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Hot Headlines, June-July 2006
July 1
About time! Dean Baquet and Bill Keller go medieval on censorious, proto-fascist Republicans who don't want a free press | If this be treason ... | This week, America's not-so-stealth-fascist conservatives declared war against the press
Sulzberger Fires Back at Wall Street Journal Editorial Slamming the NY Times | Conservative media was dead silent on prior publication of leaks favorable to White House | Nixon Would Be Proud | Wall Street Journal editorial twisted logic to blast NY Times, defend Journal reporting on financial surveillance | The Wall Street Journal and the Bank Records Story: All the News That's Fit to Print, Then Backpedal Furiously Away From | "Attacks On The Press...Are Effort By Administration Officials To Use Terrorism To Divide America" | How the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Inadvertently Proved That the NY Times Was Set Up for a Roveian "Bushevik" Red Meat Attack
Your weekend reading: Jane Mayer on David Addington, architect of attempted unitary executive dictatorship
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Rep. Jarry Lewis Caught in Lie, Shilled for Lobbyist | Ken Mehlman, now head of the RNC, had a White House official keeping Jack Abramoff up to date on events in Guam | Tennessee Seeks to Remove Accused Mayor | Lowery Foundation Client Turned Earmarks into Fees, Reported Neither | 15 years: justice in Bush's America | For Lewis, News of Probe Didn't Stop Funds' Flow | Kerik Pleads Guilty to Accepting Gifts | Kerik Lands Plea Deal | Shoplifting Admin Official Seeks Plea Deal
TRAITORGATE --
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Supremos to the Decider: What part of "rule of law" do you not understand? | Checking the Decider: Multiple links to Jonathan Turley's scathing slapdowns of Bush big brother policy | Suddenly, USA Today says it can no longer confirm part of NSA tap story | NSA Phone Database Update: Bellsouth, Verizon Not in Program? | …but some telcos refused to give data to NSA | Gröpenführer's Counter-Terror Office Tracked Antiwar and Political Rallies | The Supremacy of Narrative over Reality | "The Administration Does Not Have The Power It Says It Has" | Experts: Ruling Weakens Bush Spying Plan | Saxby Chambliss: More illegal spying on Americans, please! | White House threatens to smear Dems as pro-terrorist | Orrin Hatch hates our American form of government
HOT POLITICS -- Americans getting fed up with government "promoting moral values" | America's Increasing Democracy Deficit | Rep. Clay Shaw (R-FL22) is in trouble | NJ Gov. Jon Corzine Shuts Down Government In Heated Dispute | Grab the popcorn and sit back! GOP Candidates in N.Y. Turn on Each Other | PA-08: Patrick Murphy | TIME Poll: Good News Fails to Boost Bush's Job Approval | VA-Sen: Senator Dude Ranch's campaign smacked down again | TX-21: John Courage | CO-05: Jay Fawcett | Poll: Katherine Harris Doesn't Have Much GOP Support | Can't govern, can campaign. That's our "deeply unpopular" President
QWAGMIRE -- Even without Zarqawi, Baghdad a bloodbath: 66 killed In Baghdad car bombing | Va. candidate Webb: GOP can't fix Iraq | Sunni Female Legislator and 7 Bodyguards Kidnapped in Iraq | Four U.S. Service Members Killed in Iraq | Whiny commander: US losing Iraq because of media coverage | Taliban following lead of militant Iraqis | General: We're in for long war
WAR CRIMES -- Gitmo win likely cost Navy lawyer his career | GOP Scrambles for Some Kind of Political Advantage In Ruling On Trials | Legal Expert: Congress Can’t Rubber Stamp Military Commissions Without Endangering U.S. Troops | Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, American Hero | GIs May Have Planned Iraq Rape, Slayings For Nearly a Week | Warner wobbles; Congressional rubber stamp of military commissions in doubt | Guantanamo inmates among last to hear about Supreme Court ruling | Watch this! Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift speaks out | ‘The Hero of Guantanamo’ Speaks | Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't, just as BoGlo did a few weeks ago | Troops Facing Murder Probe In Allegations of Yet Another Atrocities Against Iraqi Family
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- IMF says terror finance oversight varies greatly | Rice Puts $5 Million Bounty on Al-Masri
BORDER BUNGLES -- Only 483 Guard Working on Mexican Border | Bush Backs Away From Comprehensive Immigration Reform
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Watch this! Lewis Black had something to say about Little Rick Santorum’s classified WMD follies!
