Links to Cure Your Post-Christmas Hangover

• One of the first orders of business for Democrats will be to take on Big Oil.
• If Bush has lost Scarborough Country, he's in for a really rough last 2 years.
• The One Campaign: Act now to save a billion dollars for fighting extreme poverty.
• With a parting shot to environmentalists (and anyone else who cares about the condition of the Earth), outgoing Republican congressional leaders pushed through a provision to open up 8.3 million acres on the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas development in the final legislative session earlier this month.