"'Are You Not Entertained?' With the country's economy improving and other issues losing traction with the public, Democrats are increasingly turning to the one thing lacking in Washington: impeachments.

As they work to take back the House in the midterms, Democrats are again promising voters the equivalent of the Roman Games by restarting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. For many liberal voters, impeachments are the thrilling cage matches of lawfare."

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"There are good and bad ways to start an administration, then there's the way Zohran Mamdani did it. Dreadful, awful and horrible don't fully capture his First Day fiasco.

"No political guru in the history of New York elections would advise a new mayor to launch his administration by picking a fight with Israel and adding fresh evidence to the suspicion that the city's first Muslim mayor is an antisemite.

"Yet that's exactly what Mamdani did by announcing that he had rescinded all the executive orders of his predecessor, Eric Adams, going back 15 months.

"Some were inconsequential, but two notably put the city on the side of Israel and were aimed at blocking official acts that smacked of antisemitism.

"With New York home to more than 1 million Jews, and with Israel, a key American ally, fighting for its survival against terrorists, it's an extremely odd way for a mayor to start a four-year term."

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"Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!"

"Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented 'a good opportunity to make money.'

Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown are accused of siphoning millions from federally funded programs administered by Minnesota officials that were meant to help people with disabilities and those suffering from addiction.

Unlike many of the individuals previously caught up in the state's sprawling fraud scandal, they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota's large Somali-American community. Prosecutors say they don't appear to have ties to Minnesota at all.

'Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry -- people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs,' said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, who brought the new charges. 'This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand.'"

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"Rewiring America, the climate group where Democratic activist Stacey Abrams served as senior counsel, quietly banked more than $5 million in federal climate funding shortly before the Trump administration axed the Biden-era grant earlier this year, according to tax documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. They suggest that Abrams played a larger role in obtaining the grant than she claimed.

"The $5 million marked the initial tranche of a $2 billion grant the Environmental Protection Agency awarded in April 2024 to a different group, Power Forward Communities, that oversees a Rewiring America-led coalition. When a February Free Beacon report revealed Power Forward Communities's ties to Abrams -- prompting EPA administrator Lee Zeldin to cancel the grant -- Abrams argued that she had no affiliation with the group and played a negligible role in obtaining the grant.

"The tax documents contradict Abrams's claims. They show that, of the $9.5 million Power Forward Communities received from the EPA by the end of 2024, more than half went to Abrams's Rewiring America. Power Forward Communities reported the grant funding was its sole source of revenue last year, indicating that it acted as a pass-through established to distribute taxpayer funds to Rewiring America. It disbursed the funding to Rewiring America as Abrams served as its senior counsel and senior adviser, a role she held between March 2023 and early 2025."

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"At some point, there will be no news about the Ford Motor Company's electric vehicle fiasco. But we're not there yet, as the most recent reports show that the automaker is paying dearly for its commitment to a Potemkin market built by a government that promised favors to companies that would follow its agenda.

Ford's EV misfortunes have reached a nearly unimaginable low. The company announced Monday that it's taking a $19.5 billion writedown while eliminating a number of its EV models. Reuters calls it 'the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry's retreat from battery-powered models,' while the Daily Mail says it's 'a major retreat from Ford's most ambitious EV bet.'

Energy author Robert Bryce simply says Ford's EV fixation was 'felony stupid' and wonders how CEO Jim Farley still has a job."

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"Over 100 members of Congress have cosigned the Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would prohibit members of Congress and their immediate families from buying and selling individual stocks. Despite broad bipartisan support, congressional leadership has not yet allowed the bill to be brought to the floor.

"A new working paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that stock-related gains are most concentrated among congressional leaders rather than rank-and-file lawmakers. The authors find that lawmakers who eventually rise to leadership roles perform roughly in line with comparable peers before entering leadership, but after entering leadership, they outperform those peers by an average of 47 percentage points annually.

"The study, conducted by Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University and Yifan Zhou of  Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, identifies two main drivers of these elevated returns. The first is direct political influence, which is most apparent when the leader's party controls the chamber. In those circumstances, lawmakers in leadership and at the top of committees are more likely to sell shares before regulatory action and to buy them before federal contracts are issued or favorable legislation is enacted."

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"Australia's Oct. 7 happened in the most unlikely place -- a balmy summer evening in the most iconic beach in the country, known for laid-back surfers, Instagram influencers, fitness freaks, hippies, billionaires, leather-skinned locals and decidedly haram topless sunbathers.

"Bondi Beach is a bustling inner-suburban crescent of golden sand on the Pacific where $30 million houses nestle among 1960s blond brick walk-ups crammed with Irish and British backpackers who sling cocktails and wait tables at the buzzy eateries along Campbell Parade.

"On Sunday, this slice of paradise became the latest battlefront of the anti-Jew bloodshed that has seized the world since Israel was attacked by Palestinian terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.

"And it is all so sickeningly predictable."

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"Amazing: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks 'nonpartisan experts' should be controlling key parts of the federal government while the president and other 'people who don't know anything' sit on the sidelines letting 'PhD's' make the important decisions.

"She made these shockingly elitist remarks during Monday's oral arguments in a case about the president's authority to fire officers of 'independent agencies' such as the Federal Trade Commission.

"The framers of the Constitution gave the president control over the executive branch, charged to 'take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed' and to 'appoint the agents charged with the duty of such enforcement' -- as part of a system of checks and balances involving the legislative and judicial branches to prevent him (or her) from ruling as a dictator.

"But progressives going back to Woodrow Wilson have despised checks and balances because they prevent the government from messing in people's lives ('for the good of the American people,' as Jackson put it) the way credentialed elites believe it should."

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"Can children and teenagers be forced off social media en masse? Australia is about to find out.

"More than 1 million social media accounts held by users under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia on Wednesday in a divisive world-first ban that has inflamed a culture war and is being closely watched in the United States and elsewhere.

"Social media companies will have to take 'reasonable steps' to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot set up accounts on their platforms and that existing accounts are deactivated or removed.

"Australian officials say the landmark ban, which lawmakers swiftly approved late last year, is meant to protect children from addictive social media platforms that experts say can be disastrous for their mental health."

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