VIDEO: Subbing For O’Reilly, Guest Host Greg Gutfeld Brings On Dana Perino To Talk Media Fawning Over Obama.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE TIED TO A GENE MUTATION THAT HOBBLES IMMUNE RESPONSE: “The mutation is suspected of interfering with the brain’s ability to prevent the buildup of plaque. . . . The discovery also suggests that a new type of drug could be developed to enhance the gene’s activity, perhaps allowing the brain’s white blood cells to do their work.”

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HOW’S THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): IAEA: Iran ready to sharply increase nuclear work.

THOMAS MERRILL ON “FEAR OF FRACKING.” It’s sad that so many Americans are dominated by unscientific worries.

WELL, GIVEN HOW THE GOP SUPER-PACS DID IN THIS ELECTION, THAT PRETTY MUCH GUARANTEES NOTHING WILL HAPPEN: New GOP Super-Pac Pushes Immigration Reform.

Anyway, what Obama’s doing to the U.S. economy will do more to stanch immigration from Mexico than any border fence.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Maker of Airport Body Scanners Suspected of Falsifying Software Tests.

JIM TREACHER: Lefties can’t learn what happens when they boycott businesses, fortunately for Papa John’s. Plus, “If this is anything like the Chick-fil-A Buycott, and you want Papa John’s for dinner, you’d better get your order in now.”

STONEWALL CRACKING? Claims that FBI protocol kept the White House from being informed about the Petraeus affair are demonstrably false.

THAT DIDN’T WORK OUT SO WELL FOR GEN. PETRAEUS AND HIS BIOGRAPHER: House GOP: Obama officials using secret emails to avoid oversight. “The evidence of officials’ efforts to evade transparency laws includes EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s use of the fake name ‘Richard Windsor’, and hidden e-mail accounts, according to a Nov. 16 letter sent by the committee to several White House officials, including Jackson.”

ON BENGHAZI: “Of course Obama knew.” “How do we know this? First, the New York Times offered a remarkably accurate report of the attack on September 12. A report that surely came from inside sources.” Does Susan Rice read the New York Times?

#NARRATIVEFAIL: Richard Trumka Bashes Hostess As ‘Bain-Style Wall Street Vultures.’

But there’s a problem, Dick:

And here comes the Hostess twist: because Tim Collins of Ripplewood, was a prominent Democrat, a position which allowed him to get involved in the first bankruptcy process in the first place, due to his proximity with the Teamsters’ long-term heartthrob Dick Gephardt (whose consulting group just happens to also be an equity owner of Hostess). In other words, the traditional republican-cum-PE scapegoating strategy here will be a tough one to pull off since the narrative collapses when considering that it was a Democrat who rescued the firm, only to see it implode in a trainwreck that has resulted in the liquidation of a legendary brand, and 18,500 layoffs.

But it only gets better. Because the full cast of characters involved here is quite stunning.

Read the whole thing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Are You A Nag? 9 Signs The Answer Is ‘Yes.’

APPARENTLY, WE’RE A MORE PRECOCIOUS SPECIES THAN I HAD REALIZED: Human Ancestors Made Deadly Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago. “Human ancestors were fashioning sophisticated hunting weapons half a million years ago. An analysis of stone points from a site in South Africa called Kathu Pan 1 indicates that they were attached to shafts of wood and used as spears. The finding pushes the earliest appearance of hafted multicomponent tools back by some 200,000 years.”

HMM: Jill Kelley, “Socialite” Who Brought Down Petraeus, visited, dined at White House three times this year.

I WOULD HAVE GONE WITH KAKISTOCRACY. Oxford chooses ‘omnishambles’ as word of the year.

IT’S LIKE THELMA AND LOUISE BUT WITHOUT A COOL CAR: Senate Democrats Starting To Like The Idea of Going Over the “Fiscal Cliff.”

But, hey, I’ve got some tax increases to throw into the mix!

UPDATE: “If We Want Millionaires to Pay More Taxes, We Need More Millionaires.”

SLAMMING THE FAINTING FEMALE FLOWERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Boom! Rachel Campos-Duffy thanks Dem congresswomen for ‘setting us back 60 years’; Update: Kirsten Powers tells Dem women, ‘GROW UP.’

WHEN TERROR WORKS: Facing death wishes, Kim Kardashian deletes pro-Israel tweet.

EYETRACKING SHOWS iPad Mini an Attention Sink.

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WILL SMARTPHONES stop people from skipping TV ads? Of course, they’re not skipping them — but are they listening? This suggests that they may be, but I’m skeptical.

IN CHINA, flying high to beat traffic.

STATEN ISLANDER: Where Is FEMA?

I, PENCIL: The Movie.