Where should the detainees go? And by what process should they get there?

Who could have predicted?

The Israeli Knesset moves toward banning Israeli-Arab political parties.

Joe Scarborough weighs in this morning with an opinion on the effectiveness of torture on Kalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Still-President George W. Bush, looking this morning like most of America now feels, stood before the White House press corps one last time to express his undying gratitude for their piss-poor performance during his eight-years in office. From groggy start to rambling finish, it was a jaw-dropping performance.

I realize I’m feeding the troll, but it’s not often that you see stupidity on this magnificent a scale. “Joe” “The Plumber”, while lecturing a small gaggle of media on their responsibilities, ran into an actual journalist — and promptly own-goaled himself.

JOE: The story here is people are being killed and the media’s slanting it and trying to make it Hamas is, uh, as far as, that Israel’s being bad.

I’m somewhat of the mind that Digby is — if Obama were to announce right now that he was going to prosecute those who engaged in torture and war crimes, it could trigger a rash of unwanted pardons before Bush left office. But the reason given by Obama for not doing so makes little sense.

Holy Divine! New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson–the worldwide congregation’s first openly gay bishop–will be delivering the prayer at one of President-elect Barack Obama’s first inauguration events at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on January 18.

By now you know how poorly Harry Reid and Dick Durbin have played their aces and eights hand on the Roland Burris appointment to Barack Obama’s former Senate seat. Reid and Durbin went all in with their chips on the Illinois Secretary of State and, predictably, lost their pleated dandy shirts.

Echoing the lunk-headed defiance that George Bush just displayed in his press conference, Newsweek has one of those spectacularly wrong cover stories entitled “Obama’s Cheney Dilemma.” It concludes that because there hasn’t been another major domestic terrorist attack since 9/11, Dick Cheney’s tough-guy tactics and extra-legal efforts must have been successful. Thus Obama must “try to find a middle road that will protect civil liberties without leaving the nation defenseless.”