Action Point with Cynthia Black 8-19-2007: The Reference Shelf

Today's article and item links:

• I Know You've Already Heard This, But: Erin Burnett (CNBC) discusses the benefits for our economy of lead-based toys and poisoned food from China: Would someone check and make sure it wasn't CNBC'S owner GE that Murdoch bought?

• MEDIA CIRCUS 2007: For those who simply must honor bad-boy Elvis Presley this week: context is everything.

• PUSHBACK: First in the "Fooled Again" Series: Interview with Nancy Tobi: What a great way to use a book! Citizen Joan Brunwasser uses Mark Crispin Miller's book Fooled Again as a jumping-off point for discussion on the state of our elections on OpEdNews.
  

• Clean Elections: Public Campaign Election Fund learn more about Assistant Senate Majority Leader Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Fair Elections Now Act that would bring Clean Elections to the U.S. Senate.
  

• Local to National: FT. HUACHUCA'S LINK TO TORTURE OF DETAINEES DETAILED IN FEDERAL COURT; JUDGE CONSIDERING PRETRIAL MOTIONS, WILL SET TRIAL DATE LATER: At a pretrial hearing Monday in federal court in Tucson, Arizona, the attorney for two Catholic priests arrested last November outlined why their opposition to torture brought them to Ft. Huachuca, the U.S. Army's military intelligence and interrogation training center in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
  

• More Local to (Scandalous) National: Porn Cop vs. US Attorney In September 2006 opened a preliminary investigation into Rick Renzi, the Republican Congressman representing Arizona's 1st Congressional District, for an alleged pattern of corruption involving influence peddling and land deals. In his previously safe GOP district, Renzi barely held on in the election. On December 7 the White House demanded Charlton's resignation without offering him any explanation.