Thanksgiving Cornucopia of News

Last batch of posting before sometime on Friday. Here's another news cluster bomb...

The current lull in violence (relatively) in Baghdad is getting much press. It's appreciated. But there's a bigger picture. John Cole, and Daily Kos' 'Devilstower' put it in perspective.

Scott McClellan's new Plame bombshell made headlines, but the denial's already begun.

Bush on Musharraf... He "hasn't crossed the line" and "truly is somebody who believes in democracy." Truly.

Major constitutional news! The Supreme Court decided it will take the case on the DC handgun ban, "a case that could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional right to 'keep and bear arms' in nearly 70 years." It will determine "whether the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns or instead merely sets forth the collective right of states to maintain militias." I say it's the more the latter, but that's an outdated concept.

A stem cell breakthrough that uses no embryos? It's got folks huffin' and puffin'.

If these traffic statistics are right, the readers of Conservapedia have some serious issues.

Finally, some good news: "The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement."