Hot Headlines, August-September 2005 9/3/05
First, a note to conservatives from Steve Gilliard: WE TOLD YOU SO!
Kanye West to millions of viewers: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"
The big disconnect on New Orleans: the official version vs. the in-the-trenches version | Katrina Losses Estimated At $100B | Pentagon Pulling Out Troops From Iraq, Afghanistan To Cope With Katrina | Sen. Landrieu Presses Bush for Aide Coordinator | Imelda Rice Speaks! | Let them know I'm a human being" | Most stupid post-Katrina headline yet? | Where have the billions of dollars in spending gone since 9/11? | Ideological Casualties: Samll-government conservatism is a catastrophic failure | The gravest job: identifying the dead in New Orleans will be a daunting chore | Trapped Son: 'People Are Dying Here' | NOLA Times-Picayune's latest breaking news blog | Sen. Edwards on Katrina & Our America | Draining New Orleans could take 80 days | Spanish Member of Parliament trapped in NOLA convention center | Arianna Huffington: 3 Heroes Who Get It and a U.S. Senator Who Absolutely Doesn't | Senator Clinton hits big oil on Katrina | Baggage conveyor used to move bodies | Halliburton gets NOLA cleanup contract | Stories From Times-Picayune Online Forum: Dead Bodies Of Neighbors | Ideology and Real Life | George Bush needs to step aside | Evacuation bus overturns, kills 1 | Houston Astrodome Gets Own Zip Code For Refugee Mail | Elections Have Consequences | Congressional Black Caucus Tells Bush: We Now Want The Compassion | Sneaking past the police lines, we find a surreal scene where tourists are sleeping on bridges, restaurateurs are eating high on the hog, and looters lurk on every corner | Left Behind | Laissez-faire Pickles Bush: That's just the way it is | Bush turns up the PR to try to drown out his utter failure | Huge oil spill on Mississippi river | State Police Cmdr.: Troopers Resigning Instead Of Going To New Orleans | Louisiana senator: '10k dead,' | Flashback: Bush reelection played role in aid | Navy pilot says `a lot of people' still trapped | America is overwhelmed' (the world's press reacted with disbelief)
Evangelical Ayatollah says New Orleans deserved it
The horror show: FOX News reporters Geraldo Rivera, Shep Smith vent their righteous outrage amidst a botched recovery | Jack Cafferty: "Do you suppose, Wolf, that the arrival of the relief convoys and the political photo ops on the Gulf Coast happening at the same time were a coincidence today?" | Chris Matthews goes ballistic | New Orleans Paper Slams Federal Response on Saturday | Greta Van Susteren praises a "looter" who did the right thing | CNN's Aaron Brown on the feds in Washington: "What planet are these people on?!" | AP nails Bush; Rhetoric doesn't match Reality | Craig Crawford: You Just Can't Spin Away Dead Bodies Floating In | Newt slams Bush | Even Conservative Papers Slam Bush On Post-Hurricane Leadership | Larisa Alexandrovna: Mission Accomplished Redux | Tim Russert blasts incompetence of Prince Fratboy's misadministration | Cafferty transcript | International Papers Express Shock | Racist rag American Spectator blames blacks, political correctness for chaos
This Is the Fruits of the Piratization of Emergency Management | Post-9/11 President Had No Plan To Deal With Large Urban Disaster | Are You Happy Now, Grover Norquist? | FEMA Chief Mike Brown was pushed from last job; horse group says FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign' | "FEMA's failure, and it is nothing but, is as bad as ignoring the radar operators on December 7, 1941." | Red Cross Banned From Bringing Food and Supplies to NO | What Took You So Long? "They Should Have Been Here Days ago | Daley 'shocked' as feds reject aid from Chicago | Congress Likely to Probe Guard Delay; No Go-ahead for Days! | Sorry, rich white people first! | Five Days After Katrina, Refugees Waiting | Blanco: We need help from the 256th (now in Iraq) | CNN: Firefighting gear stockpile unused | Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food | Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched response | So is the president a liar or an idiot? | The big disconnect on New Orleans: Chertoff and Brown are liars | Across U.S., Outrage at Response | National Guard Finally Roll In, "They Should Have Been Here Days Ago!" | Bipartisan investigation into Katrina failures | President Bush Hits the Scene, Giving Hope to... Uh, Trent Lott | Rep. Bob Wexler urged Bush to fire Michael Brown as FEMA head in January | Grade: F | Salvation Army Running Out Of Food, Supplies And Fearing Donor Fatigue | Property Over People, or Shoot First, Make It Up Later | President Bush Diverts Critical Resources For