[Rand Corporation]
Terrorists should be perceived as criminals, not holy warriors.

[The New York Times]
Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke Civil Service laws by using politics to guide their hiring decisions, picking less-qualified applicants for important nonpolitical positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department’s credibility, an internal report has concluded.

[Slate]
Interactive guide: who in the Bush administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted?

[The Australian]
There is a new reality: the greatest transfer of income in human history, away from energy importers such as the US to energy exporters; the rise of a new breed of wealthy autocracies that cripple US hopes of dominating the global system; and demands on the US to make fresh compromises in a world where power is rapidly being diversified.

[Political Irony]
If today's Congress presided during Watergate [comic].

[International Herald Tribune]
Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen.

[Yahoo! News]
The Senate has approved and sent to the White House a bill overhauling controversial rules on secret government eavesdropping, bowing to Bush's demand to protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the government spy on Americans. With the approval of BOTH Presidential candidates.

[Cooperative Research History Commons]
Loss of civil liberties timeline.

[The Wall Street Journal]
Chart showing outcome of Obama's and McCain's proposed tax policies.