8/31/03
ELECTION 2004 -- Dean moves to consolidate lead in 2004 horse race | Web sites ready to jump-start Clark campaign | GOP rakes in campaign cash | Carper (yawn) backs Lieberman | Adam Nagouney's latest palaver ignores the fact that Americans are turning against Whistle Ass Smirk in droves | Kucinich pitches universal health care
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Bustamante: from barrio to contender | More on Arnie's ties to racist "US English" group | Arnie hit pointblank by Smoking Gun | Another Arnie misstep: saying he'd get CAA involved in campaign | Fringe moralist group demands Arnie "come clean" | Davis defends decision on tribal casinos | Federal ruling on potential postponement of recall delayed a week
QWAGMIRE -- This is the first time we've linked to a Maureen Dowd article -- we, and you, won't be disappointed | Doctor Dumbass Rice strikes again! | Hey, Smirk: prove the weapons case!! | Rummy lies like a rug, spins like a dervish | Mosque blast tied to UN blast; have Saddam's deposed thug pals hired Islamists to take revenge? | Smirk cronies get paid big bucks to rewrite Iraqi legal code |
Robert Reich The GOP's new tactic: destroy free elections
Michael Mo
AP US soldier dies in fall in Afghanistan? Huh? | Cheap-ass Smirk, GOP won't pay for needed Library of Congress expansion | Barbara Blackmon -- a rising political star in Mississippi
CBS Smirk leaves phony ranch, returns to DC as failure after failure tanks his approval numbers
The Atlantic The age of Murdoch
Guardian Smirk seeks to erase California Clean Air Law
Times Union Smirk turns EPA against the public
Sun-Sentinel Jebbie hires a Bush crony for his failed child welfare department
WaPo Will Supremo Rehnquist kill campaign finance reform?
NY Times New ruling favors real justice over fascist Ass-KKKroft | Son: Janklow (R-vehicular manslaughter) won't resign | Yuppies, auto dealers whine as Hummers burn. Hey, it is a crime -- but more like torching tasteless ostentation than "ecoterrorism." What's the difference between a porcupine and a Hummer? In the case of the former, the pricks are on the outside...

8/30/03
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Cheney lied to Congress! Where is the outrage?
WaPo In one fell swoop, Whistle Ass Smirk disses scientific research, makes federal bureaucracy bigger, and throws another bone to anti-regulation corporatists
Plain Dealer GOP plans to use voting machines to deliver partisan victories -- and a voting machine manufacturer admits it!
CS Monitor Republicans hijack the "fourth branch" of government: K Street
ELECTION 2004 -- Are some of the Dems' biggest donors holding off until Wesley Clark gets in? | WaPo disses Dean as a flip-flopper | Bid to change requirement that presidential candidates be native-born could help Dems
QWAGMIRE -- Another GI dies in Iraq ambush | Mission accomplished: 75 dead as terrorists bomb prominent Iraqi mosque | Smirk issues boilerplate condemnation of bombing | It's about election politics: Smirk demands "no more [American] deaths" in Iraq after March | Typo! Typo! (from Billmon-via-Atrios)
WMD SCANDAL LATEST -- Blair's moment of truth | Blix: US was trying to intimidate him
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Arnie: would you let your sister vote for this man? | Arnie getting advice from right-wing troglodytes at Hoover Institute | Davis, Arnie lead fundraising pack | Money slips through loopholes in recall race
Daily Howler Pants now on fire
Greg Palast The Grinch that Stole Labor Day
Tom Preston Smirk's strategy of "personifying" evil is stupid and irresponsible
Brad Barker Just who would pick Oliver North, an ally of terrorists, to speak on Sept. 11?
The Other Roger Ailes More lies from the Moonie Times
AP Outrage as FDA refuses to regulate lozenge made of deadly addictive drug
Washington Monthly Smirk, the worst presidential liar in 23 years!
Salon Fake political outsiders
Boston Globe Rep. Bill Janklow (R-SD) charged with manslaughter | EPA slashes energy-conserving program
Guardian Latino or Hispanic?
Houston Chronicle Former Enron exec is poised to spill the big beans!
Oregonian Did Smirkistas stage-manage a forest fire for Whistle Ass?
KC Star Smirk expands "kill the babies, save the fetus" rule
WaPo Smirk holds barbecue for his supine press parrots | Hillary dismisses latest rumor being used by Smirk to raise money
NY Times Now that President Greenspan has clearly abandoned supply-side mythology, his "critics" want to strip the Federal Reserve of power | College tuition increases may hurt the GOP

