For Your Further Enlightenment XIII

• Think Progress: "Allen West Unwittingly Endorses Stimulus-Funded Government Industries To ‘Turn Around’ The Economy"
• Leiter Reports: "More Thoughts on Reagan and the Collapse of the Soviet Union"
• Andrew Sullivan: "Dear President Bush, Americans want, and need, to move on from the debate over torture in Iraq and Afghanistan and close this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. Prosecuting those responsible could tear apart a country at war. Instead, the best way to confront the crimes of the past is for the man who authorized them to take full responsibility. An open letter to President George W. Bush" (from 2009)
• Frances Fox Piven, The Guardian: "The real threat of Glenn Beck's fantasies: It's harm not to myself, but to American democracy that I fear from the Fox News host's paranoid theories of social collapse"
• The Lookout: "WikiLeaks: Saudis running out of oil"
• NPR: "Speaking in Defense of Science"
• William Saletan, Slate: "The Abortion Tax: The Republican plan to prevent your abortion by holding your tax money hostage"
• Ezra Klein: "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont"
• CNN Money: "How the Middle Class Became the Underclass"
• Mother Jones: "Are You Sure You Want an Abortion? Which states use scare tactics, guilt trips, and discredited science to keep women from getting abortions" 
• The Cutline: "Iraqi defector admits lying about WMD claims" 
• Think Progress: "Wisconsin Gov. Walker Reiterates That The ‘National Guard’ Will Be Used Against A Worker ‘Walk-Off’"
• Associated Press: "Teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog"
• Associated Press: "Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain"
• William Saletan, Slate: "Be Nice To Bigots: Republican leaders tiptoe around the smear campaign against Obama's faith and citizenship"