Big Brass Blog: Rants...

Jack & Jill Politics: More people protesting outside Glenn Beck’s Christmas show than watching inside

FiveThirtyEight Improving unemployment numbers makes the political case for a Jobs Bill stronger, not weaker

The Pump Handle: Sign of bad things to come from Obama's OMB: Sunstein hires staunch anti-regulatory economist

Facing South: The privatized war in Afghanistan

Southern Beale: Still embarrassed by my fellow Tennesseans