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Hot Headlines, July-August 2005

8/20/05
Merck Vioxx verdict: GUILTY
War Protest Continues Outside Bush Ranch; Cindy Sheehan's Mom 'Stabilized' | There's something else besides hatred of antiwar activists festering in the mind of Cindy Sheehan's slimers: our old friends Rampant Sexism and Snobbish Classism | The right has hit new depths with its scurrilous and idiotic attacks on Cindy Sheehan, a politically inexperienced mother in deep pain | Hagelian philosophy | Flashback: Bush interrupts Vacation for Schiavo | Like Mother, Like Son | Democracy Now!: Crawford Vigil Is Not Over
Clinton Administration tried to negotiate a deal with the Taliban over terrorist Osama in 1998 | More: Envoy urged Osama's expulsion before 9/11
Bush shatters vacation record
A must-see TV heads-up from Josh Marshall | Former Powell aide: UN WMD speech was the 'lowest point in my life'
Hunter Thompson's ashes to blast off today
TRAITORGATE -- Judith Miller and the Saddamite | Miller's Alexandria prison blues
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Pressure mounts for John Roberts' papers | Roberts Scoffed at Promotion for O'Connor | Roberts's Hand in Home Rule | LA Times overlooked Ginsburg's centrist record on appellate court while citing critic's claim that she "wasn't anywhere near the mainstream" | The right to vote | Professional liar and faux preacher Pat Robertson continued to put words in Boxer's mouth -- and now Leahy's, too | Your friendly neighborhood conservative? | USA Today falsely suggested White House has released Roberts documents from first Bush administration | Howard "Not So" Fineman: Many Sheehan supporters also "want to make John Roberts Satan personified" (the truth is, Roberts already is!)
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Operation Yellow Elephant reaches out to Michelle Malkin | Iraq war veteran writes a letter to obnoxious conservative "virgin" Ben Shapiro
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Losing the high ground: Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Michael Scanlon, John Giles and Ralph Reed | DeLay's dirty deeds back in the spotlight
BULLY BOY BOLTON --
COINGATE -- Columbus mayor calls for Gov. Taft to quit | Ohio Republicans Reeling With Governor's Conviction, Rare Coins Scandal | Noe's lawyer says Taft knew about coin fund in 2001
HOT POLITICS -- Harry Reid Suffers Mild Stroke | GOP Begs Joe Scarborough to Challenge Katherine Harris, Despite Mysterious Death of Lori Klausutis | Kansas lawmaker fined for soliciting funds | Kerry blisters Republicans, touts Democratic comeback at state level | KY Gov. Fletcher (R) Subpoenaed In Hiring Investigation | Former aide to Montana wingnut Conrad Burns charged with poaching | Kentucky guv lawyers up | Watch This! Schwarzenegger's Hush Money Sex Scandal | Carpetbagger: William Weld (R-MA) to run for NY Governor | Keep the voters scared: Bush plans 9/11 'reminders' | Pennsylvania GOP sues over newspaper ad
QWAGMIRE -- Resolute and steadfast -- not! U.S. conceding to Iraqi Islamists, negotiators say | They all just went along with War Cowboy, without thinking, without conscience | Kurd: Islam May Get Bigger Role in Iraq | Iraq casts darkening cloud over Bush administration | Iraq insurgents plan wave of attacks | Masked gunmen kill 3 Sunnis in Mosul | Cheney on Iraq: Clarity in its Last Throes | "I wanna keep mah war on!" Bush rips Feingold plan for 2006 Iraq withdrawal | Getting Out | On his radio show, Loofah O'Reilly again made false claim that Hussein "allowed" terrorist group Ansar Al-Islam "to exist in Northern Iraq" | 4,000 soldiers heading to Shelby- National Guard from NJ, IA, NE, KS, | Iraq security warns of possible civil war | Khamenei: Iran won't stop nuke enrichment | Aziz Refuses to Testify Against Saddam | Republican senator calls for talks with Iran | Heartland: Anxiety over war, oil | Combat Stress Unit Returns to Iraq | Afghan girls -- not so liberated after all
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Russian explosion kills three police officers | Jordan hunts for Navy missile attackers | Three missiles fired at Navy ship | Saudi Forces Kill Kingdom's Top Al Qaeda Leader
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Twin Cities turning deaf ear to political talk radio shows | Bob Costas refuses to host exploitative cable "news" show about pretty missing white girl | AIM's Cliff Kincaid posted "letter" from Afghan ambassador supportive of extraditing Newsweek's Isikoff | The Wall Street Journal editorial board does think you're stupid. | Watch This! Ken Mehlman, Talking Point Action Figure, Plays Softball
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush "OxyContin" Limbaugh lashes out at Media Matters: drug-addicted, draft-dodging proven liar blasts MM team, calls them names for noting Sheehan smears | Keith Olbermann gets it right as he mercilessly lights into drug-addicted radio host's lies
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- OU student who tried to bring pipe bomb on plane faces Aug. 31 hearing on federal charges (if his name were Mohamed, he'd be in Gitmo getting waterboarded) | John Podhoretz Finally Admits He Was Wrong | Soviet Germ Factories Pose New Threat: They Lack Security | Instapundit’s Moral Vacuum | Podhortez: Compulsive Liar | Right-wing Smear of Gorelick Rooted In Ignorance | Miami customs computers shut down
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA Report on 9/11 is Complete
$MIRKONOMICS -- WSJ falsely suggested that "Planet CBS" news report ignored Greenspan statement on economy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ex-Halliburton Subsidiary Worker Guilty; Texas Man Admits Taking Kickback | Mickey's Little sweatshop: Disney accused of labor abuses
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Groups Set to Challenge Internet Wiretap
FILEGATE.GOP -- WSJ lamented "firewall" created after GOP staffers -- led by new WSJ columnist -- were accused of leaking Dem memos
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Local discontent with 'No Child Left Behind' grows
OH, GOD! -- Devilish Treatment At "Christian" Camp? | Radical Islam an Issue in California Prisons | Boy lost faith, camera at Christian camp
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- 2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court | The New York Times' Go To Guy For Racist Right-wing Pseudoscience
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Indonesian Outage Leaves 100 Million Without Electricity | Democrats turn up heat on US pump prices
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Kansas attorney general sues to block state-funded abortions | Court sides with Navy over abortion...
