TBogg: “Real men vote for McCain?” You mean lying, jive-ass, sissy-ass chickenhawk cheerleaders who dress up in flight suits to play Air Force, but send other people’s children out to die for their lies, and can’t speak in complete sentences? Those kind of ‘Real Men?’

Gristmill: A simple regulatory fix to the coming power crisis

Ken Silverstein: Russian and Serb interests paid for Congressman Curt Weldon’s family vacation to Europe.

The Existentialist Cowboy: How “stealth ideology” helped Bush shred the Constitution.

Economist’s View: Can young Americans compete in a global economy?

Instaputz: Really, Putz? Really?

Connecting.the.Dots: V.P. for saving the planet

Facing South: Gulf Stream Coach - the politically connected company handed a $500 million federal contract to manufacture trailers for Hurricane Katrina victims knew its product was contaminated with dangerous levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde in early 2006. But they failed to notify residents or take any action to protect them.

Petrelis Files: AIDS exec gets a pay raise, then cuts food and supplements to patients.

Shakesville: Onward HMO soldiers, marching as to war

Newshoggers: If the only tool one uses is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The “gas tax holiday” and objective journalism…Crude Reporting..Obama moves right, pundits cheer…Har Har Har…Maybe someday, Maureen Dowd won’t write something juvenile enough to make Annals…Zzzzzzzz: get ready for CNN’s exciting convention coverage…Can we stop with the “liberal media” trope now?…Bypassing the Corporate Media…Jane Mayer shines some light on The Dark Side…Tom “six months” Friedman is angry because the world hates us…Shut up!…Judy Miller in a tent…

OurFuture: Everything about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been nationalized - except the profits and the pay scales of their executives.

The Washington Note: Israel deals with reality in the region. Exchanging prisoners is better than exchanging rockets.

earthfamilyalpha: The Stupid Economy

Washington Monthly: How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.

Angry Bear: Did Jonah Goldberg learn about the economics of oil from Dr. Newt Gingrich?

The Washington Independent: The Bush Crime Family’s latest latest consigliere, Michael Mukasey, claimed executive privilege, in CIA leak matter. Unsurprisingly, Don Dubya sees nothing wrong with treason.

Collateral News: Does the corporate media want war with Iran? It sure seems like it, and that puts them in the company of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Bush Administration.

Newsrogue: The world’s best inventions weren’t created for profit

Excons: Over the past months, most of you have doubtless seen an email or two or heard a rumor or two about Barack Obama. Here’s one on John McCain, but unlike the Obama smears, this is well- sourced and completely factual.

Buck Naked Politics: Attention, ‘McCain Democrats’…check out these two Federal Court decisions.

The Daily Dish: How would the Republican base react to this? ‘Reasonable conservative’ satirist, Jon Swift, explains it all for us.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Border Stories, essays & effluvia, The Asher Heimermann Blog, Dominion Wackiness,

Horses Ass: The terrorist next door?

The Mahablog: Fairy Tales

Threat Level: Coming to a state near you - 50 percent of New York’s Sequoia voting machines are flawed

Politics & Power: Another shady McCain co-chair bites the dust

Sensen No Sen: Undermining America, One Regulation at a Time

HOLY CRAP: Praying Liberally…Pastor Hagee’s desperate news suppression campaign backfires…Emails From Jesus…Camouflage Bibles….Beer Baron funds Religious Right conclave…Adult Christianity…Obama’s church/state drift is troubling for some of us…Pondering morality…St. Louis winger favorite promoted to powerful Vatican post…Jayzuz…Christian Shopping…Interfaith Alliance Media Roundup…The laying on of bucks

Cynics’ Party has recovered McCain’s press release (recently scrubbed from the Psychogeezer’s website) announcing disgraced AG Troy King as Alabama State Campaign Chair.

The Agonist: Our long national obsession with cars

naked capitalism: The death of globalisation consensus

Fafblog! Veepstakes 2008: Turgid For Change Edition

NotionsCapital: Turdblossom found

BlondeSense: Over There

Zaius Nation: A brief preview of the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Corrente: ICE Raid in Iowa: We ARE the Terrorists Now

The Agitator: War Crimes

Seeing the Forest: Latest wingnut/unaccountable BUSHCO meme: Insolvency and heedless regulators are not the cause of bank failure. It’s Chuck Schumer’s fault.

