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Hot Headlines, September 2005

9/24/05
A decorated Army officer reveals new allegations of detainee mistreatment in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and asserts it was NOT a "few bad apples" | Two soldiers and an officer with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division have told a human rights organization of systemic detainee abuse and human rights violations at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq
Public relations prez: Bush seeks to "regain swagger" as poll numbers tank, disasters strike, and the bottle beckons | The Money Graf: Laura Has Taken Away Bush's Swagger | Gambling911.com Sponsor Posts Odds on Bush Drinking Problem Claimed by National Enquirer | President' George Bush: Another Mean Drunk | Would it be irresponsible to speculate about Bush’s relapse into alcoholism?
The image that is our nation's new shame: the elderly as cargo
Not One, But Two Congressional Leaders—Bill Frist And Tom Delay—Fend Off Questions Of Ethical Improprieties
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Josh Marshall fills in a few of the blank spaces in yesterday's Post article about Jack Abramoff and Karl Rove
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Financial Docs Show Senator Bill Frist Got Stock Updates When He Said He Did Not | Cue the Frog March: Bill Frist Knew About Blind Trust Investments | Looks like Bill Frist is in BIG trouble | Frist’s Conduct in 1999 Completely Contradicts His 2005 Excuse | Insider Trading Runs In the Frist Family | An investigation Frist can't avoid
DOWNFALL OF THE DUKE -- Inquiry Into Duke Cunningham Widens
HURRICANE AFTERMATH -- Rita Hits Texas, Louisiana As Category 3 Storm, Causing Flooding, Power Outages, Fires, Tornadoes | Bush Monitors Rita From Colorado | Houston abandons its neediest ahead of Hurricane Rita | Sleazy privatization move? Public hospitals in New Orleans to be condemned | Large fire breaks out in Galveston as Rita nears | Evacuees stranded again, this time in Texas | FEMA denies Wisconsin disaster aid request | Army Corps of Engs battle with NOLA flooding as partially repaired levees fail again | Best-Laid Plans Weren't Enough in Texas | David Gregory embarrasses Bush boy after he proclaims Texas photo-op | Sen. Minority Leader In Letter To Frist: "I Have Yet To Hear A Legitimate Argument Against An Independent Commission To Investigate Katrina" | Democrats criticize US accounting of Katrina money |Frank Lautenberg wonders about Karl Rove | Rove fundraises as Rita lands | Rita Evacuation Exposes Class Divide | Bush was headed to Texas for a photo-op that would have interfered with recovery operations, then US Northern Command | Evacuee: "They Say We've Learned A Lot From Hurricane Katrina. Well, You Couldn't Prove It By Me" | Lautenberg criticizes Rove's North Dakota trip when he should be at his Katrina post | Exodus from Rita’s wrath slow going | Rita Floods New Orleans Again | New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters | Many Poor Residents Stuck in Houston | Offer of buses fell between the FEMA cracks | Housing the Displaced Is Full of Obstacles, Red Tape
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Dean speaks out on pro-Roberts Democrats
HOT POLITICS -- Gutless, Feckless Beltway Dems, Corporatese Edition | Warren Beatty may challenge Gov. Arnie | "My name is Bryan Lentz, and I'm running for Congress." Iraq vet to challenge Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) | Cheney Set For Weekend Surgery
BUDGET MESS -- Bush spendthriftier than LBJ | Watch this! “Chief Porker” Don Young Lashes Out At Critics | Ensign: Spending cuts needed now: Nevada senator, five other Republicans
QWAGMIRE -- 100,000 Expected At DC Iraq War Protest... | Exclusive: Former Head of U.S. Central Command Blasts Administration Over Iraq | Kafka Does Iraq: The Disturbing Case of Abdul Amir Younes Hussein | Wesley Clark Sketches an Exit Plan for Iraq, Meets with Cindy Sheehan | Senator wants federal peace department | Even Saudi Prince Warning US about Iraq | Iraq duty extended for 9,400 US soldiers | Medics say ten killed in Gaza explosion
