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Hinderaker Would Like To Re-Label “A Decrepit Sociopath’s Megalomania” — As Simply… Unforced Errors.

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John Hinderaker has forever been a Trump boot-licker — at lease since 2016. All of this time, rather than admit to what we all see — that the dozens of pattern-behaviors (on display for decades, over and over) ones that make the whole world cringe… might be evidence of a sociopath’s tendencies… John today (again) calls them “unforced errors“ — hoping that, by lying, he can magically make them isolated and random, in his viewers’ perception — or at least in his own mind.

He suggests this is like a split second thing, like… say, overthrowing first on a double-play ball, in triple A. Nope. Tangerine stews about his lunacy for months on end. And then acts every bit the lunatic, willfully.

John — Greenland / Denmark (and specifically, his threats)… are just the latest clear evidence of a… sociopath.

His stealing of trophies, any gold bobble that is not nailed down… and filchinig secret documents — thinking he “is owed” everything: is all deeply delusional.

His remarks about people with disabilities — his remarks about his own [current] wife — his remarks about Jimmy Kimmel, Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney and Morning Joe… his ACTIONS in Venezuela; his actions in Chicago, LA, Portland and now Minneapolis… his keeping close company with avowed well-known Klanners and Neo-Nazis…

His threatening NY State prosecutors with a baseball bat (thinking he’s a latter day Capone)…

And that’s all BEFORE we mention… his forcible sexual assaults — of at least ten different women — and maybe even some girls who were underage… as well…

Yep. This is… a sociopath.

These are not “mistakes“.

This is who he is. This is who he’s always been — and his nearly 80 years of life, are making him ever more… demented, and detached from the reality of the way the world sees him.

It’s past-time you admitted this emperor has no clothes.

Just wanton chaos, as his reason for existing.

Give it up John — Damn.

Power Alley: When Is A Generic’s FDA Label… “Skinny” Enough? New Cert. Granted, On The Issue, At US Supremes…

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So — back to an old topic: how to be certain that the reforms wrought about 40 years ago now, by Hatch-Waxman (to more readily encourage lower priced but safe generics to reach US shelves sooner). . . remain the effective law of our land — even as branded manufacturers try to chip away at such competition — in the courts around the nation?

This latest case (out of the erroneous ruling on appeal in the Federal Circuit) was just granted a review on this past Friday — by the Supremes. We will now follow it closely, as it will without a doubt potentially impact tens of billions of dollars in savings, on genrics, to US consumers — in the years ahead, if correctly resolved in favor of the generics, here:

…This case offers another chance to review the Federal Circuit’s erosion of section viii and § 271(b) — with a much better vehicle than GSK, where the Federal Circuit credited alleged evidence that the generic drugmaker’s “partial label instructed the method of use claimed.” 7 F.4th at 1328. Here, it is undisputed that Hikma’s label is “skinny enough.” App. 13a, 17a.

This case [if not corrected at teh Supremes, by a cert. petition] thus confirms what the dissent in GSK predicted: “a generic can be deemed liable for inducement for saying that its product is a ‘generic version’” — “a drastic holding” that “makes little sense.” 7 F.4th at 1353 (Prost, J., dissenting)….

In short, the decision below is an imminent threat to generic competition, which is critically important to the U.S. healthcare system. And the “very permissive pleading standard for induced infringement” that the decision creates will dramatically expand the risk of inducement liability, even “outside of just the pharmaceutical context….”

We will — of course — now keep you posted. Onward, smiling — and do note: the experimental theater last evening was at once wildly maddening, moving, and inspiring… so, we will be thinking, and acting… on it, for many months to come, indeed.

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NASA’s Ultra High Altitude “Zero Pressure” Balloon Flights — Have Concluded, At McMurdo Station — On The Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica…

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This was some very cool (literally), cutting edge balloon tech.

And it worked… flawlessly. Here’s the story — and you’ll recall that we covered the lead-up (and launches), last month:

…NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has completed four successful Antarctica flights during a long-duration campaign that began in early December. The balloons launched from the agency’s facility located near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf.

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon lifted off Dec. 15. The GAPS payload is an experiment designed to detect anti-matter particles entering Earth’s atmosphere to help reveal the origin of dark matter — an invisible form of matter that’s estimated to make up more than 80% of the total matter in the universe. The GAPS mission flew for a total of 25 days, 2 hours, and 53 minutes before returning to the ice Jan. 9.

The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) launched Dec. 19 and flew a total of 23 days, 8 hours, and 52 minutes, returning to the ice Jan. 12. The PUEO payload is designed to detect signals from neutrinos, high-energy particles that travel across the universe undisturbed, carrying information about events billions of light-years away. This was the first mission to launch through NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, which supports compelling astrophysics science at lower cost….

Onward, grinning — with lil’ ladies here shortly, then dinner out and a new experimental/journalistic “living documentary” theatre production tonight, based on the various experiences of people without papers here in the City of Big Shoulders — called “Sanctuary Stories“. Will report manana.

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While Not As Sweeping As The Chicago Orders, Minneapolis Is Now Covered By A Prelim. Inj., Against Bovino/Noem Lawlessness. First Amend. Rights Prevail.

