Medical researchers say someone on the earth now living is likely to reach the age of 1,000 years old. That's the good news. The bad news is: it's Harry Reid.

The Nevada senator has been in a nasty humor since he lost his majority leader post in the last election and later acquired some ugly bruises on his face. Reid blamed them on an exercising accident in his bathroom and denied Rush Limbaugh's charge that he got beaten by the mob. To preserve his reputation, in a CNBC interview he called Republican leader Mitch McConnell a "lump of coal" and said GOP candidates for 20016 are "all losers."

It's a long time till Christmas but President Obama was in a giving mood so he handed out Social Security numbers to 541,000 illegal immigrants. That makes them eligible to draw federal tax credits as well as Social Security disability and retirement benefits.