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11/10/03
Our real President, Al Gore, condemns George "Big Brother" Bush and his PATRIOT campaign to strip citizens of fundamental rights
SUPPRESSING THE REAGANS -- A symptom of media anemia | Reagan's apologists cannot change history
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Karl Rove and Bob Novak: a leaky history
QWAGMIRE -- US military policeman killed in Iraq | Donald Rumsfeld's denial that he ever made certain statements about the war is undermined by the public record | Tribal bosses, not Saddam, are ordering American helicopters shot down in Iraq | Will Pitt: Without honor | Growing qWagmire undermines Misadministration's ability to rebuild and flog "progress" | Biden: Time to call in NATO | US wants its lapdog Iraq Governing Council scrapped because they're too independent of Paul Bremer, Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle | Expanding the qWagmire: critics blast John Bolton's lies | Kos: When your puppets don't dance | Coalition officer tried to censor NBC's coverage of Al Rashid Hotel attack | Smirk's "Democratize the Heathen" speech went over like a lead balloon | The GOP: making the troops pay twice | The only thing that mattered: Dick "Dick" Cheney wanted Saddam Hussein gone | Once again, Smirk and his patriotic Misadministration pals screw hero veterans -- this time, the ones who were captured and tortured during the 1991 Gulf War | Iraqi insurgents are playing by the Afghanistan mujahedeen rules | Mossad chief explains how the US and UK created a Holy War against themselves | Another WMD lie exposed: David Kay misrepresented and distorted the research of a dead Iraqi scientist | Chicken Hawk Down!
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- John Kerry fires his campaign manager | Al Sharpton campaigns, schmoozes and inspires in Carolina | John Edwards won't get off Howard Dean's case | Dems pitch increased student aid | Democrats' campaign blues? This guy should go out and talk to average people | More erosion of your voting rights: some state primaries may be canceled | Dennis Kucinich: US out of Iraq | Fence-sitters turn against Smirk | Kerry, Joe Lieberman blast Chimpy's assault on veterans | Idiot Son risks it all on his "style" (read: lying, distortion, simplistic sound bites, arrogant bluntness that appeals to angry bubbas) | Will Al Franken challenge Norm Coleman? | Why Louisiana GOP gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal is a good omen for the Old South
FOX WATCH -- Franken skewers Bill O'Reilly again
WHAT A RUSH! -- Strong dose of OxyContin hype inexcusable | Prescription for disaster
9/11 AFTERMATH -- "Would you like some sprinkles or C-4 with your cone?" Anti-terror squad raids ice cream shop
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- Bracing for a celebrity absentee "governor" under investigation
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Hunting season is on, and Ken Lay is the big prize
$MIRKONOMICS -- Arrested Russian businessman is a Carlyle Group advisor
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- The phony "judicial crisis" | Fury as Smirk, Ass-KKKroft give enforcement of ban on emergency medical procedure to DoJ's Civil Rights division
HACK BOX VOTING -- Another computerized voting machine disaster, this one in Indiana
Andy Rooney Not afraid to exercise his free speech
Guardian Judge rebuffs Jebbie "Ayatollah Bubba" Bush's effort to stop challenge to Florida's dictatorial "no right to enforce verbal living will" law
Palm Beach Post When Jebbie Bush isn't busy kowtowing to crazy "right-to-lifers," he's screwing over the disabled
WaPo GOP squabbles over how many of your rights to destroy in wave of funding bills
NYT Dems combat attempt to quasi-privatize Medicare

11/9/03
Traditionally pro-GOP poll says 50% of Americans would not vote for Miserable W. Failure
5 top Dems (including Hillary Clinton) beat Bush in another poll
'No President has lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably'
Frank Rich on Jessica Lynch, patriot
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Held over: The White House war with the CIA
QWAGMIRE -- Bomb attack kills US soldier as insurgency continues | ... but... but.. we've got the upper hand in Iraq! | They had no plan for the occupation of Iraq -- none! | How Junior's "geniuses" bungled the peace | Talk of a draft grows despite denials by White House | Mossad chief: invasion has created a holy war | Smirk scrambles to take focus off qWagmire and put it on the economy, playing up unemployment having dropped by a piddling tenth of a percent | Speakers at conference on the media say the media itself has blood on its hands for playing PR agent for AWOL W. McFlightsuit | Iraq Governing Council turns on US occupiers; Misadministration scrambles to undermine them | K Street on the Tigris | Dems blast Smirk over military housing | Frist's reason for halting Iraq intelligence probe: political damage to the GOP | US is in violation of international law as corporate friends of Smirky take over | State Department worker who handled intelligence found dead outside agency -- we smell a scandal in the works