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8/29/03
ELECTION 2004 -- Report: Clark will enter race | Rumors rampant that Hillary may enter race | Kerry spells out tax, economic plan | Cue laugh track: Smirk using "underdog" claim to hit up donors -- be careful what you wish for, Whistle Ass! | GOP can't find a candidate to take on Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Palast & Buzzflash: Smirk's feud with Saddam as a diversion from the Saudi connection to global terror thugs | Confusion, panic, fatal advice -- 9/11 transcripts released
WMD SCANDAL LATEST -- Blair says he'd have quit if intelligence was wrong (yeah, right...) | Carl Bernstein: Blair diminished, but will survive
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Outrage as blackout hits London | Privatization blamed for London blackout | Spence Abraham orders environmentally unsound underwater power main left on
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Torres: Arnie is a liar and hypocrite | Bustamante blasts oil cartel | GOP-aligned lobbying groups avoiding recall circus | Davis rakes in campaign cash | Arnie's racist "pro-English" affiliation bites him in his steroid-enhanced butt | Arnie, GOP pressure other Republican candidates to bow out
QWAGMIRE -- Buzzflash: FOX trivializes our war dead | War criminals hire war criminals to hunt down war criminals | Gen. Abizaid pleads for help in Iraq from Arab nations | US soldier dead in guerilla attack | British soldier dead | Halliburton, Bechtel rake in billions over our kids' dead bodies in Iraq -- whatever happened to the words "war profiteers"? | Price of new bridge for Baghdad jumps from $300,000 to $50,000,000 | The White House can do nothing from spin
FOX v. REALITY -- Still trying to call Bush critics "bashers" on the "fringe"
Paul Krugman Fistfuls of dollars
Joe Conason "Big Lies:" Where's that conservative compassion?
Alan Bisbort America gets the mushroom treatment from the media: keep 'em in the dark, feed 'em lots of shit
Atrios A note to journalists
AFP Smirk's White House chef "punked" by French TV | Privacy group gets CIA chief's private data for a whopping $26.00
AP Condi Rice tells a half-truth -- it's Whistle Ass Smirk who has imperial ambitions
CNN Nader: Janklow should resign
Salon Smirk unlikely to push for Israel/Palestinian peace
Guardian France takes first step to mend rift over Iraq caused by Smirk Junta
Daily News Fox studios rejects Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic Jaayzus flick
Houston Chronicle Is a federal judge covering up for Enron crook Fastow?
WaPo GOP politicians join fight against Ass-KKKroft | EPA abrogates its authority to stop car emissions
NY Times States to fight Smirk's plan to increase acid rain in the Northeast | Smirk's ill-considered plan to diminish power of thug Arafat backfires | North Korea's insane dictator "Li'l Kim" may test A-bomb

8/28/03
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Buzzflash: Blumenthal fingers Whistle Ass Smirk for the largest security lapse in our nation's history | US lays off border customs agents
GENE LYONS NAILS IT! Replacing Smirk, the worst "preznit" of our lives
ELECTION 2004 -- Fasten your seat belts: Clark wants in! | General election: why Clark is keeping his powder dry | Dean rolls into NYC | Dean now leads Kerry by 21 points in NH poll | Lieberman tries riding Bustamante's coattails
WMD SCANDAL LATEST -- The "grown-ups" in the Misadministration used defectors' deceptive faked-up intelligence about Iraq's WMDs to justify war -- including Ahmad Chalabi | Arrogant Blair admits he should resign | Oh, great: our "friend" Pakistan is giving Iran nuke technology
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Judge locks press out of Enron hearings because someone might be " embarrassed"
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Howler: lying about the California deficit | Davis mocks amateur Arnie | Arnie's latest stunt: call Sean Hannity | Arnie talks babes, drugs, more babes, gays, and even more babes -- we wonder if Maria's read this... | Moonie Times wants Arnie out | Truth about Arnie censored by those first amendment champions at Free Republic
QWAGMIRE -- Yet 2 more dead soldiers in Iraq | Ted Rall: Time to get real | Baghdad's -- and now America's -- shame | How Halliburton profits at YOUR expense in Iraq | US must beg for help from the UN | Did you know Whistle Ass hasn't attended ONE funeral for a serviceperson who has died in Iraq? | Another blunder exposed: dissolving the old Iraq army | Critics of qWagmire are now being heard
FOX v. FRANKEN -- Howie "Married to the VRWC" Kurtz on Franken
Michael Tomasky Ineptitude redefined
Lisa Danitz Ass-KKKroft's dirty little secret
AP Sectarian version of Ten Commandments removed from Alabama court; superstitious wingnuts wail, gnash teeth | If only we had supreme Court justices like Byron White | Corporate media lobbyists spy on consumers
Guardian Good riddance to Judge Moore's kitschy religious monument | Why was this man allowed to have a gun? | How the "war on terror" is being abused
Boston Globe EPA OKs the destruction of your health
NY Times Oklahoma AG goes after crooked WorldCom execs as Ass-KKKroft's lackeys whine that it could "hurt" their weak prosecution