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Radiologist wins $2.5m over 9/11 search
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Smart versus dumb: influencing public opinion, and the NY Times' dumb op-ed decision | Former ABC News Correspondent Says He Was Dismissed for Refusing War Zone Assignments | The New Yorker Opening First Washington Bureau 4 Blocks From The Washington Post | Jon Stewart on Press Briefings | NBC Prez: "I'm Not Going To BS You -- There Will Likely Be Layoffs" | Using Katrina, eye to ax public TV | Claim: US bans Independent reporter
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Specter: Pentagon Drops Hearing Objection on ABLE DANGER
$MIRKONOMICS -- Report Says Bush's Tax Cuts Will Cause Some in Middle Class to Pay More! | US agency says tax breaks too costly, need review (GAO)
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Entergy New Orleans files for bankruptcy in wake of Katrina
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Ha-ha! Ex-insider to do GOP books from jail
OH, GOD! -- House lets Head Start discriminate on 'faith'
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Gas Rationing - George Bush has turned us into a Third World Country | GA Governor asks schools to close 2 days to save fuel
HEALTH DEBACLES -- FDA Leader Steps Down | Cancer expert to take over US FDA post
Amid Many Fights Over Qualifications, a Bush Homeland Security Nomination Stalls in Committee

9/23/05
HCA gets subpoena to produce documents; believes it relates to the sale of HCA stock by Sen. William H. Frist | Frist Sold Stock Along With HCA Insiders | First Ordered Sale Of Tens Of Millions In Family Stock Two Weeks Before Stock Tumbled
Carter says Gore won 2000 election
KATRINA AFTERMATH / RITA PREVIEW -- Bus Carrying Elderly Evacuees Explodes, Up To 24 Dead | "One Of The Largest Mass Evacuations In American History" | Katrina Turns the Poor Into the Destitute | Right-wing group calls for screwing over retirees to fund Katrina relief | Texas is a total disaster | Brownie’s Bang Up Job | Chaos in Houston | Blackwater mercs patrol NOLA | FEMA denies Florida appeal for individual Katrina aid | Mr. President: Rita Requires Ending Tax Cuts for the Rich | Rush's Lie -- and the Truth -- About the NOLA Buses | Tom Waits: "I Wish New Orleans Was Dry And Washington Was Underwater" | Old people stuck in Hurricane's path | Many more bodies than expected' in NO | Rita evacuees gridlocked | On Rita: They have learned nothing | White House plays down Katrina impact on federal deficit
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Conservatives gloat, senators posture and NPR's Nina Totenberg lobbies to protect her vacation plans as John Roberts' nomination sails through | David Sirota: How Roberts' Confirmation Process Shows What We Should Really Fear | Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "I Have A List Of Highly Qualified Women, But The President Has Not Consulted Me" | Roberts confirmed in Committee | Feingold disappoints Democrats, progressives with his vote for Roberts | Democratic party unity against Roberts | Kohl, Feingold to vote to confirm Roberts | Feinstein to Vote against Roberts Confirmation
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tyco Exec: Abramoff Boasted of Rove Ties | Will Safavian Knock Down The Right-wing House of Cards? | The widening corruption probe of Jack Abramoff | Abramoff probe starts scaring GOoPers | Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands | Lawyer: Feds pressuring ex-Bush official, want the bottom line on Abramoff
HOT POLITICS -- An aide in MD GOP Gov. Ehrlich's appointments office personally authorized dismissal of Democrat-linked state engineer | Beatty gearing up for guv run in CA? Warren condemns Gröpenführer for governing "by show" | OK-Gov; MI-Gov, Sen: latest polls | Take back Ohio: Daily Kos's action list | FL-Sen: Solid Nelson lead in (R) poll | Hillary worried about Gore running?
