Barack Obama and his new administration need to prosecute the malefactors in the outgoing Bush Administration for the crimes and crimes against humanity they perpetrated while in office; to set an example so it doesn’t happen again. Tonight on on MSNBC’s Countdown, Professor Jonathan Turley mad a passionate plea for accountability. Must see teevee.

Tonight’s theme: Presidential correspondence!

First up, we have children’s letters to our shiny new new president (Yay!).

Students in the Federal Way, Washington school district must have parental permission slips to watch the Inauguration.

Iraq’s biggest Shiite party hopes that provincial elections will lead to a semi-independent region in the country’s south, just like the Kurds have in the north. The prime minister, from a rival Shiite faction, is opposed. How ugly will this dispute get?

Alaska’s Senior US Senator Lisa Murkowski reacted to emerging details of the food and fuel emergency on the lower Yukon River Thursday. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s spokesperson, Sharon Leighow stated that Gov. Palin’s office “may have” reviewed the Emmonak situation in October.

Not content with clogging up our arteries and expanding our asses, anti-American donut pimps are now offering their tasty treats for free to celebrate the rise of our Black Muslim Overlord.

Evan Halper of the LA Times has this sobering news:

Reporting from Sacramento — State Controller John Chiang announced today that his office would suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants and other payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, as a result of the state’s cash crisis.

The Federal Reserve can create money, but it cannot take on risk on to it’s balance sheet with what it buys. Has the Fed engaged in some freelance law-bending? The spike in the balance sheet during the recent crisis leads many to wonder. What collateral did the Fed get for the dollars it zapped into existence?

Bloomberg news filed a lawsuit to find out who the fed lent the money to.

In 2000 Bush’s campaign plane was called Accountability One; nearly nine years later, his speech is about why he shouldn’t be judged by his disastrous results, but instead by what was in his heart.

If we want change for the middle class, we are going to have to demand it. If we don’t, nothing will change.