Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You. 

Now that Democrats are back in power the politics of fear and envy is back in vogue.

It’s hard to open a newspaper or watch the news without hearing about the “income gap” or the “wealth gap.”

CNN anchor Lou

Newsmax;

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is polishing up one of her more famous phrases as she edges closer to a presidential run, writing in a new introduction to her book “It Takes a Village” that Sept. 11 and the Internet

(Fox) Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to offer a blistering criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy in a farewell speech Monday to a crowd in Independence, Mo.

A copy of the speech originally obtained by USA Today and

In a perverse illlustration of Jimmy Carter’s moral sense, or lack of same, the Associated Press reports,  “Gaza gunmen target children:”

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian gunmen killed three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer

James Joyner this morning, notes that Glenn Greenwald has finally got the message:

Rahm Emanuel Lied About Mark Foley Scandal

Glenn Greenwald examines the evidence and finds that Rahm Emanuel lied when he told George Stephanoupolous that he was not

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This is not going to be a happy read, tonight.

Oh, don’t worry, I’m not in a foul mood… more thoughtful, than anything…

“Don’t wish your time away… after enough of it goes by, you’ll wish you had it back

SANTIAGO, Chile -AP- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile’s democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died today, dashing hopes of victims of his regime’s abuses that he would be brought

The poltically sensitive preach that it somehow wrong to be judgemental.  To which  Is say – bull!  A civilizied man must be judgemental, openly and proudly.

The politically sensitive preach that all cultures are somehow equal.  That we should accept

Steyn is in rare form this morning:

So there you have it: an Iraq “Support Group” that brings together the Arab League, the European Union, Iran, Russia, China and the U.N. And with support like that who needs lack of

NOLA.COM- Confounding political pundits and a slew of rivals who had become confident of his defeat, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, neatly sidestepped a roiling federal corruption probe to win re-election on Saturday to his ninth term in Congress. 

So I sit down with a little coffee, and begin to look at the world around me this chilly December night:

So now, Congress is going from a three day workweek to a five day workweek.  I’m quite sure the

The House Ethics Committee Report includes new information that top Democrats were also aware in 2005 of Mark Foley’s inappropriate e-mails to congressional pages at about the same time as outgoing Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office was informed.While the report is

(H/T photo: Washington Pox )

Lo and behold, it seems like that Mrs. Pelosi hand picked chairman for the House Intelligence Committee needs a crash course in intelligence.  Bill Faith, of Bill’s Bites reports on “Intelligence? Un pocito:”

Ah, yes… you’d have to figure the NY Times would cough up this story.

Still… I object to Romney because of this story, because of reasons the Times cannot possibly understand, and if they did would certainly not admit to: