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9/30/03
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Dems demand special prosecutor, and Smirk refuses: "Ari Lite" McClellan claims nothing has been brought to White House attention (cue laugh track); CIA "damage" form submission to Justice may be first in history | Scandal engulfs White House in press storm | White House in denial mode | Guardian sees the same bad weather | Justice begins "inquiry" -- or is it a whitewash? | The statute that could lead to an Oval Office "frog march" (assuming Ass-KKKroft will actually enforce the law) | Conason: Where are the press whistleblowers? | Marshall: Wilson's wife WAS undercover | NBC confirms Andrea Mitchell Greenspan was contacted after Novak column broke | Josh Marshall: Novak's changing story | James Moore at BuzzFlash: Smells like a Rove rerun | Eric Poole: How I stopped Matt Drudge from smearing Joseph Wilson | Hesiod: Mickey Kantor for special prosecutor | Bob Somerby: By their silence you shall know them | While ABC and NBC clam up, John Roberts says CBS was not contacted -- and he'd have smelled an ulterior motive | RonK: Memory fault at 001600
FRAUD! -- Nothing but lies from Smirk | How the Smirk cadre and FOX News lie to America
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- American Psycho | Smirk sends chain-smoking "Pickles" to undo his mess (you've just gotta laugh)
HACK BOX VOTING -- Diebold machines and your (disappeared) vote |
QWAGMIRE -- Another GI dead in Iraq | Harman: Condi's a liar | Iraqi defectors' WMD claims were lies, lies and more lies | Ruling council won't meet deadline for Constitution | Krugman: Who's sordid now? | A history of the qWagmire in lies... er, Administration quotes |Revolt in the UK's Labour Party as antiwar faction demands to be heard -- is it over for Blair? | Finally, the corporate press picks up on Joe Allbaugh's qronyism | Heartland balks at $87 billion qWagmire tab
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Arnie as Smirk's California stalking horse | Bob Graham gets tough | Poverty explosion may throw election to Dems | GOP tries bamboozling minority voters | WaPo tries to make Dean, Dems look like fundraising losers when in fact GOP, Dems are pretty much even on all fronts
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Davis blows lid off Arnie dirty trick | Why is Smirk distancing himself from power grab? Because inside polls say it's even | Arnie takes polluter's money | State GOP backs Austrian groper | Arnie's steroid use -- yes, it's an issue | Davis on the ropes -- or so it seems | The untouched issue: crime
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGE -- Ass-KKKroft threatens journalists to nail a hacker (bet he won't do this to Bob Novak or Andrea Mitchell)
$MIRKONOMICS -- More and more poor | More and more deficits | More and more uninsured
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Energy Bill becomes stalking horse for Smirk's domestic "cash and carry" business agenda | SEC demands court enforce subpoena of Kenny Boy Lay
Philly Inquirer Why we like Tucker Carlson: he slaps around FOX News
Guardian Guantánamo translator arrested
Jerome Doolittle Did Junior lose the 2000 election because he was too far to the right?

9/29/03
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Shrub's "aides" say they'll cooperate (what about the Misadministration's "officials?"), but Shrub "has no plans to ask his staff members whether they played a role" unless they are targeted by criminal probe... Dean, Gephardt call Ass-KKKroft involvement a conflict of interest... Wilson: White House officials promoted stories outing his wife to TV, including Andrea Mitchell Greenspan, but got nowhere | Controversy becomes full-scale scandal | DHinMI speculates on Condi Rice's involvement | Josh Marshall on the latest WaPo story (plus a Roveian blast from the past)| Atrios on three leaks and phone records | Comments from Meteor Blades |
FRAUD! -- Big Time Dick still linking 9/11/01 attacks, Saddam Hussein, even after Blotchy admitted no ties
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- Schmoozer Smirk gives world leaders tacky nicknames, fails outright to get help for Iraq | So he sends his ineffectual wife to mend fences. Yeah, that should work wonders...
