DANA LOESCH, ET AL., roll out a right-leaning alternative to MoveOn.org.

MORE PRAISE FOR OBAMA’S NOBEL SPEECH, from the Washington Examiner. “President Obama displayed exceptional dignity and humility in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in Oslo.”

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: NPR: Connecticut Senator Fights “Dump Dodd” Sentiment.

ADMINISTRATION APPOINTEE SOBERS UP, finally shows for work. “A former New Mexico Cabinet secretary arrested for drunken driving three days after being named to an Obama administration post will assume her federal job.”

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The New Socialism. This time, without Reagan and Thatcher to beat it back. “One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World. . . . Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale, too. . . . Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green.”

I’d take them more seriously if they had any proposals that didn’t transfer wealth and power to . . . them.

THE GHOST OF Lysenko?

OR MAYBE THEY’RE JUST GOING ALONG WITH THE COVER STORY: Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway’s Light Show. It sure looked like a trans-dimensional portal to me . . .

CHRISTMAS, 1919. What will Christmas be like 90 years hence?

COMPLAINTS ABOUT New York’s Job-Killing Climate.

WAS “A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS” cut for TV broadcast?

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: IPCC and “The Trick.” “Much recent attention has been paid to the email about the ‘trick’ and the effort to ‘hide the decline’. Climate scientists have complained that this email has been taken ‘out of context’. In this case, I’m not sure that it’s in their interests that this email be placed in context because the context leads right back to a meeting of IPCC authors in Tanzania, raising serious questions about the role of IPCC itself in ‘hiding the decline’ in the Briffa reconstruction.”

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Trapped in a “Green Fantasy?”

MICHAEL TANNER: Public Option’s Rotten Replacement: “Searching for an acceptable alternative to the controversial ‘public option,’ Senate Democrats on Tuesday night adopted three bad ideas instead.”

STIMULUS! Average Federal Government Worker Pay $71,206. “The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.”

BYRON YORK: A green, sustainable future that doesn’t work.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Come on, Ta-Nahesi Coates. A very serious apology is in order.” Well, maybe.

MONEY AND the market for plasma.

CARLY FIORINA: ClimateGate: Facts Are Important Things.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Can DHS Protect Itself Against Criminal Employees? No they can’t!

JULIETTE OCHIENG: Why Black Americans Think That the Federal Government is Our Friend.

PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BE DISAPPOINTED IN TIGER WOODS: “Part of being a good husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend is a sense of humility. A sense of total equality in a relationship. A sense that everyone must live by the same rules. And that just isn’t the quality that is nurtured by having a life and career like Tiger Woods.”

FRANK TIPLER: Science Is Whatever “The Party” Says It Is.

SOME CHRISTMAS markdowns on jewelry.

OF COURSE even pretty young girls can kill.

THE HOUSTON MAYORAL RACE:

The dynamics of the mayoral runoff echo California’s Proposition 8 vote in 2008, where black voters formed an unusual alliance with conservatives to approve a measure that banned same-sex marriage, said Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist.

“You don’t have many cases where you have an older straight, black male supported by conservatives matched up against a younger white female who happens to be gay, and is backed by non-establishment sources,” Murray said. “Normally, you see progressive whites allied with African-Americans. This is exposing the same fault line we saw nationally in Prop 8.”

But Ta-Nehisi Coates says that’s unfair.

UPDATE: Various readers aren’t as convinced as Ta-Nehisi that this study proves what he thinks it does.