INSTAPUNDIT: "Antisemitism is a mark of barbarity, and one can’t expect much from barbarians beyond more barbarity."

HEH: Massachusetts, the model for Obamacare, has highest health costs in the United States.

ObamaCare is a triumph of stupidity over experience.

SAN FRANCISCO bans all fireplace use during Christmas. Smoking marijuana and freezing in the dark are still permitted.

JUST IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED:

Mac's do support Windows.

I SUGGESTED earlier that Hillary's presidential aspirations are in trouble. Roger Kimball agrees.

NASA'S DEEP SPACE NETWORK (DSN) celebrates its 50th anniversary. It tracked (and still does) the Voyager 1 and 2 missions to Jupiter and Saturn when they launched in 1977.

POWERLINE: From Duck Dynasty to F**k Dynasty to Duck Responsibility.

Heh.

2013: the year in stupid. Hunter is wrong, I think, on one minor point: the illegals are employed; it's the citizens who prefer welfare who are unemployed.

FEDS SAY just one car out of 100 will be electric in 2040. Range and refueling are the killers, and neither is likely to be resolved in the forseeable future. Until they can be resolved, electrics will remain an urban niche market.

OBAMA MOVES to impose his vision of how we should live. The gist: Every 'community' should have it's fair share of thieves, thugs, druggies, pedophiles, and terrorists.

Except, of course, the ruling class....

HILLARY'S IN TROUBLE: the New York Times begins to revise Benghazi history.

Fox News isn't impressed.

I'M A VEGETARIAN because I don't believe in cruelty to animals.

Linked from PowerLine.

OBAMACARE: Everything is going sooo well.

SHILOH LAUNCH COMPLEX: Space Florida's plan to build a state-run launch complex on the environmentally sensitive fringes of Kennedy Space Center is ready for its federal and public vetting over possible environmental impacts.

It's interesting to note that the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge didn't exist until after the government started launching rockets from (then) Cape Canaveral. The original purpose of the refuge was as a buffer zone to keep housing and commerce away from the launch sites.

MINIMUM WAGE ACTIVIST: I want $15 per hour so I don’t have to work so much. The gist:

She’s looking for more money for less work. And that attitude, more than corporate profits or minimum wage laws, are to blame for her diminutive pay.

More cheese to go with the whine.

LIBERALS TO CONSERVATIVES: If you won't agree with us, you can't be allowed to speak.

They're panicking.

MORE NEW WORDS & PHRASES I'VE FOUND ONLINE:

DemocratCare
PotemkinCare
ObamaQueue
Hopium
Smokin' Hope
BarryCare

Liberalism is giving us a whole new lexicon.

VIRGINIA REP. FRANK WOLF retiring after 34 years. Wolf is my congresscritter. He's a reliable conservative, but still, it's past time for new blood.

POWERLINE: Ducks, Gays, and Mark Steyn.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. I just received my annual 'Summary Annual Report for Group Insurance Plans and Women's Health and Cancer Rights Notice' and I wonder (again) where my 'men's health and cancer rights' notice is....

THE PUSHBACK HAS BEGUN: Duck Dynasty Threatens The Left. And they're running scared....

HOW DO YOU SPELL 'HYPOCRITE'? President makes 'symbolic' enrollment in ObamaCare, picks least expensive plan.

Did he get a subsidy?