Washington Times | Whitehouse said that Republicans and their supporters just want to “break” the momentum of President Obama.

Newsmax | Military force would have only limited effect in stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons but must remain an option, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.

911 Blogger | That it took the DC Air National Guard so long to put together a response to the attacks should be of concern to all Americans.

McClatchy Newspapers | Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel’s “New World Order” attempts to explain the conspiracy theorists who see a dark cabal of international heavy hitters behind – well, behind everything.

Watts Up With That? | We’ve known for some time that Wikipedia can’t be trusted to provide unbiased climate information.

Telegram | Few states, including Massachusetts, are prepared to meet a Dec. 31 deadline to comply with the controversial Real ID law passed by Congress

Kurt Nimmo | Obama is merely reading from the teleprompter and performing duties assigned by the bankers.

Infowars | From the bunker, Hitler goes ballistic over climate change being revealed as a scam.

CNSNews | A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption.

We Are Change Chicago | We Are Change, with the intention to provide the American people with the TRUTH, talked to Governor Blagojevich about his resistance to big banks, which is what really led to his arrest.

Mercury News | San Jose is the first major U.S. city to try out the devices, known as AXON.

Xinhua | Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said Sunday a U.S. unmanned spy plane violated Venezuela’s airspace and he had ordered the military to shoot down similar aircraft in the future.

FT | The funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iran’s most senior dissident cleric, turned into another anti-regime rally on Monday in the holy city of Qom, with mourners chanting “death to the dictator”.

CNN | Avoiding issues of substance, Gov. Schwarzenegger granted Obama an “A” for effort as the President approaches the end of his first year.

Jerusalem Post | Sources in the Home Front Command said an officer, who will also represent the Defense Ministry’s National Emergency Management Authority, would be sent to the US in the coming weeks.

Washington Times | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation, accusing their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups.

Michael Boldin | Nullification — state-level resistance to unconstitutional federal laws — is the way forward.

Bloomberg | Crude oil rose for a second day after attacks on energy facilities in Nigeria and Iraq, OPEC’s third- and seventh-largest oil producers.

AFP | Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari called for a stronger Egyptian presence in Iraq to create balance in his country.

Asian Journal | On December 15, members of Congress kick started the immigration debate when they recently introduced their comprehensive immigration reform legislation to the House of Representatives.

Mexidata | A revamping of initiatives, as is now apparent in the targeting of drug cartels and their kingpin hierarchies by law enforcement authorities, is an action that can bring about intense reactions by U.S. law enforcement personnel and their facilities.

Times Online | A new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship is needed to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gordon Brown will say.

Zero Hedge | A note to traders indicates that while Goldman has not lost the war of intergalactic domination, it too, can lose the occasional battles.

ABC News | On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen.

CNN | NASA scientists revealed Friday a first-of-its-kind image from space showing reflecting sunlight from a lake on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

Shanhai Daily | IT is getting harder for governments to buy United States Treasuries because the US’s shrinking current-account gap is reducing supply of dollars overseas, a Chinese central bank official said.

Bloomberg | The dollar touched a three-month high against the currencies of major U.S. trading partners.

Mail Online | The rule applies to married couples at war together, who are expected to make sure their love lives do not interfere with duty.

Business Week | An Iraqi official says Iraq has signed a deal to let a business partnership between Malaysia’s Petronas and Japan’s Japex develop a southern oil field.

Paul Joseph Watson | European Union will act as “global warming policeman” to mandate compliance.

Jurriaan Maessen | “This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.”

New York Times | The Senate voted on party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster.

Janet Daley | The word “global” has taken on sacred connotations.