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Frist voices support for ‘intelligent design’; will endorsement of the Tooth Fairy be next?
TRASHING NATURE -- Gray wolves back on endangered list | Clinton & McCain: Global Warming Is Real
GAY IN AMERICA -- Gay DC newspaper publishing Jeff Gannon as columnist | Phillies 'gay day' disrupted by protest

8/19/05
After Cindy | Cindy Sheehan leaves Camp Casey to attend to mom following stroke | CA Man Arrested Near Bush Ranch After Threatening Protesters; Is He a Registered FReeper? | Cruelty is the new black | Comcast Blocks Emails Linking to Cindy Sheehan Website! | Rush Limbaugh, Ann al-Coulter, G. Gordon Liddy, Chris Hitchens, Michael Barone continue attacks on Cindy | Watch This! Coleen Colleen Rowley on The O'Reilly Bastard | Hagel: Iraq growing more like Vietnam, Bush should meet with Cindy | Where is the outrage? Well, y'see, moderates and liberals respect the feelings of all Gold Star mothers
HOW THE NRA SNUCK A HUGE VICTORY PAST THE MEDIA -- AND THE VOTERS
Must-read! Paul Begala blasts the violent, anti-military hard right -- plus bonus quotes!
TRAITORGATE -- Pinch and Judy, or Howell Raines Revisited | FLASHBACK: Rove on Getting Caught Lying
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Loony John Roberts: equal pay 'anti-capitalist' | Nothing Personal, Just Release The Documents | White Chauvinist John Roberts Knocked Affirmative Action | He-man Woman Hater Roberts Disparaged State Efforts on Sex Discrimination | Anti-privacy John Roberts, as Reagan aide, backed national ID card | Kennedy calls for investigation as Roberts file goes missing | Boxer and Feinstein: Differing views of John Roberts underscore need for more party discipline | Male chauvinist swine John Roberts feared "homemakers" becoming lawyers
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Claim filed on Rep. Duke Cunningham house
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tom DeLay's Legal Defense Fund Goin' Belly-Up? | Kan. Utility with DeLay Ties Fined for 2002 FEC Violations | Abramoff makes first Miami court appearance on fraud charge | LULAC members dispute DeLay's immigration stance
COINGATE -- Ohio Governor Bob "Graft" Taft convicted and fined | OH Gov. Taft Pleads No Contest | Ohio Gov, Taft issues apology, vows to stay | Taft fraud case is filled with puzzling questions
HOT POLITICS -- Bill Weld said to run for N.Y. governor | Democrats need to find a way to wrest the issue of Iraq from the GOP | McCain and Clinton's Northern exposure | Joe Scarborough mulls challenge to Harris | Byrd to announce decision on 2006 campaign next month | MO-Sen: Getting McCaskill into the race | Bad news, bad views, for the GOP | War, Massive Debt, Supreme Court Battles, Gaza Tensions...And Bush | Coretta Scott King Had 'Big Stroke,' Heart Attack | Mo’ Money, Mo’ Lobbying | Joe Biden: Sleeper Candidate | Rick Santorum has the lowest net approval rating of any U.S. Senator
QWAGMIRE -- Attackers fire three missiles from Jordan; one misses U.S. Navy ship | Gunmen attack Iraq's Anbar governor, clerics | Death of Iraqi brothers sparks anti-U.S. rage | British soldiers wear germ-fighting undies | Why do they hate our troops? GOP-controlled Texas screws over an Iraq vet | This is what happens when the Bush apologists put the elephant above the Stars and Stripes | Coalition 'sorry' for civilian deaths | Wasn't Afghanistan Supposed To Be A "Success" Story? | Four more soldiers killed in Iraq | Republicans Speak Out Against The War | Support said growing for Iraq exit plan; Rep Jones (R) and 50 co-sponsors want out | Iran is building secret nuclear components, says rebel group | Watch this! Chuck Hagel contradicts Dick Cheney | Ah! The "noble cause" is the flypaper theory! | Shi'ite crowds denounce federalism at Baghdad demo | 3 U.S. Servicemen, Afghan Soldier Killed
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Former GOP Mayor of Oklahoma City Defends the Honor of White, Christian Male Republican Who Tried to Board Plane with a Bomb | Whitewashing the Protection of Terrorists on US Soil | 90 arrested in Bangladesh bombings | UK Police Lied About Bomb Suspect Shooting | Officer Says 2 Others Are Source of His Atta Claims | Halliburton's little chop-shop of nuclear components
