The D Handicap

Jennifer Rubin "Michael Barone thinks Martha Coakley showed her true stripes and may have tipped the race by ignoring the shoving of reporter John McCormack in front of her eyes."

Brandon Darby foiled terror attack, but the men convicted of plotting against 2008 Republican Convention win recognition

DailyCaller "Darby has learned that if you disrupt a terrorist attack on Americans by Islamic fundamentalists as Dutch tourist Jasper Schuringa did on Christmas Day, you’re a hero, but disrupt a terrorist attack on Americans by left-wing fundamentalists and you might as well be a terrorist yourself."

More disgrace at NPR

PowerlineBlog "The cartoonist, Mark Fiore, obviously is doing what he accuses Tea Party movement members of --substituting name-calling for argumentation. Fiore is calling members of the movement ignoramuses. As Tim Graham puts it, "Conservatism is 'satirized' into a form of political retardation." It's doubtful whether Fiore has ever talked to any of member of the Tea Party movement. I have and can assure him that these folks do not lack substantive arguments against Obamacare. Fiore obviously doesn't agree with these arguments, nor would one expect an NPR commentator to. But it is disgraceful for him to pretend that the other side lacks real arguments."

We Report, We Get Pushed

Weekly Standard, John McCormack "As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street."

Fatima Shrine defaced with Muslim graffiti

JihadWatch "In the John Paul II Plaza, statutes of Popes John Paul II and Paul VI were painted. In the Pius XII Plaza, statues of Pope Pius XII and Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva were painted. The graffiti includes the words "Islam," "moon," "sun," "Muslim" and "mosque."..."

Miep Gies, Who Hid Anne Frank, Rest In Peace

DebbieSchlussel.com "I always paid extra attention to the Anne Frank story and what happened to those who helped the Frank family because my own Holocaust survivor grandfather, who was a concentration camp inmate at Bergen Belsen (where my mother was born), remembered seeing the gaunt, anorexic Anne Frank when he was there toward the end of the Holocaust. This woman, Mrs. Gies, was a saint on earth."

Memo to Steele: GOP will win

The Hill "Pessimism is no more attractive in a party leader than it is in a high school cheerleader. And in the case of Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, it is unwarranted as well. Despite his prediction, on Fox News, that GOP congressional control will not come “this year,” the Republican Party has a very, very good chance of taking both houses of Congress in 2010."

... U.S. Commanders in Afghanistan ‘Confused’ about How To Handle Captured Terrorists Now That Some Are Tried as Civilians

CNS "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), just back from a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said he and other senators found operational "confusion” among U.S. military officials on how to handle detained enemy combatants."

Axelrod's battle plan for 2010

Ann Kane in AT "Isolate the target, demonize it, and destroy it. The ‘it’ here means Republicans, and the WH advisor intends to repeat the message that the Republican policies of the Bush years brought the U.S. to the brink of disaster. He will not talk about Congress ignoring the brewing mortgage crisis, or 9/11 and the cost of the war on terror because these are real reasons that contributed to our present day ills."

Obama's war on Inspector Generals

Ed Lasky in AT "The Chicago Boys play rough. They do not want the media keeping an eye on them (see Fox News) and they do not want federal officials monitoring them, either. So they manipulate the budget to cut one area where an oversight is desperately needed as trillions of tax-payer dollars are spent."

The Way Our World Works

Victor Davis Hanson "1) Each time you invoke Bush and proceed to trash him, just substitute al Qaeda. Try it today or tomorrow. Or better yet, close your eyes, take a deep breath and envision Sarah Palin, and as your blood pressure rises, say “Bin Laden.” Then go out to address the country on anti-terrorism. Your credentials as a mean SOB anti-terrorist fighter would soar."

It Took Obama 3 Days to Respond to Christmas Day Terror Attack, 30 Minutes to Respond to Earthquake in Haiti...

HotAirPundit "his is from Foxnews, President was informed at 5:52, this statement timestamp at 6:27." H/t to Weasel Zippers.