12-22-08

James Taranto…Best of the Web

 

Victor Davis Hanson: The probable appointment of Caroline Kennedy, the 51-year-old daughter of former President John Kennedy, to fill Secretary-of-State nominee Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate seat is both laughable and yet a parable for our bankrupt times.

Ed Morrissey: The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Jackson tried using the feds to exact a little revenge, but then backed off when he thought he might get Barack Obama’s Senate seat.

CNN: From a distance, it looks like an apparition: a huge multi-colored hot-air balloon floating in the Baghdad sky, bearing a large poster of Jesus Christ. Below it, an Iraqi flag. Welcome to the first-ever public Christmas celebration in Baghdad…Even before I can ask Interior Ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul Karim Khalaf a question, he greets me with a big smile. “All Iraqis are Christian today!” he says.

CNSNews: Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland that Santa Claus will have access to special air space on Christmas Eve used by the United States Air Force. Major General Ralph Jodice of the Air Force District of Washington said this will allow Santa to deliver gifts to children faster on Christmas Eve.

Dave Barry: This is the time of year when we think back to the very first Christmas, when the three Wise Men — Gaspar, Balthasar and Herb — went to see the baby Jesus, and, according to the Book of Matthew, “presented unto Him gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh.”

Paul Mirengoff: In sum, the current vice president’s role as first among advisors to the president would be worth preserving if we had an incoming vice president who merited that role.

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