[MyWay]
Islamic countries have pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion. There are 17 Muslim countries in the 47-nation human rights council. Their alliance with China, Cuba, Russia and most of the African members means they can almost always achieve a majority. The council, which last year replaced the discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission, has no power beyond drawing international attention to rights issues and scrutiny of abuses in certain countries. Human Rights Watch said the resolution could endanger the basic rights of individuals.

[The Huffington Post]
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan against former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, saying Rumsfeld cannot be held personally responsible for actions taken in connection with his government job.

(Wasn't there a slightly different ruling at Nuremberg?)

[The Skeptical Optimist]
Pie chart showing who owns the U.S. national debt.

[The Washington Post]
The Justice Department's inspector general told a committee of angry House members yesterday that the FBI may have violated the law or government policies as many as 3,000 times since 2003 as agents secretly collected the telephone, bank and credit card records of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals residing here. Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said that according to the FBI's own estimate, as many as 600 of these violations could be "cases of serious misconduct" involving the improper use of "national security letters" to compel telephone companies, banks and credit institutions to produce records.

[Rolling Stone]
How bad will things get in Iraq—and what price will the world ultimately pay for Bush's decision to prolong the war? Will it be WWIII?

[Forbes]
The real reason Halliburton is moving to Dubai—to sell illegal military technology to Iran?

[The New Standard]
Repeated references in an internal FBI email suggest that Bush issued a special order to permit some of the more objectionable torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prison facilities around Iraq. The email is among a new batch of FBI documents revealed by civil rights advocates.

[MSNBC]
A Justice Department audit shows that the FBI has improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States.

[BBC News]
"Scooter" Libby, ex-chief of staff to "Dick" Cheney, has been found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury.

[Salon.com]
People who feel weak and vulnerable crave strong leaders to protect them and to enable them to feel powerful. And those same people crave being part of a political movement that gives them those sensations of power, strength, triumph and bravery—and they need a strong, powerful, masculine Leader to enable those feelings. And they will devote absolute loyalty to any political movement which can provide them with that.

[The New York Times]
Reversing the damage done to the United States by the tyrants.

[Boston.com]
Leading conservatives yesterday attacked the Republican party as big-government, free-spending coddlers of illegal immigrants and said the country's conservatives should withhold support from the GOP's current slate of presidential nominees to force them to the right.

[consumeraffairs.com]
After leaving the position vacant for a record eight months, Bush nominates industry lobbyist Michael Baroody as chairman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

[USA Today]
U.S. Supreme Court to examine the public's right to question "faith-based initiatives" as violations of the separation of church and state.