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Monday Reading

Daily Kos about the help that won't be coming for US troops in Iraq.

Talk Left discusses the PATRIOT act's steady mission creep, the conditions in Guantanamo Bay, and the surprise court decision to postpone the CA recall. Also John Edwards intends to announce his candidacy on the Daily Show tonight, in a move that rather upstages the Dean camp in the 'hip, young thing' department. I keep wondering why Dean hasn't showed up there, but Edwards beat him to the punch, and a bit of a polling boost would be unsurprising.

Angry Bear on Bush's Birth Tax.

Pandagon talks about a conservative editorial page with pretensions of liberalism, how No Child Left Behind makes no allowances for special-ed and ESL students, and how conservatives can take a news item from gospel truth to inaccuracy and back again.

If you're tired of negative campaigning in US politics, try Canada, where they have evil reptilian kitten-eaters.

But kitten-eaters or no, Susie Madrak explains the rules of self defense for voters.

Billmon on the war of attrition we seem to be stuck in.

Seeing the Forest on where the jobs are going now that the IT sector seems to be going the way of manufacturing. Immediately below is the story about a known perjurer appointed to prevent corruption in DoD contracts by an administration known to be an equal opportunity employer for felons.

Sisyphus points out that the sputter weary have a friend in Move On.

Prometheus 6 points to an article about the shooting death of the oldest Williams sister. I remember too much about LA to think that a murder has received this much police attention in Compton for a long time. It isn't just the sentencing disparities that afflict poor minority communities, the two-tier justice system in the US gets them coming and going.

Daily Howler revisits the Carlson interview and the railroading of Phil Condit. Which topic always reminds me, for some reason, of Joe Scarborough's own dead intern.

Left Coaster on why manufacturing should be a big issue in 2004.

The Sideshow weighs in on the alterations in the citizenship oath that seem to undercut the importance of the constitution, points to Greg Palast's explanation of what pharmaceutical patents can mean, the strange parallels between United Fruit and Halliburton, and explains that the Republican party's 'new ideas' are just so much recycling of forgotten failures.

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