Kevin Drum at Calpundit has been at the forefront of doing real reporting on the AWOL stuff.

The traffic at his site has increased tenfold, with an authentic no-holds-barred rugby scrum in the comments to this post. The reason? Drum is asking Alabama Calpundit readers to go and do some research. Commenters have been airlifted in from the Free Republic or somewhere to dissuade him from continuing.

Check it out.