Massey CEO Don Blankenship is back in the news again, and so are the Senators from West Virginia. One still trying to make money and keep unions out of mines, the other fighting for better mine safety regulations. I’ll let you guess who’s who.

The Washington Post editorial page, the real reason there’s no need for the Washington Times.

With all of the Afghani, Pakistani and Iraqi wedding parties that have been taken out by US Predator drone strikes, how long before they hit one of our precious wedding celebrations right here in the homeland of the good old “real America”? What will the NeoCon wingnuts say when it hits their own chosen ones?

The UN has vague concerns and John Bellinger, former Legal Adviser to the United States Secretary of State during the Bush administration, very specific ones about the way in which we’re using cover of a war on terrorism (which has, after all, been renamed a war against violent extremism, with no specificity to al Qaeda or terrorism) to target people we’ve got no legal basis targeting.

Tomorrow is the date set for the fake elections being held by the Honduran coup régime that overthrew legitimately elected President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya for various alleged “crimes”, but really for daring to raise the minimum wage in a country whose wealth is so unevenly distributed that just a dozen families — ten of which support the coup — control almost all of its business activity.

Roberto Lovato checks in from El Salvador:

Just spoke with electoral commission people on the DL and they told me that their latest count shows a 17-18 point advantage, which, even with fraud, even with missing ballots, even with illegal voters means El Salvador has ended 150 years of rule by oligarchs and military dictatorships.

And feel free to quote me on that.

Blogger/journalist Roberto Novato, who has been in El Salvador observing the election, calls to say there is concern because on Friday night they were told that the results would be announced tonight by a company called Universal Identification Solutions. There is almost nothing about them on the web, and their website is extremely sketchy.

He says that according to people from Gallup last night, their last poll

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