Discourse.net: Miami wakes up to political reality

The Opinion Mill’s Sunday Bookchat: Get a look at the new blockbuster from Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? Get an earful from Naomi Klein about the latest uses of the “shock doctrine.” Get a load of the jailbird who did a book review for the New York Sun. Get a boost from the success of a book about prosecuting Bush. And get a chance to compare the verse of Mao Zedong with the prose stylings of Bill O’Reilly. All this and more…

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Broderella channels Nooners…Leader writing…The Pentagon wants you to get the ‘full story’…Bugliosi is selling a lotta books, but the MSM won’t touch him…MoDo goes to Fantasy Camp…FOIA Is Bushed…This is the last post of longtime LA Times reporter, Ken Reich…Arlington Cemetery whistleblower fired for trying to grant media access to Military funerals…Primetime Ad Rates fall 11%…Matt Drudge rules the ‘journo’ political world….Your press thinks killing people is funny…And That’s The Way It Is… Journalisms…Hysterical controversy about Jesse Jackson’s remarks…Fourth Estate or Fifth Column?

Amygdala: Always trust your government. Just don’t trust anyone else’s

The Reality-Based Community: Grampa McCain on net neutrality: NO

The Pump Handle: Congress demands more info on Labor Secretary Chao’s mystery proposal for risk assessment.

Wonk Room: What kind of economist is Phil Gramm?

Pharyngula: Fight back against phony-baloney Catholic, Bill Donohue!

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: The Black Snob, Prairie Sun Rising, Lambasted!, earth family alpha,
Actors and Crew

The Impolitic: The Ugly American

The Big Picture: Is there any surer sign of an impending disaster than a reassurance from the White House that it doesn’t expect it to happen?

BAGnews Notes: McTownhall vs McTeleprompter

at-Largely: Karl Rove’s minions still hard at work in Alabama.

The Saccharinist: While we were sleeping…

Senate Guru: 2010 could be a strong cycle for female Democratic Senate candidates

American Civil Liberties Union: The Senate passed an unconstitutional spying bill and granted sweeping immunity to phone companies. Obama had promised to filibuster this measure. He didn’t. Let’s do something!

Freewayblogger: Gas pump blogging

Mugsy’s Rap Sheet: High gas prices may prove to be just another tool for stealing elections.

Consortiumnews: Mukaskey is Bush’s new Mr. Coverup. He acts more like a crime family consigliere than the chief law enforcement officer of the US.

Where’s the Outrage? For everyone over the age of 25, we’ve been here before. In late 1970s, as oil prices began to skyrocket, we had a debate in this country over oil and energy independence.

Blue Jersey: More confirmation that the GOP and cohort aren’t merely insensitive to overt racism when lauding Helms. It’s a defining characteristic of the party.

Informed Comment: Iraqi allies we’ve left behind: “The people on my list have been tortured, they’ve been raped, they’ve lost body limbs. There’s one guy on my list who’s been thrown out of a moving vehicle. And all of this because they helped us. They came every single day to try to pitch in, in our efforts there.”

The Reaction: So you thought you might like to go to the show

Monkey Muck: If you’re not rich yet it’s your own damn fault!

Princess Sparkle Pony’s Photo Blog: Condi’s Czech Mate

ePluribus Media: Rigged Casinos and the Plunge Protection Team: Bernanke debunks ‘free market’ myth.

Mother Jones: Is the McCain campaign screening questioners? Meanwhile, this ad could mark the first time the Republican National Committee launched an attack against its own party.

All Spin Zone: America, 2008. Just like any other authoritarian regime.

Foolocracy: C&L contributor, Blue Gal, tipped me to this along with the observation:“Your typical Republican candidate. Way old and can’t seem to keep it in his pants. Admits he wasn’t good to his seven kids or three wives, but endorses tougher divorce standards.”

The Carpetbagger Report: Fox News or Crime Family extortionists? What’s the G.D. difference?