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Clark wows 'em at Tech | Politicians flee the Senate as candidates back out; is the GOP majority in trouble? | Why Howard Dean's comment on Southern working guys was right on | John Edwards' Southern strategy
FOX WATCH -- Cronkite: media mergers threaten democracy | National Conference of Media Reform pushes to take back the media
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Does he hate women? Is he scared of them? Or could he be gay? Carmen bin Laden lifts the lid on life in Osama's family | The secret plan to revive Total Information Awareness
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- "They'll be baaaahhck!" Focus is on groping charges | Arnold Schwarzenegger's true lie: how his surrogates smeared an accuser, and why they should be treated as the criminals they are
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Dean's refusal of public funding reshapes the race | Dick "Big Time" Cheney's secrecy, or how to sell out the interest, health and safety of the public to Big Energy without legislative assent | Mine safety whistleblower may get the ax from Team Smirk
$MIRKONOMICS -- From those commie pinko leftists at The Economist: A flood of red ink
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- City of Toledo threatens to sue federal government for stripping protesters of first amendment rights
Journal Now Protesters ruin another Smirk appearance
AP Diplomacy works: Iran OKs stringent nuke inspections following pressure from Europe and the UN (hell, they can buy from North Korea now!) | Abortion issue heads back to Supremos
NYT Rich colleges get biggest share of federal aid | Italian prosecutors investigate charges that "Il Duce Jr." Berlusconi is an embezzler

11/8/03
Raped, then used: Jessica Lynch is bitter at military manipulation of her story, says her "rescue" should never have been filmed
Another miserable failure by Little George: North Korea says they now have a "nuclear deterrent capability"
Fight the censorship -- download the script to "The Reagans" and judge for yourself!
Our favorite wacky conservative talking head, Tucker "Bob's Big Boy" Carlson, goes to PBS
A must-read from Tom Teepen: The Politics of Intimidation
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- The White House war with the CIA
QWAGMIRE -- 2 US paratroopers dead in Iraq | Frist stops probe of prewar Iraq intelligence -- does his claim of "Democrat partisanship" conceal his complicity in a cover-up? | Josh Marshall explains the GOP's memo "fight strategy" | Junior's foreign policy: naked recklessness or treason? | With election looming, Smirky McFlightsuit is struggling to get an "exit strategy" out there -- and fast! | Red Cross will close Baghdad, Basra offices
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Howard Dean to pass on all public financing | Smirk loses White House in new poll | Sidney Blumenthal: Democrats won't win in the South while they keep quiet on race | Joe Conason: Ralph Nader's "road to Jonestown" | Wesley Clark steps up attacks on Smirk's failed Iraq war | Clark: fire Paul Bremer | Dems rally behind Kathleen Blanco in Louisiana gubernatorial race | Wacky Louisiana candidate Bobby Jindal: I beat Satan! | Dean and Bob Kerry tangle on issues | Dean's remarks on Dixie wannabes remain controversial -- and give Dems an opening to unleash a new, winning Southern strategy
WHAT A RUSH! -- Silver lining: Rush Limbaugh's admission of addiction has helped bring new options for addicts to the public attention
9/11 AFTERMATH -- 9/11 commission to subpoena NORAD data... | ... and may be poised to subpoena Monkey Boy's daily briefings | Lawyer: Ass-KKKroft's Guantánamo detainees are being tortured | Truth, lies and the legend of 9/11: Enter Daniel Pearl | Administration pushes more paranoia, flogs Al Qaeda cargo plane attacks
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is miffed because charges that he groped more than a dozen women -- at least the ones with the courage to step forward -- aren't just disappearing
ENERGY SCANDALS -- DeLay: House to get Corporate Welfare for Big Energy bill soon
$MIRKONOMICS -- Smirk seeks to spin tenth-of-a-percent drop in unemployment as proof that tax cuts work (snicker) | Foreign outsoucing=slave labor
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Outrage at Smirk's decision to turn the Civil Rights division of DoJ into the Evangelical Enforcement Squad for the So-called "Preborn" | Time to play "Are YOU a Patriot?" | GOP plans debate blitz in plot to shove judicial extremists down America's throat | Ass-KKKroft must've gotten a woody when he heard about this drug raid at a South Carolina school: white cops with guns drawn and police dogs forcing black kids down to the ground, handcuffing many
HACK BOX VOTING -- Voting machine subtracts one vote in every 100
PHARMA PHOLLIES -- Congress' weak drug "plan" risks senior backlash
WAL-MART'S VALUES EXPOSED -- Always low wages for immigrant workers
AP Pelosi blasts Ayatollahs' Club for signing of bill to deny women access to emergency health procedure
BuzzFlash Kathleen Parker: an Ann Coulter wannabe?