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- (I don’t need your) photograph
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Atrios' Annals of Journamalism: Tweety Matthews Gets His Guests to Lie | Without notation, WSJ excised outright lie from column by lying liar John "Date the mom and the kid' Fund | Radio wingnut Melanie Morgan: Iraqi general told "Truth Tour" participants that Saddam harbored 4,000 terrorists "related to Al Qaeda" | Us? We’re Just Running Around the Field During the Game | Update your dictionaries! What the 101st Fighting Keyboarders really mean
FOX WATCH -- Clearly partisan' FOX doesn't matter: Study | Bill O’Reilly Has Two Faces | O'Reilly busted again!
WHAT A RUSH! -- Keith Olbermann: Rush Limbaugh "worst person in the world" for "Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett" quote | Limbaugh backs off Sheehan comparison with Burkett by lying: "I've never said this" (Oh yes, you did, OxyLimbaugh!)
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Ice picks on planes, courtesy of Bush Administration
ELECTION THEFTS -- Citizens Request Recount in S.D. Mayoral Race | Bush Stole 2000 Election, 2004 Election and They'll Do It Again
$MIRKONOMICS -- Soak the tenants: LA rent control "up for study"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Complainer gets cable bill for 'Bitch Dog' | Wal-Mart fined for pollution | Mickey's Magic Sweatshop | Sen. Schumer: China hampers US investors in China
OH, GOD! -- In Jerry Falwell's Own Words | Theocracy Rising? Or fallen, and it can't get up? | Pope Wants Immunity In US For Hiding Crime Of Molesting Boys
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Sean Hannity sows racial and border discord in El Paso
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Iran, China Eye Military Cooperation After Oil Deals | World running out of time for oil alternatives | Goldman: Crude To Stay High Long Term | The curse of unregulated markets: Politicians Have Little to Offer to Ease Anguish of Gas Prices | Oil prices have Iran sitting pretty
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Doctors Argue Against Higher Co-Payments for Medicaid | Remixed cold meds pack less punch | White House finally realizes they have bungled the so-called "war" on drugs by obsessing on marijuana and practically ignoring the meth crime and addiction epidemic
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Frist Defends Stem Cell Reversal In Meetings With State Voters | Renew America- To the Stone Ages
TRASHING NATURE -- NOAA Cites Threats to U.S., Pacific Coral Reefs | Lobbyist sees green on greens

8/18/05
Sidney Blumenthal on the Connecticut Cowboy's ruined vacation | One Woman Can Make a Difference | Elizabeth Edwards Supports Cindy Sheehan | Cindy Interview On "Bill Maher" Friday | US anti-war protests mushroom | Cindy Keeps It Simple | How dare these parents question Dear Leader? | Conservative cruelty: Clearing brush is more important than honoring the war dead | Putting Your Body Where Your Mouth Is | Becky Lourey, Coleen Rowley -- both military moms -- to join vigil at Bush ranch | Politics of War Could Pivot on Mother's Vigil | Camp Casey observations: photos and a letter | Times helps the Republican Noise Machine attack Cindy
How to make a ne'er-do-well millionaire from Yale look like some kind of workaday cowpoke
TRAITORGATE -- Murray Waas on the Judith Miller/Valerie Plame theory of immaculate conception | Dems to file request for immediate investigation of former US Attorney General Ashcroft | Time editor: Rove wasn't worth all this trouble
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- National Archives Investigates White House's Loss of John Roberts Files from Reagan Library | Did White House steal Roberts records from Reagan library? | Missing Roberts files: If There’s Nothing To Hide, Start Naming Names | Unlike Berger Docs, Duplicates of Missing Roberts File May Not Exist | Judge Roberts's Slap at Women | Leading liberal groups likely to fight Roberts | ABA gives Roberts highest rating: "well-qualified," just like Scalia and Slappy | 20 Questions For Roberts | A conflict of interest for John G. Roberts?
