Back from the holiday brink just in time for a BAU round-up that will make you wish it was still socially acceptable to drink before dinnertime:
Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns (h/t)
False Continuity Continued: Today’s WaPo on “Renditions” Under the Obama Administration
Additional Thoughts on Washington Post “Renditions” Story
Why We Hate Them: Arabs in Western Eyes
Will the [American] West Survive? (h/t)
The Big Lebowski Explains the Fiscal Cliff
Cliff deal hollow victory for American people
The fiscal cliff deal that almost wasn’t
Fiscal crisis is the new normal in Washington
All-volunteer military may desensitize U.S. to war, some fear
Syria’s chaos isn’t America’s fault
Spinoff: The Syrian Crisis and the Future of Iraq
Another Evidence-Free Israel Attack Against Hagel
True Cost of Harper Government’s Warship Construction Plan: $35 Billion, or $103 Billion?
Why did a Train Carrying Biofuel Cross the Border 24 Times and Never Unload? (h/t)
What I Learned About Guns Working at the State’s Attorney’s Office (part of LOG’s Guns In America Symposium)
today’s digital dualism reminder
Israel Vows to Repatriate African Migrants (h/t)
Anonymous Leaks Horrifying Video of Steubenville High Schoolers Joking About Raping a Teenager ‘Deader than Trayvon Martin’
Via Jezebel