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Good news: There is one important reason to applaud Gupta’s forthcoming appointment: following Larry Summers, Gupta will be the second member of the incoming Obama administration to have forcefully – and very publicly – taken on the far-left. Back in 2007, Gupta fact-checked Michael Moore’s Sicko, airing a segment on CNN in which he concluded [...]

From Sis: Dear praying family and friends, Laura (you can see her picture on Olivia’s caringbridge website) is in need of a miracle. We met this family 4 years ago and spent wonderful life building time at Oley this past summer. Laura is diagnosed with Pseudo Obstruction, a different “kind” than Olivia and Noah. Laura [...]

On the rise: [M]aybe the real nightmarish irony is that that piker Hitler’s ruthless SS wasn’t ruthless enough. On the streets of Toronto, an anti-Israel demonstrator complains: Hitler didn’t do a good job. So Jews are only the new Nazis because the old Nazis didn’t do a good enough job. At Maclean’s and my trial [...]

Here. We are frightfully historically ignorant. Or, just stupid? UPDATE: Jay Nordlinger: Roger Ebert, the film critic, referred to Che Guevara as a “fiercely ethical firebrand”! My friend Rick Brookhiser commented, “His ethics were fierce, all right.” True dat. Question: Is Ebert a totalitarian, who would have us shot, or confined to a gulag, à [...]

Excellent source of information — one sample: Another: A missile launcher and a number of anti tank missiles were discovered hidden in a Palestinian school yard in Sajalya, northern Gaza Strip, during an IDF operation against terror threats. The IDF force returned fire at an armed Palestinian gunman who opened fire at the soldiers and [...]

Hugh Hewitt is thankful: Panetta’s a patriot, an experienced Washington hand, and close to the president-elect. As with many of the other early appointments on the incoming national security team, conservatives should be asking themselves if they ought not to be thanking their stars that the new team appears very realistic about the world they [...]

Caroline Glick via Richard Fernandez: in contrast to the situation in 2006, today Iran seems to have little interest in expanding the war and so saving Hamas from military defeat and humiliation. Speaking on Hizbullah’s Al Manar television network on Sunday, Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s National Security Council, its chief nuclear negotiator and [...]

Because bad quality will be protected by the American taxpayer: Jaguar’s demise was easily explainable. Freed from basic market pressures imposed by consumers with regard to quality, Jaguar could foist unreliable cars onto the marketplace without worry. While private companies face bankruptcy if they regularly fail customers, Jaguar’s access to the funds of hapless taxpayers [...]

Good to see Republicans go on offense: Congressmen Pence and Walden join Senator DeMint in a press conference to highlight the introduction of the Broadcaster Freedom Act on the floor of the U.S. House. The Broadcaster Freedom Act would prevent the Federal Communications Commission from implementing the Fairness Doctrine without an act of Congress.

At a nice mark-up: Local sources: Hamas is selling flour donated by the people of Qatar for the sector for the amount of NIS 140 per bag. Gaza, Palestine Press — Local sources in the Gaza Strip said that Hamas is selling flour and humanitarian aid to citizens that was donated by the State of [...]