WKMG Katherine "Cruella de" Harris mulls a Senate run
CSM Smirk's attacks on green laws
BoGlo House approves Pentagon union-busting
American Family Voices
They're pro-family. Pro-senior. Progressive.
11/7/03
George W. Bush, liar!
Clinton: Junior should seize the opportunity to agree to a nonaggression pact with North Korea
"Facts mean nothing to you, Ann [Coulter]."
QWAGMIRE -- More on the peace offer from Saddam that War Boy turned down: Iraq strongman offered a huge oil deal along with open inspections (plus an article from the Telegraph) | Six killed in helicopter, possibly downed by shoulder-launched missile | Baghdad Airport under siege | Insurgents gain the edge in Iraq | Smirk's plan for the region: force a political system and culture anathema to most of the Middle East down their throats and corporatize the region -- that oughta teach those swarthy non-Christians! | New Smirk mantra: "The buck gets passed here, it's someone else's fault!" | More war on the cheap | Diplomatic failure: Smirk can't persuade Turks to send troops to Iraq | Jessica Lynch blasts the Pentagon for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as a patriotic fable | Looted Iraq artifacts found in London
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Joe Trippi is a name you should know; read about how he is reinventing the modern political campaign | Howard Dean expands lead (maybe the comments about reaching out to poor Southern whites helped) | The move to turn Howard Dean into a "racist" | Major blow to Gephardt: SEIU, AFSCME to endorse Howard Dean | Wesley Clark: Smirk's Feud was the work of military leaders in the Bush administration with a long score to settle | Clark's new message: Shrubbie Boy failed to prevent Sept. 11 attacks | Clark outlines a strategy for winning the peace in Iraq | Paul Krugman: why Democrats should take Howard Dean's comments about the South seriously | Some Republicans want to dump Cheney from 2004 ticket | A prominent conservative columnist sides with Dennis Kucinich on Iraq | Will Democratic National Committee replace Terry McAuliffe? | Don't mention the dead | Indiana Gov. Kernan will run for full term | GOP's plan to use homophobia to drive their core voters
FOX WATCH -- Fair and balanced? Cue laugh track!
WHAT A RUSH! -- Bad news for Limbaugh: abuse-proof OxyContin may be on the way | The real cost of the war on drugs
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Covert force hunts for Osama bin Laden
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- Lockyer: groping allegations will not go away | Arnold Schwarzenegger hires PI -- is he digging dirt on his accusers?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Ct. Gov. John Rowland: I lied about my relations with that man Kenneth Kay | Dems threaten to block welfare bill for Big Energy
$MIRKONOMICS -- "Inexcusable:" the corruption of mutual funds
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Ass-KKKroft takes another whack at your rights and privacy | Dems block judicial extremist Mark Pryor | Will Dems filibuster judicial extremist Janice Rogers Brown?
HACK BOX VOTING -- Uncertified Diebold software used on California voting machines
WAL-MART'S VALUES EXPOSED -- Immigrant workers sue Wal-Mart
Joe Conason Why does the GOP hate veterans so much?
