links for 2009-04-24

• Matthew Yglesias: Shorter David Ignatius: We Must Cover Up CIA Misdeeds to Ensure the Viability of Future Misdeeds
• Willem Buiter: Darling is doing his best to clean up Brown’s mess
• Arianna Huffington: The Torture Moment
• Durango Herald News, Four Corners marker off by 2.5 miles
• Matthew Yglesias: Thrice-Married Former House Speaker [Newt Gingirch] Charges Democrats With “Breaking Down Traditional Marriage”
• Mark Thoma: Why Self-Regulation of the Financial System Won’t Work
• Jane Mayer: F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller commanded his personnel to stay away from the C.I.A.’s coercive interrogations..
• Brian Beutler: Levin's Torture Report: A Round-Up | TPMMuckraker
• Jonathan Alter (November 5, 2001): Time To Think About Torture: It's A New World, And Survival May Well Require Old Techniques That Seemed Out Of The Question
• Matthew Yglesias: We Have Ways of Making You Bolster Our Erroneous Preconceptions
• Michael Pomerleano The crisis: holding the professionals to account
• P. O'Neill: Down the Irish Republic
• Charles Pierce: "Trust me, Mr. President. I can take it."
• Eric Rauchway: How New-Deal Denialism Works
• (Very) short reading list: unemployment in the 1930s. « The Edge of the American West