Bruce “Won’t Someone Please Love Me” Bartlett finally has an admirer. And it’s Paul Krugman . (Thanks to Bob Wenzel .)

Writes Scott McConnell: Phil Giraldi noted a few days ago that the House Foreign Affairs Committee was inviting Israeli ambassador Michael Oren as their sole witness to brief the House, in a closed session, on the strategic implications of the recent Gaza war. On Thursday the…
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The Iowa Straw Poll is irrelevant and should be abandoned , says National Review. It’s not about the preferences of the people, it’s about who can bus in more voters.

Good for them . This always struck me as an Orwellian neologism. The thinking seemed to go, “These people hold an unfashionable view. And they disagree with me. Therefore, they cannot be rational. They must have some type of clinical disorder.” Even a few libertarians, to their everlasting…
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Join me tonight at 11:00pm ET for Liberty Hot Seat with Scott Horton. It’s a streaming video show with chat room. See you there !

A postcard mailed in 1943 just arrived at the intended address.

Politico’s headline: “ A New Bush Rises .”

Warns a professor at the Naval Academy. (Thanks to Kevin Gutzman.)

Walmart reported its best Black Friday ever (Black Thursday, really, since the sales started on Thanksgiving night), in spite of union-inspired strikes at a number of stores across the country. “We work hard, so we just want a decent wage,” said one participant. Now please, I…
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A reader alerts me to his plan to change minds .