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Hot Headlines, July-August 2005

8/6/05
60 Years After Hiroshima: The bomb didn't win it | Historian Richard Rhodes talks about the atomic bombing of Japan 60 years ago, today's global arms race -- and the only way to stop a nuclear attack by terrorists
Novak Apologizes for Swearing on CNN Air | What made Bob blow? | "The fact is, everyone around here knows that Novak has been nothing but a blight on this network for years" | Carville Speaks | "It's no easy transition to start the day a hack and end the week a criminal." | Roger Ailes (the good one) was right | Daily Show covers Novak's Bullsh!t | Novak and Henry Round 1 | Don't go away mad, Bob Novak… | Was Novak dragged back to the Grand Jury yesterday? | Novak channels The Clash! | DNC on the Robert Novak Incident | CNN's Sliding Scale Of Responsibility
Fighting Back.... Democrats are harnessing the power of the blogosphere
TRAITORGATE -- The NY Times finally takes a look at another Rove leak to Novak -- this one from 1992 | Novak on the Plame leak: a pattern of contradictions | RoveGate: What Are They Hiding? America Wants To Know
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Right wingers attack rigorously pro-Constitution judge for defending the Constitution | It's beginning to look a lot like Souter... | John Roberts Questioned Lifetime Appointments | Ken Mehlman really wants Roberts Confirmed | Roberts: The Government Attorney-Client Privilege | Roberts' Confirmation Debate Focuses on Fraction of Cases He Worked | Don't worry, be happy | In Private Practice, Roberts's Record Is Mixed
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Lobbyists donated to DeLay, Reid defense funds despite prohibitions | Tom DeLay’s Legal Defense Fund Needs A Legal Defense Fund
Salt Lake Tribune lampoons the Flat Earth Brigade
HOT POLITICS -- Bush's Truth Decay | How to Elect a Democratic Majority in 2006 | Dean Warns That GOP Will Try to Make Immigrants Scapegoats in Next Election | GOP gathers to strategize for '06 campaign | David Sirota: The D.C. Democratic Establishment's disconnect on Iraq | Will Ferrell & ACT's Failed Logic | That slithery sound you hear is a Beltway Democrat and big-time "insider" positioning itself for a Presidential run: why Evan Bayh is no Paul Hackett | Woman with knife subdued with Taser in congresswoman's office | What's next -- Spiro Agnew Avenue? | Gay ex-New Jersey governor writing book | A Tale Of Two Dictators | America Dislikes Bush, But Who, Who Will Tell The Media? | OH-Sen: Who will step up? | George W. Bush's approval rating is at its lowest point yet | Cheney, elder Bush call on new Saudi king | Trial lawyers tied to Perry donation
BUDGET MESS -- Congress' spending draws fire
QWAGMIRE -- "I participated in the invasion, stayed for a year afterward, and what I witnessed was the total opposite of what President Bush told the American people." | Some Bombs Used in Iraq Are Made in Iran, U.S. Says | John Gotti's Soldiers: Military Says Troops Demanded 'Rent' From Iraqi Vendors | Bush administration supports European suggestions about Iran's nuclear activities | 14 killed in fresh wave of violence | Parents of Slain Marine on Hard Ball | U.S. Military Pounds Insurgents in Iraq | "Energy's on the Anti-Iraq Side" | Iran Rejects 'Unacceptable' EU Nuclear Offer' | Women Senators Call on Bush to Push for Women's Rights in Iraqi Constitution | Dutton contradicts U.S. on Iran-Iraq ties | Data shows British, U.S. lied about justification for prewar Iraq air strikes | Army battling decline in black recruits | Lawsuit forces release of more coffin photos | George Galloway says U.S. 'raping' Iraq | Kyrgyzstan may ask U.S. to close its air base | Dad: Marine felt mission 'a bit fruitless' (insurgents always returned) | Iraqi Troops Call in U.S. Air Strike to Root Out Insurgents | U.S. military launches attacks in western Iraq in bid to disrupt insurgency in one tiny but volatile area
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Osama Still Determined To Strike America | Blair says Al-Qaeda logic 'complete obscenity'
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Flip Flop: GITMO Detainees Not “Most Dangerous” After All? | Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Gitmo Detainees
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- AIPACgate 101, Plus New Info from the New Indictment
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Larry Johnson Challenges Ann Coulter | Rich Lowry's idea of humor: Hitting Hillary Clinton with a car, Osama's polygamy | The comic stylings (puke) of Rich Lowry: Given EPA-mandated "small-flush" toilets, "[h]ow is it possible to flush a Quran down the toilet?" | USA Today erroneously suggested that federal spending on Iraq war, tsunami relief have comparable impact on deficit | Ann Coulter falsely claimed "majority of Hispanics voted in favor of" California's Proposition 187
FOX WATCH -- When Conservatives Collide: The Hilarity of O'Loofa "Vs." Coulter
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh attacked "American media" for reporting the news on Iraq fatalities, but Pentagon does too
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Judge in Miami Rejects Miranda Warning Used by Homeland Security
ELECTION THEFTS -- Mark Crispin Miller: None Dare Call It Stolen | Locked Out of Democracy | Bill Clinton rips Georgia's voter ID bill
Oil Prices Close At Record High
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Reason Number 495887 to Be Opposed to Rick Santorum | Wal-Mart sets sights on Target | Bribery probe at DaimlerChrysler | Oregon Republicans Squash Dems Effort To Regulate Payday Loans | Oregon House Republicans Deflate Riley's Effort To Stop "Golden Parachutes"
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Civil liberties board called powerless | Texan gets 25 years on marijuana conviction | California National Guard spying probe gets boost; Gröpenführer backs down from withholding e-mail
OH, GOD! -- Church targets companies that profit from war | Far Right Using Pulpit For Politics | Open Warfare Evolving In Catholic Church | Religion sues Utah town to display '7 Aphorisms'
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Republican forced to leave local race after white supremacist posts exposed on Internet | Transcripts Detail Possible KKK Links to Crimes Attributed to Black Man | NCAA looks to curtail racially demeaning names, images
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Idaho Republican shocks party, labor by backing mandatory health insurance for workers | Walgreens yanks Sudafed, NyQuil | Most U.S. Residents Support Abortion Rights With Some Restrictions
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Priests in lab coats | Focus on Beating Up the Kids misstated Dobson's "original comment" comparing embryonic stem cell research to Nazi experiments | Discovery has stem cell - like qualities | Defending his Nazi/stem cell comments, Dobson "categorically" rejected apologizing to "the Jewish people" | Santorum's "intelligent design" flip-flop
TRASHING NATURE -- Court bars logging in largest U.S. forest

8/5/05
Robert Novak Suspended Indefinitely by CNN After He Curses, Walks Off Set | Watch Novak swear, walk off here! | Flashback: Novak Criticized Carville For “Foul Mouth,” Said He Was “Poisoning America” | Arlen Specter: Novak ‘Libeled' Senate Staffer | The Washington Chestnut: A profane, squalid, unclean thing | … but was it a real "freakout"? | Novak's History of Anger Management Issues | Novak Walkout Wrap-up | Rick Santorum loses it too, on the Brian Lehrer Show
Why are Republicans sweating over Paul Hackett? Two words: "Big Dog"…
For what it's worth, it's confirmed - that was Jenna dry-humping the boyfriend in Adams Morgan
The laughable anglophile fop Emmett "Boy" Tyrrell pretends Clinton is responsible for Republican millionaire ballplayer Rafael Palmeiro's steriod problem
TRAITORGATE -- The Murray Waas Interview: New Information May Reveal Key Details on Judith Miller's Role in the Rove/CIA Scandal; “Scooter” Libby was the source on at least four occasions for Judith Miller's pre-war Iraq WMD stories | Bush's loyalty raises doubts about his political judgment | Could Karl Rove be immunized from criminal prosecution? | White House Watch: Bracing for new Rove attacks
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- With Starr, Roberts Pushed Reagan Agenda | WP: Rehnquist Has Brief Hospital Stay, Is Released | In Private Practice, Roberts's Record Is Mixed | Terrorizing Judges: How Wingnuts Attack Justice | John Roberts and the "G" word | Is Roberts reluctant to overturn precedent? | Constitutional Right to Privacy at Risk | Roberts makes a correction, admits he registered as lobbyist
GANNONGATE -- Jeff Gannon: Saying it must make it so
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- The Culture of Beltway Corruption: Exemptions From Ethics Rules Allow Lawmakers to Accept Almost Anything | The scandals grow: Josh Marshall on the growing investigations targeting the DeLay-Abramoff-Reed circle jerk
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Bolton's Installation is Bush's Supreme Hubris on Display | Bolton hits Syria, Iran on first day at UN
