Why are my taxpayer dollars funding this crap? Sesame Street Muppet Promotes Government Entitlement Programs. "A “food insecure” Muppet is helping to promote a national “Food for Thought” campaign that teaches poor families to seek out nutritious food and to eat on the taxpayers’ tab."

Just remember that Democrats control the Senate: Dems' payroll tax cut extension goes down again in Senate

Utter incompetence:

The drudge headlines:
Obama celebrates Hanukkah at White House...
TWO WEEKS EARLY?
LIGHTS ALL THE CANDLES...
'We Never Need an Excuse For a Good Party'...

Creative Minority Report: Perry: End Obama's War on Religion

Via moonbattery:

The Huffington Post: House Passes Bill To Grant Congress Veto Power Over White House Rules

ABC News: Run away! Run Away! Voters Flee Democratic Party in Key Swing States. "President Obama's uphill battle to re-election is getting steeper.  —  A report released today by the centrist think-tank Third Way showed that more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled the Democratic Party since Obama won election in 2008."

If this were Sarah Palin liberals would insist she was too stupid for the job: Elizabeth Warren Flubs Red Sox Question Along With Rest Of Democratic Field. "Super-liberal Elizabeth Warren wants to be U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and she has no idea when the Red Sox won the World Series? I bet if she was asked what year Saul Alinsky wrote "Rules For Radicals" she'd be able to answer. (It was 1971.)"

BreitbartTV: Jesse Watters Ambushes RI Governor Over ‘Holiday Tree’. Christmas is an official federal holiday. The others are not. Nuff said.

In Wisconsin,Gov Walker overturned a few decades of stupidity by calling the Christmas tree a Christmas tree.

War on Christmas news (cont'd). Gateway Pundit: Oh Good Grief… Skeleton, Dressed as Santa Claus, Nailed to a Cross Removed from Christmas Display (Video)

Pirate's Cove: Babs Boxer: You Climate Realists Are Killing Mankind

i Own The World: Another Completely Asinine PETA Ad. Nothing new to see here really.

Economic diversity. Doug Ross: 'Income Inequality' is just another form of diversity: so why do liberals hate diversity?

Care Diem: Steve Hayward: America's Vast Energy Resources. A resource untapped is no resource.

Related over at Marathon Pundit: Report from the bloggers' conference call with Sen. Barrasso on building the Keystone XL pipeline and jobs 

Atlas Shrugs: Fifth Circuit: Holy Land Foundation convictions upheld on appeal: CAIR, ISNA, MAS, MSA et al Must be Prosecuted by DoJ

Even the Detroit Free Press can no longer take the ineptitude in Detroit: It's up to city: Fix finances or face manager

Detroit NEAP scores the worst in the nation. The spin? Detroit Free Press: Detroit schools climb slightly in NAEP test scores. A few years ago the Detroit Lions were 0-16.The next season they were 2-14. An improvement in the strict sense of the word, but one that was unavoidable and could almost have been had by chance alone. Same thing with Detroit scores.

Culture of corruption (cont'd): Ex-chief of Oakland County Democratic Party gets probation for fake tea party scheme. "A former chairman of the Oakland County Democratic Party was sentenced to one-year probation, 180 hours of community service and $1,965 in fines Wednesday for his role in a fake Tea Party during the 2010 election."

More corruption, in this case the fleecing of taxpayers: Group: 40 Wayne County retirees make $100K or more in pensions. "Forty ex-employees retired with annual pensions of more than $100,000, according to a report released today by a national taxpayer’s right group."