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Hot Headlines, July-August 2005

8/27/05
I invaded the White House press corps! Cintra Wilson had front row seats at the media's Great Slave Rebellion over Karl Rove. No wonder our democracy's in trouble
The Calm Before | Cindy Sheehan Ad Says Bush Lied About Iraq War | Sheehan on Real Time | Sheehan is about to go boom | Bay Buchanan criticizes Cindy…um… wait… say whaaaaaaat? | Authorities Brace For A Perfect Storm In Crawford | First stop on Cindy Sheehan’s bus tour will be the office of Rep. Tom DeLay | Oops! Turns out the Pruetts “Totally Empathize” With Cindy Sheehan | What happens in Crawford stays in Crawford | Dear Clifford: An Open Letter to an Evil Lying Warmonger Who Hates Cindy
What would Pat Robertson say? | Pat Robertson’s assassination threat may have violated federal law | Mark Green: We Owe Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter a Big Thank You | About Pat Robertson...
Firm pushing socially regressive Rick Santorum book promoted bogus, lurid Clinton sex tales
TRAITORGATE -- Robert Novak's Latest Idiocy
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- The comeback: Reproductive rights groups rebound and gear up to stop the Roberts nomination | BREAKING: “Independent” Ethicist Defending John Roberts Actually A Pentagon Consultant | Roberts Knew He Was Acting Unethically | SCOTUS: Stealthy John Roberts lets ambition get in the way of ethics | Desire V Duty On Supreme Court | Right Wing Front Group Tries To Sell Roberts To Black America | Roberts Targeted in New Commercial
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Prosecutors: Rep. Duke Cunningham demanded bribe | Dukester Going Down
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Operation Yellow Elephant Goes to College | Chickenhawk: The other right meat
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Scandal-Ridden Tom DeLay Doing Everything He Can To Win Back His District's Good Graces
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Arianna Huffington: Leaked Document Exposes Bolton's Reforming Genius
COINGATE -- Petro's inaction on fees "surprised" SEC? Given who's controlling it, you just have to laugh
HOT POLITICS -- Gallup: Bush ratings slide, again | MT-Sen: Pearl Jam's Ament and Jon Tester | Schwarzenegger is fair game; embarrassment as few meet him at the State Fair | Rangel launches rambling, blistering attack on Cheney | Gallup and Senate | Robert Schlesinger: Summer of the GOP's Discontent | How low can Bush go? | Bush Talking Points 101 Explained by Jon Stewart | AP Poll: 9/10 Say Its Ok For War Critics To Voice Concerns | The National Review Is Right -- For Once!
BUDGET MESS --
QWAGMIRE -- Political Violence Surges in Iraq; Two-day Toll Reaches 100;Third Charter Deadline Missed | Bush braces U.S. for sacrifice as protesters gather | Prelude to civil way: Shiites and Kurds halt charter talks with Sunnis | Shiites, Kurds reject Sunnis -- and Bush | Gen. Wesley Clark Merges Politics and Policy, and Has a Plan to Get the US Out of Iraq | AK-47 Law Rules as Cartels Fight Over US Drug Route | Iraqi Constitution: Bush Better Beware | Two AF bases saved from closure | An Iraqi Confederation? | C&L interviews Larry Johnson | Top U.S. General in Iraq Backs Timetable for Withdrawal | Iraqi forces may need years of preparation | General faults U.S. over war's image | U.S. Court rules National Guard base closure illegal | Senior Iran cleric hails “Islamic state of Iraq” | Joint chiefs chairman Myers says Iraq failure would mean instability | Spiraling Into Disaster - and Not Just in Iraq | The Dead-enders Club: 20 percent of Americans say they "approve strongly" of the way the Bush administration is handling the war in Iraq | Base Closings Fueling Republican Resentment Against Pentagon And | Dumb-ino Theory | Bush personally intervening in Iraq Constitution | Thune victory: Base to stay open in Dakota | Fla. schools block peace groups
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Al Qaeda in Iraq issues virulent "jihad goes on until doomsday" manifesto | France: Al Qaeda to attack Asian city
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Reuters cameraman still held at Abu Ghraib | How long will the United States detain innocent men?
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- Bush Boy avoids Social Security issue | Conservative court upholds $500,000 penalty against fake grassroots group USA Next
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Supine White House press corps schmoozes with Smirk on his fake ranch | Ann Coulter: New Yorkers "Would Immediately Surrender" If Attacked... | She-Pundit Comes to 'God and Country' | Steve Gilliard on Chris Hitchens and the sad decline of the treasonous | Jon Stewart takes Christopher Hitchens to school | Hoax About Dead Iraq Soldier Who Never Was Leaves Illinois Student Paper Embarrassed | Press as Patsies, Redux | Nicholas von Hoffman: National Porn Sunday
FOX WATCH -- Fox sued by 'sweatshop' TV writers
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- American Library Association Challenges FBI Demands For Records...