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- N. Korea Ready to Counter U.S. Aggression | Israel warns: Free soldier or PM dies
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- CNN Chief Defends Against Accusation Network Sold Out to Celebrity Over News | Watch this! WaPo's Dana Milbank takes a swipe at anti-free-press fascists | Against Objectivity: When ideological journalism makes sense | Watch this! James Dobson parroted Republican "cut and run" talking point to attack Murtha, Democrats | MSNBC regular Melanie Morgan advocates murder of newspaper editors | Wall Street Journal tries justifying why it published classified information about the war on terror | Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over? | MSNBC Execs Cancel "Rita Cosby: Live & Direct" But Will Retain Blonde Republican Obsessed With Missing White Girls | Murtha Misquote: O’Reilly and Hume Correct the Record, Scarborough and Carlson Stay Silent | Watch this! Keith Olbermann named Melanie Morgan "Worst Person" for suggesting NY Times' Keller might deserve "gas chamber"
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! World’s Worst: Take a guess!
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- GM considering merger with Nissan
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Norquist: We Need 60 Republican Senators to Kill Social Security | Mike McGavick wants to kill Social Security
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Flooded and forgotten: Louisiana is still devastated, and its people -- black and white, rich and poor -- feel like the rest of the country doesn't care
ELECTION THEFTS -- Key Authors of Federal E-Voting Certification Guidelines Say Machines Can Be Hacked, Outcomes of Elections Changed | Yolo County, CA Registrar on Voting Machine Sleepovers: 'If E-Voting Systems can't be secured, perhaps they ought not be used at all. Period.' | San Diego Union-Tribune (Mis)reports Busby/Bilbray Election Concerns, Wednesday's Townhall Meeting (Which They Didn't Attend)
JUSTICE WATCH -- Shock acquittal for 'Mafia cops' | Acquittals: The law is the law | Supreme Court upholds Arizona law on insanity defense
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Smoking age in NYC may be raised to 21
TRASHING NATURE -- Ozone 'repair' to take 20 years more
GAY IN AMERICA -- Ark. Governor Seeks Gay-Foster-Parent Ban
Ouch! Supremos put smackdown on Bush Boy's illegal military tribunals for alleged enemy combatants
Supreme Court Decision on Gitmo Undermines Bush’s Legal Case For Warrantless Wiretapping | A Governing Philosophy Rebuffed | "A Sweeping And Categorical Defeat For The Administration" | Glenn Greenwald breaks down the significance of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld -- and it goes way beyond Gitmo | More from Greenwald: What next for the Bush Regime? | Bob Parry: The '06 Stakes Just Got Raised | Supreme Court Ruling on Military Tribunals May Not Slow White House | Has there ever been a Supreme Court justice as petty, openly political -- and STUPID -- as Clarence Thomas? Thomas made a major gaffe when he tried to "swiftboat" Justice Stevens in his dissent ruling… | Clarence Thomas -- chickenhawk | Ziiing! | Congressional Hearings on Guantanamo Set | Administration, Pentagon won't close Gitmo soon | Look Out! David "Unitary Executive" Addington's Head Just Exploded | Liberals Need To Get SCOTUS Religion | Hamdan Decided: We Haven't Lost The Supreme Court, Yet | Trent Lott: Due process is not part of HIS America… | Phony Snowjob must never have head of John Yoo: "I Don’t Think It’s Ever Been the Goal of the Administration to Expand Executive Authority" | Congressional Authorization of Bush’s Military Commissions Is Not Enough | Bush gets snippy with reporter over Gitmo question
Time for some Dem-friendly redistricting | 2 weeks set for Texas redistricting
