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Hot Headlines, October 2005

10/8/05
TRAITORGATE -- Lying to the Boss: Rove Told Bush He Did Not Leak to Reporters in Plame Case | Joe Conason: If Karl Rove told federal officials in 2003 he wasn't involved in outing Valerie Plame, he could face charges -- and Jim Guckert is in the mix! | Surprise! Look what turned up! Judith Miller turns over more notes in Traitorgate case | Murray Waas on New National Journal Story on Plame investigation | Rove Takes on CIA Leak Grand Jury Again in High-Stakes Gamble | 'N.Y. Times' Scooped Again, This Time on Miller's Notes | David Corn: Why Would Rove ask to Testify to the Grand Jury Again? | Jason Leopold: Karl Rove Lied to the FBI | Another legal problem for Karl Rove? |Whudda co-inky-dink! Judith Miller discovered new notes | Watch this! Bill Kristol: Traitorgate distracting Karl Rove/Miers | October 7: The Beginning of CIA Leak Scandal = the Beginning of the End
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tom DeLay's salary falls $20k after temporary step-down | DeLay Lawyers' Latest Outrageous Claim: DA Supposedly Tried to Coerce Jurors | Thomas Flanigan Withdraws Nomination at Justice After Being Tied to Abramoff Scandal | Whiny Tom "I'm a victim, I swear" DeLay Wants Charges Dismissed | Second DeLay Campaign PAC Accepted Illegal Corporate Contributions
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Media reports on Bill Frist stock sale investigation largely omit HCA's history of fraud
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- Projection: Bill Bennett suggested his critics are racist -- "I hit too close to what they believe, not what I believe"
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Big Easy Leaders Upset Over Cleanup Jobs | Death toll in Louisiana jumps to 1003
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Robert Parry: Making Sense of the Harriet Miers Nomination | Kiss that Miers confirmation buh-bye: Dallas gay leaders are a-okay with Miers serving on the court | Miers may not be a constructionist | Miers Hearts Legislating from the Bench | Ha-ha! Classic Harriet Miers political cartoon courtesy of Skippy's Cookie Jill | Robert Bork Calls Bush Court Pick 'A Disaster' | Bush Steadfast in Face of Criticism of Mediocre Miers; Specter Mocks Miers' Non-qualifications | Miers Helped Set Up Lecture Series That Brought Leading Feminists to SMU
HOT POLITICS -- Poll: Bush Ratings Hit New Low |Bush's poll numbers: How low can he go? | Sex scandal in Spokane: Names on petition to recall GOP mayor certified | Quake rocks Pakistan, India, Afghanistan | Operation Stay Home 2006: Bush's base of Christofascists, rednecks, bigots gets buyers' remorse | Hubris On the Hill | Va. Gubernatorial Candidates in Dead Heat | More Cite Bush Than Terror As America’s “Most Important Problem” | Now hear this! Audio of Mehlman's conference call yesterday with the religious wingnuts
QWAGMIRE -- Media on Iraq war dead: says so what? | Arab League chief: Iraq is on verge of civil war | Sunni Arabs Urge 'No' Vote in Referendum | Marine who inspired sister to enlist dies in Iraq | The opposite of the Bush boy's claim: Democracy may not quell Iraq insurgency | Road bombs kill 6 Marines in fighting west of Baghdad | 539 bodies found in Iraq since April | Three Years Ago Today, Bush Misled Us Into War
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush distances self from subway alert | The New York terror alert: Questions where there shouldn't be | Scope of Plots Bush Says Were Foiled Is Questioned | NYC Subway threat originated in Iraq; stoolie failed polygraph | Arianna Decodes Bush on Terror Plots: More Numbers that Don’t Add Up
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- ICRC says hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay "serious" | Former Marine Alleges Atrocities In Iraq
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Dems grow a pair, go after Bill Bennett, Salem Radio Network, and the politicized FCC | Watch this! Alan Colmes grows a pair, shuts Newt Up | CBS memo book gone from Amazon | Freeway Blogger: 2K Why? | "The Daily Set Without Jon Stewart" To Tour America... | CBS adopts FOX news's non-standards: Network refuses to interview former Clinton administration officials for upcoming Freeh story | More crackerjack reporting from the Moonie Times
FOX WATCH -- Carl Cameron, once again acting as surrogate for the Bush cabal, falsely reported that DOJ guidelines "require" prosecutor to deliver "target letter," stated as fact that Rove "is not a target" in CIA leak investigation
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- The Defense Intelligence Agency wants the right to spy on you
$MIRKONOMICS -- 45 CA Good Guys stores to close | Tax Panel to Consider Putting Bigger Burden on Working Families, "Modifying" Mortgage-Interest Deduction
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Diabetic Tasered, Beaten While in Diabetic Shock Sues Akron Police Over Beating | Louis Freeh's Book and Interview Air Harsh Statements, Attack on Clinton; Some Call It Fiction
OH, GOD! -- Bush & Co. have hijacked Jesus, using him as the poster child for their callous worldview. It's time to rescue Christ from his kidnappers | The influence of James Dobson: turning parents into batterers, turning Washington to the hard right
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- NASCAR CEO no fan of Confederate flag
ENERGY SCANDALS -- House Dems Chant "Shame, Shame" As GOP Holds Vote Open To Pass Refinery Construction Bill | Watch this! GOP shamed by Democrats as they shove petrobiz legislation through | Pelosi: Majority's Energy Bill Fails to Address Price Gouging | Another Energy Policy Success: Staying warm to cost up to 90% more
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Forgotten city ordinance bans birth control; city promptly drops ordinance | Bush Plan Shows U.S. Is Not Ready for Deadly Flu
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Study Says Personal Clutter Is Human Evolutionary Trait | Fake Dog Testicle Inventor, Penguin Defecation Researcher Among Winners Of “Ig Nobel” Prizes

10/7/05
IAEA, Mohamed el-Baradei Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
President Bush's "Major (cough) Speech": Doing the 9/11 Time Warp Again | Bunnypants Claims 10 Al Qaeda Plots Disrupted, But… | Bob Cesca: During War Speech, Bush Defined Himself As A Tyrant and Radical | Hey! Bush Beat the Tairists! | Bush calls for more death, carnage, killing | Bush Loves Bin Laden | Steady Leadership: Bush's Latest Flip-flop | How many times can a man give the same "war on terror" speech? | Militants Seek to Intimidate World
TRAITORGATE -- Rove To Testify In Leak Probe | Legal Experts: Rove Testimony a Risky Move | Federal prosecutor tells Salon: Rove must believe he may be indicted | Arianna Huffington: Memo to the Times: Don't Make the Same Mistake You Made With Jayson Blair | The New York Times says "espionage" | Watch this! Olbermann on the Leak | Rove "Ordered" (Another NY Times gaffe?) to Talk Again in Leak Inquiry | We know Rove plays word games | Luskin’s Word Parsing Suggests Rove Is A Target | Lawrence O'Donnell's Traitorgate Update | Murray Waas' Traitorgate Latest | AP on Rove's move to testify fourth time in CIA leak case | Waas on Rove's grand jury appearance | Rove's return to the grand jury: A "stunning" and "ominous" sign | CREW files complaint against Karl Rove for illegally voting in Kerr County | Without protection, Rove to testify on CIA leak | Rove to give more testimony in Plame | As Washington awaits Plame indictments, Bush talks terror -- again
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tom DeLay Meeting, RNC Actions Coincided | Judiciary Will Hold Hearing on Flanigan’s Ties to Abramoff | Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt Traded Secret Donations | Head Of Ethics Committee Taking Instructions From DeLay, Won't Investigate | Reps call for Abramoff Special Prosecutor | Ellis, Colyandro Deny Cooperation With Earle in Matter of DeLay indictment | Is RoBold the snitch | DeLay at Issue On Homefront
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- FEMA Re-Awarding $400M Originally Slated For No Bid Contracts | Congress Members Write to AG re Louisiana Law Enforcement | Families may find hurricane dead in New Orleans | Senators Accuse Bush Admin. Of Downplaying Post-Katrina Health Risks | A New Barrage On Storm Response | Cronyism: Katrina work goes to officials who led Iraq effort | FEMA to reassess Katrina contracts | Landrieu chastises Senate for focusing on defense, not Katrina | Owner of exploding evac bus contributed to Perry, Democrat says
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Rightie columnist Charles "Quack" Krauthammer Comes Out Against Harriet Miers | Miers Makes Rounds On Hill, Displays Her Ignorance | The Miers effect | Watch this! Olbermann: The Harriet Miers Collection | Bush's Supreme Court nominee does have a paper trail -- leading to major corporations | Harriet Miers: Feminist Mole? | Miers’ Boyfriend Endorses Miers | When it comes to Harriet Miers, Ann Coulter is right | Let Lawrence Littwin testify at the Miers nomination hearings | Miers Needs Some Heavy Artillery | The White House on Miers' critics: Sexist, elitist or both?
HOT POLITICS -- Bush is crushing the dreams of right wingers | LA Mayor Villaraigosa Slams Schwarzenegger 'Reforms' | Cheney, On Possible Verge of Indictment, Throwing Stones at Democrats | Gore ‘08 Indeed | Why is Bush's jaw suddenly spasming, and/or teeth grinding uncontrollably? | U.S. likely to lose control of Internet | Congressional Democrats pledge reform in Washington | PA-Sen: Another poll, another big Casey lead | OH-Sen: So, we getting a primary? | Democrats Urged to Abandon Election Myths | Katherine Harris Coffers Not Flush With Campaign Cash | Santorum challenger opens 18-point lead | Democrats Seek Lobbying Curbs
QWAGMIRE -- Feingold says Democrats will announce intentions for Iraq, takes swipe at fabulist Condi Rice | Four Marines Killed By Roadside Bomb Near Falluja | Iraq blasts kill 6 Marines | CBS/NY TIMES Poll on Iraq: Approval plummeting | Senate Set to Give Bush $50 Billion More for Carnage, Civilian Deaths, Endangerment of American Soldiers in Iraqnam | October 6: This Day In Iraq War History | Suicide Bomber Kills 10, Injures 11 In Iraq | Bubba: Iraq war's 'a quagmire' | US back to the drawing board in Afghanistan | US soldier killed by Baghdad bomb | God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers | David Sirota: Dems' Strategy on Iraq: Hit the Gas When You Can See the Cliff
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- New York Officials Increasing Security On Subways After Word Of "Credible Security Threat" | WNBC kept facts from public, held off on reporting terror threat | Oooh! Scary! Evil Al Qaeda Evildoers' Memo Obtained | Anthrax Investigation Grows Old
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- Larry Franklin pleads guilty to spying for Israel | The Franklin plea and the "Ledeen Scream"
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Michael Eisner Resigns From Disney Board, Will No Longer Serve As A Consultant | Times DeSelect? | Philly, Land of the Cable-free | Koppel's last 'Nightline' to air in November | George Clooney Leaks Project To AP, Remaking "Network" With CBS | Ann Coulter makes fun of Bush being a drunk (I am so not kidding)
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh read note from his "mistress in Georgia" (AKA CNN newsmodel Daryn Kagan): Bush's speech was "great," "sounds like you giving this speech" | Why is a CNN anchor conspiring with Rush Limbaugh?