Huffington Post: GOP looks to redistrict itself back into power

iCrew: A new site where creative people help each other out. Writers, filmakers, musicians, craftsmakers, and anyone else who’d like to use “the wisdom of crowds” to do things better, faster, and more participatively should find iCrew an exciting and useful resource.

Our friend Tammy Booth, better known as Blue Girl, Red State, has won a scholarship to the Netroots Nation bloggers convention that is being held in Austin later this month. She’s trying to raise some money toward the train ticket and living expenses while in Texas. Times are tough, but kick in a few bucks if you can via Paypal over at her site.

Beggars Can Be Choosers: $10 billion Pentagon program fails to defeat IED threat in Iraq

Immigration Prof Blog: Business is fighting tough measures on immigration. Who didn’t see this coming?

Ice Station Tango: If Karl Rove isn’t in prison by then, he and John Edwards will have a debate at the University of Buffalo on on September 26.

The KC Blue Blog: Looks like the ol’ Southern Strategy is alive and well in Missouri

Calculated Risk: More trouble in bank paradise

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The Media brought me donuts…A sterling example of why Mr. Sheri Annis is such an important 4th Estate Lawn Jockey…ABC: Agent Backs Cheney…Fighting the shock-jocks…The Atlantic Monthly continues to decline…Journalism without journalists…The ubiquity of inanity…At Last! A good, issue-driven Health Care Story…And NPR did one, too!…Taken for a ride in Miami…Fox moves from eccentric to weird…This explains a lot…CBS aired a portion of Floyd Brown’s attack ad, failed to report Obama is not a Muslim…

And Doctor Biobrain’s Response Is…: How McCain stopped the FARCing bullsh*t

Nieman Watchdog: Frustration in the Army officer corps 

Sadly, No! Wouldn’t G-Dub make an awesome high school government teacher?

his vorpal sword: Trivial Pursuit - Schizophrenic Edition

The Opinion Mill’s Weekend Bookchat: Authors speak on Roger Ailes, Karl Rove and the government’s imprisonment of dissidents. Plus a peek at the Progressive Book Club launch party, a schoolteacher suspended for using the Freedom Writers in his classroom and Ahmed Rashid talks about the coming change in jihaidsm.

HOLY CRAP: My financial records “belong to God“…Who would’ve predicted the Religious Right would support the GOP nominee?…Asking God to intervene on gas prices…Bush edits out Jefferson’s religious views…Clueless ideologues …God arrested near Tampa church…Obama sets off debate on ties between religion and politics…Bloggers And Blasphemy…And finally…

the talking dog: July 4, 2008

Shakesville: Were the hecklers in a ‘free speech zone?’

Majikthise: Propriety dictates that if one can’t say something good about someone, they should say nothing. Okay…Jesse Helms is dead. Good.

Open Left: Congressional races looking up for Dems

Barry Crimmins: Call Me Lucky

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Joe Bageant, Democratic Veteran, World-O-Crap, Old Fashioned Patriot

mediabistro: Independence Day, 2008

The Progressive: Bush’s legacy and the damage done.

National Priorities Project: Learn the cost of the war in total, in your community, per household, per person.

Emptywheel: I don’t think “accountability” means what Obama thinks it does.

American Street: That any self-respecting newspaper willingly provides space to these lying criminals is indicative of how far journalism in America has fallen

Matthew Yglesias: I’m worried…

War and Piece: G-Dub to close Gitmo?

William K. Wolfrum: Christopher Hitchens lets Vanity Fair blow off his legs, kill his entire family, destroy his home; he writes about it

MediaBloodhound: PBS and NBC’s symbiotic sins of omission, and Fox’s thirteeen-year-olds.

TalkLeft: Is the government tracking you? At least one Federal Judge still believes warrantless spying is illegal.

David E’s Fablog: The newspaper of record’s fawning profile of professional liar Limbaugh made me sick. Imagine how David E. felt when he noticed his name in the article!

Angry Bear: Republicans warn that Democrats will cause a difference

Cynics’ Party: Obama panders to religious fanatics and promises a Jesus-crazy administration. He shouldn’t promising to expand the corrupt and