- Charlie Crist uses magic letters to explain that he will get things done, with independence.
- Conservatives are only problem with the Koran-burning idea “is that its unrestrained hostility toward Muslims gives genteel Islamophobia a bad name.”
- Esquire has a “California-based empath” create “Celestial Soul Portraits” of GOP politicians.
- Obama will spend 9/11 at the Pentagon. They’re making Joe Biden deal with the insanity at Ground Zero.
- The story of the Lebanese Ground Zero Synagogue.
- A Ron Paul staffer has been pretending to be a liberal over at Kos, to disparage Jack Conway.
- And the DSCC’s website broke today.
- Rahm Emanuel may run into some trouble from progressives, once he runs for mayor of Chicago.
- Chuck Todd and The Atlantic ask professional liar Ari Fleischer to explain journalism ethics.
Tuesday link dump: Chicago tribulations
A synagogue in Lebanon, empathic portraits, and Ari Fleisher on journalistic ethics
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