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This is a good start — the larger suit is now scheduled for a hearing shortly on a much broader preliminary injunction — as we mentioned earlier in the week.

But this one plainly prohibits the use of lethal force against people in their cars, or observers, unless they are trying to mow down ICE agents. It also prevents tear gas against protesters who are not violently assaulting federel agents. That’s enough for the moment. Here’s the 83 page federal court order, in full — and a bit:

…Some nonparty declarants have described disturbing conduct of agents during and after these stops, including: threatening to arrest and detain them despite knowing that they were citizens; threatening to break the driver’s windows; waiting for the witnesses outside their homes; following them to their homes or to an address where their vehicles are registered; and telling the witnesses that they know where they live. (Rudolph Leon Decl. ¶¶ 24–26; Jackson Decl. ¶ 8; Levy Decl. ¶ 12; Smith Decl. 2 ¶ 4; Kellermeyer Decl. ¶ 4.) Ms. Salm describes having her phone seized from her hands while recording agents; being choked by the collar of her shirt… and being threatened with “a fucking bullet in [her] skull.” (Salm Decl. ¶¶ 9–23.)….

Defendants have not provided declarations or other evidence regarding the circumstances of the stops of Plaintiffs Webb, Biestman, and Lee, nor have they provided evidence to refute the accounts provided by the nonparty witnesses who were stopped by immigration officers….

[Witness] Crenshaw entered the restaurant, he saw “two agents… violently slamming a young black man against the wall.” (Id. ¶ 4.) The man was “yelling in pain and saying that he was a U.S. citizen,” but the agents “didn’t seem to care” and “dragged [the man] outside,” even though he continued to tell them he is a citizen. (Id.) When Crenshaw and other observers followed the agents outside, one of the agents “slammed the door on [them]” and appeared to be “frustrated with [them] being there and filming them and telling them that what they were doing was wrong[.]” (Id. ¶ 5.) Once Crenshaw was outside the restaurant, he saw the agents “violently push the young man into the snow for no apparent reason” and “put him in handcuffs” and into a car with “black windows” and a Florida license plate….

This is not conduct befitting… American law enforcement — at all. Moreover, the stupidly evil DoJ “investigation” into Tim Walz and the Mayor of Minneapolis — is not worthy of any real comment. So… I won’t. It’s a dead letter. Onward.

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“Tuskegee 2.0”? That Is Not Really Much Of A Stretch, For RFK, Jr. And Tangerine 2.0. Damn.

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This has to be read — in full — to be believed, in 2026.

Kennedy and Trump — both billionaires who believe people… living in the poorest parts of Africa — those with darker skin should be experimentation subjects. [Hey — doesn’t that ring some… Nazi bells?!]

Here’s the story — and my long term friend Paul Offit is quoted near the end — if he says it was happening, you may trust that it was:

…What do you get when you put a vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the agency responsible for funding medical research throughout the globe? A recipe for Tuskegee 2.0, apparently.

Some bombshell reporting over the last month has revealed a monstrous plan by Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to fund a $1.6 million study on hepatitis B vaccines among 14,000 newborns in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau. As protocol documents obtained by Inside Medicine show, the study would have been a “randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of neonatal Hepatitis B vaccination on early-life mortality, morbidity, and long-term developmental outcomes.”

In other words, the study aimed to withhold Hep B vaccinations from 7,000 infants in one of the poorest countries on Earth — so that western researchers could compare their long-term health to babies that got the vaccine…. [searching for non-specific effects, here.]

“Non-specific effects” is a key buzzword swirling around Kennedy’s orbit of vaccine skeptics and holistic wellness influences, which essentially means “unintended harms.” The HHS’s chosen researchers for the Guinea-Bissau study were Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn, a controversial Danish couple who have spent years chasing after non-specific effects in vaccines.

Thankfully, “the good guys won,” as Paul Offit, an infectious disease physician told the Guardian. “This administration did not see people in Africa as valuable… We were able to stand up for them. We were able to convince people about the fact that this was unethical….”

You literally could NOT make this malignant insanity up — if you were trying. And on MLK weekend, no less.

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If NASA Is Going To Reconnect With MAVEN — Its Best Shot Is… Now: January 16, 2026

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Well… Mars has just now gracefully moved, floating — this morning, from out behind our home star — relative to Earth’s vantage point. But if the tumble of MAVEN has resulted in less than complete charging via solar cells, the craft may already be dead stick, without electric juice.

There is no update from Goddard, so we may assume that so far, the tumbling spacecraft is 404 — off grid, thus (from December 15, 2025):

…Although no spacecraft telemetry has been received since Dec. 4, the team recovered a brief fragment of tracking data from Dec. 6 as part of an ongoing radio science campaign. Analysis of that signal suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars.

Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN’s orbit trajectory may have changed. The team continues to analyze tracking data to understand the most likely scenarios leading to the loss of signal. Efforts to reestablish contact with MAVEN also continue….

Here’s to hoping — but the realist in me accepts that this excellent, long serving spacecraft is at end of mission.

