01/15/2025 05:10 CDT/Online version

HEGSETH’S MOWS THROUGH DEMOCRATS’ UNSERIOUS QUESTIONS; MICHELLE OBAMA SKIPPING INAUGURATION

TODAY’S TOP TEN

HEGSETH SHINES AT CONFIRMATION HEARING

DEMOCRATS SHRIEK AND ATTACK but fail to lay a glove on composed, serious Pete Hegseth. Ace of Spades HQ.

• Ernst officially backs nomination. Just the News.

CALIFORNIA ECO-ZEALOTS HALTED a Pacific Palisades fire safety project to save an endangered shrub. New York Post.

CALIFORNIA’S FIXATION ON “CLIMATE CHANGE” laid the groundwork for its massive wildfire failures. City Journal.

BIDEN CONSIDERING CLEMENCY for leaker of Trump’s and others’ tax returns. Real Clear Investigations.

FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA will be a no-show for President-elect Trump’s inauguration. The National Pulse.

KAMALA HARRIS WON’T ALLOW J.D. VANCE and family to visit VP residence in advance of inauguration as is tradition. RedState.

GOP HOUSE PASSES LEGISLATION with bipartisan support that would ban men from competing in women’s sports. Just the News.

DESANTIS SAYS HE WON’T CONSIDER House members for vacant Senate seat because House majority is too slim. The Palm Beach Post.

COLORADO APARTMENT COMPLEX OCCUPIED by Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua will be closed. Just the News.

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT’S CELL PHONE BAN is having positive results for students. NBC 6 South Florida.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• No one wants a Biden presidential library. Christopher Knight.
• To stop fires, burn wokeism. Victor Joecks.
• Trans surgeries like mine 40 years ago were wrong then and wrong now. Walt Heyer.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Greenlandic teens want America to buy Greenland. TheLibertyDaily.
• Pete Hegseth rips media’s smear campaign against him. Fox News.
• Ned Ryun says we have a shot at restoring the Republic because of Donald Trump. Real Clear Politics.

LATEST FIRST RIGHT PODCAST

• Host Hayden Ludwig interviews culture warrior Terry Schilling about American Principles Project’s fight to expose “Trans Inc.” Rumble.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• This World War II tanker took more than 20 prisoners armed only with a spoon. Task & Purpose.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@KelemenCari) California yearly spending: For illegal border crossers' healthcare: $5 billion For taxpaying citizen's wildfire prevention: $200 million Tweet.
• (@AriFleischer) Pete Hegseth is crushing it. It is refreshing to hear someone relentlessly focus on warriors and lethality, without playing Washington’s word-salad game of forcing nominees to talk like social workers who run government agencies. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• BATTALION OF LIBERAL-LEANING FEDERAL MANAGERS plan to resist Trump’s efforts, poll shows. Just the News.

BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• Pete Hegseth Fights Back Against Media “Smear Campaign” in Contentious Senate Hearing BONGINO REPORT.

STATE OF THE RACE

• New Senate composition: Democrats 47, Republicans 53.
• New House composition: Democrats 215, Republicans 220.