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Hot Headlines, July 2005

7/30/05
Um, it doesn't look like a "thumbs up" to me | Trying to Put a Finger on a Presidential Gesture
NLRB wants to limit your constitutional rights on the job
Culture of coddling violence: GOP-controlled Senate endorses liability shield for gun makers
OHIO SPECIAL ELECTION -- Jean Schmidt bought by gaming lobbyist | Watch This! Ad Wars in Ohio | OH-02: Report from the ground | OH-02: DCCC finally jumps in | OH-02: The State's Culture of Corruption and Jean Schmidt | Republicans out to "bury" Iraq vet that dares criticize Chimpy | Jean Schmidt, big phony
TRAITORGATE -- Arianna takes on Judy Miller | Watch this! MSNBC: WaPo indicates 3rd official leaked Plame's cove | How Media Split Under Pressure in Leak Probe | What Novak Did | Should Plame sue Rove? Grab the popcorn…
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- SCOTUS Watch: Why does Stealthy John Roberts want to hide his tax records? | Jeb 'surprised' Roberts aided 2000 Bush win. Yeah, right -- and you never had an affair with Katherine Harris, either… | Despite Hannity's claims to the contrary, Roberts's supporters vastly outnumber detractors in mentioning his Catholicism | Supreme Court Stealth Nominee Roberts: An Update | Only on Fox: Special Report teaser announced that "John Roberts's records" had been "seized" | Roberts Nomination Formally Sent to Senate | SCOTUS Watch: White House Continues to Hide Documents from Congress | GOP spin on Roberts starting to unravel | Fox's Garrett echoed conservative spin on "judicial activism"
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Another Duke Cunningham scandal: Broken promises, a wrecked company
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- DeLay's Week to Reassert Command | Nominee for Deputy AG Is Linked to Jack Abramoff
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- Bolton Not Truthful, 36 Senators Charge in Opposing Appointment | John Bolton: shin kicker | My Name is John Bolton, and I'm Here to Stop The Diplomacy | Gaggle hammers Little Scottie on Bolton | McClellan: Spinning Out of Control on Bolton | Why be polite? Bolton's "inaccuracies" are lies designed to cover up other lies and crimes | W's House gives strong signal on Bolton appointment
COINGATE -- Prosecutor White touted Bush ties to help get federal post | Ohio Gov. Aide: 'No contest' in Noe affair
HOT POLITICS -- McGovern touts legacy of liberalism in America | This Lame Duck Can Still Peck Away | Bad President, Unpopular Guy | The President We Might Have Had | Gallup: Bush Approval down to 44% | Deceptive ad attacks Robert Byrd | Cranky in Montana
QWAGMIRE -- Car Bomb Kills Five People in Baghdad | 26 Dead, 30 Wounded In Latest Iraqi Attack | One mother's war: Mother seeking support cursed at for questioning war; Son survived suicide bomb | U.S. Evicted From Air Base In Uzbekistan | Inouye: GOP Not Doing Enough for Troops | Department of No! They Would Never Do That! Nukes of August | Military won't tell parents of dead soldier HOW she died | Ahmadinejad not man in Tehran embassy photo | One-third of Humvees in Iraq Still Not Properly Armored | Rosy Rhetoric Revisited: We're not making good progress | U.S. 'may allow' North Korea nuclear power | Suicide bomber kills 25 in northern Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Condi's Big Mouth: "... stop making excuses for terrorists" | Them that's GWOT shall get... | Homeland Security Head: Someone Should Protect Mass Transit | Tony Blair just caught all suspected London terrorists in one week, | International Consensus: Bush Terrorism Strategy Failing | Fourth UK terrorist suspect nabbed inn Rome | Arrests made in July 21 bombings
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Jeff Gannon, $200 an hour man-whore, says AMERICAblog and you crazy | Coulter on Helen Thomas: "What is it with these Arabs and suicide?" | WV-Sen: Roll Call carries GOP's water | Miami Paper Fires Columnist, Adding Twist to Tale of Sex, Politics, Suicide
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! Unhinged Bill O'Reilly calls ACLU Jihadist
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
$MIRKONOMICS -- Pay Lags Behind Inflation. Oh yeah, that economy's doing just great, except for working families… | Hot Housing Market Opens Doors for Fraud: Dream Preyed Upon | Italian PM: Euro 'screwed everybody'
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- CAFTA: Taylor’s staff changes story on missing trade vote | Union chief rips Bean (D-IL08) for backing trade pact (CAFTA)
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- MBF Watch: Roll over, Mark Udall! | Feds refuse to file charges against a GOP activist who impersonated a Secret Service agent and defrauded and intimidated three Colorado Democrats
MORALITY MORONICS -- Hate Groups Turn Focus on Hispanic Immigrants
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Congress Sends Bush "Pork for Power Industry" and Transit Bills | The porking of the energy bill | NY Times reporter ignored energy experts to repeat Bush line on oil imports
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Drug Czar: We're succeeding in undermining a therapy that helps the seriously ill relieve their pain, and we're damn proud!
