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Looking for a Friday diversion? Have some highlights from last Wednesday’s Grover Norquist breakfast meeting: MORE »

Washington has spent 15 years getting warmer, because of too many trees. Now we’ve moved from the New England/Mid-Atlantic climate zone to a full-fledged Southern one. MORE »

Senator Jim Inhofe is still, for now, the head of the Senate Environment Committee, because Irony was brutally murdered by George Allen and placed in a black family’s mailbox some years ago. Having saved the world from melting by denying the existence of global warming, Inhofe is now making his own scientific findings available for you to peruse on a Senate website. The pamplet, “Burn more oil, everything’s fine, you stupid hippie,” makes a great holiday gift, if your friends like pdf files. MORE »

Senator Inhofe’s increasingly lonely crusade against the existence of Global Warming continues Wednesday when the Oklahoma Republican holds a festive “Climate Change and the Media” committee hearing. MORE »

• Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has learned nothing from HBO’s Big Love. [Political Animal]

• Lieutentant Ehren Watada refuses to go to Iraq when Stryker Brigade is deployed. Wizbang readers want him shot: “They had a better way of dealing with this sort of thing during WWII. It was called a ‘firing squad’” and then turn on each other: “You cry babies have no clue and shit for memories.” [Wizbang]
• House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis’ (R-CA) is even more screwed. Remember when Letitia White bought a house with a defense contractor who wanted funds earmarked from Lewis’ committee? And then that house turned out to be the headquarters for a Political Action Committee? Today we learn that PAC is operated by Lewis’ stepdaughter, Julie Willis-Leon. [TPM Muckraker]
• Zakaria Amara is punk as shit: “I hate flags. I hate countries… I hate man made laws…. I hate nationalism with a passion…” Or, as the Sex Pistols put it: “Get Pissed Destroy!” [Pajamas Media]

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If you’re not watching the Senate Gay Marriage debate, this is what you’re missing (This was illustrated, by the way, with a giant prop picture of his big-ass family): MORE »

Oh, those crazy, crazy Oklahoma City nights. MORE »