George Stephanopoulos: In my exclusive interview with Barack Obama airing tomorrow on This Week, the president-elect told me that fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises. “Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don’t work, and making things that we have more efficient. But I’m

From Warner Todd Huston at Stop the ACLU: And, naturally, Dougherty pretended it wasn’t his fault that the story was appearing in his newspaper. I want to be very clear on this: I have from the beginning and do now consider the conspiracy theories about Trig’s birth to be nutty nonsense. If that’s true, why has Lisa Demer been asking questions about Trig’s birth? Because we have been amazed by

The Lord’s Prayer translated from Aramaic into English, rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English O cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration! Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where Your Presence can abide. Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission. Let each of our actions bear fruit in

of Amanda Marcotte in the wild.

Tintin turns eighty (Spanish).

Mark Steyn: Forget, for the moment, Gaza. Forget that the Palestinian people are the most comprehensively wrecked people on the face of the Earth. For the past 60 years they have been entrusted to the care of the United Nations, the Arab League, the PLO, Hamas and the “global community” – and the results are pretty much what you’d expect. You would have to be very hardhearted not to weep

Unaccountably, my elder son today exposed me to Kansas’ “Carry On, My Wayward Son” on the way to an appointment; one of his friends had burned it into a CD for him. It occurred to me that it might be the single whitest rock song ever written. And I mean that in a bad way. Related: Combo Fail More evidence of ancient Flyover Culture discovered Aw, how sweet! Hamas supporters

on Land Protoplasm. Michael van der Galien on the evils of unchecked Land Protoplasts. Casting Keanu Reeves as a genius? Genius!

See Major John’s post at the Pub.

If Al Franken were not a longtime public figure — and thus severely handicapped by American jurisprudence — he could file a powerful complaint for libel or slander against several of the most prominent wingnuts in the United States. From Rush Limbaugh to Bill O’Reilly to Richard Mellon Scaife, a chorus of familiar voices is loudly defaming the Democrat whose razor-thin win in the Minnesota Senate race will now be