• “District Of Columbia Ends 2015 With A 54 Percent Spike In Homicides.”
• “Chicago Rings in New Year With First Homicide.”
• “How bad is Rahm Emanuel? He makes Bill De Blasio look good.”
• “In Denial About Crime — The Brennan Center and other liberal groups pretend that murders and shootings aren’t spiking in many cities.”

Perhaps a change in management is long overdue:

THE REVOLUTION EVENTUALLY DEVOURS ITSELF: Big City Machines Losing Control of the Monster They Created.

IRS Employee Whose Job Was Assisting Victims Of Identity Theft Charged In $1 Million Identity Theft Tax Fraud.

GEORGE WILL: Goodbye to 2015, The Year American Institutions Became Parodies of Themselves. Fundamentally transformed!

ULTIMATE RUBE SELF-IDENTIFIES: Clinton emails: Billionaire Soros said he regretted backing Obama.

DEATH RATES ALWAYS GO UP UNDER SOCIALISM: America’s Self-Destructive Whites:

The Top 12 Revolving Door Moments Of 2015. Here’s just one:

President Obama said he was going to stop the revolving door, and he spoke as if Obamacare was a broadside to the industry. If you believed either of these lines, you were surprised in 2011 when Obama picked hospital executive Marilyn Tavenner as Medicare administrator. Not done with the revolving door, Tavenner cashed out in 2015 to become president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the largest lobby for the insurance industry, which is — thanks to Obamacare — increasingly dependent on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for profits.

Follow the link for 11 more reasons to enact the revolving-door surtax.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS: “I can’t help but share this amazing anonymous smackdown of the odious cult of social justice with readers. It’s currently doing the rounds on Twitter and reddit.”

Give a Drunk (or Anyone) a Free Ride Home on New Year's Eve, Accept a Tip, Face $500 Fine

WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS THEY KNOW: The public thinks the average company makes a 36% profit margin, which is about 5X too high.

JUXTAPOSITION FOR THE WIN: Feds will ring in 2016 buried in debt of $58,000 per person.
AND: Mele Kalikimaka: Taxpayer’s gift to Obama is $470,000 a day Hawaiian vacation.

Greenland retained 99.7% of its ice mass in 20th Century

or Greenland lost 9,000 Billion Tons of ice in the 20th Century?

Both are true.

Betcha haven't seen THIS one either: Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority Of Scientists Skeptical Of Global Warming Crisis.

Why would governments NOT prefer discredited Keynsianism to Austrian economics.  The Austrians assign the gubmint a liminted role, elevating the individual.  Keynsianism on the other hand tells gubmints EXACTLY what they want to hear.  When times are good there is PLENTY of money for the gubmint to extract and spend.  When times are bad the gubming must either extract more or print more to FIX things.  What could possibly go wrong.

MORE FROM DAN MITCHELL on the war against cash.

I wrote yesterday that governments want to eliminate cash in order to make it easier to squeeze more money from taxpayers.

But that’s not the only reason why politicians are interested in banning paper money and coins.

They also are worried that paper money inhibits the government’s ability to “stimulate” the economy with artificially low interest rates. Simply stated, they’ve already pushed interest rates close to zero and haven’t gotten the desired effect of more growth, so the thinking in official circles is that if you could implement negative interest rates, people could be pushed to be good little Keynesians because any money they have in their accounts would be losing value.

I’m not joking.

Tar. Feathers.

THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS “TRULY TOOK A VILLAGE:” New York magazine interviews Michael Burry, “the economic soothsayer portrayed by Christian Bale” in the film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short. Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals linked to his interview via the sentence we’re also quoting above in the headline:

The postcrisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it. And if I take it, I better understand all the terms, because there is no such thing as free money. That is just basic personal responsibility and common sense. The enablers for this crisis were varied, and it starts not with the bank but with decisions by individuals to borrow to finance a better life, and that is one very loaded decision. This crisis was such a bona fide 100-year flood that the entire world is still trying to dig out of the mud seven years later. Yet so few took responsibility for having any part in it, and the reason is simple: All these people found others to blame, and to that extent, an unhelpful narrative was created. Whether it’s the one percent or hedge funds or Wall Street, I do not think society is well served by failing to encourage every last American to look within. This crisis truly took a village, and most of the villagers themselves are not without some personal responsibility for the circumstances in which they found themselves.

Was that last sentence a Freudian slip, or a deliberately underplayed comment referencing both the administration who gave the dominoes the biggest push and the woman who is now running for her husband’s old office?

The first in my Movie of the Week series.  #3 on my list, 2679 on Flickchart, not considered in the IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes top 250.    From IMDB:  Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

I cry through most of it.  Watch it annually.  Prequel to White Christmas and IMHO A MUCH better film with MUCH better music .... only w/o Vera Ellen. 100/100

The “linguistic contortions” the Obama adminstration uses to “mask” the “boots on the ground” that are the Special Operations forces.

In case you missed it, John Kerry is bringing peace to Syria.

but we're winning here at home: 

IT’S COME TO THIS: Muslims sue Pam Geller for wearing an itsy-bitsy, red-hot, polka dot bikini.

I think this is just a reverse-psychology effort to get her to do it more often. I remember when she was bikini-videoblogging from the beach, though that link has succumbed to the effects of time.

Ahh, the wild west early days of PJM — I’m pretty sure this is the video that Glenn is referring to.

DON SURBER: Speaking of cultural appropriation, keep your mitts off mine.

OK, fair is fair. As a white Christian, I won’t eat halal. I won’t eat Thai. I’ll even give up General Tso, which is something I actually do eat.

Now give me back the polio vaccine. It is part of the Judeo-Christian tradition. It was developed by Jews (there are two vaccines).

Also, give back pasteurized milk.

The automobile.

The airplane.

The train.

Electricity, the Internet, skyscrapers, radio, television, and the cellphone — or any other kind of phone. Transistors, too.

Jews and Christians have done more positive good for the world than any other group.

Slavery? Don’t go there. Slavery pre-dated Christianity and even Judaism. The Indians practiced it long before Columbus arrived, and long after. The only continent that never had slavery was Antarctica. . . .

If Jews and Christians are so evil, why is the migration to our countries?

Don’t like cultural appropriation? Then get the hell off the computer.

But stay. We are Jews and Christians. We share.

Heh.