Overnight News: A peaceful devolution of government? Now that’s a Christmas miracle!

Parliamentary governments are incapable of sustained sanity. That’s why the CIA and the State Department install them, in the train of their wreckage, everywhere they go. It’s wonderful that the European Union has released the primordial Parliament from its foolishly self-inflicted bondage, but, sadly, there is no reason to suppose that Great Britain will come to be great again. Even so: Up your own organization! A free Britain at least can, someday, strive to do better.

Christmas Brutality: Christmas at the cemetery — with Bubba.”

In happier places:

Housing Wire: Merry Christmas: Mortgage rates reach another record low.

Karol Markowicz: Elite hypocrisy is killing small businesses.

Brendan O’Neill: Brexiteers, we did it. Don’t say Santa don’t come through.

American Thinker: What are the new SCOTUS justices thinking?

City Journal: Christmas in a Dark Time: Meaning and meaninglessness, and a year of trials.