STOP CAP & TRADE OR DEMS RISK AN EVEN GREATER SLAUGHTER IN 2010. With the looming spectre of a 2010 Democrat massacre at the ballot box, so-called moderate Senate Democrats are begging Barack Obama and the White House to stop pushing such unpopular pieces of legislation like Cap & Trade. After the Democrat partisan vote and passage of Obamacare through the Senate, many Dems fear that Cap & Trade will be yet another bill with no support from Republicans or the People. However, Obama does no... (more)

Just out via the AP: ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A federal judge has told a Nigerian man that he is charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day. U.S. District Judge Paul Borman read 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO-mahr fah-ROOK ahb-DOOL-moo-TAH-lahb) his charges in a conference room on Saturday at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, where he is being treated for burns. (more)

Now that the Senate bill has been slated for passage this week, the major stakeholders in the debate have begun to shift their attention to the upcoming conference committee to combine the bills from both houses—and some are already bringing their demands to the table. As Mike Lillis notes, the American Medical Association declared yesterday that it would support the Senate bill, but declared that it would to turn against the bill next year if Democrats failed to lay the groundwork for a long-term fix of... (more)

As they have since 1955, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will be helping children of all ages track the approach and arrival of Santa Clause during his global Christmas Eve gift delivery flight. (more)