News & Comment

Just started back to school this week, and If I study as much as it says I should on the label, I'm looking at 54 hours per week of school related program activities. So please pardon the light posting, & enjoy the following:

Bush's hometown paper endorses Kerry. A Kos diarist picked this up, and if you go down through the comments, you can read the story of the mayor of Crawford, TX, having also endorsed Kerry.

George Soros spoke at the National Press Club, and said in two sentences what many people have found themselves unable to say with long essays, emphasis mine: "The destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center was such a horrendous event that it required a strong response. But the President committed a fundamental error in thinking: the fact that the terrorists are manifestly evil does not make whatever counter-actions we take automatically good."

Another link from Atrios, Media Matters has an open letter from David Brock concerning the Republican ties of MSNBC commentator Frank Luntz.

Steve Gilliard talks about how bad things really are in Iraq, and how far from reality Bush's press conference with Allawi was.

Avedon at the Sideshow has an excellent collection of other things you should read, either because they will inform, enrage, or entertain you.

Obsidian Wings posts about the impending possibility that Congress will vote to legalize torture. Not actually allowing U.S. government personnel to perform torture, but allowing them to send suspects to countries that practice torture for the specific purpose of having them tortured. How this is morally different escapes me, but it does add a layer of deniability for P.R. purposes. Write your representatives in the House and Senate opposing this measure.

In closing, this is the last week for mail-in voter registration, so go out there and get people signed up. And if you can help out at all, please contact your local district party representatives, coordinated campaign headquarters, or favorite candidate headquarters to offer what help you can provide in turning out the vote. Thank you in advance.