Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(Posting for SusanG. Sorry for the delay, but there was a weird technical glitch when I tried to publish it from her drafts page. mcjoan)

Diaries up for rescue tonight:

• Rippe's Death of a Salesman: Karl Rove's Real Legacy analyzes Rove's failure to market "his product" because his front-line sellers no longer could believe the pitch they needed to make.
• viralvoice's Michigan Primary on MLK's Birthday: A Primer provides an in-depth analysis of the state of play for presidential candidates in the Michigan primary.
• Marie's Yes, We Have No Bailouts gives an overview of previous bailouts from the U.S. government - in the S & L crisis, Chrysler, 9/11 - and looks at what that could mean for the sub-prime mortgage crisis today.
• murrayewv's Murder in America: The War At Home looks at the role of race and immigration-and the conservative bandwagon forming-around the murder of college students in Newark.
• paradox's Republican Journey to a Dark, Barren Place discusses the wait for the Republican Party to avoid political suicide by denouncing Bush ... and the fearless leader's weird ire at a newspaper article questioning his fashion sense.
• redglare's Iraq is a Coal Mine draws a magnificent analogy between calling off the rescue at the Utah coal mine and getting our troops out of Iraq.
• 8ackgr0und N015e's We ain't paying!  We're crime, and crime don't pay! (2 of 2) argues that criminal behavior tracking such as drug trafficking could benefit from some of the techniques used to stop terrorism.
• JDWolverton's Talking About The "Best" Health Care In The World gives terrific talking points for those faced with recalcitrant conservatives who want to shoot down universal health care.
• Bastoche's History and the Kagans: Paradise and Power II reviews the dynamics of the strategies of power promulgated by one of the prominent neoconservative families.
• Eternal Hope's The Truth in Wartime Act proposes a raft of interesting propositions that would curtail many of the worst violations of the Bush administration-and future administrations that want to go to war.

Add your favorites from the past 24 hours and use as an open thread.

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