UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, MANDATES, SMALL BUSINESS, AND OBAMA: ”He’s never had to make a payroll, and private enterprise is the enemy.”

KABOOM: another Palin-hater self-combusts. Read the comments.

ATTRIBUTED TO RAHM EMANUEL: Never let a crisis go to waste. Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison adds: if that doesn’t work, create a crisis.

PALIN-HATING COLUMBIA PROFESSOR and Huffington Post blogger busted for incest (with his daughter). My favorite comments:

Kathie Shaidle: “Liberals: your moral and intellectual superiors!"

Commenter livermoron at Don Surber’s place: ”Incest sure explains a lot about the left and academia.”

Instapundit: “The best and the brightest at Columbia University.”

Oh, the embarrassment.

ANOTHER THOUGHT: “Ending weeks of speculation and rumors, President-Elect Barack Obama today named Bill Clinton to join his incoming administration as President of the United States, where he will head the federal government’s executive branch.”

Obama never wanted to be President of the United States; he wanted to be Emperor of Earth.

THEY TOLD ME if I voted for Hillary, Bill Clinton would basically be co-president - and they were right!

More here and here.

PEAK COAL? The point that is being missed, I think, is that the peaks were regulatory peaks, not resource peaks.

THEY’RE BACK: Tax deal larded up with TARP special interest provisions. The Democrats won’t give them up and the Republicans haven't gotten the message. It's going to take more than one election.