Photo-Op | No One Could Have Anticipated The President Would Be An Imbecile | Craig Crawford: OH NO: Mr. Bill Knew, So Why Didn't Washington? | Can the protect us from terror, let alone natural disaster? No! | July 2004: “Hurricane Pam” Drill Revealed Administration’s Incompetence | FEMA chief Brown says their number one priority is -- public relations! | Bush Acknowledges He’s Not On Top of Katrina Situation | Blast from the Past: Bush on the old FEMA | U.S. To Tap Petroleum Reserves | MoveOn makes available 34,000 beds for survivors | July 2005 article reveals New Orleans told poor: 'You're on your own' | Bush: Relief results are "not acceptable" | Lookie lookie, Planet Earth, at the leadership of the United States of America | FEMA Head admits they were not prepared to handle lawlessness
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Roberts Set Out Doubts On Genocide Treaty | Law professors lobby against Roberts | Priorities: Roberts Hearings Not Delayed
HOT POLITICS -- The Democrats should be screaming, "Fix America First": The draft agenda | Pentagon Investigator Resigning; Joseph E. Schmitz, the Defense Department's inspector general, is suspected of blocking investigations of senior Bush officials | Republicans Concerned That Bush's Rhetoric Not Matching Reality Anymore | Filibuster This | GOP wants 08 hopeful Rudy in charge of Gulf | Despite Katrina, Frist Will Call Vote on Estate Tax Repeal | Bush finds time to fill a Justice Department job | Senate Appropriations staffers are warning that “business lobbyists are maneuvering to tack on special-interest amendments” to the hurricane emergency supplemental | Where's Denny? | Conyers readies gas gouging, bankruptcy bills... | Is it time to raise taxes? | NY-Gov & Sen: Spitzer and Clinton keep huge leads | CA-Gov: Arnold still down
QWAGMIRE -- Iran Under Growing Pressure to Halt Nuclear Projects | Iraq Kirkuk oil exports stopped after blast-source | IAEA: Iran Has Tons of Gas for Weapons | Taliban regroups to fight U.S. troops | Official: Hussein Trial to Start in Oct. 19 | Mystery unfolds over lack of Iraq WMDs
ELECTION THEFTS -- ACLU says Georgia hiked voter ID fee
$MIRKONOMICS -- GOP Agenda in Action - Part II; Estate Tax To Be Voted On Tuesday
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- 3 sentenced in charter school scam | The failure of abstinence education: 64 Students Pregnant In One Ohio High School
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Big oil's bigtime looting | SUV sales plunge as gas prices soar
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Acting against their own interest to benefit women: Planned Parenthood stands to lose millions of dollars in income if Plan B is approved by FDA 9/2/05
Bedlam in New Orleans: Chaos, violence at rescue sites | New Orleans Mayor Fumes Over Slow Reponse | Aussies 'loot to survive' in NO | Explosions fill New Orleans sky with smoke | FEMA operating under conditions of "urban warfare" | Buses of refugees reportedly being turned away from the Astrodome | U.S. TV networks plan joint Katrina telethon | Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work | Unbelievable! FEMA Chief Brown: Victims bear responsibility for their own fates | Chaos grips New Orleans; Houston Astrodome is full to capacity with refugees | Fats Domino apparently rescued | Poll: Gov't not seen helping victims | Survivors Complain About Lack of Help | Senate Approves $10.5B In Aid | Iraq-tested soldiers in New Orleans with shoot to kill orders | Miss. Struggles to Deal With Dead Bodies | Hurricane Katrina and Bush: A Tale of Two Photos | "I don't treat my dog like that" | Sniper fires on NO rescue helicopter | NBC News Hires Private Security For New Orleans Crews... | Bush Taps Father, Clinton To Lead Private Fund-Raising Campaign... | The unraveling | Katrina refugees to go to Houston Astrodome | Police Looting in NO caught on tape | "We Pee On The Floor. We Are Like Animals"... At Least Two People, | Category 4 Hurricane Determined to Strike U.S. | NO Mayor Orders Police Back to Streets Amid Increasingly Violent | Superdome Described As Worse Than A Prison, Overflowing Sewage, | Near-rioting at Superdome shelter | The right on Hurricane Katrina | Senator Mary Landrieu: "thousands dead" | Hotel to evacuees: Make way for football | New Orleans Died for Bush's Sins | Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans | Shots fired at NG helicopter evacuating Superdome. | For Bush, a different kind of storm