BUDGET MESS -- Bush spends, spends, spends | Pelosi cuts her pork intake | Balancing the Budget in Challenging Times: Progressives Can Do Better! An Alternative to “Operation Offset” | To Support the Rich, GOP Cuts From Our Troops
QWAGMIRE -- Sistani Plans Pro-constitution Fatwa | Saudis Pessimistic on Iraq | Antiwar Protesters Pick Up Steam and take cause to DC | Report attacks myth of foreign fighters in Iraq | Poll: Fewer than half think U.S. will win in Iraq (CNN/USA Today/Gallup) | Top Democrats won't attend antiwar rally in Washington | What really happened in Basra? | Moqtada Threatens 'Tearing Zarqawi Apart' | For Bush, bin Laden is blowing in the wind | Today in DC: Commandos in the Streets? | Powerful Blast Shakes US Military Base in Kirkuk
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush Boy explicitly blames Carter, Reagan Clinton for 9/11 | LA man involved in mosque bomb plot sentenced | Philadelphia Has Been Denied Funds To Fight War On Terror | FBI chief says Katrina has not made US more vulnerable to terror
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- US soldier 'enjoyed Abu-Ghraib abuse'
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- In Hollywood, Conservative Values Becoming Common Plot Device | Duncan Black Testifies in DC on Regulating the Internets | Watch the fun! Max Speaks vs Grover Norquist | Where Stories Go to Die: Page A23 | Jon who? The Daily what? Republicans pretend they have no clue about America's best fake news show
FOX WATCH -- O'Reilly lies again: "Republicans don't have control of the judicial branch" | O'Reilly again falsely accused former guest Jeremy Glick of claiming that Bush "orchestrat[ed] 9-11"
WHAT A RUSH! -- Back on hillbilly heroin? Limbaugh again playing up wacko theory that Hillary Clinton had Vincent Foster murdered
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Patriot Games: The FBI Fails (For Now) to Grab Subpoena Powers
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA Plans To Rebuild As Global Operation... | CIA Director Porter Goss hit with tough questions after speech to agency employees | "Goss is out of touch": Outgoing CIA official Robert Richer discusses concerns | Cheney 'pulled plug' on Able Danger testimony
$MIRKONOMICS -- The Republican War on the Poor | Reuters: Economy was wavering before Katrina | Leading Economic Indicators Index in U.S. Declines on Consumer Confidence | Anti-Wage Cut bill in the House is picking up steam
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Judge hears motions on GOP eavesdropping suit | Murderers who kill whites more likely to be condemned
OH, GOD! -- A New Anti-Theocracy Lobby In Washington | Why does the GOP want to promote religious discrimination? Why do they hate America?
MORALITY MORONICS -- Bush Gives Saudi Sex Slaves the A-OK
ENERGY SCANDALS -- FTC Head Overseeing Gas Gouging Probe Was Chevron Lawyer | Exxon shuts biggest US refinery
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Teaching New Brand Of Creationism, "Intelligent Design", Goes On Trial Next Week
GAY IN AMERICA -- School Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents

9/22/05
National Enquirer: Bush is drinking again -- yes, this should be taken seriously
Fun with advertising! Truck billboard arrives for Grover Norquist
Poet Declines Laura Bush's Invitation To Speak... "I Could Not Face The Idea Of Breaking Bread With You"
Sensing a Pattern? Norquist, Abramoff and their Islamist pals
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Democrats demanding Independent Katrina Commission | Hurricane aid used 'to test out right-wing social policies' | Watch this! Jimmy Carter Critical of Bush's FEMA Failures | Congress Passes Katrina Tax Breaks | Dems. Say Arrest Of White House Budget Official Demonstrates Need For Independent Katrina Investigation | Watch This! Sen. Mary Landrieu on Rita, FEMA, Reconstruction | Bush Katrina Probe Nominee Draws Flak - from GOP, too! | Hurricane Brownie? | Allstate won't pay Katrina flood claims | Tax breaks designed to help Hurricane Katrina victims | Dean, DNC: Gulf Coast Needs Relief, Not A Right-wing Agenda From | Rita could equal $5 gas | FEMA Presents: Mismanagement on Ice! | Tom Delay Won't Give Up Any Of Over $100M In His District's Pork to Katrina Victims | Chertoff Thinks Julie Myers is Qualified; Julie Myers Disagrees | Houston mayor orders evacuation | Katrina funny money | President Carter criticizes FEMA's role in Katrina relief | Message Chaos Afflicts Both Parties as Katrina Washes Discipline | Katrina's official death toll now 1,035
