On the diary rescue list for tonight:
- Me's A new fatwa: Invest brings news of investment funds being founded that skirt the Shira edicts against usury, with the cooperation of religious leaders issuing fatwas in favor of certain investments.
- elendil's First, know yourself... looks at Gitmo torture of detainees through the lens of what the diarist terms "internal mythology" and how trust in the world shapes political and social interaction.
- shanikka's El Hajj Malik el Shabazz, Race & Politics is a stunningly inspiring and well-written diary about Malcolm X, despite it's being truncated at the end. Long, but well worth the read.
- AlanF's Ruining people's day: Jonathan Simon on election integrity gives a detailed report on speakers discussing election integrity issues at Harvard.
- woldoog's Condemnation is an amazing diary about a father opening up to his daughter about his Vietnam experience. Heart-wrenching and well-written.
- New Deal democrat's The sound of economic history rhyming: the declines of the British Empire and US hegemony draws out the parallel between the rise and fall of the British Empire and the downward part of that same cycle in which the U.S. seems to be caught.
- doorguy's Katherine Harris busted again - with Mitchell "Bribe `em all" Wade gives un update on the latest sleaze with our favorite Republican Floridian Senate candidate.
- WinSmith's New York Times Watch -- How to Make a Scandal "Bi-Partisan" Through First Sentence Wording notes how in the William Jefferson bribery stories, the Times identifies Jefferson prominently as a Democrat, while reports on DeLay were amazingly free - or burying - with his party affiliation.
- tln41's Privacy = Freedom? poses some terrific (and creepy) questions for those who don't think privacy invasion is any big deal.
- Mash's How Much Is An Innocent Life Worth? looks at the civilian/militant death ratio in today's U.S. strike in Afghanistan and asks an important question.
- Zack Exley's Message for '08 Dems: Only cowards think we're at war urges Dems to adopt a "stand tall with me" attitude to face down the fear-mongering hysterics of the Republicans.
- dday's President Praises Milestone in Iraq... Again gives an embarrassingly long list of how many times Bush has declared a "milestone" and turning the corner in Iraq. Worth a hotlist for everyone to shout your wingnut cousins down.
- jrdjr's George W Bush is not a failure points the way to logically arguing that Bush hasn't failed, conservatism has.
- jbarab's Bush's Surface Mining Nominee Up To His Neck In Improper Behavior While At MSHA is an IMPORTANT diary about one of Bush's crony appointments - of course, coming from the mining industry itself - at the Mining Safety and Health Administration, an agency that clearly needs to get on the ball and start regulating.
- TheBlaz's Empty words from an empty head; Bush speaks on insurgents is just plain, terrific, old-fashioned astonishment/snark expressed at Bush's pronouncements today about the Iraqi insurgency.
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