[Time]
Seven things that could go wrong on election day (other than, you know, the obvious one).

[International Herald Tribune]
Thanks to a massive transfer of resources to terrorism and intelligence functions, the FBI is struggling to find enough agents and resources to investigate criminal wrongdoing tied to the country's economic crisis, according to current and former bureau officials.

[The New York Times]
Can a President tame the business cycle? Historic charts for seven economic indicators.

[guardian.co.uk]
The House of Lords today drew stark attention to the conflict between sharia and UK law, calling the Islamic legal code "wholly incompatible" with human rights legislation.

[reason online]
From a conservative perspective: Why the Republicans must lose.

[UPI.com]
Sixty-five U.S. Nobel Laureate scientists have sent "an open letter to the American people" urging support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

[Palin As President]
Is this what we want? [scary humor]

[Yahoo! News]
The Bush administration explicitly endorsed the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against al Qaeda suspects in a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004.

[Reuters]
Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, says a new government study.

[Feral House]
Free .pdf of The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush by Dennis Kucinich.

[Los Angeles Times]
Convinced that key evidence was being withheld from the defense, Guantanamo prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld went from being a "true believer to someone who felt truly deceived" by the tribunals. Vandeveld is at least the fourth prosecutor to resign under protest. Questions about the fairness of the tribunals have been raised by the very people charged with conducting them.

[Anchorage Daily News]
A legislative investigation has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in pushing for the firing of an Alaska state trooper who was once married to her sister, or by failing to prevent her husband Todd from doing so. The report by investigator Steve Branchflower was made public late this afternoon by a bipartisan 12-0 vote of the Legislative Council, which authorized the investigation.

[ars technica]
An appropriations bill signed by Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin operating a stringently limited version of a program that would turn military spy satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, and local government agencies. The government's own watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office, has warned in an unpublished report that the more expansive program in the offing lacks adequate safeguards to protect privacy and civil liberties.

[Gallup]
Gallup has released a poll showing Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the country at its lowest point in the poll's history. Just 9% of Americans say they're satisfied with the way things are going, with 69% naming the economy as the top problem. The previous low-point came in 1979, when 12% of Americans were not satisfied.

[The Washington Post]
Two September shocks will define the presidency of George W. Bush. Stunningly enough, it already seems clear that the second—the financial crisis that has only begun to unfold—may well have far greater and more lasting ramifications than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

[various]
The Economist's poll of economists, like the survey of economists commissioned by Dilbert creator Scott Adams, shows a strong preference for Obama over McCain.

[Guardian.co.uk]
Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over.