COINGATE -- 3rd grand jury to begin review of Ohio state agency
HOT POLITICS -- Bush's Numbers at All Time Low | Magazine Article Claims Hastert Took Bribes; GOP whine like babies as their ethics take yet another hit | Truth or Consequences | Iraq: The #1 Issue For 2006 | Jon Corzine defends loan to his girlfriend | California Congressman Pete Stark Reflects on Life Under a Republican Dictatorship in the House | Republicans ask high court to block vote on reform issues | Reagan Roadblock: Proposal to Rename D.C.'s 16th St. Runs Into Objections | Are you a rat pack Democrat? | Santorum made inquiries for nursing home, official says | Republicans: The New Democrats | Hints of corruption in the House of Representatives | Anybody-but-Katherine-Harris search continues as Bense rejects run
BUDGET MESS --
QWAGMIRE -- Bush: U.S. to Stay in Iraq Despite Deaths | Deadly attacks put new pressure on Bush | Larry Johnson: Losing the battlefield | Lawsuit Forces Release of More Casualty Images | What Michael Moore (and the Neocons) don't know about Saudi Arabia | The Vietnamization of Iraq | Iraq: Arms shipment from Iran intercepted | Iran sends in troops to crush border unrest | Sniper saps U.S. morale in Iraq | U.S. Defends Operations in Western Iraq | Attack In Iraq Underscores Need for Better Equipment | Purple state, purple hearts | Three U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing | Jordan uncovers al Qaeda plot to attack U.S. troops | NATO to relieve U.S. in Afghanistan next year | Delaware senator believes Iraq will get tougher before it gets easier | Slain Writer Was Investigating Graft in Basra - Were Officials Involved?
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Sidney Blumenthal: Britain should avoid any compromise with the dirty war that the Bush administration is waging against terrorism | Al-Qaida is now an idea, not an organisation | Bush dismisses al-Qaeda warning, just like he dismissed that intelligence briefing that said "bin Laden determined to attack" | Rick Santorum…Enemy? | Bush Admits Defeat In War On Terror | Correction: Bush Says War On Terror Is Back And Better Than Ever | Al Qaeda Exploits Bush Naming Of Deadline | NY Times falsely reported Bush had "consistently used" term "war on terror" since 9-11 | The Global Struggle Against a Consistent Message | Wanted Dead or Alive? | The global war on whatever
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Reporters: Court must order release of Ghraib photos | WaPo: U.S. trying to trim Guantanamo population | John Cole on the beating death of a detainee and standard operating procedure for torture | Amnesty Int'l slams U.S. secret detentions | U.S. Sending Afghans Detainees Home from Gitmo and Bagram
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- Federal Grand Jury Indicts AIPAC's Rosen, Weissman | U.S. to announce new charges in Pentagon probe | U.S. to charge more in military spying case
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Why the right wing shills for proven liar Matt Drudge | NYT op-ed editor Shipley says op-eds must be fact-checked; does policy apply to Brooks, Tierney? | So just who are those "sources lose to the White House"? Ryan Lizza has some answers
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- ACLU outrage: Supreme court must hear Edmonds whistleblower case
OH, GOD! -- Pork for Jaayzus: GOP pays off Pat Robertson
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Gulf Hurricanes Are Latest Kink in the Oil Chain | Toyota Develops Hybrids With an Eye on the Future
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Bush, Intelligent Design, and Rafael Palmeiro: To hell with the kids | The Swift Boats of Science: Meet Paul Cameron, debunked gay-bashing scientist | Authors snub Kansas' new science non-standards | Guess who's building your nuclear weapons? Intelligent Design shills! | Paul Krugman gets shrill about "Intelligent Design"
TRASHING NATURE -- China plans massive re-forestation | Shuttle crew see damage on Earth
GAYS ARE THE TARGET -- Right wingers upset that Roberts might not hate gays enough

8/4/05
Vanity Fair: Did Denny Hastert take bribes from Turkey? | Read the article here (.pdf)
Very red district goes purple: Ohio loss actually has Dems 'heartened' | 2006 preview: "No district is safe" -- and Democrats know it | Now hear this: By Insulting Hackett, Rush Limbaugh Pukes On Those Who Serve | Different Shades of Red: Democrat Paull Hackett Won the Rural Vote on OH-02
Katherine Harris Claims Newspapers `Colorized' Photographs, Distorting Her Makeup -- Maybe they were trying to improve your look, beeyotch!