HACK BOX VOTING -- BuzzFlash interviews Bev Harris | Maryland Governor Ehrlich (R) orders probe of Diebold | 328 -- count 'em -- 328 security weaknesses! | Did GOP-aligned representatives of the voting machine industry sabotage the IEEE's initiative to establish standards?
QWAGMIRE -- Mission NOT Accomplished! Ideology overrode logic and the facts... Smirk just had to have his way, and who cared that there was no realistic postwar planning? | Mission NOT Accomplished! Scientists say WMDs destroyed a decade ago; was Saddam being lied to -- or is this Chalabi's latest cover? | QWagmire began in Washington | Yugoslavia II: The Sequel -- Religious, social, ethnic fissures tear Iraq apart | Ideologically driven occupation of Iraq was doomed from day one | House Intelligence Committee continues to attack Smirk's "proof" that Saddam was a threat to the US | Margolis: Little George's "Iraq war was a political version of the giant Enron swindle."
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- New Clark book assails Smirky's Napoleonic streak, calls for more foreign aid | Gephardt, Dean feud intensifies | Clark: I'd fire that incompetent failure Rumsfeld | Iowa caucuses become oasis of sanity | Dean and Clark's civil union | Profile: Smirk's aggressive reelection machine | Typical Times blather: Democrats are "bickering." So fiercely debating solutions to Smirk's mess is bad in the eyes of the Gray Lady!
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Poll favors Arnie -- yesterday | Will Camejo, Arianna drop out?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Dems deride "energy plan" that is a payback to utilities, fossil fuel industries
AP Bet your bottom dollar that Smirk is spoiling for a fight with Bandar al-Assad | More on the flawed intelligence that led to qWagmire
Tom Tomorrow Rummy explains the world to Sparky
PFAW Right-wing Religious McCarthyism
Guardian "For the prime minister to continue to speak as though he is entirely right and we are entirely wrong is neither credible nor respectful." | Another resignation from NYSE board as pay scandal widens
SFGate Pentagon war weasels taken in by pseudoscience
NY Times Elia Kazan 1909-2003
"I've know Wes Clark for 20 years. He's one of the most gifted soldiers that I have ever had work for me."
-- Colin Powell, CNN Late Edition, Sept. 28, 2003

9/28/03
WILSON-GATE EXPLODES -- Leak of former ambassador's wife's CIA work being probed by CIA, DOJ; two White House officials implicated in act of treason by outing CIA expert to six journalists; will Ashcroft act like a man and frog-march Smirk's lieutenants? | Wilson fingers vengeful White House
QWAGMIRE -- Parents to War Boy George: "You lied, our kids died" | Dems blast excesses in Chimpy's Iraq budget | Powell walks out on NY Times editorial staff (scroll to bottom) | Turner: US overplayed WMD data | Dems plan to bring the pain to congressional votes on Iraq | Former CIA analyst discusses lies leading to war, and "crazies" Wolfie, Rummy and Cheney | Dems blast Smirk's $87 billion tab for Iraq at the expense of domestic issues | Congressional leaders assail CIA for providing outdated Iraq data, but ignore Team Smirk's twisting of the facts
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- Oh, how Little George has fallen
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Clark nails it: Little George is a national embarrassment and must be replaced | Dean promises to mend diplomatic Iraq rifts | Clark: Shelton's blowing smoke | Why Dems are embracing 527 committees | Kennedy boosts Kerry in Iowa
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Davis goes on the offensive | Chickenator: Arnie too scared to face down Davis one-on-one | Arnie will abandon full disclosure | More GOP desperation: now they're eyeing unfunny Dennis Miller for state office | Profile: Austrian bodybuilder with political ambitions | Is Broder trying to push GOP nonsense about Davis having a character flaw?
