Sunday digest

- As the media slobbers all over Barack Obama, one has to wonder if Clinton fatigue has played a role in his meteoric rise to political superstardom.

- All is not well in the House of Saud.

- Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star, uses his Sunday soapbox to deflect attention away from Palestinian infighting and in so doing, holds them to a lower standard of conduct in the Middle East while predictably inferring that the problems in the Middle East are Israel's fault.

- More proof here that overtaxation, over-regulation and oversized government kills jobs - but you'd never know it from listening to the rank and file of Canada's parliamentary press gallery, as Lorrie Goldstein points out.

- Steyn chimes in on political correctness and Christmas.