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Retail sales inched up by just 0.1% in December, but the gain was enough to lift sales to a record level for 2011. It marked the largest annual increase in more than a decade, and confirms that the economy was strengthening as the year ended.

The cast of Fox's new sitcom Glee has gotten yanked from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by a rival network. And if If nothing else good comes from that news, there's this: how else could the word "dweeby" have hit the lead paragraph in dozens of major papers this week? ("The gang behind Glee,...