Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments section.

Highlights
Rolling Stone – Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts
Examples of the Bush administration’s use of fear to shape public opinion and divert attention from its myriad of misdemeanours.

PoliticalBetting.Com – Do tactical voters hold the key to Super Tuesday?
Could the GOP-frontrunner, John McCain, suffer as tactically-minded independents vote for Obama in the Democrat Primary?

Jackie Ashley – It’s not a big idea but the old ideas that Brown needs now
Luke Akehurst – Agreeing with Jackie Ashley
donpaskini – Old ideas
The government is floundering and fishing around thinktanks for a big idea, but Luke Akehurst and donpaskini agree with Jackie Ashley: Brown should embrace Labour’s “old ideas”.

Stephen Tall/LDV – How balanced is the BBC’s Question Time?
Are the Lib Dems being squeezed off the QT panel show?

Elsewhere
Obsolete – Changing the language of “terror“.
The World After Bush – MPs, bugs and a stupid own goal
BlairWatch – Buggers Banquet
Andy Worthington – Guantánamo: Al-Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj to be released?
anticant – Open Letter to Ibrahim Lawson
Lindylooz Muze – Caroline Flint – Let’s chuck our children out on the streets why don’t we?
schmoo on the run – Obama Clinton: it’s health care stupid. The US pharmaceutical election is on.

This week’s BritBlog review is up at Westminster Wisdom.

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