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Still working 24/7 on my latest video project, but a quick glance at the news shows me nothing much has changed - at least, not for the better. Iraq and Afghanistan are, well, Iraq and Afghanistan. Women's reproductive rights are under nationwide assault, pharmaceutical corporations wield the power of life and death with arbitrary cruelty, environmental science continues to be summarily dismissed as tree-hugging nonsense.

And the Borg Collective once known as the Grand Old Party, fresh from its ballyhooed "rebellion" over the ports deal, has once again solidified in defense of the President's inherent right to lie, cheat, steal, and otherwise break the law as he and his enablers see fit.

So until I have the time to figure out a new way to point out the same old calumny of our apparently untouchable, unindictable, unaccountable Republican Ayatollahs, read these good pieces from around the web:

Friend Ken Grandlund of Common Sense has decided to run for Congress. If we had more individuals of Ken's ilk in government, this might not be such a scary place to live after all. Please visit his campaign site, and do what you can to support one of the true good guys.

Lynne at Bending the Third Rail comments on a British soldier who "has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the 'illegal' tactics of United States troops." Makes you proud to be an American, right?

The Nation's John Nichols turns his attention to Russ Feingold's motion in the Senate to censure the President. So should we all - for heaven's sake, America, contact your Senators right now and ask them to state publicly whether or not the White House operates above the law!

Anthony Ioven at UpdateAmerica/604 looks at how the trickle-down effect of Mr. Bush's "Culture of Ignoring Any 'Inconvenient' Law Because We're At War, Dammit" is already permeating the legal system in one of its highest profile trials.

And Jane Hamsher of firedoglake unleashes these three salvos at the truly insufferable Joe Lieberman. Good God - to think he would've been Vice President if they'd counted those votes correctly in 2000...