In related news, I hear the grand jury’s been meeting on Curt’s case for weeks:
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Records belonging to Congressman Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania were reportedly subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, but Weldon allegedly never disclosed it according to Friday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times.
The paper said the subpoena was issued before [...]

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Nat King Cole:

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To you all!

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Look who got the new Secretary of Defense ready for his confirmation hearing. But they said he was “independent…”

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For someone you know?

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Will Bunch.

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Bing:

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I normally prefer something interactive for the Friday timewaster, but this does nicely, too. Just refresh the page for a new one.

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Rude Pundit. I can never pick just one…

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Global Orgasm Day. Do your part for world peace!

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Finally, some accountability. What a relief this is:
Evidence continues to mount that the new Democratic majority plans to investigate the war, energy policy, and other Bush policies, as key committees have begun hiring lawyer-investigators whose job will be to probe the administration. In the House, for example, the Appropriations Committee under Rep. John Murtha’s direction [...]

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And senators over this shameful situation. From Latina Lista:
I’m sure you all know by now about the roundup of suspected illegal immigrants at the Swift meatpacking plants, but you may not know that 200 children are being held at these “family” detention facilities (operated, naturally, by for-profit private companies which are paid per prisoner):
The children [...]

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Life out of balance, indeed. Remember, money is a bubble - push down in one place and it pops up in another. Who has less so these people have more?
NEW YORK — Executives at Wall Street’s top financial firms will probably remember this holiday season with particular fondness, as soaring profits cascade down to traders [...]

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And a Merry Christmas to the newly homeless:
USA Today has added foreclosure listings to its online real estate channel, providing contractors, home buyers, and others with potentially good deals.
Foreclosure.com is providing the paid listings, which are available on a co-branded page in USAToday.com. The site offers searching by state, ZIP code, or a foreclosure ID [...]

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Avedon makes a salient point:
Have I mentioned recently that the 9/11 hijackers flew first class? C’mon, people, why should you believe any of the security you are being subjected to in airports is good for anything when well-funded fliers can avoid it all just by paying more money?

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There are few things more immoral (and depressing) than the way we fund public education:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Poor students are shortchanged by federal and state school aid policies, a report released Wednesday says.
At the federal level, the Education Department gives states nearly $13 billion a year to help students in low-income districts.
The complex formula used [...]

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And of course we’re surprised that BushCo is giving away our money and getting nothing in return:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 — The United States offers some of the most lucrative incentives in the world to companies that drill for oil in publicly owned coastal waters, but a newly released study suggests that the government is getting [...]

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The Shrill One:
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear that conservatives who claimed to care about deficits when Democrats were in power never meant it. Let’s not forget how Alan Greenspan, who posed as the high priest of fiscal rectitude as long as Bill Clinton was in the White House, became an apologist for tax [...]

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While Bush plays a ill-advised game of chicken with Iran, cable news is obsessed with Sandy Berger stealing copies of documents.

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Amy Goodman interviews Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh about Bush’s plans for regime change in Iran. Fascinating piece, here’s an excerpt:

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I understand St. John laid his hands on her and healed her of her sins:
Jill Hazelbaker, battle tested in New Jersey this year as Tom Kean Jr.’s Communications Director, is headed to John McCain’s presidential campaign. She will serve as Communications Director for McCain’s campaign in New Hampshire.
Jill Hazelbaker it seems has a little penchant [...]

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Probably Al Gore’s fault:
Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.

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I made the appointment back in August, and this morning was my first visit to the dental school clinic. As it turned out, two students were gone for the holidays and one doctor was out sick, so we had to wait. (And wait.) I was there at 8:30 and was finally seen at 10 to [...]

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For the time being, you can find Atrios here.
UPDATE: Never mind, he’s fixed now.

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Ezra puts a little something in our Christmas stocking:
In a fairly cool story, The New York Times reports that when the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, hundreds of millions of classified government documents will instantly enter the public sphere, including 275 million from the FBI alone. Indeed, the documents, whose quarter century (or more) [...]

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Bryan Adams:

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These seem sensible. Calling on the collective experience of my readers, can you think of any questions you wish you’d asked before you got married?
UPDATE: Go check these out, they’re much better. [HT to AnonWoman.]

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Finally, a movement I can get behind.

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One state at a time, the walls are coming down:
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey’s gay couples are gaining all the rights and responsibilities of marriage as the state moves to become the fifth in the nation to institute civil unions.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine was to sign a civil unions bill on Thursday. The law will [...]

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