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- 9/11 Accusations Fly Within CIA; Rebuttals to IG's report filed | Slam-dunk: Sept. 11 Report Suggests Disciplining George Tenet, Other Top CIA Players | Able Danger and the Blind Sheikh
ELECTION THEFTS -- Justice Dept. OKs Georgia's Republican-backed, Suppress-the-minorities Voter ID Law
$MIRKONOMICS -- Greenspan To White House: Address "Looming Fiscal Problems"...
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Ted Kennedy issues a back-to-school challenge to Republicans | Report: Hostile Attitudes And Inappropriate Treatment Of Women Persist at Military Academies
OH, GOD! -- All Spokane Roman Catholic Diocese assets can be sold to settle sex abuse suits
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Intolerance: calling right wingers out on their misogyny, racism, and homophobia is just showing "intolerance"
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Prius Owners Annoyed By Large HOV Decals & They Make The Car Look
HEALTH DEBACLES -- 9/11 heroes' health program 'lost' | Study: homeopathic medicine doesn't work | FDA, Under Pressure from Regressives, Delays Morning-After Pill Decision | Merck may settle some Vioxx cases

8/26/05
TIME magazine tried to influence the 2004 election to Bush's favor
Cindy Sheehan responds with class to families that don't approve of her antiwar sentiments | Pruetts (the couple cited by Bush in pro-war speech) “Totally Empathize” With Sheehan, Say Her Protests Are “Wonderful” | False Freedom isn't Free | Pat Boone says Cindy Sheehan is a pot smoker | Soldier's mother gains support of high-profile war critic | Sheehan Responds to President Bush, phony grassroots group known as ‘Move America Forward’ | The Anti-Anti-War Movement Is Underway | War supporter tells Raw: 'If we pull out, every death would be in vain' | Antiwar protesters 'nutcakes:' senator | Cindy Sheehan Demolishes Right Wing Attempts to Put Words In Her Mouth, Explains She Doesn't Claim To Speak For Others | Exclusive: Sheehan's return: 'Casey will never die...' | Vigil generates support for dead soldier's mother | Speaking for the dead on Iraq | Sullivan calls on Bradley, Henderson to Renounce Robertson
Rolling blackouts return to California; deregulation, Schwarzenegger mismanagement to blame | Power crisis II: Judgment Day
White House denies vacation
Televangelist Ted Haggard distances himself from Pat Robertson, seeks meeting with Chávez | Watch this! Wayne Simmons sanitizes Pat Robertson's remarks, endorses Hugo's hit, calls for more assassinations | Watch this! Pat's remarks were bad enough, but what did the pundits have to say? | Pat Robertson Isn’t Very Sorry
Border patrol 'copter downed -- by rocks!
TRAITORGATE -- RoveGate: The Cliff Notes
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts, Confederate Apologist? | Lead gay rights groups oppose John Roberts | Senators Want Roberts To Reply Now
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Feds hungry for Duke's home
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- John Bolton throws UN summit into chaos | The Bolton Civil Wars in the State Department may have just restarted | Recess-appointed U.S. Ambassador John Bolton is sticking it to the world. . .hard and nasty | Bolton's incredulous, unacceptable edits to UN document revealed (.pdf) | Amb-ASS-ador Bolton’s Very Exclusive Reception
COINGATE -- Documents refute Ohio governor's story
HOT POLITICS -- Gen. Clark Merges Politics and Policy | Republican election fraud: Phone jamming grand jury to reconvene | Fighting Right: Time to get shrill! | "Clinton-killer" Jeanine Pirro's Sputtering Scampaign Hit by Defection, Rival's Ad | Lying liar Rick "The Virginian" Santorum's office can't find record of his questioning war | Clintons' Hobnobbing With GOP Is a Clever Political Calculation | Santorum's troubles: For once, it's what he didn't say | Ouch! Moderate GOP Carpetbagger Bill Weld Gets Big Wallop in Gov Poll
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq on brink of meltdown | Iraqi Constitution Misses Latest Deadline; Situation Growing Dire | Angry and marginalized, Sunnis are threatening to torpedo Iraq's constitution; disaster looms, and the Bush administration's blunders are largely to blame | 36 Men Found Slain In Iraq; 8 Of President's Bodyguards Killed | The death of Al Mutanabbi Street | Pakistan's Wild West border | Bush: "Withdrawal From Iraq NOW Emboldens The Terrorists" | How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb? | Bush Needs New Spin For Iraq | Iraq Just Like America in 1776...Not | The Memo on Iraq the President Needs To Read | Red Cross treated Iraqi rebels in deal | Islamic Slant in Iraq Charter Decried | A Madison soldier's family grieves while seething at military brass | Panel: Shut Walter Reed Hospital | Iran seeking nuclear bomb "booster," say exiles | Tell us again about the women, George | Walter Reed Medical Center To Be Closed | Santorum's office can't find record of his questioning war | Makin' good progress: Iraq lawmakers delay vote on constitution; no date set
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Ann Coulter repeats her "New Yorkers are cowards" assertion | Bush family continues too-cozy ties to White House reporters | Howard Stern Begs To Be Fired... | Savvy timing? Sirius adds 2 Stern stations | Darkness at Noonan | Blankley contorted poll results to argue "very solid" support for war | Sinking ever lower: FOX News falsely identified couple mistaken for radicals and even gave out their address! | Michelle Malkin: I like 'em big and AWOL | Why CNN Sucks: for once, FOX News is right