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- Antiterrorist laws used to pursue pettier crimes | Ass-KKKroft and Blotchy just love their state-sponsored executions | "Within six months of passing the PATRIOT Act, the Justice Department was conducting seminars on how to stretch the new wiretapping provisions to extend them beyond terror cases"
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Energy plan: no visionaries, please
AP Smirk, Putin give lip service to limiting nukes
Boston Globe National Guard finds it impossible to recruit under Smirk Regime | Conservatives' panties in a bunch about gay marriage again -- can't these guys get a life?
NY Times Shocker: Junior's Junta admits environmental regulations are a good idea | Our last elected president wows the crowds wherever he goes

9/27/03
HACK BOX VOTING -- Bev Harris must have been on to a serious attempt to subvert the 2004 election: Diebold has "confiscated' whistle-blowing Black Box Voting Web site along with personal data on anti-hack-box activists | Diebold shuts out handicapped voters
FRAUD! CIA seeks probe of Shrub's White House for blowing of Mrs. Joseph Wilson's cover -- can you say treason? | Josh Marshall: How a CIA probe would be conducted | | Sample David Corn's new book about the Liar-in-chief | Another droning Iraq lie exposed | "Mission accomplished" -- not!
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- Little George hopes that talks with Pootie-Poot will bail him out. Dream on, Chimpy...
QWAGMIRE -- "A miserable failure" | Another US soldier dies in Iraq | American compound in Baghdad attacked | Cordesman: Pentagon, Smirk just plain didn't plan for the possibility of a messy postwar situation | More reservists called up for qWagmire | Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) wants heads to roll over qWagmire | 21st century Teapot Dome: Haley "Howdy" Barbour up to his ears in Iraq qronyism | More on Allbaugh's qronyism | GOP gets angrier at Iraq tab as Wolfowitz calls on Iraqis to do the damn "dying" themselves! | How Rummy destroyed the greatest army in history | Blix book to detail run-up to Smirk's Feud
9/11 AFTERMATH -- So where the hell was Junior?
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- Ass-KKKroft refuses to go on record | Ass-KKKroft seeks to make whistle-blowing a felony
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Dean promises to return honor, dignity and honesty to American diplomacy | Tucker Carlson LIES to Crossfire audience about Wesley Clark | Clark campaigns in New Hampshire | Clark: two years of recklessness soured him on Team Blotchy | Scoobie: Put Clark's record and accomplishments up against Little George's any time, any day, and guess who looks like a real leader? | Lieberman slams Clark | How Clark can win it all
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- More of Arnie's skeletons come out of closet: Austrian bodybuilder's dirty pix | Governor Davis challenges Arnie to a one-on-one debate
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Probe finds deregulated FirstEnergy at fault in 2003 blackout
$MIRKONOMICS -- One in eight Americans lives in poverty
Daily Howler Somerby continues to debunk the "they're spreading hatred of Smirk" meme
Josh Marshall Does Chris Matthews have Alzheimer's?
AP French author issues deck of cards to help public identify American political and war criminals
CBS Iran is becoming a real WMD danger
Salon Smirk abandons plan to protect our troops
Newsday Snippy's arrogance leaves his foreign policy shattered, reflecting his vain posturing
Boston Globe Bill "I can't drive 55" Janklow enters not guilty plea in vehicular manslaughter case
St Pete Times What the hell? Florida's pension fund buys public education destroyer Edison Schools Inc.
