From the LRC blog

• ‘Be patriotic; shop!’ As funny as this is, this is still true: You certainly can impoverish yourself for the state-bankster combine, as Paulson and other criminals ask. Or you can put yourself and your family first, and not spend. Instead you can save, and be a benefactor of all of society. And Daily Paul asks: What if people got tired of going into debt to acquire stuff? (With George Carlinian emphasis on the last word.)
• The truth about American Thanksgiving.
• Imagine how Obama’s campaign would have gone if he had announced a year ago that he would keep Bush’s Secretary of War. Sadly it may not have made a difference as no-one was really listening to him, only projecting their wishes upon him. Huw gets it: More of the same — as I pointed out (during the primaries) when he endorsed the loss of civil liberties in post-9/11. In other words, Obama is about as much “change” as you might find under the cushions of the sofa.