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The Satirical Political Report: Why Sarah Palin's resignation is DEVASTATING to the GOP.  Naturally, on Independence Day, one day after she quit her job, this narcissist insisted that we pay attention to her on the internet.

Newshoggers: Where's my monkey wrench?

Seeing the Forest: It Was About The Oil

Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog: The Enemy Within? 

Raw Dawg Buffalo: united states of entertainment

onegoodmove: Buncha kewel links


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The Mahablog: Drama Queen exits, stage right

The Moderate Voice: Happy Motoring America; Shafted Again

The Existentialist Cowboy: Texas: The Gulag wasteland Bush left behind

Bernard Avishai: While Prime Minister Netanyahu scoffs at Ahmedinajad’s beatings of peaceful demonstrators, his government does the same

open Democracy: The archaeology of Iran's regime

Vagabond Scholar: Diagrams On Conservatism


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Mock, Paper, Scissors: Can Sanford salvage his book deal? Oh, yes..

Echidne of the Snakes: Hacktackular Howie

Booman Tribune: Advice for Harry Reid

Corrente: Terminological Interlude

Calitics: At the end of this process, somebody will step up to a microphone and claim how reaching agreement is a sign of success.  No.  It's a sign of failure.

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: MN Progressive Project, Blue Heron Blast, Economic Perspectives from Kansas City, archy


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Sensen No Sen: The health care crisis oligopoly and the real weight of the AMA

The Stranger: A classic example of the Gay Panic Defense

Jack & Jill Politics: New video from @WeekInBlackness - BET doesn't care about black people

D-Day: The Maze of Food Policy

NotionsCapital: American Milestone - 2.75 ton of fudge!

James Wolcott: Sarah Palin taunts John McCain with her runaway caboose


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Donklephant: Wal-Mart backs employer health care insurance mandate

pandagon: Between Arizona and Oklahoma, your right to purchase whatever sh*tty insurance you want while cheating on your wife with someone who looks disturbingly like Rahm Emmanuel will remain unviolated by Barack Obama.

The Political Carnival: Is Michelle Bachman insane or just a pathological liar?

Southern Poverty Law Center: Mississippi pol said to be Governor Barbour's ally speaks to an infamous racist group

MoJo Blog: Although house prices are still declining, they're declining at a slower rate than before.  Hooray!

HOLY CRAP: Crazy For God...This Week in God...Social conservatives fall from grace...OY!...Satan's Synagogue...God's plan for Sanford...Sarah Palin's letters from God...Fake History...Porn “Prophet”...Under God...Dear Wiley Drake...Twisted Father/Daughter Purity Balls...Ralph Reed founds "Not Your Daddy's Christian Coalition"...Reality and its rivals...PBS's new ban on religious programming


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Prairie Weather: How much faith do you have in your judicial system?

AfterDowningStreet: Cheney's top torture lawyers now work for Obama

SCOTUSblog: What Ricci says about the Supreme Court's views of Judge Sotomayor... and about Alito

Bitter Lawyer: Michael Jackson's Top Ten Legal Representations

Welcome Back to Pottersville: What have we learned from Stonewall?

Hill's Country: Rushpublicans and their excuses


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Lost in Tarnation: Unattended conference a huge success

at-Largely: Coup in Honduras...Vioent reaction might come from South America

alicublog: Build a better crackpot, and the world will beat a path to your door

Dissident Voice: How a Saudi deception protected bin Laden

Petrelis Files: Cops raid Texas gay bar on Pride Sunday

Princess Sparkle Pony's Photo Blog: It's never too early to politicize a celebrity death


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No More Mister Nice Blog: South Carolina has a dishonest hypocrite for a Governor because of liberalism

Roger (the good one) Ailes: Another randy Republican having trouble keeping his pants on

Calculated Risk: How bad is the recession? Check new home sales

Liberal Values: God and Science

mandroppings: Fox News has won a court ruling that holds that broadcasters have a 1st Amendment right to deliberately distort news or outright lie on the air.

