Khristy Kreme “Gate” Chris Christie and the IRS Contrast the Governor's contrition with Obama's lack thereof Wall Street Journal | Washington Post (Full Transcript) | National Review

● “I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, its planning or its execution... I haven't had a lot of sleep the last two nights, and I've been doing a lot of soul-searching.”Washington Post (Full Transcript)

● “Rookie! Can't Even Hide a Traffic Jam Scandal”National Review (Slide Show)

Image: Chris Christie: The Boss - Master of Disaster (Time Cover) / Netflix Lilyhammer

He Would Look Just Like ME - Would MSNBC panel make fun of Romney photo with black grandchild if? CNN | Daily Mail

● MSNBC panel makes fun of Romney photo with black grandchildCNN

● Outrage as MSNBC anchors joke about Mitt Romney's adopted black grandson pictured on his knee in family Christmas photoDaily Mail

Photo: MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry (pictured) led guests in a segment that ridiculed a Christmas photo of the extensive Romney family (inset) and its single black member, a baby.

No One Told Me: “This is going to be like shopping on amazon or Travelocity” Free Beacon

● Obama flubs during health care conference call with community organizers, claims “more than 100 MILLION Americans” have enrolledDaily Mail

“Pinocchio Test”Washington Post | Health Care for the Holidays BarackObama.com

Lie of the Year: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” Politifact | CBS News | CNN | Washington Post

● Obama's “keep your plan” promise labeled “Lie of the Year”CBS News

● And the top lie of 2013 goes to...1 - Obama: “If you like your plan; You can keep your plan”CNN

● “Lie of the year”Washington Post

Image: “Olfr Prize:” From “Alfr” Nobel Peace Price to “Olfr” Lie of the Year, “You can keep your plan if you like it”

The Surfers Christmas from Hawaii - No Negotions in 2014 Full transcript: President Obama’s December 20 news conference Washington Post / The Surfers Christmas from Hawaii

● President Obama breaks from family Christmas and golf to visit military families with wife MichelleDaily Mail

SantaBama's Big Surprise - A Health Insurance E-Card Washington Post / Associated Press

Healthcare.gov November 30th Deadline II: “In the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage” Daily Mail / Bret Baier Fox News

Bigfoot Sightings: Socialism Does Not Work in France nor U.S. - French President Francois Hollande (Big Foot in the Mouth in Chief) France24

● Francois Hollande At The White House: ”You Love The French, But You Don’t Always Say So Because You Are Shy”Business Insider

What's Up Doc? - The Stunning Thing Obama’s Former Bodyman Claims the President Did During Day of Bin Laden Raid The Blaze

How Can We Believe our President, Who would not Go into Libya to save our Diplomat and People at our Embassy in Benghazi, to Successfully Go Into Syria? - Nancy Pelosi on Syria: “We must respond” - We’ll Have to Pass the Bombing to Find Out What Is In It San Francisco Chronicle | Washington Post | Daily Mail | Wall Street Journal | RT (Russia Today) | BBC | Guardian | Foreign Policy | The Hill | John Batchelor

Do they not realize what would be the unintended consequences of a slight miscalculation of one bomb hitting Russian troops in Syria, or Sarin gas stored in the towns and cities of Syria?

● Kerry: Arab countries offered to pay for invasion Washington Post

● Obama says he didn’t draw the “red line on Syria”, world did Weekly Standard

● Senator John McCain playing POKER during crucial Senate hearing about military action in Syria - Last-minute moment of indecision behind President's U-turn on attacking SyriaDaily Mail

● Official: White House seeks Syria response “just muscular enough not to get mocked” • General Dempsey: Syria no-fly zone could cost U.S. $1B per month with risks of U.S. aircraft shot downThe Hill

Image: French President wooden puppet (Daily Mail) G8 heads on warship (Financial Times) Pelosi: "We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It"

TODAY's most important on President Obama's agenda - Not Middle East, nor NSA Government surveillance, nor IRS scandalss, nor Federal Budget, but the "Obama Bus Tour" on College Tuition as college semester is beginning New York Times | NPR | Wall Street Journal

● Obama Calls For College Affordability On Bus TourNPR

● Obama Wants College Aid Tied to Rating SystemWall Street Journal

Image: School bus leaving from the White House on the Obama Bus Tour.