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Former Gov. Don Sigelman guilty on 7 of 34 counts in a corruption case; Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy was convicted on all six charges against him | Rep. Bob Ney’s (R-OH) district aide has been subpoenaed as DC senior aides stage mass resignation | As Ex-NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik Goes to Court, Questions Persist About Background Check | Roger G. Stillwell, Another Bush Admin. Official, Charged In Abramoff Scandal | Former Bush aide in talks with prosecutors over theft charges | Homeland Security Manager Faces Fraud Charges | Blog: Whistleblowers' dirty dozen | Watch this! Sensenbrenner caught once again with a “gavel moment!” | Lewis Pal Facing Felony Charges over Incorrect Filings? | DuPont RI Campaign Gift Questioned | Jeb Bush's nonprofit foundation has paid pollster, former campaign | More: Ney Top Aides Jump Ship | Lobbying Firm in Lewis Scandal Failed to Report $2 Million in Lobby | DeLay rakes in cash... with barrage of 'beaver' jokes | Report: Contractor, Other Businesses Subpoenaed in Lewis Probe | Lobbyist Tongsun Park to be tried for Saddam 'bribes'
TRAITORGATE -- Libby Lawyer Wants Delay in CIA Leak Trial
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Former 9/11 Commission member Bob Kerrey thinks NY Times disclosure of bank record snooping actually helps counterterrorist effort, as does Rep. Peter King (R-NY) “to some extent” | Bush Keeps Up Attack On Media: "No Excuse" For Printing Financial Records Story | New meme to try to poo-pooh domestic spying critique: NSA database incomplete | Video of House Dems taking on the Republicans over bogus NY Times-bashing | Barney Frank doesn’t take it: Smacks down Arizona’s Renzi for false attack on NY Times | CNN refuses to cover real story behind the House's fascistic condemnation of whistleblowing | When will the networks wake up? | House condemns NY Times… er, intelligence leaks (227 to 183) | The once-supine mass media (and some others) are finally recognizing the President's seizure of law-breaking powers | Growing GOP Theme: Blame The Press | Media Matters runs down the top falsehoods about NY Times and Bush bank-tracking program
HOT POLITICS -- NJ-Sen: Tom Kean Is Preparing a Campaign Film Against Menendez in the Style of a Swift Boat Ad | Americans More Likely to be Killed by Lightning Than See Flag Burned | Though Bush's Numbers Edge Up In a Couple Polls, War Discontent Lifts Democrats | Former VA Gov. and prominent Democrat Mark Warner promises Webb support of united party | Racist, GOP-controlled House sabotages Ken Mehlman's party-level wooing of Latino Voters | IL-10: Dan Seals | Iowa and the primary process | NC-08: Larry Kissel | Why Iowa and NH fight for top billing | Gore: "Bush Is Insulated-His Staff Smiles A Lot And Only Give Him The News That He Wants To Hear" | Murtha will not support Lieberman | CT-Sen: Lieberman is push polling | MA-Gov: Patrick surges | Out of sight, out of media's sites? Jenna Bush Moving To Latin America | Pa. Flooding Delays Swann Campaign Tour | Rep. Katherine Harris's latest weird claim: Democrats are pulling for me | Rumors swirl of return to leadership for Lott
QWAGMIRE -- Administration notifies Congress of five billion-dollar arms deal with country where the people love Al Qaeda | The GOP's Clorox bombshell: House Republicans are trumpeting a WMD "discovery." But experts say Saddam's dusty weapons are less toxic than the pesticides under your sink | House intelligence chief berates Negroponte because he's not going along with phony Santorum/FOX News "We found WMD" narrative | Iraqi police say a suicide car bomber has struck a funeral | Tom Hanks Inducted Into Army Ranger Hall Of Fame | In their own words: this is the way to treat Iraq veterans? | General claims U.S. still finding Iraqi weapons | Someone's not paying attention! US surprised at reports Romania wants to leave Iraq | Half a trillion of our money wasted by the Chimp | World underestimated resurgent Taliban, NATO says | US, Iraqi forces clash with Shi'ite militia, including Iranian fighters? | Rumsfeld Says U.S. Won't Set Iraq Exit as AP Cites Sunni Offer | Report 30+ Hamas leaders arrested