APJ Today's bizarre "Can't we all just get along?" news story

9/26/03
FRAUD! Too damn late, Colin! Powell tries to spin his assertion from 2001 that Iraq was WMD-free -- the bozos at 1600 will try anything to cover up their legacy of lies | Lautenberg: Cheney is lying about his Halliburton ties | More on Big Time Dick's deferred compensation package -- where are the Congressional hearings? Where are the indictments? | Clark exposes Junior's fraudulent gambit of using "state terrorism" as an excuse to wage war in the Middle East and Africa (note that Saudi Arabia is NOT on the list)
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- Smirk's diplomatic effort to con world into bailing him out is a complete failure | UN withdraws most of presence in Iraq, owing to failure of US forces to protect them | Our "good friend" Musharraf sets four "fuhgedaboudit" conditions for sending Pakistani troops to Iraq | Will Little George's "soul mate" Pootie-Poot bail him out? | Abizaid: we don't expect foreign troops to bail us out | US press smells blood in the water as Junior's UN failure becomes the tipping point for opposition to hiss failed regime
QWAGMIRE -- The price of qWagmire: European support for the US dries up | Hoyer: DeLay "is in no position to question the patriotism" of those who criticize Little AWOL's Iraq blunders | Smirk insider Joe Allbaugh cashes in on Iraq | GOP starts to turn on Smirky's request for Iraq billions | Powell pushes for Iraq Qonstitution -- real fast | Zinni doubted Iraq intelligence | The press played a role in the qWagmire
HACK BOX VOTING -- Elections director in Washington state has some tough questions for Diebold |
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Debate puts Dean, Clark to test | Dean takes friendly fire and shows spine | Conason: Limbaugh's spin on Clark is as dirty as his butt boils | Different Kennedys endorse different Dems | Kerry blasts racism, lies of Young Republicans | Graham's money woes surface
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Davis wins debate | Will Austrian bodybuilder chicken out of a debate with Gray Davis? | Desperation sets in: right-wing Californians endorse moderate Arnie
The Other Roger Ailes Another Ann Coulter lie exposed
Ted Rall Why we hate that lying fraud who is squatting in the American people's White House
Daily Howler Trashing Bush-bashers
AP Callers jam phones of judge who killed "Do Not Call" list
CNN Powell dodges questions from Letterman
Boston Globe Dems: Smirk is out to destroy Medicare, let the poor and indigent suffer
Guardian Smirkonomics cause dollar to plummet
NY Times Smirk supports malnutrition among nursing home patients | Sailor nabbed in Guantánamo baklava spy flap -- is this becoming a witch hunt? | Moussaoui mess: will dropping charges backfire on Ass-KKKroft? | Do Not Call List is off again

9/25/03
How George W. Bush helps to spread AIDS in Africa
FRAUD! BBC: draft report being covered up by Smirk indicates NO WMDs -- not even minute amounts -- have been found in Iraq | Shrub is such a phony, he even lies about his golf game | Wilson to Congress: Rumsfraud must resign | "Bushwhacked!" Preview Molly Ivins' book on the rise of the biggest phony to ever sit in the Oval Office | BuzzFlash interviews David Corn
HACK BOX VOTING -- Diebold exposed: hack box vote machines "at high risk of compromise" because of software flaws | Why was report heavily redacted?
QWAGMIRE -- Office of GE-owned broadcaster bombed as member of Iraqi Governing Council dies five days after she was attacked | It's the incompetence, stupid! Democrats target Smirk's qWagmire | War weasels ignored Iraq's worn infrastructure in planning | Worse than FUBAR: our troops on the verge of going insane in Iraq | Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) puts the monkey-slap on Donald Rumsfeld (R-$87 billion) during hearing | Dems demand bottom-line figure on Iraq bill from Viceroy Paulie | Pentagon will have to call up thousands more Guard, Reserve troops for qWagmire
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- Nations unite in "coalition of the unwilling to help lying, unelected fraud" | As a diplomat, Junior is a dismal failure | Hypocrisy: if Chimpy loathes the sex trade, why is a company whose employees facilitated it in Bosnia getting juicy Iraq qontraqts? | Schroeder does Smirk a favor
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Senate race: why Campbell (R-CO) is vulnerable | Dean declares war on "King George" | Clark's incentive plan: better and more effective than tax cuts | How to frame the agenda | Big Time Cheney rakes it in for corporate America's Senate puppets | Clark fights back against GOP attack "scrutiny" | How Dems can capitalize on "527" committees
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Hysterical "debate" leaves Californians confused, bemused, angry | Arianna smacks down woman-hater Arnie | Arnie's Mapplethorpe pix: naughty, naughty!