FOX WATCH -- Writers Sue Fox Broadcasting For Violating Labor Laws | Watch this! Bill O'Reilly Loses it with Joe McQuaid
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- 9/11 Families Criticize TSA's Insane Plan Permitting Ice Picks on Planes
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA report 'blames itself' on 9/11 | CIA Panel: 9/11 Failure Warrants Disciplinary Action | White House Misrepresents 9/11 Report | Specter mulls Able Danger hearings | Bush ignores CIA intelligence -- isn't that part of what led to failure to stop 9/11 | New book to detail the miserable failure of Douglas Feith
$MIRKONOMICS -- Good news: "Paris Hilton tax" may not be repealed for good | Dow drops 85 on record oil prices
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Moody's cuts Ford, GM debts to junk
OH, GOD! -- Minister of Hate Fred Phelps to "Hunt Down" Swedish King | Air Force Scandal Results in Reforms
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Dem seeks inquiry into 'suppressed' racial profiling study
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Gas prices slamming local governments | Montana's governor eyes coal to solve U.S. fuel costs | GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over
HEALTH DEBACLES -- The bad idea behind our failed health-care system | Hormone found that extends life | California sues thirty-nine drug makers | Merck Lawyer: No Plans To Settle Vioxx Suits | JAMA Gets Angry E-mails From Abortion Foes | NIH Set to Water Down Ethics Policy | Clash over pot research gets personal: Vasconcellos' long-ago self-esteem panel is derided by DEA lawyer more interested in cracking down on soft drug than the meth epidemic | Medicare Drug Plan Marks Improve
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Teen invents hamster-powered cell phone | Marketing "Intelligent Design"

8/25/05
A servile Congress has let Bush go on permanent vacation. But with US security hanging in the balance, it's time to ask the hard-hitting questions
AP tries to help Robertson out of a jam, puts the word "apologized" in the lede | More than words | Pat Robertson is praying for more Court Vacancies | First Pat Robertson Calls For Assassination, Then He Lies About It | Everybody Loves Hugo | Pat Robertson and Charles Taylor: Pals | Words of a false prophet | Awwww! Pat Robertson says he was "misinterpreted" | Dem ties Republican, assassination plot | Pelosi: President Bush Must Denounce Robertson's Call to Assassinate Chavez | Pat and Pigeon Poop | First, Robertson had lied, said he suggests kidnapping, not killing | Why Won't BushCo Condemn Robertson's Remarks? | Texas Baptists condemn Robertson's remarks | African Christian body condemns US evangelist | ABC Family "strongly rejects" Robertson's comments
American Legion to take "whatever means necessary" to stop antiwar protesters; sounds like a terrorist threat, if you ask AmericaBlog and us! | Why Does the American Legion hate America? | American Legion flip flop | Boiled Shirt Americanism | American Legion Flashback | American Legion turns Stalinist
Cindy Sheehan returns to Crawford | Via Crooks and Liars: Anti-Cindy protest sites abandoned | Move America Forward, anti-Cindy sponsors, exposed as fake"grassroots" GOP shills | Republican PR Firm behind anti Sheehan bus tour | Bush’s Latest Attack Against Cindy Sheehan | The Sheehan effect: Bush is forced to respond again | Bush Claims Sheehan Doesn't Speak for Kin of Casualties
Variety: Right wing goes goofy in spotlight
TRAITORGATE -- A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed | RoveGate: Bush's Watergate Ready To Blow? Could it be the Niger documents? | So, what's in the bag?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Democrats Seeking Release of Withheld Roberts Iran-Contra Documents | Two senators want Roberts to answer a question before hearing starts | Why Democrats Must Oppose Roberts | Opposition for Roberts, but does it matter? | People for the American Way is calling for the Senate to reject John Roberts | Originalism and Unenumerated Rights
DOWNING STREET MEMO -- GOP Rep. joins call on Downing documents | Downing Street reporter dissects prewar Iraq intelligence
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Sacrifice? Count Me Out -- Ted Rall says if you supported the war, pay for it
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Bolton Already Undermining UN Reform | Bolton Pushes U.N. on Change as US Objects to Draft Plan
COINGATE -- Coin dealer releases documents to rebut Ohio Governor Taft
HOT POLITICS -- Harris poll has Bush at 40% | Gröpenführer booed at Stones concert, mocked by Jagger | Poll shows Schwarzenegger's popularity at all-time low | Hagel effect: Joe Scarborough votes Hillary Clinton in 08' | FL-Sen: Go Katherine, go! | Gary Hart Blasts Democrats For Timidity | OR-Gov: Kulonkoski not popular, but neither are challengers | GOP Sen. Hagel seen eyeing independent bid | Nonprofits Cloak Schwarzenegger Donors