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- U.S. lawsuit seeks forfeiture of Duke Cunningham's property | Has Duke's CunningScam been an open secret for a long, long time?
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Arrogant Ben Shapiro thinks he's better than working-class kids, refuses to enlist to support his Preznit's Iraq war
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Condi and Bolton's Hasty State Dept. Reshuffling Put on Hold… by Henry Hyde!
COINGATE -- Ohio governor Robert Taft faces 4 charges involving dozens of unreported junkets
HOT POLITICS -- Bad Iraq War News Has Some in G.O.P. Worried Over '06 Vote | Popular Wartime Preznit… NOT!! | Rick Santorum gets all unAmerican on some teens at a book signing | Indictment alleges wire fraud by former GOP congressional candidate | Abortion Rights Group in Va. Skips Gubernatorial Endorsement | Democrats Closer To Independents In All Fifty States | Sulzer makes Congressional bid official; will challenge Rep. Bob Ney (R0OH) | Privilege: Like father, like chimp | Howard Dean attends conference on human rights in Sarajevo | Sen: Ryan leans against running | For the president, 38 flavors of bad | SUSA's latest 50-state Bush poll | Arnold hits up 'special interests' for funds | Ken Mehlman is projecting again -- now he claims that the Democratic Party only offers "fear" | GOP worried for good reason
QWAGMIRE -- Fatal Bombing Mars Start of Afghan Parliamentary Race | Bombings Kill 43 at Key Terminal for Buses in Iraq | Dozens of bomb blasts shake Bangladesh | Documents Show 'Serious' Gaps In Post-War Plans | " We now have thousands of Saddams": Iraqis vent rage on call-in TV after bombs kill 43 | "If the war in Iraq is worth fighting... then it's worth fighting with the children of the privileged classes." | 700 More Troops to Be Sent To Iraq...to Bolster Prison Operations | Feingold Urges Troop Withdrawal by End of '06 | WSJ didn't provide full story on Iraqi troop readiness | Ahh, the good ol' days… | Contradicting its own news coverage, WSJ right-wing editorial falsely claimed Iraq constitution delay unrelated to religious differences | Iraq makes way for legal hangings | In Iraq, more killings but no constitution | Powerful New Bombs Being Made in Iraq | Insurgents shoot dead six Iraqi soldiers | Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan | Iraq: US patrol hit as pressure growing on leaders regarding constitution | Four U.S. troops killed by roadside bomb | Army spends twice as much pitching recruits as Toyota spends wooing customers
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Al-Qaeda leader killed' in Saudi | Five in Gibson's noggin? | U.K. Police Arrest Soldier Under Terrorism Laws, Sky Says | Footage contradicts London police | U.S. forces disrupt terror training | Italy to extradite bomb suspect | The next US plane hijacked or blown up is the fault of Bush and the GOP
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- U.S. Diplomat Is Named in Secrets Case
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Kenneth Tomlinson’s other broadcasting scandal | Why Is The Moonie Times Meeting With Dictators? | The New York Post Takes One | Collusion with the Axis of Evil? The President of the Moonie Times Corporation visits "Li'l" Kim Jong-Il | MRC Goes Corpse Hunting Again | The Adventures of Battle-Action Bush and His Keyboard Kommandos
FOX WATCH -- Bill "The Shill" O'Reilly revived an interview tactic he has made common -- cutting the guest's mike | Only on Fox: "Kill Social Security!" | Fox's John Gibson asks stupides Iraq war justification question ever!