Unbelievably stupid comment from Bush: "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." | Republicans to cities: Go die | New Bush admin talking point: New Orleans residents deserved it | Commander Chickenhawk afraid to visit New Orleans | History Repeats | Why The Iraq Scam Won’t Work Here | Even Mr. Bill knew about the levees, Smirk! | March 2005: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Funding Shortfall Jeopardizes New Orleans Flood Control | Bush Administration Had Reason To Know About Levee Problems | BREAKING: McClellan Refuses To Answer Questions About Levee Funding | "Are they going to leave us here to die?" | Republicans deem killing the Paris Hilton tax more important than hurricane aid | Harry Reid asks GOP to drop estate tax push, focus on relief | Dems reintroduce relief bill killed earlier this year... | When the levee breaks | Lautenberg Smacks Bush | Bush compares Katrina with 9/11 | Former Congressman and ACE vet Mike Parker: "I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have." | Federal government wasn't ready for Katrina, disaster experts say
Bloggers force Condoleezza "Imelda" Rice back to work... | … after she's busted vacationing in NYC buying several-thousand-dollar pairs of shoes
Bipartisan call for gas gouging inquiry | Bush Won’t Call For Sacrifice: Energy Conservation
Rep. Dennis Hastert On New Orleans: "It Looks Like A Lot of That | Hastert backtracks on New Orleans comments | Rebuilding New Orleans "doesn't make sense" to Hastert
At long last,the press drops the deference to the Bush Cadre and politicians in general | Ted Koppel Rips, Rips RIPS Michael Brown of FEMA on "Nightline" | He's no Jamie Lee Witt: Paula Zahn blasts FEMA head Brown | Robert Siegel savages Homeland Czar Chertoff | Anderson Cooper blasts Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) for patting fellow pols on the back | Katrina: Worse than 9/11, despite whining from righty blogosphere | The Misadministration has lost free-marketeer Jack Cafferty | Biloxi Survivor: "President Bush shouldn't be the president no more." | FEMA Director: We Did Not Know New Orleans Convention Center Was A Hurricane Shelter
Paul Krugman: A Can't-Do Government | Head Of Emergency Operations: "This Is A National Disgrace" | Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., (R-La.) trashes White House | The response: Let the fingerpointing begin | 'Casual to the point of careless' - Bush under fire for slow reaction | Talk about understatement: "Planning, Response Are Faulted" | Levee Repairs in New Orleans Expected to Finish Soon | FEMA directing dinations to Pat "Kill Chavez!" Robertson's Operation Blessing | US refuses Jamaica's offer to help with disaster | "Many people could not afford the $50 to fill their gas tanks to leave…. This could have been anticipated." | Chronology | More | Is it time for a pink slip? | "There's no one in control. No national guard. no police. And certainly no FEMA." | FEMA suspends rescue operations in New Orleans | Norm Ornstein: The homeland security embarrassment | "Wouldn’t part of any homeland security preparation be the handling of refugees?" | Surprise! 4 days AFTER the disaster the US military is finally sending troops | Chertoff's fantasyland: “We’re Much Better Prepared Than We’ve Ever Been” | Wes Clark: It all comes back to leadership | FEMA heads: from emergency response expert Witt to patronage appointee Brown | U.S. won't relocate soldiers for Katrina
Is Cheney ill? | Where's Dick Cheney?
US Dept of Commerce now pressuring employees as well to attend Bush 9/11 pep rally
Karl Rove's Priority: Visit the Cindy-haters Near Camp Casey! | Cindy Sheehan Leaves Crawford To Begin Nationwide Bus Tour
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Stealthy John Roberts: Iran-Contra is the elephant in the room
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Beyond Abramoff: Gambling lobbyist joined with anti-gambling congressman, derailed gambling bills
HOT POLITICS -- Young Republican creates bogus Web site as prank | DNC Cancels Fall Meeting
QWAGMIRE -- Three U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq | Pentagon's Inspector General Leaving To Work For Large Iraq Contractor& | Poll Shows 40% Back Iraq Troop Pullout | US jets destroy insurgent target near Syrian border in third day
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Jazeera claims Qaeda tape on London bomb
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Pentagon still investigating prison abuses
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Ann Coulter booted off of Conservative College for being " Un-Christian"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Paper: Tenet irate over 9/11 intel report | Potential Bush-CIA crisis
ELECTION THEFTS -- Judge recommends fine for former Broward elections chief
$MIRKONOMICS -- U.S. savings rate falls below zero -- lowest in 46 years!
