Angry Bear: Sully now (finally) pretends to be a Bush critic but still embraces Junior's fiscal dishonesty...and Brad DeLong says Andrew Sullivan is still a mendacious dork.

The New Yorker: Q & A with Michael Specter who has a piece in the current issue about the Bush administration's vehement opposition to “any drug, vaccine, or initiative that could be interpreted as lessening the risks associated with premarital sex.” These fine Christian folks would rather people die of AIDS and cancer than do anything to "encourage" sexuality.

Lew Rockwell: Condi Rice's flawed foreign policy is a repackaging of failed neoconservative policies that seeks to disguise regime change with the rhetoric of Wilsonian democracy.

Petrelis Files: Former Bush domestic policy advisor -- and one time Bush judicial appointee -- Claude Allen's mug shot. Allen is another one of those a--holes who believe it's better for people to die than to deviate from his "Christian," abstinence-only notions about sex education.

The Saturday Cartoons

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