Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- Dec 14, 2025
- 6 min read
An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power.” — Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
The White House released a 33-page National Security document outlining its framing on foreign policy. You can compare it to their tougher-on-China 2017 version, here.
Ruinations on Excel - the software.
Dasha Burns has a 45-minute conversation with President Trump.
Visualizing the world’s gold.
Unity: There is robust national unity around support for birthright citizenship polling suggests.
Ironic: Seattle is hosting a gay-themed FIFA match between two Islamic nations who execute gay people.
Sternum’s top albums of 2025.
Amnesty International released a report documenting the crimes committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.
Health Care: New study demonstrates, like most government programs (which health care is - we do not have a free market health system) higher spending leads to worse outcomes. The more taxpayers fund, the worse the results.
Highlighting the Nordic approach to winter.
Never before seen photos of Rosa Parks released.
Correct: Fuentes has nothing “interesting” to say, and no need to share platforms with him notes Professor George.
A reflection on the importance of what interests you - not what interests others.
A discussion on what has driven the lack of cultural progress or ushered in the current cultural stagnation that swarms us.
The unusual or unlikely backstory of an alleged J6 “pipe bomber.”
Google’s 2025 search trends revealed.
WaPo: Charts occupations and birth months along with zodiacs for some interesting patterns.
Golden Globe nominations released.
The Atlantic’s picks for the top 2025 movies.
A rant against diversity - it’s a weakness when things need to get done.
Hegseth: Military members ought not follow illegal orders.
Leftist Nick Fuentes is fueled by offshore “accounts.”
By state, the power of $100 in spending charted.
A new golf study suggests that ideological diversity tanks performance.
Sleep: The number one predictor of longevity and health, 7+ hours.
A deep dive into the ways Gen Z was shortchanged by college and other “experts” who failed to prepare them for workplace realities.
Font off! Dumping Calibri for Times New Roman?
Progressive: Instacart brings Liberal tax policies to consumer billing.
Pedos first: ICE is targeting the worst-of-the-worse is their claim.
Have leftists just accepted government schools as failure factories?
The criminal justice system is broken. Example. What one service can government deliver effectively - let alone efficiently?
16 of 50 states put health first and ban food welfare from funding junk food.
More research suggests that college majors is linked to political ideology. The question remains, reflection or cause?
More on the ambition gap - not sexism - that drops wages for women.
Flavor of the Year: Apparently it’s Black Currant.
Average 401(k) balances by age bands, here.
The Nobel Peace Prize Speech Maria Corina Machado would have given as an acceptance if she had been able to attend.
Mochado’s escape story, here.
Huh? Brooks argues for a revival of neocon arguments.
Austria says no to minors wearing “head scarfs.”
Outstanding! The U.S. State Department stops Iran’s elites from going to NYC to shop.
The science behind rage-bait.
A news anchor catches attention for reading hate comments - brilliant!
A reflection on how we are letting the internet ruin us via optimization.
9, 32, 66 and 83 - key neuro-pivot ages per research.
Conservatives are less prone to mental illness but more prone to conspiracy theories per this study.
Stanford study links COVID-19 vaccines with myocarditis.
Claim: 20% of knowledge job titles didn’t exist in 2000.
Yet another losing experiment for a universal basic income - none have yet “worked.”
Ivy league colleges are still filled with tax-funded racists scum bags apparently.
Charting the income needed in each state to be amongst the top 1 percent.
Pew breaks down U.S. teen use of social media in 2025, it ain’t good!
The lowest divorce rates: gay males. The highest, lesbians. The study provokes interesting considerations.
The history of planet names.
A deep-dive into the reality of drafting the most powerful 272 words in Western Civilization: The Gettysburg Address.
YouTube’s 2025 cultural trends here.
AI:
OpenAI claims that its tools save workers an hour a day.
A “state of play” on AI noted.
Wells Fargo going AI in 2026.
It thinks therefor it is: AI believes in many cases it is conscious.
Disney pledged $1 billion to OpenAI. Colorful slop coming soon.
AI toys have been documented to push inappropriate sexual topics and CCCP talking points at children. And they’re getting traction.
A world-wide market emerges for AI-powered scam-bots.
Time mocked for making AI the person of the year.
CHINA & RUSSIA:
China’s jets threaten U.S. allies in irresponsible show “of force.”
China continues to exploit our universities for espionage.
China’s exports to US drop yet trade surplus surges.
Unpacking Beijing’s win-the-future playbook.
Focused on biological weapons that might be deployed in an incredibly bespoke fashion.
Chinese telecom apparently paying the U.S. $1 billion over bribery allegations which seems like a form of bribery itself.
Unpacking Russia’s expansionist aggression.
America’s enemies are backing Nick Fuentes.
COURTS:
Listen to the audio in the U.S. v. Slaughter case. Hopefully SCOTUS kills the precedent of this “fourth branch” of government.
Some MSM commentary on the case.
Justice Jackson comes across as…well…retarded.
Gorsuch says what is obvious to everyone but Jackson.
Reflections on the issues of freedom of speech that entangle campaign finances that no one likes to think deeply about.
Can the Court fix Congress as one columnist advocates?
ECONOMY:
Bank CEO says consumers are “doing fine.”
Small businesses are souring.
Straight of college, earning $200,000. And yet, college grads don’t want these jobs.
The fastest shrinking job markets in the U.S. visualized.
JP Morgan: The biggest threat to U.S. National Security is our under qualified workforce. Thanks government schools. Again, not one thing that government has proven competent at (schools, healthcare, roads, military, etc.) Those who have the most “faith” in our society are advocates of government - because they lack evidence.
POLS BEHAVING BADLY:
Dems:
Leading Democrat proposal that different tax rates based upon skin color.
Another Democrat allegedly caught swindling the taxpayer.
Polling to construct the perfect Democrat candidate to Dem voters and that person would hike taxes and implement universal health care apparently.
The fraudsters of Minnesota kept a fair amount of their scam along with funding terrorism with it apparently.
BLM fraudsters caught.
700,000 illegals issued licenses via Democrats citing it was an “accident.”
Professor and former NPR “reporter” caught on tape.
Epstein pictures.
Reps:
Mass retirements hitting the U.S. House apparently.
Trump announced $12,000,000,000 for farmers in a give-away that U.S taxpayers cannot afford.
Records allege Trump has a history of mortgage fraud.
Rep Mace escalated a TSA situation per new report.
The unhinged rants continue.
Bondi’s DOJ failed a second time to get an indictment against James, who is apparently cleaner than a ham sandwich.
20 House Republicans voted for less rights for federal workers.
Epstein pictures.
TRAVEL:
Who loves a Christmas Parade? Bears apparently.
“Gender” research goes ideological and denies science. Sex deniers undermine credibility of the entire scientific community.
2025 NWF top photos of the year (very cute!)
The top 10 most annoying Christmas songs revealed and ranked.
Is the 20-year low in “mass shootings” related to policy changes?
The cost to build a new home by state is noted.
Tom Cruise's Acceptance Speech an excellent example of humility and gratitude:
