Hot Headlines, September-October 2005 10/1/05
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- White House criticizes Bill "Viva Las Vegas" Bennett for comments on blacks and crime | Bennett on defensive over remarks on blacks, abortion and crime rate | "Freakonomics" Author Responds To Bill Bennett | Bill Bennett: He is racist, ok? | Protest awaits Bennett visit to University of Cincinnati |Trey Ellis: If William Bennett Had Been Aborted | Limbaugh falsely accused Media Matters of taking Bennett out of context | Bennett defended racial comments with falsehood | Bennett cited Katrina aftermath, Swift's "A Modest Proposal" as inspiring his comments; ABC's Tapper noted that Bennett "did not seem particularly apologetic"
TRAITORGATE -- Judith Miller Fingers Scooter Libby As Leaker | Call with Scooter, Deal Led Miller to Testify -- But Even NYT Has Questions | Miller's Testimony Increases Anxiety In The White House And Republican Circles | The Ever-vigilant Arianna Has the Best Friday Judy Miller Roundup | Miller's Out Post: Times Dishonesty Explained | Joan Juliet Buck: What Did Judy Reveal? | RJ Eskow: Judy's New Curveball: Is It About the Deal? | Miller Spins CNN After Testifying | Norm Ornstein: leaks | Freed reporter names Cheney aide Scooter Libby | David Corn: Miller a Martyr for a Mistake?...And Scooter's CIA Defense | Marty Kaplan: Scooter's Just Not That Into Her | Arianna Huffington: Reminder to Judy and the NYTimes: the spin always catches up with you | Miller testimony to end grand jury CIA probe | Jonah Peretti: Judy Was Going for the Off-the-record Record | Judy Miller meets the press | Miller Testifies to Grand Jury on CIA Leak | Questions for Judith Miller
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Cue the frog march! October 21st court date for Tom DeLay | DeLay criticizes, Earle defends filmmakers' access to DA office | Grand jury foreman defends Delay indictment | DeLay’s Smear Campaign Against Earle Unravels | Conservative blogger says "dump DeLay" | Fox News host, analyst, guest all ignored Texas law to falsely claim DeLay indictment based on weak evidence | DeLay Inc. | DeLay Blames Indictment On Newspaper Editorial | Partisan Witch Hunt? Foreman of **** | Ethics cloud over new House GOP leader; Blunt employs indicted advisor | Others say DeLay lied about testimony | New House Majority Leader Is Largest Individual Donor To DeLay's PAC | Grand Jury Members Deny DeLay Didn't Get Chance to Tell His Side | Jack Abramoff and those arrested mob soldiers: Josh Marshall with the latest | DeLay Case May Require Insider Testimony
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Bolton: UN funding should be voluntary
COINGATE -- Ohio suit to stand; Republicans must open calendars, campaign data
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Right wingers plot gutting of social programs to pay for fix-up of petrobusiness-friendly Gulf coast | horsesass.com blogger responds to attacks over his revelations about former FEMA fool Mike Brown | Shades of FEMA's Brown in Bush pick to head refugee crisis | New Orleans's Black Colleges Hit Hard | Your tax dollars looted: $2,480 for less than two hours of work to cover each damaged roof | HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy; 'Never again...majority black' (WARNING: article from Moonie Times)
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Oregon strikes down 2 sex-oriented laws | MO judge gambled away bribe money
HOT POLITICS -- 80-20 on upholding campaign spending limits? | The Republican Culture of Corruption | ND-Sen: Conrad dodges bullet | CA-Gov: Angelides Comes Out Swinging Against Ahnuld on Gay Marriage | Schwarzenegger Keeps Low Approval in California in Latest Public Policy Institute Poll | Democrats hope for traction against scandal-plagued Republicans | Bush's plunging popularity bodes ill for Santorum in PA poll | Draft Paul Krugman | Site lists Bush nicknames for aides | North Dakota governor not running for U.S. Senate | Drunken Senate staffer screams at police | GOP House Candidate Marilyn Brewer Distances Self From Bush | Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO): Bush 'acts like a king' | Poll: Many Doubt Bush Foreign Policy, 3/4 Say Establishing Democracy | We can still flog the narrow, anti-citizen, pro-corporate GOP agenda, says Dent
QWAGMIRE -- Eleven killed in Iraq attacks including imam, two US troops (1935) | U.S. Commander Doubts Iraq Troop Cutbacks | Overthrowing Hussein Not Enough for War, Say Americans | Feingold Blasts Administration's Iraq Policy | The Heavy Burden of Retrieving Fallen Americans in Iraq | I Read the News Today Oh Boy | Storms in U.S. divert gaze from worsening Iraq; "It's Hell" | Rice says Iraq must not be given up to 'merciless killers' | It's time for Congressional Democrats to grab the body armor issue and run with it in an intelligent, strategic way | Chair of Joint Chiefs steps down | Four US soldiers wounded in Afghan blast | American security contractor allegedly shoots dead his Afghan interpreter | Peace mom Cindy Sheehan meets with Elizabeth Dole over Iraq war | 13 U.S. Troops Die In Latest Iraq Violence | Car Bomb Kills 11 in Iraqi City
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Pentagon hunts 9/11 whistleblower
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Administration threatens defense bill veto over terror-war detainee amendments
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- Israeli lobby spy case suggests new push to keep leaks from reporters
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA Running Short On Spies: "The Old [Agency] Is Finished"
ELECTION THEFTS -- Voting machine problems noted during primary
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Pro-gun lobby group compares ads targeting new Florida law to an act of terrorism
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- "In Florida, Avoid Disputes" New NRA-Backed "Shoot First Law" Law | Oopsie! FBI admits to wiretapping wrong numbers
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Education Department broke rules by paying columnist, GAO says
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Karen Russell: The GOP's African-American Talking Points | Racist "Minutemen" step up US border patrol; violence feared
Fla. Wal-Mart Workers Start to Organize
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Senators cut funds for food and heat
HEALTH DEBACLES -- U.N. Official: New Flu Pandemic Could Kill Millions 9/30/05
Must-read Essay on Bush Supporters of the Far Right and Their Cries from the Lake of Fire
TRAITORGATE -- NY Times reporter Judith Miller released from jail (as Huffpo points out, Inquirer scoops Times on their own story) | Judy Miller To Testify Friday... | Philly Inquirer Says Scooter Libby Responsible For Judith Miller Release | Libby's Lawyer Contradicts Miller and Sulzberger... | Murray Waas weighs in | Arianna Huffington: Miller Walks, and the Plot Thickens | Steve Gilliard: Shorter Judy Miller | Rove to Bush: Boss! Da Plame! DA Plame! | On Judy and her so-called journalistic "principles"
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- DeLay Court Appearance Set for Late October | DeLay shielded Abramoff client Tyco | Dean cheers Texas jury on DeLay | Cracks seen in GOP front on DeLay | Absolut Corruption | NY Times: No one calls DeLay "the Hammer" to his face -- looks like he made up the nickname himself! | Michael Shaw: Tom DeLay -- Making A Career Pay Off | GOP violates spirit of law, keeps DeLay on as "advisor" | Powerline’s “Super Lawyer” Needs Your Help | DeLay Goes on Radio and TV to Proclaim Innocence | Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has drawn wrath of Dems, too | CNN, MSNBC parroted DeLay's allegation that Earle is a "partisan zealot" but failed to note Earle's history of prosecuting Democrats | "Unabashed partisan zealot" -- help get the truth about DeLay out | What happened to Dreier? | Pelosi on DeLay: 'A desperate man' | Religious Right ‘Too Busy to Comment’ on Pat Robertson, Quick to DeLay’s Defense | VIDEO: Tom DeLay Exercises His Right To Incriminate Himself | Brit Hume: Second City TV | Republican whining about DeLay/Frist - Episode 3: The sounds of silence | DeLay Helps Earle Establish Motive | Howard Dean Was Right. Again. | The Noise Machine, In Action | Experts: DeLay case needs smoking gun (and Earle may well have more than one) | Gay Republican nixed to replace DeLay | Bradley to return money from DeLay's PAC | Rep. who filed DeLay charge surprised | March: Bwaah! DeLay blames Soros syndicate | Keyboard Kommando Komics presents: The Repukes of Hazzard!
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Bill Frist insider trading investigation expands | Company run by Frist's brother made $630m deal two days before he announced he would be leader | Gloria Borger adopted Frist's defense as fact, failed to note that his past defense was false
COINGATE -- Petro: How Noe stole millions from Ohio funds
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- How to rebuild New Orleans | Rita evacuation "like a horror movie" | No SBA loan checks reach Katrina victims | Million Dollar Refugee Ships Lying Half Empty | New Orleans Launches 'Repopulation' Plan | NBC: N.O. levee reported weak in 1990's; built on bad ground | Probe Launched of Levee Breaks in New Orleans | Senators Fume at White House Disdain for Katrina Healthcare Plan | Hundreds of bodies still unidentified
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Clinton urges Bush to appoint to Supreme Court who would balance right-wing judicial extremists | John Roberts confirmed as 17th chief justice of Supreme Court
HOT POLITICS -- David Sirota: Republicans Tell America What They Think Is "Necessary" | The New Crooked GOP Team? Same as The Old Crooked GOP Team | Sen. Russ Feingold: The President's Policies Are Breaking the U.S. | GOP Caught Push Polling in Vermont 2006 Senate Race | Stepping In For DeLay, Replacement House GOP Leader Feigns "Focus" As GOP Agenda Begins Its Collapse | Blunt in, Dreier out and DeLay is sticking around
QWAGMIRE -- Suicide car bombs kill 60; 5 U.S. Marines die in combat | Triple car bomb attack kills at least 85 | General backs off on US troop cuts in Iraq | Army faces worst recruiting slump in years | Stuffing Iraq's Ballot Boxes: Ballot fraud Florida style coming to Iraq? | Troops Wait For Body Armor Reimbursements | Sen. Dodd taking action on body armor reimbursement | Rumsfeld still screwing the troops | Makin' Good Progress: Top U.S. General Says Number of Capable Iraqi Battalions Drops to One | Five U.S. Soldiers Killed in Ramadi | 2 roadside bombs hit US military convoy in Baghdad | No chance' of Iraq constitution deal | Admiral: US military failed on Katrina communications
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Top Officials Told To Testify In Muslim's Suit; Ashcroft Must Testify | Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent | Gen. Casey: Al-Qaida seeks to use WMD in Mideast
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- US military police guards having sex with female detainees, Iraqi women forced to expose their breasts, and more | The boys were screaming as they were being raped | Judge Abu Ghraib ruling: bad timing for Bush | You oughta be in pictures | Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- Pentagon spy scandal: Plea bargain for analyst Larry Franklin -- is he spilling the beans on other AIPAC-tied traitors?
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Katherine Lanpher leaving Al Franken show | Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity 'don't believe' Tillman mom
ELECTION THEFTS -- Election Fraud 2006: Something to do by 5:00PM tomorrow | Voter suppression comes to Virginia: many of Norfolk's voter applications being denied
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Where is the outrage? Bush grants pardons to drug dealers, embezzlers, a man who used explosives
OH, GOD! -- Case Set Against Christian School That Fired Unwed, Pregnant Teacher | How to beat your wife' imam must study equality
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Racist Charles Murray: "Inert Women (Katrina Victims ) Doing Nothing For Their Children" | The three piece suited Klan | Bennett Under Fire for Remark on Crime and Black Abortions
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Nat. Gas Prices Set Record, Pointing to Mind-bogglingly Costly | US Senate Democrats eye 40 mln bbl gasoline reserve
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Suicide risk for ADHD drug Strattera
TRASHING NATURE -- House Repubs. to gut enviro laws as response to Katrina
GAY IN AMERICA -- Gröpenführer Sucks it Big Time, Vetos Gay Marriage in Kahleefaunia 9/29/05
TOM DeLAY INDICTED—STEPS DOWN AS HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER!
CNN | Austin Ameri-tatesman | Bloomberg
• Watch this! DeLay whines
• Watch this! Prosecutor Ronnie Earle responds
• Watch this! Lukewarm support from the White House (quite a far cry from this)
• DeLay must appear in Austin on charge to be fingerprinted and get mug shot
• The truth about Earle: He prosecutes more Dems than Rethuglicans | More on Earle
• Eric Alterman: "I love the smell of hubris in the morning…"
• Republicans in disarray after DeLay indictment
• DeLay's temporary (permanent?) replacement: Roy Blunt | | Roy Blunt: Tom DeLay without the charm | Why it wasn't David Dreier | Roy Blunt Hired Consultant Who's Also Indicted | Blunt equals DeLay
• More arrests in Boulis murder case | TIMELINE: The Boulis case
DeLay whines: Newspaper pressured prosecutor | DeLay Indictment May Be Overshadowed by Looming Abramoff Probe | Tom DeLay Now Changing His Story | Shots Across the Brow: On Integrity, Iraq, and al-Qaeda's Pecking Order | Republican whining about DeLay/Frist - Episode 2: As of 7PM PST, Michael Moore is still fat | "Spin Cannot Derail The Criminal Proceedings Underway"... | On the day Tom DeLay is indicted, Bush grants fourteen pardons. Coincidence? | DeLay on the law
Turkish women Tell Karen Hughes to cram it: "War makes the rights of women completely erased, and poverty comes after war" | Karen Hughes got the rhetorical crap kicked out of her by Turkish activist
Bill Bennett embraces racist eugenics: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"
Republicans See Signs That Pentagon Is Evading Oversight
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Frist's multimillion dollar windfall | SEC Upgrades Frist Inquiry To Form Status... | Frist Faces Heat as SEC Orders Formal Investigation
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Lessons come at high cost: 107 lives in Texas | With Aid Slow to Come, Texas Towns Are on Their Own | FEMA Now Criticized For Rita Effort | Bush and congressional GOP are blocking health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of hurricane victims | FEMA's Brown Was Warned Early of Shortages | Katrina Health Care Bill Blocked | Louisiana Governor Fires Back: Says Fmr. FEMA Chief’s Comments Show He’s “Out Of Touch With The Truth Or Reality" | National Guard took Katrina battering | Finger-Pointing Over Gulf Response
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Bush narrows Supreme Court list | Reid urges president to pick mainstream candidate for court | Ore. Suicide Law Hits High Court
HOT POLITICS -- Harry Reid slams Bush over Iraq | CT-Sen: Weicker rumors taking hold | Lichtman Joins Democratic Field for Senate, Compares Himself to Wellstone | Indian paper: 'Bush sleaze party'
BUDGET MESS -- Jason Leopold: An Urban Legend -- Republicans and fiscal responsibility
QWAGMIRE -- Aside from the Wash Post, the coverage of the ghoulish-pics-for-porn scandal has been good | Surprise! We WON'T be substantially cutting the US troops presence | The So-called 'Second' Man -- was this al-Qaeda deputy really No. 2? | Bush: "We Can Expect There To Be Increasing Violence" Before Glorious Victory in Iraqnam | Army cancels probe of "war dead for porn" scandal | US forces 'out of control', says Reuters chief | Bomb targets bodyguard of Iraq cleric Sadr, kills 6 | Reuters: U.S. limits Iraq reporting | The Best Argument for Leaving Iraq | Al Qaeda controls Iraq revolt, says US | Army steps gently into Iraq porn scandal
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush attempts to turn attention to war on terror before hammer came down on DeLay | Judge: Terrorist suspect Posada to stay in U.S., will not be deported to Venezuela to face justice
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Judge Upholds Lawsuit by Muslim Detainees | Prison Abuse in the 82nd | Army Interrogator Sentenced to Five Months for Assaulting a Detainee | ACLU: Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Ann Coulter on Pat Tillman: "I don't believe it" | Chomsky's New Book | Right Wing Media Gets Desperate | Katrina Pushes CNN, Fox Ratings Way Up... | ThinkProgress: Too Hot For CNN | Peace protests and the new media environment
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Atta known to Pentagon before 9/11
$MIRKONOMICS -- The R-Word: Can you say "recession"?
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- School vouchers snuck into Katrina aid bill | Teacher Says Board Effort to Undermine Teaching of Evolution Was Resisted | School spins evolution "debate" by claiming it's "not a fact"
OH, GOD! -- Time to Fight the Religious Right
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Arkansas Clinic Offers Free Abortions for Hurricane Evacuees | Study links Paxil with birth defects | New FDA chief's double duty questioned -- as in major conflict of interest
HEALTH DEBACLES -- America's Energy Solution Is Right Under Us...Literally | Oil: Daily Show on latest Bush flip-flop | White House Was Against Energy Conservation Before It Was For It | Kathleen Reardon: Strategy Watch -- Conservation as Inoculation
TRASHING NATURE -- Protesters ask Kennedy to vote against Alaska drilling | Arctic ice 'disappearing fast'
9/28/05
TRAITORGATE -- Valerie Plame and the silence of the Times
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Grand Jury Worries DeLay Lawyers | If we all clap our hands, Tom Delay will get indicted tomorrow | Demotion of a Prosecutor Is Investigated | DeLay Probe Winds Down; Charges May Loom | Mobbed Up? Arrests Made in Case Connected to Abramoff
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Jamie Court: Frist Made At Least $2 Million on Insider Trade | Frist’s Stock Sale Threatens Political Futures Of Majority Leader And Fellow Republicans | Fristgate: Mark Schmitt is making sense
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- La. Gov. Blanco Goes to D.C. to Respond to Michael Brown's Lies | Michael Brown Falsely Smeared Blanco Under Oath | Shameless: right wing re-spins New Orleans looting/rape non-story | Brown’s Revisionist History | More on Moron Brown, Master of the Blame Game | Brown Blames HorsesAss.org | Blame-game Brown Pins It on 'Dysfunctional' Louisiana | Ex-FEMA chief admits 'specific mistakes' -- then blames state and local officials
