GEE, THAT VETTING PROCESS worked really well, didn't it?

OBAMACARE: It's still too early to say 'death spiral', but the prognosis isn't encouraging.

AS IF OBAMA CARES: Palestinian terror kills another American.

BUT WILL HE USE IT TO PAY HIS TAXES? Thanks to Obama and de Blasio, Al Sharpton gives himself $170K raise.

A GREAT IDEA: Poland's foreign minister proposes forming army out of the Syrian men arriving in Europe.

But with a snowball's chance in hell of happening....

THE COLLEGE PROBLEM begins in high school. And is exacerbated when the students arrive in college.

FEDS TO STATES: You have no right to deny settlement services to Syrian refugees. States to Feds: You have no right to settle terrorists in our midst.

NAMING NAMES: So -- if we're going to erase politically incorrect history, shouldn't we at least be consistent?

SPACE-X authorized to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.

DESPITE LOST REVENUE, CVS executive says snuffing out cigarettes a 'good strategic decision’. Yes, pissing off a large minority of your customer base is always a good decision.

A COWBOY THANKSGIVING:

From PowerLines Thanksgiving Day in Pictures. Go see the rest.

PUNCHING BACK? Crimea goes dark after power lines from Ukraine cut.

D.C. MAYOR'S REASON FOR GUN-CONTROL: "I don't like guns." Never mind that Second Amendment to the Constitution thingy....

DUFFELBLOG: Pardoned White House Turkey Defects To ISIS. That was quick.

POLITICIZING THANKSGIVING: The DNC offers talking points; tongue-in-cheek, the Wall Street Journal responds.

BLOCKING OBAMACARE: In a shorter summary, the Obama administration is opposed to insider regulation and crony capitalism … unless it refers to their insiders and cronies.

QUIT WHINING and go to work (on Thanksgiving or whenever)!

IT'S THANKSGIVING:

TRIGGER WARNING: Top 10 Firearms Deals on Black Friday. My next purchase is going to be #3.

OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT rebukes whiny 'safe space' students: "This is not a day care. This is a university!"

Sit down and shut up!

STRANGE DAYS: I’m starting to miss Dubya.

It took seven years?

FIVE WAYS to survive Thanksgiving dinner sitting across from your sanctimonious left-wing relatives who studied the DNC talking points.

ANOTHER WAY: unleash your microaggressive 'trigger' cats.

HEH: “Throwing [other peoples'] money at the problem is not always the answer.”

BEYOND PARODY: Climate change summit as 'powerful rebuke' to ISIS.

GEORGIA SHERIFF: If 'God Bless' offends you, leave.

'AUDITORS': NASA not ready for dangers of deep space.

Meh. If we had today's health and safety nannies back in the early 60's, the Mercury astronauts would have never gotten off the ground.

UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: As exchanges falter, team Obamacare fights for an insurer bailout.

MORE LAME VIRTUE SIGNALING from President Faily McWorsethanCarter Obama.

So tell us what you really think....

GOOD FOR THEM: Lockheed Martin seeking out veterans for jobs.

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION keeps finding new ways to fail U.S. veterans.

OBAMA IS getting serious about ISIS.

DON'T PISS OFF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS: Environmental concerns prevented bombing of Islamic State oil wells. Environmentalists vote Democrat.

PRESIDENT OBAMA, meet Hasna Aitboulahcen.

HIS SMUG IS SHOWING: With Americans shaken by terrorism, Obama defaults to snide lecturing.

Lecturing (wrongly) is all he knows how to do.

BARACK OBAMA: The man our Founders warned us against.

TELL THESE PRIVILEGED TWITS to shut up and study for finals.

OBAMA’S SYRIAN REFUGEE DEBACLE: Characterizing Republicans as xenophobes won’t hide the fact that president’s foreign policy failures created refugee crisis.

SIXTEEN GOP HOUSE MEMBERS, all veterans, have signed onto a letter to members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, encouraging them to consult with lawyers before executing any presidential order to transfer Gitmo detainees to the U.S.

I would recommend consulting with a (constitutional) lawyer before executing any Presidential or Executive order.

OBAMACARE IS A JOB-KILLER: Here’s the proof.

Economics 101.

IS THERE ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T OFFEND OUR PRECIOUS LITTLE SNOWFLAKES? University suspends yoga class, citing 'cultural issues' that may offend students.

D.C.'S TOP COP: 'Take the gunmen out'. With what? Washington D.C. has the toughest anti-gun laws in the nation.

WASHINGTON POST: We only check facts from the other side.....

