Yeah! WALNUTS! McCain! The Club For Growth! They don’t like each other and the fight is getting nasty! And now the battle has spilled over into that most public of venues: YouTube! MORE »

* Iranians claim to have shot an American drone. No, not that drone. [Fars News]
* “Walnuts” is being challenged for official John McCain diminutive of ‘07. [Blondesense]
* Chris Matthews shows how it’s done. [Eschaton]
* Richard “Air Adonis” Branson will let your glow sticks and ecstasy on his plane if you help him stick it the Transportation Department. [Let VA Fly]
* President Bush is pretty much over saying “God bless America” all the damn time. [Political Insider]
* New Saddam Hussein video worth the two clicks. [The Jawa Report]
* The American economy: Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta. [The Big Picture]

* Matt Damon wants to do things to Dick Cheney that Jason Bourne hasn’t even heard of. News Busters]
* James Baker grabs ass and ankles for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hilarious historically poignant metaphor ensues. [YouTube]
* Macaca: man of the year. [Salon]
* Soldiers choose John Kerry’s wind-bagging over peeling potatoes, learn hard lesson about regret. [Blackfive]
* Iraq:Afghanistan::War on Christmas:War on Hanukkah. [Radosh]
* Ari Fleischer wants to be a congressman. [Political Wire]
* Damn the man! Save the interwebz! [YouTube]

Poor Chris Bell! Starting with the handicap of being a Texas Democrat running against an incumbent, and further stymied by the need to battle “Grandma” and the world’s most famous Jewish cowboy/country singer/mystery novelist, he’s had to resort to desperate measures: THE EXPERIMENTAL GROWTH SERUM! MORE »

• An Egyptian conspiracy-theory music video with cartoon representations of America and Israel is the depressing comic gold Ionesco warned us about. [Andrew Sullivan]
• Novelist Frederick Forsyth loves global terrorism, couldn’t pay mortgage without it. [Galleycat]
• Iraq party scene soon to explode, and not with bombs this time. [Mother Jones]
• Crawford, TX has a new fake ranch owner. [Star-Telegram]
• Fred Phelps has a son, and that son has a cute ass. [You Tube]

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• In the mixed-up world of Connecticut politics there’s one thing Joe Lieberman can count on. [Corrente]

• How many naked Libertarians can you fit in the back of a squad car? [AP]
• The drunker the President gets, the safer we are. [Bring It On!]
• Durty Jerz is about heritage, not hate. [Four Four]
• The American military is like the Green Lantern, dependent on willpower and unable to fight yellow things. [Matthew Yglesias]
• Johnny Deep is really just a better looking Jerry Falwell, puffy shirt notwithstanding. [Collective Sigh]

Here’s Stephen Colbert’s take on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, striking down the military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees as violative of U.S. and international law. MORE »

Love him or hate him, Chris Matthews is a force to be reckoned with. The Hardball host has “an almost transparent knowledge of your soul.” And he’s a really good wrestler — or at least better than Stephen Colbert: MORE »

Okay, this really doesn’t have much to do with politics or current affairs. Immigration, maybe? MORE »

* When we look at Golf Digest’s ranking of Washington golfers, all we see is a whole lot of strokes. [Golf Digest] MORE »

As our friends at The Daily Show recently noted, Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA) has some interesting views on video game violence and America’s youth. Check it out: MORE »