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Who owned the $138 billion in bonds that the Fed quietly bailed out from the Lehman Bros. failure? Inquiring minds want to know.

Sarah Palin, she's all anybody's talking about. THAT's why McSame picked her to be the Veep candidate. It wasn't in spite of her "issues" it was because of them! Children, we been punked.

Remember back a few weeks ago when the Obama Campaign invited regular people to form groups to propose and discuss ideas for the candidate’s platform and to forward them to the folks who could make the ideas work? I went to one of those.

I know I’m jumping the gun here a bit since we are still a couple days ahead of the Book Salon for Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, but the book contains a really important point that I think needs to be highlighted on its own. With regard to the Bush era so called “extraordinary renditions” the claim that “Clinton did it too” is just false.

This is a proposal put forward at the rule of law roundtable to form a “Church Commission” like body to investigate allegations of criminal conduct by the Bush administration.

The Democratic Party starts a "Roots Project"--and you can join in.

Waxman has it right. Mukasey's assertion of executive privilege is ludicrous. First of all, you don't just send a little note on a greeting card saying "we assert privilege".

One of the so called "improvements" in the pending FISA "compromise" bill is that the bill has language which purports to make FISA the exclusive means by which the government can conduct foreign intelligence surveillance. I always thought this claim laughable because this has always been the exclusive means.

During the Gilded Age, nouveau riche Americans trying to acquire a veneer of sophistication and polish would embark upon a version of the "Grand Tour" of Europe. They would develop a smattering of foreign language skills, visit the great cities of Europe, hire tutors to teach them about art and architecture--and sometimes deportment--and they would go to museums.

Please welcome our special guest, Len Rubenstein, the President of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that mobilizes the health professions to advance human rights. As you may recall, last week I told you about the amazing job PHR did establishing in a scientific manner that claims of torture by detainees in American custody could, in fact, be substantiated via medical examination. You can read the report here.