$MIRKONOMICS -- Playing with Mr. Housing Bubble | Economy lost 35,000 jobs in Sept | Jobless claims rise in wake of storms | New initial Unemployment at 390,000; DOL avoids over 400,000 by revising prior numbers
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Woman Booted From Southwest Flight For Anti-Bush Administration T-Shirt
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- San Francisco police officer fired for clubbing antiwar protester
OH, GOD! -- Plaintiff: Air Force Academy senior officers and cadets illegally imposed Christianity on others at the school | Deluded preznit: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God.' " | White House denies Bush God claims
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Neo-Nazi group to march through Toledo neighborhood
MORALITY MORONICS -- Ex-GOP leader charged with molestation
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Answering Your Questions About Montana's Black Gold | U.S. ignores energy reality, analyst says | Big lineup of small cars
FBI Examines Computers in Cheney's Office | Ex-CIA Chief Stansfield Turner Urges New Reorganization of Intelligence System | "What It Means Is That There Is A Hole In White House Security" | Louis Freeh bashes Bill Clinton again
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Health secretary says no one prepared for bird flu | Vaccine created for cervical cancer
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Book thrown at proponents of Intelligent Design
GAY IN AMERICA -- Bill to limit reproduction procedures for gays, singles dropped | Priest-turned-author says Harry Potter is gay

10/6/05
Spy in the White House: Ex-Marine Accused of Stealing Data from Big Time Dick's Workstation | White House shows their true colors: weak on national security as spy penetrates White House
Watch this! Al Gore Explains How Television Is Destroying Our Constitutional Democracy
Sidney Blumenthal: Fall of the Rovean empire?
Did a reporter with GOP ties suppress a story that could have cost Bush the White House?
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- Protesters enter Bill Bennett's recording studio; racist radio host refuses to apologize
TRAITORGATE -- RADAR: DC rumor mill sez 22 indictments imminent | Ex-CIA man Larry Johnson's one-stop "Traitorgate 101" course | David Fiderer: Judith Miller's Eight Bogus Arguments | Why was it so critical to Judy Miller to negotiate away Fitzgerald's ability to ask her about other stories? | US officials brace for decisions in CIA leak case | The White House is hiding Karl Rove - they know something's coming... | With indictments of Libby, Rove, maybe even Cheney looming, Bush plans 'major speech' on Iraq, terrorism | Gene Lyons on Judy Miller, Neocon heroine
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- John Thune to keep DeLay's tainted PAC money | Former Bush Official Safavian Indicted in Probe | Replacing a crook with a crook: DeLay, Successor Roy Blunt Swapped Donations | First Grand Jury Declined to Indict DeLay
COINGATE -- Dems Pursue Ohio Election System Overhaul
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- The EPA is failing to protect the Gulf Coast's homebound citizens from Katrina's poisons | Computer systems at FEMA were lacking in 2004, says IG | Compassionate conservatism: refugees ordered out of shelters by Oct. 15 | FEMA defends suspension of Phoenix team | FEMA wants $30M in hurricane aid back from Florida | Carl Pope: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire | LA Times: Change Sought by Insurers to Cover Losses -- Mandatory Coverage?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- DUers document David Frum's freakout over Miers on C-SCAM | Conservatives Confront Bush Aides; Ed Gillespie Sticks Foot in Mouth | GOP Doubts Build Over Court Choice | Moonie Times: Rove 'Very Involved' in Miers Pick | Marty Kaplan: Arriet-hay Iers-may Ill-way Overturn-way Oe-ray Ersus-vay | Conservative Revolt Intensifies As Miers Nomination Damages GOP | Howard Dean on Miers: Hide the salami | High Court Clashes Over Assisted Suicide; Roberts Appears to Support Suffering for Gravely Ill | Hitting The Media’s Glass Ceiling: This is how they "praise" Miers? | Did Bush really say he had never talked with Miers about abortion? The tape tells the tale | GOP Winter of Discontent: Lott Blows Cold on Miers | Miers Joined Dallas Church Breakaway Group | Uh, why is the "single" Ms. Miers wearing what appears to be a wedding ring? Is she Bush's wife (just like Condi)? | O'Connor was "opposed" to abortion as well | Ken Salazar wants to know what James Dobson knows about Miers | "I Have A Concern That Miss Miers Was Helping To Legitimize The Drive Of Homosexual Organizations For Power And Influence Over Our Public Policies | Miers is a 2008 GOP issue already | Thank You For Being A Friend | Federalist #76 | George Will: "The President Has Forfeited His Right To Be Trusted As A Custodian Of The Constitution" | "Gang of 14" meets on Miers' nomination | Trent Lott: 'Not comfortable' with Miers' nomination | CNN Poll: Support for Miers not as high as that for Roberts | Hearings for Miers: Are they worth the time? | On Miers, the White House takes the right to church | Religious conversion redefined nominee's worldview (warning: Moonie Times link)
HOT POLITICS -- Cracks begin to emerge in mantle of Republican majority | Cleland critical of GOP ahead of local Vance-Aycock appearance | U.S. Democrats Lead GOP by Five Points for 2006 | NY-Gov: Kentucky Is Investigating Finances of a College Once Led by Weld | Firefighters heart Gröpenführer… because they were ordered to | In face of GOP failures, Dems aim to boost national security image | Survey: AZ Governor's race is dead heat | Chuck Todd on the Senate | Poll: Bush approval rating hits all-time low in New York -- 29% | Son of President Carter to challenge Ensign in 2006
QWAGMIRE -- Dumbing-down of US Army begins | David Sirota: Laugh or Cry? Those Who Emasculated Dems On Iraq Take Leadership Roles | U.S. general questions Iraq war | Cheney all but admits Team Bush has burdened the world with 'decades of war' | Arianna Huffington: "Progress" in Iraq: Do the Numbers Add Up? | Bomber hits Shia mosque in Iraq | Cars Stolen In US Used For Suicide Bombings In Iraq... | Karen Hughes, Filthy Liar and Dipsh!t Diplomat | Death toll in Iraq bombing hits 25 | Bomber kills 13 in Iraq as Ramadan begins | Unprepared: US fighting gear stocked in S. Korea found in disrepair | US will hit Syria with sanctions, says Israel | Iran 'behind attacks on British'
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Very strange story swirls around suicide bombing at Univ. of Oklahoma football | Son of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols arrested in Las Vegas
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- GOP-controlled Senate shocks America, snubs Bunnypants Preznit, votes 90-9 against torture | 9 Republican Senators Come Out in Favor of Torture | Soldier Reports More Iraq Prisoner Abuse to Senator McCain | Senate to Engage in Debate Over Detainees
PENTAGON SPY SCANDAL -- Guilty Plea In Pentagon Leak Case
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- A gentle reminder: We WON on social security
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Court: Web political critic can stay anonymous | Ann Coulter: Part-time Elitist, Full-time Hypocrite | Seeking to deflect attention from his own legal woes, Smear Boat Liar filmmaker sues Kerry, campaign aide | TDS/Bartlet turns into Mehlman
FOX WATCH -- Bill O’Reilly Claimed He Had Trouble Booking Blog Segment When in Fact He Actually Turned Guests Away | Crybaby O'Reilly blubbers about Media Matters
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh on federal judge who ordered Abu Ghraib photos released: He "has sided with our enemies of Al Qaeda"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- From the "accountability administration": no disciplinary review for 9/11 failures of Tenet
$MIRKONOMICS -- What a Shock: Effectiveness of Tax Breaks Is Questioned
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Business Groups Want to Limit Patriot Act
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Evidence emerges that "intelligent design" is a sop for "creationism" intended to inject religious propaganda in schools
OH, GOD! -- Cenk Uygur: The Christian Republic of America | What Will Pat Robertson Think? Catholic Church Begins to Back Off from Bible's Myths
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Gov. Jeb Bush flip-flops, now loves on Gulf drilling
HEALTH DEBACLES -- GOP Congress Seeks to Starve Poor
TRASHING NATURE -- Climate Change and Pollution Are Killing Millions, Says Study
GAY IN AMERICA -- Probe eyed of anti-gay wedding petition drive | So-called "Assisted-reproduction" Bill Would Bar Singles and Gays

10/5/05
Testy, unsettled former Texas Governor Bush put on defensive throughout hastily-called news conference | Reporter hits Bush: Are you conservative? | Under fire, Bush struggles to recapture political initiative | Bush Press Conference: Harriet Won't Change | It's Over: Bush's Failed Presidency | Spate of inquiries may weaken president | You get the president you vote for
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- Lautenberg Offers Senate Resolution Calling on Senate to Condemn Bennett Comments | Farrakhan Plans Action Against Bill Bennett
TRAITORGATE -- Judith Miller defends herself in CIA probe case | Arianna Huffington: Judy Miller, Anderson Cooper, and Me | Ben "Leering Perv" Ginsberg falsely claimed Post, Times offered conflicting accounts of Libby/Miller conversation | Bush Asked About His Personal Involvement In Leak Scandal | On Traitorgate, the president slips and slides | NY Times' to Supposedly Run Full Account of Miller Case This Week
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Tom DeLay indicted on new, graver charges; different grand jury says he laundered campaign money; DeLay waived statute of limitations | DeLay's Latest Excuse: He "Misspoke" | Republican National Committee Enmeshed In DeLay Indictment | Texas Prosecutor Cites New Input on DeLay | DeLay’s Risky Business | DeLay conspiracy charge uses uncommon law; new grand jury heard new evidence | Doubling down on Tom DeLay
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- John Bolton agitates audience, met with hisses and boos at Yale
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Search For Bodies Called Off In New Orleans; Louisiana Death Toll Stands At 972, But Thousands Missing and 9th Ward Largely Unexplored | Fla. Panhandle Company Denies It Contributed To Levee Break | Weeks Later, Most Storm Victims Lie Unnamed | Ex-President Clinton visits New Orleans refugees in Baton Rouge shelter | Mayor Nagin announces 3000 New Orleans city workers laid off | Miss. Couple Sues Insurers on Storm Losses | Bankruptcy Law Provision Waived for Storm | FEMA Contractor Lacks Building License | Bush To Congress: Push Katrina Aid
