POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, Merry Christmas Edition has posted. My favorite:

Think about it ... then go see the rest.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Elizabeth Warren wants the federal government to start manufacturing ‘affordable’ prescription drugs.

Like 'affordable' ObamaCare? Like 'affordable' Medicaid? Like 'affordable' Medicare?

POWERLINE: Name that criminal defendant!

I am so old, I can remember when intelligence officials leaking top secret information to women they were sleeping with was frowned upon. At one time, the fear was that such women might be Russian spies. Now, it is reasonable to assume that they are Democrats.

But it's a Democrat, so no big deal.

WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS in Washington, D.C. Santa's reindeer have the right idea.

Linked from Whatfinger.

"THEY HATE YOU": Victor Davis Hanson explains the globalist mindset.

JORDAN PETERSON ON ‘BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE’: the Left is too P.C. to comprehend playful seduction. But "it gives activists who don’t have anything better to do something additionally useless to complain about and be annoying, so there’s always that."

I'd use the word 'stupid' but after all is said and done, 'P.C.' and 'stupid' are synonyms.

REP. LUIS GUTIERREZ (D-IL) berates ‘remorseless’ [Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen for six minutes and leaves before she can respond.

When he finished [berating her], Nielsen said his accusations of lying were "fighting words."

As she spoke, Gutierrez got up from his chair and left the chamber. Nielsen smiled and said, "He couldn't be bothered to stay, so I'm happy to tell the rest of the committee."

Morons like Gutierrez can't help making fools of themselves.

POLITICO: the unsufferable James Comey.

BREAKING: Government shuts down at midnight; sun still rises.

Democrats chagrined.