AP Protester subpoenas Röve, Ass-KKKroft for upcoming trial
New York Mag Must-miss TV: Saving Jessica Lynch and The West Wing
Guardian More on Joan Kroc's $200 million bequest to NPR
Boston Globe 2 more judges bar abortion ban | How the Pentagon wastes YOUR tax money
LA Times Now the Smirkster wants to pollute your water!
WaPo In an unprecedented abuse of power, the White House will no longer answer queries from Congressional Democrats

11/6/03
Mullah Chimpy signs law to undermine reproductive rights | ... as America's New Ayatollahs witness signing of bill to deprive women of emergency medical care | ... only to see a Nebraska judge issue a restraining order stopping the law!
SMIRK FAMILY VALUES -- Virtues hypocrite Laura Bush let "tequila twit" daughters party hearty
THE CBS CAVE-IN -- How the detractors of CBS' The Reagans distort history | The cowardice of CBS | Quashing of Reagan biopic has everything to do with preserving his "saintly" image at all cost | Joe Conason on right-wing political correctness
QWAGMIRE -- Administration idiots missed chance to avoid Iraq war! | GOP supports cover-up of intelligence gaffes to save the Shrub | Vietnam, the sequel: More troops to Iraq | Josh Marshall with the hidden back story | 2 more GIs dead in Iraq | Must-read! The real story on the qWagmire from Lawrence Korb! | Swept under the rug: NO traces of chem weapons found in Iraq shells | Sen. Jon Kyl (R-hypocrite) whines about Democrats exposing politicization of intelligence, calls it politicization of intelligence | Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY): Rummy must resign | The number of wounded rises precipitously | LA Times kowtows to Smirk jargon | B-School professors fail Frat Boy George over mismanagement of Iraq |
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- KDVS to interview Amb. Joseph Wilson tonight | Wilson decries "travesty" of Smirk possibly hiding behind executive privilege in probe of wife's blown CIA cover
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Gene Lyons on the horse race | Wesley Clark outlines a winning Iraq strategy | Howard Dean apologizes in flag flap | How Howard Dean got rocked at debate (more in the Guardian) | Unconstitutional abortion law triggers election ripples | More evidence that tax cuts aren't flying with the fence-sitters: Gerry Connolly beats Republican in heart of Virginia | John Kerry hits ban on emergency medical procedure | Howard Dean: Bob Graham would make a great VP | Rivals slam Dean over his call to reach out to Southern voters | John Edwards steps up ad spending
FOX WATCH -- Rupert Murdoch gets defensive over critics of his propaganda mill
WHAT A RUSH! -- Thinking-disabled dittoheads still support Rush Limbaugh
9/11 AFTERMATH -- The BCCI connection -- remember them? Well, they're neck-deep in the mess!
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- Teachers furious at Arnold Schwarzenegger's betrayal of educators
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Randy Ruderich and his conflict of interest | Sell-out! EPA drops lawsuits against big energy polluters
$MIRKONOMICS -- Service employees are unionizing and fighting outsourcing
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- More on the abuse of the PATRIOT Act in Vegas, baby!
HACK BOX VOTING -- Mistakes plague "high-tech" election | California may not certify hack boxes | More on the student lawsuit against Diebold
Buzzflash Is the NY Times inventing quotes again?