NORTH CAROLINA voluntary gun surrender event produces big results: one (1) BB pistol and one (1) hunting knife. On the bright side, almost 1000 liberals signed a 'pledge of non-violence' for the future.

I wonder if the signers know their addresses are in the phone book....

JEFF JACOBY: National Review at 60.

POWERLINE: Hitler learns about the 'poop swastika'.

CLASSROOM FIREPOWER: Ohio teachers now allowed to carry on campus.

A REMINDER: Trump and Sanders are only symptoms. Failed leadership is the disease.

I WAS WRONG about President Obama being in a bubble: he's in his 'safe space' instead. Poor little snowflake....

DOWN WITH WILSON, UP WITH CHE: Wimpy colleges surrender to lunatic fringe.

I think it's more accurate to say they are the lunatic fringe.

WITH LIBERALS, truth is optional (unless it supports their narrative).

'CAITLYN' JENNER, CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: disliked by the Right because he thinks he's a she; and by the Left because she's a Republican.

ADULT LEADERSHIP ON CAMPUS: “Anyone here five minutes from now won’t be here tomorrow.”

‘CULTURAL APPROPRIATION’ — the bugbear du jour. So as a white male I shouldn't be dining at a Mexican restaurant? Is Tex-Mex okay?

This is tribalism at its worst.

DEMOCRATS UNVEIL NEW STRATEGY: Take unpopular positions.

They want to elect new voters....

OBAMACARE INSURERS ARE SUFFERING. It won't end well.

PEW REPORT: With good public policies, self-deportation of illegal immigrants is feasible.

SO WHEN IS the million Muslim march on Mecca And Tehran?

400 MILLION YEARS AGO, cavemen must have done something really bad: Ancient Tropical Forest Found in Norway.

PUTIN IS BETTER AT PR THAN OBAMA: Putin cares whether people like his country.

JUST BEFORE PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT, Britain slashes wind & solar subsidies.

Unexpectedly ... (as usual).

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION wages war with the zeal of a sleepy llama.

Apologies to llamas everywhere....

I WONDER: Is there an academic who is not an invertebrate?

DAVID BROOKS(!?) on Obama, compassion, and the refugee crisis.

That perfect pants crease is wearing off....

NO CONFIDENCE: Disapproval of Obama’s handling of terrorism reaches 54%. It's not just about terrorism; it's about him. Here's his Rasmussen approval index for the last year:

The moron vote is steady at 25%, and has been that ever since the bloom came off the rose way back in 2009. Disapprovals were steady in the mid-30's until after the 2012 elections when they slowly but steadily began to rise. That rise has accelerated since June as the undecideds have begun to turn away.

For additional evidence, check out this electoral map. From personal experience, I can assure you that Virginia is - at least unofficially - colored red.

OBAMA AND KERRY: mistaking stupidity for cleverness. The complete article is here.

“YES, VIRGINIA, they are in that much trouble and even they know it.”

BEWARE OF Obama putting boots on the ground in Syria.

MISSOURI: Cowardice in action.

THE DEMOCRATS' NEW TAGLINE: "Miss me yet?" From the linked post, this statement:

I’m going to go ahead and assume that the Democrats are being intentionally dishonest, because the alternative is that they are incapable of intelligent thought.

Never assume malice when stupidity is an adequate explanation. It's a simpler version of Occam's Razor.

COLUMBIA STUDENT in anguish because she has to read books by white people. Even worse, dead white [men] people.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Nevada girl makes school pay after they denied her pro-life club.

HILLARY: Obama's prisoner.

REFUGEE HYPOCRISY? Christians deported amid DC debate on Syrians. In the current administration, sympathy is reserved for the terrorists, not the terrorized.

BYRON YORK: Obamacare death spiral a gift to 2016 GOP candidates.

But will they use it? Effectively? I'm not convinced.

WELCOME TO the Social Justice Warrior Entitlement Mob Tracker. Your single source for monitoring collegiate student stupidity.

'SCIENCE' ORGANIZATION'S LETTER condemming the Republicans' NOAA probe was written by an environmentalist.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is a 'political' science organization, not a real one.

ERICK ERICKSON: Make hashtag, not war. What wimps! I remember the 60's, when the cry was "Make love, not war." Back then it was physical on both sides of the comma.

WHAT HAPPENED to the Republican governors? I think perceived leadership qualities plus a coherent worldview will trump executive experience this election cycle.

LAWS AND “GUIDELINES” are for little people, not our Lord Protectors.

THIS SHOULD SET THE DEMOCRATS' PANTS ON FIRE: Rand Paul wants guns in D.C.

HEH: White Student Union proposed at the University of Illinois. As noted, it probably isn't real, but it is welcome evidence of someone(s) punching back.

