The Dish

The best of the African web on Kenya’s alarming tribal clashes here. The chairman of the election commission has admitted he responded to pressure from the ruling party.

Romney’s latest tack on Iraq – not that different from Huckabee’s, with less honesty and more calculation, natch.

Her final TV pitch for Iowans:

Ann Coulter’s facile bigotry even gets noticed by RightWingNews’ John Hawkins.

Micheal Totten’s latest dispatch of security progress still laced with tension, and violence dispersed if not overcome:

One of the peculiar things about Fallujah now is that, for some people at least, it’s less dangerous than some other places in the Middle East, even some that are full of tourists.

“Our interpreter is from Jordan,” said Lieutenant Laughlin. “He’s been with us for four years. He doesn’t go home. There have been threats against his life from former Iraqi insurgents who live there. He is actually safer here in Iraq because we protect him.”

Mark Levin, torture-defender and Bush-backer, on McCain.

In Iowa:

Ron Paul will outperform his poll numbers, but McCain should still be able to take third on the GOP side.

With video:

The second half of the speech is a revelation.

The Dish continued obsessive-compulsively through the Christmas break. Some items you may have missed: the results of the 2007 Dish Awards, with Keith Olbermann and Peggy Noonan among the winners you voted for; a random end-of-year favorites list, featuring Judge Judy and the movie, Zodiac; Obama’s closing pitch in full; Bush’s complicity in the CIA torture tapes; and the morality of potheads. Happy New Year.