-After 9/11, academics and politicians fell over themselves to emphasize that Islam is a religion of peace. Eeeeh, maybe perhaps not so much: NY Review

-Campaign finance reform is working soooo well: Columbus Dispatch

-Every campaign needs a strategy. Even a comedian's: Atlantic

-Drudge and his creepy, strange crush on Hillary Clinton: NYT

-Republicans and their creepy, strange crush on Hillary Clinton: Fox News

-Kids today. They get their news from Jon Stewart and their commentary from The Onion: Reason

-What we can learn about urban politics from HBO's "The Wire" : New Yorker

-Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz sits in prison for attempting to reveal the names of the 551 men imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Irony: NYT Magazine

-Blackwater was hired to fight in Iraq because the Pentagon and the State Department were too busy fighting each other: WaPo