Norm Solomon How the private sector robs you by wasting your time
AP Now lawmakers are attacking RU-486
CJR The rare Left-Right coalition that is giving Michael Powell's FCC a huge headache
Chicago Tribune Evidence unsealed in Janklow case
Seattle Times Oops! State Department insults Nicaragua
Salon Neocons enlist Congress to attack academia
WaPo NPR gets $200 million bequest from Joan Kroc Estate (more from Hesiod on the next BBC)
NYT British police brace for visit of most hated US president in history

11/5/03 --
ELECTION 2003 -- John Street handily defeats John Ashcroft in Philly mayor race | Democrats take New Jersey State Senate | NYC Mayor Mike's nonpartisan primary scam shot down by a huge landslide | GOP wins Miss., Ky. governor races as biased CNN declares Dems "losers" of long-shot races | GOP suffer big defeat on Long Island as Dem takes County Exec seat | GOP illegally intimidates Mississippi voters on Election Day | Maine rejects casinos, San Francisco raises minimum wage
Poll: more people will vote against Smirk than for him
More on the callow cowardice of CBS from Hollywood Reporter and Salon
Eat this, O'Lie-ly: the top-rated cable news program is Comedy Central's The Daily Show
Pattern and practice: when all else fails, the Son King and his minions will attack your patriotism
Crash course: Let Atrios give you the briefing book on "Wingnut Debating School"
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Amb. Wilson: Junior has been poorly advised | Wilson to speak at U of Florida
QWAGMIRE -- Iraqification: losing strategy | Two prominent Iraqi judges assassinated | Deluded Smirk thinks that the wanton slaughter of 16 Americans does not constitute "major combat" -- somebody impeach the imbecile, please... | 3 blasts seem aimed at US "green zone" | GOP strips $87 billion appropriation bill of anti-profiteering clause | Muqtada changes his tune | Dems may launch their own probe into Iraq intelligence; GOP and their FOX News allies go ballistic | Hollings: Vietnam is in reruns | Durbin: Chinook helo was not properly equipped with antimissile system | Iraqis wait for their ayatollahs to order a holy war | Draft boards in early stages of gearing up: welcome to the 21st century meat grinder! | Rep. Jim Leach, former aide to Rummy, blasts Iraq policy | Diplomatic failure: Turkey will still not send troops | Joe Conason: This time, Smirk cannot blame the media | Josh Marshall: Conservative word games about WMDs explained | David Marsden: The buffoons' mantra | Rep. Porter Goss: CIA's Arabic capabilities are inadequate | Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, US strike kills six of the wrong people
CAMPAIGN 2004 -- Dems face off in fast and loose "Rock the Vote" debate | Rivals try to turn Howard Dean's call for an outreach to working-class Southern voters into a flag controversy | Debate transcript here | Dean outraises John Kerry in Mass. | Dean may forgo public financing | One area where Dems are trouncing the GOP: grassroots organizations | Memo to McAuliffe: the GOP is better organized on campuses -- time to get it together for next year's election | Plutocrats gobble up $1500 hot dogs at GOP bribe-raiser
FOX WATCH -- Scoobie Davis on Hannity's latest outrage
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh to taint airwaves again starting on the 17th
9/11 AFTERMATH -- FBI investigation of 9/11 hijackings was bungled from the start as agency finally admits Moussaoui was not the "19th hijacker" and the real thug got away | Rummy wants to stop "schools that teach terrorism" -- so how about starting at home by shuttering our nation's shame, the School of the Americas? | Supremos demand answers on secret detention of terrorist suspect
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's corporate-friendly energy policies are already under attack
$MIRKONOMICS -- Corporations double layoffs | HealthSouth founder free on $10 million bond
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- PATRIOT Act is being misused
HACK BOX VOTING -- Backlash! EFF, Stanford U. Cyberlaw Clinic sue Diebold to prevent coverup of hack box docs (more from AP) | California panel refuses to certify hack-box voting system
WAL-MART'S VALUES EXPOSED -- No days off for Wal-Mart's illegal immigrants
Ann Coulter wannabe: is Laura Ingraham lying about her age?
Derrick Z. Jackson How Lying Son deletes the truth
Joe Conason Shrub, human rights hypocrisy
Atrios CNN deletes error-ridden Tripp story from site
Sy Hersh Uncovered: a Vietnam atrocity
Reuters Critics unanimous: new Jessica Lynch movie stinks
MSNBC CNN misses the real Linda Tripp story: paid off for a phony "privacy" suit
Salon Religious wackos try to block environmental science textbook
Guardian In the US, calling an ambulance is step one toward bankruptcy
The Hill Dems: Media refuses to cover the collapse of bipartisan relations in Congress
Newsday Former Giuliani aide indicted

11/4/03
Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) to retire
The grown-ups are not in charge!