Good for them.

CARLY FIORINA: This is a war we must wage and win.

PEAK OIL? NOT YET: Big new oil find in Gulf Of Mexico. And it's too late for the Obama administration to do anything about it....

FROM 14,000 FEET BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE ATLANTIC: Amazon CEO delivers historic NASA Moon rocket engines to Seattle Museum.

AFTERBURNER: How liberals cause terror attacks.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Planned Parenthood announces $20 million effort to defeat Republicans.

NON-MUSLIM TERRORISTS seize hotel in Mali and take hostages:

Terrorists having nothing to do with Islam, armed with AK-47s and hand grenades, screamed “Allahu akbar!” as they attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali. The non-Muslim terrorists have killed at least three people and are holding approximately 170 hostages. In an ecumenical gesture, the terrorists allowed hostages to leave if they were able to recite from the Quran.

Islam is a religion of peace. Hillary told me so.

CONFIRMED: 26 percent of men have “man periods”. But there's a solution....

"I CAN SEE Carly [Fiorina] as a war leader just fine."

TRUTH: We see it nearly every television commercial break.

NRA SLAMMED for not supporting law giving Attorney General arbitarary power to deny rights. As Instapundit noted, "The NRA is the only organization that's always blamed for crimes its members didn't commit."

WANT TO BE A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT? “Must be willing to accept a large salary and suck up to alumni. Advanced degree preferred. Gutless wimpery required.” For faculty and staff as well....

PERHAPS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT FIREWORKS HAD ALREADY BEEN BANNED? GQ editor confuses fireworks for mass shooting.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: My favorite:

There are many others. Go see them all.

HILLARY CLINTON: Muslims are ‘peaceful and tolerant’, have ‘nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism’.

R-i-i-i-ght.

UNIVERSITY GROUP hosts "White Privilege" retreat.

[T]he only way to build a stronger and inclusive university campus is to shame the white children into acknowledging they are personally responsible for every imaginable evil that has befallen the world – from global warming to that episode of “Happy Days” when Fonzie jumped over the shark.

Read the whole thing and see if you can figure out if there is any 'there' there.

GLOCK UNVEILS tiny pistol that is easy to hide.

More than adequate for the occasional terrorist....

A MODEST PROPOSAL for the microaggressive minions of the 'progressive' Left.

A REMINDER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA: the 'refujihadis' (refuge jihadis) who have already waged war on American soil.

NOT THAT IT MATTERS, but the Democrats held a presidential debate last Saturday. All three candidates lost.

FALLING DOWN DUMB: Blind girl denied use of cane in school because it's a tripping hazard. Just not for her.

RANDOM THOUGHT: It used to be that I thought Liberalism was all about control; now I'm leaning to thinking it's all about other people's money. (Or most likely both: controlling other people's money.)

SEATTLE: Fight the evil Koch Brothers with your neighbor's money!

AND NOW PRINCETON: "How long will it be before these various, misguided students simply demand the erasure of all of United States history so that nobody’s no snowflake's special feelings are hurt?"

SURPRISE! "Smart" guns aren't. They're an easy way to get killed.

THE PINK GUARDS: The rise of the teacup totalitarian.

Time to kick ass and take names....

REASSURING: Who are we letting out of prison?

If we must let them out, do it in Syria and let them ply their 'trade' there.

SO LET'S BLOCK SOMALI REFUGEES TOO: More Somali-Americans have traveled to join ISIS and Al-Shabab than any other ethnic minority.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: I demand to be protected by the very police I call murderers.

YA THINK? A lot of Americans think that Islam is at odds with their values.

Surprise, surprise....

PROGRESSIVE LOGIC: When we argue for the annihilation of terrorists, the terrorists win.

TOWERING ARROGANCE AND STAGGERING INCOMPETENCE: Our Bitter And Graceless President.

Peter Wehner is being kind.

MICROMANSIONS: Tiny, energy-efficient, homes are bucking the trend toward bigger and bigger houses.

Read and weep. I'm a Life Senior Member of the IEEE, and I'm sorry to say that the Institute has become just another social justice/environmentalism flack.

NASA CHIEF CHARLES BOLDEN: Government climate scientists won't be intimidated. But they might will be embarrassed.

MIKE ADAMS compares journalists to used car salesmen ... and journalists lose.

DISPATCHES from the education apocalypse. Grab your popcorn and enjoy.

THE ANSWER IS 'YES': "They can’t be this dumb, can they?"

OVERHAULING THE VA is the only chance to save it.

More than 200,000 U.S. veterans have died waiting for health care through the Veterans Administration (VA), according to new government documents.

