Rescuing a bit early to get myself to the state party convention where I believe I'm the "video guy"(anyone interested in seeing what a Democratic Convention in Utah plays out like, check out Twitter hashtag #utpol or #utdem for some cheap Saturday entertainment).  Now, enjoy the rest of this week's best...

• Acknowledging the limitations of our influence in Neil Hicks' What Can the Obama Administration do about Iran?
• Despite (or because of?) the recession, bay of arizona argues,
  Mimimum Wage Must Be Indexed to Inflation

• Twelve Angry White People: Jury Nullification in a Pennsylvania Coal Town. (Brasch)
• Friend, peace activist, and fellow Utahn, Marshall Thompson mentioned this project to me just today, but until reading this diary, I no idea of the scope of it, detailed in Progressive Witness's A Soldier's Peace, A Documentary Premiere in Second Life. Amazing work.  
• Shalikashvili: Listen to Evidence on Gay Soldiers. (Strummerson)
• The Opportunity Agenda serves up a Public Opinion Round Up: Demand for Health Care Reform and of What Kind.
• Living in Glass Houses: The GOP's Own Man is Convicted of Voter Registration Fraud. (Project Vote)

And the most-enlightening-comment-discussion-men tion goes to atdleft and BREAKING: President Obama to Extend Benefits to Federal Workers' Partners.