Jim Hightower: Christmas gifts for America's power elite

David Seaton's News Links: Some notes on populism (h/t The Vanity Press)

The Aristocrats: E! Presents...A Zany Cheney Holiday

Scott Horton: The Bush Administration's Neoconservative team met their match for confidence artistry in a military man named Pervez Musharraf.

Economist's View: Does it make sense, in the current political and economic environment, for Democrats to lump unions in with corporate groups as examples of the special interests we need to stand up to?

The Reality-Based Community: Mark Twain on the art of lying...