Naturally, the federal government has decided to reward the people responsible. This month, a House committee revealed that the Department of Veterans Affairs handed out $142 million in bonuses in 2014, the same year the public learned that veterans on VA waiting lists had died.

Why is it so hard to understand that massive bureaucracies are (at best) venal, craven, and incompetent?

WHY NOT?

I understand the Lincoln bedroom is available....

TOWERING ARROGANCE & MONUMENTAL INCOMPETENCE: Obama gets really angry .... at Americans. Our Moron-in-Chief doesn't like being called out of his 'reality world' bubble....

ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN: Nation's largest insurer may exit ObamaCare due to losses.

Unexpectedly, of course. Funny how reality keeps intruding into the progressive 'reality world' bubble....

A PORTENT of things to come? Good news if true.

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION comes to America's college campuses. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

AMMO GRRRLL takes on America's precious snowflakes. Go and read it. Now.

POINT: Most Americans would welcome Syrian refugees living in their town.

COUNTERPOINT: Majority do not want U.S. to accept Syrian refugees in wake of Paris attacks.

Who do you believe?

AND FINALLY, Al Qaeda terrorists entered U.S. through refugee program.

All three of these posts are on the same page at the Washington Free Beacon.

UPDATE: And in the news this morning, France PM says Paris attacks ringleader used migrant crisis to get into country.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION responds to Syrian crisis.

More here.

NOT GOOD: My life with a transgender husband.

As I've said before, there are two sexes and one gender - crazy.

PAUL GREENBERG: The farce continues.

THOMAS SOWELL on the economics of poverty and inequality.

ANDREW KLAVAN: The narrative vs. the reality.

For the left to accept that the precepts of Islam may not be reconcilable with western values would be for them to accept that multi-culturalism is wrong, that the moral relativism that underpins multi-culturalism is wrong, that the values of the west, which they have disparaged so long, are not, in fact, values at all but morals — the human expression of an objective moral order — and that that moral order was discovered in the west through the grace of (eek!) a religion not to be named, and that that religion comes closer to the moral truth than Islam and indeed maybe closer to the moral truth than any other religion, which in turn raises the possibility that that religion (not to be named) is actually a true religion...

Too bitter a pill for the Left to swallow.

"I COMPARED my ObamaCare options to my current plan, and surprise, surprise ... ObamaCare lost."

Oddly enough, I'm (almost) grateful I'm qualified for Medicare, since it's still pretty much the old-style catastrophic insurance indemnity plan I want, and (I assume) ObamaCare-compliant (though I didn't check to see if it offered free contraception and abortion coverage).

Since it's also open enrollment for 2016 Medicare, I've been looking at the Medigap, Medicare Advantage, and Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage) plans, and my initial assessment is that they are typical ObamaCare: overpriced and underperforming.

IN MOCKING REPUBLICANS, President Obama reveals how little he understands our enemy.

BUT, BUT ... IT'S A REPUBLICAN LAW: Attorney General Loretta Lynch ducks question on enforcing sanctuary cities law.

SPACEPORT AMERICA now open for business.

UNDER OBAMA, America is the JayVee team.

Heh.

THEY'RE NOT IN HIS 'REALITY WORLD' BUBBLE: Obama won’t read intelligence on groups he doesn’t consider terrorists.

THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A ONE PERCENT: But one percent of nothing is still nothing. Read/watch and weep.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GUNS, it's best not to display your ignorance in public.

THOMAS SOWELL: Random Thoughts.

BEN CARSON and the Democrats' 'War on God'.

SERIOUSLY: the greatest energy chart ever.

SCIENCE: Why the plume of Enceladus is surprising NASA scientists.

A TOUGH VOTE:

Perhaps Martin O'Malley?

IF ANYTHING NEEDS FIXING, it's our governing class contempt for the electorate. While the article is specifically directed toward Jeb Bush's "Mr. Fix-It" ads, it applies to our ruling class as a whole.

MAKING THE SEASON JOYFUL MISERABLE: Government tries to kill holidays, while its regulations kill people.

JUST SAY 'NO' TO WINDOWS 10: Microsoft confirms unstoppable Windows 10 tracking.

THE BOTTOMLESS IGNORANCE of Barack Obama. 'Bottomless' is correct; every time I believe he can't possibly be any more ignorant, he proves me wrong.

I should know better; he's the product of an elite education.

LEAKED MEMO shows Obama is actively planning to circumvent a federal court injunction that suspended part of last November’s deferral-based amnesty initiative.

He believes his empire knows no boundaries.

GOOD ADVICE: First, you stop the bleeding.

