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This evening's Rescue Rangers are srkp23, vcmvo2, noddem, jlms qkw, dadanation and mem from somerville with shayera editing.

• citisven warns on the wiles of the marketers with Beware the Locawashers! (w/tidy pics). (mem from somerville)
• litho reports on the continued unrest in Central America: Zelaya back in Honduras? Supreme Court admits coup was illegal. (vcmvo2)
• Avenging Angel takes a look at Sotomayor v. the GOP's Post-9/11 Constitution. (srkp23)
• Check out gjohnsit's exhaustive and sobering diary to understand why That's not how bubbles work. (dadanation)
• In ...between you and your doctor? ethanthej answers the question implicit in the criticism of univeral health-care coverage. The insurance company is already between you & your doctor. (vcmvo2)
• Vikingkingq warns us in “The Front Line of Defense” – Unemployment Insurance Reform. (jlms qkw)
• First-time diarist quentinwright has a couple of questions: did the media hear the same speech as we did, and What does "post-racial" mean? (mem from somerville)
• Fake Virginia shares a little-known story about George Mason in Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.): Re-writing History in the Name of God. (jlms qkw)
• TheFatLadySings leads us on a fascinating tour of Michael Jackson's PTSD Archetypes (Health Series). (srkp23)
• textus philosophizes on the G.O.P. problem with Judge Sotomayor in Gop's problem isn't with "Latina." (vcmvo2)
• myles spicer made me think "How can my rep and senator hear me?" with So you think you know the power of lobbyists... (jlms qkw)
• In The Idiocy of Texas and the Threat of David Barton, Chris Rodda shares the troubling story of Texas' Board of Education, and the so-called "expert" guiding their decisions. (noddem)
• davej connects the dots between the cash and the outcome in Pay for Play - Conservatives Busted AGAIN. (mem from somerville)

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