Lunchtime Links

Media snark from Milbank and Pitney.

Learning to love from Sanford’s romance.

Conyers and Conyers: partners in crime?

Pseudo-facts good enough for reporting from Iran.

The cost of global warming isn’t too bad — as long as you live in the right half of the world.

Civil liberties do not, in fact, support prolonged detention.

So far, Obama has failed to end the war on science.

SCOTUS and Sotomayor disagree.

GOP is split on Sotomayor.

Cheney names three rising stars of the GOP.