Talking Points Memo: 'Official' Washington speaks, 9/11 families dont...

Obsidian Wings: Bush Administration: Palling around with terrorists?

Inside Iraq: Bring us back the old fever

American Footprints: Your Empire falls and you lose every cent

Arms Control Wonk: Modernization and a new START

Politics in the Zeros: Pakistan, "Enormity of the calamity beyond all calculation'

MAL Contends: U.S. Army Clears War of Wrongdoing

Obsidian Wings: WTF? ANTI-Defamation League? Really? Really?

Left in the West:Tester, Baucus obstruct Senate reform

The Center for Public Integrity: Five of the nation’s largest health insurers are in serious discussions about creating a new nonprofit group and bankrolling it to the tune of about $20 million to influence tight congressional races and boost the image of their industry. Wonder who they'll support?

OurFuture: Where are the prosecutions? SEC lets Citi execs go free after $ 40 billion subprime lie

Danger Room: U.S ducks as cluster bomb ban takes effect

Obsidian Wings: Afghanistan – the absence of option C, about that timeline, and the real revelations of the McChrystal story.

They Gave Us a Republic: R.I.P. free speech.

A Tiny Revolution: Why is Robert J. Samuelson so incredibly awful?

World-O-Crap: Abortion-seeking women - won’t someone think of the man-child?

Brilliant at Breakfast: Why does Mike Huckabee spend so much time thinking about gay sex?

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Angry Bear: A number of the big libertarian & rightwing blogs are putting up links to this post by Scott Sumner. I'm kind of surprised because the argument seems to have more than a few weaknesses.

Obsidian Wings: I hear screams to “take over” the operations from BP. And do what? Is there some secret naval division that handles deep-sea drilling that we have not deployed?

Hullabaloo: Throwing the tea party a bone

DownWithTyranny!: At least at the NYRB it's possible to discuss seriously what it means to be Jewish in America (and how that relates to Israel)

Brilliant at Breakfast: It's about holding the well-being of an entire nation hostage to PERSONAL GREED

Progressive Blog Digest: Git along little bloggies...

Balloon Juice: Interesting...so is this

Mashable: FCC Turns Up the Heat in Battle for Net Neutrality

Obsidian Wings: Evil becomes banal when people -- good people -- stop recognizing it, stop appreciating it, and come to accept it as normal.

Democratic Strategist: Primaries reveal an enthusiasm gap favoring Republicans

Open Left: Living Liberally and Open Left are holding a joint fundraiser this week. Help out if you can

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Left In Alabama, nancy nall, Techdirt

field negro: They say it didn't happen

Obsidian Wings: They hate Russia for its freedoms, too!

New Deal 2.0: To rob a country, own a bank

fivethrtyeight: It's not about race unless I say it is

TreeHugger: A bad winter and pesticides spell more trouble for honeybees

onegoodmove: Links with your coffee

Obsidian Wings: Yeah, torture didn't "work," nor is it really being "investigated."

Balloon Juice: Casino Jack and the United States of Money.

Mad Kane: Spending freeze.

Vidiot: Cui Bono?

Amygdala: Health care reform won't save me.

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Obsidian Wings: Are there really two sides to the torture question? The WaPo declares itself unable to find the truth.

Balloon Juice: Stupid and Proud of It

The Reality-Based Community: There's been a lot of hand-wringing about the financial troubles of newspapers, but now it's quite obvious how reporters are handling the situation: they are just moonlighting for the insurance industry and the RNC. Nice work if you can get it.

Nameless Cynic: We're Communicating ll

Politics in the Zeros: Zero Hedge Whols. They don't want you to find them

HOLY CRAP: Oh ye hypocrites...GWB antichrist...Ugly Christian...No Gimmick Church...How Shall You Die?...Proof we're a 'Christian' nation...Hard-Wired for sin...Catholic Bishops assail health plan...Pious torturers...Followers of the Way... Atheists' Armageddon pet rescue...The last nail...

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Yesterday MSNBC's Contessa Brewer tackled the rantings of Pastor Steven Anderson down at his strip-mall church in Tempe, Arizona, and examined the common-sense connection between this kind of hate-filled rhetoric and the people bringing guns to events featuring President Obama, as well as the various acts of domestic terrorism and right-wing violence that have accompanied the rise in this kind of talk.

The segment featured Evan Kohlmann, an NBC terrorism analyst, who remarked:

Kohlmann: Yeah, it's amazing that this kind of rhetoric is allowed if you're a certain kind of person, if you're a patriotic American you can say whatever you want, no matter how far along the line it comes to inciting people to violence towards other innocent people. It's completely unjustified.

But but but but ... doesn't Kohlmann know there is no connection whatsoever between the people who fill crazy people's heads with crazy, provably false ideas and the violent and insane actions that follow? That's what you always hear from the right-wing pundits at Fox, at least.

Which is why you'll never see this subject discussed at Fox -- except, perhaps, in dismissive tones designed to make excuses whenever the violence does inevitably erupt.

Incertus: How anti-choice really equals forced pregnancy

The NonSequitur: The bold, feudal "moral imagination" of the Wall Street Journal on health care

Zaius Nation: Barack Obama's evil master plot revealed!

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Liberalism's favorite laboratory, and the costs of inaction.

distributorcap,ny: Dear Mr. Sponsor, about your ads in Glenn Beck's show...

Dana Milbank's Mouthpiece Theater was all Lance Mannion's fault

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