- Those kids at The Daily Caller are so cooooooool that they drink beer. Beer! They just don't care. That is so cool.
- Koran-Burning Preacher Terry Jones and Rush Limbaugh: Class of 69.
- The recent 9th Circuit ruling denying torture victims their day in court did not please Jane Mayer.
- Adam Serwer argues that the only possible way out of the executive power expansion is congressional reaction.
- Should we give up on closing Guantanamo Bay and ditch military commissions? It's a compelling argument, but there are still really, really good reason to close Guantanamo.
- How and why Republicans ended the 9/11 campaigning truce. (In part because "the anniversary appeals to inchoate, patriotic anger that only Republicans promise they're going to act on..")
- Russell Simmons comes out for Reshma Saujani!
- A National Infrastructure Bank is a good idea, but is it a bad jobs program?
- A really interesting look< at services at Feisal Abdul Rauf's mosque. (And just one part of a good series on how Muslims worship in America.)
- The story of the Muslim prayer room in the Twin Towers.
- The story of Terry Jones: "a modern media retelling of Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying', in which a gang of Islamaphobes, cast in the role of Addie Bundren, bamboozle the media into carrying their coffin full of malevolence on a journey of pure debasement."
- An eye-opening chart: "9/11 deaths vs. everything else we did, 2001-2010."
- Yeah, if you're running for governor, you probably shouldn't have the woman in your attack ad be the ex-wife of someone your opponent put in jail.
Friday link dump: Never forget everything else we did
Death, 9/11, Islam, and Terry Jones' yearbook picture
Alex Pareene
September 11, 2010 3:15AM (UTC)
Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene
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