Contributed by: filbert Thursday, December 24 2009 @ 12:48 PM CST
Sorry the Whip is so long, and so late today. Damn Congresscritters.
The neverending struggle for liberty:
UK Press Gives Obama an “F” for His Historically Low Approval Rating [*1]
Nazis, Commies, and Death Panels [*2]
California Bailout – Not Only “No”, But “Hell No” [*3]
An Open Letter to Sarah Palin – By Patricia Melton and the Mineral City Coffee Club [*4]
AMERICA NEEDS SARAH PALIN MORE THAN EVER [*5]
USA Today Best Seller List: Going Rogue at #1 for Fifth-Straight Week [*6]
Congress back to finding ways to fund ACORN [*7]
Lucky for us, an under-performing president [*8]
Oh my: McCain working on getting another Democrat to switch? [*9]
Red, red meat: Gingrich rallies the base to take back Congress [*10]
IRS Has 70% Error Rate in Issuance of Taxpayer ID Numbers, Resulting in Fraudulent Tax Refunds [*11]
Lessons from John Galt [*12]
Sarah Palin: Democrats Will Awaken Sleeping Giant With Health Care Takeover [*13]
Health care “change” (called by some “reform”):
Markets, Not Mandates [*14]
A Bill of Goods, Maybe [*15]
A Surprise in the Health Care Bill [*16]
Obama’s Truthiness [*17]
The Senate needs Martian gold, unicorns, and alien slaves to make the Healthcare Rationing bill work financially [*18]
Could the Senate Bill Eliminate Private Insurance? [*19]
It’s time to start over on ObamaCare, says … top House Democrat [*20]
Fund: Dems will probably bypass conference committee for ping-pong [*21]
Jake Tapper fact-checks Obama assertion on public option campaigning [*22]
Beyond the Constitution: The Healthcare Bill Violates the Rule of Law [*23]
CBO: You can’t spend the same dollars twice [*24]
Justin Raimondo is cool [*25]
Palin’s Continued Popularity and Relevance [*26]
Christmas Back On! Build-A-Bear Surrenders, Pulls Videos [*27]
AGW: The Greens’ Tet Offensive [*28]
When legerdemain is used to pass an unpopular bill [*29]
For Their Next Trick . . . [*30]
The Fierce Urgency of February: White House To Put Health Care on Back Burner Until After He Offers Some Glib, Empty Rhetoric About the Economy? [*31]
Arrogance, corruption, stupidity [*32]
John McCormack from the Weekly Standard Slaps Dave Weigel and Others Over “Death Panels” [*33]
Coal for Christmas from the Senate [*34]
“Health Care Reform” Passes The Senate, Lady Liberty Passes Out [*35]
And, the bottom line:
If You Like Your Health Plan, You Will NOT Be Able to Keep It [*36]
Travel and cruising:
Crystal vs. Regent — On-Board Communication [*37]
United, Continental, ANA seek antitrust immunity [*38]
NEW Cruise Reviews: Two Antarctica Expeditions [*39]
USA TODAY report: Safety of food at airports spotty [*40]
Been away from the airport? A lot has changed [*41]
Don’t Blame the Airlines [*42]
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
The Climategate Timeline: 30 years visualized [*43]
Von Storch op-ed in the WSJ: ‘Climategate reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda’ [*44]
A Cycle of Cathay [*45]
Nothing Voluntary About Obamacare’s Mandate [*46]
Ping Pong: Dems to Avoid Conference in Favor of (Please Sit Down) Shady Back-Room Deal [*47]
The Economy:
The Deficit is Mind Boggling [*48]
Tempting the Tipping Point [*49]
miscellany:
VIDEO: Peter Jackson talks ‘Hobbit’ [*50]
Blizzard forms in U.S. Midwest, Plains [*51]
Holiday Movies [*52]
Reward offered after 6 colts killed [*53]
Sports:
Depressing Royals Story of the Day [*54]
SDSU men fall to Gophers [*55]
Foreign policy:
The ending year [*56]
The thrill of victory or the agony of defeat? [*57]