WHAT A RUSH! -- High on OxyContin again (well, it sure sounds like it), Rush Limbaugh called small business champion Rep. Marty Meehan a "no-growth socialist," blamed him for rising oil prices
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- More information suggesting 9/11 Commission wasn't given all the facts | OOPS! NY Times Lie Of Omission | Texas Coast To Be Patrolled By Unmanned Predator Aircraft
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Able Danger' 9/11 predictor comes out | Former CIA directors mark post's passing | "Able Danger" Was Stopped From Informing FBI
$MIRKONOMICS -- Home prices 'extremely overvalued' in 53 cities | 11,000 apply for 400 openings at Wal-Mart's new Oakland store | PPI raises inflation fears; wholesale inflation up 1.0% in one month | Jobless Claims Rise by 6,000
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ --
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Tort Trials Fall by Nearly 80 Percent -- so do we really need "tort reform" GOP-style? No… | One intelligence division got the Osama story right
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Teens: Schools Favor Sports Over Study
OH, GOD! -- Cupertino Teacher resigns after "settling" dispute over his arrogant religious proselytizing | Court limit on parents’ Wicca faith overruled | Lawyer could challenge U.S. recognition of Vatican
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- G. Gordon Liddy, bigot | Texas Reps Seek Mexican Border War | Moonie Times promotes "white nationalist" website | Border states declare state of crisis | The Minutemen Project and the La Reconquista Lie
MORALITY MORONICS -- Christian Camp director charged with molesting child
ENERGY SCANDALS -- White House Energy Policy Running On Empty | U.S. author forecasts $5 gas by next year
HEALTH DEBACLES -- What NARAL Should Have Done Before
WEIRD SCIENCE -- The Nazi Analogy is Wrong, Unless You’re James Dobson | Silent aircraft design launched
GAY IN AMERICA -- Pat Robertson, self-absorbed fake Christian responsible for enabling Bush's war and policy lies, attacks gays again | Right wingers lying about Gay referendum in Maine

8/17/05
Cindy Sheehan Edges Closer To Bush Ranch | In Crawford fields, the blowhards blow... | Mockery Of The Fallen: Why No Outrage? | US right-wing targets antiwar mother | Cult of the 'W' Schutszstaffel to the rescue | Roberts Heard Terrorism Case as He Interviewed for Seat | Ed Schultz Show goes to Crawford | Former FBI Whistleblower Rowley to join protest at Bush ranch | Larry Northern, Cross Mower | Memorial to Troops Killed in Iraq Is Vandalized in Texas | Warning Shots Fired at Fitzgerald? | Where the white woman at? | Curbs Sought On Bush Ranch Demos | The Neighbors are getting REALLY UGLY
TRAITORGATE -- Why won't anyone ask Bush when he first learned of Valerie Plame's identity? | Cracks in the Fortress? New York Times lawyers up to their ears in Miller sauce | Michael Wolff is Absolutely right about Rove and the Media | House Dems ask DOJ InspectorGen to investigate Ashcroft role in Plame investigation | Richard Cohen, Ostrich | Miller's Lawyer Won't Rule Out Criminal Contempt Charges | Dole Attacks Fitzgerald, Leaves Truth Behind | The Times sinks deeper in mud | The outing of Valerie Plame: "A crappy little crime"?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Dems Feel Heat From Left on John Roberts Nomination: Groups Say Fight Should Be More Rigorous | A file of Roberts' papers missing at Reagan Library | Leahy Lambastes Roberts' 'Radical' Stands | Reid on Roberts | After rushing to his defense, is the conservative religious right now trying to torpedo John Roberts? | Gender equity -- the silver bullet that kills the Roberts nomination? | How Settled is Rove v. Wade for Roberts? | John Roberts Scoffed At Idea Of Equal Pay For Women | Justice John G. Roberts: A done deal?
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Brent Wilkes and the Duke Cunningham scandal
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tom DeLay's presence "shouldn't hurt" Rep. Wilson? It should! | Jack Abramoff is objectively pro al Qaeda! | Abramoff May Meet With Investigators | Who is Abramoff running that slush fund for?
COINGATE -- Decision today on Taft charges -- will he face criminal charges? | Rare-coin deal buys scandal for Ohio governor | Taft Pushed For Investment In Biotechnology Firm
HOT POLITICS -- Report: Fla. GOP Courts Joe "What dead intern?" Scarborough to replace Katherine "Screwella deVote" Harris | OH-Sen: With Mike DeWine to face primary challenge, he faces two bruising election challenges (cue the fat lady, here comes Sen. Hackett!) | Jeanine Pirro Is Forced to Address Chapter of Husband's Past | In book due out next week, Lott says he was betrayed by Frist | CREW Files FEC Complaint Requesting Investigation Into Foreign Donations to Hastert | CA House elections planned for October | The Veto-Less Presidency
QWAGMIRE -- Bomb Attacks Kill 43 In Iraq | Iraq & the Logic of Withdrawal | Modern concepts: Cheney's Razor | Madrassa reforms make little headway | U.S. Policy Against 'Axis of Evil' Foundering | Parents of Fallen Marine Make Plea to Bush | DiRita’s Deceitful Response to American Progress | Japan voters could deal U.S. a blow in Iraq | US Troops Hold Children Hostages in Northern Iraq: Police | Black August and Beyond | Security prisoner suspected killed in in Iraq's Abu Ghraib | Psychological trauma widespread in Iraq | First post-Saddam executions soon: Jaafari
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Man killed on London Subway last month was 'acting normally' - ITV | Feds suspect terrorist link to LA robberies | Alleged Plot to Attack So. Cal. Targets Probed | Police Seize Russian Uranium In Istanbul | Death in Stockwell: the unanswered questions | Four arrested under terror laws : BBC
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- JUDGE RULES FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON DETAINEE ABUSE
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- AIPAC lobbyists, US analyst plead not guilty of disclosing classified
