Jules Crittenden: Hard Times for Lefty Peaceniks. Oh. And buy books. Before, like, Sarah Palin burns them all.

From the AP, “Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?” Blogger beware? State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances. In a collision of 21st century media and 1970s political reforms, the inquiry hints at a showdown over press freedoms for bloggers, whose self-published journals can shift between news reporting, opinion writing, political organizing and

Jules Crittenden argues that PE Obama owes a debt of gratitude to George Bush — and that Obama would be wise to recognize what good Bush has done and incorporate it into his own administration’s policies. From “A Time for Thanksgiving,” the Weekly Standard: In foreign policy, possibly embarrassed by the eagerness with which the world’s most vile regimes have welcomed his election, Obama is backing off his many promises

“The View’s” Joy Behar — who once became enraged at a guest scientist whose job it was, for one particular segment, to look for germs in the lady’s personal bathrooms and found fecal matter in Behar’s toothbrush (true story) — puts on her old public school teacher persona and talks her some sophomoric shit about “demented” home schooled children. — Which, I guess if you’re brushing your teeth with it,

“And the coloured girls go / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo [&tc.]”

With a nifty bit of juxtaposition, John Tabin fleshes out what I have written on elsewhere, namely, the danger that statist “conservatives” like Mike Huckabee pose to the real aims of the classical liberal movement. McCain and Huckabee were the two worst candidates Republicans put on offer for 2008. Their successes in the primaries suggest that many in the GOP have bought into the Democratic spin that “conservatives” need to

WSJ: Mr. Waxman, speaking for the upscale precincts of Beverly Hills, wants to phase out coal and cars that use gasoline. The coastal elites who now dominate Democratic politics will happily trade the blue collar for the green collar. Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked — one way or the other

The damned market, it just keeps getting in the way of progress! Which is why we must figure out ways to kill it. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES TO SUFFER! BECAUSE SUFFERING IS WHAT TELLS US THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER! (h/t Terry H) **** update: Stop it! YOU’RE DESTROYING PROGRESS!

Blogosphere “heavy hitters” discuss the future of conservatism. I’m going to pause here in a few to watch it myself, but in advance of that, let me predict that “nanobot armies” and illegal immigrants have a better than 50-50 shot of getting a mention. “Classical liberalism”? Likely not — though it’ll be there, if only in spirit.

A new day is dawning, people. “New AG Appointee Advocated To Stifle Speech On Web”: The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the