Wingnut blogger bans Scoobie Davis for calling bullshit and telling the truth
Why America needs men like Richard Haass
TRAITORGATE -- Fitzgerald not packing his bags | You can see why Bob Novak's lawyers have told him to keep his mouth shut… | Writers Group Won't Give Judith Miller 'Conscience in Media' Award After All | Repeat after me: "Rove, treason, betrayal!" | Iran-Contra redux? Senator Lautenberg warns GOP string-pullers not to give immunity to administration players under investigation for treasonous betrayal of Valerie Plame | Why were Karl Rove's aides called before the grand jury?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Harry Reid On John Roberts: Is he the Bush boy's David Souter? | Surprise: John Roberts worked pro bono on behalf of gay activists -- will the wingnuts turn on their new hero? | Document precedent works against White House | Roberts undermines GOP spin, says he "Had final responsibility” at solicitor general's office | Millionaire trial lawyer: John Roberts Puts Net Worth at $5.3 Million | John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Roe v. Wade | WaPo's "Babbling" Babington falsely equated statements on Roe by Justice Breyer, Judge Roberts | Fox's Garrett echoed conservative spin on "judicial activism" | U.S. News' Gloria "Borg" Borger falsely compared Roberts, Ginsburg nominations | Supreme Court nominee says judges need restraint | President Clinton praises Judge Roberts
BUDGET MESS -- In Congress, the GOP Embraces Its Spending Side, Bigger Deficits
GANNONGATE -- James Guckert strikes back -- uh -- hard
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- Bolton's Latest Lie: He Says He's Listening, Not Talking | Rich Lowry misstated intelligence distortion charges against Bolton
COINGATE -- Noe lavished gifts on political bigwigs. | How Bush frundraiser stole $50 million | Records track flow of state cash to Tom Noe -- can you say "laundering"?
HOT POLITICS -- It's Been a Rough Week for the Senate GOP's 2006 Prospects | Hil stomps Pirro, Cox in 2006 NY senate poll | NJ-GOV: Doug Forrester Continues His Campaign for More Irony in Government | America Coming Together, Democratic Advocacy Group, Curtailing Most Operations | Latest faux scandal being ginned up by the GOP: Jon "Cannot be bought" Corzine gave $470,000 loan to his girlfriend | Poll Shows Spitzer Leading All Potential Rivals Except Giuliani | Congress don't need no stinkin' ethics! | Hil's foes hit a cash problem
QWAGMIRE -- Bush: "Make no mistake about it -- we are at war and I'm on vacation!" | Amphibious vehicle -- like the one on which 14 marines died -- easy prey in Iraq | Target: Chalabi? Aide of Iraqi deputy PM killed in Baghdad | Marine Killed by Small Arms Fire in Ramadi | Marines Have One of Roughest Jobs in Iraq | Ohio Families Fed Up With Loss of Marines | How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? | Iraq is `latest battleground' in war on terror, Bush says in speech -- as he fails to apologize for turining it into a "tairist" battlefield | Marine Group in Iraq Issues Statement Blasting Video Images of Dead Marine? | Blast from the past: “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended” | How the UK helped Israel go nuclear | "Lying Liar"…. Er, "Truth Tour's" Melanie "Liar" Morgan falsely suggested that Iraqi forces have achieved 60 percent readiness | Insurgents using more powerful roadside bombs, military panel says | One way to beat traffic: Marine pays $5,000 for Saddam's limo -- pimped out with flame throwers | U.S. Marine captured in Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- It's the "War on tairists"…. No, it's the "Global struggle against violent extremism"… No… No… | Preznit ends the "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremists", falls back on tired buzzphrase | Oops! U.S. State Department admits they were not aware of news of terrorist-tied PKK offices in Kirkuk | Guilty: how the Brits allowed Islamic extremists to hijack the police | NYPD reveals London terror details | Italian intel: terrorist attack possible | No major newspapers noted that Bush had bashed Kerry with defunct-then-restored "war on terror" term | Americans Warned About Overseas Travel
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Detainees 'deprived of daylight | Watch this! Bill O'Reilly: Shoot that shot! Execute ALL Gitmo inmates! | Porter says U.S.-run Guantanamo camp better than Nevada prisons | Conservative site hammers Rumsfeld on 'authorizing' torture
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Moonie Times Editor Upset Over Web Beefcake Pix | Right Wingers fall victim to phony ACVR Report | Gannett acquires Detroit Free Press | Your guide to the right-wing clowns of the blogosphere | FOX News "Experts": TV's equivalent of the magic eight-ball!
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Civil Liberties Union Prepares Lawsuit Challenging Random Searches..
