Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, December 23 2009 @ 09:59 AM CST
TEA Party Patriots: Don’t Go Home, Fight! [*1]
Unhinged update: Left-wing hate-crime hoaxer pleads guilty in Denver [*2]
Worst Decade Evah? Nick Gillespie on NPR Discussing Same [*3]
Crowdsourcing The Contract With America 2.0 [*4]
The Health-Care Backlash [*5]
New Poll: Health Care Approval Down To 36% [*6]
Our Coming Medicare Debacle [*7]
Change… Obama Now More Loathed Than Bush at End of His Second Term [*8]
Of Course… Obama’s White House Christmas Tree Includes Mao Tse-Tung Ornaments [*9]
New Missouri Polling Data Shows McCaskill Tanking [*10]
Beer Is Cheaper Than Water—When You Compare Really Cheap Beer to Expensive Water [*11]
Libertarianism in Ancient China [*12]
Congressional Democrats Already Preparing to Lose Control of Congress [*13]
Why the ‘Angry Mob’ Is Angry [*14]
A Republican’s Airing of Grievances [*15]
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Nuke the Federal Reserve [*16]
Palin as litmus test [*17]
Old GOP message: “We’re going to fight to the finish line;” New GOP message: “Let’s go home” [*18]
Palin: I told you so! [*19]
White House: We didn’t know Mao was on our Christmas ornaments [*20]
Rasmussen: Strong disapproval outstrips overall approval for first time [*21]
Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders of 2009 [*22] — hmm. Should I have a separate “foreign policy” Whip sub-heading?
The Dems’ political payoff [*23]
University of Michigan Study Confirms Link Between Financial Bailout and Corruption [*24]
Tea Parties, Third Parties and the Republican Party [*25]
Health care “change” (called by some “reform”):
Birthers, fanatics, and right-wing militias[*26]
Tyranny in the Senate [*27]
A Free-Market Guide to Healthcare [*28]
Biggest Defection of The Day (That You Never Heard About) [*29]
Health Care: The Pig in the Road [*30]
Can Obama Open His Mouth Without Lying About Health Care? [*31]
The Singapore Alternative [*32]
Pay Your Own Bill [*33]
DeMint to force vote on constitutionality of mandate [*34]
The list of payoffs that got Reid his cloture vote [*35]
Why is the AMA Supporting a 20% Pay Cut for Their Members? [*36]
Obamacare’s Constitutional Problems Proliferating [*37]
Alan Reynolds: Death Panels? Sarah Palin Was Right [*38]
Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel [*39] — from the ‘Cuda herself.
Big PhRMA Payoff: Hidden Tax on Pedialyte, Prenatal Vitamins, and Pain Relievers [*40]
Travel and cruising:
DOT Mandates Passenger Bill of Rights and I’m Not Happy [*41]
Q&A: “Cruise Confidential” Author on the Life of a Crewmember [*42]
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
Climate Plan B [*43]
Build-A-Climate-Scare: Why You Should Boycott Build-A-Bear [*44]
Unbearable Global Warming Hype Threatens the North Pole at Christmas [*45]
Met Office and CRU bow to public pressure: publish data subset and code [*46]
Texas State Climatologist: “IPCC AR4 was flat out wrong” – relied on flawed WWF report [*47]
A story of conversion: Global Warming Believer To Skeptic [*48]
The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Nuke Environmentalists [*49]
The Economy:
The Financial Villain of the Decade [*50]
Shoppers were online, not at malls, last weekend [*51] –WARNING: plays a video without your consent! Bad Reuters! BAD!
Job distress for Generation X [*52]
After ‘fat cat’ comment, Obama changes tone with small-time bankers [*53]
Geithner: U.S. job growth unlikely before spring [*54]
Obama says he has unemployed relatives [*55] — yeah. Mostly in Kenya.
“If American farms such as hers were forced to compete in the global free market, they would collapse.” [*56]
How Government “Reforms” Prolong The Great Recession [*57]
Simians:
Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, says study by ISU’s Pruetz [*58]
Miscellania:
Man jailed for eating rare tiger [*59]
Dog Meat Supplier [*60]
Michelle Obama’s Most Hideous Outfits of 2009 [*61]
Tech:
Microsoft loses Word appeal, will adjust program [*62]
Power goes out twice at Alaska air traffic control [*63]
Sports:
Circling the Summit [*64]
SDSU women falter at Iowa [*65]
Do I read all of these articles? No. But I want to.
UPDATE: The chimps were sooo wild that they had spread to the Tech and Sports sub-headings.
UPDATE 2:Miscellany, not Miscellania which isn’t even a real word. I make them up sometimes.