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Bush's Guard service may affect Miers nomination | Bush Will Try to Bend Executive Privilege In Bid to Bury Miers' Paper Trail | Sen. Sam Brownback hints he could lead fight against Miers | From Roll Call: Brownback questions Miers' commitment to judicial extremism | George Will: "The President Has Forfeited His Right To Be Trusted As A Custodian Of The Constitution | Miers "born-again" timeline: pro-gay and pro-Gore after conversion | Did Harry Reid throw Bush an anvil? | Who is Harriet Miers? | Miers was acting all liberal AFTER she was already evangelical | Walter Shapiro on Miers: What People Say Behind Her Back | Harriet Miers doesn't support overturning Roe, friend says | Understanding the Right Wing On Miers | Miers the maid | Support Miers or you're helping the terrorists | Harriet Miers, Michael Brown and the crony connection | Richard Stevenson on Miers: The White House Has "Horrible Problems And They Came Up With The Least Risky Move They Could Make" | Miers: On the "extreme end of the anti-choice movement"? | ABC's Linda Douglass reported that Democrats will "split" over Miers nomination, ignored possible GOP divisions | FOX's Bill "O'Lie-lee" O'Reilly falsely claimed "we didn't know anything" about Ginsburg before she was confirmed as justice | MSNBC's Pete Williams falsely suggested that conservative advocacy groups support Miers nomination
HOT POLITICS -- Republicans "Have Been About As Successful As General Custer Calling In Reinforcements"; Dems In Excellent Position to Pick Up Substantial Number of Seats in Senate | FL Sen. Bill Nelson: Americans Fed Up With GOP | Al Gore, Watchdog Groups Criticize NYC Mayor Bloomberg For Snubbing Apollo Theater Debate | Donnie Fowler: Evil, Maybe. Dumb, No. How the Republicans Train Their Young | Hill claims Roy Blunt looking for job security (I.e., to stick a shiv in DeLay) | Zogby: Bush Approval Stuck At 43% - Weak Rebound | OH-Sen: contested primary in the cards? | With the sound off, Bush's hastily-arranged press conference telegraphed a lot | NY-Gov, Sen: Not even a shred of drama | Istook's gubernatorial bid will shake up state's GOP | Poll: Clinton and Spitzer hold big leads; Golisano top with GOP | Outgoing Republican Va. Delegate Endorses Democratic Candidate | Rep. Capito’s (R-WV) decision not to run for Senate dims GOP hopes
BUDGET MESS -- What is it about Alaska and pork? Your tax dollars (wasted) in action
QWAGMIRE -- As the US lowers the nuclear threshold, debate is stifled | Another Iraq offensive, another squad of targets slip away again | Iraq concedes to UN demands on vote; Sunnis are in | Suicide blast hits Canadian convoy in Afghanistan, child killed | Bush Out to Oust Assad Without a Backup Plan? Sound Familiar? | US Considering $2 billion -- that's billion -- in Military Sales to Saudis | Widows of Fallen Army Soldiers Sue Mercenary Contractor Blackwater | US troops mount new, big, publicized attack on self-proclaimed "Al Qaeda in Iraq" | Conference on National Security in the 21st Century has good news for Dems, liberals on Iraq | Watch this! Jon Stewart on Iraq and our Generals | Pentagon late on reimbursing troops for Iraq gear | 4 Americans Die In Iraq Offensive
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Exterminate the liberals: D.C. sensors found rare bacteria during antiwar protest, yet no one was told | Language Teachers at Fort Bragg Arrested | Ronald Reagan caused September 11, says Dick Cheney | Why does Bill Frist hate the war on terror?
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- Bush acknowledges Social Security plan is "stalled," but can't admit it's dead
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Who's Afraid of Media Matters for America? Clue no. 1: "falafel". Clue no. 2: "loofah" | Commerce Dep't interferes with Weather Service's reporting
FOX WATCH -- Bill O'Reilly on Syria's Leader: "We Should Take His Life If He Doesn't Help Us Out | Bill O'Reilly Blames American Troops for Nazi War Crimes
PUNDIT PAYOLA SCANDAL -- Prosecute White House Propaganda Crimes
$MIRKONOMICS -- States hope to begin taxing online | Bush Preparing for Greenspan Successor
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- What a surprise (not): privatization has yet to save state money | Convicted former Tyco executives denied bail
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- The Law in Shambles: Conservatives have themselves to blame for the rising number of lawsuits in America | Judge Strikes Down Part of Calif. Law, Restricts Banks from Selling Data | Alabama Doubling Number of State Troopers
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Conservatives want to ensure their doctrine and propaganda is heard at colleges
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Alabama governor-wannabe Roy Moore tied to white supremacist group | Watch this! Kanye West and Mike Myers, the Sequel | It Takes More Than A Cabinet Post: Bush Boy Oblivious to Reasons Blacks Can't Stand Him | Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oilaholism: Why can't America take the first step? | SUV sales down 43%; Prius up 90%
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Indiana bill would limit reproduction procedures for gays, singles | Influenza pandemic? Let the military take care of it, says Bush.
