Just Plain Bother: The lamest Joementum apologist yet.

The Existentialist Cowboy: Terrorism has been worse under GOP regimes since 1980

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First Draft: As the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, here is the first in a series on how one NOLA couple survived and what's happened since.

skippy the bush kangaroo: A CNN anchor calls Lamont "the al Qaeda candidate." Fight back!

Demarcated Landscapes: 2006 was hottest Jan-July period in recorded history

Blogoland: Michelle Malkin managed to find someone even crazier than herself to guest-blog:

EVIL REGIMES SET TO TOPPLE?

"Keep a sharp eye on fresh developments in both Canada and Cuba, two countries with rogue, corrupt and repressive regimes that don't know when to cut their losses and leave town."

The dude has been watching way too much South Park.

England pulls the Official Secrets Act against the press.

This story has found legs after the UK pulled a Patriot act on the press. Why isn't Karen Hughes flying over there and doing her job for once? What does she do anyway except get Middle Eastern women mad at her?

Brad Blog has this London story up. A new blog has been created.

Mark Kleiman says that:.."the apparent plot to bomb Al-Jazeera has apparently seriously annoyed the ruling family in Qatar. Not only is Qatar an ally of the U.S., but it has one of the less objectionable regimes in that part of the world: not at all democratic, but not kleptocratic, either, and with a strong liberalizing tendency. (Women were allowed to vote in elections for local councils last year.)...read on"

(Update)- Boris Johnson is a member of the Conservative Party in Britian, a member of Parliament, He says he'll print the memo.

The Moderate Voice has a right/left round up...

AmericaBlog: New England Journal of Medicine. Check it out for yourself!

Arthur Silver writes Of course, the developments reported in this story aren’t similar in any way whatsoever to anything that has ever happened at any time under any dictatorial or totalitarian regime in history, and any person who would suggest such a thing is a vicious traitor who hates America:

Talk Left has more...

For those who have been paying attention, this is not news. Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., well-known and widely-respected expert on totalitarian regimes and torture, from his July 2004 article, “Doctors and Torture“: read the whole thing