Cruised by the UpTake’s liveblog and spotted this Tweet from Rachel Stassen-Berger: ” Rt/ @Rasmussenpoll 54% Say Coleman shld concede;63% say Franken will win,16% expect Coleman win http://tinyurl.com/RR0203 #mncontest”. Wow. That’s the second time this week I suspect that longtime Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen didn’t get the result he wanted.

Yes, I’m glad that Arlen “the Scrapple formerly known as Haggis” Specter has come out in support of Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion that CIA misled her in her September 2002 briefing.

“The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law

The California Supreme Court was prepared to announce its decision tomorrow on Proposition 8, but has delayed the opinion at the request of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, because an announcement on Thursday would coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the conviction of Supervisor Dan White for the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on the lightest charges possible, and the subsequent White Night riots, according to the website Towleroad with exclusive sources in City Hall.

April 13, 2002; May 6, 2002, May 20, 2002; May 23, 2002; May 28, 2002…

Those are some of the most important dates from from the log of “all contemporaneous and derivitive records” on Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation from 2002.

Here’s why they’re important.

April 13, 2002: This is the first date, the CIA claims, for which it has any records.

thanks to the ACLU: featuring Ali Soufan, James Mitchell and… Alberto Gonzales

The government is withholding key volumes from Abu Zubaydah’s diaries, which not only would reveal he was critical of 9/11, but that he was tortured at the hands of the CIA.

We hear it again and again, big corporations like WalMart paying lobbyists a forture to run campaigns about union thuggery on behalf of their fat corporate clients in an effort to defeat Employee Free Choice (EFCA). Because they care so very much about their workers.

If they’re worried about thuggery, maybe they ought to be looking in the mirror:

I’m working on stuff that will post later this PM. But in the meantime, I wanted to draw your attention to two upcoming events.

First, on Friday, May 22, at 10:45 AM ET, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be joining us at the front page for a chat. He’ll be here for 45 minutes, and Senators’ schedules are always subject to change, but be sure to think of questions and mark your schedule

It’s so fortunate that the Democrats took over the Senate in 2006, because otherwise, all kinds of crazy wingnut shit would be getting passed.

Obama, the Democrats and Guantanamo.