CRIMINALLY IRRESPONSIBLE CRONYISM DEPT. An inexperienced 28-year-old former White House staffer has been appointed to head a policy committee that gathers expert advice on key areas of homeland security-- on behalf of the president and the Homeland Security secretary-- including threats to infrastructure and preventing terrorist attacks that use weapons of mass destruction....and speaking of Homeland Security, the President has ordered the creation of a center for religious initiatives within the DHS. I feel safer.

Brandoland: Them Jesus Lizards ain't that old. Seems more than half of Americans reject Evolution, back the Bible.

The Brad Blog: Moscow Times covers America's crumbling electoral system.

The Revealer: Embarrassing Peggy Noonan. Try to understand how hard it is for her to hold polite civilization together with just her two gloved hands.

The Reality-Based Community: The Heritage Foundation is letting its offices be used for Santorum's re-election effort, which clearly violates the rules for tax-exempt organizations. But then we already knew that Ricky had some strange ideas about tax-exempt organizations,

The Left Coaster: More Abramoff revelations imminent