Court refuses to hear Evangelical wingnut Judge Roy Moore's plea to put tacky-looking "monument" to the Ten Commandments back in his court building
Payoff for Clinton crotch-sniffer Linda Tripp -- because her privacy rights were violated? She should give the money to the Clintons and Monica Lewinsky
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Ass-KKKroft feels stepped-up pressure to recuse himself from Wilson-gate probe
QWAGMIRE -- Mission demolished |Conason: Smirk and his toadies can no longer blame the media for the bad news | Another soldier dead near Tikrit |Why are troops ferried in unprotected aircraft? | US military bans our "free" press from photographing the coffins of our nation's dead GIs | Steve Bell sums it up best| Leading Iraqi judge assassinated | Congress gives Lying Son his $87 billion bailout | Blasts hit Baghdad's "Green Zone" | Having a bad day, Wolfie? | Administration tries to strip Iraqis' right to sue Halliburton | Bob Scheer: How many body bags? | Mark Shields: Let's put Smirk's Feud to the "Dover Test" | UK lawyers: Blair waged war illegally | Shrub won't talk war in his speeches |Smirk betrays the families of GIs at war by cutting more services
ELECTION DAY 2003: Rundown of the top races
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Public to Chimpy: you're out of touch | Dems seize qWagmire issue as Smirky tries to fool people into thinking the economy is not a complete disaster | Mississippi gubernatorial race: racist-coddler Barbour knows that Musgrove is in striking range | John Edwards, Dick Gephardt and John Kerry try to stop union endorsement of Howard Dean | Dean pushes help for nurses | Wesley Clark, Internet hit! | Gephardt: Smirk ignored good advice on Iraq -- and our GIs died as a result | |Undoing the GOP "Democrats are racists" lie | Wesley Clark smacks Smirk in Keene | Al Sharpton slated to host SNL | Clark would consider signing landmine treaty | Columnist who ran threat against Democratic candidates in her column keeps changing her story (more here)
WHAT A RUSH! -- Will Rush Limbaugh still be a hypocrite after rehab?
9/11 AFTERMATH -- Subpoena Junior's 9/11 records already!! | There's something about Omar | FBI has stepped up counterterror campaign
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- Unbelievable: recall has California Dems donning the pink tutus | Smirk to get photo-op with firefighters, Gropenführer
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Spencer Abraham puts push behind corporate welfare for mega-energy companies
$MIRKONOMICS -- Mutual fund scandal widens | Smirky blames China for his job losses! | San Francisco fights back with a push for its own minimum wage
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Will the Supremos throw HMOs a bone? | Dems seek probe of DoJ diversity report deletions
HACK BOX VOTING -- Another fact Diebold doesn't want you to know: Aussies have a workable e-voting system open to public scrutiny | California halts e-vote certification | Campaign to make Diebold's e-vote security problems public goes international
WAL-MART'S VALUES EXPOSED -- Wal-Mart exploits poverty-level labor
Jimmy Breslin How money will undo NYC Mayor Bloomberg
Josh Marshall White House is scrubbing transcripts of Smirk's speeches
Will Pitt Assassin's history
Reuters FReepers weep and wail as the big France boycott fails
Online Journal Has the FBI been illegally spying on foreign nationals?
BBC NRA's celebrity "blacklist" backfires
Guardian Hypocrite watch: Terri Schiavo's dad pulled his own mom off life support! | Rupert Murdoch's idiot son gets top job at BSkyB, setting off rebellion
WSJ Hospitals are charging the uninsured more than the insured
NYT Cowardly Broadcasting System: network to move The Reagans to Showtime | Smirk attacks Medicare
365gay.com Reagan DID say that AIDS was God's punishment against gays

11/3/03
America's growing poverty crisis
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Wilson compares leaker to Robert Hanssen
QWAGMIRE -- Sunday death toll of Americans in Iraq rises to 18 | A majority of Americans say "No" to Junior's botched Iraq debacle | Junior and his doctrinaire dolts drop the bravado as true extent of miserable failure in Iraq sets in | Rummy diminishes the death of Americans in Iraq -- has he no decency? | Crisis deepens with no end or endgame in sight | NYT  talks a good game about "resolve" -- but someone tell the Sulzburgers it's about the lies! | Is White House thwarting even their lapdog Sen. Pat Roberts in intelligence inquiry? | That may be why Dems plan to open a second front in Iraq intelligence war | Spinning out of control | We failed to win hearts and minds in Iraq | Assassinations surge in Iraq | Blast rips through pipeline in northern Iraq | Suddenly, White House does not want to claim credit for "Mission Accomplished" banner on USS Abraham Lincoln | Iraq as instant Vietnam | Republicans hate soldiers and veterans | Oiling up the draft machine? | Why is the Pentagon throwing obstacles in the way of Americans who want to help GIs in Iraq? | Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, opium business flourishes
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Where is the leadership? Democrats continue to struggle against Republicans | Dean proposes Fannie Mae-like loan entity | In Philly, Gore hits street with Street | Kentucky race a barometer for '04? CSM has it wrong | Young voter turnout diminishing | Trap a dragon, Mr. Bush, and lose an election | FReepers must be thrilled! American Nazi Richard Butler readies run for mayor of Idaho town | It's Musgrove versus the corporate whore Haley Barbour Mighty Wurlitzer -- can Musgrove pull off a win?
