Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's ranger team is watercarrier4diogenes, Got a Grip, JennyJem, Shayera, YatPundit, and Elise, with dadanation driving the editmobile.

Without further ado, here are tonight's offerings:

• wmtriallawyer tells Sen. McCain, Ronald Reagan Called. He Wants His Legacy Back. (shayera)
• New diarist KikiK shares the story of her young child's growing awareness of man's inhumanity to man and his budding sense of compassion in My son for Secretary of Health and Human Services. (Got a Grip)
• D Wreck digs deeply in the muck to show us that MN-Sen: Coleman's gift giver is also a government contractor. (Got a Grip)
• Jimmy Crackcorn does some serious research to find out who else thinks it's okay to 'pal around' with William Ayers in The Annenberg Foundation - Terrorist Financers. (jennyjem)
• Jeff Huber makes it clear that you can't fight terrorism with conventional military tactics in Baffle Them with Warfare. (jennyjem)
• mhanch shares a conversation with his wife that led him to consider Why I fight: Meeting America's Expectations. (Got a Grip)
• A Siegel wants to revisit a question left unanswered at the last Presidential Debate in Ingrid asks THE question. (jennyjem)
• keirdubois explains in a quirky, funny way how a book touched off The Crippling Nostalgia of Naranjastan. (jennyjem)
• asimbagirl cuts the ribbon for the Netroots Nation Auction - Start Your Bidding Now! (shayera)

jotter has today's High Impact Diaries: October 8, 2008.

Eddie C has Top Comments 10-9-08 Strawberry Fields Edition.

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