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Senate Leader Bill Frist Criticized and Praised for Stem Cell Shift | Frist: Science Passing Bush By | DeLay Slams Frist | Frist has freaked out God's Own Circus! | Frist caves on stem cells, screws religious right and Bush
TRASHING NATURE -- Scientists sound alarm on Arctic ice cap | The Missing Link, Part II
GAY IN AMERICA -- Gay men's home burns, with epithet left behind

7/29/05
Wait a minute, that's a non-denial from Scott McClellan about Bush's finger
You know things are really bad when the head of a right-wing militia quits because even he thinks the group is too racist
TRAITORGATE -- Frogmarch watch: Novak's story starts to unravel | Sen. Pat Roberts Obstructs again? | On Hardball, Wash. Post's Allen repeated false claim about Wilson's trip to Niger | The Plame Smear continues… | VIDEO: George H. Bush Calls Leakers “Most Insidious of Traitors” | The Third man?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Roberts's Reagan-Era Work Criticized by Activist Groups | Jeb Bush: Roberts involvement in 2000 recount "news" to him | Wash. Post's Babington falsely equated statements on Roe by Breyer, Roberts | Deja Vu: Secretive Nominee Becomes Right-wing Justice | Dems Warn of Delay in Roberts Confirmation
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Sugar Land Celebrates Sweetheart Deal
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- So much for Bolton's recess appointment | Bolton lied to Congress, he WAS interviewed in RoveGate investigation | State Department Flip-flops, Admits Bolton’s Form “Was Inaccurate” | BREAKING: Biden Questions Whether Bolton Testimony Was “True and Accurate” | Bush had been poised to install Bolton at U.N. through recess appointment, and may still do so
COINGATE -- League of Women Voters sues Taft, Blackwell over Ohio voting procedures | Petro accused of holding out on court records; State largely ignores ruling of high court, paper claims
HOT POLITICS -- The CAFTA Fifteen - Will the Dem Quislings Pay the Price? | OH-02: Swift Boater Backs Down | Two GOP congresscritters voted against CAFTA -- before they failed to vote on it! | CAFTA Vote Switch an Issue for Democrats | Schmidt's campaign manager threatens to sue bloggers | OH-02: Jean Schmidt's Values Scandal | The House passed CAFTA, but it was how it was passed that matters more in the short term | Pelosi questions Republican tactics in CAFTA win | Tancredo’s Slap on the Wrist | Jean Schmidt: Contempt for Those Who Serve | Virginia GOP: tripping Over Their Own Greed? | OH-02: Things Are Really Heating Up Here | Bush Again Postpones Visit to Scouts | DeLay Critic to Run for Governor in Texas | No Change, Bush Remains Below 50% in U.S. | Opponents Want Bush Barred From Argentina Summit
QWAGMIRE -- Two US marines killed in Iraq fighting | British MP Galloway: Americans losing in Iraq and Lebanon is on brink | National Guard faces recruitment crisis | Defiant Khatami Tells EU Iran Will Resume Nuclear Research | White House: Iranian Leader Led Movement, '79 U.S. Embassy capture | Good news and bad news from the "axis of evil" | US Chinook helicopter 'destroyed' (Afghanistan) | Mom told to 'fuck off' by Ohio Blue Star Mothers for questioning | Attacks Cripple Baghdad Power Grid | Soldier, Twin Dies In Iraq | Keeping it real on Iraq | Pakistan Connection Seen in Taliban's New Tactics
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- U.S. Clerics Issue Anti-Terror Edict | Sheik who bragged of terror ties sentenced | FOX NEWS LIVE: A guest "Suggests" al-Qaeda is behind the London/Brazilian shooting | O'Reilly wrongly accused Cyrus Kar of possessing bomb timers | Bush's Pals in Pakistan Are Training/Arming the Taliban to Kill Our Troops | UK 'blocked bomb plotter' arrest | When your mission is failing, is it enough simply to rename it? Not if you care about credibility. | IRA says armed campaign is over | CIA labors to block Bin Laden book | MI5 links 7/7 bombings to Britain’s Iraq campaign | No bulky jacket on shot London suspect
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Rumsfeld Let the Dogs Out | Frist Pulls Defense Spending Bill In Face of Republican Anti-Torture Amendments | Abu Ghraib warden: Guantanamo boss urged use of dogs
