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Did you realize that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska represents only 0.58% of all US citizens? Did you realize that Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas represents only .93% of tall US citizens? Would you call it Tyranny of the Itsy-Bitsy-Teenie-Weenie-Minority if you realized that health care reform is being held up by people representing about 4% of all US citizens?

In less than one minute, you can slide your mouse to get a sense of how your lifestyle and your choices affect the global environment -- check out the Guardian's new Interactive Carbon Calculator.

Need some tools to understand and take **constructive action** to fundamentally restructure the shameful legislation that led to bailouts, obscene bonuses, and economic fraud? Nine minutes and a good Internet connection are your ticket to a brief overview.

Just landed on a guest post at The Washington Note that anyone interested in better understanding how Cheney pulled off his institutionalized theft should read.

It's unusual to hear a concise condemnation of torture from the point of view of American's military. A link to this OpEd turned up on an comment at Emptywheel's, and deserves much wider reading for it's clarity, courage, and frankness.

EW and Greenwald have been slammed for their analysis of Cheney's conduct. Why is 'media criticism' the weapon being claimed by conservatives in this knife fight?

What's the simplest, quickest way to create a snapshot of 50,000,000 uninsured Americans? If we 'mapped out' the population of uninsured Americans, how many state populations would we have to add in order to total that figure of 50,000,000?

Second-guessing labor's support of health care as 'political strong-arming' fails to explain: (1) the need for health care reform in order to strengthen the US economy, while painting (2) 'labor' -- rather than Wall Street or HealthCo$ -- as the villain who sunk the US economy

If Obama is taking advice from Larry Summers on whether to appoint a Cybersecurity Czar, we're in trouble. Summers will view this issue through the lens of how it affects economic innovation. But President Obama would get far better advice from those who can explain to him: (a) how we can best insure the security of our innovations and (b) protect the privacy of our economic data.

What does it mean that a second Air America radio host is now moving to MSNBC? Has MSNBC spotted an audience that others missed? Will it translate into different policy discussions, or better outcomes for local communities?