Tonight's Diary Rescue brought to you by the Rescue Rangers. Tomorrow night, SusanG will resume posting them. --ct
On a day when John Murtha wrote that "Of the critical issues we are faced with today, the war in Iraq is the most crucial," and Iraqi gunmen kidnapped up to 150 government employees, Kogs kept events in Iraq updated on the recommended diary list and saved room for a variety of other issues.
Today's Rescue Rangers are BentLiberal, Dump Terry McAuliffe, Erika, msobel, melvin and nyc in exile, with Avila as editor.
- Dave in MA reminds us that Lori Berenson, left to rot in a Peruvian prison 11 years ago after a questionable conviction on terrorism charges, is An American forgotten by the right, the MSM, and yes, the left (melvin)
- leevank's The "Disappeared of America:" Immigrants may be held forever! documents another red letter day in the relentless erosion of due process. (melvin)
- A National Party No More by Thomas Kalinowski joins the many great recent map diaries to show where the Southern Strategy has ended up. (msobel)
- shirah in IRS and Private Debt Collectors - I Don't Make this Stuff Up. I'm Not that Funny ties the bow on more stupid privatization tricks (msobel)
- What if insurance companies designed the future of our health care system? AAESEP's AHIP Plan for "Universal" Care sounds like more of the same provides details of the unsurprising answer. (melvin)
- RH Reality Check in Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Scare Me shows us what On Air abuse is like. (msobel)
- Religious Right-Speak: Progressive Edition by Frederick Clarkson points out the secular strawmen in our midst. (msobel)
- zwerlst in McCain's Macarena nails the Straight Shooter's War Twists (msobel)
- Maybe they are just absentminded, posits Delaware Dem in The Republican Attention Span (msobel)
- Memo to the new Democratic Congress: A new poll finds that GOP POLL(?): US Majority says Gitmo Detainees Deserve Rights but srkp23 has some surprises on who was surveyed, which polling company was used and how the respondents feel about the Military Commissions Act. (Avila)
- As both Israel and the U.S. ratchet up their rhetoric, heathlander argues forcefully, and at length, that A Military Strike On Iran Would Be Illegal, Regardless Of Its [Iran's] Nuclear Status (Dump Terry McAuliffe)
- In A Revolution in Governance: Past, present, and the question of the future..., Erevann traces the roots of a counter-revolution: from the 1999 WTO protests to the rise of political blogs and beyond. (nyc in exile)
- In Election 2006: How the Members of Congress Under Investigation Fared, Congresspedia intern Tim Malacarne tells us what happened to the 15 Members who are targets of congressional ethics panels or law-enforcement authorities. (Dump Terry McAuliffe)
- Wizard's Twelveth Rule by Noziglia links fantasy and elections to suggest some metrics. (msobel)
- "It's Funny 'Cause It's True" . . . Maccabee considers what a message from God might sound like, particularly if there were Ten Pieces of Advice For the Republican Party. (Erika)
MissLaura has Top Comments: Talking to Republicans/Talking Politics.
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