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Why We Need Investigative Reporting | News Corp.'s Lachlan Murdoch to quit | The Powerline's Soft Bigotry | James Taranto, America-Hating Coward | Hey, it's not like she's white | Gonzales Urged by Press to Rescind Ashcroft FOIA Rules | MSNBC's Matthews let Santorum's fantasy tax claims pass without challenge | Nick Kristof Calls on Readers to ‘Be a Witness’ | The Failure of the Media | MSNBC's Matthews pushed Santorum to label Sen. Clinton a "socialist"
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Our National Security Damaged By Bush's Hatred Of Gays
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- CAFTA Vote May Leave Long Paper Trail for Critics | Chris Cox SEC Nomination Vote Moves Investor Alert to Yellow | WSJ wrongly suggested Smith & Wesson stock declined as a result of litigation | As Debt Collectors Multiply, So Do Consumer Complaints | Pelosi: CAFTA a Step Backward for Workers in C. Am. and a Job Killer | Congress Urged to Get Tough on Identity Theft; Senate takes up bill
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Jeb's Prosecutors Looking Into Whether DeFede Violated Fla. Taping Law | Court Reinstates Hatfill Suit Vs. Times | The Right-wing Backtrack on Deportation
MORALITY MORONICS -- Fla. Abortion Foe Jailed in Molestation Case
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Frist to Flip Flop on Stem Cells | Senate's Leader Veers From Bush Over Stem Cells | Historic Stem Cell Legislation Never Sees Light of Day in Senate

7/28/05
Flipped Out: Our Moral Preznit in Action
TRAITORGATE -- Condi Rice Asked if John Bolton Testified in Leak Case | Karen Hughes refused to answer questions about Plame outing during confirmation hearing | Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity Takes New Turn: Administration player leaked to WaPo's Walter Pincus | New GOP talking point: Classified information is okay to leak provided your leak is intended to harm a Democrat | The NYTimes' Divide on Miller | Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don't We? | Are Dems too dumb to compete with the RNC? A spin about Plame says yes | Beware Congressional Immunity for Rove and Others | More Lies form the Right about Valerie Plame | Biden: Did Bolton Testify In Leak Investigation? | Open Season on the CIA | Democrats press Rice on U.N. envoy nominee Bolton re Plame leak | Bill Maher comments on Rove leak, Roberts and other Bush appointments | Card Cries for Hughes | Rewarding failure: Karl Rove, West Wing traitors get a raise | Garry Trudeau Defends Rove Strip, Says Editing 'Not Acceptable'
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- The battle over Bush's Supreme Court nominee was supposed to be epic -- so why hasn't it even started yet? | Activist judges? IOKIYAR! | SCOTUS Watch: Stealthy John Roberts—"Made Man" | SCOTUS Watch: Roberts in Florida 2000—very, very stealthy | John Roberts had a much larger role in the 2000 Florida recount than he or anyone has previously admitted | Media outlets reported Durbin's alleged question about Roberts' faith, ignored Coburn's | White House Reviews Roberts’ Tax Returns, Won’t Commit To Sharing With Senate | Leahy: 'Activist' Nominee Won't Get Vote | Democratic Senators Seek Specific Papers Relating to Supreme Court | Democrats dismiss piddling selective pile of Roberts documents
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Rep. Henry Waxman accuses Tom DeLay of adding fund to bill | DeLay Still Up To Dirty Tricks | Letter: Delay unfairly aiding oil
COINGATE -- Noe Invested Ohio's Money In Gambling Firm
HOT POLITICS -- Scores of Boy Scouts fall ill from heat waiting for no-show Bush to arrive | New L.A. Mayor Pushing Public Transit | All Frame, No Picture: At the DLC Meeting | Former Miami commissioner Art Teele shoots self at Miami Herald HQ | The Face of the Modern Republican Party | Frist on the defensive | New York Gov. Pataki paves way for devastating White House loss | Paul Hackett Debates Loopy, Weird Jean Schmidt | South Key to CAFTA Vote; DLC Out of Touch? | Rick "The Virginian" Santorum Rapped Across The Knuckles | Kerry's Brother Mulls Run for Mass. Office | San Diego to Hold Mayoral Runoff in Nov.
