Tuesday Links - 10 January

The Other McCain starts things off with FINALLY: McCarthy Becomes Speaker

What is normally a pro forma exercise on the first day of the new Congress instead dragged on for four days before reaching its final conclusion in the wee hours of the night.

Granite Grok - Another Identity Politics White Chick Busted For Pretending to be “Native American”

The most famous fake Indian, Senator Lizard Warren, continues to lead “her people” onto the progressive reservation by making the whole nation her plantation. Less famous Susan Taffe Reed, a Pretendian at Dartmouth, was the director of the Native American Program when busted but got a full-time side hustle in administration.

Impro Guns - Meanwhile in Brazil. A collection of craft-built firearms seized by Forca Tatica. Click thru for the photos.

Every trip to the dentist is a moment of joy.

Again from The Other McCain - Football: Good News and Bad News

The good news is, Damar Hamlin is alive and improving:

Bills safety Damar Hamlin continues to make progress in his recovery as he remains breathing on his own and his “neurological function is excellent,” according to physicians at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Resist the Mainstream - Music Legend Morrissey Takes On Cancel Culture in Brilliant New Statement

Morrissey added his friends are aware of designs to end his career, which he claims have become relentless. He wryly noted the extra attention defeats the whole point of Cancel Culture, which is to never again acknowledge the cancelled.

Flopping Aces - There is a change in the air

For two years this country has been gaslighted by the most galactically dishonest regime in history. For two years Joe Biden has said that there was no border crisis. For two years that maggot Alejandro Mayorkas has been telling us the border is secure. For two years the country has been screaming for border control.

That ended with the GOP taking the House.

OldAFSarge at Chant du Départ - Ukraine - The View from Poland, January Update

It has been some time since I had anything new to report on the Russo-Ukrainian War. It was not due to laziness of my part, but due to Groundhog day - like repeating events.

American Thinker - Governor DeSantis is picking a fight with the academic left, and it’s a shrewd move.

The public generally laughs at or scorns campus nuttiness by substantial margins. And the progressives' traditional arguments to boards, trustees or regents, the sacredness of academic freedom, is now a bitter joke.

Allah's Willing Executioners - Criticize Islam at your own risk in Europe – A fundamental principle of Western democracies was once that people could be put on trial, but not ideas and opinions. Not anymore

Do we know another subject whose criticism in Europe involves the risk (if not life) of a trial?

The Other McCain again - Can You Guess Who Won the Court Case of Brett Kimberlin v. United States?

Last year, the World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™ got curb-stomped by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, but because you can’t argue pro se before the Supreme Court, the pipsqueak perjurer enlisted the legal assistance of well-connected Democrat lawyer Neal Katyal’s firm