Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments. Just a few links this morning.

Ministry of Truth – Oh no! It seems that the Tories may not have the online political sphere wrapped up after all.
Vanity Fair – In a lengthy essay, Phillippe Sands looks at how America became a proponent of institutional torture. via.
1820 – On Wendy Alexander’s latest attempt to salvage her leadership of the Scottish Labour Party.
Shiraz Socialist – Martin Luther King not only fought for race equality, he fought for the rights of all America’s poor.
donpaskini – The hidden poor are those without kids on low wages. The answer is tax-cuts.
RobertRouse – It’s true, only Obama can save America.
Chris Dillow – Dillow gets all highbrow in this critique of the left’s approach to religion.
Coffee House (pt. II) – Sexpot Nick Clegg answers more serious questions at the Speccie blog.