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Boeing workers vote to strike | Intermix Shareholders File Suit To Keep Murdoch Away
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Welcome to fabulous Larryland! | Four indicted in CA synagogue bomb plot
ENERGY SCANDALS -- PG&E's household customers facing big electricity increase 9/1/05
KATRINA
Death toll now estimated in thousands, may exceed 9/11; recovery will take years | New Orleans: Out of control | It's like a war zone here. There was shooting and looting' | Biloxi fires FEMA-certified company contracted to remove debris for price gouging | Biloxi: Death everywhere in nightmarish landscape | Mississippi: Searching for the Living, but Mostly Finding the Dead | Communications failures cause fleeing, chaos at Superdome | All Out! New Orleans may remain evacuated for months; | 78,000 In Shelters | If Carter beat Reagan in 1980, would New Orleans have flooded? | Pentagon Coordinating Katrina Response | Mr. Bush, Go Cheney Yourself! | New Orleans & Parish Hospitals Out of Supplies | Out of food and water for evacuees in New Orleans | 10,000 National Guard troops called up | Katrina Expected to Disrupt National Economy | Governor Blanco: Complete Evacuation of New Orleans | Federal officials declare public health emergency for entire Gulf region | Gunmen Roaming New Orleans | Be ruthless with looters, police and National Guard told | Warning? What warning? | Katrina could create West Nile outbreaks | Hospital Conditions in New Orleans Worsen
Katrina May Spark $100 Oil (Bloomberg) | Airlines Cancel More Flights, Prepare for Possible Fuel Shortages; Airports May Be Closed | Report From An Anonymous Insider re. 20-plus Lost Oil Rigs Confirmed | 20 oil rigs 'missing' - Anger among poor | West Virginia county police will run out of gas by Friday | South Carolina running out of gas too | North Carolina gas stations running dry | Bush sounds more worried about gas and oil than refugees | U.S. eases air pollution rule to boost fuel supply | Katrina: Flaming oil on troubled waters | Expert: $4 a gallon gasoline coming soon
As the horrors of New Orleans begin to mount, one thing seems clear: George W. Bush has their blood on his hands | NY Times editorial blasts Bush | Manchester Union Leader slams W for inaction | Howie Fineman: A political hurricane is gathering force | Newsweek blasts Bush's non-response to hurricane | Biloxi Newspaper Slams Relief Effort, Begs for Help | Katrina, Politics and Iraq | Papers hail heroes but blast Bush | "Looting" or "finding"? Bloggers are outraged over the different captions on photos of blacks and whites in New Orleans | Michelle Maglalang's misplaced outrage | Its City Gone, the Times-Picayune Rises to the Occasion | Paging ABC, CBS and NBC | CNN's Jack Cafferty raises more questions...
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war | A Leadership Deficit | "They had no plan" | FEMA director now says he knew Monday morning that hurricane disaster was growing | Bush fired the Republican who criticized hurricane funding cuts | Off their guard: The Gulf Coast disaster is further taxing the National Guard, already stretched to a breaking point in Iraq | Which Do You Prefer in Times of Crisis? | Watch this: Anderson Cooper asks where all the help is | FEMA Then and Now | Bush's failure to respond and the race issue | Air Force personnel in Mississippi playing basketball today while people die | Jeff. Parish President Bonano: It took too long | Did the FEMA director just lie to Larry King in order to save Bush's ass? | New Orleans cops ordered to abandon search and rescue and focus instead | Disaster experts: Federal government wasn't ready for Katrina | Katrina: Questions for Inerrant Boy | CNN Reporter Blog: Government Overwhelmed | They're calling up National Guard units from Missouri | Katrina & Leadership | Government is working to help Katrina victims, but not everyone is impressed with the results | Homeland Disaster: Natl. Guard Watches Helplessly | The downgrading and dismantlement of FEMA under Bush | FEMA farce | Cmdr. of US Northern Command reinforces impression of do-nothing Bush boy | White House uses Photoshop to use Katrina catastrophe, peddle propaganda | New Storm Warning: Brewing Anger Over Bush's Indifference To This | Navy Now Sending Three Ships With Water And Supplies
College Republican literally advocating assault on Cindy Sheehan
TRAITORGATE -- Is Judith Miller the Plame leaker?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts Poked at Congress As Reagan Lawyer | New Cache of Roberts Documents Found | Questions About John Roberts: The Right To Privacy | Gonzales: Roberts Abortion Questions Would “Certainly Be Appropriate” | A “Large Volume” of Roberts’s Files “Mislabeled”
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- The George W. Bush National Yellow Elephant Sanctuary
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Bolton opposes efforts to limit U.S. military abroad | John Bolton's campaign to sabotage the UN
HOT POLITICS -- The Worst Time of Arnold's Life | NV-Gov: GOP Congressman Jim Gibbons Announces 2006 Nev. Gov. Bid | NJ-Gov: Poor Doug Forrester | Gröpenführer Hints He Eyes Reelection | Cheney to hold St. Louis fundraiser for Talent | New Poll: 53% Disapprove Of Bush, All-Time Low For President | Unions boo Gröpenführer
QWAGMIRE -- Teacher and war mom fired for discussing protest crusades for vets | Four Soldiers Killed, Four Wounded in Five Days | Iraq GI who signed up on 9/11 wants out | Al-Qaeda linked group claims mortar attack in Iraq that led to stampede | US forces in Iraq suffered more combat deaths in August than any month this year | Iraq Clusterfuck: Oh, so now it's about oil after all | Bomb panic kills as many as 1,00 Iraqis | Bush says oil is the new, new reason for his Iraq war
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Judge hesitant to release Ghraib pics
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Sean Hannity attacks liberals by using Fred Phelps | Now hear this! Caller blasts Ann Coulter on her New York Bashing over Hurricane Katrina | Coulter attacks New Yorkers -- again
