Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Diaries up for rescue tonight:

• ecclesioleft's My Two (Penguin) Dads II: Mobilizing History looks at the institution of marriage throughout the ages and how it ties in to Christianity.
• Valtin's Torture 101: CIA text on teaching "coercive interrogation" serves as an excellent, detailed primer on CIA methods of interrogation.
• 8ackgr0und N015e's Ryan's gifts and the great task remaining before us looks at just one of the shining lights we've lost as a results of the Iraqi invasion.
• State Rep Mark Cohen Dem PA's Control of Pennsylvania House Still Too Close To Call brings us up to date on the close state races still to be decided in Pennsylvania, and discusses the dynamics of party-switching.
• LiberalLucy's The Real Skinny on the Michigan Elections looks at the impact of ads, strategy and campaign tactics that succeeded in Michigan.
• xrepub's Where's the $$ going reviews the state of current income inequality in America, not just between the rich and the poor, but between the "haves" and the "have mores."
• jillian's God's an Environmentalist provides a new twist on the "Good News" of the gospel - as evangelicals begin to take the edict of stewardship of the earth seriously.
• a gnostic's Alternative Energy: The path to 08 victory for Democrats examines how new jobs and alternative energy industries could prove to be the key to courting the insecure middle class in the next election.
• Chico David RN's Some littlle known history on the draft gives an odd glimpse behind the scenes during the Vietnam War era, when people were claiming conscientious objector status, having it denied, then refusing to be inducted ... without the feds following up in any way and letting them go.
• Land of Enchantment's McNerney's Off to a Good Start follows up on one of our netroots candidates' first visit to Washington, and media reaction to his election.
• fbihop's NM-01: What Went Wrong in New Mexico's First? concludes that Madrid's media strategy in the final weeks of the campaign led to her failure to unseat Wilson - and provided some lessons for campaigns in 2008.
• MFL's LA-02: A primer for Non-New Orleaneans explains the convoluted politics and local conditions behind the William Jefferson/Karen Carter run-off election.

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