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Right wing lies in the media and Internets: The Hillary snub which wasn't | WaPo Editorial Board: Lying BushCo Shills | Zotob Worm strikes CNN, ABC, other news orgs | Judging the Bush gang by the media company it keeps | Even Cable TV Anchors Realize Their Networks Are Bad | The Air America Fauxgate Story | More media sponsors of pro-Bush Pentagon march to abuse memories | Radio Station Won't Cancel Keillor's Show | Hunter Thompson Widow Tells AP of Send-Off
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh's lawyers win ruling that may imperil case | Limbaugh falsely asserted that AP alleged Roberts was anti-Semitic | Limbaugh baselessly compared Cindy Sheehan to Bill Burkett: "Her story is nothing more than forged documents" | Limbaugh falsely denied human causes of ozone depletion, global warming
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- FBI Investigating Local Homeland Security Agents for Assault, Torture | Anti-terror laws are tyrannical: Fraser
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996 | Officer Says Military (not Bill Clinton, wingnuts) Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists
ELECTION THEFTS -- Johns Hopkins to examine evoting | Preview: "Mark Crispin Miller's None Dare Call It Stolen -- Ohio, the election, and America's servile press"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Millions of Americans get by on Social Security alone | When Numbers That Don't Exist Make It Into the Story | Dow down 121 as consumers cut back | Wash. Post omitted estimated impact on deficit of Bush's plan to make tax cuts permanent | Inflation jumped 0.5 percent in July
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Winnebago lays off workers
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- David Broder knows nothing about urban schools—but soundly scolds teachers, who do | Many Going to College Aren't Ready, Report Finds
OH, GOD! -- Pat Robertson "absolutely appalled" by comments Boxer never made
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Riding While Nonwhite | The Bell Curve oozes back | Popeye's Love-Child? | On Malkin, Delusion, Racism and Politics | Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King hospitalized | Prosecutor Says Relative of Ex-Klansman Threatened Judge Before 1964
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Fuel Economy Plan Seen Omitting Rule for Big SUVs | Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Oil Prices | Is Oil Heading for $100 a Barrel? | Conservatives may not believe in global warming… | Reliant Settles California Energy Crisis Suit | J.P. Morgan to Settle Enron 'Megaclaims' Suit | Wary Wal-Mart blames gas prices for soft 2nd-qtr,worries about
HEALTH DEBACLES -- "Big pharmaceuticals, they're right up there with the arm dealers." | Oregon to Require Prescriptions for Medications Linked to Meth | Emergency contraception rule on way to becoming permanent | House of Representatives Staff Reviewing Palmeiro Documents
WEIRD SCIENCE -- USA Today Does Terrible Job On Evolution "Debate"
GAY IN AMERICA -- Dems sleep while gay rights splits the black faith community

8/16/05
The mother of all battles: Cindy Sheehan has almost single-handedly launched an American antiwar movement. And in the process, she's exposed a president's feet of clay | Right Wing Psycho: Press ignores drunk neighbor who shot gun near Sheehan camp | Watch this! Cindy Sheehan invites Bush to Friday prayer vigil for troops | The hollow man: Bush's inability to feel the pain of others -- highlighted by Cindy Sheehan's peace vigil -- is a stark contrast to the anguish LBJ felt over casualties in Vietnam | The neighbors are getting cranky | The Anti-Military Right: Why Do They Hate Our Troops' Sacrifice? | Tom "Billy Jack" Laughlin: "Enough is enough!" | Bush neighbors to seek court order to quash Sheehan's right to protest | Sheehan's Husband Seeks Divorce | Bush vs. Sheehan: The race to the bottom | Bush on Sheehan: "I've got a life to live" | Bush defends ignoring protest | Mom Vows To Continue Bush Protest | Watch this! The Daily Show blasts smear artists out for Sheehan | Michelle Maglalang, smear artist | Michelle vs. Michelle | John Cole on Malkin's latest Sheehan smear
You can't make this stuff up! "'Stop stealing our F&*#$@g signs" (via Raw Story)
TRAITORGATE -- Why John Ashcroft recused himself from the Plame case | Standing on Shoulders of Perjury Law -- Fitzgerald doesn't like being lied to
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Nominee John Roberts, in '84, called equal pay for women 'radical' | Anti-women's-health Roberts Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy' | Roberts Backed Efforts for Theocratizing Public Schools | 1984 memo by Roberts was critical of Senator Olympia Snowe | Linda Deak has some questions for Roberts | Lowlights from Justice Sunday: Part Deux | Critics slam Roberts' environmental record
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Contractor, Cunningham staffers ordered before grand jury
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Ahh, the little things… | Tom DeLay won't be indicted | DeLay and Abramoff: Chums long after DeLay DeNied it
HOT POLITICS -- NY-Sen: NY conservatives, seeing Jeanine "Soprano" Pirro as a loser, looking for new Hillary foe | MI-Gov, Sen: EPIC/MRA poll | If bronze could weep... | Veering to the Reich: A slicked-up neo-Nazi party is making noise again in Germany, exploiting rising immigration fears in Europe. Are voters starting to listen? | Congressman Ford Urges The President To End Vacation And Return.... | Macho Democrats? | The RNC vs. Howard Dean on the future for Iraqi women | The Problem With Joe Biden | Party leader: Bill Weld considering New York gubernatorial run | Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) Ready for Tough Blue State Campaign | The Imperial Presidency | More "netroots v. establishment" stuff | Gingrich Points to Future -- But Who Really Cares What That Has-been Has to Say?