QWAGMIRE -- Meet The New War, Same As The Cold War | Radical Cleric Calls for End to Clashes Between Rival Shiite Factions | Is Dick Cheney getting ready to pull the trigger on a nuke attack on Iran? | Larry Johnson: Why We Must Leave Iraq | Korea nuclear talks unlikely next week | Bush dials 9/11, again | US General Sees Significant Withdrawal in Iraq | US approves full new warhead production | More of the same from W | Iraqi deputy justice minister escapes assassination bid again | US combat troops returning from Iraq face major health peril | WaPo: Iraqi Constitution Looking Bleak | Antiwar Protesters Cheer Salt Lake Mayor | Bush's War Stance Criticized on Sports Page | Iraq PM urges calm, condemns attack on Sadr group | Pentagon orders 1,500 more to Iraq | Iraq secularists denounce "Islamist" constitution | Bush Pledges to Stay Course in Iraq Nam | 68 Troops Have Died In Iraq Since Bush Vacation Began | Military struggles to control Iraqi prison | Iraq War Less Popular Than Vietnam | Woman who once said Bush was her "liberator" decides flees Iraq | Pakistan admits nuke transfer to N. Korea | Are Democrats in disarray on Iraq? | Bush's new Iraq push: Editorials say don't bother | Panel Votes to Close 5 Major Army Bases (Ga.,NJ, Va., Mich.) | AQ Khan transferred centrifuges to N Korea: Musharraf | Humvee's days as military workhorse are running out | Kansas A Big Winner On Bases | "Brazen" Insurgent Attack in Western Baghdad | Heavy fighting between insurgents and police in Baghdad
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bus bomber 'had intended to hit train' | Customs Blocked Accused Suicide Bomber | Osama Bin Laden Reported Injured | Al-Qaida will retreat to Africa, says general | Hackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Abu Ghraib General Karpinski Lambastes Bush Administration
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- No news here, just keep moving | This is what Katie Couric considers something of which she is "proud"? | Why did the press feel disdain for Clinton? He just wasn’t cool, Harris says
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Civil liberties go by wayside in bid to curb terrorism
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA Sends Finished 9 / 11 Report to Panels
$MIRKONOMICS -- Bankruptcies in US surge to record high | Rents Head Up as Home Prices Put Off Buyers
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Mobil, CIA Secrets May Come Out in Bribery Trial of Oil Adviser | Cuts at Ford may include plants | K-Mart's former CEO, CFO face charges | AOL reforms service in Spitzer pact | CostCo vs. Wal-Mart: guess which one benefits the public more?
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Study: Race affects traffic stops outcome | So-called "ecoterrorists" are now above ultra-right extremists on the FBI charts | Bush cadre demotes DoJ official for daring to say police police treat black and Hispanic drivers worse than whites | Faith-based Bush aide heads to TX high court
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Reverse Robin Hood' Thomas Ryan stole from poor schoolkids to give to friends
OH, GOD! -- Rev. Jerry Falwell Loses Bid to Shut Down Disapproving Web Site
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Luskin on Oil | Crude Oil Reaches $68 as Storm Threatens Gulf of Mexico Output
TRASHING NATURE -- Bush Secretly Undermines State Efforts to Curb Global Warming | Arctic summers 'iceless in 100 years'
GAY IN AMERICA -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry's closet

8/24/05
Our national shame: Pat Robertson's call for Hugo Chávez's assassination is now a top international story | The Pat Robertson Hatestorm: Why Is ABC Supporting A Jihadist? | Media Matters Calls on ABC Family to Discontinue Robertson Broadcasts | Chavez befuddled: Who's this little man Robertson? | Why the Silence on the right-wing sphere over Robertson? | American Fatwa | Pat Robertson's Greatest Hits | TRASHBACK: Falwell and Killin' | TRASHBACK: In 2003, CNBC's Kudlow called for using "300 of the best Special Ops forces we have" to remove Chavez from power | Norm Coleman, Mel Martinez scorch Ayatollah Robertson | Is Pat Robertson guilty of a crime? | Pat Robertson Needs To Update His Website | Radical Cleric Robertson | Chavez ally: Robertson a 'fascist' | Rummy: His department isn't going to whack Chavez! | Murder on their minds: Robertson not alone among conservative media figures
CBS Affiliate Will Not Air Cindy Sheehan's Ad Because There Is Supposedly "No Proof" Iraq Didn't Have WMDs | Cindy Sheehan to return to Camp Casey today | Cue up slime machine! | Antiwar protest in Idaho: "a Cindy Sheehan in every community" | The bereaved rate Bush | MSNBC: majority of Americans "extremists" | Bush takes vacation from his French vacation, goes to Idaho to escape Cindy Sheehan | Antiwar Protesters Cheer Salt Lake Mayor | Joseph Wilson's statement about the attacks on Cindy Sheehan | Bush Believes Those Who Protest Iraq War Don't Want US to Win 'War on Terror,' Spokesman Says | Protesters, traffic snarls raise Crawford courthouse ruckus
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TRAITORGATE --
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Specter Plans to Probe 'Judicial Activism' | Republican: SCOTUS Nominee John Roberts Needs To Reject Past | Wash. Post's Allen echoed GOP take on Dem scrutiny of Roberts: an attempt to "pacify your liberal base" | 80,000 seek release of Roberts' documents | Why Roberts’ Affirmative Action File Is Missing | SCOTUS: Why have Stealthy John Roberts's papers been censored?
