The August sales pitch that failed. Van Jones resignation earns Obama liberal wrath: “It isn’t an arms-length relationship between these groups and the administration.” Is HRW’s lead investigator an avid collector of Nazi paraphernalia? Making excuses for Van Jones. An English court found three Muslim men guilty in 2006 airline bombing plot. Does the NYT know what a Truther is? Officials: Fake Afghan poll sites favored Karzai Kagan: “It’s hard to imagine a more disastrous blow to vital American security interests than the double surrender George Will is now proposing.” How’s all that direct diplomacy with dictators going? The political psychology of “stimulus.” NBC: Did you know Van Jones resigned because he “came under fire for a series of inflammatory statements he made about Republicans?” Ha.