QWAGMIRE -- Iraqis fail to agree on constitution by deadline | US Pressure Could Backfire In Iraq | A Democratic Strategy for Getting Out Of Iraq | American violence in Iraq: Necrophilia or savagery? | Iraq War's Two Constants | What To Do With Europe's Muslims? | Sen. Biden Says Bush Should Fire "Incompetent… Criminal" Rumsfeld | Despite Setback, Little Georgie Sunshine Optimistic on Iraqi Charter | Overseas Basing Commission report: Military housing could pose problem | U.S. Pressure on Iraq Could Backfire, Say Experts | "Truth Tour" participant Morgan cited sources contradicted by Bush, military and defense officials | Bush Lies Again, This Time About Base Closings | On Iraq, the Difference a Day Makes at the NYT | Terrorists kill two, injure three of Iraqi VP's personal guards | Navy proposing high-tech destroyer with long-range guns | Iraq Leaders Agree on Draft Constitution | Lowering expectations -- again -- on Iraq | Shiite cleric whose arrest triggered uprisings last year freed, aides | Roadside bomb kills four Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah | Iraq Leaders Consider Extending Deadline
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Italy arrests 141 in terror raids: breaking | Fuel terror plot report played down
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Fresh allegations of Iraqi prisoner abuse emerge | Hundreds of Videos Not Given to Justice | Judge to decide on release of new Iraq prison abuse photos
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- Bush won't give in on Social Security, labor secretary says
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Rupert Murdoch promotes Neofascist propaganda master Roger Ailes | Coalition group launches ad campaign attacking 'Parade of lies, corruption' | Michael K. Powell’s Golden Revolving Door | Wash Post' Guild Leaders Want Paper Out Of Sept. 11 'Freedom Walk' | Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? Michael Barone Pushes "Bell Curve" Fraud | Gröpenführer Responds To Hush Money Allegations | The coddled punditocracy: clueless and irrelevant
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Conservatives again misrepresented "wall" that purportedly inhibited intelligence sharing prior to 9-11 | Infants have been stopped
$MIRKONOMICS -- Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Agilent announces 1,300 layoffs | Delta Seen Lining Up Bankruptcy Financing | Icahn urges Time Warner split
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Napolitano declares border emergency | Bill Richardson and the Minutemen: Bordering on a Mistake
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Chavez Threatens To Cut Off Oil Exports To US | Gröpenführer's close ties to gas lobby
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Urine-powered battery invented
TRASHING NATURE -- Global Warming: MSM Clouds Picture Again
GAYS TRAPPED IN BUSHWORLD -- What Makes People Gay?

8/15/05
Paul Krugman: Bush lied about the Social security system
What Happens If Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington, D.C.? | Shots fired near Bush protesters | Showdown in Crawford, TX | Steve Gilliard on the Mayor of Simpleton | Lookin' in on the Broken Spoke | In Texas, A Time to Circle the Minivans | The Crawford Diaries
Tell the Washington Post to stop sponsoring pro-Bush rallies | Washington Post endorses Pro-Bush, Anti-Democrat war march
Watch this! Dr. Dean on Face the Nation
TRAITORGATE -- What Now, Karl? Rove and Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair; Ashcroft received briefings, a breach of ethics | More Fitzgerald, Rove, and Plame news from Murray Waas | Rove's truthfulness doubted early on by Justice, FBI
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- GOP winning Roberts media battle | US conservative Christians slam "judicial autocracy" | Theocracy Rising: What they mean by "activist judges" on "Just Us" Sunday | Bashing Judges and Gays at "Justice" Sunday
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- NH politicians received money from DeLay | Uh-oh, more post-February '04 DeLay-Abramoff chumminess!