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- ACLU wants gag order lifted in Patriot Act case
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Bush's Justice Department more interested in porn than terrorism
OH, GOD! -- Religious right group, heralded by top religious right leaders, blames Katrina on those awful homosexuals | Poll: Fewer say Dems religion-friendly
ENERGY SCANDALS -- U.S. oil group says no need to ration gasoline yet
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Plan B Prompts Resignation 8/31/05
"Worst natural disaster in US history" | New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasts failure to patch levee breaches | CNN: Army Corps of Engineers Stymied by Communications Problems | Too little too late: Navy Ships and Maritime Rescue Teams Are Sent to Region | Bu$hCo's flood for oil - leaky levees and offshore looting | Prisoners Riot, Take Hostages In New Orleans | Thousands Desperate for Place to Sleep and News of Home | New Orleans now 'hazardous waste site,' experts say | Katrina's full wrath still being felt, death toll soars | New Orleans in Peril | Rescuers Pushing Aside Dead Bodies To Save The Living; Gulf Coast Struggles to Find Survivors | Crews Pass Dead to Reach Storm Survivors | Mayor reports massive communications failure will flood entire city of New Orleans | CNN: National Guard deployed to combat violence | "You have no idea what the level of devastation and frustration is on the street" | Charities and U.S. Military Are Mobilizing | Hundreds more feared dead; Death, damage, chaos strewn in Katrina's path | Is Katrina God's punishment for abortion? That's what some Bible-thumpers will say | Complete Evacuation Of New Orleans Ordered | Tracking Hurricane Bush | More Than 2.3 Million Without Power | Looters Take to Streets as Conditions Deteriorated | Hundreds Feared Dead in Biloxi | What do fallen soldiers think about Iraq? We don't always have to guess | Who's happy about Iraq? Iran | Martial law declared around New Orleans | Biloxi mayor: 'This is total destruction'
Bush fiddles while Southerners drown | Commander Chickenhawk rests comfortably while New Orleans is in chaos | Error 404: Bush's Crawford Vacation Cannot Be Displayed | CNN says Bush should stop vacationing and get to work | Bush's Response To Horrific Disaster: Indifference. How Will You Respond To Bush? | Cake and VJ Day STILL More Important than Largest US | As Katrina Struck, Bush Vacationed | How out of touch is George Bush on this disaster? | Jack Cafferty on Bush Vacation
Hurricane 'will force consumers to reduce fuel use'
Katrina Clusterfuck: Army Corps of Engineers fails to drop sandbags at 17th Street levee; Bush still on vacation | Bush took New Orleans disaster funds and used them for the Iraq war | Iraq blowback: Follow the money, then thank Bush for the unnatural disaster in New Orleans | President and Pentagon Leaving States to Fend for Themselves | You fight disaster with the army you have left... | Why Couldn't We?
"The victims of the flood will be portrayed via racist stereotypes as criminals and idiots. This will predispose the audience to disliking them." | Racist news photo captions: anything less than white is a "looter"
Sheehan ponders run for office | Sheehan says she's glad Bush did not meet her during Texas vigil | Fred Barnes is a Crack Pot | Cindy Sheehan: "We Are Taking Camp Casey to Congress"... | Sheehan's numbers? Better than Bush's
TRAITORGATE -- Arianna Huffington Brings You Your Judy Miller Roundup
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Senate Democrats Say Unreleased Documents Could Spell Difficulty for John Roberts | Roberts Hearings Start Next Week | A footsoldier in the Reagan revolution
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tom DeLay's claim that he distances self from Jack Abramoff becomes more ludicrous with each passing day | Josh Marshall: watch the special interests distance themselves from Abramoff
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- John Bolton Update
HOT POLITICS -- Poll says U.S. Sen. Nelson would easily defeat Harris in re-election | Flood water isn't the only thing rising -- Americans seethe as Bush sows inequity, consolidates power and wealth with rich corporate elite | Charles Rangel questions Dick Cheney's health: big time bionic Dick takes to grunting, not answering questions | Reality Invalidates Conservative Ideology | Tennessee Republican admits taking bribes | ABC Poll: Bush Approval at a Career Low | Go West, Democrats! | Are Bush And Schwarzenegger Avoiding Each Other? | PA-06: Gerlach's final days
QWAGMIRE -- 648 dead in Baghdad stampede | Iran Defense Minister: 'Islam Forbids Military Use of Nuclear Power' | Sunnis woo fiery Shiite cleric to defeat Iraq charter | Al-Dulaimi: Iraqi Shia minister should go after mass killing | Cheney under Bush 41: "Iraq would be a quagmire." | Howard Dean: Roosevelt and Truman Had a Plan to Win WWII; Bush Needs Plan for Iraq | Bush Says U.S. Must Prevent Iraq From Falling Into Those Dreaded "Terrorists'" Hands, Whoever That Is… | War Millionaires: More Bucks for the Bang Gangsters | Bush Afraid To Arm Iraqi "Army" | 56 civilians killed in US air strike west of Baghdad | More Changes Said Likely to Iraq Charter | Iraq Sunni leader says to work against draft charter
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush Blames Carter, Reagan, Clinton for 9/11 | U.S. Attorneys Say Wanted Terrorist Shouldn't Be Deported to Venezuela
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Waiting: Judge declines to rule on releasing images... | Decorated veteran, and lifelong Republican, says new Abu Ghraib photos must be released
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- Kenneth Pollack's name surfaces in AIPAC indictment
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Limbaugh-Hannity cancelled on AM Radio in Minn. | Discovering The Left-wing Network? Where are the real liberals?
