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by Rich Trzupek
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How Islamic Supremacism Is Overwhelming Democracy »
by Robert Spencer
Abigail Esman’s “Radical State” exposes the dark reality many in the West are afraid to face. …
Internet Access is not a “Civil Right”
After a vote of 3-2 yesterday, the internet will now come under federal control, turning unaccountable appointees into meddling online traffic cops
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U.S. Poised to Approve Nuclear Arms Pact With Russia (AP)
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One-sixth of House skips final lame-duck votes (WAPO)
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After 4 decades, Harvard opens door to ROTC (BOSTON GLOBE)
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Illegal Immigrants Factor Into 2010 Census Results, Congressional Makeup (FOX)
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Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010 (REUTERS)
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New START Turns Blind Eye to Rising EMP Threat (HUMAN EVENTS)
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The latest WikiLeaks revelation: 1 in 3 British Muslim students back killing for Islam and 40% want Sharia law (DAILY MAIL)
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What Do the ‘Holiday Terror Warning’ Targets Have in Common? (PAJAMAS)
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Murmurs of ‘Alaska’ Season 2 for Sarah Palin (POLITICO)
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Boehner Says FCC’s Internet Regulation Would Kill Jobs, Undermine Economy (CNS)
U.S. Poised to Approve Nuclear Arms Pact With Russia (AP)
One-sixth of House skips final lame-duck votes (WAPO)
After 4 decades, Harvard opens door to ROTC (BOSTON GLOBE)
Illegal Immigrants Factor Into 2010 Census Results, Congressional Makeup (FOX)
Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010 (REUTERS)
New START Turns Blind Eye to Rising EMP Threat (HUMAN EVENTS)
The latest WikiLeaks revelation: 1 in 3 British Muslim students back killing for Islam and 40% want Sharia law (DAILY MAIL)
What Do the ‘Holiday Terror Warning’ Targets Have in Common? (PAJAMAS)
Murmurs of ‘Alaska’ Season 2 for Sarah Palin (POLITICO)
Boehner Says FCC’s Internet Regulation Would Kill Jobs, Undermine Economy (CNS)
Creators Syndicate – Except when it does. Full Story »
The Year Of Right-Wing Terrorists?
Brent Bozell III – Wed Dec 22, 3:00 am ET
Creators Syndicate – There is some very dangerous — as in red-hot incendiary — hatred going on, and it’s being advanced by the national news media directly. Full Story »
Soldiers’ surprise Christmas homecomings: Top 5 videos
The Week – Wed Dec 22, 2:00 am ET
New York – When U.S. troops unexpectedly arrive for the holidays, their loved ones often react in memorable ways Full Story »
DADT repeal: What it means for gay marriage
The Week – Wed Dec 22, 1:30 am ET
New York – Now that gays will be allowed to serve openly in the armed forces, are same-sex couples more likely to win the right to wed? Full Story »
THE B-PLUS PRESIDENT
Richard Reeves – Tue Dec 21, 7:56 pm ET
LOS ANGELES — I doubt that President Obama is about to sit down at the end of this year and tell Oprah Winfrey that he is giving himself a B-plus as he did just a year ago. He may deserve a great deal more credit than voters gave him last November, but you can’t brag about being a party leader whose party was clobbered and a commander-in-chief stubbornly pursuing victory in a winless, pointless war. Full Story »
STUDIES SAY: CHRISTMAS KILLS, BUT NEW YEAR’S KILLS BABIES
Maggie Gallagher – Tue Dec 21, 7:56 pm ET
Christmas is the deadliest day of the year. Full Story »
‘FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN …’
Cynthia Tucker – Tue Dec 21, 7:56 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Two years ago, my mother and I were stuck in a dingy motel suite in downtown New Orleans, eating take-out dinners and canned goods. Though we longed to be at home, she and I agreed it was one of the best Christmas seasons either of us had ever celebrated. Full Story »
NO END IN SIGHT
Georgie Anne Geyer – Tue Dec 21, 6:56 pm ET
WASHINGTON — As this odd year catapults to an end, I am as capable as any other American of trying to figure out what in God’s name it is we doing in Afghanistan. Full Story »
Quote of the Day: ‘Consider Christmas Pudding’
The Atlantic Wire – Tue Dec 21, 5:42 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC – “Only a bedrock of latent intoxication and seasonal greed can convince an ordinary person that what they need after bloodymarysmokedsalmonchampagnewineturkeyroastpotatoessprouts carrotsgravywinecranberrysaucesausageshambaconwinewinewine is a mound of sticky, cloacal, saccharine sludge sloshed in alcohol butter, but back we come every year. Between the idea and the reality falls the pudding.”The pudding seems to have had two principal forerunners. The first were the earliest mince pies, which saw cooked, shredded meat, dried fruits, alcohol with its preservative qualities and perhaps a few spices or herbs, all encased in large pies. These were mainly bulwarks against winter, the hoarded dregs of more plentiful seasons. The second main Ur-pudding was a pottage or soup called frumenty, a fast dish involving cracked wheat, currants and almonds which was ladled out at the start of a meal. Subsequently, people baked this into a kind of pie, adding breadcrumbs for bulk, eggs to bind it, and upping the dried fruits. They then called it plum pudding, ‘plum’ meaning dried grape or raisin.”- Oliver Thring, writing in The Guardian’s Word of Mouth blog Full Story »
Next Up on Bailouts: Portugal?
