VetVoice: Interrogator who located Zarqawi rips U.S, torture policy

Attackerman: A one man military-industrial complex

Ken Silverstein: Accountability, there and here

The Mahablog: Neal Gabler explains why Joe McCarthy — not Barry Goldwater, and certainly not Saint Ronald — was the real father of modern movement conservatism.

The Agonist: Bangkok Airport

Connecting.the.Dots: The comparisons were inevitable: two charismatic presidents in their forties and their dazzling wives moving into the White House with young children.

Democrats.com: Pardon Scorecard: Dictatorship or Democracy?

Buck Naked Politics: The Bush Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

uggabugga: A Robert Rubin bash-a-thon..."nobody was prepared for the crisis of '08."

The Smirking Chimp: Israel's Settlement on Capital Hill

The Impolitic: Palin is the new Paris Hilton

The Opinion Mill's Weekend Bookchat asks: Is Ann Coulter becoming a Cenobite? Is Bill Ayers worth listening to, let alone reading? Will I.F. Stone ever stop being the target of posthumous smear attempts? And do you know any good black authors to suggest to white people?

Politics in the Zeros: Mumbai and Pakistan's ISI

Calculated Risk: Certain economists need to do some serious soul searching.  Instead of leaving it to us to guess why their analysis was so flawed, I believe the time has come for Mankiw, Kling and many other economists to write a post titled "Why I was wrong"

Climate Progress: EPA, Interior Dept. will be busy cleaning up Bush's crap

The Progressive Puppy: Low-income Americans who depend on Medicaid will soon face higher co-payments for doctors’ services, hospital care and prescription drugs, thanks to a new federal rule by the Bush Administration.

Bob Geiger: The Saturday Cartoons

The Stranger: Oh my God...this is terrible

Pruning Shears: Breaking the Bailout and the collapse of the financial system

Jon Swift: There is a good chance that when Barack Obama takes over, he will abolish Thanksgiving along with other holidays liberals hate such as Columbus Day, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Agitprop: Bad Law Professor of the Week

The Washington Note: Obama, Prop 8, and my marriage

Informed Comment: Queen Rania of Jordan has for some time had her own channel on Youtube and has done a number of broadcasts attempting to clarify the reality of Islam, to present a modernist vision of the place of women in Islam, and to combat extremist interpretations of her religion.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Progressive By Nature, Left 'Toon Lane, Realizing The Promise, Fresh Briefs

17 Reasons To Give Thanks

skippy the bush kangaroo: The Obamas visit a Chicago food bank

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: “The agreement represents a stunning and humiliating reversal of course by the Bush administration, which had vehemently opposed any timetable for withdrawal from Iraq,”

rubber hose: Question authority

Matthew Yglesias: The irrelevant House Republicans

The Bellows: Bad to the end

Our Future: For a lot of progressives, the Holidays mean that we're about to spend more quality time with our conservative relatives and hear some of their deeply-held — and deeply wrong — assumptions about who liberals are, and what we believe.

Gristmill: Politico 'reporter' pens two of the dumbest stories of the decade on climate science

Open Left: The tax history conservatives want us to forget

PERRspectives: GOP preparing to block health care reform...again

The most sensible discussion I've seen on the economic crisis

HOLY CRAP: Happy interfaith (and no faith) Thanksgiving...More 'Obama as Anti-Christ' insanity...Some good news...Supporting religious prejudice...The Gospel of secularism...Obama's spirituality...Christians Against Cartoons...Religious belief is bad for society...Oh noes!...Bigotry for Jesus...Moon Tribune...Dear Birthday shoppers...Freak of the week...Minding the faith-based store...Anti-abortion politics spark scandal in Missouri...City censors anti-religion billboard...Questioning other people's faith...Check out the Morality Master

Washington Monthly: Last Secrets of the Bush Administration

naked capitalism: What Barack Obama needs to know About Tim Geithner, the AIG fiasco, Citigroup, and the Meltdown

Brown Man Thinking Hard: The quiet transition you are NOT hearing about (h/t swimgirl)

AlterNet: 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor's annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year.

Legal Schnauzer: The Siegelman Whistleblower: Did a notorious Bushie sweep the charges under the rug?

TPM Election Central: Candidate for the RNC Chair was a member of a white's-only Country Club.

Mock, Paper, Scissors: Back on the sauce

BlondeSense: The nationalization of financial institutions might be a good thing if it leads to the firing and prosecution of these, and other criminals.

Pam's House Blend: "The worst Treasury Secretary in modern times."  What else could we expect from the worst president ever?

David Seaton's News Links: Deflation as a metaphor

Foolocracy: Terrorist takes comedy class while in prison

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Why is the NYT publishing a war criminal?...Covering new presidents: the media's double standards...MSM Moron of Da Week...AP to drop 10% of staff...WaPo continues to underestimate Iraq war casualties...Glenn Beck doesn't understand why he's resented as a bigot...Ailes says FOX wont "attempt to destabilize" Obama's presidency right now...In praise of Izzy...Covering up for Paulson...Hackery Hall of Fame inductee...The Michael O'Hanlon of magazines...Headline of the Week...Second place winner...Wapo loves that Cheney Kool Aid...WSJ's editorial page usually inspires violent thoughts, but once in a while, they print something worth reading...

