Jeffrey Toobin: Hiding Jay Bybee

Attytood: Newt Gingrich preps for 2012 by writing the preface to a creepy, right-wing survivalist novel. In other news of the deranged, Michele Bachmann is making sh*t up again, this crazyass Illinois congressman sure doesn't know where the line is, and Georgia passes a law honoring terrorists and traitors

OurFuture: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week vowed to begin a congressional investigation into what caused the financial crash of 2008

INSTAPUTZ: Ed goes teabaggin'...and so does Jason

FiveThirtyEight: Red and Blue Economies?

Pruning Shears: The Right rediscovers civil liberties