring to Doubt.” He began with some general observations on our peculiar age.