$MIRKONOMICS -- More debt for the kids: Treasury Says 30-Year Bond Is Returning
Bush boy calls on Congress to pass Social Security reform before going on vacation
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Governor returns big contribution from Indian gambling group | FCC delays meeting in gambit to let greedy telecom cartel jack up DSL rates | Former HealthSouth exec gets probation in Saudi bribery scheme
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- 26 Years Later, DNA Clears Man of Rapes
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- WaPo overlooked apparent Bush administration contradiction on "Intelligent Design" | Teachers hit Bush: 'Pseudoscience' | Intelligent Design: Science Teachers Stunned by Bush
OH, GOD! -- Pat Robertson Prays For More Supreme Court Vacancies | Making hay on holiness: Increasing numbers of business owners put the word "Christian" prominently on the shingle | Baptist church hit for giving to 'liberals' | Good, we say: proselytizing Air Force Cadet Leader Passed Over for Promotion
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Scandalous "energy" bill highlights influence of Texans
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Thank Johnson & Johnson for not caving to anti-gay hate groups
Drug Makers to Cut Super Bowl ED Pill Ads | California's Insurance Chief Criticizes Health Savings Accounts
TRASHING NATURE -- Judge sets aside jury guilty verdict in Greenpeace Case

8/3/05
Paul Hackett, American Hero | Schmidt's margin of "victory" was too close for comfort | Jean Schmidt: Delusional in victory | A tidal wave in Ohio politics as GOP goes from 44% victory nine months ago to mere 4% in '05 | Well, Paul Hackett lost the battle, but, boy, did he change the rules of the game | A New Wind Is Blowing: Democrats Will Take Back the House in 2006 | Schmidt's swiftboating smear looks to have hurt her | Rush Limbaugh Libels Paul Hackett, Calls Him "Staff Puke" | The Swift Boating of Hackett | "Republicans really get nothing out of it"
TRAITORGATE -- 2 Aides to Rove Testify in C.I.A. Leak Inquiry | Former senior aide to Rove called before grand jury | Rove Aide Called to Testify Took His Messages | Another Valerie Plame? | Nixon's Gray Ghost Cackles in Delight | Fitzgerald Still Questioning Witnesses, Zeros In On Rove | With a nod to Jeff Gannon, Novak smears Wilson | Reporter Judith Miller enters fifth week in jail
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Roberts showed Reagan administration how to pretend they supported civil rights while undermining them! | Supreme Court Nominee Roberts Provides First Written Response | Frist dissed: Not invited to Justice [sic] Sunday, the Rerun | Roberts Insists He'll Respect Precedent | Tom DeLay to Speak at Justice (Narf) Sunday, the Rerun
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Ethics groups' ire with Republicans becomes frustration with Dems | Jack Abramoff and the impending meltdown of Ralph Reed
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- The Bolton Anointment: Will Bush change US policies as well as their presentation? | Jon Stewart Mercilessly "Covers" Bolton | CNN's nauseating news "segment" (replete with syrupy music in the background), "John Bolton: Behind the Mustache," attacked Democrats, whitewashed Bolton's bad behavior | CBS' Bill Plante denied "improper" actions by recess-appointed Bolton | Feingold Accuses Bush Of Blatant Disregard After Bolton Appointment
HOT POLITICS -- Big Time Dick: Cheney begs reporters to cover Saudi trip... but won't let them cover meetings! | Bush goes on five-week vacation, longest presidential retreat in 36 years | Republican state legislator from Tex-ass claims Time-Warner's rejection of donation request is "extortion" | Watch This! Robert Byrd Fights Back | The flag won't protect you; it's in the wrong hands | Pursuit of Hypocrisy, Hatred of Happiness, and Rick "The Virginian" Santorum | Watchdog Group Challenges Election Results in San Diego | Santorum Hates the Declaration of Independence | GOP strategist Galen repeated Casey myth, claimed that his "pro-life" son "won't be allowed to speak" at Dem convention | Democracy Hypocrisy: Bush Praises Saudi Arabia's New King | Bush Installs Pentagon Official by Recess Appointment | Pataki and Romney: Lying To Get Ahead
QWAGMIRE -- 14 Troops Killed In Iraq today | 14 Marines And Civilian Interpreter Killed In | U.S. freelance journalist slain in Iraq | Iraqi Defense Is Nowhere Even Near Ready to Take On Mission | George Bush's Culture of Death | US Dead In Iraq: 1800 and counting | Iraq: More Pretty Pictures | Amnesty says Iraqi Insurgents are war criminals for targeting civilians | Blix urges Iran against enrichment | Iraq investigates widespread corruption -- hundreds of millions wasted under GOP influence
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Pakistan called lax in bin Laden hunt | Terror chief talks | Juan Cole "Fisks" the War on Terror | Watch This! Finsbury Park Mosque spokesman: Suicide bombers are bad in London, but not anywhere else | Ex-official: New terror language vexes Bush | Bomb Explodes Outside British Firms in Tehran
