Lisa English of Ruminate This says " Welcome to the GOP Police State."

Wampum covers Democratic hopeful John Edwards.

Liberal Oasis has the latest Bush poll results in one place.

Kevin Drum at Calpundit has a uranium wrapup.

Hessiod at Counterspin tells what Ashcroft has in common with the Communist Vietnamese Government.

Matt Yglesias is back from Italy, and apparently well-rested, as he's blogging up a storm.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light has this astute observation:

At what point did the Bush administration know there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? When Rumsfeld started cutting troop allocations from the war plan. The administration may have known earlier, but they surely knew by then.

Cutting the troop allocations was crazy enough if Rumsfeld assumed US troops would be going up against conventional weapons; but even he wouldn’t have done that if he honestly thought they’d face WMDs.

Max Sawicky writes Congressman John Conyers about his insane plan to make downloading a single file from the internet a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.

More to come tomorrow, we've been very negligent in writing about what other bloggers are covering the past few weeks as crime news and issues have been flying so fast and furious. But as Skippy points out on the Kobe Bryant case (not too delicately, either) there's a lot more going on in the world.