LIMBAUGH GOES AFTER HUCKABEE: I told you attacking him was a bad idea. That would be like Hillary going after Oprah.

UPDATE: Ouch: “I believe this Rush-bashing incident may turn out to be Huckabee’s Howard Dean scream moment.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Huckabee’s Chip Saltsman lays on the love for Limbaugh: “We have nothing but respect for Rush Limbaugh and know that he’s a big part of the conservative movement in this country. That’s one person’s opinion in DC, but it doesn’t represent the view of the Huckabee campaign. I can only hope we’ll get a chance to talk to Rush and make sure that he knows that’s not coming from us.”

ANN ALTHOUSE on Nickelodeon, Jamie Lynn Spears, and Zoey 101.

IN THE MAIL: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, featuring short stories by Orson Scott Card, Cory Doctorow, George R.R. Martin, and more.

JUDICIALIZING WARFARE: “Ah yes, the new ‘rules of the game’ — which, you might notice, don’t include winning.”

BELGIUM ARRESTS 14 in terror probe.

QUIET BACKTRACKING on the Rudy expense story.

ONE STEP FORWARD: Another Iraq dispatch from Michael Yon.

DESTROYING ANTHRAX TOXIN with carbon nanotubes.

JETSONS STYLING and 300 mpg — a test drive of the Aptera car by the Popular Mechanics folks. “It’s better than driving a Lamborghini.”

SOME POLL SKEPTICISM from John Podhoretz.

THE AMAZON MAILBOTS ARE REMINDING ME that you can still order as late as 4 pm eastern time tomorrow and get it by Christmas Eve, God and UPS willing. I’ve had good luck — only one present still hasn’t arrived, and it’ll probably get here — but if I were planning on having stuff show up Christmas Eve I’d want to have a backup plan, just in case . . . .

Or there’s always a gift certificate. They email those.

UPDATE: Hey, maybe they’re right to point this out: “35 million Americans haven’t started Christmas shopping yet. Thank God He created Fed Ex on the 8th day. ” And it arrived the morning of the 9th! Absolutely, positively!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Dean Knight emails: “Glen, don’t know about you, but I got a bot from Amazon this morning saying, as a Prime customer, I have until 12 Noon Pacific time Sunday to order and get it Christmas Eve. Guess you don’t order enough from them. Ha!” I feel sorry for anyone who orders more than I do.

MICKEY KAUS: “Jerry Skurnick has suggested that the electorate is splitting into two diverging parts–people who follow politics and people who don’t–with the people who follow politics much better informed than they were before (thanks to cable, web, etc.) and the people who don’t follow politics less well informed (they used to get at least some information from Walter Cronkite). That certainly rings true to me. . . . But there’s a second way to divide the electorate that asks how the voters inform themselves. Do they rely on the traditional Mainstream Media (MSM), or do they get their political information from the Web, from cable news, from the tabloids, etc. This division may have once seemed unimportant, but it doesn’t anymore.”

A FRED THOMPSON ENDORSEMENT from Bob Krumm. “Fred Thompson won. That didn’t surprise me. What I didn’t suspect was how well John McCain placed according to my analytical estimation.”

PATRICK HEALY:

I just got a phone call — unprompted — from Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a Democratic candidate for president, blasting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for saying she would withdraw nearly all American troops from Iraq within a year of beginning redeployment.

“Senator Clinton’s comments are a stunning flip-flop — she’s been saying she would keep troops in Iraq for five years, until 2013, and now she comes up with an inconsistent, incredible turnaround,” Mr. Richardson said.

Richardson must think that his shot at being Hillary’s running mate — or, rather, of Hillary being in a position to have a running mate — is looking iffy. He’s been quite gentle with her up to now.

AND HE EARNED EVERY PENNY: “Russian president Vladimir Putin, whose alleged accumulated wealth of $40bn would make him Europe’s richest man.”

HOMELAND SECURITY IS A (SOMETIMES CRUEL) JOKE — and Tom Maguire notes that it’s been that way since before Andrew Sullivan and Matt Yglesias started to pay attention.

I actually remember something like that happening to an English graduate student and his family who lived across the street from us at Holden Green when I was a kid.

Plus, this crucial distinction: “In fascism, you’re persecuted because of who you are and who your parents were. In an American airport, you’re persecuted because you’re there.”

OUTED.

THAT DOESN’T SEEM SMART: Huckabee insider disses Rush Limbaugh.

A LOOK AT Argentina, Iran, and nuclear weapons.

PAT BUCHANAN IS POORLY POSITIONED to play this card.

GPS UDPATE: So the GPS that I ordered — this one — showed up the other day. I’ve had it on the dash for a couple of days, just to see how it works. Pretty well. The maps are clear and so far seem entirely accurate. The routing doesn’t always choose my regular routes from place to place — which may be a flaw in the device but is more likely a flaw in my regular routes — and when I was stuck in traffic on Kingston Pike it found me a shortcut through a subdivision that I didn’t realize connected through to another main road. The voice directions are clear and come in plenty of time to make turns. It’s easy to use — I haven’t even looked at the manual, which, lamely, but typically these days is on a CD not in a print version. I think I’m glad that I sprung for the wider screen model — I’m sure that the cheaper nuvi 350 is plenty good, as lots of readers enthusiastically endorsed it — but the big screen does seem exceptionally clear. Haven’t really had a chance to test out the traffic receiver yet.

And apparently I’m riding a trend as sales of GPS devices are way up this season. Well, they’ve gotten cheap enough, and good enough, that even the people who were holding back are starting to buy them. That’s me!

HOW TO DRAW TRAFFIC AND COMMENTERS OUT OF THE WOODWORK: Do what Megan McArdle has done, and repeatedly criticize Ron Paul on the gold standard.

UPDATE: I think they’ll soon abandon her for Stephen Green.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Charles Johnson emails: “If you really want to stir up the Paulians, just post a picture of him with Don Black of Stormfront.“

WEBLOGS VS. THE NEW YORK TIMES: Dave Winer bet on Weblogs and — sort of — wins. But Rogers Cadenhead says that both lost.

TOM TANCREDO: Polka is child abuse. With its own category in the Grammies.

BELDAR ENDORSES FRED THOMPSON.