Just thought I’d be the first to get that into the search engines. And oh yeah: Don’t think that while we’re looking at your disgruntled staffers, we ain’t looking at you, too, “Maverick.”

— Though snowbilly moose milker Sarah Palin would disagree. Philadelphia Daily News’ Will Bunch: Yes, they’re voicing outrage today inside the sacred sanctuary of the Temple of Objective Journalism, where the celebrants nervously fingered their rosaries rather than confront the Constitutional bonfire that was building outside. But for eight years now, there’s been an out-of-control fire raging outside of that temple – a fire that was built upon the USA

In response to my (evidently controversial) post yesterday on the dangers of what I take to be false nobility — and Patterico’s many responses to said post — Cranky Conservative writes: In light of what’s happened and, more importantly, in light of the important issues we’ll be facing in the near future, can we just say that a full-bore, nasty, intramural debate over whether or not we should say that

Joy! Because if anything should be clear to us it is how keenly concerned with our interests, rather than their own, are, say, Belgium or Iran. From the WSJ: President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy will focus on wooing longstanding U.S. adversaries while rebuilding alliances in Europe strained during the nearly eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. Mr. Obama and his advisers are studying ways to engage Iran and Syria,

David Harsanyi, Denver Post: Winning elections is one thing; governing is quite another. It is impossible to deny that Obama ran one of sharpest, most diligent and exhilarating campaigns in modern American history or, for that matter, that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party has won a resounding mandate to run the country. That only means we need a robust and principled opposition. My children are continually lectured by

I heard back from the youtube people, by way of Ronald Coleman, and the problem, as youtube describes it, is thus: they concluded that I was somehow “gaming the system” — that massive traffic to videos was coming from relatively few IP addresses. Does anyone know how this might be done? Would a link to a video from this site produce such an effect. Because as any of you who

Patterico: Good men do bad things, and in the pursuit of ambition, they almost always do. Barack Obama is not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination. What’s more, I think he will damage this country with bad policies. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Inevitably, he is going to take actions that I think are disastrous, and somebody will come back and say: “Hey, Patterico! I thought you said

Is it just me, or is that like the perfect opening line for the movie version of Liberal Fascism?

From alppuccino, presented without commentary: At 10:40, President Bush will keep his streak alive by telling everyone how much he loves America. Just as he always has. And he’ll show everyone how much he loves America by preparing Obama as best he can for the next 4 years. He’ll do everything in his power to impart to President-elect Obama the seriousness of national security. He’ll do it with dignity and

Time to vent, Comrades.