On Climate and Energy:

• Carbon Pricing Would Cut the Deficit and Create Jobs | NationofChange
• Global Warming Is Here, All Right | NationofChange

The Michele Bachmann Watch:

• Michele Bachmann: Just sayin’ stuff : COMBAT!. Older stuff but still interesting.
• Michele Bachmann’s Holy War | Politics News | Rolling Stone read this back in June but given all the talk about her recent anti-vax comments I thought it was worth reading again.
• Michele Bachmann admits she has “no idea” if HPV vaccine causes retardation – Minneapolis News – The Blotter
• Left Take:: Was Michele Bachmann joking? Hmm…. her remarks about Hurricane Irene.
• Michele Bachmann needs to check her ID | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

The Rick Perry Watch:

• Perry, Texas and Stimulus Spending | Dispatches from the Culture Wars
• Opponents say Rick Perry motivated by political donor in HPV mandate
• Half of Rick Perry’s political donations come from a handful of zillionaires | The Zingularity
• Bobby Jindal, liar for Jesus | The Zingularity (Jindal lauds Perry’s economic policies. Despite all my research, beyond his good luck, I still don’t really know what they are.)

The Other Stuff (Misc. Politics,News, Opinion, etc. well almost anyway)

• What Happens If The Tea Party Wins | NationofChange.
• What If the Tea Party Wins?
• Teaparty demonstrates the power of ignorance | The Zingularity
• Noam Chomsky on US Economic Crisis | NationofChange.
• The Republican Weapon of Mass Cynicism | NationofChange
• What is an ad hominem? What isn’t? | Lousy Canuck
• 9/11 conspiracy theories debunked « Skeptical Science
• Obama team pushes back against suggestions the president is in trouble – TheHill.com.
• Axelrod’s Positive Spin on Obama 2012 Campaign – Ken Walsh’s Washington (usnews.com)
• 10 Signs God Is Furious With the Right | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Skepticsm

• Dr Oz crosses the line | Pharyngula
• ‘Psychic’ Backs Out of Randi Challenge | Dispatches from the Culture Wars