BUDGET MESS -- How Congress Spends Your Money
QWAGMIRE -- Bob Herbert on Oil & Blood | The Great Soap Scam of 2005: Our soldiers in Iraq are getting soaked by greedhead scum | Suspected Bomb Hits Train Near Baghdad; Huge Fire | Halliburton announces 284 percent increase in war profits | Iraqi Boy, After Dream Trip to U.S., Hates to Go Home | "War Mom" attacks Ron Reagan and OpTruth's Paul Rieckhoff | Tehran accuses US of nuclear double standard | Rumsfeld to Iraq: "Clean Up My Debacle" | Tom Tancredo Still Shilling for Bombing of Mecca | Hacker leaves note on Army computer | Mortar attack hits Baghdad bus station | Jessica Simpson: footage of Iraq trip to cheer the troops that shows just how dangerous it really is over there seems to be… um, missing | Reporter Finds U.S. Sniper in Iraq Who Shot Knight Ridder Correspondent | Rumsfeld Pops Up In Iraq | Rumsfeld rattles saber, warns against Iranian influence | Hollow Army: already lagging in 2006 recruits | Iran Achieves Solid Fuel Technology | Iraq: New Constitution prevents citizenship for Jews, says MP
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- IRA will end all activity, says statement | Sources: July 7 London Bomb Plot May Have Been Much Larger | Man wanted in Daniel Pearl's killing arrested | In the wake of 7/7 the Brits are livid over their government’s intelligence failures. Just wait until they hear about ours… | Al-Zarqawi group said threatening to kill Lebanon's top Shi'is | The Poor Man on Third Front in GWOT GSAVE (props to Atrios!)
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- More torture reports; Electrocution on tape | CIA officials involving in Iraqi beatings
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- FBI seeks to investigate Israeli envoy in Pentagon spy case
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Via Scoobie: Richard Poe sums up his Hillary-bashing book in a series of WorldNetDaily articles that ignores evidence that conflicts with his conspiratorial thesis -- and fails to disclose his own conflict of interest | Potty Mouth Tucker Carlson | Keith Olberman: The Quiet Cable Success Story? | Bush's Medicare Fiasco: Confusing, Expensive and Failed | What effect has the videogame "Grand Theft Auto" had on actual thefts of autos? | Via C&L: Michael "Savage" Wiener's Knuckledragging Fans vs. Bush Bots -- Meltdown In Hate Radioland | CPB chairman Ken Tomlinson failed to refute NY Times' "false" charges against him
FOX WATCH -- Maybe it's time we got all sponsors to drop FOX News
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Justice: FBI Translation Backlog Grows | Subcontractor's Story Details Post-9/11 Chaos; New Company Had Little Oversight
ELECTION THEFTS -- Problem-free day at polls erases memories of past glitches, bubbles… NOT!
$MIRKONOMICS -- CAFTA passes House | Kennedy plan: Illegal immigrants would get 6-year visas | Economy deals blow to Michigan kids
“MoveOn-dot-Something”: Chimp learns to use computer!
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Mal-Wart: Always Low Tolerance for Truth | Labor Split Centers on Failure to Organize -- May Help Strengthen Labor Movement in Long Run
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- GOP need not share internal phone jamming investigation papers
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Energy lobby contributes big - and it pays
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Study: Echinacea Leaves Cold-Sufferers Sniffling
WEIRD SCIENCE -- NASA Suspending Shuttle Program Over Foam Debris
TRASHING NATURE -- US in plan to bypass Kyoto protocol | EPA planned to snuff fuel study
CIVIL UNIONS, UNCIVIL REPUBLICANS -- Sex and Supremos: Why the Court’s next big battle may be about gay rights

7/27/05
Now hear this! Ann Coulter: "We have the media!"
Right-wing harpie contradicts her years of denouncing liberal bias that isn't there!
