“Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world’s heroin, broke all records in 2006.” A new World Bank report estimates that eradication will take decades.
“State Department and National Security Council officials said they do not expect any major policy shifts to emerge from either a White House review or the bipartisan panel” and the White House “has notified allies that it will not budge on certain aspects of Iraq policy.”
Stephen Cambone, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, will resign at the end of the year. Cambone was part of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s original team, with few qualifications other than a “fierce loyalty to Donald Rumsfeld and an unshakeable right wing ideology.”
In an attempt to “get a few things done on the way out the door and show people that…we really can govern,” the lame-duck House next week will vote on a bill to open up the Gulf Coast to offshore drilling.
44 percent: Increase in Iraqi civilian deaths in November.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry has taken a lesson from the Bush administration and “is forming a special unit to monitor news coverage.” It also plans to “take legal action against journalists who don’t correct stories the ministry feels are incorrect.”
“The Supreme Court confronts whether race can be used in deciding where students to go to school on Monday, testing the willingness of President George W. Bush’s two newest court appointees to overturn programs to foster racial diversity.”
And finally: Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D), “a total Seinfeld fan,” was so “deflated” by Michael Richards’s (“Kramer”) recent racial tirade that he is boycotting everything Seinfeld. “I’m not going to watch a show with a guy who’s so openly racist. I’m not celebrating Festivus this year, I’m afraid, because of Michael Richards.”
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