Tuesday link dump: Let’s get South Carolina back to work!

Alvin Greene's new campaign site, Tom Coburn does something terrible, and updates on the Kos poll scandal

By Alex Pareene

With a new report on political surveillance and harassment, the ACLU relaunches SpyFiles. Here’s a helpful state-by-state map of law enforcement agencies spying on citizens and obstructing legal political speech. Fun!
Depressing but utterly unsurprising headline of the day: “Tom Coburn Objects to Bill to Provide Benefits to Homeless.”
More on the Kos/Research 2000 polling fraud fracas from The Plum Line, Justin Elliott, and FiveThirtyEight, who received a ridiculous cease & desist.
Let’s all sue the Pope!
Anti-mosque opposition in New York still racially-motivated.
Austerity measures didn’t really help Ireland that much.
Russ Feingold is looking weak in Wisconsin.
Dan Kois on his mean old boss getting told off by the vice president.
One of those Russian spies was also a shoddy reporter.
Alvin Greene has a wonderful new website.
The 2012 GOP nominating process could get kinda crazy.