TRAITORGATE -- Prosecutor In CIA Leak Case Casting A Wide Net; White House Effort To Discredit Critic Examined in Detail | Republicans Ready to Slime Fitzgerald | Judiciary Democrats seek investigation into why probe took so long; "sixty-seven days" between deciding on it and officially notifying the White House? | Karl Rove is alleged to have been cheating on his wife with one Karen Johnson | Rovegate: A Smear Too Far? or Don't F$#@ With the Company | Was Valerie Plame Undercover? Well, yes… | Protesters mar fundraiser for MD Lt. Gov. and Karl Rove | Does Pat Roberts want to give blanket immunity to Rovegate suspects? | Frogmarch watch: Gee, I didn't know Rove had a beard | Panel OKs Karen Hughes for State Dept. -- Setting Her Up for Bigger Traitorgate Fall! | Ari Fleischer on Periphery of Leak Inquiry | MSM -- Is Rovegate Just Politics? | Bob Novak Lies Again | Outing Plame | House Judiciary Committee Dems ask for investigation of RoveGate | Judiciary Dems Request DOJ Inspector General Investigation | OH-02: Hackett Fires Back | Funny, Bush had no problem pulling the security clearance of 92 Senators | Karl and Karen sitting in a tree? | Some papers pull, edit 'Doonesbury' strip for using Rove's real nickname | IOKIYAR: Attorney Client Privilege Addition
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts: More Wingnutty Than Ted Olson! | Timing of Hearings, Vote Stalls Roberts Confirmation Talks | SCOTUS Watch: Now that we know what Bush doesn't want us to see, let's go get it | SCOTUS Watch: If AP is telepathic, why can't we get better news? | SCOTUS Watch: Republicans demand Roberts timetable | White House To Cover Up Tax Returns Of Roberts | Roberts and the Activist Solicitor General | Stare Decisis? A little question for Judge Roberts | AG: High Court Not Bound by Roe V. Wade | Assisted suicide quote from Roberts revealing, analysts say | The Roberts Papers: What Is The Administration Hiding? | Is John Roberts' Faith Off Limits? | Roberts Couldn't Recall He Was “Prominent Member” of Federalist Society | Questions For John Roberts | GOP Presses for Timetable on Roberts Vote | Gonzales: Roberts Not Bound by Statement
COINGATE -- Prosecutors to Charge Ex-Taft Aide
HOT POLITICS -- Iraq Veteran Paul Hackett, Running in Ohio, Calls the Bush Boy a"Chickenhawk" | NY-Gov: Paging Governor Spitzer | Pataki Decides to Forgo a 4th Term, Confidants Say | Clinton Angers Left With Call for Unity | Why does Rick "The Virginian" Santorum hate Jews so much? | Majority of Americans: Bush Was WMD Liar | Lance Armstrong Veers Left | DLC smears Kos | OH-02: No More Swift Boating | Influential NYC Democrats Line Up With Mayor Bloomberg | Gov. Warner leads Allen (R-VA) in poll on 2006 match-up
QWAGMIRE -- War opposition grows on far right | US troops pullout could begin Spring 2006 | Report says Bush was unprepared for postwar chaos | Rumsfeld urges Iraq to meet constitution deadline | Sleazy Ahmad Chalabi emerges, once again, as powerful leader | So John Kerry was right about the war on terror, and Bush was wrong. | The Truth about the Iraqi Security Forces | "US bases OUT" say Russia, China, & former Soviet republics | Iraqi Official Demands Timetable for Withdrawal | More "Progress" in Iraq - New Constitution Looks Back to 1959, Strips Women of Rights | MSNBC's Dietl asserted in the event of nuclear attack by Muslims, U.S. should threaten to bomb Islam's "most religious places" | Gunmen kill up to 17 in Baghdad bus ambush | As Recruiting Suffers, Military Reins In Abuses at Boot Camp | New U.S. Envoy Will Press Iraqis on Their Charter
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Change in propaganda: Fight the Global War on Terr… er, the "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism" | London Bombers Arrested | Bill Frist just loves the Gun Lobby | Senate Republicans: NRA More Important Than War On Terror | Gonzales Says He'll Review FOIA Guidelines | Bomb suspect felled by stun gun | I.R.A. to Renounce Violence in Favor of Political Struggle | IRA are not al-Qaeda says Blair | Sinn Fein chiefs 'quit IRA council' | Suicide bomb squad linked to East Africa | Senate Moves to Shield Gun Industry | O'Reilly: "ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies" | U.S. Muslim groups target youths in anti-terror campaign | Saudi Arabia: Bin Laden family requests surname change
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Abu Ghraib Dog Tactics Came From Guantanamo | Witness: Dogs Bit Abu Ghraib Detainees
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- House Democrats To Offer Proposal for Retirement Savings | House first on Social Security, Rove says
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Americablog Hearts Jon Stewart | Here's why you can't buy the News Journal at Wal-Mart | Meet Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang, sometimes known as Bill O’Reilly in drag | Sony books Richard Clarke's political thriller | Harkin amendment calls for balance at AFR | Muslims Call Comments by WMAL Host 'Hate-Filled'
ELECTION THEFTS -- Voting Activists Call for Permanent Extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- FBI investigates death threat in battle to block NYSE merger | Hill a Steppingstone to K Street for Some | Step Toward Political Shift at SEC | The AFL-CIO Split: No Big Whoop? Maybe even good for labor -- and Dems?
