Our Dear Leader John Amato was interviewed for a story on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday this morning.

"You can't deny the fact that liberal blogs are a very powerful force in American politics today," Amato says. "And if you've been on the wrong side of torture, you're going to have a big problem with liberals and progressives."

Give a listen here.

Watchdog Blog: How did the Bush Administration has get away with so much unnecessary secrecy over the past seven years? And how will the next president behave?

Informed Comment: Police mutiny, refuse to attack Sadrists; Clashes continue in Basra...but it's all good!

David Seaton's News Links: The discrediting of America's philosophy of finance is just another element in the general discrediting of the United States as a brand.

Lawyers, Guns and Money: McCain relies on Enron Revolution footsoldier for economic counsel. Steve Benen notes, "confronted with a fire, McCain is taking advice from an arsonist."

Liberal Values: Zbigniew Brzezinski on getting out of a foolish war.

The Opinion Mill's Sunday Bookchat: Mat Johnson tells the story of a black journalist passing for white, Eric Alterman faces a winger trying to pass for an intellectual, E. Benjamin Skinner stares into the abyss of modern-day slavery and Jack London, staring into the future from a century away, comes up with a novel that has more than a little in common with our own times.

Liberal Values: To conservatives, Europe is a mass of socialism as described in an old Ayn Rand novel with economies doomed to forever fall behind the economy of the United States. Reality has overtaken this tired meme.

Sadly, No! Just remember -- we're the fascists

Watching Those We Chose: Wurlitzer Prize for Wingnuttery--Top 10 of 2007

The Aristocrats: A voter recounts the rather strange goings on at the Democratic Caucus in precinct 17 of Iowa City. "Nobody could tell me exactly what the "formula" was for allocating delegates."

Sensen No Sen: Lessons from Nicaragua

House of the Rising Sons: Bloggers selling out

It ain't pretty, folks.

The top five: Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, Mark Steyn, and Newt?

And whoa: George W. Bush got more votes than Hannity and O'Reilly combined. Why didn't Hannity get Katherine Harris to do the vote tally for him?

A big hat tip to Liberal Values, who has more details here.

skippy the bush kangaroo: Easter traditions...

The Reality-Based Community: Concerning the word "Christian"

Sadly, No! Worst Op-Ed Page Ever

The Heretik: If Bush did diplomacy, Pelosi wouldn't have to

Politics in the Zeros: word...

Liberal Values: Is the president really saying that Shiite and Sunni militia will invade America if we leave Iraq?