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Monday, November 27, 2006

ON TO CYBER MONDAY!

So the experts tell us. This is the day when shoppers go berserk on the internet. We'll see. In the meantime, results are mixed about "Black Friday", when retail outlets are expected to be in-the-black, bigtime: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/26/business/ibrief.php There was lots of store traffic, but that doesn't guarantee the moolah: news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061126/bs_nm/retail_holiday_outlook_dc_2
SPENDING UP 19%: So says one report. Details: http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061127/21242_id.html?.v=1

NBC CALLS IT "CIVIL WAR": On the TODAY show this morning, Matt Lauer almost gleefully announces that NBC news is now going to call events in Iraq "Civil War". Members of the media (and many Democrats) have wanted this description for a long time. What now?

HOW AMERICANS ARE LIVING DANGEROUSLY: TIME magazine reveals how we're often worrying about the wrong things.
www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/26/cover.story.tm/index.html?eref=rss_us

BUYER'S REMORSE, DEPT: Democrats are ramping up lots of "investigations". Is this mayhem what voters really wanted? Update: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/26/D8LKT6K80.html