Critics of the scandal-ridden Veterans Affairs department demand a housecleaning. And, indeed, more than 1,700 employees were fired between July 2014 and July 2015. But it's alarming how some kept their jobs despite severe cases of misconduct -- including sleeping on the job, having sex in a VA facility and being high on cocaine while on duty.

TIME magazine has announced that German chancellor Angela Merkel is its 2015 Person of the Year. In this foolish annual exercise to supposedly recognize a global figure of influence, she was picked from a list of finalists that included sex-changer Caitlyn Jenner,  madman Donald Trump and ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

While families in San Bernardino mourned the loss of 14 loved ones by an Islamic terrorist couple, Secretary of State John Kerry sat in U.N. climate change talks in Paris profoundly asserting the need to make clear "that those members of the flat earth society (who dispute global warming theory) are on the wrong side of history."