Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Avila, jlms qkw, joyful, shayera, vcmvo2, YatPundit, with srkp23 as editor.

• Deep Harm alerts us to the great difficulties that whistleblowers encounter in The court where whistleblowers win 1% of the time. (vcmvo2)
• dogemperor gives us the grim context of Mike Huckabee's recent comments, in Huck's "jokes" about Obama's death are no shocker to some of us. (jlms qkw)
• Timbuk3 reminds us that the Cheney/Rumsfeld show started long before 2001 in The Past Warns The Future: Iran/Contra. (jlms qkw)
• tullyccro's first diary examines parallels between the fall of the Roman Empire, destruction of Republican government and citizens' rights, and present neocon doctrine, in National Emergency, Elections, Privatization, and The Law. (Avila)
• artmartin reminds us of the "heavy lifting" required, in Getting a Democrat in the White House is the Easy Part. (jlms qkw)
• ShawnGBR reminds us that 'Appeasement' - just a Fright-wing misdirect... (shayera)
• iampunha brings us a bit of history, both personal and political, in May 17, 1954 and 1958: Brown v. Board, and my father's birthday. (joyful)
• leevank highlights some more disgraceful behavior by the Department of Homeland Security, in OUTRAGEOUS: Saving lives is less important than stopping illegal immigration. (shayera)
• Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse chalks up a win for the good guys, in Court Rejects Bush's New Dump-Waste-In-Waterways Rule. (vcmvo2)
• Asinus Asinum Fricat brings some good news on the world hunger front, in A Ray of Hope: G8 to Start Tackling Global Food Crisis. (YatPundit)
• xrepub thoroughly analyzes our economic state of the union and identifies several problem areas, in Meanwhile NOT in the world of politics... (vcmvo2)
• patrickz writes about how A Walk to Beautiful: A Documentary about Ethiopian women and obstetric fistula opened his eyes to this particular women's health issue and much more. (vcmvo2)
• njhoo offers A neurologist's perspective on Sen. Kennedy's seizure. (YatPundit)
• Dragon5616 applies Bush's favorite education policy to sports, in No Child Left Behind--The football version (snark). (jlms qkw)

jotter serves up High Impact Diaries - May 16, 2008.

carolita brings Top Comments 5-17-08 -- Lightning Edition.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread.