WIKILEAKS SUPPORTERS WAGE CYBERWAR ON PALIN, OTHERS. Why Palin? Just because, I guess.

AT AMAZON, a rotating assortment of top holiday deals.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS, DOWN THE DRAIN: Pigford Witness Report: 700 Claims Filed with My Name on Them, Many From Hundreds of Miles Away.

THE NIGHT CHRIS MATTHEWS told the truth. It had to happen!

CHANGE: Dems Feel Betrayed By Their Leader.

CHANGE: After Tax Deal, Liberals Boo And Obama Talks Trash.

HOWARD FINEMAN: Obama Channels Reagan, and Risks Becoming Carter. Risks? The way things have been going, it should be an aspiration.

“ELLEN RIPLEY SAVED MY LIFE:” A reflection on strong women action heroines.

VAN JONES: The hits keep coming!

SPACEX UPDATE: Private Spacecraft Returns Safely From Orbit.

STUXNET: It’s The Real Thing, Baby!

MORE ROTC DISCUSSION at Stanford.

STRANGE NEW RESPECT FOR MSNBC: Obama Gets Pimp-Slapped by Rachel Maddow. Well, maybe not respect, exactly, but . . . .

BRRR: Fort Lauderdale breaks cold record for Dec. 7. “In Fort Lauderdale, a low temperature record of 42 degrees for Dec. 7 that had been in place for 169 years was broken.”

HAVES ENVYING THE HAVE-NOTS? GOP Bluebloods And The Politics of Envy.

STATING THE OBVIOUS: “If anyone is being victimized in a strip club, it’s the men.”

AT AMAZON, holiday markdowns in Tools & Home Improvement.

CREDENTIALED, not educated.

FASTER, PLEASE: Fountain of Youth in Your Muscles? Researchers Uncover Muscle-Stem Cell Mechanism in Aging.

SHOCKER: GAO Report Slamming For-Profit Education Turns Out To Be “Flawed.” “The revisions have come as the Obama administration and senior Democratic lawmakers are pushing for tougher regulation of the industry. A Republican senator said the revisions called into question some of the conclusions in the report.”

I’d like to see closer attention paid to what traditional colleges are promising, versus what they actually deliver.

Related: War On For-Profit Colleges Reeks Even Worse. “I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to learn that people at the GAO have actually been in on the crusade to demonize proprietary colleges. I also, unfortunately, won’t be surprised if no one pays attention to any of this, and the shameless, responsibility-dodging war on for-profits continues unabated.”

UPDATE: Bogus GAO report led to layoffs? Sure looks that way. You’d think the federal government would want to encourage job-creation instead of job-destruction, but everything they do seems to have the opposite effect . . . .

MORE: A reader emails: “Apparently few, if any, of the for-profit universities targeted by the Obama Administration have faculties with tenure or that are unionized. I wonder if that plays a role in this?”

RAND SIMBERG: SpaceX Succeeds: Will Congress Notice?

TERRORIFIC: ORNL Licenses AquaSentinel.

A DON’T ASK DON’T TELL REPEAL VOTE coming tonight? I’m in favor of repeal, myself. I don’t think the Obama Administration really wants it, though.

JENNIFER BOGO: Life At An Antarctic Outpost. “The stark reality of distance strikes when equipment breaks.”

Lots of pictures by Jennifer here. Plus, on board an Antarctic icebreaker.

UPDATE: Related: Russian nuclear Arctic icebreaker.

LOTS OF PIGFORD UPDATES over at BigGovernment.com.