• Timothy D. Smith's Redefining Core American Values -- Jack Carter, NV-Sen
• Kay Shepherd and Timothy D. Smith's podcast interviews from Yearlykos:
• Energy is the Key: An interview with Fighting Dem David T. Harris, Democratic Candidate for US. House Seat TX-06
• Brown Says He'll Do More Than Doolittle An interview with Charlie Brown, Democratic Candidate for US. House Seat CA-4
• YearlyKos: Podcast and Transcript of the John Laesch ePluribus Media Interview
• Cho's and Ilona Meagher's The Corroding Effect, a review of Penny Coleman's Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War

Analysis from New Subscribers -- Welcome!

• Robert Fuller introduced us to "rankism" in Dignity--A Unifying Value for American Politics
• Christopher White grabbed us with Torture is not wrong because it is illegal, it is illegal because it is wrong and his follow up Being the Best You Can Be: Setting Higher Standards Against Torture, a report from the the Georgetown University Law school teach in Jun 25th 2006
• BobHiggins The Sum Of All Pain, It's A Number Tony
• Cyrus Dugger writes on civil justice with The Option of Indefinite Denial: NYS Legis. Considers Auto Insurance Nightmare
• clammyc gives us a reminder in Meanwhile, over in the "other disaster" known as Afghanistan
• Intrepid Liberal Journal shows us another example of good technology being exploited in Brain Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties
• Jared Bernstein has the facts on minimum wage in Set a spell, Congress. we've got a couple things to chat about...
• breakingranks encourages use of the online civic "third space" with NYT: Puritan Elite Reforming the Online Wilderness

• Duke1676 and intranets gave us Who really stalled the Voting Rights Act renewal?which reveals investigation into who is funding and pushing the votes against renewal of the Civil Rights Voting Act
• clammyc has been writing a series of wonderful commentaries, focusing on Republican tactics, here and abroad.
• Aaron Barlow takes time out from working on his book to considerWhere Do They Get These Guys?
• Jeff Huber continues his amazing analysis of the run up to the Iraq War as well as the tenuous legal grounds for much of this administration's activities -- index of Jeff Huber commentaries.
• Susie Dow's data research piece on the increase in civilian contractors increasing the actual number of American presence in Iraq, while the number of "troops" seems to be drawing down Making the War in Iraq Palatable at Home
• Other commentaries on the community site include those that continue to inform us by Craig Weiler, m suskind, polydactyl, Renee in Ohio, RenaRF, Wmtriallawyer, XicanoPwr, Duke1676, Grey Hawk , Captain Future, Southern Dem , wanderindiana, Timroff, avahome, jeninRI, avahome, populistamerica, Intranets, rba, Jeff Huber, Aaron Barlow, BarbinMD, Luaptifer, standingup, Welshman, land of enchantment, susie dow, Kfred, jimstaro, ilona, testvet.
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