Silence of the labs. From: Jonathan Turley. How a censorship campaign failed to kill a COVID origin theory.
🎯 Don’t blame your health insurance company for your lousy coverage. From: Betsy McCaughey/Creators. Healthcare claim denials have gone up from 1.5% to 15% since the Affordable Care Act.
Victor Davis Hanson: Devin Nunes reemerges. From: American Greatness. 2024 marked the comeback of figures once dismissed, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump reclaiming dominance and Devin Nunes solidifying his role as a stalwart in intelligence oversight.
👉 The bonfire of the progressive vanities. From: Allysia Finley/Wall Street Journal. Liberals say they want ‘livable’ cities, but their policies produce high taxes, crime and chaos.
Cable news is over. From: Peter Suderman/Reason. What comes next will be more fragmented, more decentralized, and more authentic than the old legacy networks.
🤥 The top 10 hoaxes the propaganda press peddled in 2024. From: Shawn Fleetwood/The Federalist. Here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by corporate media hacktivists this year.
Biden's “obvious mental decline" most underreported story in 2024. From: Zero Hedge. “It could have changed the scope of the entire election..."
🙄 Congress funds 1,264 “zombie” programs. From: Jeremy Portnoy/Real Clear Investigations. Congress allocated at least $516 billion for federal programs with expired authorizations in fiscal year 2024, and likely far more, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
‘Assisted dying’: why we need to kill the bill. From: Kevin Yuill/Spiked. This past year has exposed the moral bankruptcy of the ‘assisted dying’ lobby.
👏 Guardian Angels returning to patrol NYC subways after woman’s murder. From: Craig Nigrelli/Straight Arrow News. The move comes in the wake of a woman’s death after she was lit on fire days before Christmas.
Key lessons from 2024. From: Bill O’Reilly. Alert citizens know 2024 was a startling year in America—one of the most consequential times in our history.
⭐️ Jimmy Carter was the president who made Ronald Reagan necessary. From: George Will/Washington Post. Richard Nixon made Jimmy Carter tempting; Carter made Ronald Reagan necessary.
Jimmy Carter was a terrible president — and an even worse former president. From: Phillip Klein/National Review. Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage.
🔎 Should California go full steam ahead on offshore wind farms? Latest evidence says no. From: Kerry Jackson/Issues & Insights. California is focused on floating turbines out of necessity, if it is to produce enough renewable energy to shut down fossil fuel generation.
New York's climate ‘superfund' is costly, arbitrary, and unconstitutional. From: Jack Nicastro/Reason. Increasing energy costs in New York will not significantly address climate change.
❄️ Are EVs useless in winter? From: Geraldine Herbert/Euro News. Generally, an EV’s range can drop up to 30 per cent in moderate winter weather, with reductions reaching 32 per cent in harsher conditions.
Happy New Year, Jim!