9/11 FALLOUT -- Moussaoui demands dismissal of case because Ass-KKKroft is blocking key witness testimony | Padilla v. Rumsfeld and the judicial rebellion against the extremism of Smirk, Rummy and Ass-KKKroft | Disgraced Poindexter's "Tairism" Intrusion Network is officially dead Taliban resurgent in Afghanistan; Mullah Omar issues new threats
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- Reno slams PATRIOT extremism
BLACKOUT BLUNDERS -- Another reason to nationalize and regulate utilities
Counterspin Central Activist tears Richard Perle a new one on television!
Daily Howler Bill O'Reilly, crybaby, can't take criticism
Josh Marshal Junior's poll numbers -- and leveraged dilemma
Jerry Parks Smirk's "Leave No Child Unstiffed" policy
AP Military expands espionage investigation at Guantánamo | Americans are disillusioned by Smirk's broken promises
CNN Hardly anybody watched Smirk's interview with Brown-nose Brit on FOX | Court kills (for now) the Do Not Call List
Boston Globe Rod Paige admits US suffers from educational apartheid | Hillary ruins Clinton-haters' dreams, debunks the silly "Clark is the Clintons' puppet" nonsense |
Guardian Why corporate GOP shills attack litigators: one of Republicans' biggest corporate patrons, Wal-Mart, may be hit by largest class action suit
SFGate Alabama voters, bamboozled again by right wing idiots, vote for increased crime | Comcast, enemy of YOUR privacy
USA Today GOP panics as America turns on Blotchy McSmirkster; they must appeal to racist-xenophobic base in South to let their boy George continue squatting in White House
NY Times Why the US is the leading factor in global destabilization

9/24/03
HACK BOX VOTING -- After this article appears, ballot reform activist Bev Harris is forced by Diebold to shut down her site... meanwhile, Diebold insiders are dumping their shares, and the company's ties to a rich Christian Reconstructionist are exposed
FRAUD! -- Smirk knew Iraq's oil bucks could not cover reconstruction costs | GOP Senators have hissy fit over Kennedy's "fraud" charge | Lies in a "new" anti-Clinton book are exposed... in the Moonie Times!
SMIRK FAILS AT THE UN -- Smirk isolated as his UN speech falls flat | Annan condemns Blotchy's unilateralism as a threat to global stability | Press gives Chimpy's "impertinent" speech thumbs down | Nations of world rebuff Smirk's plea for help | Smirk, Chirac clash at UN |
QWAGMIRE -- Breslin: They lied, many soldiers died | Iraq mess is making normally collegial Senate a nasty place | $87 billion tab riles skeptics in Congress | 2/3 of Iraqis happy to see Saddam gone; Chirac twice as popular as Smirk in Iraq | US calls in air strike against farmhouse, kills 3
WMD FOLLIES -- No evidence of David Kay's report has turned up yet...
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Activists seek to drive GOP convention out of New York City | One week in, Clark's run is making waves | Why Clark scares Smirk's handlers | Conason: If Iowa were America, Gephardt would've already been Prez | Dean throws a Tea Party in Boston, rips King George | It's official: Bill Safire has gone insane over Clark and Hillary | Pundits "Gore" Clark | Dean's Israel problem | Conason in NYObz: Clark's next battle | DFP talks to Kerry | Lies about Clark: where is the outrage from the military people? | Why right wing loonies are begging for Hillary to run | Firefighters union endorses Kerry | Dean scathes Junior | In New York State, Smirk's approval score plunges
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Suddenly, executive branch cooperates with 9/11 panel | 9/11 widow sues incompetent Shrubby
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- California Supremos give power grab a go; ACLU will not appeal | Davis has the big mo | Preview: fake debate
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- Ass-KKKroft's edict to end plea bargains will swamp judicial system, jack up costs | Jerome Doolittle on "America's Ayatollah"
Josh Marshall Rove's White House stuck in infinite loop
AP Executive branch's addiction to expensive, bug-ridden Microsoft OS leaves systems vulnerable to hacks, attacks and viruses | Hard right legislators resurrect nomination of judicial extremist Pickering
CNN ACLU sues Secret Service
Salon Cult leader Moon has cultivates direct ties to Smirk
Right Christians Xtian Reconstructionist extremist billionaire Howard Ahmanson is funding an attempt to create an Episcopal schism
Guardian Military interpreter faces spying charge
The Hill GOP scrambles as job numbers worsen -- will it mean more ill-advised tax cuts? | Wolfie's latest waste of money | Will the Dems succeed in using a court case to stop district gerrymandering?