NASA: Mars’ moon Phobos is slowly falling apart. So when will the Obama administration call for an emergency program to rebuild Martian infrastructure?

NOTE TO MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: "...sweat is colorblind."

PROJECT AMERICA RUN II: One Life, One Flag, One Mile.

LATE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: PowerLine's Week in Pictures, Missouri loves company edition. Two favorites this week:

I had a hard time choosing this week. Go and see the rest.

AMMO GRRRLL ON RED STATE/BLUE STATE: "What say we take back Blue and make the electoral map into another swimming pool? And begin the Long Slow March back to e pluribus unum."

THE NEW IVORY TOWER: not worth the price of admission.

Kiddie college.

'GENERATION TANTRUM' goes quiet when actual evil strikes.

IT'S OVER; the leaves have dropped.

My last picture is here.

GUESS WHAT? You're not actually a hero. More likely, you're an idiot.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM: Black Lives protesters say Paris attacks took spotlight.

Tough shit.

RELATED: Mizzou students explain ....

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION lays ground for crony capitalism.

Crony capitalism is just another term for government control.

MY WIFE AND I returned to our house to find the telephone knocked off the hook and cat vomit on the handset. My wife's response? "Obama must have called."

IT'S TIME to quit explaining and start shooting: "Fanaticism needs no rationalizations for murder."

A GOOD START: House moves to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen. It won't happen, of course, but I'm pleased to see the Republicans try.

HIGH OBAMACARE DEDUCTIBLES make mandated insurance practically useless. What ObamaCare has morphed into is what my parents called catastrophic (hospitalization) insurance at 10 times (or more) the cost back then (in constant dollars).

(RELATED): COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE is a comprehensive mistake.

And for that matter, so is comprehensive immigration reform.

THE S.S. ST. LOUIS, common sense, and Obama. To paraphrase a bumper sticker from years past, in the Obama administration (and progressives generally), common sense isn't.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Two terror suspects killed, 7 arrested in raid targeting Paris attack mastermind.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on safe spaces.

Our colleges and universities are 'graduating' a new generation of welfare recipients because no employer in his right mind would ever hire one of these precious little snowflakes.

OBAMA: I'm thinking I'll spend my last year in office focused on gun control. If he meant ISIS/ISIL I'd be all for him. Unfortunately that jackass means our Second Amendment.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The University Gone Feral: "[F]ascist, authoritarian, infantile — and incompetent."

A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE, and pretty soon you're talking real money. (With apologies to Sen. Everett Dirksen.)

AND YOU THOUGHT cats are useless. Can your dog do this?

OBAMACARE UPDATE: New York’s biggest ObamaCare co-op goes broke.

Unexpectedly.

AND HERE WE SEE THE YOUNG POLICE CAR, hunting for the first time without its mother.

CARLY strikes back.

IT LOOKS like it's nearly over for 2015. Because of our impending move, I've been remiss in my usual weekly photo shoot.

The color changes were indeed spectacular this year, but the peak occurred between this photo and the one from last Monday.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: The conservative-media revolution has forced the liberal media to abandon any pretense of objectivity.

OBAMACARE IS DEAD: It doesn’t work because it couldn’t work.

HEH: "Obama never tires of reminding us that he is a very small man occupying a very large office."

90 DAYS OUT: How are the Republican candidates doing?

IN SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP:

For decades, conservative intellectuals have upbraided their liberal counterparts for the latter's presumption that average people are basically stupid (and thus need government programs to guide them through life). Ironically, it is now conservative intellectuals who seem to think that average conservatives who support Trump must be basically stupid. What it shows is that intellectuals of both parties are hopelessly out of touch with reality.

Truer words have never been written.

WE ALREADY HAVE: Could America Elect a Mentally Ill President?

And the current one isn't taking his meds....

BILL GATES: Proof that you can be both rich and stupid.

HILLARY CLINTON cannot tell the truth.

WITH MORE TO COME: Nearly Half of ObamaCare Co-Ops Have Failed. But they work just fine in the progressive 'reality' world, where rainbows and unicorns abound and everyone is healthy, happy, and above average.

CATS ARE NEUROTIC, and yes, they want to kill you.

KILL 'EM ALL, and let God sort them out. My sentiments as well.

DRIVING WHILE BLACK: A Survival Guide. It's the same guide I use driving while white.

IT'S WAR: Feminists versus dudes in skirts. Real women don't seem to care.

Heh.

LIES UPON LIES: The sad state of the movie 'Truth'.

NO, IT'S NOT THE ONION: Students in California school district now guaranteed ‘C’ grades for doing nothing.

Progressives run amok....