MORALITY MORONICS -- Parents let pedophile marry their 13-year-old daughter | The American Family Association think Harry Potter is "dangerous"
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Bill Wouldn't Wean U.S. Off Oil Imports, Analysts Say
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Paying for Contraceptives
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Coleman to propose stem cell bill, breaking with Bush | Stem cell therapy successfully treats heart attack in animals

7/26/05
Condolleeza Rice is a rank amateur -- and the world's leaders know it
TRAITORGATE -- Olbermann: Was the White House's Leak/traitorgate gap actually 84 hours? | Will Fitzgerald Extend the Grand Jury? | Press hammers White House on leak, again; Question on 'treason' | Traitorgate increasingly looks like it will rack up quite a body count within the White House | Heat rises over leak: 26 Democratic senators call for hearings | GOP Marching Orders: Smear Johnson | Lockstep Attack on CIA Analyst Larry Johnson: Why Hold Anybody Accountable When There Are Still Plenty of Folks Left to Smear? | Larry Johnson responds to smear | No Debate: Bush Misled America | Karl Rove, American Traitor | A fork in the Rove? | Dance, PNAC Monkey, Dance: Eric Schmitt's smear is evidence that Rove is now attacking CIA vet Larry Johnson | Court nominee does well in poll; Rove does not | Scottie has fallen and can't get up | Wash. Post, USA Today and WSJ omitted Democrats' rebuttal to GOP claims of attorney-client privilege against disclosing Roberts documents | Tweety Matthews, David"Babbling" Brooks falsely attacked Wilson over Niger trip's genesis, conclusions | Is Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Incompetent or a Liar? Or Both? | Is the GOP, with Rove's scheming, trying to investigate Fitzgerald? | Press Corps Must Put McClellan’s New Standard to the Test | 26 Democratic Senators demand Congress investigate RoveGate | Republican Senator: Covert Agents Are Fair Game | When The White House Has Something To Hide… | McClellan Faces the '12-Hour Gap' | The 12-hour gap is worse than you think | GOP Marching Orders: Smear Johnson | Who's responsible for the 12 hour gap? | Wilson/Plame's lawyer's op ed in USA Today | Gonzales’ Excuse Doesn’t Cut It
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Novak distorted Justice Ginsburg's pre-Supreme Court record, claimed she "was on the left edge" | Why Roberts should withdraw his name from consideration | SCOTUS Watch: Of course, nobody wants to question Roberts about his | SCOTUS Watch: The Washington Generals show us how the game should | Where does Roberts stand on standing? | Skirmish Over a Query About Roberts' Faith and Promise to Recuse | White House Said to Block Roberts Papers | Bush Met With Judge Roberts One Day Before Crucial Ruling on Guantanamo Military Tribunals | Cheney, in NYC, Plugs Roberts Nomination | Is Supreme Court Nominee Roberts Lying Already? | Federalist Society Transcript: John Roberts Was A Member | Conservatives on defensive to Roberts' ties to corporatist judicial extremist group | Time, Newsweek, U.S. News mis-cited Roberts' "settled law" comment on Roe v. Wade | White House Warns Dems on Roberts Papers | Reading the Same Tea Leaves | Feinstein complimentary after meeting SCOTUS nominee Roberts | Roberts’ Sudden (and Convenient) Amnesia | I Wonder Who This Was?
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- John Bolton and the Valerie Plame Grand Jury: MSNBC stands firm on report Bolton testified before grand jury | White House threatening recess appointment of Bolton | The New Provocation: A Bolton Recess Appointment? | White House May Sidestep Dems on Bolton
COINGATE -- (Democracy left for) Dead in Ohio | Coingate, the other white meat
HOT POLITICS -- Appeal Filed on Gröpenführer's Gërrymänder Measure | MD Lt Gov Michael Steele ♥ Karl Rove | OH-02: Jean Schmidt smears her Iraq veteran challenger Paul Hackett | Cowards attack Marine's service | Meet Paul Hackett | Hillary Clinton to Direct Creation of Democrats' Agenda | They hate you, they really do: Why Hillary will, unfortunately, not be the 2008 nominee | Hispanic, Islamic Groups Want Tancredo Out | GOP Sen. Santorum Rules Out 2008 Bid | OH-02: Schmidt improperly failed to disclose that a biotech lobbyist treated her last fall to a lavish dinner and skybox seats at a Cincinnati Bengals game | Complaint Against MO Gov. Blunt (R) Referred for Prosecution
QWAGMIRE -- Ex-Bush aide turns critic on Iraq | The USA, formal naval superpower | Well, duh! The Army learns that idle hands are Satan’s tools | Iraq Constitution May Erode Women's Rights | In Baghdad quarter, killers don't hide their faces | North Korea Says It Is Prepared To Give Up Nuclear Programs | North Korea intelligence split U.S. agencies | Insurgents infiltrate Iraqi police: US study | Man Won't Drink Rat Poison, News At 11 | Iraqi police recruits often poor-quality
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Surrender in the "Global War on Terror"? | We dropped our guard after 9/11, says Blair | Dutch filmmaker's killer gets life | U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia Warns Americans | Senate May Face Showdown Over Terror Rules | U.K. cops want to attack terrorism Web sites | Police believe two cells of bombers met up at whitewater rafting | Musharraf: No Al Qaeda Center in Pakistan | Pakistani American Al Qaeda Mole Aiding London Probe | What inspires young men and women to become suicide bombers? Religious fanaticism? Nationalism? Alienation? Or some toxic mix of all three?
