1) SEIU is shelling out $75 mil to fight for universal health care. (h/t Jon Cohn)
2) Tom Engelhardt on the air war in Iraq, albeit a few days tardy on my part. Also, read Cook's editorial from this summer.
3) Ben Franklin hated immigrants, too.
Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.