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The Friday Sampler.

Today at Eric Alterman's Altercation, Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft discusses how Attorney General Ashcroft is breaking the wall between intelligence and law enforcement and skirting the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

Through the Looking Glass spots an obstacle to negative campaign ads by forcing candidates to actually appear in slur-filled television spots.

Orcinus revisits race in the USA before World War II.

Ted Barlow notices that the Pope doesn't like us.

FlaBlog (via CounterSpin) shows us how Jeb Bush squeezes a job for daughter-in-rehab Noelle out of a multimillion dollar no-bid contract to a campaign supporter.

The illustrations from the Department of Homeland Security's laughable Ready.gov are recaptioned by Kieran Healy (via Electrolite).

The best site to answer the nagging question "Can we say that the anus of a holy man is a holy anus?" is Moonie World.

The American Sentimentalist looks at how the costs of war will be borne by deficit-laden cities and states, not corporations.

Tim Porter of First Draft writes about journalism in the blogosphere.

And ::: wood s lot::: points us to Lewis Thomas's Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the era of modern weaponry.

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