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- 2,000 vets call for release of more Abu Ghraib photos | Two dog handlers face Abu Ghraib hearing | McClellan: The President needs to be able to abuse prisoners, and no former POW like Senator McCain is going to stop him
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- The Next Social Security Meme
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- WSJ hires conservative activist Manuel Miranda despite ongoing criminal investigation into theft of Democrats' memos | Cliff May, America's dumbest pundit | Rick Kaplan, Genius | Art director fired after 'Daily Show' spoof
$MIRKONOMICS -- The High Cost of Deportation
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Radio Payoffs Are Described as Sony Settles With Eliot Spitzer | 4 unions poised to bolt from AFL-CIO
MORALITY MORONICS -- How to get away with adultery
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Florida's U.S. senators to skip shuttle launch to fight drilling
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Failed abstinence-only program now suffers cash crunch | Krugman on Toyota and Canadian Health Care | Once Health Regulators, Now Partners: Private Groups Limit Access to Wellness Options | New York proposes tracking diabetes, a non-contagious disease, raising privacy questions | Mass. Governor Vetoes Contraception Bill | Munition exposure linked to brain cancer in US vets
TRASHING NATURE -- What’s the EPA trying to hide?

7/25/05
TRAITORGATE -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday that he spoke with White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. immediately after learning that the Justice Department had launched a criminal investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity | Pat Roberts' gambit to hold hearings on CIA cover: another move to excuse treason in the West Wing | Conservatives re making a huge blunder in not taking the Rove treason scandal seriously | If Alberto Gonzales can talk about the Case... | International Herald Tribune edits out Bolton details from Rove piece (RAW | McCain’s Mistake | Lunatic Fringe on Valerie Plame | Gonzales testified before Grand Jury in leak investigation | White House Won't Say When It Learned Of CIA Leak Probe | Watch This: See Bob Schieffer's Face As He Jumps on Gonzales's Admission | Rovegate: The 12 hour gap | Watch This: Pat Roberts' Incompetence | Watch This: Alberto Gonzales Admits He Tipped Off Andy Card | Debunking Their Lies | Gonzales Raises Questions For Andy Card To Answer | What did Bush know and when did he know it? | John McCain on Rove: It depends on what the definition of "negligent" is | Who told Bush what in leak case, and when was he told? | E&P first to report Gonzales admitted he gave Andy Card heads-up re. DOJ Plame probe | Bush has yet to address difficult questions on CIA leak | Leak Investigation: The Russert Deal - What It Reveals
WAR AGAINST THE JUDICIARY -- Democrats to Press Roberts on Issues | Clash likely over Roberts documents | Roberts, Who Couldn't "Recall" Being a Member of Neofascist Federalist Society, Listed in Group's '97-98 Directory | Cliché Game | Feinstein could sway Roberts vote | The John Roberts "Separated at Birth" Gallery! Skippy… | Lambert… | … and Lambert (again)
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- Conservative blogger Robert George: Bolton nomination is dead
Lawmakers abandon MTBE liability shield to help clear way for passing.