8/27/03
ELECTION 2004 -- Candidates blast Smirkonomics | Dean attracts attention of Cuban expats | Smirk uses YOUR White House web site to promote his election campaign | Dean on a roll
WMD SCANDAL LATEST -- WMDs were the excuse (not the reason) for war -- and Iraq was being "softened" long before the war
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Hillary demands investigation of EPA over their deceptive 9/11 findings
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Why Darrell Issa should pay for the special election | It's contagious! Recall madness spreads to Nevada | Labor endorses Bustamante on Question 2 | Who's who among the top candidates
QWAGMIRE -- Another US kid killed in Iraq; postwar death toll exceeds that before Smirk declared "major combat operations" over | Byrd: No thinking, no plan, no exit strategy | Toby Keith questions necessity of Iraq war | Smirk falls back on old rhetoric to justify feud with Saddam -- says Iraq may not be his last imperial conquest | Hagel, Biden scathe Smirk's speech (heads-up from Gilliard) | That other qWagmire: the Taliban are back | Will Smirk order that Chemical Ali be tortured to "get" info Smirk wants (as opposed to the truth)
FOX v. FRANKEN -- "They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it" | Al's victory lap
Joe Conason Let's play "Softball!" | More Big Lies, this time from regulation-haters
Scoobie Davis Progressive talk radio CAN succeed
The Other Roger Ailes Howie Kurtz: Married to the VRWC
Ananova Iran find raises concerns that they're making weapons-grade nuke material
AP North Korea crisis -- ominous and complex
CounterPunch Why you should oppose the CIPB
Talk Left Even Mississippi is turning against the death penalty
CNN Texas legislature special session adjourns
Salon Hunkered down with Texas' "Killer D's"
Baltimore Sun A vote of no confidence to computerized voting
Guardian The unacceptable cost of Smirk's tax cuts | Gay Americans head to Canada to be wed | Richard Breeden's recommendations for WorldCom underscore the company's rampant corruption
Boston Globe Hatfill strikes back, sues Ass-KKKroft | China pulls a Smirk, ends political reforms | Smirkonomics: Deficit could soar
WaPo Oh, great! Powell defends bellicose rant by his "aide" John Bolton

8/26/03
BLACKOUT -- GAO: Cheney stifled energy probe (more at Reuters) | Kucinich has been burnt by FirstEnergy
9/11 SHOCKER -- Did Smirk, Musharraf cut a deal to let Osama bin Laden escape?
ELECTION 2004 -- Dems stump in Smirk's "home" state | How Smirk will lose in 2004 | Smirk to use veterans as backdrop, then whore himself | Smirk's bogus "compassion" agenda becomes a liability | Funding for House campaigns is on the rise | Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) won't challenge Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
WMD SCANDAL LATEST -- Blair demanded a "sexed-up" Iraq dossier
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- It isn't about new ideas | Arnie: image over substance | Arnie: faux "outsider" | Bustamante savors lead among Question 2 candidates
QWAGMIRE -- UN to Smirk: you're on your own, whistle-ass! | Smirk begs public to ignore his misadministration's incompetence as situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate | The other qWagmire: US-led forces kill 14 Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan | US continues the struggle to keep Iraq a dangerous place for humanitarian relief workers | Smirk may give Likudist pals pipeline "bonus" | Army may double up tours | Your tax dollars being wasted... er, at work
FOX v. FRANKEN -- FOX drops lawsuit, may lose "Fair and Balanced" trademark | FAUX News thinks it runs the nation
Paul Krugman Dust and deception
Scoobie Davis David Horowitz is a big fat liar
Joe Conason Chris Matthews called me a liar!
Atrios Matthews lies about Coulter; Bill Maher explains her
Daily Howler Dumbing democracy down
David Neiwert The racists behind the Alabama "Ten Commandments" protests
AP Smirk is holding sleepovers for his cronies and patrons -- on his phony ranch! | Traficant associate tossed in jail | Texas legislative session ends with no "Killer D's" and no redistricting
Reuters More companies adopt gay-friendly policies
CNN Key North Korea negotiator quits; State Department denies it was over policy, so we all know what that means... | Smirk's deficit: $500 billion (that's billion)
ABC Australia Richard Butler: Smirk Administration is a loose cannon
Online Journal "Hack box voting" machine makers hire PR firm | Faith and government do not mix
Mother Jones The "narco-terrorist" meme
SPLC The Washington Times and 21st century extremism (Buzzflash tipped us off to this one)
Salon Lenny Bruce died for our sins | The fall of Lindh, part 2
Boston Globe GAO: Smirk's "energy policy" came straight from corporate boardrooms
Guardian How the Web is beating traditional corporate media like a bad piece of meat | Greens vandalize 4x4 cars
Houston Chronicle Moore's monument to wretched excess
Chicago Business Liberal talk radio is on the way
NY Times Torricelli: unencumbered by elected office and perhaps more powerful

