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- Not being a participant in JournoList, I lack the concentrated power to directly manipulate the organs of national media, but I implore serious news organizations (and the White House): Stop reading Andrew Breibart. Stop reading The Daily Caller. Stop reporting everything the former governor of Alaska tweets. Stop worrying about being called biased. Or racist. The right wing in this country is out of control, and it's an embarrassment to your profession to keep flaming these stories. Ignore them. The country will be better off.
- Amid all the fake scandals emerging from a liberal listserv, I'm surprised conservatives haven't latched on to the real liberal conspiracy: The American Constitution Society distributing copies of the U.S. Constitution and Gettysburg Address without the words "under God" included. This heresy was enough to get one conservative Princeton professor to pen about 1,800 words on the subject. Of course, as ACS points out, we don't actually know which of the five extant drafts of the speech Lincoln actually gave, and moreover, this alleged conspiracy failed to remove the God reference from the the Declaration of Independence.
- Yes, it's absurd that a town of less than 40,000 pays certain public servants enormous salaries and provides them with pensions indexed to those enormous salaries. But are we to believe, as Daniel Foster suggests, that this is a likely pretext for a "second American Revolution?" And no, I'm not recoiling in horror at conservative armchair insurrection. I'm just trying to understand the idea that Americans will put up with a lot, but as soon as local authorities abuse their hamlet for profit, it's time to remake the Republic.
- Remainders: Conservatives have succeeded in convincing Americans that Social Security is going broke; cynical Republican senator accuses Democrats of cynicism for wanting to solve problems; and would you believe that Minnesota Republicans are still trying to unseat Al Franken?
--Mori Dinauer
