Up for diary rescue tonight ...
- occams hatchet's "Just say 'NO' to suicide bombing"??? WTF?!? eviscerates the government's decision to film a $1 million boondoggle commercial to stop Iraqi suicide bombing.
- ksuwildkat's 50 states, 50 questions offers some strong question/answer talking points for voters to pose in letters to the editor and public forums of incumbent Republican candidates.
- choppycursur's Why Lee Iacocca Is My Hero! brings a terrific find to our attention: the former Chrysler chairman lambasting the Bush administration and its policies.
- pacified's VLWC Case Study: Musgrave, KKK, And The Bloggers is a great moment-by-moment "case study" in how information moved from smaller blogs into more mainstream sources like Roll Call and The Hill. We really need to have more diaries like this to make sure we understand how it's done as we build our progressive infrastructure.
- james richardson's "I love Christ. It's his fan club that scares me." is a well-thought-out essay about Democrats, religion and to make it clear the right-wing extremist Christians have got it all wrong.
- robertdfeinman's On Democracy and Good Government argues that the Founding Fathers foresaw that pure democracy doesn't work, and thus layered the system with levels of government that would guarantee there would be no "tyranny of the majority."
- Vyan's GAO says: Snooping, Not just for Phone Calls Anymore looks at how the government is able to dodge the Fourth Amendment restrictions on gathering information through using private companies.
- RichRandal's God's Privates Help Cops In Georgia takes a satirical look at the merging of faith-based anything with anything these days - in this case, cops and pastors.
- BobcatJH's "The Da Vinci Code": It's just a movie tells all the protestors so up in arms about the film to ... get over it, already.
- FISG's Today is Our 14th Anniversary...A Would Be Wedding Anniversary! painfully articulates the rage of having to fight for civil unions on a 14th should-be anniversary.
- The Why Not Guy's I Call Shotgun! is an upbeat diary that explains why November is the writer's favorite month - and why the election this November is only the beginning.
- BlaiseP's Mail from the front: Al-Anbar Province shares an email directly from a soldier in the heart of Iraq.
- mole333's SWEEPING THE WEST: a revised FIVE State strategy and winning the Frontier outlines a "frontier strategy" for taking AZ, CO, NM, MT and NV.
- cskendrick's Somewhere in Siberia, There is A Boy puts a heart-breaking, personal face on the story of the recent crackdown on foreign adoptions in Russia.
- Cool Blue's Will signing orders negate any `06 Democratic gains? asks if the president will simply use signing statements to circumvent any legislation a Democratic Congress could pass, and offers several solutions to fighting this scenario.
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