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- George W. Bush: Just the kind of “leader” that Al Qaeda loves | New Osama Bin Laden infomercial posted on the Internet | U.S. losing terror war because of Iraq, poll says | Al Qaeda in Iraq Role in Bombing Denied | So-called 'Sears Tower plot' investigation is under scrutiny: 'Classic case of entrapment,' 'made for TV event' | One "Seeds of David" suspect confesses to targeting FBI buildings
BORDER BUNGLES -- Bush Admin "Unable To Muster Even Half" Of National Guard Troops For Border
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Audio mistake airs heated exchange between Condi, Russian foreign minister | Message to Iran: Answer next week | Pakistan Fumes Over Rice's Comments
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- An Idea for Media: Cover the War Like a Math Class | Liberals are supporting FOX News Channel -- and can stop that support easily… | A Cross, A Flag and A Gallon of Ancient Age: Peggy Noonan gives alcoholism a bad name… | Watch this! Several conservative media figures have issued corrections for reporting Murtha misquote; what about all the others? | FOX News is out to intimidate crew shooting B-roll outside their NYC compound | Ann Coulter's rhetorical Tourette's strikes again: "[T]he safest place for Osama bin Laden" is "in the New York Times building"
FOX WATCH -- FOX News to go dark in Mexico before vote | Stephen Colbert: Superman Is "A Pretend Journalist… Like Brit Hume"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Apple May Have Manipulated Stock Option Grants To Execs | VA hit with two class-action suits over data theft | Feds Recover Stolen Laptop With Veterans' Personal Info
JUSTICE WATCH -- Prosecutors indict 8 men over suspected drug links with North Korea | Bush Nominates New York Lt. Gov. for Bench | Court Rules for Second Time in a Week Against Bush’s ‘Illegal’ Attack Against Workers
OH, GOD! -- Illinoise: Barack Obama has alienated progressive Democrats and parroted false GOP talking points about religion among Democrats
RACISM IN THE USA -- GOP law uses immigrant bashing to screw the poor and disabled
MORALITY MORONICS -- Senator Grassley: corporate apologist, sex obsessed and American expat hater
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Sierra Clubs Sues Pentagon Over Missed Wind Farm Deadline
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Anti-choice zealots are against Buffett-Gates alliance | Panel backs vaccination of 11-, 12-year-old girls against cervical cancer
TRASHING NATURE -- House votes to lift ban on offshore drilling | Ford bails on hybrid promise | The US is responsible for 45% of global automotive carbon emissions | Watch this! Gore: "I Wish President Bush Would See The Movie"..."The Essential Debate Is Over" On Global Warming
GAY IN AMERICA -- AR state gay adoption ban struck down
June 29
Bush Seeks to Use Media Leaks to His Advantage | Hasn't anybody else noticed... | Susan Milligan explains to clueless Paula Zahn why yanking NY Times credentials is a stupid idea | The big brouhaha over nothing has ominous overtones | The Neocon Battle for Media | Bush administration previously told reporters FAR MORE about US efforts to track terrorist finances than the NYT reported last week | A SWIFT Kick in the Head | Every conservative loves a fascist | GOP to open new attack on media | Did E.D "Dumb Ho" Hill threaten Bill Keller?