FOX WATCH -- John Gibson's response to Army emailer critical of Bush administration: "Find him and arrest him"
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Richard Clarke Cites Rise in Attacks
$MIRKONOMICS -- Fed set for more rate hikes: minutes | As Poverty Rises, Bush Seeks Tax Cut For Paris Hilton | CEO salaries rise as poverty grows | Government Reports Steep Decrease in Factory Orders Last Month | Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7%. Last decline in overall poverty
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- GM Recalling 800,000 Pickups, SUVs | Ex-chief at KPMG charged with fraud | "Police outnumber protests at Forbes meet" at Sydney Opera House
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Calling Them Children, Trying Them As Adults | Indiana gov. reverses death sentence
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Man who firebombed Jewish temple in Oklahoma City given 39 years | The Coming Crackup Among Intellectual Racists: God or Monkeys?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Bush administration to release oil from petroleum reserves | Panic gasoline buyers leave some stations running low | Oil thunders to new $71 record
HEALTH DEBACLES -- ACLU sues over 'morning after' info | Government finally gets serious about methamphetamine; 400 arrested across U.S. in meth raids
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much
TRASHING NATURE -- US Sued Over Toad at Center of Roberts' Case | Major ozone loss over Antarctic 8/30/05
Petition: Either the Bush Offspring Put Their Lives on the Line for George's "Noble War" -- or the Troops Come Home
People are dying in Louisiana and Mississippi, President Bush - have you sent enough troops? | Tables turned as Louisiana guardsman stuck in Iraq fret over home | FEMA Head: Katrina Was 'Catastrophic' | Mississippi Governor Haley "Pugsley" Barbour says at least 50 people dead in Harrison County. | Hurricane Katrina could slow US economic "expansion"? What expansion? | And tomorrow, day two of Hurricane disaster, Bush will ignore Katrina | Massive hurricane devastates the south, so Bush goes west and devotes today to Medicare | The Superdome Society: Stories of fleeing residents paint portrait of America where many people struggle | Bush Slashed Hurricane Funding For New Orleans | Hurricane Katrina determined to strike in U.S. | Mississippi Bears The Brunt; New Orleans Escapes the Worst | The Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq. Oops | Bush declares disasters in Louisiana, Mississippi, polling numbers
Martin Sheen Pays Visit To Camp Casey II | Tell us again how Cindy Sheehan is disrespecting the troops
ABC Family Adds Disclaimer To Pat Robertson's 700 Club Telecasts& | Call in UK for anti-terror law ban on Pat Robertson
TRAITORGATE -- Tim Russert For Best Actor | The Judy Tsunami: The Groundswell That Never Was | Media Matters: Did Time Intentionally Deceive its Readers in Plame Case?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts: Will He Be Just As "Bad" As Liberals? | Roberts tied to Bush-Quayle campaign; Supremo nominee was neck-deep in 1988 opposition research operation | Bush & Reagan Libraries to Open Additional Records Relating to Roberts | Dems to Question Roberts on Torture Memo | Screw the workers: Roberts Wanted to Rein in U.S. Employment Agency, Memo Says | Roberts pushed for Reagan policies
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- The children of the chickenhawks | Introducing: The Kombat Keyboard Badge
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Pleads Innocent to Fraud
COINGATE -- Special counsel' contracts bring Petro criticism
HOT POLITICS -- Iraq Vet Who Lost Race Still in Spotlight | Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA) won't challenge Sen. George Allen | New Woes For Former Ct. Gov. John Rowland: Arrest warrant issued | So, are all the Republican governors criminals, or just some of them? | Domestic Means, Foreign Goals | UN Ambs. Launch Crisis Talks on Reform After Bolton Wreaks Havoc with "Revisions" | Kentucky Gov. Issues Staff Pardons | Kentucky governor to pardon himself? | Pat Buchanan: Impeach Bush | Democratic National Committee: Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Stone Wall! | Criminal cronyism: Gov. Fletcher declares pardons for aides ... | McCaskill to run for Sen. Talent's seat | Toe the line -- or else | Russia "regrets" holding up U.S. senators' plane | Iraq Vet Who Lost Race Still in Spotlight
