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
No More Mister Nice Blog: Erickson and Malkin: The People's Front of Judea
Stinque: Facebiter Bachmann & Fox News calling out to Brownshirts to storm congress and kill the health care reform bill.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: Grassley on the National Criminal Justice Commission: "The point is, for them to do what we tell them to do. And one of the things that I was anticipating telling them not to do is to -- to recommend or study the legalization of drugs."
Liberal Values: Triple X home movie leads to settlement of Prejean suit
The Reality-Based Community: Absolute prosecutorial immunity?
Gordon notes that November 4 has been an important date in American history
Runnin' Scared: Hoffman concedes in NY 23, but the Tea Baggers are still eager to burn down the GOP pup tent
darrel plant: Populist campaigns are a barometer of how difficult the times are, and if you think things are bad now, wait until you hear a politician comparing himself (or herself) to Huey Long.
Wall St. Cheat Sheet: Cramer 'buy' recommendation goes bankrupt
his vorpal sword: The Secret Masters: Freedom Works and their Oregon franchises
AlterNet: Meet the 28 (male) anti-choice Dems who are stalling health care reform
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: The Daily Censored, Unemployed and Trying, The Immoral Minority, Mark Of The Beast
Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Let Us Now Praise Uppity Women (h/t Where’s the Outrage?)
The Plum Line: Harry Reid calls GOP's transparency bluff: Is your health care bill a secret, or merely non-existent?
AMERICAblog News: Top McCain campaign advisor running out of insurance. He has a "pre-existing condition."
Apoliticus: Top 5 annoying talents of President Obama
Bill in Exile (not work safe) : New York Twenty Three
Family and Friends blog: Our Achilles Heel
TBogg: The beatings will continue until morale improves
skippy the bush kangaroo: How Goldman Sachs bet on America failing
The Bobblespeak Translations: Face the Nation with Joe Lieberman
field negro: Pastor, please don't shoot, you might hit the usher
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: California AG Brown illegally taped reporters...Not a news organization...Jon Stewart breaks it down...Inside Iraq...Media failure compounds the financial failure...NPR gets it wrong...Sometimes, opinion kills...Moonie Times reaches out to Tea Partiers...Shielding reporters and bloggers...Short on facts...Phony AP fact check...Fred Hiatt's strange argument...Early Glenn Beck footage located...Budding journos
The Washington Note: Lawrence Wilkerson comments on South Carolina's worst
The Democratic Daily: Freedomworks' Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon
Matthew Yglesias: John Hannah, patriot
Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Tories and Europe
Newshoggers: Hooverville
alicublog: Notes from the 'compassionate conservative' front
Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!: Lying runs in the family
The Hunting of the Snark: Greasing the Skids
Calculated Risk: Unofficial Problem Bank list grows to 500
La Gringa's Blogicito: Possible resolution to political crisis in Honduras
Ken Silverstein: Six questions for Desmond Travers on the Goldstone Report
The Impolitic: Big Friday news dump
First Draft: Malaka of the Week: Evan Bayh
The Brad Blog: The Rise of the Tea Bags
Fried Green al-Qaedas: Putting things in perspective
Pruning Shears: It isn't reform unless it gives Goldman an aneurysm
Raw Story: Pentagon officials won't confirm Bush propaganda program has ended
The Washington Independent: Wingnut smackdown: Birther lawsuit dismissed
MyDD : The worries of Joe Lieberman
MOMocrats: A cry for help
Amygdala: Let's burn all the Bibles!
PERRspectives: Broun joins Palin in backing GOP plan to privatize Medicare
Lean Left : Dumbest painfully serious political metaphor of the day
cab drollery: A top cop gets it
d r i f t g l a s s: Nobody left but the crazies (h/t Frank Chow)
Burnt Orange Report: Lawyers speaking out in response to Todd Willingham's "utterly disgraceful" trial attorney
Abu Maqawama: The most important article on Afghanistan you'll read this week
Open Left: A second fire has started on the public option fight, this time in the House.
TPMMuckraker: Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her is validated by the House Intel Committee
The Satirical Political Report: Bush breaks the mold as a motivational speaker
Emptywheel: What if trials prove torture wasn't necessary?
The Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire: If Mine Speech Offends Thee...
The Reaction: Nothing too shameful
Mother Jones: Filibusters and Holds
Thanks to Batocchio and Blue Gal for their great work during my absence
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Minnesota Political Blog, Private Buffoon, I can't believe it's not a democracy!
Mugsy`s Rap Sheet: Conservative AHIP says Republican health care solution will do nothing to lower costs
Rick Ungar: Senator Evan Bayh - a wolf in sheep's clothing
The Mahablog: Help! They're Stealing My Home!
They gave us a republic: A GOP stall on all Health and Human Services nominees has left the department without a surgeon general during a period of a global flu pandemic, prompting the HHS secretary to call for Senate action.
Consortiumblog: How a torture protest killed a career
HOLY CRAP: Even Jesus' assassins need to eat...Crumb’s Genesis...Conversion anxiety...For goodness sake...Wake Up, America...GOP & Rapture Cult...Cosmic narcissism...Latter Day Liar...Once a molesting priest, now a Moonie...Grandma gambit...Take action...Badass sign
Sadly, No!: According to the Virgin Queen of the Right Wing Baloney-sphere, the title of "Teabagger" was worn with pride by our colonial forebearers. No, really.
Dependable Renegade: Seriously Meghan, put the iPhone DOWN. But first, tweet Carrie Prejean a message from the General.
Earth Bound Misfit: "Republicans for Rape" isn't just a vote, it's thirty votes. And now it's a blog. Susie Bright (NSFW) points to a simple statement on "how to prevent rape." Highly recommended.
Distributorcap NY: Discovered at Schwabs.
Mike Finnigan returns tomorrow; send tips to finnsagain AT aol DOT com.