Barack the Lawgiver (Obama sees the Constitution’s separation of powers as a quaint anachroni) National Review

At stake is not some constitutional curlicue. At stake is whether the laws are the law. And whether presidents get to write their own.National Review, 123rf, Getty

President to the vineyards, Congress to vacation and the Country goes to the dogs Daily Mail | Christian Science Monitor | New York Times | MSNBC | John Batchelor

No wonder they are smiling! The Obamas jet off to $7.6MILLION Martha's Vineyard vacation home complete with ocean views, infinity pool, basketball courts (and a guest house for secret service agents)Daily Mail

● Obama on the Vineyard, redux: why presidential vacations stir up a furorChristian Science Monitor

● Obama Offers Plan Meant to Ease Concerns on SurveillanceNew York Times

● Obama heads for vacation. Cue the right-wing outrageMSNBC

● Analysis: Senator Obama vs. President ObamaJohn Batchelor

21 Ways Rich People Think Differently

“The average person has been brainwashed to believe rich people are lucky or dishonest”.

Business Insider  Story by: From Steve Siebold, author of “How Rich People Think”  Photo: TV Guide

Companies Are Tracking Your Every Keystroke When You Fill Out An Online Job Application Business Insider Australia

Photo: Gregory Tonon (Flickr)

Long Known: Terrorists pay cash for disposable “throw-away” phones and the National Security Agency (NSA) has been gathering telegraph records and spied on purely domestic communications from 1945 through the 1970s.

Recent Known: Boundless NSA secret tool to track global surveillance data - “No Warrent Needed” in which The IRS has selectively harassed the public, and with the IRS politicized with sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents “empowered to enforce” the new health care legislation - the “Big Government” approach has lost all credibility and betrayed the American trust.

Then we have politicians making excuses on interpretations of the law and answers, given to their questioners. (5:38 mark)

Department of Homeland Security.gov / History Commons.org / Guardian / CBS News / Politifact / ABC News  Image: The decline of America's institutions, and the related rise in red tape that hinders business, may spell the nation's economic doom. Harvard's Niall Ferguson talks to WSJ's Charles Forelle about the theory outlined in his new book “The Great Degeneration”. Wall Street Journal

Incompetence or Evil? (Obama's Trifecta: Justice Department secretly obtained AP phone records, IRS Used Sweeping Criteria to Scrutinize Conservative Groups and Benghazi Cover-Up) John Batchelor

● In IRS scandal, echoes of Watergate - 40 Years Ago This WeekWashington Post

John Batchelor  Guests: Tom Joscelyn, Bill Roggio, FDD; Lara Brown, Villanova University, Mona Charen, NRO; Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.  Photo: President Obama, Secretary Clinton, Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Attorney General Eric Holder, IRS on Conservative Groups | A look back at Watergate - President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation.

Tsarnaev case exposes faults in both state and federal welfare

The Tsarnaev family received $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance - ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing Boston Herald

Photo: FBI, Boston Police and Massachusetts State Police - Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an infant with his parents and an unidentified relative, right. (Provided to ABC News by Patemat Sulemanova).

Congress Quickly And Quietly Rolls Back Insider Trading Rules For Itself and President Obama Signed it Into Law.

Tech Dirt  Story by: Mike Masnick  Image: Congress Legalizes Insider Trading For Congress. Sodahead

Dubiously Disabled

Our compassion is being stolen, one parking space, one wheelchair, and one check at a time.National Review

● Long Lines Lead to Rise of Wheelchair “Miracles”Wall Street Journal