Friday Link Dump

I haven't done one of these in a while and thought, since I'm leaving work early to attend a funeral, I thought that it'd be a good idea.

The Stranger has a story about GOP efforts to destroy Jim McDermott - and possibly the First Amendment at the same time.

The Political Wire reports that Ned Lamont's campaign to unseat Joe Lieberman has been attracting donors but that the big question is Lamont use his own money (The AP has him between $90 and $300 Million) to run. Oh, that fortune includes Haliburton Stock.

The Blotter @ ABC reports that the head of a group of Federal Air Marshals is saying that "Right now we cannot protect the public."

The New York Times has a story documenting the flight of the Middle Class from war torn Iraq.

The BBC (!) has a story comparing Homer Simpson to Kant and Plato. Seriously.

And the Washington Post reports that everybody's favorite Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, has "rebuked fellow conservatives on Capitol Hill yesterday, saying they have gone too far in trying to prevent the Supreme Court from using foreign law in its constitutional rulings." Scalia condemns someone for being to conservative. The end of the world is surely upon us.