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,