TRACY QUAN: Tiger Woods “broke the rules of adultery.”

IRAQPUNDIT: The Day After.

HEH: EPA chief: Hey, timing of new CO2 regulations just a coincidence!

PEREZ HILTON pulls a diva act. See, the thing about actual divas is that they’re really good at something: Singing.

ALAN CARLIN: The Politicization of the EPA — an Administration’s Radical Gamble.

MICHAEL YON reports from Afghanistan.

ED DRISCOLL: Is Newsweek a brand that will disappear in 2010? “Newsweek bet heavily that its target audience was as homogeneous a group as the writers in its bullpen — or worse, that they could put one over on those readers by attempting to be the equivalent of the New Republic and the Nation within a more centrist-appearing brand name — and failed spectacularly.” Hard to see what value they’re providing these days.

IN THE MAIL: From Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book.

CLEAN COAL MYTHS: “Coal will never be clean. It is possible to make coal emissions cleaner. In fact, we’ve come a long way since the ’70s in finding ways to reduce sulfur–dioxide and nitrogen-oxide emissions, and more progress can be made. But the nut of the clean-coal sales pitch is that we can also bottle up the CO2 produced when coal is burned, most likely by burying it deep in the earth. That may be possible in theory, but it’s devilishly difficult in practice.”

INCOMPETENCE. Even at the image stuff. Amazing.

UPDATE: Is it Rahm Emanuel’s fault?

JOEL KOTKIN: Capping Emissions, Trading On The Future. “The West’s goals in Copenhagen are tantamount to suicide.”

COURTNEY MARTIN: Why I’m Avoiding The New Slew Of Pro-Vegetarian Books and Movies. Unfortunately, “because it’s a load of crap” isn’t actually the answer.

GRAND ROUNDS IS UP!

QUICK, HIDE THE DECLINE! Obama At New Low In Quinnipiac Survey, Underwater on Key Issues. “The downward decline has picked up speed, too. It may be hard to recall this, but just six- months ago, Obama had a 59% approval rating, with only 31% disapproving. Two months ago, he still had a 50/41 split. It’s worse among independents, though. . . . The combination of results from various pollsters shows that Obama has entered a free-fall on his approval ratings. Robert Gibbs can blame Gallup all he wants, but these results vindicate Gallup and show that his boss has a real problem. People have begun to realize that this emperor wears no clothes.”

GREECE THREATENS BANKRUPTCY, and the EuroZone.

DIGITAL CAMERA CARNIVAL? Reader Michael Whitty writes to ask for a new one.

Would love it if you could update:

http://www.pjmedia.com/instapundit/archive/archives/027464.php

We’re looking for a good balance of features and ease-of-use, so any comments to help us identify one would be most appreciated.

I still like my Lumix LX-3 a lot, and — together with the Nikon D300 that I just used on a Popular Mechanics assignment — I’ve been so happy that I haven’t been shopping for other cameras for over a year. (If the D300 is too pricey for you — and I can see why it might be — the D5000 gets good reviews, too.)

Consumer Reports likes the Sony DSC-W300, as well as the Canon SD-880. And the Powershot G10 gets good reviews. But I haven’t been shopping myself lately — just too satisfied with what I’ve got.

So, anyway, if you’ve got suggestions email me. Or if you’ve got a post, send a link. Either way, please put “Digital Camera Carnival” in the subject line so I can pull ’em all together.

UPDATE: Rick Lee sends this link to Ken Rockwell’s recommended cameras.

I should also note that the Kodak Zi8 and the Flip Mino HD are pretty cool in the pocket-videocam segment.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” British wonder if Obama has it in for them.

Given the level of sacrifice by British troops, it was the most extraordinary and insulting oversight.

Had this been a one-off omission, it might have been overlooked as a careless mistake by a president preoccupied with trying to sell a difficult message to his own people. But it wasn’t.

In all the speeches Obama has made since becoming President – indeed, in all the speeches he made when on the campaign trail, too – neither Britain nor the special relationship have merited a single mention.

The country’s in the very best of hands.

JAMES TARANTO ON HARRY REID: “He has a propensity for saying things that are splenetic, inappropriate and ignorant, such as his embarrassing series of claims a few years ago that Clarence Thomas was unintelligent. This, however, raises a question that has long puzzled us about Reid: How did such an unappealing man who says so many foolish things get so far in politics? . . . Still, his success to this point seems something of a miracle–an inspiration to dour, foolish men everywhere.”

But now he faces an Armenian nightmare.

JUST AFTER THE “JOBS SUMMIT,” new regulations that discourage hiring. “Regulatory risk from the federal government is now — by a longshot — the biggest barrier to increasing private sector employment. Neither looser money nor string-pushing ‘stimulus’ can overcome that in the long run.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL: The global-warming scandal is bigger than one email leak.

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: Some of the “Homogenized” Temperature Data is False. “When the CRU at East Anglia disclosed that it had lost some of the raw temperature data, leaving only the “homogenized” data, some honest commentators expressed the hope that the homogenizing was competently done.” Not so much, apparently.

RADLEY BALKO: Clemency On Trial: Most governors grant clemency for the wrong reasons. Here’s what coverage of the Huckabee/Clemons case is missing.

SUDDENLY, THE WHITE HOUSE isn’t so enamored of poll numbers anymore.

Well, stuff like this doesn’t help: “President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.”

MATT WELCH on ClimateGate. Plus, “green jobs” as “a pile of bullshit.”