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Sign up Norah O'Donnell | Here's Your Antiwar Extremists, Norah
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Guam's delegate to Congress seeks high-level inquiry into Abramoff probe | When you ain’t got nothin’, you ain’t got nothin’ to lose
COINGATE -- Ohio Democrats draft articles of impeachment against Taft
HOT POLITICS -- John Thune, who got elected with help from Jeff Gannon, is in trouble | Nixon, Bush approval ratings compared | Harry Reid back in the fray after stroke | Donations to Governor Schwarzenegger earn Target a boycott | Watts Won't Seek Okla. Governor's Office | OOPS! Cheney hangs flag the wrong way | Exhibits bust KY governor's team | Approval Ratings for President and Congressional Leaders Continue to Plummet
QWAGMIRE -- Secular Iraqis Say New Charter May Curb Rights | Democratic leaders haven't been able to come up with a message that doesn't echo Bush's war policy | Confidence In Military News Wanes | Ahmed "Judy's My Cutout" Chalabi tries to Reassure Secular Iraqis Who Say New Charter May Curb Rights | Sunnis set out to sabotage draft plan for Iraq | Rumsfeld Compares Iraq Critics To Communists, Stalinists | Bush says that if you disagree with his handling of the war in Iraq, you hate America | Rumsfeld: Constitution Won't End Violence | Saddam confirms legal team sacked | Suspected Hacker Enters Military Database | 20 Iraqis, two American soldiers killed in new attacks | From the Duh Dep't: Sunnis Unlikely To Support New Iraq Constitution | Rich Lowry falsely claimed Feingold's position on Iraq is "get out now" | Bush: Iraq Withdrawal Would Weaken US | Stripes: Troops in Europe say long US stay in Iraq may thin force | Eleven Policemen Killed in Mortar Attack in Baquba | Bush Says Iraqi Constitution Delays Are Understandable | Another deadline -- and more deaths -- in Iraq | Dan Bartlett Defends Iraq Strategy | David Frum, Tony Blankley Join The Tinkerbell Caucus | UN fear at rise in Afghan attacks | Robert Novak is outraged at the White House for allowing base closures | Iraq Clusterfuck: Bush war propaganda carved on soldiers' tombstones | In Iraq Jail, Resistance Goes Underground | GOP senator: Base closures 'rigged'
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- London bombers triggered blasts by hand - paper
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Dilbert tunes into CNN… | Much Less Trust in The Media | Ann Coulter calls New Yorkers Cowards | Facts, Then Smear: Another right winger gets it 100% wrong | BREAKING: NBC, CBS, ABC Reject Ad Criticizing Their News Coverage | Institutionalized | Hindrocket Makes An Ass of Himself Again | Poll respondents overwhelm site; Daily Kos drives back "Freeping" of Sheehan poll | Me Tarzan, You Hagel: James Wolcott brings Michael Ledeen to the woodshed
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh Distances Himself From Limbaugh
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- The fictional detectives of "Law and Order" dare call the Patriot Act what it is | Sparks City Council condemns Patriot Act
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- NY Times, Fox News falsely reported that second military official backed up Shaffer's Able Danger claim | Sen. Gorton smacks down Bill O'Reilly: "Nothing Jamie Gorelick wrote had the slightest impact on the Department of Defense or its willingness or ability to share intelligence" | Is it really such a surprise that the credibility of the Able Danger story is in so much doubt? | Ratings Hit! Viewers Tune In -- And Respond -- To CNN's 'Dead Wrong' Documentary
$MIRKONOMICS -- Donald Lambro penned misleading news report on "grow accounts" in "news," followed by "commentary" praising them | Ohio again near top of layoff list
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart: Always Low Prices, Even for Meth Lab Owners | Two dead in Wal-Mart shooting | Shooting Leaves 2 Dead at Ariz. Wal-Mart | NWA strike: Customers are stuck absorbing strike's impact
OH, GOD! -- John W. Whitehead: Christian Reconstructionist and plagiarist! | The Fundamentalist Republic of America | Grooming Politicians for Christ: Capitol Hill evangelical programs
WEIRD SCIENCE -- New Research Questions Fetus Pain
TRASHING NATURE -- Government Proposes New Fuel Standards for SUVs, Minivans

8/23/05
James Wolcott: The Squawk of a Chickenhawk
Christian extremist Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuela's president | Thanks for the Credit, AP! | Pat Robertson, Violent Taliban Extremist for Christ | 2-4-6-8 Who Should We Assassinate? | Under the Bush Doctrine, Should Hugo Chavez Assassinate Pat Robertson?
