Following Pastor Jeremiah Wright's media tour over the past few days explaining his controversial statements at the pulpit, Senator Barack Obama is more aggressively distancing himself from his embattled pastor, saying he "might not know him as well as I thought."

Four Michigan Democrats, including Senator and Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, have signed their name onto a compromise plan to seat Michigan delegates to the Democratic national convention.

Think Progress shares another in the long line of shameful and scandalous stories about contractor KBR and the actions of some of their employees in Iraq:

Here's a potential body blow to our reliance on oil that comes from an unlikely place: Two California entrepreneurs are developing a machine for home use that allows you to create ethanol from sugar for as little as a dollar a gallon.

I am not kidding — today President George Bush blamed Congress for the bad economy. Basically, his claims and complaints are that he has awesome ideas to fix the economy but Congress won't do anything with them. He then called on them to quickly — and no doubt magically — fix everything.
So now at least we know the source of the problem.

So, hey, the Fed is meeting again, and the expectation is that they will decrease the key interest rate one more time by .25 percent. That will bring it down to 2 percent. If you need to refinance stuff and your credit score is like 1100, now is the time!

Anything with the title "Lawmakers get hostile reception at border fence hearing" gets my attention because I can guess said lawmakers are usually Republicans. In the case of this article, the lawmaker singled out for the ire of the citizens was none other than Colorado Republican and all around unpleasant fellow Representative Tom Tancredo. Check this exchange out for a taste of Tancredo's wisdom:

What's that? It's the percentage of girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were removed from the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) compound in Schleicher County, Texas, who are either pregnant or who have already given birth to children.

Judicial Watch has filed a complaint with the FEC over a recent McCain fundraiser held in London. The complaint ponders whether the free venue for the event was 'an illegal in-kind contribution'. Some campaign staffer is getting canned over this one.

Oh boy. The Rise of Voter ID:

The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.