Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede  —  A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.  —  The unidentified worker …

Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and ‘came from same area as 7/7 bombers’ … British-born Pakistanis were among the Mumbai terrorists, Indian government sources claimed today, as the death toll rose to at least 150.  —  As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections …

Thanksgiving Cheer From Obama  —  He's assembled a first-rate economic team.  —  When President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition team met this month, everyone was there — inflation fighters, business leaders, union firebrands and leftist economists — creating confusion about where the new administration was headed.

Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?  —  Sins of omission?  —  Has anyone else noticed that the current crisis sheds light on one of the great controversies of economic history?  —  A central theme of Keynes's General Theory was the impotence of monetary policy in depression-type conditions.

Wolff: Murdoch ‘absolutely despises’ O'Reilly  —  In Michael Wolff's forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch, “The Man Who Owns The News,” the author writes that the media mogul has seemed to turn away lately from his cable news network, and isn't fond its top-rated personality, Bill O'Reilly.

Gorbachev Looks Forward to New U.S. Policy Under Obama  —  Former Soviet head of state says world needs ‘strong’ America to face down economic crisis, but hopes for change in Russia policies from new administration.  —  MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday …

A Win-Win Bankruptcy Reform  —  I watched a middle-aged widow lose her home recently.  —  Her story was familiar.  She owned her simple brick residence outright until four years ago, when a mortgage broker stopped by and offered her a loan too good to be true.

The Millman Chart and the GOP  —  Responding to my post on why the Right needs realists, Noah Millman summons up his soon-to-be-famous chart of American foreign-policy types:  —  The comments that originally accompanied it are from last June, in response to an earlier post of mine on right-wing realism …

Flipping madness!  Police offer free flip-flops to binge drinkers who keep falling over in heels … Itsh not their fault, you shee.  Itsh the shoesh.  —  Drunk women who stagger about in high heels are to be protected - at public expense - from twisting their ankles.

Brooklyn Couple Killed in Attacks  —  Leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn and the worldwide ultra-orthodox Jewish community began on Friday to mourn the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were killed in the terrorist attack of the Nariman House …

“Bush's Greatness”  —  Part of the effort to pull the wagon of conservatism out of the ditch into which Bush piloted the country is going to be an effort to deny that George W. Bush was a real conservative.  In reality, Bushism should be understood as the highest form of conservatism.

Bush contemplates how he'd like to be remembered  —  President George W. Bush, nearing the end of his final term in office, says he most wants to be remembered as someone who came to Washington and didn't lose his values.  —  Someone who didn't sell his soul to the political process.

Dying of Consumption  —  IT'S game over for the American consumer.  Inflation-adjusted personal consumption expenditures are on track for rare back-to-back quarterly declines in the second half of 2008 at a 3.5 percent average annual rate.  There are only four other instances since 1950 …