The Iraq war 'tipping point'? | Arianna Huffington defends Cindy on CNN | Thousands Protest Bush, Iraq War In Salt Lake City | War-loving reactionaries try coordinated counter-PR campaign to smear Cindy Sheehan | Move America Forward's Creepy Caravan
TRAITORGATE -- Judith Miller: Embedded over her head in Washington | Karl Rove’s involvement in the leak of Valerie Plame’s secret identity hasn’t curbed his influence at the White House
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Judge Roberts is a pampered white guy with a little race problem | Dianne Feinstein to Question John Roberts on Abortion | Fox's Kendall misconstrued Roberts's "settled law" comment as "his own view on Roe"
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Bass-fishing Lake Greedy Republican
COINGATE -- Ohio scandal grows: Golf, and access
HOT POLITICS -- George W. Bush's Job Approval Ratings Drop to 36% | It's hush-hush, but Cheney's coming to stump for DeLay | RI-Sen: Chafee to get challenge from Right | Novak: Bush killed Thune | The Gut Primary: Feingold Takes Moral High Ground | Somebody, Anybody, Please Tell The Media: Bush Numbers Lower than Nixon During Watergate | Reuters nails Bush -- Is the press finally turning on their "popular wartime Preznit?" | Introducing the ambiguously heterosexual Ken doll! | Kinky Friedman Turns To Politics | Bush administration opens door to full relations with Libya | Bush: Less Popular Than Nixon During Watergate | Senator Paul Hackett?... | Pataki calls were secretly recorded | John Edwards signals shift against war
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq Parliament Ends Session Without Voting On Constitution, But Looks Bound to Become Region's Next Islamic Theocracy | Iraqi Draft Constitution: Governed by Islamic Law | AP Releases in Full: Text of Proposed Iraq Constitution | The Islamic Republic of Iraq | The New Islamic Fiefdom of Iraq will be an even bigger magnet for terrorists now | ...And What Did They Die For Once Again? | Iraq clusterfuck: Was an Islamic Republic the "noble cause" for which our kids spilled their blood | How the White House Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Islamic Law | Bush all but admits failure of Iraq war policy to vets between the WWII analogies -- "We're not yet safe" | The preznit is sticking to all his old riffs about the war on terror | Bush Iraq Strategy = 9/11 x 5 + WWI + WWII | GOP divided on Iraq future: here are ten questions they need to ask now | George Allen is on the idiotic "Iraq=Normandy" message | Europeans call off nuclear talks with Iran-France | Iraq Qaeda claims rocket attack in Jordan port | No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program | Mortgaged To The House Of Saud | At Pentagon, "Less Ideology, More Balance?" As Long As Monkey Boy's In Charge, That'll Be the Day… | Bush Drawing All the Wrong Analogies | Poll finds regular worshipers more supportive of war in Iraq | Fighting Them in Iraq So We Can Also Fight Them — Again — in Afghanistan | Democrats: Time to Cowboy Up, Demand Exit from Iraq | Beirut suburb hit by blast; bomb thought | Afghanistan Sinks Into Turmoil | North Iowa Guard units called to active duty | The Iraq Constitution: Islamic Rule by the Shia and Kurds | Trent Lott: Bush Was Determined To Invade Iraq Before Diplomacy Started | Draft Constitution Would Fundamentally Change Iraq | Rebels target Iraqi security forces as 24 killed in attacks | Experts warn Army may face decline in quality | Parties reach deal on constitution | War stress blamed for shootings by vets | Mothballed choppers will be updated for war | Report: North Korea Reactivates Nuclear Reactor
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Homegrown American terrorist Eric Rudolph receives 4 more life terms | US Is Ordered by Judge to Investigate Use of Disputed Yemeni Informant | Feds: Terrorists may pose as homeless for surveillance
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Five CA ANG Soldiers Face Courts-martial for Alleged Prisoner
CHALABI SCANDAL -- NY Times is chock full of stealth lobbyist, accused embezzler Ahmed Chalabi
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- Alpo Accounts: Just because Bush screwed the pooch doesn't mean the Republicans aren't still trying to f$#@ us
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Is Mark Williams the single most obnoxious right wing radio host today? | John "Iguana Boy" Fund's non-correction: WSJ columnist perpetuated Richardson/Minuteman myth | Talk Host Fired Over Controversial Comments About Islam | Echo Chamber: Right-wing columnists crib from right-wing blogs | America has been brainwashed by far-left extremists… or not… | Bill Keller Versus Dick Posner: now that's snark! | Meet the Press guest host David Gregory sat by while Lott issued lie after lying lie | Cliff "Spliff" Kincaid denounced so-called "false" Media Matters item but failed to point out a single falsehood because it's all true | Garofalo to guest star on 'West Wing'
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh calls Native Americans "injuns" -- again | Keith Olbermann slaps Limbaugh again
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Officer is second to say Atta was known pre-9/11 | Navy Officer Affirms Assertions About Pre-9/11 Data on Atta | Pentagon still says it has found no evidence Atta identified before 2001 | Ahoy Captain Ed: You’re Still Wrong | Limbaugh, Patterson made false claims about Clinton's meetings with Tenet and Woolsey | Third-rate Law Professor Glenn "Instasmear" Reynolds Takes Gorelick Smear To New Lows
ELECTION THEFTS -- Computer experts to review voting machines | Special prosecutor subpoenas election workers
$MIRKONOMICS -- The Tinkerbell Caucus: Up Is Indeed Down
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ex-Halliburton staffer pleads guilty to bribes
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Texas Justice? | Police State Utah: Cops 'invade' rave in combat gear | Pataki calls for federal probe on tapes
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Bully for Them: US lags other countries in dealing with bullying | Federal Funds For Abstinence Group Withheld | ACLU Applauds Fed. Govt's Decision to Suspend...Funding of Abstinence... | Rising fuel costs for buses pinch school districts | Connecticut Sues 'No Child Behind' Law
OH, GOD! -- Evangelicals caught misusing federal funds for proselytizing | God hates mothers!
