A 26-year-old blogger named Maikel Nabil has received a three-year sentence for insulting the Egyptian military by writing about its habit of conducting "virginity tests" on female detainees. Under Mubarak he probably would've gotten like 10 years. So, you know, freedom marches on.

Egypt has finally dumped its arrogant, paternalistic dictator of three decades in the largest country in the Arab world. That's quite an achievement for a suppressive police state after only two to three weeks of protests that weren't very organized to begin with. But what comes next? Will pure democracy just kind of "appear"? Or does an impossible process of constitutional negotiations between the people, the army, the Muslim Brotherhood, business leaders, and foreign powers need to take place over the next year before anything even approaching a stable and responsive political system emerges? Unfortunately it's that second scenario, the "impossible process of constitutional negotiation" one, that's realistic.

Radical Christian and foreign policy heavyweight Sarah Palin™ chimed in on Obama's handling of events in Egypt in a new interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. She also says her journalism degree can help the lamestream media report the truth.

Myanmar's parliament met Monday for the first time in two decades. The military junta "enjoys a crushing majority."

Minnesota couple Pete and Alisha Arnold put their abortion up to an Internet vote on Birthornot.com. The results are in: 78% of respondents think the couple should abort! But Pete says most of those 1.5 million votes are fake.

Government shutdown: averted until December 18th. Go, democracy! Go! Go! Go!

Haiti held its elections on Sunday, and at least 12 of the 19 presidential candidates have alleged fraud.

From 2008 to 2009, the median household net worth for a member of Congress went up 19 percent. During the same time, the national median plummeted by 15 percent. This is known as a plutocracy.

If election day is Democracy's Christmas, then discovering a big bag of uncounted votes is like finding a sweet flatscreen HD television under your tree. Connecticut Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tom Foley, claims a bag of uncounted ballots just turned up!

Twenty-six major amendments to the Turkish constitution were approved by voters 58-42, bringing the country closer to EU membership.

The fall of the Berlin Wall. D-Day. Reagan's heroic invasion of Grenada. The tumbling Saddam Hussein statue. Okay, forget the last one, but some events throughout history mark the birth of Freedom. And now in China, internet porn is accessible!

Alvin Greene v. Jim DeMint for South Carolina Senate is on. SC Dems' executive committee has voted to uphold the unemployed 32 year-old veteran's primary victory because they can't prove any shenanigans. Can't wait for the first campaign ad! [AP]

Remember the nationwide grassroots uprising that miraculously sprung up at town hall meetings last summer? People were furious about health care reform! Well, all of that yelling did accomplish something—the end of civil debate on the campaign trail.

Guess what happened while you were watching Lost on Tuesday night? A revolution! Dozens of people showed up to the polls to vote for change, and hope, and especially, Ron Paul's son, Rand. Want to know who won?

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert would like to repeal the 17th Amendment. That is the one that allows for the direct election of Senators.

With Scott Brown's stunning, come-from-behind victory over the boring lady who hated baseball in Massachusetts, the Democrats must admit defeat. Please welcome our new unstoppable Republican Superminority.

You were maybe too busy opening presents or seeing It's Complicated and eating Chinese food to read Andrew Sullivan this weekend, but you have probably heard that something is up in Iran.

Since we opened up that can of stewed pears by praising the guy who threw tomatoes at Sarah Palin, we figured it's a good time to explain why it was cool that he did that. In other words: Food fight!

This is like the "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out" of health care town hall viral videos. According to the videographer/blogger, a dozen teabaggers staked out Al Franken's booth at the Great Minnesota Get-Together ready to boo and hiss and shout "socialism!" and all of those things that they have been doing, everywhere.

Some liberals and elected Democrats have asserted that the anti-health care reform town hall protesters are engaged in "astroturfing," a term meaning corporate-sponsored pretend grassroots activity. But Fox has definitively disproved that.