TRAITORGATE -- Steve Cobble: Lil' Kim Sets Precedent for Big Karl?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Roberts' ruling in Bush's favor debated; was it a quid-pro-quo? | NJ senators will vote against Roberts' confirmation as chief justice | Democrats revive filibuster threat | Sen. Boxer to oppose Supreme Court nominee Roberts | Biden To Vote Against Roberts... | Kennedy to Oppose Roberts | Specter asks Bush to delay 2nd SCOTUS nomination | Leahy supporting Roberts | Leahy's cave-in: not good for Dems | Republicans apply pressure on Nelson to support Roberts for Supreme
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Watch this! "Has he been indicted yet?" Jack Cafferty unloads on DeLay (.wmv)
HOT POLITICS -- Robert Novak warns George Bush today that he is facing a Category 5 political hurricane (props to WaMonthly for the headline) | Rhode Island Republican Primary May Imperil the Chafee Dynasty | Watch this! Phil Donahue vs Bill O'Reilly | Nancy to Denny: Bite me | Republican Leaders ask Specter to release memos from probe | The gubernatorial race in Virginia is quite winnable for Democrat Tim Kaine | Bush is tanking on Iraq support post-Katrina | Chertoff Crony Nominated to Head Immigration | Luntz Sells PR Firm to White House Propagandists | Could Chuck Hagel Be the Next President of the United States | Bush's double reverse halo | Democrats send man in President Bush mask to Bloomberg campaign event | Daschle Reenters Political Arena - Running for Prez? | Chafee would "do anything" for Santorum
BUDGET MESS -- New taxes for Katrina? The GOoPers will fight it out. | McClellan: Transportation Bill Was a Model of Fiscal Discipline
QWAGMIRE -- Report: Pentagon Has No Accurate Estimates Of War, Terrorism Spending... | Official Says Iraqi Oil Production Still Lagging | Sheehan's Antiwar Campaign Now in DC | Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan Arrives In Washington | Former Bush Adviser On Basra's Violence Surge: "We Always Think We're Playing The Iraqis, But They Always End Up Playing Us" | U.S. Presses Case for Action Against Iran | Iraq: al-Zarqawi Group Claims It Killed A US Consul | 15 Iraqi Dead Soldiers Found
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Senators Accuse Pentagon of Obstructing Inquiry on Sept. 11
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- James Taranto: I Simply Make Sh!t Up | Watch This! Tucker Carlson Vs Bill Maher
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Judge Holds Closed Hearing In Case Of Former CIA Contractor | Specter Wants Answers About 'Able Danger'
ELECTION THEFTS -- NJ attorney general announces voter fraud probe
$MIRKONOMICS -- Wall St. Slides Amid Growing Hurricane Fears | American dream eludes the poorest
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Frist Stock Sale Raising Questions; "The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense" | Delta Plans To Cut Up To 9,000 Jobs... | Sony To Slash 10,000 Jobs Globally, Reducing Workforce By 6 Percent... | More questions about Frist's amazingly successful stock sale | Union: Northwest to dump 1,400 workers | Judge Orders $6.1B Returned To WorldCom Investors | Diebold Shares Dip on Lowered Forecast | Bush, Frist: Two peas in an insider trading pod? | Senator Frist Sold Stock Before Price Dropped
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- The Bush Education Department's Fuzzy Math
OH, GOD! -- Catholic Church: Gays? No. Drug Lords and Child Molesters? Yes. War | Why does God hate George Bush, Tom Delay and Rick Perry?
