Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow's show [Air America's 'Front Page'] is a bright spot on Air America. It's entertaining and informative and not too long to download [unlike Al Franken's much longer show, which I sometimes download overnight.] If only she didn't have such a pro-abortion bias ... [like much of the Democratic Party, alas.] The libertarian in me says one thing; the Christian consistent-life ethic in me says another...
Here are some of today's links from the Rachel Maddow Show:

• The Vanity Fair article [pdf] alleges that one of the things [FBI whistleblower Sibel] Edmonds uncovered at the FBI is that Denny Hastert, the man who no one can ever remember is Speaker of the House, was bribed by Turks.
  
  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics [Press release here] in Washington this week filed a complaint with federal election officials requesting an investigation into whether Hastert was bribed.

• Three state department bureau chiefs apparently warned a month before the US invasion of Iraq that there was no planning for the post war occupation.. The February 7th memo was made available yesterday by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act - it's pretty damning.

God our security,
who alone can defend us
against the principalities and powers
that rule this present age;
may we trust in no weapons
except the whole armor of faith,
that in dying we may live,
and, having nothing, we may own the world,
through Jesus Christ. AMEN
--Janet Morley, All desires known, 1988