Coal Tattoo: Blockbuster studies describe Mountain Top Removal impacts 


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Shakesville: Facts Schmacts...but Waxman-Markey passes the House anyway

Scott Horton: Did a Bush Justice Department official obstruct the Renzi investigation?

FAIR Blog: Why I couldn't say what Dan Froomkin said reporters should do

Mondoweiss: Naomi Klein in Bil'in: Boycott Israel

Iraq Today: War News.  It aint good

Alien Truth: Ayatolla tweets can't be beat

Many thanks to Batocchio for filling in so ably for the past ten days


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TBogg: The only good Muslim is a dea–. Oh. This is awkward…

Amygdala: Remembering the North Carolina Eugenics Commission.

Where's the Outrage: Why do we need trillions more for health care?

David E's Fablog: Imagining Obama's meeting with select gay leaders.

Annals of Journalism: Reporter escapes Taliban after seven months… Biased toward management… Callous Neros to the Right, Evil Neros to the Far Right…The Aristocrats – obscene, but not funny… NPR echoes far right on health care… Disappearing the U.S.-backed Iranian coup… Whitewashing the anti-Semitism of Nixon and Billy Graham…Narcissistic like a Fox… Can't get enough of those GOP falsehoods.

Guest post by Batocchio. (That's it for me for now. Thanks to Mike, Blue Gal, John and the rest of the C&L gang. See ya in the comment threads.)

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Gin and Tacos: How to lie with statistics; also, laziness.

skippy: the rats are leaving the ship.

Whiskey Fire: K-Lo – a nitwit, but so much more.

Dave's Daily Dump: Expand the Civil Rights Act to include LGBT rights – a video collection.

Balloon Juice: Try to keep up with the shifting wingnut talking points. (Maybe spicing things up with magic unicorns and ravenous zombies would help.)

Glenn Greenwald: Still banning the word "torture" in reporting on torture. (How will they cover the CIA IG report on torture, I wonder?)

Headline poetry from Poetic Justice and Mad Kane.

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Jesus' General: Saving Fetus Americans.

Brad DeLong: Paul Krugman Urges Greg Mankiw to pay more attention to quality control in health care.

Pam's House Blend: The face of the LGBT movement and the mainstream media - tackling the diversity problem.

TomDispatch: Ex-Bush loyalists cash in.

BAGnewsNotes: Neda.

3 Quarks Daily: Thomas Friedman clogged my toilet.

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Lawyers, Guns and Money: This is your court on conservatives – a strange enthusiasm for punishment of the innocent.

TransGriot: 10 busted myths about the Canadian health care system.

Intrepid Liberal Journal: Living on only $2 a day – an interview with economist Jonathan Morduch.

Cab Drollery: Your money at play – outsourcing oversight. (What could possibly go wrong?)

The Bobblespeak Translations: Meet the Press with Sam Nunn and Fred Thompson, translated.

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Facing South: "What we are in justice entitled to" - a 1865 letter from a freedman.

Obsidian Wings: Coming to you live from an alternate reality.

Brilliant at Breakfast: Goldman Sachs' biggest bonuses ever – because Wall Street firms always deserves a giant bonus!

Just a Girl from Homer: Opposition to LGBT civil rights in Alaska. (Yeah, and about that "98.5%" thing...)

Lance Mannion: Pat Buchanan, Sonia Sotomayor and Beatrix Potter. (Check out the follow-up posts, too.)

Newsifact: John McCain's Middle East Song Tour.

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[A note to C&L fans in Portland, OR: C&L's David Neiwert will be at Powell's on Hawthorne tonight for a talk and signing for his book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, at 7:30 p.m. The Oregonian review is here.]


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Words of Power: A message for the progressive media and citizen journalists.

Brad Blog: Head of CA GOP voter registration firm pleads guilty to voter registration fraud.

Poor Man Institute: Jonah Goldberg – your brain on dumb.

Satirical Political Report: Iran and Bush v. Gore.

Scholars & Rogues: Dad and the law.

Days with My Father: A poignant photo journal in Flash. (Scroll down; seems to work best in IE.)

Guest post by Batocchio. Temporarily e-mail tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com.