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

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 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…

Kudos to John Hawkins.
I’ve spent some time the last few days tossing notes together for this sort of post, but Hawkins beat me to it:

…the GOP absolutely cannot build a successful political party around “moderates.”

Why is that

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As of noon January 20, two things well happen;.  George W. Bush will depart Washington with his principles intact.   Whereas BO a/ka/a one a/k/a messiah a/k/a Barack Obama will assume the presidency with his principles already shattered, Bush as attributed