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Minutemen planning national action at U.S. borders | Harvard Law embraces bigotry in exchange for cold hard cash
MORALITY MORONICS -- Bush's War on Porn: Perverted Priorities Run | Senator Santorum's pedophiles | Which one is the pornographer?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Price gouging whitewa… er, probe headed by -- this is a big surprise -- ChevronTexaco lawyer | Ford Launches Hybrid Initiative | FTC launches probe of manipulation in gasoline pricing | FEC investigating gas price profiteering
TRASHING NATURE -- EPA Wants Less Pollution Reporting

9/21/05
Bullhorn Bullsh!t: James Wolcott on George Jr.'s photo-op moments of glory
Bringing It to the Troll's Front Yard: Citizens outraged about Katrina to confront Norquist on his home turf
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Evacuations begin ahead of Hurricane Rita | Experts Contradict Government, Say Real Katrina Scandal Is “Catastrophic Structural Failure” Of Barriers | Infighting: Katrina's cost sets members of GOP at each other's throats | Press turns on Ray Nagin, depicts New Orleans mayor as in "Leadership Crisis" | Will Conservatives in Congress sacrifice pork for hurricane relief and preparation? | Safe water may be months away in NOLA | Red Tape To Cause Hundreds Of Tons Of Food For Katrina Survivors | Bush and Republicans push ahead with partisan whitewash of Katrina | “Chief Porker” Don Young Refuses To Share Bacon With Katrina Victims | Treasury Sec'y Snow: Storm seen sidelining permanent tax cuts | Cash and 'Cat 5' Chaos | Red Cross disappointed many during hurricane crisis
TRAITORGATE -- Did John Bolton have a hand in outing Valerie Plame? | Arianna Huffington: Traitorgate -- The John Bolton Connection
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid To Vote No On Roberts | Harry Reid's statement on Roberts | A Baucus Betrayal | 43 blacks in Congress reject Roberts | John Roberts = Turd sandwich | Roberts: Reid says no, but he'll be confirmed anyway | Who Will Bush Tap As Next Court Nominee?
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Email from arrested White House official suggests Congressman Bob Ney lied about Scotland golf junket | The School Safavian and Abramoff Built
HOT POLITICS -- Garrison Keillor on Bush's Hard Fall | NJ GOP Guv wannabe Doug Forrester caught using fake "Democrat" in TV spot | Rep. Steve LaTourette cashes in on CAFTA vote | Giuliani Leads 2008 Republican White House Hopefuls | EU constitution on ice: EU chief | Gröpenführer to Chimp: Stay away from Kahleefawnia for now | Jeb Bush "Unleashes Chang" To Fla. State Reps, Tells Them Of His "Mystical Warrior" Friend Who He Relies On "With Great Regularity In My Public Life" | Breaking the Silence: How Dems Cfan Break Through the Old Media's Wall of Passive Censorship | President sinking in ratings | Half of Americans Think Bush Isn’t Honest | Restoring honor and integrity, the Bush administration way
BUDGET MESS -- What part of the pig gives us pork?
