While you're waiting for election results tonight, take a minute to read some over this week's recommended reader blogs.

Anna S takes a look at the long history of torture, and some of the crude notions that still justify its use today as they did in the time of Athenian democracy.

Matthew K. Johnson makes a thoroughly reasonable argument about Obama's Israel Comments and the Politics of Absolutes.

logical1 notes that Clinton's NAACP scorecard rating is higher than Obama's.

More after the jump. . .

chris critiques Paul Krugman's latest piece on Barack Obama, and makes what I think is an especially important point: "Krugman's other blind spot is more fundamental. Like many economic populists, he is inattentive to the importance of small-d democratic activism in the effort to implement progressive policy."

John Infantino points out the real problem with Clinton's recent hedging on 60 Minutes.

Project Vote brings us news of more DOJ vote-suppression antics.

Larry D. Robertson reviews the federal government's recent apology to the Native American population at large, and discusses what, if anything, these gestures actually mean.

fake consultant reviews in detail the little-known problem of so-called "non-strategic" nuclear weapons.

Finally, Christopher Williams doesn't buy Amb. Joe Wilson's recent defense of Clinton's AUMF vote.