Chambliss Wins GA Senate

Curses, foiled again.   Republican Saxby Chambliss defends his Senate seat in Georgia, Associated Press:

ATLANTA – Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss won re-election Tuesday in a runoff, dashing Democrats’ hopes of capturing enough seats in the U.S. Senate to thwart

Mr. President-elect, reporters we hope are going to ask you a lot of annoying questions over the next four years. Get used to it.

Via fellow Swamp Stomper, Sister Toldjah.  

BO’s halo becomes a choke collar.

Mike Allen, Politico, is reporting that NBC News is set to name David Gregory as Tim Russert’s replacement as host for Meet the Depressed:

NBC News plans to name David Gregory as moderator of “Meet the Press,” infusing one

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• December the second, already. That means only 22 shopping days left until Christmas. Always assuming the war on Christmas doesn’t succeed. I’ll get to

Fox’s SPECIAL REPORT last night:

Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus may have violated House ethics rules by attending a three-day conference paid for by a number of powerful corporations early last month on the Caribbean island of Saint

Finally… There is, occasionally, justice.

BAGHDAD -Fox- A special Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin, “Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid, to death Tuesday after convicting him of crimes against humanity for his part in crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in

Mark Whitaker, NBC Newss Washington Bureau Chief, via Noel Sheppard, News Busters:

I think it goes beyond the Middle East, and I think it’s a bigger phenomenon which is the leader of the biggest democracy in the world is

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• First day of December, today is.  Yeah, I know you know this. I’m saying it out of wonder at the passage of time.

From Channel 13 in Birmingham Alabama:

Andrea Lindenberg and Rod Carter
Published: December 1, 2008  Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was arrested Monday and the 101-count indictment against him has been unsealed.

This morning, U.S. Attorney Alice Martin announced that

I remakred the other day  about “Baby P”

As an update for you…

The BBC dryly reports what little consequence has come out of this horror

Three people have been suspended on full pay from Haringey Council after a “damning”

From the American Thinker today, comes Larrey Anderson:

Conservatism needs a fresh start. It is losing arguments … and it is losing elections. One person, more than any other (even more than John McCain), has caused this: President George

The London Daily Mail’s Ian Gallagher:

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last

To a conservative, anyone who advocates building an ideal society by the use of reason-based theories is a ‘Utopian liberal’ because following Burke and Russel Kirk they do not believe in the unlimited power of reason.
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Some of Clark’s

I wish this guy issued transcripts.

I was wondering, Billy.
The only reason I didn’t call you was because I checked my tick sheet and your name came up a year ago. So, I kinda figured…