HOT POLITICS -- Va. Candidates for Governor in Tight Race | Republicans hit early, hard in effort to oust Nelson | Rick "The Virginian" Santorum: Objectively pro-adultery! | VA-Gov: Kaine making a comeback | Kerry Sees Lance Armstrong As a Politician | Left Follows the Right on Campus Outreach Path | Bush political adviser reportedly a Fed Board candidate
QWAGMIRE -- Car bombs kills 8 in Baghdad | Enemies of humanity' quote raises Iraq PR questions | Top US senator urges Muslim leaders to widely denounce terror | 2 dead, 10 injured as car bomber hits Baghdad hotel | Terror ties to Iran -- the excuse Smirk will use to attack? | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Saudis want bin Laden hunt to intensify | Suicide truck bomber kills up to 40 in Baghdad | In harm's way: Titan in Iraq --- Workers survive 'Wild West' conditions | Bomber Kills at Least 22 in Baghdad | US-Iraqi task force to decide on US troop exit | Bomb attacks destroy 2 US Humvees in Iraq, causing casualties | If It's Civil War, Do We Know It? (Iraq) | Death toll in Baghdad car bomb rises to 22 (200 dead in 10 days). | Iraq has been an absolute gift to Al Qaeda | Cook: War in Iraq boosted terrorism
WIDE WORLD OF BOMBING -- London 'shoot-to-kill' policy to remain | Effort here to charge London suspect was blocked | Guardian: Two bomb plots 'linked'
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- 11 Retired Military Leaders Endorse McCain Amendments | Republicans vs. The Constitution: U.S. citizen held as unlawful uncombatant, interrogated about his vote | Ethics Inaction
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Online News Consumers Become Own Editors | Anonymous Sources
$MIRKONOMICS -- Tax giveback from the rich: GOP-controlled Senate to vote on repealing "Paris Hilton Tax"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Largest Union Decides to Bolt AFL-CIO | Ford Considers Cutting More Salaried Staff | Kimberly-Clark Plans About 6,000 Job Cuts | Asshole analysts rag on Costco | Wal-Mart fight not over for band of adversaries
OH, GOD! -- The Ten Commandments Revised for Usage by Republicans
HEALTH DEBACLES -- New Jersey legislators push bill to stop drivers from smoking while driving | Lack of Funds Reduces Frequency of Health Facility Inspections | Officials Puzzle Over Morning After Pill Deaths -- Was It Really the Pills, Though?

7/24/05
TRAITORGATE -- Frank Rich: Eight Days in July | Ex-Diplomat's Surprise Volley on Iraq Drove White House Into Political Warfare Mode | Frogmarch Watch: Rich connects the Gonzales dot | Editor Defends Giving Up Reporter's Notes | How Does Bob Novak Sleep at Night? | Larry Johnson Delivers Democratic Radio Address | Watch this; Larry Johnson testifies before a joint session of Congressional Democrats | For Bush, Effect of Investigation of CIA Leak Case Is Uncertain | More Reporters in Trouble? | Democratic Senators Skip Hughes' Confirmation Hearing... Not a single one turns up! | Fiore presents: Double super-secret background
WAR AGAINST THE JUDICIARY -- Few Have Felt Beat of Roberts's Political Heart | John Roberts: Portrait of a Stealth Nominee as a Young Man | On Constitutional Interpretation: Originalism v. A Living Constitution? | Separated at birth? | Opponents of Roberts Taking Populist Tack | GOP-linked Fla. firm helping promote Roberts
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- House ethics panel's standoff ends
COINGATE -- Report: Coin dealer, wife questioned over gifts to Taft, staffers
HOT POLITICS -- Hastert Will Seek Another Term as House Speaker | Dear Leader throws Dear Leader a lifeline | Will someone please tell Joe Biden he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell? | Obama a Celebrity Despite Low-key Approach | US snubs Asia | Clinton regrets personal failure on Rwanda genocide | Organized Labor at Crossroads with Feud; some unions may quit AFL-CIO | Gröpenführer on the skids | Dean: Democrats need 'big tent'
QWAGMIRE -- Army Likely to Fall Short in Recruiting, General Says | Taliban reportedly using children as soldiers. Of course, we simply rape them… | Iraqi Kurds Call for Referendum on Independence) | Experts: No single Al Qaeda mastermind | All Quiet on the Home Front…Some Soldiers Are Asking Why | Al-Qaeda chief has well-stocked teams in place' | Poppies! Poppies! Could the opium trade actually help bring democracy in Afghanistan? | North Korea ready for visit by Bush: report | Defying U.S. Efforts, Guerrillas In Iraq Refocus and Strengthen | US shows signs of resignation to Hezbollah political role | Poll: U.S. More Likely to Expect WWIII | Insurgents launch attacks in Baghdad, Fallujah
WIDE WORLD OF BOMBING -- British police to shoot suicide bomb suspects in head: chief | Al Qaeda Leaders Seen in Control | Is there a bigger fool than John "5 in the noggin" Gibson? | British boy wrongly labelled as dead London bomber | Man shot in Stockwell tube not connected to July 21 attacks
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Abu Ghraib photos and videos Bush is hiding may contain the rape of boys | Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's Why | White House Aims to Block Legislation on Detainees; Cheney pulling the strings | Bush torture policies: Dick "Fuck Yourself" Cheney's all for it! | Bush is refusing to release the next round of horrendous Abu Ghraib pics -- children raped for the cameras
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Michelle Maglalang opens mouth, inserts cloven hoof | Wingnuttery Hall of Fame (So Far)
$MIRKONOMICS -- A brutal week for jobs
MORALITY MORONICS -- Spokesman for S.C. governor arrested on criminal domestic violence charge | Boy says coach paid him $25 to injure player
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Late Twist in Tobacco Case: Groups can argue DOJ didn't represent public interest

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