Not Illegal, Just Monumentally Sleazy
Cheney Tax Return Shows Katrina Tax Benefits for Non-Katrina Charitable Contributions
Rick Cohen at DMIblog has more here.
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The Worst President in History?
Sean Wilentz in Rolling Stone
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Without DeLay
Paul Burka for Texas Monthly does an autopsy of the corpse
via Taegan Goddard
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Flying Spaghetti Monster In The News
Icess Fernandez for The Wichita Eagle reports: Creature's picture irks Board of Ed member. Seems the voices of "creationsim"/"intelligent design" love to dish it out but can't take it.
via John at AMERICAblog
update:
Miami Rent-a-Rioter Replaces Rove As WH Policy Chief
Justin Rood at TPM Muckraker reports that Joel Kaplan, who replaces Rove as WH Policy Chief was prominent in the 2000 Florida vote count "riot", when a gang of DC GOP operatives pretended to be outraged Floridians, and tried to intimidate Miami-Dade officials engaged in the Florida recount effort.
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