QWAGMIRE -- Why is it that after two years in Iraq, the Pentagon still isn't committed to fighting a counterinsurgency? | Mirage After Mirage After Mirage | More Republicans Distance Themselves From Iraq | Sen. Warner Agrees: Bush White House Needs Iraq Plan | Killed GI questioned 'f$#@tarded' war (from our favorite anti-Drudge site) | U.S. forces launch air strikes on Iraq-Syria border | Rebels kill colonel from Kirkuk oil protection unit | Iran claims nuclear breakthrough | Sadr's disciples rise again in Iraq; Freed aides join newly robust movement | U.S. Copter Under Fire in Iraq; GI Killed | The Iraq war: More costly than 'the war to end all wars' | Antiwar band win MTV awards | Will Wyden Be Next To Call For Withdrawal From Iraq? | The Anti-Military Anti-American Right | Rumsfeld: Military trumps environment | Gunmen assassinate two in Baghdad: former gov's brother and Election Commissioner | "Mr. Bush, Specialist Young Would Also Like to Speak With You..." | After Sunnis Largely Reject Constitution, Bush Admin. Reconsiders | "Why do I feel like I'm in a f------ Vietnam movie?" | U.N. Official: Opium Yield Down Only 2 Percent Despite Crackdown | One U.S. Service Member Killed, Four Wounded in Afghanistan Bomb | Senator to question Rumsfeld on Iraq | Al Sistani Rejects the Federation and stresses the Unity of Iraq | Arab League chief blasts Iraq charter ("recipe for chaos")
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Judge: Guantanamo Bay detainees must be asked if identities can be reveled
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- The FCC's cable crackdown | The Cool Thing About Live Coverage Is ... It's Live! | Arizona Daily Start dumps Ann Coulter. | Moonie Times To Sponsor Pentagon Rally After WaPo Backs Out | Jonah Goldberg’s Double Standard | Having Miller on Payroll Is an Embarrassment to NYT
FOX WATCH -- Great Moments in FOX News: Orleander drops"F" bomb on Shepard Smith | Outfoxed Producer Challenges Bill O'Reilly To A " Debate On The Issues, Not His Silly Name-Calling
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Gonzales Comes Out For Civil Liberty Restrictions In New Patriot Act | Poll: Support for Patriot Act Shrinks the More People Know About | Bush flogs fear of "vicious" terrorists
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- It's Alive! The Able Danger imbroglio
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Dems Demand Probe of Bunnatine Demotion | KPMG to Pay $456 Million / Prepared Remarks of AG Alberto R. Gonzales | Senior Democrat says decision to demote Halliburton worker will chill whistleblowing
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Sexual misconduct at Army, Navy academies persists, report finds | ACLU: FBI labeled peace, affirmative action group 'terrorist'
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Somerby: We groaned at a string of tired old saws about our urban schoolrooms
OH, GOD! -- Air Force Academy's New Guidelines Curb Public Prayer, Disappoint Critics | America's Taliban Moves to South Carolina | Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Straw Men and Bell Curves | Swastikas Burned Into Jewish Family's Yard
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Fill 'Er Up
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Bush pitches $20 monthly Medicare drug premiums | US abstinence drive hurts AIDS fight - UN official
TRASHING NATURE -- Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists 8/29/05
Cindy-haters turn on each other |Al Sharpton Speaks at Texas Antiwar Camp | A New Republican Low
Mayor Orders All Of New Orleans Evacuated; 100,000 Don't Have Means to Flee | New Orleans mayor launches secret plan to get Bush to stop vacationing | Louisiana National Guard troops watch Katrina from Iraq | Bush stripped New Orleans of emergency funding | Bush Vacation Watch Update: Thank God Katrina STILL hasn't ruined | Will Bush stay on vacation while the hurricane destroys New Orleans?
Pat Robertson In Legal Trouble? | And Just Why Does Robertson Want to Off Chavez? | Jesse Jackson: Venezuela's Chavez no threat to region | US campaign to ring Chavez alarm fails to resonate
TRAITORGATE -- Boston Globe Smacks Rove HARD
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Recusal and John Roberts' "Ethics" - Not Up To Ginsburg Standards
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Press Wanting To Know If Pro-War Officials Will Send Their Own Kids to War
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Indicted Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Tried To Hire The Deputy Secretary Of The Interior | Abramoff cited US help in blocking rival casino
COINGATE -- Ohioans split on governor resignation
HOT POLITICS -- Bush's Bizarro World: Screw Up And You Get Promoted; Speak The Truth | Biden, closer to running, blasts Bush | Bush approval continues to slide | There's A Certain Sense Of Fatalism Among Bush Staffer | Get Mussed For Russ?