8/25/03
ELECTION 2004 -- Growing opposition to Smirk reelection | Dean thinks Clark would make a great running mate | Dean rises on antiwar wave | Kucinich, Willie Nelson talk farm policy | "Perfect storm" poised to sink USS Smirky
WMD SCANDAL LATEST -- Scott Ritter: A weapons cache we'll never see | Iraq's so-called "drones of death" were no such thing | Blair's ministers tried to gag David Kelley | Blair: toast on a stick | In a desperate gambit to find WMDs that aren't there, US recruits Saddam's spies
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Support for recall collapses | FOX News orders staff to put a sock in allusions to Austrian weightlifter's film career, treat him like serious"front-runner" | Problem is, muscle-boy isn't the front runner -- Bustamante is by a wide margin | Loser Simon drops out | Wingnuts hold their nose, cozy up to Arnie
QWAGMIRE -- US facilitated escape of Iraqi war criminal! | Bad planning! Viceroy Bremer admits intelligence gap, claims we have enough troops in Iraq | Three senators say US needs to position more troops | Smirk's approval rating plummets as qWagmire continues | Shi'ite hits the fan as sectarian violence hits Iraq | Supply shortage hampers US efforts in Iraq | Under-supplied US troops use Iraq's AK-47 assault weapons | Speicher died of his injuries
BLACKOUT -- Smirk offers New York a piddling $5 million to cover blackout expenses
FOX v. FRANKEN -- Judge throws out Ailes/O'Reilly inspire attempt to stop book's distribution | Franken's book mixes satire, factual zingers -- and a poignant description of the Wellstone memorial
Jimmy Breslin Another lie, one among many
Paul Krugman Conan the Deceiver
Crooked Timber Incarcerated whites more likely to be hired than blacks with a clean record
This Modern World Fair and balanced
AP Lugar: US troops should keep peace between Israel, Palestine
ABC Colorado Dems want Gary Hart to challenge Campbell
The Nation Department of Defense -- or Bungle Central?
Salon John Walker Lindh's descent into insane jihad | Try Taxium!
Independent BBC opens up new front on neo-fascist media mogul Murdoch
Guardian Notorious pedophile priest Goeghan killed in jail; fellow inmate held | Dirty tricks on clean air | God help America
Boston Globe Religious nuts kill eight-year-old | Why two Marine officers should be court-martialed Madison.com Progressive working mother gives Smirk a posthumous gift: the nickname "Whistle-ass"
Daily News Coulter a "no-show" when Conason's booked -- maybe she's still smarting from that spanking Joe gave her a few years ago on MSNBC
Houston Chronicle "Killer D's" are heroes to progressive Texans
Chicago Sun-Times Wingnut judge suspended for refusing to remove his tacky -- and illegal -- religious display in courthouse
WaPo Former House Minority Leader John Rhodes dies
NY Times Nearly two years too late< Smirk focuses on Afghanistan

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8/21/03
QWAGMIRE: Military munitions used in UN truck bomb | US will go begging to the UN for help in stabilizing qWagmire | Another US soldier dead in Iraq | Casualties of victory | CIA, DIA implicated in bank heist that targeted Iraq's national bank | Are Saudi insurgents -- forced out of their country by a crackdown -- behind Iraq attacks? | By the way, we're losing in Afghanistan, too
Truck bomb devastates UN's Baghdad HQ; section of building collapses, killing UN Iraq envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello
BLACKOUT: Regulation haters spread yet more lies | Oversight group had warned utilities
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB: Arnie can forget about the Latino vote | Arnie gives no details | Davis uses Clinton (read: winning) strategy | California congressional Dems may back Bustamante | Issues? C'mon, WaPo, it's about the circus!
9/11: Four 9/11 moms battle Smirky | Two years later, first responders are not ready because of confusion from Beltway
WMD SCANDAL LATEST: Aluminum tubes found -- headed for North Korea! |
Brian Eno Lessons in how to lie about Iraq
Atrios Smirk reelection site promotes "astroturf" letters
Joe Conason Bill O'Reilly, coward | Bush, Inc.
Bob Somerby Clueless Smirk has no idea how many troops are in Iraq
Micahel Wolff Why is Bill Clinton the only high-profile liberal who is not short on passion?
AP Janklow was speeding, too! | House members want to double terms | Critics blast FCC
CorpWatch Public ed privatizer fails
CNN Janeane Garofalo is trouncing Tucker Carlson!
Boston Globe Supremos refuse commandments case
Guardian "I have a dream"
WaPo Ohio GOP may pull same stunt as Texas, redistrict to deprive Dems of power
NY Times Alabama judge insists on shoving religion down America's throat

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