QWAGMIRE -- Nine Americans, Including Embassy Official, Killed In Iraq Since Monday | Afghanistan: Mission not yet accomplished | Military anger among UK forces at delay to Iraq pullout plan | Ex-UK Official: Iraq Worse Than Vietnam | Taliban vow to step up war after Afghan poll "drama" | Gun battle in Baghdad kills 8, child dies in north (killed by US troops) | Afghan leader Hamed Karzai wants U.S. out | Three US convoys attacked in Iraq | Israel says Iran six months from having nuclear bomb | Halliburton has been serving contaminated water to Iraq troops | Cindy Sheehan Injured At NYC Protest, Organizer Arrested | Roadside bombs kill 4 US troops in Iraq | Nuclear: Iran Threaten Treaty Pullout if Case Goes To Security Council | Rice tells Syria to stop meddling | Ex-Iraqi defense minister wanted over $1 billion fraud
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Whitewash: Pentagon blocks testimony about Able Danger program at Senate hearing on terrorist
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Judge bars release of Ghraib photos, again
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Chicago Sun-Times publisher David Radler pleads guilty -- is he about to implicate Conrad Black as a crook? | Watch this! Jack Cafferty: "John Q Public not buying it anymore!" | New York Times to lay off 4% of workforce | Dan Rather condemns 'Dumbed down, tarted-up' news | Michael Reagan’s Attempted Smear Disastrously Misinformed
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Carl Levin Threatens to Block Homeland Nominee
ELECTION THEFTS -- Larisa Alexandrovna: Baked-Cooked Election Reform | Lawmakers proposing paper trails for Georgia voting machines
$MIRKONOMICS -- Whoops! IRS payments in the bottom of SF bay | U.S. consumer confidence gauge falls again | Fed Raises Interest Rates To 3.75%... | In Katrina’s wake, DeLay reiterates support for $70 billion in tax cuts | H.R. 3763: stopping the attack on the minimum wage | Rep. Charles Taylor opposes suspension of minimum wage in Gulf region | AL Senator Jeff Sessions disputes death tax article
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- FCC targets Club for Graft… er, Growth | Quebec Rules Against Wal-Mart in Closing of Unionized Store
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Congress Looks At Eminent Domain
OH, GOD! -- Christian Coalition Racked By Financial, Legal Problems And Fading Fast
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Tancredo, Minority-hating immigration foe, poised as Republican spoiler as he splits with Bush
MORALITY MORONICS -- FBI Forming Porn Squad Because It’s “One Of The Top Priorities” For Atty. General Gonzales
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oil prices back above USD$67 in Asia as Rita threatens US Gulf region | Wisconsin Governor, Seven Others Demand Oil Companies Refund Drivers
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Lott: Scrap Medicare drug scam, pay for storm | First generic AIDS drug approved by FDA | BUSTED! Google Cache Thwarts Bush Spin Machine, Debunks Team Bush Lie About FDA Appointee Fiasco | Pharma firm settles price gouging suit | FDA: I know nothink!
GAY IN AMERICA -- CT to recognize out of state civil unions | Tennessee orders 'gay rehab' camp shut

9/20/05
"Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career"
Right-wing rag American Speculum quotes Bush Administration player: "You get the impression that we're more than listless. We're sunk."
D'oh! Immigration memo intended for Karl Rove arrives on Democrat's fax | HuffPo puts off-the-record Karl Rove on the record: "The only [Katrina] mistake we made was not overriding the local government… Cindy Sheehan is a clown."
NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan; City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried | Cindy Sheehan calls out Hillary Clinton
Watch this: Conan and the Bathroom Break
KATRINA AFTERMATH --New Orleans reentry suspended over storm | NOLA Mayor Nagin rips FEMA chief after halting return plan | Dems kill sham Katrina probe | Bush appoints key aide to whitewash federal failure to respond to Katrina | No crisis, but Maine getting plenty of ice thanks to FEMA's foolishness | Hostettler (R-IN) hates the poor, makes excuses for vote against Katrina relief efforts | More on dead Katrina probe in the LA Times | John Kerry, John Edwards Hit Bush On Katrina | Cronyism: does it stop George from hiring on the best people for the job? | Blanco says feds promised buses | NY warned to prepare for hurricane like Katrina | "This is the Katrina administration" | Errors of Commission: the GOP effort to whitewash the Katrina disaster | Iraq War = 16K/Month For Displaced Katrina Families | Bill Clinton: "You Can't Have An Emergency Plan That Works If It | Bush questions reopening of New Orleans | 154 patients died in intense heat | Part of New Orleans had been reopened to residents | Conflict over rate of return to New Orleans | Mandatory evacuation for lower Keys as Rita approaches | Is FEMA its own disaster area?
