Last Post of 2008 …..

….. unless Pajamas Media (ahem) posts my latest column before the end of the day:

• Who is buried in Grant’s tomb? Easy answer. Who owns Barack Obama’s home on the South Side of Chicago? Not so easy, and apparently, it’s not him. Nothing’s easy with this guy.
• Vicki Iseman, the person with whom the Times alleged John McCain might have had an affair, is suing the Times. She’d better hurry; there may be nothing left to recover soon.
• Another reason to celebrate New Year’s Eve — Dubai and Egypt aren’t. Go to the links and see why.
• Mainstream Media files for bankruptcy — It’s a company named Mainstream Media International. I would think that the particularly poor name choice may have been a factor.
• IBDeditorials.com kicks sand in the face of globalarmists (bold is mine) — “Global thermometers stopped rising after 1998, and have plummeted in the last two years by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. The 2007-2008 temperature drop was not predicted by global climate models. But it was predictable by a decline in sunspot activity since 2000.”
• From USA Today — “President-elect Barack Obama vowed on the campaign trail to shut down the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But he never said what he would do with the prisoners there.” I doubt that, but if it’s true, it’s because no one in the lapdog media asked him.
• Proof that the press has not always been so reluctant to use the word “Christmas” in connection with the Thanksgiving to New Year’s shopping season. It’s from the December 27, 1936 New York Times: