END OF THE LINE FOR THE LEAD BULLET? Regulations, bans force switch to 'green' ammo.

Contrary to the alarums from the Right, this is not a grand Obama gun-control ploy; it is simply an economic decision resulting (a) from EPA overregulation and (b) environmental (over)activism.

ANN COULTER: Mental Health Laws are Trouble for Democrats. Institutionalizing your voting base is not a way to maintain power....

The larger question is one Coulter hints at, but is never properly addressed: Why don't the Republicans fight back?

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Pajama Boy Encore Edition. But this is my favorite:

FEDERAL EXPRESS ON DRONES: Beer and pizza, but not much more. (At least for the forseeable future.)

WHY DUCK DYNASTY MATTERS: "Is tolerance just a one-way street now? And if it’s a one-way street, is it really tolerance at all?"

INSTAVISION: What if they had socialism and nobody signed up? Watch as Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus discuss great Obamacare mystery - why are conservative groups not suing?

PowerLine comments.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS from the NSA.

WE'RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND HERE TO HELP YOU: Stuck in the 'safety' net.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS TO SEN. HARRY REID: Pound sand.

Related article here.

SO SANTA CAN DELIVER THE BAD NEWS CHRISTMAS DAY: ObamaCare enrollment deadline extended until Christmas Eve.

RELATED: Panic time.

IT’S TIME to write the rules of cyberwar.

ON MSNBC, NO LESS: Watch Morning Joe rip a new hole in Pajama Boy's onesie.

MORE: an insufferable man-child.

MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY, ER, SOMETHING OR OTHER from the White House.

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS from the retirement lane: A baby helmet?

Seen at breakfast this morning, an infant in a carry seat wearing a blue helmet covering most of the head. Was this a child with a medical condition, or just the latest in metrosexual infant care?

I'd like to believe the former, but I suspect the latter.

WASHINGTON STATE LAWMAKER calls Arizona 'racist wasteland'. If you're of the Left, everything has a racial component.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Pajama Boy Nation. The picture says it all, but here are some best quotes:

On Obama as Pajama Boy:

He is an arugula-eating man of the people who tries to bowl only during election season. Michelle rags on the 1%, but still hits Costa del Sol and Aspen. Obamacare for us; for congressional staffers and insiders something quite different. A Nobel Prize and a half a billion dollars for guru Al Gore; and dumping Current TV on a fossil-fuelled, anti-Semitic authoritarian Middle Eastern regime to fund more good work of our green Elmer Gantry. Amnesty for illegal aliens, but private academies for liberal kids far from the ensuing chaos of the public schools. Pajama Boys are fiercely liberal so that they can fiercely avoid the people they so champion and are so afraid to live among.

On the rest of us:

Millions are sick of being lectured, caricatured, and slandered for their supposed pathologies by the Sandra Flukes of the age and those in their pajamas who still grasp with two hands their hot chocolate. Add all their annoying Stalinist efforts up — to selectively going after Chick-fil-A or the Washington Redskins or Duck Dynasty — and the public is becoming tired of the shrill nerdocracy.

Read it all.

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS from the retirement lane. On the drive up to Connecticut for Christmas, I note that New York state no longer has rest stops along the interstate highways -- they have 'text stops'.