Here’s more stuff you should be reading after you watch the Jon Stewart interview on 60 Minutes:

• When will we get rid of John Ashcroft and that miserable anti-American Patriot Act? We’re raiding romance novelists, fer chrissakes. What a colossal waste of resources. Haven’t we learned this lesson time and again in our history? There’s a reason why our founding fathers gave us the Fourth Amendment, and it was to prevent crap like this. (Hullabaloo)

• Josh Marshall is all over the administration’s revisionist history of our failure to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora. Visit Talking Points Memo and scroll.

• Josh also details how the US let 350 tons of high explosives just disappear from an Iraqi storage facility. And Sisyphus Shrugged is rightly appalled that we knew about this for a year and a half and actively worked to keep the IAEA from finding out about it.

• Brad DeLong links to Eric Umansky, who is distressed at how poorly we’ve prepared and outfitted our military.

• The new RNC “Wolves” ad has just been getting mocked mercilessly. Adam Felber notes that maybe the campaign picked an unfortunate metaphor. The Poor Man has a great sendup, and there’s nice takedown at Catch, too.

• James Wolcott pops a couple of overblown windbags.

• As Election Day draws near, the bloggers are circling the wagons. The Shrillblog reminds us that we have a simple choice this election, and ponders the Cult of Bush. Meanwhile, Brad DeLong can’t believe that some can remain unconvinced of John Kerry’s ability to do the job, and he reminds us of the major benefit in Kerry’s favor: that he will bring grownups back to Washington.

• On the same topic, Athenae at First Draft – who is my girlfriend even though she doesn’t know it – hammers the point home: We need to fire George Bush and his entire incompetent staff.

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