Feministe: The journalistic establishment is supposed to be a check on government, not a BUSHCO echo chamber.

Newshoggers: Sadr gives Maliki a 24 hour ultimatum on the ceasefire

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: The Audacity of Pope

Comments from Left Field: We're supposed to believe that World Nut Daily has exclusive daily access to Hamas and that Hamas likes Obama...uh...OK.

Econbrowser: Shouldn't the rapidly rising price of food be a campaign issue?

The Opinion Mill's Sunday Bookchat: Instead of moving from left to right and getting dumber, Kevin Phillips moved from right to left -- and his books got even more valuable. Let Phillips show you how America became a land of bad debt and worse religion, while Haifa Zangana shows you how Baghdad became a city of widows and Lynn Hunt explains how fiction set the stage for human rights.