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The CRISIS OF THE HOUR just seems like an awful lot of work, doesn't it? No crisis today. Crisis maybe tomorrow. No crisis today.

Travel:
Seven Seas Navigator Emerges From Refit
Dutch say they'll use full body scanners for U.S. flights
Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel -- allahu akbar . . . BOOM!
TSA targets travel bloggers over leaked security memo
Cruise West Expands Reach with World's Longest Cruise

2009/the 2000's In Review, and year-end lists:
A Decade and Its Three Crises
2009’s Idiots of the Year!
Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk
Most Jaw-Dropping Live Television Moments of the Decade
Reason Staffers Pick The Best and Worst Things of The Decade
Telegraph: The most conservative movie of the decade is…
Technology not as advanced by 2010 as some had hoped

The battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way :
Don't Tase Me When I'm Having a Diabetic Seizure, Bro
The James Taggart Presidency and the value of work
More Guns, Less Crime in '09
SEIU Watch: More workers revolt against power-grabbing Purple Shirts
Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010
White House Stonewalling on Obama's Executive Order Unleashing Interpol
Minnesota University Wants K-12 Teachers to Hate America -- mamas, don't let your babies grow up to attend the U of M. . .
Political moralism and the self-defeating impulse towards totalitarian 'purity' -- I'm not much into demanding 'purity' from others, personally.
The Criminalization of Protest: Police and politicians ignore the First Amendment when we need it the most.
Saving Money, Lives, and Human Civilization
Fighting the Beltway Mentality
More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead
Obama's Game of False Choices
The Marxian Virus in American Thought
Blogging for 'The Cause'? Nonsense! I Write for Money

The reality of Obama and the Democrat leadership as blithering idiots:
Max Baucus: I was totally sober -- I dunno . . . "drunk" is a better excuse, I think, than "blithering idiot" but then he's a Senator, for which "blithering idiot" is pretty much the primary job requirement . . .
Why is Obama still in Hawaii?
Why Obama pretends
Does Obama Realize We Are at War Yet?
Unfair attack from the Right on Obama’s lack of response? -- um . . . well . . . upon reflection . . . no, no, not unfair at all. 'Commander in Chief' means something, as does "preserve, protect, and DEFEND the Constitution of the United States." Or anyway, it used to, before the Blithering Idiots took over.
If Obama's lost Maureen Dowd . . .
Obama Uses His Bush Similarities to Deflect Heat
The limits of "cool"
Barack Obama and the Exhausted Presidency

War and terror and diplomacy and peace:
"Iraq the model" after all?

"Global warming" aka "Climate change" -- or should that be "Climate Reform?":
Major northern hemisphere cold snap coming
French Revolution! Carbon tax ruled unconstitutional just two days before taking effect
From The IPCC
Let me try again -- ". . . the French have ruled a proposed carbon tax scheduled to start on Jan 1, 2010 to be unconstitutional . . ."
Satellite visualization of December’s deadly cold in Europe and Russia
The Left's End Times

The Economy:
Ponzi scheme collapses more than tripled in 2009 -- Tough times for con artists, too, apparently . . .
More federal funds going to GMAC Financial -- Yep. Tough times for con artists.
Public Sector Drives Deep Into The Night
Markets fail. That’s why we need markets. -- "Too big to fail" is a profoundly anti-free-market concept. Unsuccessful businesses should fail--they should never, ever be propped up. The same should be said of political philosophies, but here we are, taking another run at collectivism . . .
The Monetary Base is exploding. So what?
Fannie & Freddie Officially Declared Bottomless Pits. GMAC Not Far Behind
Government-Caused Disaster

Media bias and/or incompetence:
CBS totally objective about 'teabaggers' -- I guess fair is fair . . . when I think of the media the first things that come to my mind are several slang terms for homosexual sex, too . . .
Tea Party Express official says liberal media used TPM's 'totally bogus story'

Health care "change" (called by some "reform"):
Like Mushrooms, Health Care 'Reform' Flourishes in the Dark
Unhealthy arrogance
Rasmussen: Opposition to ObamaCare Reaches New High
Legal Discrimination -- "Liberals funneling other people's money (yours) to favored minorities and trial lawyers. Business as usual."
Blinded By Good Intentions
13 Republican Attorneys General Threaten Lawsuits Over Nebraska's Health Care Deal

Miscellany:
Heroin, HIV stalk tropical resort of Zanzibar
'Best Job' winner stung by dangerous jellyfish
Power to the (Conservative) People
Wussie Watch: Yale censors the word "sissy"
Sarah & Hillary: Most Admired Women in USA
Rush Limbaugh Taken to Hospital with Chest Pains UPDATED
Rush Limbaugh reported 'resting comfortably' in Hawaii hospital

Sports:
No. 1 Kansas overcomes early gaffe to rout Belmont
Tennessee beats longtime foe Old Dominion 102-62
SDSU set for Summit action