ENERGY SCANDALS -- US gas prices hit record $2.61/gallon
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Exposed: How Merck pushed deadly Vioxx | New Jersey Bans Smoking in All College Dormitories | Top-selling drug linked to increased suicide risk
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Breakthrough: Embryonic stem cells | Still More On The False God Of Intelligent Design
TRASHING NATURE -- West Coast States Unite On Cleaner Car Regulations | Scientists: New wave of marine extinctions
GAY IN AMERICA -- CA: Gay couples must pay child support | Court Upholds Gay Parents' Rights

8/22/05
Bush staff trashing Cindy Sheehan | The Crawford Coward is Terrified of Six Moms
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- NYT Again Spins Dems as "Split" Over Roberts Confirmation Hearings Tactics, But They Forget That Not All His Papers Have Been Reviewed
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Republicans: "Hell, no! We won't go!"
COINGATE -- Democrats eye impeaching Ohio governor | Former police, fire pension chairman of Ohio fined for ethics violations
HOT POLITICS -- Yes, the left needs a real leader | The other Rogers skewers Newt | More young blacks getting bamboozled by GOP | Rich liberals, fed up with losing, fund a new generation of think tanks and training programs to remake the American political landscape | Dennis Kucinich weds | Bush to face protests as he defends Iraq policy | Summer of Scandal for Politicians in US | It Is Time to Rip Bush on Iraq | The “Gut” Primary: Russ Feingold Is Making Sense | Salt Lake mayor protests Bush | Democracy Corps Study: What Democrats Should Do | Bush still refuses to visit San Francisco | Former Senate leader won't endorse Frist | Will DeWine be challenged?$10M campaign frightens off opponents
QWAGMIRE -- Hagel: Iraq looking like Vietnam and "We're not winning" | "Makin' good progress": Iraq constitution negotiations at an impasse | Iraq: Deputy Minister Warns Al-Zarqawi is Set to Strike Europe | Insurgents kill eight policemen, three civilians north of Baghdad | US and Afghan Forces Kill 40 Militants | Sunnis ask to delay constitution again, say they have little input | Report: North Korea Reactivates Nuclear Reactor | Sen. George Allen: willing to saying anything to avoid admitting there are problems in Iraq | Watch this: Russ Feingold calls for immediate withdrawal | Iraq deadline looms without deal | Beltway Dems Regurgitate Right-wing BS on Iraq; Grassroots Fights Back | Iraq Militias Discover the Power of Voter Registration | Under US Noses, Brutal Insurgents Rule Sunni Citadel | Several Hundred Million Embezzled at Iraqi Ministry | GI Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst Since '01 | Watch this: Neocon says "screw women's rights in Iraq" | Unembedded Iraq writer tells of chaos | Bush 'caves in' to Islamist Iraq | Iraq clusterfuck: Hagel gives the Beltway Dems cover | Watch this: Chuck Hagel says Iraq looking like Vietnam | Soldiers say force level comments no surprise, but could affect re-enlistment | Trent Lott admits to private conversations with Bush about Iraq "going back to just after 9/11" | 880 violent deaths in Iraq last month | More Democrats and Iraq | The Shame Game | Iraq Constitution: Sunnis Plead For Help | Hagel: Army Planning Four More Years in Iraq Is `Folly' | Hagel Says Iraq War Looking More Like Vietnam | Bomb Explodes Near US Embassy Convoy in Kabul Wounding 2 Americans | US probes killing of Iraqi by marines | Hagel finds Nebraskans troubled by Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- American terrorist Eric Rudolph to be sentenced today | Racial profiling: it doesn't work | Police who tailed shot Brazilian didn't think he was a threat: report | Engage The Reality Distortion Field | Police knew Brazilian was 'not bomb risk'
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- John Kasich omits truth about the University of Wisconsin's refusal to go on his show | Bush just Republican product placement for Armstrong movie? | Example #43,819,591,706 that the Corporate Media is not your friend:
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Newsweek's CW: Bush has gone overboard on 9/11 | 9-11 commission chair wants Bush response
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- US Web site names MI6 officers
ELECTION THEFTS -- Paul Krugman: shrill (and right) again, this time about electoral history
$MIRKONOMICS -- The Safety Net She Believed In Was Pulled Away When She Fell
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Unions Target Wal-Mart Worldwide | Spitzer and SEC question Lloyd's | LAT: Wal-Mart Hard Sell in Big Apple
