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The top three of the week after the bump...

While we're (rightly) concerned with the election, the dynamic is ready to change.  Bush has his pretext, one just has to wonder about the date.

Of course, you should always consider your source...in this case, Pajama Media via Drudge.

I KNOW.  Weird, right?  I always check Drudge and Fox because, y'know, someone's got to keep an eye on those bastards.

But, if there's anything both sides of this debate should be able to agree on, it's that Ron Paul is a buffoon.  Ultra-satisfying evidence of that has been unearthed via New Republic.

The Brits are pulling out yet another 1000 from Southern Iraq.

The "coalition of the willing" comprised of "36 Nations" (there aren't enough quotes in the world to express my skepticism for those terms) is going...going...just about gone.

We're going it alone, yall.

Interesting.

Greenspan has never been seen as extraordinarily partisan, although he generally is assumed to lean wide to the right.  (Some of us think he leans WAY to the right, but that's not conventional wisdom)  So this, on the WSJ pages, is news.

Let it be said, this is an emotional issue for everyone.  As fellow Progressives, let us put emotion aside and discuss a serious issue: the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Truth be told, it is all I can do to keep from putting quotes around the word "truth."  Like all of us, I feel strongly about the topic, but let us not resort to ad hominem attacks or demeaning one anothers' beliefs.  

Let us discuss.

A new Salon piece by Sidney Blumenthal will blow your mind.

Some Ex-CIA folks are to reveal: Bush was briefed by Tenet, he was told there were no WMDs.  He blew it off, Tenet let him do it...

On The Situation Room (no, it's not "in," I need not promote their show by perverting my grammar) Wolf just went after Michael Moore AGAIN by introducing a clip from him--rather awkwardly--into a conversation with an military spinster...

EXACTLY what the world needs.