Ruling that congressional districts in Texas are unconstitutional may affect Nov. election | More: Court Nixes Part of Texas Political Map | Watch this! Analysts see far-reaching consequences to Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling | More: SCOTUS Upholds DeLay's Texas Redistricting
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Bernie Kerik, Disgraced ex-FEMA Nominee, Described as Close to Deal on a Guilty Plea | GOP smear campaign specialist convicted of child molestation charges | Hypocrites on parade: Rep. Peter King, who illegally supported the IRA, wants The New York Times prosecuted for doing its job | Tom DeLay and the call of the beaver | So many GOP pedophiles… | Homeland Security Cyber Chief–an Outside Contractor, Mind You–Salary Under Scrutiny | Watch this! Tom DeLay lies again, says Valerie Plame was not a CIA agent | Kentucky Gov. Preaches Walking, Takes Limo Across The Street | VA Worker Actually Had OK to Bring Home Data That Was Later Stolen | Whiny Bill Frist Blames CNN For Sinking Republican Poll Numbers | TX-22: Judge hostile to DeLay withdrawal argument | Did Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) burn an American flag for his book cover? | Berkeley votes to impeach Bush | Past Ties With Abramoff Haunt GOP Lawmaker | Lewis Faces Probe, But Pals Stand By Their Man -- With Wallets Open | Lavish Congressional Fishing Vacations May Have Violated Ethics Rules | Interior Official Tied to Abramoff Will Plead Guilty | House Judiciary Chair Sensenbrenner breaks rules 'to roll back vote' | Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Bush Bank Spying Scheme had No Logical Reason to Exist | Bush somehow discovers an extra $160M to throw around after vets' personal data was compromised | Applying the "One Percent Doctrine" in a Vacuum | Sen. Pat Roberts’ Double Standard on Intel Leaks | Hollywood, FL conservative files suit to stop mass surveillance by Bush Regime | Froomkin: Show us the Proof–How are any of the press's SWIFT disclosures actually impairing the pursuit of terrorists? | GOP Leaders Introducing Bill To Condemn NY Times
HOT POLITICS -- NV-Sen: Meet Jack Carter | Watch this! Olbermann on the attempted "swiftboating" of Murtha | More Like This Please: Replying to Swiftboaters | As George Felix Allen, Jr. has just learned, don't mess with VA Democratic candidate and veteran Jim Webb | Sen. Biden On Being President: "I'd Rather Be At Home Making Love To My Wife While My Children Are Asleep" | Is Schwarzenegger going conservative? | Murtha's a tad more complicated than right-wing veteran haters (or we) might want to admit | Dean Says Democrats Won't Divide America With Immigration Issue | NJ-07: Linda Stender | Scores of House Republicans defect in defiance of new "family values agenda" being pushed by House leaders to woo far-right in upcoming election | ‘American Values Agenda’ off to a rocky start | Drive Is on to Register Hispanic Voters | 2008 primaries reordering; and NH freaks out | Watch this! Orrin "Booby" Hatch Says Banning Flag Burning Is ‘The Most Important Thing The Senate Could Be Doing’ | Hey, Barack! Wake up and smell the Kool-Aid! | Michelle Malkin's Favorite Democrat? Lieberman has Another Fan | Harris' "Poll": U.S. Rep. Katherine "Batsh!t Loony" Harris says Democrats want her to beat Nelson | Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals
QWAGMIRE -- Violence kills a dozen people in Iraq | Soldier in Afghanistan US-led force killed by mine | Hamas Leaders Arrested; Israeli Executed | Iraq War Ends Silently for One American Soldier | Bush accuses some Democrats of surrender on Iraq | Intelligence gathering in Iraq relies on U.S. soldiers' detective work | Curt and Pete's Excellent Adventure: Rep. Weldon (R-PA) planned a personal WMD hunt | Iraq insurgents want U.S. out in 2 years
WAR CRIMES -- An Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Nat'l Security Experts Of All Stripes Say US Losing War On Terror | Idiot Bush Boy's Neocon "Brainless Trust" Played Right Into Osama's Hand | Osama to Release Infomercial on Al-Zarqawi Death
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Watch this! John Stossel's cheap-shot attacks against Al Gore | Watch this! Olbermann Strikes Back Against NYT Bashers | Watch this! Keith Olbermann skewers Bill O'Reilly on stats | Powerlie: Still Clueless | Alex Koppelman: Let’s Call Those Attacking the New York Times What They Are–Liars! | Watch this! Old grouch Jack Cafferty snarks on Bush and his signing statements: "He’s the Decider!" | Ignoring evidence, el-Brent Bozell claimed the "hardened historical narrative" on Iraq WMDs "needs to be amended" | Watch this! Helen Thomas: Tony Snow Yelled At Me Because I Called Him "A Johnny-Come-Lately" | Watch this! Helen Thomas with Jon Stewart | Paper retracts Murtha 'threat' claim | Watch this! The twisted rants of Ann Coulter
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! FOX News phony E.D "Dumb Ho" Hill gets her freak on
WHAT A RUSH! -- Watch this! Bill "Loofah" O'Reilly: "Palm Beach authorities" are "trying to ruin Rush Limbaugh"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Poll: Bush not helping economy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Net neutrality debate intensifies | Lawyer: Feds failing on hedge fund fraud (fired investigator) | Wal-Mart Gets a Taste of The Picket Line
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Up to 200,000 told to flee Northeast flooding
ELECTION THEFTS -- Lou Dobbs on E-Voting Security: 'Elections Can be Outright Stolen and No One Would Ever Know…It's Incredible' | A single person could swing an election: Read the report here
JUSTICE WATCH -- | Justices Uphold Most Remapping in Texas by G.O.P.
