As Dems convene to renominate Obama, rocker Greg Diablo sings No Particular Place to Vote; PBC will monitor lies & spin...Your humble host has the luxury of casting a protest vote, urges voters in battleground states not to follow his example.
--a story about Ed Schultz and the 2008 convention
--Rachel Maddow gives honest report on Charlotte, a union-free zone
--Steve Horn at Truthout reveals the lobbyist money behind the convention, and some of the same people who profited from the GOP convention last week
--new round of violence in Afghanistan, 2 more NATO troops killed by Afghan soldier
--Bahrain sentences protesters to life in prison
--Somali piracy is declining, but pirates killed a Syrian hostage over the weekend
--Reagan used FBI to monitor his adult children
--Electronic Frontier Foundation presses FISA court to reveal secret ruling against a wiretapping request
--ICE queen resigns, accused of sexual harrassment of men
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