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Don’t Tell The Flat Earthers: Evolution of the Best Beer Commercial Ever | "Massive" study of continued evolution
GAY IN AMERICA -- Did The AP Just Out GOP Rep. David Drier?... | Fox News Host Trying To Set Up Condi Rice With a Girlfriend? "She's Brilliant, She’s Beautiful, She’s Single And She’s A Concert Pianist In Her Spare Time"

10/4/05
Tom DeLay indicted AGAIN! This time, grand jury slaps two charges on the Bugman: money laundering, conspiracy
MIERS MELTDOWN! -- Supreme Court Choice Shows Bush Vulnerable, Unable to Win Political Fight with Democrats | Spoiling the party: Bush's nomination of loyalist Miers, with mediocre résumé and no legal track record, leaves the left cautious -- and the right furious | White House Obeys Democrats! Harry Reid told Cheney: Pick Harriet Miers
• Right-wing "Confirm Them!" blog suddenly opposes confirmation of Bush's nominee Miers | Pat Buchanan: Miers' Qualifications 'Nonexistent' | Bill Kristol miffed: "Bush flinched" | Pro-Bush pal of rightie Rich Lowry: Miers "third-rate" | Republican speechwriter David Frum blasts Miers on Web -- then tries to delete post! | Cato Institute slams Miers | Michelle Maglalang, American Speculum, Instahack, Public Scamvocate, Other Right Wing Clowns Rip Miers | Bush pick for high court outrages conservatives | Right wingers jumping off the cliff over Miers nomination |
Five Simple Reasons to Oppose Harriet Miers | Why Miers? A theory about why George Bush picked the obviously underqualified Harriet Miers as a Supreme Court nominee | RNC's False Email: Ken Mehlman claims,"Before Ms. Miers was even announced many Democrat groups said they would oppose her." Actually, none did | John Aravosis thinks conservatives are going to try to kill the Harriet Miers nomination | Full Circle: A photo and caption of Miers and the Bush boy you must read! | Bush Bashing: Latest roundup of right wing opinion loudmouths against Miers | AP: Miers went to gay rights group's screening session for potential | Miers might not oppose gays, but she's against the right to reproductive choice | More on Harriet and gay America - she may support gay adoption too | As the right thunders, its favorite senators are silent | Miers' responded to questionnaire from Texas gay group in 1989 | Miers: Is She the Devil in the Blue Dress? | Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages | RJ Eskow: Ozzy and Harriet | Shorter wingnut reaction to the nomination of Harriet Miers to the SCOTUS, illustrated | Patt Morrison: Georgie and the Truth Fairy | Former FEMA director Allbaugh likes Miers | Miers: Huge Win for the Democrats? | Ken Mehlman and RNC say Harriet Miers is another Sandra Day O'Connor | David Corn on Harriet Miers: Supreme Court Choice With Few Footprints | Powerlie Blog's Assmissile is disappointed in Miers nomination | Hispanic groups upset that Bush passed chance to put Hispanic on Supremos | Miers Gave $1,000 to Gore and DNC in '88 Primary | Miers urged legal group to adopt neutral abortion stance | Miers Had Stormy Tenure at Texas Lottery | Jonathan Turley tells perky Katie Couris that Miers is an “amazingly baaad choice!” | J-Pod Pans Miers | Top US court OKs Bible use death penalty rejection | Justice Roberts Takes The Bench | Miers did pro bono work for ministry that claimed to "cure" gays | Harriet Miers on Bush, Ashcroft, 9/11 and Barney | Harry Reid, bobbing and weaving | Grab the popcorn: Dems laud Miers, hard-righters cringe and denounce her | Is Bush FEMA-izing the Supremos?
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- Bennett RESIGNS from K12 board over racist remarks |Eugene Robinson on Bennett and racist baggage | Bennett to get protested in Bakersfield | Brit Hume defends racist Bill Bennett, knows more about minorities than Juan Williams
TRAITORGATE -- Arianna Huffington: Making Faux Martyrdom Pay -- Judy Miller Lands a $1.2 Million Book Deal | Why Not Torture Judith Miller? | Juan Cole: Bush Dunnit | The Scooter-Judy Liaison Dangereuse | Major leak comes from the top | Scooter's Lawyer Casts Blame on Judy Miller for Time in Jail | How many days in jail would you spend for 1.2 million? | On 43rd Street, a Strange Silence Grows Louder | Harriet Miers, meet Valerie Plame
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- WaPo on New DeLay Indictments | Washington Ponders Joys of a New Life Without DeLay | House Republicans Concerned By DeLay’s Vows To Return, He “Knows He's Not Going To Run Things” | Thatcher questioned in investigation of Tom DeLay | Republicans Across Country Trip Over Each Other In Rush to Return Donations From Tom DeLay's PAC | Abramoff clients paid to dine with officials | DeLay Update | JackAbramoff&GroverNorquistAreThisClose
… while Toyota sales go up (can you say Prius?) | Gas prices put brakes on most auto sales… | Bush Prepared to Tap Heating Oil Reserve
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- New York Post Columnist: Bill Frist Is Tennessee's "Biggest Liar Since Davy Crockett"
COINGATE -- More Ohio Corruption: Summit County, Ohio may pay for layoffs | Ohio gov. has 15% approval
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Post-Katrina funds going to big corporates outside of area | Documents have been taken from hospitals where patients died after Katrina
HOT POLITICS -- Total Recall II: Berkeley doctor launches effort to recall Gröpenführer | Iraq Veteran Paul Hackett To Run for US Senate in Ohio Against Mike DeWine | The Miers debacle: is this the end of the Conservative Movement / Big Business Coalition? | War vets lining up for 2006 Congressional elections - most are Democrats | War of words between Big Time Cheney, Rep. Charlie Rangel heats up |Second aide to Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) subpoenaed | Democrats Vote to Revolutionize Presidential Campaigns | Population Loss Pushing Louisiana Political Landscape to Right | Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights’s Spectacular Failure | OK-Gov, AL-Gov: New entrants | Battleground state poll | Bush Brothers At Odds? | RI-Sen: NRSC attacks Republican | Whoops! Virginia Governor Mark Warner's Web site exposes likely presidential bid | Donnie Fowler: An Agenda We Can Shout from the Mountain Tops | Maine Republican Peter Cianchette Drops Out Of Governor’s Race | Bible-beating former judge Roy Moore to run for Alabama governor | Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) may challenge DeWine after all | Finally, the Democrats have a plan | Rep. Shelley Moore Capito won't run against Robert Byrd
QWAGMIRE -- Calcutta newspaper: US has plans to invade Iran | Car bomb blows up inside Baghdad Green Zone, 2 dead | US Army leaders say "no crisis" in recruitment… | … So Why Is Recruiting Shortage Forcing Army To Lower Bar, Accept Soldiers at Bottom of Entrance Exam? | Iraqi leaders have changed the rules for ratification of their new constitution | Cheney warns against early pullout from Iraq | Ballots In Afghan Elections Show Signs Of Fraud | Iraq as a political issue is not going to just go away
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- New York firefighters' imam forced to quit over 9/11 outburst
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Lynndie England: 'Worse things' that happened at Abu Ghraib have gone unmentioned | In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Abuses
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Now hear this! BradBlog's Brad Rhetorically Disembowels Ann Coulter on Republican Ethics | Understanding The Media's 'Patriotic' Narcolepsy | Watch this! Bill O'Reilly vs Wesley Clark | All Is Not Well on Sesame Street | Are The Days Numbered For CBS News President Andrew Heyward?
