So, what are the McCains hiding? Cindy McCain was asked about releasing her tax returns, on the Today show, and reiterated that she would never release them -- ever -- even if she becomes First Lady:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZi6...

We're All Hacks Atrios is right

It's important to remember that none of us are above the fray, that we all have hackish tendencies to suppress information which doesn't fit our worldview and privilege information that does. We're more likely to excuse behavior from people we like and exaggerate the ills of people we don't like. I try to fight hackish tendencies especially during this intra-Dem battle, but I don't claim to have superhuman Nonhack powers.

For the record, I make no effort to be above the fray nor any pretense of being fair or balanced.  I'm not only a member of the Hack Club for Men, I'm the president.  It's good to know your own filters....

More hackery below.

Bill Gothard--as I've been showing the past couple of days--runs a highly coercive "Bible-based" group whose abuses rival that of Scientology in pure "may be harmful" content....with a taste for politics.  

First came the revelation that Mike Huckabee was a Gothardite, then the news that a former Cincinnati city commissioner is investigating frank political donations to Phil Heimlich's campaign by Gothard's "Character Cities" program.  Most recently, the neoconfederate group "Christian Exodus" is known to have been soliciting campaign funds for a Summersville, SC sheriff who operates a Gothard frontgroup targeting cops.

Now, there are disturbing revelations coming out that Ken Blackwell--largely seen as handing the election to Dubya in 2004--may also be a member of the Gothard cult...and even more disturbingly, so may George W. Bush.

...and then after that, it'll be pretty okay, actually. Round 12 of Progressive Bible Study below the fold.