FOX WATCH -- Right-wing MRC proves FOX News has an agenda! | Miles from "fair and balanced"
WHAT A RUSH! -- God d@mn the pusher man!
9/11 AFTERMATH -- John Bolton has been exaggerating the threat of so-called "sponsors of state terrorism" | US-Mexico border crackdown is a miserable failure | Will the Supremos stand up for justice over abuse of "national security" excuses?
$MIRKONOMICS -- One-hit wonder
FOX WATCH -- A former FOX insider discusses the "news" operation's overt political bias
HACK BOX VOTING -- Diebold threatens MIT students
David Podvin The conflict of interest corrupting WaPo
Jim Cappozza The Luskin flap: will threatening Atrios backfire?
The Farmer Clifford May, kooky Crusader
BuzzFlash The Robert Greenwald interview
Newsweek Is CBS wussing out in the face of FReeping over their Reagan flick?
Salon Congress to Big Business: Oooo, hurt me again!
Guardian Smirk faces fiery welcome in UK
NYT File sharing pits content owners against free speech advocates

11/2/03
A divider, not a "uniter" -- poll and WaPo article demolish myth of "popular wartime preznit"
QWAGMIRE -- 13 dead in missile attack on helicopter, the fruit of miserable failure to secure Iraq's weapons (BBC video coverage here) | Casualties mount, doubts grow | AWOL Boy rules out early pullout | Rebel war spins out of US control | QWagmire destroys military-GOP ties | Rummy's quackery | Another example of Iraq qontraqt qronyism, this one with a nepotist twist | Smirk's Iraq team hates the press -- and the truth | US wants to accelerate handover
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- Michigan GOPers begin to abandon party | Mississippi governor race is very tight | Middle America sours to Smirk | The GOP's racist trifecta | Dean, Gephardt and the treasonous slaver flag: how many black votes did this gaffe cost Howard? | Right-wing columnist alters editorial quoting Delta Force soldier saying he wants to shoot Democrat candidates (HNN Web site was down early Sunday) | Hey -- didn't George the Lesser say he wasn't campaigning at that news conference a couple days ago? | Big Dog brings superstar power to Philly Mayor Street's reelection campaign | Another hard-core GOPer blasts Smirk and his minions -- but still buys the GOP spin about Dems | Dick Morris claims Dems are "splintered"
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh and conservative hypocrites
9/11 AFTERMATH -- US quietly negotiates to return some Gitmo detainees
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER'S ENERGY SCANDALS -- Arnold Schwarzenegger to repay Ken Lay and friends with push to deregulate energy
$MIRKONOMICS -- Is your job going to be outsourced? | NYT falls for Smirk's hype about a surging economy -- but where are the jobs? | More and more Americans are too poor to buy food
HACK BOX VOTING -- They don't trust e-voting machines in Texas
Wingnuts horrified as their boy Screamin' Chris "Tweety" Matthews calls Junior a "simpleton" off camera and in front of college students!
Paul Krugman reviews excellent books by Molly Ivins and Joe Conason
AP Bicyclists demand that Clear Channel stations stop encouraging drivers to attack bicyclists | Smirk unharmed after car breaches security
Boston Globe GOP starves poor schools of funds
Observer Bush Boy says God chose to take away your right to vote and installed him as Son King

11/1/03
FINALLY! A bipartisan, Congressional complaint about Junior's arrogance and disrespect for our nation's institutions
Burn, baby, burn! Davis' request for aid to clear brush was denied by the Shrub -- did he want to incinerate a few blue state liberals?
