Guests this hour include - Kate Obenshain (author: Divider In Chief), and Wayne Simmons (former U.S. Senior Intell.)

-The Supreme Court is going to lower the ball on NYE tonight in Times Square. AND in The Rose Parade a same sex marriage will take place on a float. Larson's thoughts?

-MORE on the Larson family Christmas tree; is it staying up? After all Mark did go to the DARK side.

-Kate Obenshain talks with Mark Larson about caroling, and finding something positive from the Obama's to look forward to in 2014. Can she do it?

-AND Wayne Simmons talks about the upcoming Olympic games in Russia. What's going on with the normally OVERLY top notch security there?

LIVE, LOCAL, and not doing the luge - He's Mark Larson on KCBQ!