HOLIDAY WRAP-UP – AT 11:31 P.M. ET:  We had a very pleasant Thanksgiving, and hope you did too.  We went to a family dinner in a house built in 1775, a year before the writing of the Declaration of Independence.   You could just feel the ghosts – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Larry King.  A good time was had by all. 

I've been sweeping the news sources, on this very slow news day.  Every day should be a major holiday, for the politicians are silent and not causing any trouble.  But watch for these stories tomorrow:

1.  The Korean crisis.  No one is quite sure what the North is after, but the South Koreans are bolstering their defenses.  One danger of the recent North Korean artillery barrage against a South Korean island is the possibility of blundering into an accidental war.  The U.S. administration is sending an aircraft carrier and supporting ships to the area as a show of force.

2.  WikiLeaks, the official leaker of the radical left, is set to release hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.  These might contain highly embarrassing assessments by American diplomats serving abroad.  It is simply incredible how little interest our mainstream media has shown in determining where WikiLeaks is getting all this classified material. 

3.  Everyone will be watching sales on Black Friday, so named because retailers that have been in the red look to the day to finally put them in the black.  Some economists are predicting a good day, but their predictions are tempered by the fact that many shoppers are lured by deep discounts, which cut severely into profits. 

We'll be back tomorrow.

November 25, 2010