Is Junior having temper tantrums again? Who's changing his diapers? And what was all that talk about restoring "honor and dignity" to the White House"?
Fascist GOP demands the right to review content of a television broadcast
Bill Clinton slams Little George's policy failures
WILSON-GATE SCANDAL -- Joseph Wilson rips leaker -- and an executive branch that all but refuses to respond to a breach of national security | How a man in Tucson with an Internet connection ferrets out the Fed's dirty laundry | Is Dick Cheney behind the leak?
QWAGMIRE -- Tomorrow's News Today: "Blueprint for a Mess" from the NYT Sunday Magazine | Sidney Blumenthal: US intelligence is being scapegoated for getting it right in Iraq -- and Junior saw forecasts of carnage and instability | Senate Intelligence Committee demands prewar Iraq data | Administration officials claim they'll cooperate (right) | Powell: No evidence Saddam is coordinating attacks | Roadside bomb kills two American GIs in Iraq | Another lie debunked! Foreign troops are not flooding into Iraq | Chimpy McFlightsuit ignored analysts' warnings about high cost of Iraq qWagmire | Guardsmen struggle to make ends meet | Clueless Cliff May makes a fool of himself over the bombing of Red Cross HQ in Iraq
CAMPAIGN 2003/2004 -- In Kentucky, racial intimidation surfaces again as Election Day approaches | Smirk gives a boost to the racists supporting GOP candidates in Kentucky, Mississippi | ACLU will file challenge to Kentucky KKK.... er, GOP poll watchers | Attention FBI and Secret Service: There is NO excuse for a letter from a Delta Force soldier that says, "Bastards like Clark and Kerry and that incipient ass, Dean, and Gephardt and Kucinich and that absolute mental midget Sharpton, race baiter, should all be lined up and slapped." Screen shot of original (Warning: editorial by blonde pundette mental midget)/Coverup version now on Townhall.com (she claims he said "slapped" -- yeah, right...) | Hesiod on the Delta Force threat | Kerry takes aim at Dean's gun stance | Philly Mayor John Street turns FBI probe to campaign advantage (more in the Guardian) | Dems' fortunes on the rise in South Dakota | Clark may forfeit public funding | Edwards sold his old house to a PR man for Saudis | Kerry tries to kick some life into his campaign | Will Bob Graham run for the Senate?
FOX WATCH -- A former FOX insider discusses the "news" operation's overt political bias
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh and William Bennett: a letter to the editor that will make you smile
9/11 AFTERMATH -- US will fail to meet deadline for chemical weapons treaty
GOVERNOR GROPENFÜHRER -- California mayors suspect Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to balance state budget on the backs of municipalities | NYC Dems use Arnie to stop Mayor Mike's stupid move for nonpartisan elections
ENERGY SCANDALS -- GOP is still feuding over big payoffs that will go in Big Energy Corporate Welfare Bill
$MIRKONOMICS -- Number of hungry families in US is on the rise
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Republicans persecute Michigan judge for not being a conservative activist | Justice Department tries to cover up their failure to diversify as unredacted report appears on independent Web site
HACK BOX VOTING -- Voting supervisors discover that computerized voting machines are unreliable and insecure | Spartacus lives! Students mirror Diebold papers as GOP-beholden company whines and threatens over exposure of their hackable voting machines
Jerome Doolittle A great joke about Junior
Gerald Pleassner Grover Norquist, American Fascist
Daily Howler Sully is sooooo happy that those swarthy Muslims are dying!
AP A little political theater from the Democrats makes a point about the GOP's Medicare sellout
Philly Daily News Scientific McCarthyism: GOP cooks up medical "hit list"
Boston Globe Lawsuit challenges ban on emergency procedure to save woman's life
Michael Moore Aaron McGruder's right to be hostile

Link of the day: Why-war.com's Diebold Electronic Civil Disobedience Page
The latest on the activist campaign to expose security deficiencies in Diebold's voting machines

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