It's a Weiner-free zone today, my friends, though I am so very tempted to ridicule the right's mouth-frothing lasciviousness.

Bark Bark Woof Woof: The Republican agenda is really about reviving the "culture wars" of the 1980s, including rolling back abortion rights.

Infidel753: Early musings on the Republican presidential race. A little sane, mostly nutty. (And here's a fun game to play.)

P.M. Carpenter: A grovelling Paul Krugman and the need for progressives to crank up the pragmatic trench-warfare of political reality.

Perrspectives: Almost ten years, 6,000 U.S. dead, and over a trillion dollars after the attacks of 9/11, it's time to pay for our wars.

Round-up by Michael J.W. Stickings of The Reaction. I'll be here all week.

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