Most of us are still catching our breath from the watershed November 7 elections. But with Hillary Clinton the likely contender for the Democratic Party, the pundits are already cranking out their assorted hissy-fits, half-truths, and pre-emptive attacks.

Take last week’s  content-free column by Susan Estrich, “First Whiffs of Sexism in Hillary’s Presidential Coverage.”

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Defense: DNA Tests Show Duke Lacrosse Accuser Had Sex, But Not With Players

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/10527492/detail.html?rss=char&psp=news

"Moderate" Is the Most Common Political Leaning Among Web Users

Nielsen//NetRatings (NASDAQ: NTRT), a global leader in Internet media and market research, announced today that 36.6 percent of U.S. adults online are Republicans, 30.8 percent are Democrats and 17.3 percent are Independents. With campaign Web sites becoming increasingly important to reaching the electorate, candidates need to keep their fingers on the political pulse of the Internet.

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=178875

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's New Prison Home Includes Roommates, Fish Sandwiches and Bunk Beds.. or maybe fish beds and bunk sandwiches...?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236368,00.html 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota, had an apparent stroke on Wednesday at his office in Washington and has been hospitalized, NBC News reported.

The condition of the 59-year-old Johnson was unknown, the network said.

When the 110th Congress convenes on January 4, there will be 49 Democrats in the Senate, 49 Republicans and two independents. But the two independents will align themselves with the Democrats, giving them majority control of the Senate.

South Dakota's governor, Michael Rounds, who would appoint any successor if there is a vacancy, is a Republican.

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MK Freeburg... A smart guy in a dumb world takes aim at a CNN article:

I don’t have any questions for the egghead; I have questions for the other twenty percent. Give me five minutes of Q&A with each of them and I’ll jack that eighty percent figure all the way to the top. Then give me the same five minutes with people who aren’t white, I’ll demonstrate they could be called “racists” too.

http://mkfreeberg.webloggin.com/2006/12/

Philly is giving free condoms to male prisoners...

http://www.nbc10.com/news/10521049/detail.html

... but don't stop there...

http://www.hicksphoto.com/zach/hosted/z0005/

 

Democratic campaign operatives pushed newspapers to write about then-Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to teenage pages in the hope that a scandal would emerge before the midterm elections, according to a House ethics report.  The findings were bolstered when an aide to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Democrat, said the congressman also knew about the e-mails, which were dubbed "inappropriate" by the ethics panel. Mr. Emanuel, who was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) when Mr. Foley's sex scandal broke in late September, had denied knowledge of the Florida Republican's e-mails...

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Emory's top expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict outlined his criticisms of Jimmy Carter's new book on Monday, charging the former president with distorting the history of Arab-Israeli relations.

Professor Kenneth Stein, who resigned last week from his post at The Carter Center over the book, listed two "egregious and inexcusable errors" and several other inaccuracies in Carter's Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.

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House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided Tuesday that Rep. William Jefferson will not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.

Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic Steering Committee had resolved that Jefferson, who last Saturday won a runoff election in his New Orleans district, will not be given back his spot on the Ways and Means Committee, the panel that determines tax and trade policies.

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Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91.

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The strange requests that happy old fat man gets...It has been around for a while, but a really cool animation...

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/humor/web_animations/XmasBoobies.swf

A survey conducted on over 1,200 Indian men has found that condoms manufactured according to international standards are too big for most Indian men and now doctors are calling for smaller condoms to be made for the region.

http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2006-12-12/1013730.html