The Atlantic Wire – Tue Dec 21, 5:39 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC – Tuesday, Moody’s, the credit rating agency, put the Portugese debt “on review for a possible downgrade.” Recent bailouts for Ireland and Greece have made international markets increasingly nervous about Portugal, causing “the cost of insuring Portuguese sovereign debt against default” to rise and the euro to fall slightly, Reuters reports. Though thus far Moody’s does not doubt the stability of Portugal’s banks, the decision to put the country on review stems from concerns for Portugal’s “longer-term economic vitality.” Full Story »
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Is a Good Teacher Worth $400,000?
The Atlantic Wire – Tue Dec 21, 5:26 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC – Over the course of a school year, a good teacher produces $400,000 more in future earnings for a class of 20 students than an average teacher. What’s more, replacing the worst-performing five to eight percent of teachers with average teachers could catapult the U.S. to near the top of international math and science rankings, padding GDP by $100 trillion and generating returns that dwarf “the discussions of U.S. economic stimulus packages related to the 2008 recession ($1 trillion).” Full Story »
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Happy Hour Vid: Larry King Sings About ‘Early Show’ Host’s Eyes
The Atlantic Wire – Tue Dec 21, 5:10 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC – In an interview on CBS’s The Early Show this week, anchor Erica Hill got more than she probably expected while asking Larry King about his many marriages. The newly retired CNN host responds simply enough that he’s loved three people in his life. The short answer then unravels into an explanation of how people in the broadcast news business are not normal, King asks Hill how crazy she thinks she is, what kinds of weird things she thinks about, and the reveals that he is thinking about her “beautiful brown eyes.” And then he sings about them. Full Story »
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SEC Investigates HP Chief’s Mysterious Departure
The Atlantic Wire – Tue Dec 21, 4:36 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC – The S.E.C. has launched an investigation of Mark Hurd’s resignation as CEO of Hewett-Packard, The Wall Street Journal reports. Hurd’s surprise departure in August, not long after a female contractor filed a sexual harassment complaint against him, transpired in a fog of uncertainty. Why did HP’s board of directors ask Hurd–often lauded as a highly competent corporate chief–to step down, many asked, especially after an internal investigation concluded that Hurd didn’t violate the company’s sexual harassment policy? Then, in September, a settled lawsuit allowed Hurd to become co-president of rival Oracle, a move HP had long attempted to stonewall in an effort to protect its trade secrets. It appeared the month-long corporate drama was winding down. Full Story »
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Words of the Year: Right, Left and Populist
The Nation – Tue Dec 21, 2:31 pm ET
The Nation — For decades now, there’s been a gap between the left’s and the right’s ability to talk populist. Liberals tend to trip over their own subtlety, uncertainty and/or ambivalence (an example of which youmaybe just read), while the right produces categorical words that stick: media elite, death tax, and of course Democrat as an adjective, emphasis on rat. Full Story »
Seeds of Financial Catastrophe
Fred N. Sauer
Safeguards discarded. More
PETA’s Thirty-Year Legacy
Chad Dechow
There may be no worldview that provides less support for treating animals humanely than the naturalism that underlies PETA’s beliefs. More
The Legislative Branch has Become Poison Oak
Randy Fardal
Where would we be if the last two Democrat-led Congresses had taken a four year vacation? More
Objective Islam, Subjective Islam
Bill Warner
Different logic, different conclusions. More
Pardon Pollard
December 22, 2010
A plea deal violated, a man punished disproportionately. More
Graph for the Day, December 22, 2010
December 22, 2010
The Inflation-Unemployment Texas Two-Step More
Great News! Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010
December 22, 2010
Only if we go “cold turkey” can we save ourselves from disaster. More
The sinister forces behind Net Neutrality
December 22, 2010
Where the idea originated, and the agenda behind it made clear. More
Joe Lieberman’s true colors
December 22, 2010
Remember all the pious hogwash about the possibility of Joe Lieberman caucusing with the Republicans after the mid-term Republican victories? More
The Vegetative State of Liberalism
December 22, 2010
Do you want some statism with your vegetables? More
Do Republicans understand?
December 22, 2010
I don’t understand why Republicans feel it so necessary to pass any legislation during this lame duck session. More
You stay classy, Senator Specter (updated)
December 22, 2010
Selective outrage. More
Regulation by prosecution
December 21, 2010
A new tactic in the campaign to transform America. More
Census hands big advantage to GOP
December 21, 2010
Americans are voting with their feet and abandoning Democrat-dominated states. More
WaPo puts Gaza’s construction needs above Israel’s life-and-death security needs
December 21, 2010
Supplies for terrorists. What could go wrong? More
Food Freedom of Choice Still Possible
December 21, 2010
One last chance to stop S510, the federal food power grab. More
Top Stories
Rain-soaked Calif. braces for biggest storm yet
AP – 56 mins ago
After days of relentless rain, Southern California is awaiting the most intense storm system yet, with evacuations ordered, roads covered by water and mud, and residents anxiously eyeing already saturated mountainsides denuded by wildfires. Full Story »
World News
South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent
Reuters – Wed Dec 22, 6:11 am ET
South Korea announced land and sea military exercises on Wednesday including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang’s attack on a southern island. Full Story »
Business News
S&P 500 set to inch higher at open
Reuters – 14 mins ago
S&P 500 stock index futures edged higher on Wednesday as traders looked to extend four days of gains that drove the S&P 500 to levels reached just before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt two years ago. Full Story »