QWAGMIRE -- Iran satisfied with Iraq charter | Rebels fight U.S. to Iraq standoff | Iraq gamble as Sunnis left out of constitution deal | The Coalition of the Willing Expected A Plan | For President, Smaller Goals in Iraq and a Focus on the Process | Critic of U.S. contract in Iraq gets demotion | "How to Win in Iraq" | Look Who Agrees With Bush: Iran | More journalists have been killed in Iraq than were killed in Vietnam | High-stakes showdown looms on Iran | Team Bush promoting judicial activism in Iraq? | Catastrophe Times Two | Talabani won't sign Saddam death sentence even if it costs him his job | McConnell Misleads on Iraqi Constitution | Iraqi State Company to Repair Oil Wells -- Has KBR Quit? | Moving Beyond Vietnam | Iraq Clusterfuck: Kicking the Constitutional Can Down The Road | Two U.S. Senators Held at Siberian Airport | Reuters soundman killed in Baghdad, police blame US | Iraqi soldiers hinder U.S. strategies | Bush Seeks to Dispel Criticism on Iraq | Sunnis Reject Draft of Iraqi Constitution | Top UK official warned Iraq war fueled extremism: leaked memo | 3 U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Kabul Attack
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- U.S. Training To Stop London-Style Attack: Not 'if' but 'when' | Fuel truck stolen from Muhlenberg, KY airport, found drained | Is Zarqawi the New Bin Laden?
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Testing Beijing's limits: did Rupert Murdoch bend the rules?
ELECTION THEFTS -- Presidential Recount Dispute Back Before New Mexico's Highest Court | Abramoff clients tied to funding of NH phone-jamming scandal
$MIRKONOMICS -- Debt Load Makes Americans Vulnerable | American consumer confidence runs out of gas
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Google building own, free Internet?
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Former Aryan Nations HQ Up for Auction
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Surge: Oil hits $70/barrel over hurricane
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Near-Record Number Of Laws Produced This Year To Restrict Abortion, | Gathering holds "funeral" for Medicaid in Missouri as cuts loom 8/28/05
Infighting among the Cindy-haters: Fake grassroots crowd wallops Freeper-linked Protest Warriors | "Bitch in the Ditch": Anti-Cindy protesters share the hate | Anti-Cindy "Hatestock" festival reflects the real spirit of Lee Atwater's GOP | Iraq blogger blasts idiots claiming Cindy Sheehan supports terrorism | Bush warns of more sacrifice in Iraq, hateful anti-Cindy-Sheehan protesters rally
Chavez challenges the oil kings | Who would Jesus kill? | Bush Thinks Just Like Pat Robertson, Says Fidel Castro
Genocide in Darfur
Frank Rich: The Vietnamization of Bush's Vacation
Bush urges residents to flee hurricane
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Ron Rotunda: GOP's Ethics "Plumber" | Ron Rotunda, the Legal "Ethicist" Defending Roberts Has History of Questionable Conduct
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Mitt backs war, but his boys are safe at home (Warning: right wing link, but worth a read) | Watch This! Operation Yellow Elephant goes to college
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Abramoff Cited Aid Of Interior Official; Conflict of Interest Now Being Probed
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Bolton's diplomatic "method" is to use procedural tactics to sabotage general process
HOT POLITICS -- Congressman Charles Rangel questions Cheney's ability to perform duties | Calling the Kettle Black: Ethically Challenged, Fake Grassroots GOP Front Group "Move America Forward" Accuses the UN of Corruption | OH-Sen: Paul Hackett Mussl Run; Decision Coming Soon | Critical Votes for GOP Are Looming
QWAGMIRE -- Constitution Committee Signs "Draft" Charter | Civil War Looms in Iraq | Reluctant Iraqi soldiers hinder US strategies | Militants, swept from battleground, return when troops leave, U.S. | Big Guns For Iraq? Not So Fast. | Iraqi Activist Taken Up by Bush Recants Her Views | Abu Ghraib jail release fails to swing Sunnis behind constitution | Outspoken cleric murdered after backing Iraq vote | Leak shows Blair told of Iraq war terror link | Oil pipeline attacked south of Baghdad | Now Bush is telling us Iraq will involve sacrifice | Sunni leaders speak out against charter | Joe Biden, please shut up! | Once More into the Chickencoop | 1000 Abu Ghraib detainees released | Iraq, 9/11... Iraq, 9/11... Iraq, 9/11... | Iraqi Charter Problems Due To Miscalculations, Overblown Optimism | WaPo Ed Board: A Good Editorial | Sunni infighting involving al Qaeda erupts in Iraq
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Will Bloomberg "Surrender" To Coulter?
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- NY Post: U.S. fired team that IDed 9/11 hijacker
$MIRKONOMICS -- Bush's failed presidency now threatens the economy | Strategy shift for the fed? | Experts Warn Debt May Threaten Economy
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Creationists make ridiculaous claim that admissions standards are somehow discriminating against their superstitious piffle
OH, GOD! -- Venezuela Cracking down on Missionaries
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Bell Curve Apologists
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Religion-linked hospitals accused of price-gouging uninsured | Senator Clinton Wants Hearings On Morning-After Pill Aug. 21-27 | Aug. 14-20 | July 31-Aug. 6 | Aug. 7-13 | July 31-Aug. 6 | July 24-30
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