FOX WATCH -- David Schuster: FOX dictated news slant
WHAT A RUSH! -- Caller gets past OxyLimbaugh's screeners, tells Pill Detector "I'm done with you!"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Slowing Is Seen in Housing Prices in Hot Markets
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Prisoners held past sentences by Generalissimo George Pataki | Florida city considers eminent domain: bulldoze 6000 low income units to make way for yacht mooring (warning: Moonie Times link) | FBI Criminal Cases Down by Nearly Half
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Court Won't Block Suit Against Gun Makers
OH, GOD! -- Court agrees Bible in jury room improper
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Plan to Show Racist Treasonous Slaver Flag Draws Heat
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Utter stupidity: Meet the Bush Administration energy policy | Energy crisis 'feels' like '70s
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Many docs favor OTC access to 'morning-after' pill | U.S. Rushes to Finish Influenza Pandemic Plan

10/3/05
I've seen fire and I've seen ... more fire: Steve Young on the news
INewsweek's must-read on the GOP's 'power outage' | James Wolcott: Karma Delayed Isn't Karma Denied
Bush Picks Crony Harriet Miers For Supreme Court | Miers is tied to Bush's National Guard scandal | So who is Harriet Miers? | Why Miers is Most Qualified For the Supremes (Not) — A Ploy to Draw Attention from DeLay, Frist and Traitorgate? | Harriet Miers: The Ultimate Loyalist | Supreme Cronyism | Watch this! Bob Smigel's TV Funhouse with Judge Roberts | Priceless Freudian Slip From Roberts
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- Bill Bennett cancels school visit, feels the heat
TRAITORGATE -- Watch this! Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak | Source to Stephanopoulos: Bush, Cheney Directly Involved In Leak Scandal | Lawyers In Plame Leak Case Say Prosecutor Is Considering Criminal Conspiracy Charges | Arianna Huffington: Was Miller Trying To Cut a Deal a Year Ago? | Judy Miller tried to cut earlier CIA leak deal | Outing Valerie Plame is the tape on the Watergate doors | Sunday's NY Times — Orwell's Memory Hole Redux | Judith Miller and Her Times | Now that Karl is back in the news… | Prosecutor in Plame Case May Seek Conspiracy Charges | Fitzgerald looking at White House conspiracy charges | Traitorgate: DC's criminal defense lawyers must be popping the champagne
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- US probes Tom DeLay; secret paper links Maggie Thatcher to freebies probe | DeLay pledges to keep raising funds | DeLay's Successor and the Moderate Bar | Corruption | Watch this! Rahm Emanuel defends against Delay's charges | DeLay: 'I can do my job' even without title | Tom DeLay's House of Shame | TIME: Federal Investigation Of Scandal-Ridden Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Getting Closer To Tom DeLay | Tom DeLay Makes "America's Most Wanted" | In Texas, The Hammer Runs Into an Anvil | DeLay Says He'll Remain Active in House, Be Back As Majority Leader, Continue to Support GOP Culture of Corruption and Cronyism | Ft. Lauderdale judge denies bond for suspect in Boulis killing
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Frist: Newsweek doesn't get it
COINGATE -- Poll: Ohio Governor Taft approval rating reaches historic low (15%)
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- Reports of gunshots aimed at rescue helicopters in New Orleans on Sept. 1 now appear to have been little more than rumors | Katrina relief efforts “suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war.” | 9th Ward: History, Yes, but a Future? | New Orleans children are abandoned again, this time in Baton Rouge schools | Parish president: FEMA still fumbling (despite personal note from the Chimp) | Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds | Mayors: FEMA 'dropped the ball' | Housing For Katrina Victims Promised By Government Has Largely Failed | Gen. Honore: Southeast La. Still in Crisis | Katrina Injected Into Va. Gubernatorial Race | New Orleans may lay off up to three thousand workers
HOT POLITICS -- Philanderer and Bernie Kerik crony Rudy Giuliani to consider presidential run | If progressives can win in Utah, they can win anywhere | Bush battling to climb out of popularity slump | Dems to expand early primaries to provide more diversity in national election | 21-year-old Challenges Oldest SC House Member in Democratic Primary
BUDGET MESS -- Whose Fault Is Pork? (Clue: It isn't the Democrats)
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq oil minister survives bomb attack | Reimbursement Program For Troops Who Purchased Own Combat Equipment and Armor Stalls In Pentagon | Andy Rooney gets shrill about Iraq | Iraq civil war proceeding ahead of schedule | Human rights group: Iraq insurgents guilty of war crimes | Screwing those who served our nation: Bush to target Veteran's Administration for destruction | "The Vice President's Office: The Emotional and Intellectual Force Pushing the U.S. to War" | Steve Cobble: Dems/Iraq = Bush/Vietnam = AWOL | Neocons aim to PNAC-ize Europe | Casey Says U.S. Still Considering Troop Withdrawals Next Year | Bush to crank up message machine on dangers of Iraq withdrawal | Moqtada al-Sadr Calls On Sunnis "to Disavow Zarqawi" | U.S. soldiers get off easy for crimes against Iraqis, review finds | Most Americans Wants Troops Out After Iraq Referendum
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Jihadists wanted: salary, benefits, dental plan | Bali Bombings Linked To British Terrorists
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- The prisoner and the guard: Two lives destroyed by Abu Ghraib
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Meet Who Again? It's What Russert Won't Ask That Matters | Celebrated playwright August Wilson has died at age 60
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Pentagon charges Army officer; are they trying to tamp down Able Danger scandal?
