Diaries up for rescue tonight:
- RenaRF's What If We DO Get Our Act Together? - VERIFY THE VOTE examines a report from the Brennan Center of Justice that questions the integrity of voting machines, and gives a rundown on proposed legislation, HR 550, that would require voter-verified paper ballots.
- JLFinch's Let's Measure Iraq War Using NCLB Standards brilliantly suggests applying the onerous accountability standards in No Child Left Behind to the Iraq invasion and occupation.
- Rippe's $1,000,000,000,000 of Gay Money and the Ringing of the Bell puts the economic power of the gay community in perspective.
- El Cabrero's Deflating the public sphere discusses the shrinking of the public sphere and what it means to our constitutional rights.
- philinmaine's Stop Loss, PTSD, Vet families and a street corner in Richmond tells the story of an anti-war father of a vet, doing his part to stop the war, even as his son is once again deployed back to the front.
- vancookie's Patriotic Reflections Of The Museum Visitor is a beautiful meditation on patriotism, inspired by a rainy Saturday afternoon spent viewing art at the Met.
- LoganFerree's Nanny-State Agriculture uses the case of outlawing PA farmers selling raw milk to willing and informed consumers to make the case that the USDA favors corporate agribusiness over both consumers and small farmers.
- Frank Cocozzelli's Explaining the Taxpayer's Investment in the Common Good outlines ways of giving tax breaks and incentives to small, successful business owners, and avoiding lumping them in with huge corporations.
- Ambrosius' How our lives were changed in Navajoland describes the transformation and learning experience of a group of middle class kids that spends eight days on a "work vacation" in poverty-stricken Navajoland.
- kainah's "Blood on my Hands": Kent State Civil Trials finishes off an outstanding series detailing the history of the Kent State shootings. Blogging recent history at its best, folks.
- carneasadaburrito's Arabic paper exposes secret program offers some superb snark on the NYT/money data mining story ... this one from Al Qaeda's point of view.
- RT's Campaigns, Speech, Time, and Money: A Proposal enters another proposal into the public/campaign finance reform discussion, this one centering on individual citizens making choices with publicly funded accounts.
- hekebolos' It's time to pry Congress from their cold, dead hand spies a wonderful opportunity for the Democratic Party to reposition itself as defender of the whole Constitution ... including, yes, the Second Amendment.
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