This Week's Links

News:

• 1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars (The New York Times)
  
• Barack's Senate Accomplishments (MDD)
  
• Does This Make George H.W. Bush Unpatriotic? (The Huffington Post)
• McCain Lies His Head Off (The New Republic)
• McCain "Very Honored" By Hagee's Endorsement (TTA)
• Ron Paul Co-Sponsors H.Res. 888 (TTA)
  
• Why I Am Not Running (Lawrence Lessig)
  

Opinion:

• Glenn Greenwald, John King With Mike McConnell: Rare Journalistic Honesty (Salon)
• Glenn Greenwald, Obama Shows That Dismissing Slimy Right-Wing Attacks Is Not Difficult (Salon)
• Noam Scheiber, The Audacity of Data (The New Republic)
  

Blogs:

• Debunking Congressman Kingston's HBO Attacks on Obama (Cameron Fredman)
• Farrakhan's Backing Obama? Hugely Controversial. Hagee's Backing McCain? No Problem. (TPM)
  
• I Refuse To Buy Into the Hype (dKos)
• List of Barack's Accomplishments (DU)
  
• The Press Will Torment Obama Too (Eric Boehlert)
  
• The Washington Post Lamely Attacks Obama's Climate Ideas (Joseph Romm)