I hope everyone had a very happy Christmas.

No holidays for the bad guys, though, as a Nigerian man tries to blow up an airliner preparing to land in Detroit. Fortunately, it seems these Al Qaeda guys and their disciples lost their smartest members on 9/11, as this moron, like Richard Reid before him, didn't know how to make a proper bomb. Also in the plus column, passengers these days know that no one will defend them, they must defend themselves, which some did by jumping on and subduing the terrorist.

It used to be that Hollywood made war pictures that extolled the virtues of courageous and patriotic young Americans taking on their evil foes and destroying them, thus saving the world from the darkness of tyranny. Not anymore, of course. But the market for such stuff still exists, and it is video games that are filling the need, and making huge money for their creators.

Daniel Henninger says Obama may be a supernova, a star that burns very brightly for a brief time, then fades away.

Anthropogenic global warming is a farce.