Post reveals Halliburton sponsored summit to divide Katrina relief | FEMA Awarded Carnival Cruises A $236M No Bid Contract Even Though Company Doubled Room Prices | Auditors pledge to investigate Katrina contracts including no-bid deals for Halliburton and Bechtel | Looting the treasury: Red Cross successfully lobbied Bush to give Katrina money to religious organizations
After the deluge, what next? | FEMA's Long-term"Strategic Plans": My, How They've Changed (warning: The Rude Pundit, so expect a few naughty words) | Katrina Revisionism | Nearly 250 New Orleans Police Officers Left Their Posts During Katrina And The Aftermath | Air Force One jet fuel has cost $170,000 | David Sirota: How Hurricanes Rained on Bush's Tax Cut Parade | Watch this! Chris Matthews vs Peter King in "apology overdrive" | Watch this! Rita's Digest: Jon Stewart mocks TV hurricane coverage | How Rita drove Texas crazy: Exhausted drivers are returning to their homes with horror stories of the gridlock -- and ideas on how to prevent the highway from becoming hell next time | New Orleans police chief calls it quits | Chertoff repeats pledge to whitewash… er, probe hurricane response | Bush may find it hard to resist independent Katrina commission | Rescuers Wade Into Coastal Havoc; rebuild to take "better part of a decade" | Storm's Chaos, Not Its Rain, Claims 5 in Texas(tragic: family asphyxiated) | Bush to Waste More Tax Dollars, Inspect Rita Damage | Uncertainty Has Washed Over Towns in the Bayou; "Where is FEMA?" | Katrina coverage rife with rumor | Bankruptcy and Katrina: No one could have predicted it, Part III | Defunding the Levees: "Lives Very Likely Will Be Lost"
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Supreme Court May Vote To Limit How Much Political Campaigns Can Spend | High court to take on campaign finance | 4 Democrats on '08 List to Vote Against Roberts
HOT POLITICS -- Joshua Zeitz: Support the Troops...By Sending a Few to Congress | Howard Dean Joins High-Profile Democrats Backing Bloomberg's Challenger. | Gröpenführer writes $1.25M check to redistricting campaign | Putin says won't stay for third term | House rejects naming post office after Berkeley activist | Feds Take On Outside Political Groups, Sue Club for Growth | NJ-Gov: Corzine still in control | Building the broader movement | Pelosi, Waxman Introduce Anti-Cronyism Bill | Sen. Byrd to Run for Record Ninth Term | Rangel's Jibe at President Draws Support From Democrats (warning: published by right-wing fishwrap) | Suit to attack line-item veto power in Pennsylvania | Mark Warner opens fire on Kilgore
QWAGMIRE -- Saudi Women Have Message for U.S. Envoy Karen Hughes: You Are a Clueless, Prejudiced Rube | Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq | Arianna Huffington: Iraq Burns; Dems Look on the Bright Side | Cindy Sheehan calls McCain a 'warmonger' | Suicide Bomber Stopped After Penetrating Baghdad's Green Zone | Jeff Gannon caught cavorting with death-loving war boosters | Cindy Sheehan: Why I smiled under arrest | Insurgents Seize 5 Towns Near Syria... Tell Residents To Vacate Homes In "Death Letters," Says US Commander | Anti-terror officer assassinated in Kirkuk | The military porn-for-death-photos scandal: what you don't know | Jordan: Zarqawi Family's New-found Wealth Raises Questions | Al Qaeda Says Not Sure If Abu Azzam Died In Iraq Clash | Iraqi police find 22 bodies of shooting victims | Baghdad in the dark as power cuts continue to blight the city
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Osama should be tried by Muslim judges, says Qaradawi
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Torture Scandal: Pentagon Has Two Choices | Lynndie England says she was 'used'
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Dan Rather Wants To Reopen Memogate Investigation But CBS Bosses Have Forbidden Him To | Bad Books: Your reading list! | Patrick Fitzgerald vs. the NeoCons, Pt. 2 | Democrats protest free ad for GOP candidate on News 12 | Public Broadcasting Meets the New Boss
FOX WATCH -- FOX is smearing Barak Obama
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh's doctors sought in probe
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Chairman Tom Davis' Assault On National Security: Punish the Whistleblowers | CIA Is Getting Intel Tips from -- We're NOT Making This Up! -- Congress
$MIRKONOMICS -- Consumer confidence tanks | Confidence dips most in 15 years | Most Homeowners Not Overly in Debt, Clueless Fed Chief Says
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Robert Greenwald: Wal-Mart's Ads Are Made to Be Mocked
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Republican official wants immunity in his own DUI case
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Race-baiting White GOP Congressman Stacey Campfield Tells Congressional Black Caucus It’s More Racist Than KKK
ENERGY SCANDALS -- How does Amtrak contribute to the new conservation push? By raising prices… or is the move more GOP sabotage? | Every Bush flight is costly (Air Force One fuel costs 6k/hour) | Massachusetts eyes incentives for hybrid, alternative fuel | $3 gas to stay for weeks, analysts say
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Saudi Jumps the line for Liver Transplant | New FDA Chief, Same As The Old FDA Chief | Hinchey: Bush choice of FDA chief 'bizarre' 9/27/05