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Third prosecutor critical of Guantanamo trials | Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs | Military Denies Rigging Guantanamo Tribunals
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Bill O'Reilly boycotts truth to spin French boycott; falsely claimed it "hurt France" | In NY Times book review, right-wing lawyer Richard Posner rehashed tired and untrue "liberal media" spin | If the former "war on terror" is now a "struggle against extremism," then what about Ann Coulter? | Capsule Review of Current TV (take one)
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- On Dianne Feinstein, faulty intelligence, and giving the inept Bush boy political cover
$MIRKONOMICS -- The zero-savings problem ("saving rate at zero")
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Via Buzzflash: While Your Cable Rates Skyrocket, Comcast Profit Rises 64% on Digital TV and Internet Services | Wal-Mart's PR war
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Bush Remarks Meant to Promote Injecting Religion -- Eeevangelical Style, Naturally -- Into Education
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Steroid scandal: Is Bush going to believe Palmeiro, or those lying eyes? | FDA & CDC smear respected independent scientists and researchers
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Media didn't challenge Frist's purported reasons for stem cell flip-flop

8/2/05
Ohio congressional candidates make final voter appeals | Paul Hackett on the Al Franken Show | Hackett fundraising covered on CBS News | Hackett in final sprint | Paul Hackett isn't taking it easy in final days, despite headline
There's something about Jenna Bush -- obnoxious, arrogant child of privilege
TRAITORGATE -- Murray Waas: Fitzgerald will stay on the job for a long while | Novak's Latest Lame and Credibility-free Excuse: Book Was Source That Led to Use of C.I.A. Officer's Name | Novak Recycles Gannon on 'Traitorgate' | What's in a Rove | George W. Bush, Confidence Man | Democratic Senators Press CIA Leak Probe | Bob Woodward's Integrity Hits Rock Bottom | Frogmarch Watch: Immunity for Treason? Don't put it past Sen. Pat Roberts | Bush: Rove has 'my compete confidence' despite leak | Larry Johnson spanks Bob No-Facts | Novak contradicted himself on Senate committee's Niger conclusions | Why Novak's Defense Doesn't Cut It | Novak's worried about his integrity! Cue laugh track! | Another Valerie Plame? | How did Rove know?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts' Reagan-era job: suppress those uppity negroes! | National Archives to Open Additional Materials Relating to John Roberts | A Judge "Ripe" For Impeachment by Right-wing Thugs | Gonzales balks at release of Roberts documents | So who is urging Rehnquist to quit? | Coburn confirmed he asked Roberts about his Catholic faith and "personal beliefs" -- but media remains uninterested
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- Bolton May Find Greater Challenge on Capitol Hill Than at UN | Bolton Booed Upon Arrival at UN | Bush's U.N. Agenda Is Well Under Way | UN Credentials Committee can reject Bolton... | The Bolton Scream Revisited | Bush recess appoints lying harasser of women to UN | Bolton Isn't Permanent | Smirk Sneaks Bolton In | Showdown at the UN Corral | A recess appointment for Bolton
COINGATE -- Scandal escalates, yet Taft stays mum | Conyers seeks special prosecutor for Noe | Wife of Bush fundraiser Noe, target in 'Coingate' scandal, tried to disrupt election
HOT POLITICS -- Litmus tests: maybe this is one that Democrats should adopt | Reassessing the Opposition Model | There goes that "shrill" Paul Krugman again, getting it 100% right… | Bush Poll Numbers: Lower Than EVER | Blair said to be planning exit | DNC Chairman Dean to Address 47th Annual Convention of the SCLC | GOP goofball buzzword... | Frist PAC has raised $1.9m this year | World turning its back on Brand America | Fundraising woes for (2008) GOP Senators | Gay activist from Miami Beach unveils Hillary Now campaign
QWAGMIRE -- WaPo lead story once again gives the lie to the Bush boy's claims about an "axis of evil" member having WMDs -- this time Iran | Chief of Abu Ghraib police killed | We defeated U.S., Iran leader tells Hezbollah | Car bomb hits US convoy in central Baghdad | Gaslight Watch: Deja vu all over again in Iran | Bush gives the finger to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty | More Proof Bush Knew Iraq Was No Threat | Peace Corps Option for Military Recruits Sparks Concerns | America will never leave Iraq', US soldier says | Steroids Headed for Troops in Iraq Seized | Iran agrees to delay nuclear restart | Mirror UK reporting assassination attempt on Ahmed Chalabi | Hollow Military: losing troops to "contractors" | Gunmen shoot dead high-ranking police officer in Baghdad | Twenty more bodies dumped in Baghdad | Oil Wealth Divides Iraqis Drafting Constitution
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Stopping terrorists: a police function! | Bush Is Caving to Terrorists | Keeping Secrets | BRITISH, U.S. SECURITY SERVICES SPAR OVER HANDLING QAEDA, UK ATTACK
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Ex-military prosecutors fault Gitmo trials -- Pentagon confirms tribunals are rigged | Leaked Gitmo emails supposedly claim trials are simply for show | Military tribunals: "A fraud on the American people"