HOT POLITICS -- Katherine Harris in denial over GOP doubters | Bush Approval a Low for Two-Term Leaders | Beltway Dems vs. the grass roots | NV-Sen: Reid Handling Ensign with Kid Gloves | Howard Dean on "Face The Nation" | Bill Richardson: A New New Democrat Looks West and Forward | Santorum, Casey Race in National Spotlight | Bush polls at all-time low for 2d termer - but the GOP borg still obey Smirk | Corruption isn't a partisan issue
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq fustercluck: Let's welcome the administration to the reality-based world | Iran backing Iraqi insurgent bombers, according to Time | Army ad: Sign up your kids | Iran Says It Won't Stop Uranium Conversion | The right is getting a little bit disrespectful toward the military these days | Blaming Iraqis First | Troops position for Gaza pullout | Some Lawmakers Say More Troops Are Needed in Iraq | UN nuclear watchdog rebuts claims that Iran is trying to make A-bomb | Responding to Bush, Iran says has more war options than U.S. | Dean on Getting Out | Papers Increasingly Note Antiwar Views in Covering Funerals of the | Tests indicate seized chemicals could have been used for explosives, NOT chemical weapons | Doubt on war grows in U.S. | US reports death of Zarqawi aide as senators demand Rumsfeld's head | Torture complaint challenges Iraq constitution | Bush's Splendid Little War | "All options are on the table" can only mean one thing
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES --Washington Post endorses Pro-Bush, Anti-Democrat war march | Tell the Washington Post to stop sponsoring pro-Bush rallies | Investors threaten Rupert Murdoch | Murdoch fights board for News Corp. | Michelle Maglalang changes her story
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- The 'suspicious package' that wasn't -- Device was Secret Service contractor's training tool
$MIRKONOMICS -- Colorado tax plan getting Republicans heat
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Saudi investments abroad over $750 billion
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Study Shows Florida Leads Nation In Taser Deaths | Legal Urban Legends Hold Sway -- and the Corporate Right uses them to bamboozle the sheep into supporting having their rights stripped away
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Nationwide Gas Prices Set Another Record
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Ind. Couple Who Rejected Child's Medical Care Faces $172,000 Bill | Playing Doctor: Rulings By Courts Trim Legal Leeway Given Medicaid Recipients
WEIRD SCIENCE -- James Dobson tries to defend his Nazi-Stem Cell comparison
CIVIL UNIONS, UNCIVIL REPUBLICANS -- Man Outed on Radio Show to Receive $270K

8/14/05
Frank Rich: Someone tell the Preznit the war is over -- and America has less faith in his war than LBJ's | Senior administration officials face the truth: America f$#@ed up Iraq, and now it'll be an Islamic fiefdom | Bush is a God Damn Liar | "The Wheels are Coming Off It": With no clear finish line in Iraq, conflicting signals hit the press about the Bush boy's glorious Iraq crusade | Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, we still haven't even come close to finishing the job -- and where's Osama?
Suggestion for Cindy Sheehan | Bush uses Radio Address to talk to Cindy Sheehan | Pro-Bush and anti-Iraq war demonstrators square off in Texas
Bush says he'd use force against Iran (which means he will begin "major combat operations" sooner rather than later)
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Extreme Sunday's Amnesia On Anti-Catholicism | What Democrats Should Do On Roberts
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Jack Abramoff: More Trouble Ahead?
HOT POLITICS -- Democrats to take on Bush's failure to address real global threats to the United States | Granholm Keeps Lead Over DeVos in Michigan | Call to back UN genocide reform | NARAL Communications Director Resigns | Harris campaigns in south Florida, where recount remains an issue | Operation Reach-Out: James Wolcott snarks again! | Battle lines are drawn in Texas | Sullivan Challenges Bradley on Corrupt PAC Money | Warner Calls BRAC Move Illegal (More Bush Nepotism)
QWAGMIRE -- Six US soldiers killed across Iraq over the weekend | The Other Army: Private Military Contractors | How Low can Expectations in Iraq Go? | Such a bargain! Half-price Colombian fighters offered for Iraq | Right-wing idiot tries to tie discovery of about 28 barrels of miscellaneous chemicals to Saddam's millions of tons of WMDs | US steps in to end Iraq constitution deadlock | Iran looks to China for backing in nuclear dispute | Report: U.S. commander is dressed down (Gen. George Casey) | Court martial to inspect Iraqi site of civilian death | Troops still don’t have the armor they need | N. Korea signals cooperation in nuclear talks | Deadly Deja Vu in Iraq: Troops still without armor | No. 10 refuses to reveal Iraq war E-mails | Germany attacks US on Iran threat | Bush moves mass of troops from Germany to Romania, build huge base. | War Messages That Don't Quite Match | U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility | Germany rejects Iran military option | Turkey admits its "mistakes" toward Kurds | Bush: We're stuck in Iraq | Lawmakers grow restless over Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- US leaked document warns of new attacks on London
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- U.S. Democrats demand conditions on Social Security
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Washington Post to cosponsor pro-war bash | Ted Nugent: Still a loudmouth clown | Jack Cafferty look pretty Bushed | NY Community Center Loan Investigated -- Did Air America "Investor" Sully the Network Undeservedly?
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- New 9/11 tapes show mass confusion | Homeland Security Dept. Loses Labor Rules Fight
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- No Evidence Pentagon Knew of Atta, Panel Says | CIA ceremony for ex-spymasters sparks puzzlement
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart's every day low stock price
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Suit claims NY town used false subpoenas to ID e-mail critics
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Experimental hybrid cars get up to 250 mpg
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Tragedy of US crystal meth orphans | New approach gives hope of HIV cure
WEIRD SCIENCE --
TRASHING NATURE -- Pombo Pushes Endangered Species Act Propaganda

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