Campaign Silo: In an effort to leave even more indelible stains on American government, BUSHCO is busy installing nonscientist political hacks in career, civil service jobs in a science agency. 

The Daily Dish: "Under coercive conditions." Excuse me, but what does that mean in English?

Politics In Color: GOP needs a long, hard look in the rearview mirror

Balkinization: This time, Thomas Friedman doesn't want to wait six months

at-Largely: A Gitmo Commission?

The Opinion Mill's Weekend Bookchat: Why you might want to take those rumors about Sarah Palin's million-dollar-book deal with a few grains of salt! Talkin' Dick Cheney! And FDR! 

Crooked Timber: End of the beginning

Sadly, No!: Apparently, the Pope has read Karl Marx, and Bloomberg News and some rightie bloggers think that makes him a prophet

Daily Kos: Needless to say, if we had universal healthcare, enemies of unions wouldn't be able to tell this particular lie, and American auto companies would be doing a lot better financially.

cab drollery: The arguments for Colombia's corporate class receiving trade favoritism are the usual, but their efforts appear to be directed toward covering up, rather than eliminating, violations of human rights.

Bob Geiger has cartoons for the 'Real America' and batocchio has the others

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Blind In Texas, The Obama Days, mandroppings, The Gay Left, 

Majikthise: CIA program murdered suspected drug smugglers

No More Mister Nice Blog: The dealers are getting hooked on their own product

Democracy in America: A judge has ruled that five of six Gitmo detainees exercising their restored habeas corpus rights were detained without merit. He ordered the men freed "forthwith".

Economist's View: The outlook for the economy is deteriorating, yet economic policy "seems to have gone on vacation"

The Satirical Political Report: The only way to sell the GOP on rescuing Detroit

Mad Kane’s Political Madness: What would the press do without Clinton rumors?

Booman Tribune: What's emerging from Chicago is a clear preference for toughness and people that are forceful and smart enough to ram home Obama's priorities.

Southern Beale: Remember the Treaty of Detroit

The Vanity Press: The Stupid Party

A Tiny Revolution: The White Man's Burden seems particularly heavy today

Angry Bear: Panic of 1873 Redux?

Skewz: Warner Todd Huston, of Newsbusters, and I debate media bias in the 2008 election - and other matters - in this podcast

AfterDowningStreet: The Bush administration is embedding their foot soldiers inside the government in order to sabotage any Obama initiatives while at the same time terminating federal employees who they assume would be supportive of the new administration.

Obsidian Wings: Rumors of Appointments

Nieman Watchdog: AARP, which purports to be the seniors' friend, has a lot of explaining to do to Iowa's Senator Charles Grassley

The Pump Handle: What hospitals are up against

Strange Maps: From pickin' cotton to pickin' presidents 

Some folks at the University of Tennessee would be grateful if C&L readers would weigh in on this

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: We saw this coming when Murdoch took over...Ordinary lazy hack journalist...Idiot elite media...Talkers revealed...Dumbudsman...Rather good effort...The difference between Show Business and Business...Rupert Murdoch rips media!...The Obamas gave 60 Minutes a record night...The Party is over at fanzine National Review...More 'Obama=Hitler' on Rightwing Radio...After Kristol...Immigrants, female politicians (and women in general), the LGBT community, the poor and homeless, minorities, progressives, unions, college students, and even autistic children are targets of Hate Radio...Missing White Girl Syndrome...Ranking Newspaper blogs..At NPR, some civilians are more equal than others...War News for Nov.18...Panel debates war coverage, blogs, and fairness

Attytood: It's official: The president of the United States and his aides are above the law

Portfolio: Drunk on his own Kool Aid and unmoved by reality, crazed ideologue Phil Gramm continues to babble failed conservative nostrums.  A real player has a different view

Newshoggers: Deficits actually do matter and defense is, in fact, a budget item

Mike Tidmus: God smites gays with wildfires

digby: Sticker Shock Doctrine

Tomgram: Operation Enduring Disaster

Bubble Meter: The incompetence and ignorance of BUSHCO continues to astound 

They gave us a republic: A healthy dose of common sense from a man who probably understands the problem better than anyone else 

The Moderate Voice: Why were psychologists behind the curve on torture?

Scott Horton: In Praise of a Prosecutor

Belated congratulations to AintNoBadDude on his 7th blogiversary!

HOLY CRAP: This statue should've been made of wood...When the Deity knows you're dead...In case you missed this...So the Mormons kicked down about $20 million this time but the LDS and Catholic Church joined forces 11 years ago to oppose same sex marriage...Christian Comic Books...On usury...Get Rapture Ready!...Religion and Race...Haggard Speaks...Catholics do more excercise than this during a High Mass...Funniest headline ever?...Brawling priests...An early Christmas present!...A little child shall lead them...Meeting Jesus...Obama signs got me kicked out of Mass...Celebrate Christmas with a burning cross in your yard...What's love got to do with it?...Kills folks dead...Short takes...