TRAITORGATE -- Abrams Hopeful that Judith Miller Will Be Released Next Month
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Chickenhawk family traditions
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- David Hossein Safavian, top Exec Branch procurement official until he resigned last week, arrested in Abramoff dragnet | Feds seek to flip Savafian | Safavian was another no-experience, incompetent patronage appointment
HOT POLITICS -- Bush names another incompetent patronage appointee, this time to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Stephen Elliott: Was Karl Rove In Maui? | FEC Sues Pro-Republican Political Group | Paper Investigation: Across Country Staggering Waste, Corruption, | Katrina Pushes Bush Down Further | Panel Will Propose New Calendar for Primaries
QWAGMIRE -- Military: Troop Deaths Hit 1,903 in Iraq | Attack in Mosul kills American Blackwater mercenaries | Pentagon: Hey, how 'bout that terrific Iraq war? | British troops freed in Iraq jailbreak | Trey Ellis: Who Will Finally Explain Why Bush Allowed Zarqawi to | Iraq's self-styled Al Qaeda: Killing Shi'ites still OK unless they're with Moqtada al-Sadr | Protests mount outside federal building | Time Mag: "We Have Failed The Iraqi People, And We Have Failed Our | Suicide bombers strike as Shia pilgrimage underway | Police, Protesters Prepare For Anti-War Demonstration in DC | Who is winning the war in Iraq? (U.S. forces say body counts prove | Church of England may apologize for Iraq | Iraq: New York Times Reporter Slain
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bomber says al Qaeda forced him | Al Qaeda training ground shifts to Iraq - U.N. panel
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Watch this: Jon Stewart at the Emmys | Salaries of top MSM journos exposed | David Geffen Interested In Buying Los Angeles Times | Power Tools: Is Powerlie the worst blog ever? | How the GOP and Whites-only House undermines a Free and Independent Media
FOX WATCH -- UN Foundation President Calls for Bill O'Reilly's Public Apology | O'Reilly wished Katrina hit UN
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh: Can He Read?
ELECTION THEFTS -- Conyers Opposes Baker/Carter Commission Report | Bob Fertik: Make Voter Registration AUTOMATIC with Social Security Numbers
TSUNAMI --
$MIRKONOMICS -- Voinovich skeptical about president's fiscal outlook | Papal envoy rips US "shameful" poverty | Bad news at the OMB | Bob "Dominatrix on Line One" Livingston's Fuzzy Math: The Deficit is All Clinton’s Fault | Watch This! John Edwards on Poverty and Restoring the American Dream | To Do List: Stop Bush's Assault on Katrina Victims' Wages
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Critics not sold on Wal-Mart ;U.S. Rep. Brown's forum weighs whether giant is good, bad for U.S. | Wal-Mart Accused of Denying Lunch Breaks | Tyco execs get 8 1/2 - 25 years in prison | Psychopaths make best investors | Ex-Tyco executives get up to 25 years in prison
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Storm Strains Bush's Ties To Black Clergy | 9/11 bias threatens Muslims' careers
MORALITY MORONICS -- Oswego, NY's "Family Values" GOP Mayor Arrested for Soliciting Minors
Nonbelievers raising voice in capital
ENERGY SCANDALS -- OPEC Set to Open Oil Taps Full Blast
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Will You Be Having The .45 Or The 30.06 Tonight, Sir? | Monkey business at the FDA?
