The Maine Republican party goes Tea Party, a senator calls for guilty until proven innocent, another TP group wants U.S. senators to be appointed but democracy might be breaking out in Britain, or at least a better way to vote. It is nice to see some countries working for more accountability rather than less. And as always we have "below the fold: news you might have missed:"

As environmentalists predicted weeds resistant to Roundup

right wing group goes all wild west

Maine GOP substitutes its platform for Tea Party platform (pdf)

Senator Lieberman goes Neanderthal and pushes for guilty until proven innocent (pdf)

Tea Partiers steal from 8th grade classroom (and here)

Stalin rising in the polls

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