HE WAS DISAPPEARED INTO THE SOVIET GULAGS:  Wallenberg, a hero without a grave.

ONCE MORE: Turning off the fire alarm doesn’t stop fires.  Globalize the Intifada: Zohran Mamdani Cuts NYPD Out of Mayoral Briefings Put in Place After 9/11.

FRANKLY MARGARET, I DON’T CARE:  This CBS News Host Got Taken to the Cleaners by Rubio on Sunday. Want to Guess Who?

POLITENESS WOULD HAVE BEEN WASTED ON THE FORMER CLINTON CONSIGLIERE:  Did Marco Rubio Politely Tell ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos He Was Being a Moron?

ABOUT TIME:   Trump Sends A Clear Message: The Western Hemisphere Is Ours. 

DEMOCRATS THINK TRUMP BREATHING IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE:  Democrats Claim Trump Capturing Maduro is an ‘Impeachable Offense’.

COMMUNISTS ARE THE WORST THING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:  China’s Fishing Fleet Continues to Gut Fish Stocks, International Laws.

LAW DEPENDS ON FORCE TO MEAN ANYTHING:  International law is more like International “law”.

ALL POINTS WORTH PONDERING:  Venezuela in the news.

PLAYING DOMINOES:  Venezuela & RICO.

PERHAPS NOT. BUT IT HAS A CHANCE:  Is Venezuela free at last?

THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED:  Manufacturing American Citizens: Inside China’s Surrogacy Pipeline to Citizenship.  Alarm over reports of Chinese oligarchs having hundreds of American children via surrogates is coloring the increasingly fraught debate.

SURE, BUT NOT BECAUSE AMERICA WANTS TO STEAL OIL:  Yes, it is (partly) about the Oil. or once the lefties are correct, but accidentally so.

More because with travel making the world more interconnected, it’s important to control the flow of energy to bad actors.

THEY KNOW WHO THEY HATE, AND SO DO WE:

“Impoverish the white middle class” is fascinating because it shows the belief system isn’t about elevating historically disadvantaged groups, it’s something much weirder, and race-based. https://t.co/CihyeqJVKE

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 5, 2026

They seem weirdly unafraid of sharing their intentions.

OPEN THREAD: Live from the Quality Learing Center in beautiful downtown Minneapolis!

WE WOULD BE GREETED AS LIBERATORS:

Trump Leads SEAL Team To Capture Rogue Dictator Gavin Newsom https://t.co/YLdGVg2iyY pic.twitter.com/zTGzi55XZ2

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2026

GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP; THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS IN THIS RACKET: 2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe.

Related:

“Tim Walz will go down in history as little more than an avatar of White guilt — the weak, apologetic eunuch of a White guy that progressives would have our sons become. But today, our sons can clearly see that the real lesson is: ‘Don’t be that guy.’” https://t.co/fRaWB0uleb

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) January 5, 2026

KEEP YOUR FOOD COOL: Insulated Cooler Backpack, 35 Can / 25L Large Camping Backpack. #CommissionEarned

DON’T HIRE WOKIES:

Today, woke kids working for a Hilton franchise got both their employer and franchise parent into a nasty news cycle of bad press. Woke kids at these businesses will be the ruination of the businesses. Talked to an employer the other day and he said his business rejects any… https://t.co/6t6ikz3OH2

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 5, 2026

GREAT MOMENTS IN CHUTZPAH:

The absolute gall of calling it a "near death experience" to face a backlash for lying about the actual cold-blooded murder of a young man martyred for free speech. These people are utterly beneath contempt. https://t.co/umy0pDQOPD

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) January 5, 2026

In 2000, when Michael Caine won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the pro-abortion film The Cider House Rules, William F. Buckley wrote:

Non-amateur writers avoid industriously the word “Orwellian” because even years ago it became an overused and underdefined cliche.

But try to find another word for what Michael Caine came up with at the Oscar ceremony on Sunday after receiving a prize for his performance in “The Cider House Rules.” That’s the movie that’s a paean to the abortion industry. And what the great actor said, when finally the thunderous ovation let him be heard, was, “I’m basically up here, guys, to represent you as what I hope you will all be, a survivor.”

Well, George Orwell would have pondered that, all right, inasmuch as a survivor, in the context of the theme of that event, turns out to be somebody who was physically present at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, i.e., somebody who survived the mother’s temptation to abort the fetus. That makes them survivors, does it not? So they are being applauded for surviving the practices celebrated by the movie … That, ladies and gentlemen, is Orwellian.

Similarly, for Charlie Kirk of course, it wasn’t a “near-death experience.” Kimmel knows it, and he doesn’t give a damn about the assassination of someone on the other side of the aisle.

#JOURNALISM:

Recap for those who missed it: Seth Harp is a prior Army Reservist with an Iraq deployment to his credit, who parlayed his civ law career into a political "world conflict journalism" gig. Has a bestseller and swanky mag bylines to his credit. Claims SOF is full of murderous… https://t.co/cPx9UuLq5t

— Brad R. Torgersen (@BradRTorgersen) January 5, 2026

Contrast: Actual journalism:

Tim Walz was almost Vice President of the United States.

Now he’s dropping out of the Governor’s race in Minnesota in disgrace.

All because a 23-year-old kid with a camera and a thirst for justice exposed billions of his fraud.

May @nickshirleyy’s work create 1,000 more Nick… pic.twitter.com/D2wSxlqKdo

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 5, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): On the other hand, astonishingly, the New York Times and WaPo didn’t publish the Maduro raid story early. But who is leaking details of an operation like this to either newspaper?

Oh, so it WAS still leaked, but the NYT and the Washington Post decided to be good Americans?

ok, i take it back, *THAT* is the most shocking thing about this. https://t.co/E95LlH0jvI

— Sensurround (@ShamashAran) January 4, 2026

In any case, the ghosts of Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace aren’t very happy with those Democrat house organs right now:

HMM:

Celebration paused as Downtown Caracas, Venezuela’s capital is filled with heavy gunfire. sources say it is a coup to remove Delcy Roderiguez as the president of Venezuela following the capturing of Maduro by the USA military pic.twitter.com/Wi69dLe0FH

— obj (@obj0x0) January 6, 2026

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.:

SHOCKER:

The violent man arrested over a hammer attack at the family home of Vice President JD Vance in Ohio is a trans leftist. William "Julia" DaFoor comes from a well-to-do liberal family whose parents are doctors and donors to Democrats. The attack has echoes of the trans militant who…

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 5, 2026

WILLIAM FORSTCHEN CALL YOUR OFFICE: Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future.