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Ten years of Litigation Could Cost Pharmaceutical Company $50bn | Armstrong Pushes Bush for Cancer Research
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Bill Gates Funding Intelligent Design Center | Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells
TRASHING NATURE -- Elizabeth II, "Queen of Green," goes geothermal
GAY IN AMERICA -- Inside closet of anti- gay church leader

8/21/05
Vote for Cindy Sheehan! | Mother tips the balance against Bush | Refusal to See Sheehan Is Second-Guessed | Utah TV Station Refuses to Air Anti-War Ad | War Backers Start Camp Near Bush Ranch; Looks Like a Karl Rove Disinformation Ploy to Us! | Too late, Karl -- Camp Casey Grows and Grows | Fred Phelps attacks Cindy Sheehan | "Tour de Crawford" misses a stop | Cindy Sheehan on Kos
Hunter S. Thompson's Ashes Blast Off
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is no fan of Michael Jackson | Roberts' world of sweet irony: the White House selects a nominee for the Supreme Court using a process that violated federal law regarding the disqualification of judges | Roberts: His View of the SCOTUS
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- History: Liberals answer the military call, arrogant conservatives refuse
COINGATE -- Coin dealer asks Taft to take back statements
HOT POLITICS -- Lincoln Chafee: 'I've got a target on my back' | Gaddafi invites Bush, Rice to visit Libya-Senator | Darn the luck! Joe Scarborough Won't Challenge Katherine Harris in Florida; Did Klausutis Scandal Play a Role? | Mitt Romney (R-Carpetbagger): Increasingly unpopular in Massachusetts | Montana governor: USDA has become a tool of the food industry | Watch this! Paul Hackett with Bill Maher | Ky. Gov. Fletcher computer files copied; warrant served
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq considers fresh deadline for constitution | Slouching Towards the Islamic Republic | Iraq Blasts Jordan Over Saddam's Family | Four GIs Killed by Bomb in Afghanistan | No-Win Situation! Call It a Day -- We've Done All We Can Do in Iraq | When all else fails, "your" president will lie | Karen Hughes Begins Task of Attempting to Repairing America's Image Abroad | Iraq clusterfuck: Yeah, you heard me. Clusterfuck | The filter: the situation in Iraq may be different -- and far uglier -- than being reported | Four more years! Top Army General Says Current Level of US Troops in Iraq May Be Needed Through 2009 | Militias Wresting Control Across Iraq's North and South | Sufis Under Attack as Sunni Rifts Widen | Bush once again invokes September 11 to defend sputtering Iraq war in Radio Address | Dead Soldier's Dad Finds No Enemy in Iraq | Iraqi General says US troops shot him | Rumsfeld in South America: What Gall | US completely cavies into Islamists in Iraq talks | U.N. Agency Findings Back Up Iran Claim | "US presence in Kyrgyzstan will end'" | Iraqi Sunnis, anti-American Shiite cleric protest proposed constitution
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Times UK: Police foil gas attack on Commons | Iraqis may have had role in attack on Navy ships | Foreign-born NYPD cybersleuths hunt extremists
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Soldier 'instructed' to abuse Abu Ghraib prisoners
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Don't insult the dumbass wingnut bloggers!! | Kellyanne Conway: Still stupid after all these years (or was it the cocaine?) | Ann Althouse Responds: I Don’t Fact Check | For right wing blogger Ann Althouse, facts are stupid things--
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- "Able Danger" story gets sillier and weirder by the day; Shaffer recants claim about Atta | Judge berates US failures as 9/11 supporter is convicted
ELECTION THEFTS -- Diebold hires top Dem for PR blitz
$MIRKONOMICS -- Debtors in Rush to Bankruptcy as Change Nears
OH, GOD! -- Mooncalves for the milking: Sun Myung Moon 101 | India Moving Closer To A Secular Democracy
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Minutemen will be armed patrolling Houston; leader has criminal record
ENERGY SCANDALS -- US fills oil reserve for emergency | Senator: US, Libya Work to End (you guessed it!) Oil Sanctions | Oil Prices Climb More Than $2 Per Barrel; $70. a barrel forecast
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Vioxx vows to appeal $253m award
WEIRD SCIENCE -- The Onion: Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity with New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory
TRASHING NATURE -- Judges Rebuff Government on Endangered Species for Cutting Back Protections | Judge rules in favor of wolves

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