Boston Globe Racism at Duke University exposed | The new threat to your privacy: "Matrix" database
Newsday Hillary blocks EPA nominee
AJC Attempt by CNN to be more like FAUX News backfires; ratings down, down, down
NY Times Yet another trashy anti-Clinton tome gets panned by the Times | GOP-controlled Texas Senate OKs racist gerrymandering of state | Report: missile defense is a fundamentally flawed concept

9/23/03
The lie that could cost Smirk the White House: Aussie journalist says he has the smoking gun
POLL: Smirk loses to Clark, Kerry | Conason: Watershed moment
Chimpy goes begging to the UN | On the defensive: Little George had best get real used to it | Annan will tell Smirk that his unilateralist bellicosity is not only the number one threat to global security but encourages terrorists
FRAUD! -- Smirk revisionism reigns | Part two of Josh Marshall's interview with Joseph Wilson focuses on WMD scandal | Daily Mirror celebrates first anniversary of Blair's Big Lie | Computerized voting: invitation to more GOP election fraud | RNC Godfather Gillespie's latest lie: telling truth about the GOP is "hate speech" | Phony Junior "reinvents himself" in vain attempt to hold power | Big Time Dick's problem with the truth
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB FARCE -- Sore Loserman Issa now says vote "No" on recall | Austrian bodybuilder heckled at campaign appearance | California Supremos will probably rule today | Leno hosts lesser-known candidates
QWAGMIRE -- Stretched Thin, Lied to & Mistreated | Sale of Iraqi assets backfires as Iraqis blast "world invasion" | Chalabi is playing US like a cheap fiddle | Bremer calls for new Marshall plan (only six months too late) | Iraq: Year zero | Say no to privatization | Architects of qWagmire: inside the American Enterprise Institute | Cleland to Smirk: "Welcome to Vietnam" (reprinted in Salon) | In UK, majority agree war was not justified
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Conason: Why Hillary should (and will) stay out for 2004 | Cue laugh track: Larry "I even sued my mom!" Klayman wants to be a Senator | Hackworth's surprise U-turn on Clark | Profile: Carol Moseley Braun | Clark calls for a new, and genuine, patriotism | Dean spells out Middle East stance | Kerry spells out economic plan | Smirk "not paying attention" to Democratic race... well, maybe it is beyond his limited attention span
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- Ass-KKKroft strips prosecutors of discretion | PATRIOT retro-Act-ive | Probe: ex-Smirk crony broke ethics rules, but Justice won't prosecute!
Opus the Penguin to make his return to Sunday comic pages
Bob Beckel Rush Limbaugh, racist
AP Breyer blasts mandatory minimum sentences | Senators debate Social Security; Corzine ties repeal of Smirk's tax givebacks to SS solvency | Iran scales back cooperation with the UN
AJC Red as far as the eye can see: GAO's grim outlook on the deficit
WaPo Smirk presses his scam to send your tax dollars to religious nuts
NY Times States can't pay Medicaid tab

9/22/03
SADDAM SHOCKER! UK tabloid: US forces negotiating with deposed dictator -- will Smirk let a fellow oilman escape into exile?
