AT AMAZON, rolling out the Cyber Monday deals a day early.

CLIMATEGATE: FROM JIM TREACHER, A friendly chat with the global warming evangelist who lives in my head.

Related: The worst scientific scandal of our generation?

Plus, the dog ate my climate change data! “SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.”

How convenient. Kinda like the “flood” that “destroyed” Michael Bellesiles’ probate records . . .

UPDATE: “Botch after botch after botch.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Investigations Beginning in the UK.

PAUL MIRENGOFF: The Obama-Holder Justice Department turns a blind eye to ACORN. “DOJ has initiated grand jury probes of major businesses, and government contractors, with far less in the way of evidence than is available in the public domain on ACORN right now. It’s also ironic that the DOJ has had in place for several years a Procurement Fraud Task Force that goes after contractors who receive federal funds through fraud or collusion, or bribery, or the like.” But not connected contractors . . . .

MICHAEL BARONE: Global Warming Consensus: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

THIS IS INTERESTING: Women lead Swiss in vote to ban minarets. Why would women, in particular, be opposed to the visible spread of Islam in Europe?

UPDATE: Some thoughts from Roger Simon.

HOW TO HANG HDTVs using wall hangers.

UH OH: Black Friday weekend spending down 8 pct per person. “U.S. consumers spent significantly less per person at the start of the holiday season this weekend, dimming hopes for a retail comeback that would help propel the economy early in 2010.” I hear that ammo sales were strong, though.

UH OH: Man sought in Washington police ambush was freed by Mike Huckabee.

UPDATE: More from Michelle Malkin.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Huckabee’s statement.

HOW WIDESPREAD IS THE DAMAGE? Rand Simberg on ClimateGate.

And “hockey stick” graph creator Michael Mann is being investigated by Penn State.

THE WEEK IN WINDOWS: PC vs. Mac for the Holidays. Windows 7 has already outpaced Mac OS in adoptions.

ANOTHER GITMO OFFICIAL RESIGNS: Who Is Accountable Now?

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON XM/SIRIUS RADIO, the latest PJM Political is now online, with Alvin Toffler, Mark Hemingway, Michael Malone, and Jennifer Burns.

RON ROSENBAUM: When Global Warming Advocates Trivialize the Holocaust.

SURPRISE: Poll: Most respondents don’t believe stimulus has helped economy.

THE REVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL of CCDs.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Will Obama Repair His Wimp Image? “Frankly, it might be a good time for the president to battle his left flank and demonstrate some moxie, if he has it. The world and a vast number of centrists in America, not to mention conservatives, think he’s a wimp. This is his time to prove them wrong.”

RADLEY BALKO interviewed by The Economist.

MICKEY KAUS: STOP STIGMATIZING STIGMA!

But a stigma placed on cash-like welfare (which food stamps are) remains a positive sign of a healthy work ethic. If you came across two societies–Society A, in which food stamps were stigmatized, with families reluctant to go on the dole even if they were eligible, and Society B, in which they weren’t, you would want to bet on (and live in) Society A. It’s one thing to relax the stigma on welfare in times of epic economic decline. It’s another if the stigma doesn’t return with the possibility of employment.

Indeed.

L.A. WEEKLY: L.A.’s Medical Weed Wars: How the Potheads Outwitted Antonio Villaraigosa and the L.A. City Council. Okay, even for a bunch of potheads that’s not a huge challenge. But as Xeni Jardin has noted, it’s producing some real quality-of-life problems.

TIGERHAWK: Thoughts on the ClimateGate Video.

Related: ClimateGate: The Destroyer Of Worldviews.

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS created or saved.

Check out the list of Candidates. With this kind of PR, I’m starting to take my run for Tennessee’s 29th District more seriously! What do you think?

BUILDING A NATION OF CAMERAMEN. And women.

MODELING THE ECONOMY AS A PHYSICS PROBLEM. I’d prefer building lots of new nuclear plants to total economic collapse, please.

SO HOW’S THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” THING WORKING OUT? Iran Plans Ten New Uranium Enrichment Plants.

POP SECRET: Microwaves at a nuclear warhead plant.