Michael Ramirez cartoon from Investor's Business Daily - 12/16/08

Dennis Miller rips into Barack Obama over the Chicago corruption scandal. Talk show host Bill O’Reilly tries to play it neutral, but Miller takes the President-elect to task for being either oblivious or disingenuous. Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin at National Review assesses just how involved disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s wife was in all the backdoor shenanigans, in her piece The Real Housewives of Crook County.

Newsweek’s cover story “hero” isn’t much of a hero, writes Scott Johnson at Powerlines blog. The Newsweek story puts a positive spin on Thomas Tamm, the whistle blower who played a prominent role in tipping off the New York Times to a Pulitzer-Prize winning story about the government’s secret wiretapping of Americans and others living inside the borders. Apparently, the government has hounded Tamm ever since, but Johnson suggests both Tamm and the Times could be liable to criminal prosecution for breaking espionage laws.

America must protect us from Muslim fanatics (and shoe attacks). After an Iraqi journalist threw both of his shoes at President Bush at a press conference, a sign of serious disrespect in the Muslim world (no kidding), conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly insists we need tough but smart policies to protect Americans.

Better not make hasty decisions in an economic crisis, writes Jonah Goldberg at National Review. We’ve learned a lot from past mistakes and we shouldn’t make them again. He’s referring to the Fed tightening the money supply.

Ann Coulter defends her reference to the President-elect as B. Hussein Obama, taking on Alan Colmes and Pat Caddell. The squabbling began when Obama announced he would use his middle name for the Inauguration.