What is the world coming to when a 90 year old Medal of Honor recipient from World War II can't raise his American flag because some asinine neighborhood association has "aesthetic issues" with his flagpole?
I finally finished And the World She Made today.
My goodness! This is interesting!
Michelle Malkin posted on this today and I think it's worth noting, so be sure to read her post here.How dare the attorney general suggest that the firefighters who oppose this trial need to "man up" and let this avowed enemy of America mock their brother firefighters in the country's most magisterial setting, a federal court.
Let me refresh the attorney general on the meaning of courage. Courage [...]
And then there were 211. The Washington Post reports that four Club Gitmo graduates have been shipped out today.
The Washington Post reports that the most famous party-crashers in the world are now taking bids:
Update: Welcome Hot Air readers! Thanks for the link, Ed!
I'm no lawyer and I'm no expert in constitutional law, but from where I'm sitting, Rep. Darrell Issa sounds pretty reasonable when he says that the DOJ judgment to keep funding ACORN is "old-fashioned cronyism."
So far, the Christmas spirit hasn't knocked me down with giddy anticipation yet. My Christmas spirit is still packed away in cardboard boxes on the top shelf of my cedar closet. It will come, I suppose. Some years it strikes right after Thanksgiving. Some years it' [...] 
I'm not about to get out and do Black Friday. The only thing I'm going out to buy today is dog food and a loaf of bread.
I'm wondering why we can't get Charles Krauthammer to run for Congress. His plan for health care reform is just plain good common sense.
With regard to the upcoming KSM trial in New York, Thomas Wilner has an Op-Ed in today's Wall Street Journal in which he attempts to make the case that Eric Holder's decision to hold criminal trials for these five terrorists is a good idea. Better, [...] 
Light blogging over the next couple of days, I suppose.
If you were going to write a trashy sex novel you could do worse than look at the Gerald Walpin story for ideas.
If you can get all the way through this video without spewing your coffee, let me know:
Saturday night we all saw what Mary Landrieu's going price is. Not only that, we saw her on the Senate floor adamantly defend her decision to sell her vote.
Stacy McCain is booze-blogging this morning. Well, not really, but he's taken on the subject of booze snobs and touches on how the internet has affected the booze business.
Via Memeorandum, Byron York reports in the Washington Examiner, on the Gerald Walpin case this morning, specifically, on the White House cover-up regarding Walpin's firing.
Oh my. Frank Rich takes off on Palin today. I've avoided writing about Palinophobia and the Palinopalooza currently raging in the blogosphere right now because others are doing such a great job. And, well, Andrew Sullivan. Enough said.
Andrew McCarthy has an OpEd in The New York Daily News regarding the decision to bring KSM to New York for trial. I consider McCarthy a worthy source on this subject as he was one of the prosecutors on the Blind Sheikh trial in 1995.
And here we go, live-blogging the debate in the Senate today about whether to debate. Yes, this all-day rare Saturday session is for the vote tonight at 8 on whether or not to bring Obamacare up for formal debate.
From my inbox, a message from Kenny Koonce of The Highland Jazz and Blues Festival:
I don't even know why I'm going to watch the Senate shenanigans today because in my heart I feel like it's already a done deal, as they say, but I'm going to watch anyway. Once again I find myself embarrassed to be from Louisiana. Joseph Cao' [...] 
Update: Thanks to The Dead Pelican for the link and to @MichelleMalkin for the Twitter shout!
Erick Eriskson at Red State has a must read post this morning. I'm going to copy more of it than I usually like to do because I want to be sure everyone knows how important Saturday's vote on HarryCare is:
Via The Dead Pelican, this is probably Mary's payoff. Harry Reid needs her vote to proceed on his ridiculous health care bill and this might be what tips her scales:On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid [...]
The Crist/Rubio match up in Florida is heating up with the arrival of new campaign manager Eric Eikenberg in the Crist camp.
Last night I took a look at my bedside table which is where I stack books waiting to be read. I counted twelve. That's not counting the one I had in my hand. In fact, my space for books was all maxed out so I have [...] 
A reminder:Alexander (Tennessee)
Bennett (Utah)
Bond (Missouri)
Chambliss (Georgia)
Collins (Maine)
Corker (Tennessee)
Graham (South Carolina)
Grassley (Iowa)
Gregg (New Hampshire)
Hatch (Utah)
Isakson (Georgia)
Kyl (Arizona)
Lugar (Indiana)
McCain (Arizona)
Mukowski (Arkansas)
Sessions (Alabama)
Snowe (Maine)
Voinovich (Ohio)
I just ordered this book; the review in the print issue of NRO talked me into it!
Update: Memeorandum has a great thread going on this topic.
In the ongoing saga of what to do with the Gitmo detainees, since Obama insists the "model prison" at Guantanamo be shuttered, the latest target is the small town of Thomson, Illinois.
I admit it - I couldn't watch Obama's speech last night. I know it was an important speech. But I just can't stand to listen to him say Tolly-Bohn anymore. Instead I went to Victor Davis Hanson's recap, which you can find 
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