Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(Tonight's selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

This evening's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, Patriot Daily (mentoring blue jersey mom and plf515), jennyjem, ezdidit, YatPundit, Got A Grip and joyful, with watercarrier4diogenes at the editor's desk.

Tonight's diaries cover a variety of interesting issues not covered by the MSM with the kind of research, perspective and analysis we see here every day.  A pity, isn't it?

• In Jonathan Turley on Countdown: Torture Is Still a Crime, FWIW, reports on Keith Olbermann's interview with this Contitutional Law Professor. (vcmvo2)
• Sylvester McMonkey McBean analyzes a Scientific American article on energy independence in Solar Energy by 2050: A Plan. (vcmvo2)
• Robert Ullmann continues his reports from Kenya on the election turmoil in Will Kenya count the votes? (vcmvo2)
• Goldy at HorsesAss reports that despite Washington State's highest in the nation minimum wage, business is thriving, in The Eight Buck Per Hour Double Per Buck Cheeseburger. (vcmvo2)
• The success of racially integrated schools in Ossining, NY, is questioned by Forgiven in School Integration 2007; A Difficult Proposition. (YatPundit)
• gmoke flashes us back to the 1970s and Carter's energy policies in 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas. (YatPundit)
• In an interesting first diary, billd uses Joe Klein's latest gaffe as the basis for some dKos navel-gazing in Time and the Daily Kos. (YatPundit)
• First-time diarist Chris Rodda details how H.Res.888 attempts to re-write US history in an effort to turn the USA into a Christian nation in Think the "Christmas resolution" was bad? Check Out H. Res. 888. (blue jersey mom and plf515)
• When the religious right turns on one of its own, what happens next is Far From Heaven. blueness contemplates Huckabee's "fall from grace" with eloquent precision. (jennyjem and avila)
• A 1968 Analogy is bart49's contemplation of Iowa caucus night 2008 in considerate analysis of a previous historical shift back in 1968. (jennyjem and avila)
• In Rising CO2 Linked to Increased Mortality Rate: An Undeniable Truth, markthshark examines the first direct link between carbon dioxide emissions and death. (jennyjem and avila)
• Avenging Angel ponders the Iowa Aftermath: Immigration the New GOP Wedge Issue for 2008. (joyful)
• DrForbush takes a look back and shares the view from Four Years Later. (joyful)

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