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Two arrested in gangland-style murder of Jack Abramoff's pal 'Gus' Boulis | Abramoff partner had hired the two guys who killed Poulis for another 'catering' gig | Did BushCo Try To Fix Abramoff Case? | Demotion of a Prosecutor in 2002 After He Said He Was Probing Abramoff Is Investigated | Beyond DeLay and Nailing Frist | Beyond DeLay. | Abramoff Scandal Engulfs Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich's Offices
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- ABC, CBS, NBC Practically Not Covering Frist Stock Sale... | Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist knew quite a bit about his accounts | SEC chief recuses self from Frist stock probe | Arianna Huffington: Sen. Frist: Avoiding Conflict for Fun and Profit | Bill Frist has his first "I am not a crook" press conference | Frist Defenders Dust Off The “He Doesn’t Need the Money” Defense | Frist Said He Would Skip Votes, Not Sell Stock, If Conflict Emerged | Frist Stock Time Line | Reid Follows Frist, Sets Up Blind Trust
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- CBS News says Michael Brown rehired as FEMA consultant | Brownie's return: cause and effect? | Bush Administration is shoveling cash over to religious groups for Katrina relief, in violation of exclusion clause | Do we really want this administration giving the Pentagon more control? | Congratulations Grover, You Got Your Bathtub - It's Called New Orleans | Stop it! You're killing me! | So, is Bush preparing us for martial law? | East Texas Officials Say Federal Storm Aid Still Not Reaching Victims | Storm Victims Facing Hurdles on Bankruptcy; new law effective Oct. 17 | Mike Brown Admits He Should Have Asked Aid Sooner | Federal Response To Rita Shows Bush Admin. Had Authority To Save Victims Of Katrina | Waters Recede in Coastal La., Leaving Frustration and Anger: FEMA? Who? Where? | Rita evacuation killed more than storm | Houston residents flock back after Rita
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Next Supreme Court Nominee this week? | Roberts' confirmation as chief justice reaching Senate floor | Bush Drops 'Diversity' Hint About Nominee | Bush may announce Supreme pick Friday | With Roberts a lock, who comes next? | Changes aim to 'eviscerate' courts
HOT POLITICS -- Joe Conason: Bush White House, haven for hacks | "Where are the Democrats? Who are our leaders? What do they have to say?" | Ben Affleck For Senate? | N.H. Politician Facing Calls to Resign | Group labels Roy Blunt corrupt, so Blunt attacks the source | Hundreds Protest Pa. Lawmakers' Pay Raises | Dissident U.S. unions organize this week | Can the White House ever reconstruct the Chimp's swagger? | What's so secret about Cheney's Knees? | Via Atrios: Mike Huckabee equates standing up to Democrats with standing up to Nazis | Several States May Revisit Redistricting | Gröpenführer stays clear of own initiatives | Operation Save Dick Cheney
BUDGET MESS -- Grab the popcorn! GOP Leaders Try to Soothe Conservatives Miffed at Big Spender Bush
QWAGMIRE -- Undeclared Civil War Raging In Iraq | Baqu'ba bomb attack targets Iraqi police | Video: Cindy Sheehan Arrested | Five Teachers Executed, Three US Soldiers Slain In Iraq | Ask Karen Hughes a real question | Psst. Condi. Your Incompetence Is Showing! | Rep. Jane Harman blogs Middle East trip | U.S. Senate panel clears $50 billion for Iraq war | Ten People, Including Three US Soldiers, Killed In Iraq | Cindy Sheehan arrested at White House | Azerbaijan: U.S. Financing Radar Station Near Iranian Border | Egyptian state paper attacks U.S. envoy Karen Hughes's mission | Allawi says militias worsening Iraq's plight | Iraq constitution seen worsening insurgency | Iran threatens to resume enrichment | Taliban fighting harder with new weapons | 250,000 bullets for each rebel killed | Matt Drudge 'outed' as Sheehan wordsmith | Iraq? And that would be? | War protests, by the numbers
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Gitmo Judge Rejects Claim He's Interfering | The Hotline reports on military's new Do-it-yourself Abu Ghraib scandal | Pentagon is aware of death-for-porn site and basically doesn't care | US soldier guilty of abusing Iraqi prisoners | McCain backs bill against use of torture
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- "Nightline" Shakeups: No More Single Topic, No More Single Anchor | Tim Russert's Effective Ambush
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Incompetence Watch: Bush Selects General, a Non-intel Officer, to Run Defense Intel | Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice: A Patriot Silenced, Fighting to Keep America Safe
ELECTION THEFTS -- "Dieb Throat" makes it into Plain Dealer
$MIRKONOMICS -- Retail groups sue credit cards over fees
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Michael Eisner To Leave Disney Friday
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Jetting Off to Jail - GOP Roslyn Schools Chief Pleads Guilty to Theft
OH, GOD! -- Study: Societies Worse Off "When They Have God On Their Side" | Priestess jailed over exorcism death