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Sunday talk shows "said to" lack diversity? Heck, you'd have to be a moron not to notice... | Asininity In Media's Cliff Kincaid blames Media Matters and Rachel Maddow -- "a lesbian with hair so short that she looks like a man" -- for The Situation's poor ratings | Please Feed The MSM | Murdoch dynasty 'will end' | Wash. Post's Kurtz bashed his newspaper's compliance with White House "ground rules" | Death to the Roundtable | Rupert Murdoch clashes with children
WHAT A RUSH! -- Howard Stern buries Rush Limbaugh
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Homeland Security arrests "gangs"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Ex-agent says CIA wanted false data
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- A Chinese City's Rage At the Rich And Powerful
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- MBF Watch: Denver Three to sue | DNA Evidence Frees Man After Nearly 18 Years in Prison in Pennsylvania
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Bush: Intelligent Design (read: stealth "creationism") Should Be Taught
OH, GOD! -- Group says Bible course riddled with bias, errors | Paying for Sunday School
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Bush deceives Congress again, this time about energy | Oil at record above $62 after Fahd dies
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Another "good Republican" lied to Congress, this time about using steroids | Senate Leader Tells Women that Birth Control Is Bad for the Country, Distorts Own Voting Record
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Evil Stem Cell Research Proving Annoyingly Useful | Senate Lacks Votes for Stem Cell Override
CIVIL UNIONS, UNCIVIL REPUBLICANS -- Calif. court bolsters gay partner rights

8/1/05
OH-02 Special Election: GOP Candidate and lying liar Jean Schmidt caught lying during TV debate | Jean Schmidt vs Paul Hackett: Watch Schmidt Lie | Schmidt Media Strategist Turns Out to Be Former Blade Reporter and Good Buddy of Noe! | Busy Day in Ohio's Second District | The Coingate Connection, Noe and Schmidt
Santorum Freaks Out On ABC's This Week
TRAITORGATE -- Traitorgate Scandal Engulfs a Larger Circle of Bush's Handlers Than Previously Believed | Arianna assembles the dossier on the real Judith Miller -- and it ain't pretty | AP has a Q & A on the Rove Scandal | Did Brenda Starr Go Too Far? | CNN Poll: 49% say Rove should resign
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts, Objectively Pro-bias: Court Nominee Was Part of Cabal Seeking to Kill Civil Rights Laws | Image-polishing drive staged for Roberts | Roberts Nomination Stirs a Debate on Federalists' Sway
BUH-BYE BOLTON? -- Bush Boy to grant Bolton recess appointment as amb-ASS-ador to UN | UN nominee derided by Democrats as 'damaged goods'
HOT POLITICS -- Edwards: Democrats need to speak clearly (Public wants to see plan...) | Saudi King Fahd has died, officials say | Sen. Sam Brownback: Too Stupid to Breathe | Wisconsin state panel urged to probe Congressman James Sensenbrenner | I'll quit Commons at next election, Blair tells family and friends | US 13-year-olds Are Fairly Conservative: Time poll | Democrat Mark Warner popular in heavily Republican Va. | How California state Democrats regained the driver's seat | Graft: GOP Fundraiser Nominated As Ambassador
QWAGMIRE -- Makin' Good Progress: Power Shortage & Black Market Drive Baghdad to Consider Oil Rationing | U.S. Embassy warns Americans in Kuwait | Japan Stockpiles Plutonium as Threat of Nuc. Escalation Spreads AcrossAsia | Iraq citizens make U.S. soldier shiek | Jimi Hendrix: The Original Chickenhawk? | Most Americans Doubt Eventual Success in Iraq | Iraq wants more time for constitution | Iran to defy E.U. with nuke program | Iraq Fatigue | Carter Slams Iraq War and Gitmo | Quietly, Pentagon prepares Iraq pullout | Chalabi bodyguard killed in Iraq attack | U.S. troops set up base near Syria | U.S. territories hotbed for Army recruits
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 7 more arrested in London attacks | Rumsfeld claims there's no link between Iraq, bombings abroad | London faces lockdown to thwart third terror strike | Embassy attack 'was for Iraq' | Egypt PM: Iraq, Palestine cause terror | Grounds for terror attacks can be removed | Saudi envoy: Osama still commanding attacks | Britain eyes Saudi link in terror attacks | Seven held in anti-terror raids : BBC
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Leaked emails claim Guantanamo trials rigged
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Spy's Notes on Iraqi Aims Were Shelved, Suit Says; CIA 'told Iraq had quit nuke aims'
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart foes realign
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- School trustee tangled in Web after his rants on Free Republic are exposed | More on Freeper Kevin Post
OH, GOD! -- GSAVE = Je[sus] Save[s] | Bible Course Becomes a Test for Public Schools in Texas | Ohio Cops Are Said to Have Covered Up Clergy Abuse Allegations | Mommy, Why is Jesus winking at me?
