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Daily Kos has some thoughts on Hatch, fillibusters, and GOP hypocrisy.

Body and Soul has an interesting follow-up to a post about conservatives and human rights.

Atrios points to a question not answered for 8 years during the Clinton Whitewater affair and posed to Susan Schmidt during the recent WaPo Live Chat. He also links to an older Joe Conason article about the matter.

Hesiod points to some consequences of the slash and burn Bush/GOP handling of foreign opposition to their policies.

Silver Rights has a thought-provoking post about what to expect when a society is encouraged to become comfortable with bigotry.