CHRISTMAS 2015 GIFT PACK:

A full dozen. Pre-order now.

ANGELS AMONG US: Anonymous donor gives $1M to families of slain NYPD officers.

The donor is apparently from Hong Kong....

THE MORE 'FREE STUFF' the Liberals give us, the poorer we become.

When everything is free, we'll all live in poverty.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: arms are for hugging edition. Here's my favorite:

Check out the rest.

SO CLOSE: some photos of the Falcon 9's barge landing attempt.

ANOTHER CASE of so close and yet so far.

AMMO GRRRLL on those 'folks' President Obama is so solicitous of.

ADDED: it just dawned on me why listening to Obama is akin to listening to fingernails on chalkboard. 'Folks' are family. Usually senior family, like parents and grandparents, but always family.

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS: up close and personal:

I'll be going in to see it soon.

THE MOST OPEN AND TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER: EPA faces internal review over scrubbed text messages.

Little people shouldn't know what's going on behind the curtain in the land of Oz Obama.

THE NEXT BIG THING: drone selfies. Take your dog drone for a walk.

IT'LL BE EIGHT LONG YEARS....

... but our cartoon administration may be coming to an end. Let's just hope the end is with a whimper and not with a bang.

SO WHERE'S OUR FENCE?

Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile ”Great Wall” along its border with Iraq. The barrier will consist of not two, but five layers of fencing, along with ditches, berms, radar, night-vision cameras, and watch towers. In addition, up to 30,000 troops will be deployed along the barrier.

Ours is still mired in the swamp of political correctness.

ONE HELLUVA WAY TO BUILD A CHAIR: Autonomous Modules Self-Assemble in Air and Water.

THIS WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK — on the working people of Boston, by non-working blow-in drifters, losers and knuckleheads.

A NEW - AND OLD - CHALLENGE: How far should a tolerant society tolerate intolerance?

HOW TO PARALLEL PARK: It does require a wee bit of practice.

NO. NEXT QUESTION. Does the Democrat party have a future?

If it's true that the political spectrum is circular, it won't be much longer before the Democrats become the far Right party (and the Republicans, center Left).