MORALITY MORONICS -- Santorum continues to blame Boston for church sex abuse scandal
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Anticipating Ads, Anti-chioce George Pataki Says He'll Veto Bill on Emergency Contraceptive | The dark face of methamphetamine
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Charles Krauthammer surprises the world, smacks around the anti-science crowd | US stem cell sponsor sees veto-proof Senate backing
TRASHING NATURE -- Study: Hurricanes getting stronger due to global warming | 100F | We're melting

7/31/05
TRAITORGATE -- CPJ Delegation, Including Brokaw, Visits Judith Miller | Now hear this: Randi Rhodes interviews Larry Johnson
COINGATE -- Pair found guilty on ethics charge.
HOT POLITICS -- GOP Says It Will 'Bury' Iraq Veteran Candidate Paul Hackett | Jean Schmidt: Capable of nothing but parroting takling points | Schmidt can't recall Ach favor | On Capitol Hill, A Flurry of GOP Victories | Iraq War Veteran Makes Run For Rob Portman's Seat Interesting | Women defy voting ban in rural Pakistan | Bush to take 50th ranch trip in 5 years
QWAGMIRE -- Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad bombings. | Iraq Soldiers Open Fire On Bombing Victims--and Recruits | Leaked data reveal reasons for increased bombing raids were a sham | MSM Buries Fact Bush Ignored Military Leaders, Endangered Troops | Let the Recriminations Begin | Soldier in Iraq Records Country-Music Hit | Marines' 3rd combat tour pushes limits of endurance | Inouye: GOP Not Doing Enough for Troops | Car Bomb Kills Five People in Baghdad | China plan focus of North Korea talks | U.S. troops shoot Iraq responders after blast | Saddam Hussein attacked: reports | Critical Iraq blogger fined $3,350 | A prison by any other name... | Suicide bomber kills 44 near Syrian border
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Finger points to British intel as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out | Man Admits Role in Failed London Attack | Third terror cell said planning attacks
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Newsweek Exclusive: Secret Memo—Send to Be Tortured | Carter Blasts Guantanamo Detention Camp
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Watch This! Tucker Carlson's Hilarious Outtakes | Powerlie: Already beneath contempt
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Weiner: Anti-terror dollars going to pork-barrel projects
$MIRKONOMICS -- Tax Cuts For The Super Rich
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- How Wall Street Wrecked United's Pension | The Man Who Made Kathie Lee Cry: Labor Gadfly Charles Kernaghan Buzzes In | Toyota, GM to scrap plan on fuel-cell car tie-up: report | Ex-Citigroup banker Zankel dead in 9 story fall | CAFTA: Enter the Washington Generals | The Cost of CAFTA | Third Union Is Leaving A.F.L.-C.I.O. | Rep. blames evoting for his CAFTA vote
The Strange Workings of the Republican Mind
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Private Prisons Experience Business Surge | Thousands raped in U.S. prisons | 30 Kids Left Behind After Immigration Raid
OH, GOD! -- Coping with Intrusive Religions | Alabama Sharia | Unhinged "Christian" Family To Picket NC Marine's Funeral In Minnesota
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- KKK turns attention to Latino immigrants | The "No Race" Superiority
MORALITY MORONICS -- Denton constable faces sex charges; Case in Colorado alleges intent to assault a child
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Roe's Army Reloads: How the Pro-Choice Mvmt. is Readying for Roberts | Reefer Madness
CIVIL UNIONS, UNCIVIL REPUBLICANS -- Co-founder of lead ex-gay group says it's all bunk

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