Swing State Project: Well, it didn't take Doug Hoffman long to start bringing the crazy...

My Left Nutmeg: Dodd pursues sweeping financial regulatory changes

Pruning Shears: The long climb back

field negro: Here in Mississippi, we don't need our blacks educated

Pam's House Blend: Pathetically ignorant and perpetually dishonest Republican contributes more battsh*ttery to the public discourse

TPMMuckraker: CREW calls on State Dept. to probe Galbraith over Kurdish oil dealings

Matthew Yglesias: Canada turns a blind eye to torture. So does Lithuania...

Margaret and Helen: Thanksgiving letter to the family, 2009

The Agonist: A Tale of Two Belles

Rising Hegemon: The terrorists who will be tried in NYC are not comic book Super Villians

pandagon: "Jungle Fever” is still eating away at some bigoted brains 40+ years after Loving v. Virginia.

Democurmudgeon: Republican candidate hangs out in a bar and complains to the only bartender who'll listen

Kiko's House: Breast cancer bombshell lands in the middle of the health care debate

The Pump Handle: Swine flu and bird flu and lessons to be learned

Ken Silverstein: Feds document crime spree by dictator's son: Why no action?

Private Buffoon: Writes letters...

The National Protrusion: Should terror suspects be tried in U.S courts? - The Henry "Mack Truck" Harvey Show

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Rush to judgement...Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon...and his paper says...and his editor says...The state of journalism in Nebraska...Gernelism...Newsweek taps Bush aide for Obama reporting... Rogue?...Balance...Ethics...Setoodeh and Teh Ghey...Typography...The 'Dean' writes...WashTimes against protectionism before they were for it...

Max Blumenthal: Palin's Literary Klavern

Newsbroke: Has Sarah Palin become the 'community organizer' she once disdained?

The Washington Note: Not Supposed to Happen in Obama Land: Intrigue behind Gregory Craig's resignation

43-Ideas-Per-Minute: Their intellectual honesty has bowed out again

Submitted to a Candid World: National Review: Where the Supreme Court is an afterthought

Economist's View: The Fed "refused to use its considerable leverage"

MyDD: Tea Baggers set their sights on Climate Change. Here's more...

Consortiumblog: Shining light on the roots of terrorism

Truthdig: Testing next year's lies today

Respectful Insolence: Hmmm...maybe I fell for Obama's liberofascist plot to poison me

The Existentialist Cowboy: The End of American Community

HOLY CRAP: Faith is no defense...How Rev Moon bought Washington...In the 'next world'... Robertson puts McDonnell in a bind...Meet John Thune...God, the Army, and PTSD...Catholic morality...I thoroughly enjoyed their evisceration...Godless billboard moved after threats...Charles Colson on Atheists...Nashville gets secular...Ted Haggard returning to revivalist racket...Postcard from God to Glenn Beck...The God Gene... onegoodmove is one of my favorite sources for Holy Crap and lots of other good stuff!

Amygdala: Changing attitudes toward mental illness.

Lance Mannion: Stupak and the bishops, the bishops and me.

Sadly, No: Nothing will make them happy.

TBogg: Atlas begs.

Pam's House Blend: Tradishinul marridge is what brings us together today.

Thump and Whip: Glenn Beck doesn't identify as white, or speak for "white America" – except when he does.

James Wolcott: It takes more than a market rally to pull the wool over Bolton's mustache.

Guest post by Batocchio. Mike is back tomorrow. Send tips to Finnsagain AT aol DOT com.

Alicublog: Six sizzling excerpts from Going Rogue. You betcha.

Fafblog: The Muslims are due on Maple Street.

driftglass: The jolly banksters.

The Hunting of the Snark: Being unable to choose to have an abortion is pro-choice?!?

The Satirical Political Report: Hannity's "apology."

Guest post by Batocchio. Send tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo dot com

Reporters Without Borders: Two Azerbaijani bloggers were sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison this week on trumped up charges.

