Monday, December 1, 2025

Monday’s Final Word – HotAir

December 1, 2025
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Just another tabbic Monday …





Ed: The story here is that Zillow doesn’t have much value when it promotes nonsense hysteria that hurts sales. The NYT connection is interesting for other reasons. Some state Attorneys General might want to look into that connection to see if the newspaper took part in a corrupt price manipulation scheme. 

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Blast (via Yahoo): Michael Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, are reportedly very displeased over the manner in which their son Dylan was humiliated during a roundtable discussion on politics with CNN commentator Scott Jennings.

Young Dylan was left stuttering incomprehensibly midway through the interview, which has seemingly become a source of mockery behind the scenes.

Now, according to sources, his parents, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, intend to blacklist the entire network, as they believe CNN crossed the line.

Ed: If his parents are unhappy with how Dylan got handled on CNN, then maybe Dylan isn’t ready for politics. Don’t bring a rubber knife to a gun fight. Via Twitchy, here’s the clip:

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Ed: What makes the Douglas’ outrage even more entitled is that Dylan wasn’t even outnumbered in this panel discussion. Scott Jennings is usually all by himself while taking on three or four opponents, except on occasions where Shermichael Singleton joins the panel with Scott. CNN didn’t mistreat Dylan; they practically sent him on stage with bodyguards, and he still got beat senseless, intellectually speaking. 





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Free Beacon: The Harvard University student who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, has a new job: He is a teaching fellow at… Harvard.

Tettey-Tamaklo, who was removed from his position as a proctor overseeing freshmen in the wake of the incident, began work as a “Graduate Teaching Fellow” at Harvard in August, according to his LinkedIn profile. He says he works to “advise faculty on curriculum design.”

Tettey-Tamaklo was the subject of intense scrutiny after he was caught on camera accosting a first-year Israeli business school student at an October 2023 “die-in” protest held outside of Harvard Business School. He was slapped with a misdemeanor assault and battery charge last May and ordered by a Suffolk County judge to take an anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service roughly a year later.

Ed: Looks like Harvard has not learned its lesson. One has to wonder whether the Trump administration will escalate issues with Harvard over this, given the clear Title VI violation of hiring someone who committed a hate-crime assault on their campus. 

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Ed: Wonderful news! Keep praying. Mr. Wolfe has a long way to go, and his family needs all the support they can get. 

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NY Post: Only a year before Foehner’s incident, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s century-old gun control law, ruling it unconstitutional for requiring “proper cause” for a gun license and mandating the state adopt a new law consistent with existing federal gun control regulations.





That law, the Concealed Carry Improvement Act, has itself proved so restrictive that it’s faced multiple federal court challenges.

With his back to the wall and facing serious financial difficulty — and as plenty of violent criminals with arm-long rap sheets freely walk the streets — Foehner took a plea bargain of four years in jail.

Judge Toni Cimino rejected Katz’s hateful demand that Foehner report for incarceration before the holidays, but prevailing legal practices will likely not allow the judge to reduce or suspend the prison term at Foehner’s formal sentencing hearing Jan. 14.

Ed: Want to see lawfare in action? Charles Foehner used lethal force in self-defense when assaulted by a man with 15 convictions on his record. The shooting was clearly self-defense, but that didn’t stop Queens DA from charging Foehner with a firearms violation that could have put him in prison for 25 years. Katz didn’t even want Foehner spending Thanksgiving at home after the plea deal. The judge should dismiss this case with prejudice in the interest of justice, and force Katz to appeal the ruling. 

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New Yorkers are currently urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to grant clemency to Charles, hoping to secure a pardon for the four-year prison sentence he’s facing after defending himself from a career criminal in NYC[.]





Ed: It’s true that the DoJ and Donald Trump can’t do much, since Foehner got charged under state law rather than federal. Presidential clemency only applies to federal crimes. But the DoJ and the White House can investigate the Queens DA to see if Foehner’s civil rights got violated and prosecute anyone involved if evidence emerges. I suspect Dhillon is looking at those possibilities. 

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Ed: Quick! Hire more dilettante children of Hollywood celebs!

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WSJ: Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities.

Corrupt military officers and drug gangs smuggle shipments by light aircraft, fishing boats, semi-submersible vessels and freighters heading east, international law-enforcement officials have said publicly. The cocaine flows to West Africa, where an informal network of jihadist-linked smugglers and their allies then move the drug north to feed high and rising demand in Europe. …

There in Africa, smugglers link up with al Qaeda-affiliated groups that escort the cargoes north and extort payments from the overland convoys, said current and former rebel leaders in northern Mali.

Surging trans-Atlantic drug flows mean that cocaine seizures in Europe now exceed those in North America, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.





Ed: Don’t expect the EU to do anything significant to stop that trafficking. However, they may not raise many objections if Trump puts a stop to it. This adds new dimension to the threat Venezuela poses to global security.  

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Every time he talks he makes his situation more damning.

“It wasn’t about this specific thing. We were looking forward to trying to head something off at the pass that could’ve been really, really bad.”

Ed: Then Kelly should have kept his mouth shut until it happened. The Senate is not the Pre-Crime Unit for Washington DC. He’s attempting to interfere with the chain of command for political purposes. 

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ABC News: “Overall, his cardiovascular system shows excellent health,” Barbabella wrote.

Barbabella also wrote in the memo that Trump’s abdominal imaging scan was normal with all major organs appearing healthy and well-perfused, meaning with a high blood flow relative to their size.

“Everything evaluated is functioning within normal limits with no acute or chronic concerns,” he wrote. “This level of detailed assessment is standard for an executive physical at President Trump’s age and confirms that he remains in excellent overall health.”

Ed: Another stupid narrative bites the dust. Love him or hate him, Trump is the most active and engaged president since Bill Clinton. He tangles with the press practically every day, whereas Joe Biden essentially hid from the media for four years, and Obama treated them with a disdainful distance. Trump is 79 years old and no spring chicken. but he demonstrates the energy of a man half his age – as opposed to aides claiming Biden had it behind the scenes while getting lost on stage. 





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Ed: That’s demonstrably true outside of the professions. The increase in earning power for most 4-year degrees cannot cover the debt incurred to get them. Academia is about to discover that Americans can still do that much math. 

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Daily Wire: A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration audit found that one-third of Minnesota’s non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses were issued illegally, the Transportation Department shared with The Daily Wire. Minnesota will be given 30 days to revoke the illegally issued licenses, Duffy says, or else it will pay a significant price.

“Our audit exposes yet another example of foreigners taking advantage of Minnesota services under Governor Walz’s watch,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy explained. “Minnesota failed to follow the law and illegally doled out trucking licenses to unsafe, unqualified non-citizens — endangering American families on the road. That abuse stops now under the Trump Administration.”

“The Department will withhold funding if Minnesota continues this reckless behavior that puts non-citizens gaming the system ahead of the safety of Americans,” he promised. 

Ed: And this is the less-pressing scandal facing Walz these days …





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