-John Cole notes NRO picking who they want to lose in 2008, and Huckabee trying to pass off religious bigotry as a mere lack of info.
-Glenn Greenwald takes the right-wing narrative that to be anti-neo-con is to be anti-jewish and completely obliterates it — by showing that most jews are anti-neo-con.
-Muckraker points out the legal trickery behind the destruction of those CIA torture tapes.
-Matt of ThinkProgress reveals some interesting fallout from the embrace of waterboarding: one of our own generals can now not denounce it if hypothetically Iran did it to an American pilot.
-Kos user Meteor Blades brings us another clear example of why “public” ≠ “government-controlled”: people out west are being double-taxed for “public” land access, meanwhile connected developers & oil companies get a discount. Until the definition of a commons area goes back to the original use of the term — collectively held by the people who live on or near it & use it, w/o state involvement at all — this will continue to happen.
