Flash: Chicken-Little Wrong Again… But Why Spread the Doom And Gloom At All? The Election

Economically speaking, this Christmas season wasn’t bad.

Glenn notes today:

CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES UP, BUT BY A MODEST 3.6% — but online sales were up 22.4%. The New York Times calls those numbers “bleak,” a term that’s more accurately used

Michelle, today:

Environmental busybodies never take a vacation. The lead letter on Christmas day at the San Francisco Chronicle echoed dim bulb Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ recent “Stop global warming and buy CFLs or Santa will DIEDIEDIE!”

The World’s most powerfull on-line army just got bigger.     Charles opened, and closed, his registration door.    More Lizards just in time for the primary season.   

Flim flam artists are always trying to seperate a fool from his money.  

Case one, I ran with with this story on 28 October, but it bears repeating:

When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure

Mrs. Clinton claims to have experience, in something besides baking cookies.  Yet her claims of experience are more akin to fish stories.   On Townhall, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, are calling B.J. and Mrs. Clinton liars, “Hillary Had

To say it’s a slow political day, this Christmas Day, is understating it by several factors of scale.  Example… When I see CNN’s political ticker, by way of Memeorandum pointing out that President Bush gave his wife a purse for

A thank you note from Kyle-Anne Shiver, American Thinker to our troops:

One of the most gratifying things of all is that they know we love them and that we care about every single hair upon their heads in harms

From both DavidL and myself… Please accept our warmest wishes for the Christmas season.

Glenn:

 PEACE ON EARTH? “While the headlines concentrate on peace breaking out in Iraq, that’s but part of a worldwide trend for the last few years. Violence has also diminished, or disappeared completely, in places like Nepal, Chechnya. Congo, Indonesia

News from just up the road in Mississauga, Ontario… Jazz great Oscar Peterson has died at age 82 from Kidney failure.

… IN OTB’s Caption Contest

What IS that guy DOING, anyway?

Michelle Malkin’s Christmas message.

Hat Tip:  Hot Air.

Is Ron Paul a nazi?   Well some of Paul’s well embraced supporters are.   Virginia Heffernan, New York Times,  describes Paul’s “nazi  troubles:“

Ron Paul, our Internet president, seems to have Nazi troubles, as in they’re saying he’s

Since 1955 NorAD has been tracking Santa annually. The last few years, they’ve been providing that tracking data as an online service. Click the logo to go there.

Edit: Link repaired.

I wanted to pass along a couple of pictures that were passed along to me by readers last year. I never got the chance to use them last season because I didn’t see them until well after new year’s. But