Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire: Bankster privilege and the threat of right wing terrorism in 2011-2012

Runnin' Scared: The 10 best rightnlogger rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, and More!

AlterNet: Why Germans think we're insane. Having spent three weeks in Germany recently, this all sounds familiar to me

Wonkette: Buchanan: Minorities' inferior 'brains' making American schools struggle

Simply Left Behind: Perspective

earthfamilyalpha: Play in the light

Scarabus: Republican Secrets Revealed!

Dissident Voice: Johnny Got His Pills (and so do we)

Corrente: I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free

They gave us a republic: Nightowl Newswrap

Angry Bear: Why aren't the 'law and order' types excited

Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire: Secular Sunday Sermon: Evolutionary Peacefare. or a New Populist Progressive Agenda

Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire: How Americans for Prosperity spent its summer and Koch's millions

TalkLeft: Federal Court Grants Injuction Against Stem Cell Research

ProPublica: For Mosques, 'Anywhere but There' means nowhere

Norwegianity: Fine thuning their campaign strategies

The Roger Ailes we like on Libertarian bull pucky

Law & Disorder: Your fears confirmed: "up to" broadband speeds are bogus

Runnin' Scared: It's Obama's fault that people think he's a Muslim, say the guys who keep telling people he's a Muslim

field negro: Dr. King, I don't think this guy shares your vision

Corrente: Peaches and local investing

Joe. My. God.: Florida Pastor: Hundreds of armed militia will guard us as we burn the Koran

Big Think: Month of Thinking Dangerously: Abolish Primary Elections

David E’s Fablog: David Frum wrestles with those Strange Twilight Urges

History Eraser Button: A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the "Ground Zero Mosque. Hallowed Ground? How can I tell?

The Reality-Based Community: Prisons Without Walls

Whiskey Fire: I am aware of his work

slacktivist: There is no basis in law, principle, doctrine or morality for opposition to the free exercise of religion by Islamic Americans. And their proximity to the Temple of Mammon on Wall Street doesn't change that.

Rising Hegemon: Never Speak Ill of the Dead

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Youandmedoweagree's Blog, Great Big Lies, Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire

And for lo these many years Helen Thomas was ALSO Team Jacob?!?

From the deliriously funny blog Regretsy. Open thread below....

"You know, being stalked isn't really a big turn-on for girls." Yes! A feminist mashup of Buffy vs. Edward:

Grist: Watergate redux: Break-ins reported at another top climate research center

The Nation: Is Erik Prince "graymailing" the US government?

Newsifact: Joe Lieberman: No one will connect the dots about my lucrative post-Senate career

darrel plant: Big Buck Twilight Peacekeeper

Mainstream Baptist: Stonehenge Reloaded

Stinque: Talibunny's parents held captive as props for book tour

Using audio clips from Glenn Beck's frothing on-air meltdown, Trevor Cushman from Half Day Today put together this clever tune called "Glenn Beck Radio Freakout Twilight Vampire Metal Re-mix."

A little comic relief is good now and then, and there's no bigger clown on the planet than Mr. Beck himself. And hey...vampires.

Open thread below...

Well they are still here and more seem to be on the way. The new head of the PFAW, Kathryn Kolbert, wrote a great piece about the Senate confirming more of the same---extreme right wing judges that are coming into the judicary.

President Bush is in the twilight of his presidency and his approval ratings are scraping bottom. So what did the Senate do last week? It confirmed yet another of Bush's controversial judicial nominees. And Senators are sending signs that they might cave on yet more nominees in the near future.

Let’s stop for a second and think about what happens when Bush nominees get on the courts. We’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s destructive Ledbetter ruling. Lilly Ledbetter suffered pay discrimination for years at an Alabama Goodyear plant...read on