This Week's Links

News:

• Belgium Builds Case Against Scientology (The St. Petersburg Times)
• Bogus Cancer Stats, Again (Fact Check)
  
• Ex-Candidate Brownback to Endorse Republican McCain (CNN)
  
• Mother Dies After Refusing Blood (BBC)
• New Efforts Aim to Liberalize Law on Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Michigan Messenger)
  
• Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy: Deems Him "More Than Acceptable to People of Faith (The Washington Post)
• Report: Abstinence Programs Don't Work (AP)
• Senate Confirms Mukasey By 53-40 (The Washington Post)
• Senator Questioning Ministries On Spending (The New York Times)
  
• Torture Debate Between McCain, Giuliani Gets Personal (The Boston Globe)
• The Turning of an Atheist (The New York Times)
• Two Democrats Move to Outlaw Waterboarding (McClatchy D.C.)
  

Opinion:

• Malcolm W. Nance, Waterboarding is not simulated drowning - it is drowning (Salon)
  
• Kate Sheppard, Clinton on Climate (The American Prospect)
  
• Evan Wallach, Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime (The Washington Post)

Blogs:

• ABC News Needs a Remedial Journalism Lesson (Feministing)
  
• Coal Industry Smears Kansas Governor As Ahmadinejad Booster For Refusing Air Permit (Think Progress)
  
• Did Rudy Really Tell Three Whoppers In One Sentence? (TPM)
• Did We Call It Or What (Real Climate)
  
• Four Pinnochios for Recidivist Rudy (The Washington Post Fact-Checker)
• Georgia's "Unorthodox" Response to a Drought (The Carpetbagger Report)
  
• Gorbie For Rudy (The Washington Post Fact-Checker)
• Maureen Dowd Bases Whole "Gender Card" Column on Something That Never Happened (The Horse's Mouth)
  
• Rudy Fibs Off Robertson's 9/11 Remarks (TPM)
• The Sound of Gloved Hands Clapping (The Daily Howler)
  
• Top 5 Climate "Skeptic" Red Herrings (DeSmog Blog)