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Bush and Oil | NJ sues oil firms for gasoline hikes after storms | Bush suddenly worried about fossil fuels | Bush: Gov't prepared to tap petroleum reserve again
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Palm Beach law keeps protesters farther from only abortion clinic | Bush Administration Wants to Ban Late Term Abortions and Endanger the Lives of Women | HIV 'Immune boost' may be cancer vaccine
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Parents challenge US 'intelligent design' teaching | "Every Single Scientific Society... Has Taken A Position Against Intelligent Design And In Favor Of Evolution" 9/26/05
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- A Washington Sand Trap: Newsweek Catches Congressman Bob Ney in Lie | Josh Marshall on Tim Flanagan
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Prosecutors, SEC probe Bill Frist stock sale | Jason Leopold: Will Frist Survive? | Sen. Frist Has Power To Order Stock Sales From His Blind Trust | Frist lied about investments
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- $1.2 Billion in New Contracts for Storm Work Raise Questions | At one of the spots widely expected to be shattered by Rita, FEMA and other agencies didn't seem ready for this hurricane, either | Death Bus Caught Fire After a Waiver Put It Back Into Service | Rita Devastated Many Rural Communities While Sparing Cities | In the Bush Administration, Brownie is the rule, not the exception | "How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?" | More Mike Browns. | Gulf Towns Stir Back to Life After Rita | Director Of National Hurricane Center: We Could Have Another Maj Storm.. Or Two | After Katrina And Rita Bush Now Says He Will Act On a National Search-And-Rescue Plan | Reports of anarchy at Superdome overstated | Rita Further Exposes Weak And Nonexistent Disaster Plans | Mayor, FEMA battle over reopening Orleans | Rita's victims wealthier, whiter | Aid for Those in Flood Zones Fell Short; WaPo obtains confidential appraisal | Louisiana Requests $40 Billion in Federal Aid | George Bush in action: puffy-eyed and cranky as hurricane responses swing from Rome burning to manic activity -- is he on drugs? | FEMA Let Reserves Wither, Hurting Response, Some Say | Watch this! Aaron Broussard nails Russert | Rita Evacuation A Cause For Concern, Officials Say | Beat the Press: Aaron Broussard Will Kick Your Ass | Perry: Rita Damage Not As Bad As Katrina | Rita Likely to Spark Rise in Gas Prices | Rita's Victims Wealthier Than Katrina's | Bush Told U.S. Needs Post-Disaster Plan
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Democrat's aren't allowed to -- but GOP Senators to apply litmus tests and play politics with next Supreme Court nominee
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! --
HOT POLITICS -- CREW looks "Beyond DeLay" | New group looks to steer Ohio legislature past guns, God | Moving Slow, Cheney Exits Hospital | Upstart could give DeWine tussle -- Source: Paul Hackett running for US Senate from Ohio
BUDGET MESS -- Alan Greenspan : "we have lost control" of the budget
QWAGMIRE -- Saturday's massive antiwar protest took Washington by storm | WaPo Ed Board: Iraq Constitution A Problem | US Army wants to buy biological weapons in bulk | Max Blumenthal: A Cover-up At The Highest Levels -- The Truth About Pat Tillman | Veterans, Grieving Families Give Somber Mood to Iraq Protest | Pat Tillman OPPOSED the war in Iraq and hated Bush (via AmericaBlog) | Bomb Hits Oil Ministry in Baghdad | Albright: 'Worst' is ahead for U.S. in Iraq | Chopper crash in Afghanistan kills five | Military dolphins may be missing in Gulf | Iraqi gunmen steal $850,000 from convoy | Scrutinizer Finds Self Under Scrutiny: Pentagon Watchdog Investigated | Only 400 people showed up for Freeper pro-death, pro-war rally | What if you threw a war and nobody came to support it? | Journalist Wounded In Car Bomb | Cindy Sheehan: Last Weekend Karl Rove Said I Was a Clown | 100 show up for Pro-War Rally thing | Systems Failures | Suicide car bomb kills 13 elite Iraqi commandos | Ten militiamen killed in Baghdad
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Pakistan Says Osama Is Isolated
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Guantanamo Inmate Says US Told Him to Spy on al-Jazeera | Abuse of Iraqi prisoners 'was sport' | McCain: Prisoner abuse hurts U.S. image | Army Ignored Capt's Claims Of Prisoner Abuse Until He Went Public
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Keyboard Kommando Komics presents Battle Action Bush & The Keyboard Kommandos! | Using Katrina, eye to ax public TV | Andrea Mitchell gets a dose of reality | Saudi Prince Buys Large Share of Fox News
FOX WATCH -- NY Times Public Editor Sides With Geraldo, Says Paper Should Correct
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA in turmoil under Goss
$MIRKONOMICS -- GAO mulls increasing burden on middle class, abolishing mortgage home interest, state and local tax deductions
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Republic of Samsung: Company Seems Poised to Control South Korea | Diebold analysts question reasons behind shakeup
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Why did Utah police this summer storm a harmless and legal rave with guns and dogs, terrorizing partygoers?
