1) Juan Cole, angry about the right-wing's repudiation of Obama's name, hilariously dissects the ins and outs of Semitic and Arabic monikers in America.
2) Kate Sheppard on the crisis in the EPA.
3) Obama picks up another Senate endorsement, this time from Byron Dorgan.
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Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.
