The Obama administration's fairy tale foreign policy has left a large deposit of egg on the face of Secretary of State John Kerry. Right after Kerry asserted that the U.S. had been able to "neutralize" al-Qaida leadership "as an effective force" terrorists took victims hostage in a hotel in Mali and 27 were killed. The murderous attacks in Paris followed a claim by President Obama that ISIS had been "contained."

Donald Trump brags a lot about leading in the polls, but there's one he probably won't mention. In a survey of candidates 46 percent of Americans say Trump is the one most likely to ruin Thanksgiving by saying something to kill the holiday mood.

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the federal government's handling of the illegal immigrant problem but authorities certainly know how to deal with illegal tamales. Border agents seized 450 "prohibited pork meat tamales" at Los Angeles International Airport. The food was found in luggage of a passenger who had lied about its pork content.