Anti-War Blog: The itch in Joe Lieberman's Gitmo finger.

Facing South: Are Southern politicians more likely to be against health care reform?

Yikes!: BAC doesn't sugarcoat it regarding the Catholic Bishop's lobbying in the health care debate.

Zaius Nation: Get Well Soon, Glenn Beck!

William K. Wolfrum: Kareem's leukemia and a personal campaign for the National Bone Marrow Registry.

Guest round-up by Blue Gal, Batocchio takes over for the weekend: send tips to batocchio9 AT Yahoo dot com.

Vagabond Scholar: A series of Armistice Day posts, well worth the time.

Earth-Bound Misfit: And the military has yet another problem.

Speaking as a woman writer and film-maker, I laugh and scream simultaneously when I hear national publications imply that women can't write and women can't make films.

Stupak, Stupak, Stupak, Stupak.

Pour Me Coffee: Good news from the WH Visitor Logs! But did they search for Stupak?

Mike's away, guest-posted by Blue Gal (Did somebody say Stupak?)

The Political Carnival: It's not okay to listen to Obama's education speech at school, but watching the Fort Hood funeral, even if it causes deep emotional distress? That's a go. (h/t Relaxed Politics)

Figleaf (not work-safe): A perfect analogy to why 'no means no.'

Mock Paper Scissors: No, really, Peggy Noonan, it's a distinction to be the only person left from the Reagan administration "brand" that is not in jail, senile, or dead.

The Plum Line: Obama not taking the 'racist' bait of that moron Rupert Murdoch.

Off the beaten path, hey kids, it's Comic Panel Remix!!!

Booman Tribune: A small slice of conservative sanity

Emptywheel: Mueller already reviewing the shortcomings of the Hassan investigation

INSTAPUTZ: The CA Senate Race: Get Yer Popcorn!

Prometheus 6: Well now, yeah...

A Tiny Revolution: Get that man a place on Mt. Rushmore

Politics in the Zeros: Willfully blind banksters, and changing public opinion

They gave us a republic: The Nightowl Newswrap

Prairie Weather: Fraud

The Brad Blog: TN GOP fights against the rule of law and paper ballots

The Sideshow: Health Care Roulette

Pensito Review: Carl Hiaasen's letter to Sarah Palin from her publisher

Happy Blogiversary to bark bark woof woof!

Salon: Get the smelling salts...A Republican voted for the House Dems health bill!

Free Thought Manifesto: One Nation, Under Illusion

The Political Carnival: The lying, self-absorbed little death panel-monger is at it again

Scott Horton: More on the Verdict in Milan

James Fallows: Unemployment and airplane crashes

Digital Life: Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks

Corrente: One Down: Schlecher County jury convicts Jessop of child rape. And speaking of convictions...

Open Left: Only fiscal conservatives would say we can't afford to reduce the deficit

TPMMuckraker: Patriot Games: GOP lawmakers skip national security votes to toast tea baggers

Oliver Willis: Eric Cantor, soon to be pimp slapped...watch, ring, and all

David Rees:10 jokes about Joe Lieberman

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Brad Jacobson's investigative series..."Official" media criticism...A perfect match...Odd couple...Coming Sunday: NYT does something unprecedented...WaPo Co. crashed-and-burned-and-smoking...Terrorism, Islam and Fort Hood...Huffington: We do not live in the age of misinformation..Journamalism....Bumped... Gibbs...Special Suburbanites...More honors for Sy Hersh...Scribe nominates himself for CA Lt. Governor...

BAGnewsNotes: Underneath the Hood

litbrit: The view (and racket) outside my window: St. Petersburg tea baggers attend party of NO class

Cogitamus: Dear Blue Dog Bartlebys: Do your 'effin jobs or quit

the peoplesvoice: The great foreclosure robbery of the 21st century

naked capitalism: Goldman, Fed, Citi getting preferencial allotments of H1N1 vaccine

Infrastructurist: The Daily Dig: Strangest Bridges Edition