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- House votes to overturn mandatory gun locks
MORALITY MORONICS -- GOP Sen. Grassley Wants To Tax Pimps And Sex Traffickers
ENERGY SCANDALS -- BP Faces Charges Of Price Manipulation
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Regulators and researchers have been corrupted by Big Pharma
WEIRD SCIENCE -- NASA to formulate asteroid defense plan
TRASHING NATURE -- EPA Suffers From Chronic Management Problems | Half of global car exhaust produced by US vehicles | Chevron-Funded Schwarzenegger Sells Out The Environment
June 28
Ex-Bush official destroys "disclosing bank program is treasonous" narrative as he points out that the SWIFT snooping program was already public
Terrorist funds-tracking program was no secret | "Disgracefully" Attacking the Messenger | TDS: What Cheney finds offensive, not offensive | GOP drafting resolution condemning media's terror finance reports | NY Times publishing the obvious isn't treason: but outing Valerie Plame is | OH Yeah, Sen. Roberts! Bring it on! | "[T]reason, plain and simple": Right-wing media figures attack NY Times over bank-tracking story | Media conservatives baselessly claimed that many Democrats urged NY Times not to run bank tracking story | Senator Roberts Wants to Persecute the NY Times but not the WSJ… er… make that Wants a Classified Programs Review | Right Wing War On NY Times Growing: Nationalist Review Editors Want Bush Admin To "Withdraw" Paper's Press Credentials | Nationalist Review: They hate the Times but love that Gannon! | Freepers threaten to kill Times editors, reporters | The Bush lynch mob against the nation's free press | Unhinged Hardball Guest Melanie Morgan Says NY Times Editor Is Guilty of ‘Treason,’ Advocates ‘Prison For 20 Years’ | Newsweek: Feds Hungrily Searching Domestic Bank Data
Rush Limbaugh Sex Tourism: Fast and Furious! | Did Limbaugh’s doctor break the law? | When is Viagra not Viagra? | Rush Corks His Bat
Murtha Attacked by the Right For Quote Falsely Attributed to Him
Right attacks Murtha over false quote | Watch this! Smear boats take sail: On Hannity & Colmes, Newt "Has-been" Gingrich suggested John Murtha is "bashing America, and bashing the military" for political gain; Gallagher wondered if Murtha is "just plain crazy"
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- One of the justices hearing New Hampshire phone jammer James Tobin's appeal has his own history of dirty tricks | Lawmakers question two-year, $577,000 contract for Bush cybersecurity chief | Because Women Stop Thinking When You Pet Their Hands: Meet creepy Rep. Mike Ferguson | Photo Shows Ney in Meeting With Tribe | A Portrait of the Lobbyist (Jack Abramoff) as a Young Man (read: muscle-obsessed bully) | Lawmakers Catch Fish, Lobbyists Catch Lawmakers | Big Week in Court for DeLay | Nice picture! Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) poses with members of an Abramoff tribal client he “didn’t recall meeting” | Tom DeLay: A Voting Double Threat | Norquist: A Blast from His Money Washing Past | Yes, the "Non-Partisan" 'Vets for Freedom' IS a GOP operation! | Norquist and McCain - The Feud Continues | Two Subpoenas Public in Lewis Probe
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Shays Looks to Limit President's State Secrets Privilege | 498-2 | Senator DeWine (R-OH) wants to spy on you | Joe Scarborough chooses Jefferson | GOP's Specter: Bush Admin Issuing Challenges "To The Plain Language Of The Constitution" | US monitored student protest emails
HOT POLITICS -- Flag burning? How about an amendment to stop Troop Burning? | GOP House leaders will devote rest of Congress to far-right special interests, will lock up House with debates on guns and abortion | Bush supporters: He's Killing You, America | MD-Gov: Ehrlich's anemic numbers |Dems Vow To Block Pay Raise For Congress Until Minimum Wage Is Increased | VA-Sen: Allen's hack responds | CT-Sen: Joe's campaign really IS losing it | Utah's Cannon Tries to Fend Off Challenger | VA-Sen: Webb won't be Swiftboated | Flag burning amendment rejected. | Bill Clinton opposes Democratic plan to put caucus before NH. | Stopping the congressional pay increase | CA-50: the GOP's technology advantage | Democrat Seeks to Defeat Mo. GOP Senator | Campaign Finance Reform: Moving Forward | RI-Sen, Gov: Trending our way | Flag Burning: a joke | CA-11: Help Jerry McNerney | "I suspect the real objective here is to try to scare away the Democratic pols who have been cozying up to Kos and the liberal blogosphere" | Poll shows opposition to flag burning amendment. | Ensign, Reid to vote to ban flag burning | USA Today Poll shows voters are tuned in to politics