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back | Study: Stem Cells May Repair Cord Damage | $104 billion to return to moon
TRASHING NATURE -- Congressmen Seek Endangered Species Change

9/19/05
AFTER KATRINA -- Evacuees' return to city called premature | Paul Krugman: Tragedy in Black and White | Beth Quinn: George is worst natural disaster to hit country | Steve Young: Buck makes first visit to the Bush White House; Katrina a boon for concerts, a bust for Ellen | FEMA Failure Michael Brown Shopping Resume To Headhunters And DC PR Firms | FEMA: A Legacy of Waste | Another FEMA insider talks about the failed leadership | By Hook or by Crook, Surviving Storm | Ignored by federal agencies, thousands of illegal immigrants made homeless by Katrina are struggling to survive | Thousands Evacuate Florida Keys As Tropical Storm Rita Approaches | Harsh Words For Bush Administration At Katrina Jazz Concert | Separate schools for Katrina students? Texas officials want to waive federal rules that prevent schools from segregating homeless students | The Model for Rebuilding New Orleans is [cough] Rebuilding | Katrina Relief Money Poured Into Sleazy Companies | Baton Rouge real estate market surges | Paying for Katrina | FEMA Urges People To Stay Away | President Bush's first move after Katrina was to push through a Gulf Coast Wage Cut by executive order
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts: latest beneficiary of Chimp's "Friends & Allies" program | What's a Minority Party to Do? | John Roberts Fails To Meet His Burden
HOT POLITICS -- Bush’s Ratings Drop After Speech | Poll: Dems lead 2006 House races | Rod Paige, Former Aides Join Consulting Firm | Ken Blackwell using threat of Jerry Springer to scare rubes into contributing to his scampaign | VA-Gov: Mason-Dixon Shows a Tight Race | Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Cast as Villain "Rekindling Tensions" Between City and Suburbs | Stuck-up Rice too busy for women foreign ministers' dinner | Blackwell jump-starts his 2006 gubernatorial race | NJ's Monmouth County GOP corruption is fuel for Democrats | Marine Veteran Files To Run for Seat Held by Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) | Poll finds governor's race tight in Virginia | Volunteer at Kentucky Governor's office was on GOP party payroll | Leg Surgery For Cheney | Ted Stevens' son has a huge conflict of interest | Edwards Calls For Return Of Depression Era Programs | Jeb Bush declares state of emergency for Florida | PA-Gov, Sen: Looking good | Mamet to Beltway Dems: You can't just call. You've got to raise | Ex-Ill. Gov. Goes on Trial for Corruption | Bill Clinton lambastes Bush on Trifecta of failure: Iraq, Katrina, budget deficit
BUDGET MESS -- GOP looks to delay spending to fund recovery | Barack Obama: "We need some adult supervision on the budget..."
QWAGMIRE -- U.S. Claims Success in Iraq Despite Failure After Failure | Yep, that insurgency sure is desperate… | North Korea Vows to Drop Nuclear Programs | What Happened to Iraq's Missing $1 Billion? | Bush's threats again Iran. Why should Iran care? | Iraqi MP assassinated, 24 bodies found in Tigris
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Intel experts: 'We are repeating every mistake we made in Vietnam' | Condi still lying, still linking 9/11 to Iraq | FBI stymied in efforts to solve anthrax case
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Army Knew Abuse Of Prisoners Was Ongoing and Could Have Been Prevented
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Watch this! Galloway vs Hitchens -- feel the hate! | Tim Russert: Not paying attention, again | Jon Stewart & Daily Show win Emmy | Newsweek interviews dilettante diplomat Condi Rice - man, are we screwed | CNN + DeLay + MSNBC + Iraq Contracts + Disney + Rednecks = Profit! | Give me a break -- and watch this! John Stossel admits he ripped off FEMA
ELECTION THEFTS -- Carter Commission urges e-vote paper trail, national ID for U.S. voters | Brad Friedman: A Diebold Insider Speaks Out On Tamperable E-voting Terminals
$MIRKONOMICS -- Feds Seen Raising Rates Despite Katrina
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ohio Mortgage Brokers Contribute to Foreclosure Rates | SEC investigating the Shaw Group
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Google Pushes Copyright Laws, To Start Scanning Millions Of Books
OH, GOD! -- New Washington anti-theocracy lobby turns key, shifts into gear | Anti-gay forces protest at Rehnquist death, celebrate Katrina | More on Dick "Dick" Dasen, the other Roger Ailes favorite Christian hypocrite | Bush Increasingly Using Religious Language | Battered by poor leadership and scandal, Christian Coalition is collapsing
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Bush still seeks to bamboozle the black Americans his racist administration and party are out to shaft | Civil lawsuit planned in beating of black man
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Saudi Arabia backs OPEC increase
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Drug czar pushes junk science in latest anti-marijuana campaign as his agency continues to give meth short shrift | Husband to publish book on Schiavo case | Bird flu epidemic could kill millions worldwide: experts
TRASHING NATURE -- Since climate has been on all our minds lately...

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