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In Which Scott Johnson Purports To Ask A “Non-Leninist” Question. Heh.

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Scott Johnson this morning quotes a savage approvingly, for suspending all civil law — in Minneapolis. “It’s an… insurrection, doncha’ know!?!”

And at the end of all of this, because he realizes this is idiotic, Scott throws in a rhetorical flourish, to hint that maybe he doesn’t think that this is the way to go about it… I am not amused.

Here’s Scott’s in any event: “where does he… err?” he asks.

Hilarious… but not in a good way.

When civil law is suspended and people start rounding up people like Scott Johnson for their views… We shall see how much he endorses this Attila the Hun view.

But whatever it takes to bend a knee and lick a boot for Donald Trump… The Powerline boys are more than willing to do…

Disgusting.

Out.

So — Yet Again — Tangerine 2.0 Offers A Non-Starter Short Outline, Calling It His “Great Health Plan”. Small Personal Savings Accounts Is All It Contemplates. YAWN.

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Welp — “You can fool some of the people. . . all of the time.”

But not today [for the sixth time, too!]. This same impotent clap-trap from Tangerine 1.0 died in Committee back in 2017. In a GOP Congress. There is simply no. . . “plan” — in his plans. Ever. Here’s the latest, from people not drinking Orange Kool-Aid — at NPR:

…In a video posted to social media Thursday, President Trump announced an outline for new health care legislation. The plan does not include a remedy for people who buy their health insurance on HealthCare.gov, some of whom are facing sky-high premium hikes this month.

Trump dubbed the ideas the “Great Healthcare Plan.” The White House issued a fact sheet and held a press call hosted by the chief of Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Mehmet Oz[?!]….

Both Oz and Trump talked about the plan as if it is a replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the proposals are much narrower in scope than that law, which passed with no Republican votes in 2010.

A bipartisan group of senators is trying to hash out a bill to extend ACA enhanced subsidies, and Trump’s plan appears not to preclude that short-term deal moving forward, but it is not a vote of confidence either….

“This looks much more like a compilation of Republican ideas, including some that are already in the Affordable Care Act. It doesn’t appear to address the rising premium payments that we’re seeing….”

What a pack of incompetent, feckless liars all these jamokes are. The return of the Obamacare subsidies is what is needed. Congress will buckle — to the so-called “affordability” pressure — from struggling families. Bank on that. Out.

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Based On Tonight’s Order — I Still Think USDC Judge Waverly Crenshaw Plans Hold The Evidentiary Hearing — On January 28, 2026 — In Music City…

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At some point, given the AUSAs’ foot dragging and thwarting of clear USDC Jenks [and Brady] production orders, Abrego will be entitled to a dismissal — without a formal hearing. He has already offered plenty of evidence that this was a vindictive, irregular “manufacturing of a felony” — out of a three year old, 20 minute traffic stop in rural Tennessee (one where — amazingly! — no traffic tickets were even issued, at the time).

The government is thus put to its proof — to establish, as Mr. McGuire claims under oath, that he alone decided to charge Abrego. But now we see he was being directed from DC. So, he lied. That — since the government has not put on any other evidence — entitles Abrego to a dismissal. Here’s the latest scheduling order — on it all:

…ORDER as to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia:

The Government shall reply to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s Motion to Compel [286] on or before 1/21/2026.

Signed by District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr on 1/15/2026….

Now you know. Off, to the high Rockies after King Day, for a week — then on to Nashville that next Monday night. Whoosh.

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The Pending Minnesota TRO Will Now Be Treated As A Prelim. Inj., Against Noemites & Bovino — After Two Shootings, There.

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Trump is very unlikely to even try to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 up in Minneapolis. Certainly he knows that there is zero credibilty to the claim that local law enforcement is being prevented from keeping the peace, in any meaningful way.

And, in any event, the ICE DHS people he has deployed there have no statutory authority to work as a “mini National Guard“. And the Supremes told him just three weeks ago, that the real National Guard cannot lawfully be deployed in these situations.

In any event, the schedule will look like this, from here forward — in Minneapolis:

…The Court will treat the Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order as a Motion for Preliminary Injunction, and will handle it on an expedited basis. The Defendants must file a response to the Motion on or before January 19, 2026, by 6:00 CST. The Plaintiffs may file a reply memorandum on or before January 22, 2026, by 6:00 CST. The Court will determine when to hold a hearing and whether an evidentiary hearing is necessary following review of the Defendants position.

In addition, the Plaintiffs advised that they may seek expedited discovery regarding some of the matters at issue in this proceeding. The parties should meet and confer following January 19th to discuss this matter, and can approach the Court to address it after such a conference. The parties may also submit a Protective Order to enable the exchange of information.

Ordered by Judge Katherine M. Menendez….

Onward, resolutely — we will deal peacefully with these cretins under Greg Bovino’s command — and under Noem’s. I suppose he could try to call the US Army forward, but the Supremes have ruled that they cannot be so used (in Illinois at least) — and likely, near half of them might decide to disobey any such Hegseth order — on the authority of Scott Kelly having said that they have a duty to ignore unlawful / unconstitutional orders, under the Uniform Military Code of Justice.

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