Pakistan Spy Service Aids Insurgents, Reports Assert  —  Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington …

Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish-Dominated Media’ Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed ‘in Context’  —  Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the “Jewish domination of the media.”

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi  —  THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.  —  Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration …

W.H. deploys operatives to Fla. to boost spill response — BP negotiates Hayward exit - Donna Brazile, Maureen Dowd: Obama needs more outreach — Matt Miller gift to groomsmen: Johnny Cash cufflinks  —  Good Sunday morning.  THE SHOWS, on FAST FORWARD:  —  ANDREW BREITBART is referred …

Who Cooked the Planet?  —  Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor.  I bet they're still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 — the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died — the hottest such stretch on record.

Shirley Silenced: Sherrod Shut Out of Sunday Talk-shows  —  She was likened to a modern day Rosa Parks or Nelson Mandela, but the former Ag official, according to the Washington Post, was not interviewed on a single major Sunday morning talk-show following a week that can only be described as a Shirley Sherrod media frenzy.

CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Did Media Jump the Gun on Shirley Sherrod Story?  ; Vast Left- Wing Conspiracy?  ; Race and the Media  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Let's face it.  Nobody looked good in the firing of Shirley Sherrod.

White House denies Obama to holiday in Spain  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House denied reports from Spanish media that US President Barack Obama and his family would take a holiday early August in the posh southern Spanish resort city of Marbella.  —  A White House official told AFP …

Homesteads and Other Sources of Tax Income  —  BEATRICE, Neb. — Give away land to make money?  —  It hardly sounds like a prudent scheme.  But in a bit of déjà vu, that is exactly what this small Nebraska city aims to do.  —  Beatrice was a starting point for the Homestead Act of 1862 …

Daily Kos: Take Legal Action to ‘End Organized, Institutionalized Religion’  —  For all the daily talk on the Daily Kos that conservatives are dictatorial, their cast of bloggers isn't without grand designs for social control.  Take this post: “Time to begin working for the death of religion (a rant).”

Depressingly Familiar Tactic Watch  —  By now, you can predict right wing tactics almost to the letter.  Whenever Fox News, a Tea Party group, or a Congressman from Texas is caught saying or doing something stupid, misogynist, racist, or kinky, the tactic is: pick out an irrelevant or minor point …