Hillary Clinton scathes Junior's stealth campaign to destroy Medicare and Social Security
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Al Qaeda mass murder conspirator tells all! Khalid Shaikh Mohammed admits that Clinton Administration policy on Yemenis hampered terror thugs' ability to carry out attacks; Osama forced to pare down plan, use Saudis to pull off suicide slaughter
FRAUD!! -- Smirk whines back as Kennedy's stinging comments stick to hapless Pretend-a-dent like white on rice
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Moseley Braun makes it official | Biden will back Kerry or Clark | Dean's bottom-up strategy has candidates, campaign consultants talking | Undecideds rule the roost in Iowa | Clark raises $750,000 in a couple days
QWAGMIRE -- Arrogant Smirk will tell UN he was right to invade Iraq without their cooperation | Iraq plans to sell all state industries -- EXCEPT OIL (and we know who controls that oil, baby!) | UN targeted again; two dead in Baghdad blast | Is Smirk planning a Soviet-style purge of his handlers in a cynical bid to hang on to power? | Iraq's new army: 735 strong | Pro-war liberals in retreat (except Hitchens -- he's still quaffing martinis) | Smirk may OK UN oversight of Iraq election -- will Florida be next?
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- The problem IS the punch cards! | Preview: California Supremos Chad Smackdown | Hypocrisy watch: Hummer driver Arnie says he's environment's best friend | Wisconsin GOP abandons fair scheduled elections, embraces politics of recall | Arnie's latest visa violation exposed!
Jackson Griffith Joe Conason cuts schoolyard bullies down to size
Richard Reeves Cheney's last stand
AP Corporate drug dealers, fearing righteous wrath of victims and their trial lawyers, seek to shield their poison behind FDA "regulation" (more in the Guardian) | Ralph Reed admits the GOP is sinking fast
CNN Biden: Dems will embrace fiscal responsibility and try to stop tax givebacks for the rich
Guardian Smirk's poll numbers plummet
Beacon Journal Clampdown! Government uses "war on tairists" to shut out press, media
Seattle Times Portland challenges PATRIOT Act
WaPo Why the hell are your taxpayer dollars subsidizing a deadly narcotic drug that kills millions?
NY Times Michelman to step down as NARAL chief | Michael Powell: a failure, a whiner


9/21/03
"The French were right. They tried to stop the United States and Britain from rushing headlong into this mess. Don’t we wish they’d succeeded?"
SMIRK'LL GO A'BEGGIN'! Junior will plead with UN to bail him out of his qWagmire -- will he be laughed out of the General Assembly? Will rest of world "challenge" Smirk to resign?
QWAGMIRE -- Three more American kids dead in Iraq -- now they're dying in threes, thanks to the supreme incompetence and bungling of the AWOL Flyboy and his handlers | Military community slams, Rummy, Chimpy | White House tone changes to desperation, clumsy damage control | Boots on the ground, family at home... can you say qWagmire? | Money down the toilet in Iraq could have secured our vulnerable ports | Chalabi to blame in part for qWagmire | Thomas White continues to blast Rummy | Chirac: bumps on road to broader Iraq coalition
FRAUD -- StarTribune gives lying Blotchy a spanking | BuzzFlash talks about that AOL poll showing and the American plurality who think Junior is an incompetent liar
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Scoobie Davis: Scaife's network of stooges -- who they are, what they will do to influence Campaign 2004 | Poll: Clark moves up | Clark announcement gets big press | Dean leads pack in money race | Details of the back condition that won Dean deferment emerge | Gephardt campaign's secret weapon: candidate's daughter | NYT spins Clark as heroic, mercurial | Cue laugh track: pathetic John Fund bashes Clark as an excuse to indulge his Clinton-bashing addiction
CALIFORNIA POWER GRAB -- Opposition to recall gains traction | Davis popularity on the upswing | Edwards backs Davis | Gore pumps up California Democrats
WMD SCANDALS -- BBC official scorches Blair's "coterie" | WMD "searchers" still looking for something, anything that will rescue Smirk | Congress demands answers from Cheney
INJUSTICE MINISTER OUTRAGES -- (via Atrios) Ass-KKKroft lied about PATRIOT Act and librarians | Right-winger Viet Dinh contradicted Ass-KKKroft in Congress

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