Connecting.the.Dots: Move over, Halliburton. Dick Cheney's former company has been replaced as the Texas champion of ripping off American taxpayers in the "rebuilding" of Iraq.

Chris Floyd: Slander, Murder and Sixty Minutes: The Establishment Consensus on Iraq

The Rude Pundit: George W. Bush's final SOTU address reviewed as only the Rude One can.

The Washington Independent: Some are calling this new blog a "progressive Politico," but from day one (or month one, anyway; the site's been live for awhile) it's already more interesting than that.

Boing Boing: Racists adopt "Canadian" as a euphemism for "black."

MediaBloodhound: R2-D2 backs fellow robot, Mitt Romney