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?

POWERLINE'S WEEK YEAR IN PICTURES: Auld Lang Syne Edition. My favorite:

A WORLD GONE MAD:

Lefties can call you a “racist,” try to get you fired, or threaten you with violence. But are we men, or are we Pajama Boys? Here on the right, we are still men. (That includes our women, of course, most emphatically.) In reality, the leftists are almost always impotent to carry out their threats. And, if it comes to that, I am generally carrying; you should be, too. The Second Amendment defends the First. So screw them: we have a right to free speech, as long as we claim it, and use it.

So we must reclaim our free speech, use it, and use it aggressively.

YA' DON'T SAY: Popularity of 'Don't Tread on Me' plates in Virginia suggests Tea Party still strong. My wife and I have two of the 20,000 plus plates, and we've seen them on the highways in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.

CALLISTA GINGRICH: Remembering Our Patriots This Christmas.

YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

I love Christmas lights! They remind me of the people who voted for Obama...

They all hang together; half of them don't work and the ones that do aren't all that bright!

A Christmas card from my email.

APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUT JAMES LOVELL marks the 1968 Christmas broadcast to Earth from the Moon's orbit.

Here's the original broadcast:

VIRGINIA SEN. MARK WARNER: A pseudo-moderate flirts with moderation.

I watched Sen. Warner as well; he was not impressive. I hope the Republicans challenge him next year.

THE DELAY HAS BEEN DELAYED (AGAIN):

The Obama admininstration announced late Tuesday that people unable to obtain coverage by midnight through Healthcare.gov might still be able to get insurance by Jan. 1. The announcement comes after the administration already pushed back the enrollment deadline by a day.

Minnesota, one of the states running their own insurance exchanges, extended its Monday deadline to Dec. 31 amid problems with its website and extra-long hold times to reach its help center. Maryland pushed back its cutoff date to Dec. 27. New York extended its deadline to midnight Tuesday.

The collapse continues....

WE SHOULD "BOLDLY STAY" WHERE NO ONE HAS STAYED BEFORE. Six Reasons NASA Should Build a Research Base on the Moon.

OBAMA'S AVERAGE YEAR: worse than last year; better than next year.

MORE EXAMPLES of the Democrats' vaunted 'tolerance'.

NO MORE: 21 Things those '80s Kids' Did. And the 70's kids. And the 60's kids. And....

But no more.

THE FINE PRINT FOR OBAMACARE: State can seize your assets to pay for care after you’re forced into Medicaid by Obamacare. Forfeiture; it's not just for seniors any more.

HEH: Pajama Boy, take 2,052. To paraphrase Dan Rather, it's fake but accurate.

IT'S ALL PAUL RYAN'S FAULT I demanded cuts in veterans' benefits.

HORRORS! Secondhand smoke won't kill you. Not a welcome message to the environmental left, but common sense usually triumphs in the end.

IT'S EASIER TO BE YOUNG & STUPID when you're not facing be forced into ObamaCare.