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Evolution "Debate" In Federal Court? The Only Debate Is Over Forcing Superstition Into the Science Class | Goofy Kids at a Knife Fight: Inside College Republicans
OH, GOD! -- Reckoning with the God Squad: Fundamentalist bullies cannot be appeased -- they must be confronted
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Heating costs a crisis for elderly and needy | Heating to crunch fixed incomes
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Tobacco firms plan subliminal advertising
WEIRD SCIENCE -- New Analyses Bolster Central Tenets of Evolution Theory 9/25/05
Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets; police chief admits at least 150,000 attended antiwar rally | For Many, Anger Has Grown Since Start of War | DC is actually an exciting place today | Tens of Thousands March Against Iraq War In Washington And London | Antiwar Protests Commence in Washington | Thousands stage war protest in London | Antiwar rallies condemn Bush and Blair | Camp Casey goes to Washington
Bill Frist Received At Least 24 Updates On His Holdings In "Blind" Trust | Bill Frist now facing two investigations | Frist Issue Adds to GOP's Ethics Troubles | Frist lied about investments | Frist Stock Sale Conflicts With Senate Ethics Rules | Speaking of crooked GOP legislators, Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) faces new allegations of corruption
TRAITORGATE -- Senator questions Rove's fundraising trip as hurricane nears | WH is worried about Rove probe
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Texas, La. Begin Cleaning Up After Rita; Millions told not to come home | White House Attempts to Use Hurricane Rita to Try to Deceive Public Into Seeing Bush As Effective Leader | Sorry, Mr President, homilies won't stop the hurricanes | Houston Mayor White says state wasn't ready for exodus | Billions in storm relief at risk of waste, fraud | Houston, Galveston Spared Severe Damage... Evacuees Returning Home Despite Warnings | Few Decisions to Make, Much Time to Be Seen: Bush's façade of disaster leadership | Government After Katrina: Air America Begins The Debate | Sen. Vitter (R-LA) Chooses Credit Card Companies Over Constituents | 3 million Rita evacuees urged to 'stay put' | No way to evac city 'quickly and smoothly'
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Republicans Chafee and Snowe Say The Next SCOTUS Nomination "Is Different"
HOT POLITICS -- "Irrational Bush hatred"? I think not... | Cheney's Aneurysm Surgery Successful | Bush: Skin Not Fitting So Well These Days? | WA-Sen: (R) poll gives GOP little hope
QWAGMIRE -- U.S. Helicopter Crashes In Afghanistan, Killing 5... | BBC:'14 killed' in Iraq bomb attacks | Bush 'greater threat than bin Laden' | Effective leadership: Plea from "popular wartime preznit" Bush for cash to rebuild Iraq raises a whopping $600 (that's less than a thousand bucks) | Iraqi women say freedoms are slipping away | Albright warns dark days are ahead in Iraq | Mideast poll reveals US rep badly damaged | The Nation on the pornography of war | TV Ad Campaign: Get Out Of Iraq | Iraqi judge renews arrest warrants for Britons | Saudis: Iraq headed for 'disintegration' | IAEA adopts resolution on Iran's nuclear program | Too little, too late: Karen Hughes launches US image makeover among Muslims
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Arab world: Bush a greater threat than Osama
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Frist and Torture: What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? | Navy Secretly Contracted Jets Used by CIA
CHALABI SCANDAL -- The missing billion dollars from the Iraqi Defense Fund: did Chalabi steal it?
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) --
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- The NYTimes Public Editor Dropping The Ball | Real Time: Fun with Bush | Wesley Clark Stands His Ground, Bill O'Reilly Sounds Shrill and Foolish
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Pentagon gives up fight over Able Danger
$MIRKONOMICS -- Most states see leap in bankruptcy filings
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income
OH, GOD! -- Bigotry In The Name Of Jesus H. Christ
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Hard Bigotry of No Expectations | Reported as Dead, Suspect in '64 Killings Turns Up Alive
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