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November 27, 2006 in Links

Montana Jones loves Canada. After reading his post, I do, too.

And then there’s the other Montana state legislator who’s “switching” parties…only he’s not really switching. Just sort of.

Courtney Lowery on the new Green Congress, and other Western political links.

Idaho Democrats pleased by 2006 election results and ready to try again next time.

The Denver Post does a piece on our Good Guv as an example to the Democratic Party on how to win elections.

Fenberg and Diaz suspect young Rocky Mountain voters have the power to change the course of history in 2008. (Matt has more.)

Pogie has a post on educating the “undeserving poor” that is spot-on. Enough of the patronizing and accusatory message that the poor are morally or spiritually insufficient.

Glenn Greenwald on why the media is taking so keen an interest in the battle for the House Intelligence Committee chair: “It would have meant that those who continue to prop up this war and this administration, either actively or passively, are going to suffer a loss of prestige and credibility. And that is exactly why it is so important to them that Jane Harman become House Intelligence Chair and why Pelosi’s refusal to allow that will unleash even more hostility towards her.”

Big Oil is manipulating the price of gasoline. I, like Matt before me, am not surprised.

Kevin Drum finds a simple solution to the Medicare-prescription-drug-brouhaha: “requiring drug makers to give Medicare beneficiaries their lowest price, as companies must for Medicaid, the state-federal health-insurance program for the poor and disabled.”

Jeff Sharlet warns against Christian fundamentalists’ attempts to change American culture and history.

The LA Times’ Matt Welch looks into John McCain’s ideology and does not like what he sees: “He’ll kick down the doors of boardroom and bedroom, mixing Democrats’ nanny-state regulations with the GOP’s red-meat paternalism in a dangerous brew of government activism.”

Bob Woodward goes after the most powerful member of the Bush administration: Laura. My, how the worm has turned…

The government is skewering whistleblowers, encouraging mismanagement in its bureaucracy.

The Revealer discusses Madonna, blasphemy, and network censorship.

Retired General Barry McCaffrey says we need to stay in Iraq another Friedman.

The term “Friedman Unit” has now entered the popular lexicon. (Follow the link for a chart of how often the “Friedman Unit” has been used by politicians and pundits.) It’s a fascinating term, one that accurately shows this kind of thinking is an unending loop and a reason why we’re still in Iraq.

John Kurz dispels “conventional wisdom” on the coverage of the Iraqi War.

Meanwhile, SCOTUS is set to hear a landmark case on global warming: “A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are trying to convince the court that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate, as a matter of public health, the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from vehicles.”

A New Hampshire Republican mulls over the state of conservatism in New England.

Austin Bramwell “surveys the wreckage of contemporary conservatism.” Amazing insider critique of all that’s wrong with contemporary conservative ideology’s intellectual failings in regard to Iraq and terrorism. A must read.

Steve Benen mulls Atlantic’s list of the most influential Americans.