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Pakinstan's own internal investigation links Lashkar, an organization begun and supported by the Pakistani intelligence services, to the attacks in Mumbai.

Israel rejects 48 hour cease fire. Good for them. But notice how this article claims that Hamas is sending rockets into Israel in retaliation for Israel's attack. That's an outright lie. This whole started, and it always starts, with Hamas firing rockets into Israel. Israel is retaliating, not Hamas.

I think Blagojevich did the smart thing by appointing a replacement for Obama. Blagojevich's position is he did nothing wrong. His appointment of a replacement is consistent with that position. By picking the man he did, a black man with no politicial baggage and no public taint of corruption in one of most blatant displays of playing the race card we've ever seen, he puts the pressure on his critics in Illinois and Washington to block the appointment.

Jobless claims reduced. I wonder if this means we've reached the bottom or if Christmas is just interfering with the statistics. It could be either. After the crash of '29, the economy quickly bottomed out, then Hoover's protectionism and FDR's New Deal drove it to even greater lows. Left to its own devices, the economy would quickly bottom out and recover, but government isn't going to let that happen.

Broncos owner Pat Bowlen fired Mike Shanahan. Wasn't he the longest tenured coach in the league?

Another giant aspect of Bush's legacy is that freedom is in retreat around the world just like it is in the US.

Reason laments the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Time Warner may drop up to 20 channels including the Comedy Channel and Nickelodean in contract dispute with Viacom. Both would be cutting off their noses despite their faces. This is what we get for allowing government to pick and choose telecommunications monopolies. If we could switch to Comcast, Time Warner wouldn't even consider this.