$MIRKONOMICS -- Recession Preview: Economy Could Add to GOP Woes
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Dems deem whistleblowers safeguard bill a joke
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Teacher resigns after attempting to out two 6th grade students
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- NAACP protests racist music festival
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Jason Leopold: Federal Enron Rewarding Commission | Leading the Way To An Environmentally Sustainable Energy Independence | If You Can't Take the Heat Get Out of the West Wing

10/2/05
Cindy, Katrina and Bush's Monica - Interview with Cindy Sheehan
BENNETT THE BIGOT -- Reed Hundt exposes Bill Bennett education agenda: destroy America's public school system | Parents want to abort Bill Bennett's $3,000,000 contract | Bill Bennett, Conservative "Virtuecrat" Hero
TRAITORGATE -- Role of Karl Rove, Scooter Libby in CIA Leak Case Clearer; Bush and Cheney Aides' Testimony Shows Earlier White House Claims Were Outright Lies | CIA leak probe goes beyond Rove; Cheney is eyed, lawyer says | Role of Rove, Libby in CIA Leak Case Clearer: The Term Is Conspiracy | Robert Scheer: The Judy Miller case stinks to high heaven | Arianna Huffington on the "hounding" of Scooter | Coercion, schmoercion | Libby's Letter to Miller: I Miss Your Reporting | TalkLeft: Crucial time gap in outing case | New York Times Staffers Angry at Judy Miller's "Charade For Martyrdom" | Taking Out the Trash: Cheney Directly Involved In Leak Scandal | Prosecutor Mum After Miller's Testimony | Miller's motives on source questioned | Arianna Huffington: Reminder to Judy and the Times: the spin always catches up with you | Jay Rosen: Judith Miller and Her Times
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- Indictment not only cloud hovering over Tom DeLay | DeLay/K Street scandal so big it reverberates even in London | Ft. Lauderdale judge denies bond for suspect in Boulis killing | Boulis, Abramoff and those three alleged mob soldiers: a quick refresher | Meet Tom DeLay's prosecutor | Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Roy Blunt, DeLay clone | Shaw takes heat from Democrats for DeLay cash | Grand juror: DeLay evidence is there | DeLay Case May Require Insider Testimony
FRIST'S INSIDER SCANDAL -- Frist pondered stock sale in April: discussed transaction in e-mail
Connecticut civil union law takes effect
KATRINA AFTERMATH -- A battle to rebuild looms in New Orleans | Several weeks needed to clean oil, official says | Housing Promises Made to Evacuees Have Fallen Short | New Orleans nearly emptied of floodwaters
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- LA Times' fire and brimstone for John Roberts
HOT POLITICS -- NYC-Mayor: Freddy Ferrer Attacks Mike Bloomberg for Skipping Harlem Debate | Fly on the wall film dims last hope for second Kerry run | Behold, The Power of The Clinton Haters: Still Wasting Your Taxpayer Money | The Kaine Offensive | Congressman Rangel calls VP too old and sick for the job | NY Daily News: Bush hits "political panic button" | GOP losing major potential contenders | Finding Bush's Poll Floor? (George's poll up @ 40% despite DeLay)
BUDGET MESS -- Post Editorial slams Bush on pork - plenty of GOP blame to go around | Spending bill slashes aid for food, heating
QWAGMIRE -- Reuters nails Bush on his Iraq dishonesty | Benchmarks in Iraq | Most Americans Wants Troops Out After Iraq Referendum | Rice: We Will Continue To Use Force to Impose So-called Democracy | Is Bush Planning to Off Fidel Castro? | Bush boy contradicts commander in Iraq | Bush administration examines new measures against Syria | Talabani: Al-Jaafari violating accord (Kurd v. Shia) | Bush and reality hate each other | Bush 'encouraged' by news on Iraq forces despite the truth to the contrary | Ex-general: Iraq invasion 'a disaster' | Last Marine in unit mourns 11 lost friends | Iran may use oil as a weapon | Car Bomb Kills 11 in Iraqi City
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Suspects Named In Bali Bomb Probe | Bali blasts were suicide bombers | Bali bombings kill 22, injure many | Why did Bush pardon a domestic terrorist bomber?
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- New Job: Fox News Host. Old Job: PR Man For Coalition Provisional Authority | CBS News Head Heyward All But Advocates Journalism With Bias
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Senators: Strip CIA of overseas role, destroy our intelligence-gathering capability
$MIRKONOMICS -- Study Finds Many Children Don't Benefit From Credits Because Their Families Are Too Poor To Qualify -- So Will Bush Kill Them?
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Brits warned of gun-toting Floridians
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- One-Fifth of CA Seniors Fail High School Exit Exam
OH, GOD! -- Why is ABC sucking up to religious right hate groups?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Hurricane-hit US shuns gas-guzzling SUVs | Dems decry U.S. dependence on fossil fuels

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