Diaries up for rescue tonight:
- davidsirota's The Movement Value of Promoting Progressive Voices persuasively and passionately argues that the effort to support liberal authors goes beyond the money bottom line - it's THE way to move progressive ideas into the mainstream of American discussion.
- justiceputnam's The Lost War Dispatches: A Public Parody is a quirky, interesting take on the persona and romanticism of war correspondents.
- PapaChach's Like An Old Dead Tree is a beautiful, evocative essay about the gradual downturn in America's old industrial towns. First-time diarist.
- duvallbuck's Hazardous materials all around you... explains the details of the overlooked vulnerabilities to our national security of having tons of hazardous chemicals being moved through the country by rail.
- erratic's President designates SCOTUS as enemy combatants serves up prime snark as our highest ranking "activist judges" are put in their place by our imperial president.
- Gravedugger's My Personal Melting Pot reflects on how public transportation brings people from all walks of life together.
- fightorleave's A Few Good Men and Hamdan demonstrates how if you tweak Jack Nicholson's speech a bit in A Few Good Men, you wind up with ... reasoning the administration uses today.
- ANKOSS' The Space Shuttle is America laments the launch of the space shuttle over the objections of NASA safety officers, claiming it shows we now value "show" over reality.
- dengre's ALERT: DOJ Abramoff Cover-up begins gives a detailed analysis of what's going on with the latest Abramoff revelations.
- smintheus' No immediate plans for internment of Iranian-Americans mines the LA Times story about the state of California conducting surveillance on war protests and discovers the nugget hidden within - a proposal to monitor Iranian prisoner talks with clergy and other inmates, singling them out by their ethnicity.
- Duke 1676's Immigrant voter registration could yield 14 mil voters looks at voter registration drives in the immigrant community, with the inspiring motto: "Today we march, tomorrow we vote."
- pontificator's Bob Woodward is a TOOL examines Woodward's role in disseminating the "slam dunk" meme of Tenet's, and concludes he was - gasp! - used by the White House, according to Ron Suskind's new book.
- londonbear's If 133,000 Americans died on the first day of battle recalls the Battle of Sommen, the lessons learned and unlearned from that time, and compares it with today.
- Arthur Ruger's I'd like your blessing Dad is an awesome letter to a daughter who is enlisting, from a Vietnam vet father. Just amazing and highly recommended.
- The Crusty Bunker's Washington's Letter to the Hebrews reminds us, as we approach our national birthday, of two documents of our Founders that explicitly disavowed constitutionalizing religious bigotry in any form.
In a generous spirit, diarist JESchwartz offers to donate half her proceeds of all sales of her political novel, Doublethink, from June 30 through July 4, to a Kos candidate. Good time to buy a book you were going to read anyway, eh?
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