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September 28, 2006 in Links

Cece sent off her complaint to the FEC regarding the Butte seating scandal. Nice work.

Wulfgar! mulls over Sinrud’s drive-by campaigning and his new sure-fire proposal for the state legislature.

David Crisp’s profile of Jon Tester.

JEFF realizes an ugly truth: he and Bill O’Reilly just don’t see eye-to-eye.

Colby mulls over Iraqi opinion on our presence in their country. Hm…sixty percent approve of killing US soldiers…haven’t heard the “hearts and minds” rhetoric from the Bush administration lately…hm…

From that poll and others, Ezra Klein concludes that President Bush is really a uniter, not a divider.

The Democratic leadership begins its stand against torture. Is anybody else weirded out that we’re even having this discussion?

Obama does make a stand in favor of civil liberties. Good to see the Dems growing a backbone.

Cafferty mulls torture and the Presidential self-pardon…and comes away disgusted. “What are we becoming?” Indeed.

Kossak mcjoan urges Dems to filibuster the torture bill. I agree: make them go on the record supporting torture.

And guess who decides if you’re an “enemy combatant”? The decider, that’s who.

Tristero: We have a rogue president.

Meanwhile, the Republican leadership is still trying to deceive you.

Olbermann responds to the NY Post’s “humorous send-up” of the commentator’s death threat. Did they interfere with an investigation? They certainly came out looking like *ssholes.

The TSA detains an airline passenger for…well…writing “[TSA secretary] Kip Hawley is an idiot” on his bag. Talk about self-reinforcing behavior.

More tales of war profiteering in Iraq and a government indifferent to corruption.

Health premiums up twice the rate of inflation and wages. Oh, and a federal advisory panel recommended that “all Americans have access to affordable health care by 2012.” What’s that noise?…*crickets*

“Twelve traps that keep progressives from winning.”

A mainstream journalist demonstrates his complete ignorance about blogs. I could understand this attitude in..say…2004…but now???

Fox News Personality Quiz! What a lineup!

We must rid the world of art, lest a child see — *gasp* — a nude body! Seriously, these people are a parody of themselves.