"I'LL GIVE HIM CREDIT: [H]e's coming up with new ways to make me embarrassed for my country."

REP. ALAN GRAYSON (D-FL) swindled out of $18 million. Couldn't happen to a nicer jerk.

UPDATE: Instapundit comments: "Well, he fell for ObamaCare so he's obviously gullible."

ANOTHER REASON to study mathematics.

POWERLINE"S WEEK IN PICTURES, media overdrive edition. My favorite:

THE JOLLY HOLIDAYS CAROLING COMPANY: 'Twelve Days of ObamaCare'.

IN LUNACY, VERITAS.

TOM BLUMER: Nobody's This Stupid and Incompetent. I wish; I'm afraid we've only seen the beginning.

NEVER FORGET: December 7, 1941.

DOES A CHIMPANZEE deserve to be called a ‘person'? I should think a more relevant question to be addressed by the "Personhood Beyond the Human" conference should be "Does a progressive deserve to be called a 'person'?"

HEH: A Pearl Harbor Day ouch. But FDR was a competent Democrat.

72 YEARS LATER: Remembering Pearl Harbor.

More here.

TEAM OBAMA’S ‘Underpants Gnome’ theory of economics.

Makes perfect (non)sense.

YESTERDAY I wondered how many ObamaCare enrollees have actually paid up. Here's the answer:

Picture via PowerLine.

HARD TO BELIEVE: Even Californians disapproving of Obama.

Pre-Christmas miracle.

FINALLY: End presidential term limits. A bit late, this; I was expecting it last January, just after Obama's second inauguration.

Linked from here.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE is supposed to work for America, not for Big Green.

To be fair, NPS doesn't work just for 'Big Green' -- as nanny-staters, they're also in it for themselves and the control they can exert on the 'little people' entering their fiefdoms. "We'll (just barely) let you look, but don't touch anything, don't step off the path, and whatever else you do, don't look behind the curtain!"

FIGURES DON'T LIE: There is no poverty in America. Unless, of course, a very large percentage of that $1 trillion is siphoned off by our ruling controlling class. Which it is.

IF IT’S WRONG TO USE slavery as a metaphor, what about all those SEIU types going on about “slave wages?”

GO TO MARS, get hit by a comet.

A SHORT COURSE on driving in Russia.



Only for those with nerves of steel and loaded up on vodka.