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They hired a Foer, they refuse to institutionalize Marty Peretz, and now they’re owned by the McKenzie brothers. A “Canadian media giant” has purchased a majority stake in the New Republic, that venerable 92-year-old joke. MORE »

We last noticed Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode when he bravely tried to deport all the American Muslims to prevent them from becoming congressmen and swearing an oath to Allah on Thomas Jefferson’s Koran. While Keith Ellison (D-Terrorist) is still plotting against us, Goode has decided to do battle on the second front for a while — he’s now fighting the creation of a Mexican-Canadian superstate that will also include what used to be the USA. MORE »

WHICH local gossip threw a tantrum at the Canadian Embassy the other night? Our tipster writes: MORE »

This Holiday season, the United States Postal Service shit all over American Christians. Apparently, we’re not allowed to mail grenades to Canada anymore. MORE »

Godless liberals have declared war on Boxing Day, the beloved post-Christmas hangover celebrated in the UK and all the colonies that were too lazy to take up arms against them. In Canada, Boxing Day is a day of charity… and great savings! Stores across the frozen north open their doors and slash their prices, and everyone in Canada briefly forgets the unceasing misery of their gray, bland lives.

But some guys don’t like to help Canadians shop the pain away. Some guys forget that Canada is a Christian Nation, and Christian Nations know a deal when they see one.

Learn about these Boxing Day Warriors, after the jump.

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The collapse of the U.S. dollar means more than $9 cups of coffee in Europe — it means the complete destruction of the United States! MORE »

Bush has to go to remote cowtowns in Northern Nevada to find a friendly crowd these days, but it seems he still has some “star power” on the international stage. MORE »

Because this Information Age is all about empowering the common man, Yahoo and Judy Woodruff are offering you, presumably the commonest of men, an opportunity to ask Senator Brownback any question you like. Your chances of getting him to answer you are slim, but there you go. It’s your right as a citizen to leave a comment on a blog we’ve never heard of. The questions start off innocent enough (”make all the immigrants go away please,” “are you against baby-killing?” etc.), and then quickly get wacky: MORE »

The “Security and Prosperity Project” will allow people from Winnipeg to vacation without having to stop in Kansas City. MORE »

• North Korean bomb was mad ghetto, their “nuclear scientists are now officially the worst ever.” [Defense Tech]

• Yup, it’s definitely gonna happen: Stewart-Colbert ‘08. [Comedy Central Insider]
• They’ve got our vote, even if Jon refuses to admit how much he really, really loves us. [Above The Law]
• Voting machines nationwide will have the election results pre-entered by the Secretaries of State, so might as well learn their names. [Hullabaloo]
• Grassroots get-out-the-vote tactics using celebrities from the B,C, and D lists. [Democratic Party Blog]
• Ray Nagin endorses William Jefferson, calls him a “black Clyde Barrow dude.” [KATC News via MoJo Blog]
• Washington state: where all the state representatives wear sombreros, and “puke ‘n rally” is a given. [Shakespeare's Sister, The Stranger]
• Ah, the mushroom cloud photoshop gags — funny until they’re not. [Sanctuary]
• Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! It’s like 9/11 and Halloween all rolled into one. NEVER FORGET

• Strategists warn that his stance on treatment of terror suspects might hurt McCain in 2008, the Maverick is unfazed. [WP, LAT]

• False intelligence from Canada led to the abduction and torture of a Muslim-Canadian citizen by the CIA. [WP, NYT]
• Falling gas prices and terror-talk have Bush’s approval rating at 44%, which is a 52-week high. [USAT]
• Al Gore and John Kerry give the speeches about the environment, religion. What year is this? [WP, WP]
• Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and his AA-sponsor Jim Ramstad (R-MN) say Congressional sobriety, like corruption, is bi-partisan. [NYT]
• Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. targeting Mel Gibson’s market share with launch of new Christian film studio “FoxFaith.” [LAT]

• Rhode Island’s 15 minutes of fame are up as maverick Senator Lincoln Chafee wins GOP primary. [WP, NYT, USAT]

• Michael Chertoff tells congress that the US cannot “defend ourselves against every conceivable threat.” Nation’s petting zoos and popcorn factories now totally unprotected. [NYT]
• Hillary Clinton wins primary in a cakewalk, eats no actual cake. [NYT]
• Democrats feel NSA is inappropriately advocating it’s own spying program. [WP]
• Maryland elections display DC levels of logistical incompetence. [WP]
• States taking it upon themselves to increase minimum wage, “for the first time, a majority of states could require higher pay than the federal rate.” [USAT]
• Diplomacy now so obsolete reporters forced to write about who’s doing Condi this week. [NYT]
• Adrian Fenty will be next mayor of DC. [WP]

According to a new CNN poll, 45% of Americans blame Bush for 9/11. MORE »