QWAGMIRE -- Sen. Mitch McConnell Admits GOP Knew About Casey's Redeployment Proposal, Even As They Blasted Democrats' Similar Plan | | Flip-flopping like Bush: Iraq PM proposes no amnesty for killers of U.S. troops | VA Asking for More Money After Data Theft | So all of a sudden, N. Korea can make 13 nukes | It's Always About the Money | Cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to top $500 billion in 2007
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Snookered by Cavemen! Al Qaeda Jihadi Textbook: 9/11 Forced US To Fall Into The "Trap" Of Overextending The Military | Book Overhypes Al Qaeda Subway Threat, Experts Say
BORDER BUNGLES -- Did anti-immigrant site draft 'King letter?' | Rep. says illegal immigration slowing on fears of rape, robbery by Guard
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- The Intelligence Agencies Didn’t Get It Wrong, The Bush Administration Did
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Musharraf asks Rice for N-deal similar to India | Khamenei: Iran won't talk nukes with U.S.
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- This is what the media being "fair" to conservative extremists has done to the discourse | Now It's The "MMIC" – The Media/Military/Industrial Complex | Coulter hides behind 9-11 widows after attacking liberals for doing the same | Ann Coulter fans weigh in | AP Comments On Lack Of Censorship During Vietnam: "Totally Foreign To Reporters Trying To Cover Iraq Today"
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! Sen. Levin puts FOX Anchor Brian "Kill Me!" Kilmeade in his place | Watch this! Newsday's James "Keystone" Pinkerton: Media "frame" Iraq coverage by portraying "the U.S. military" as "evil," "bad people," and "killers"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Laptop with Ahold Employees' Confidential Info Swiped -- Again
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Senate delays estate-tax vote -- not enough votes to pass! | Bush’s Nominee For Treasury Secretary: ‘I Don’t Believe That Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves’
BUDGET MESS -- U.S. Asks Judge to Dismiss Democrats' Budget Lawsuit
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Bush pledges to destroy social security again | President Bush pledges to try to phase out Social Security again after the November election
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- "Breathtaking:" Katrina Scams, Government Bungles Costing Taxpayers Up To $2 Billion | NO black families sue feds on housing
HOMELAND HIJINKS --
ELECTION THEFTS -- A Single Person Could Swing an Election: Electronic Systems' Weaknesses May Be Countered With Audits, Report Suggests | | The "October Surprise" Revisited | FACT CHECK: There is Racial Bias in Texas | New Study Finds More Than 120 Security Threats to E-Voting Systems!
JUSTICE WATCH -- Justice Department: Hackers face life imprisonment | 25 states move to limit eminent domain
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Anti-education and anti-labor: Teacher Says Charter School Fired Her for Organizing to Improve Pay Scale | | Pawlenty proposes free tuition for state's top students | "Banned" books must remain in Miami school district for now, judge says | Panel's Draft Report Calls for Overhaul of Higher Education Nationwide
OH, GOD! -- Rising costs cripple faith-based housing efforts | Watch this! Ayatollah Falwell on the "moral pervert[s]" in Hollywood: "[Y]ou almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore"
ENERGY SCANDALS -- ExxonMobil-funded "Researchers" Infiltrate Peer-Reviewed Journals | | Are Americans Finally Ready to Get Smart (cars)? 2008 American intro | Big Three Cars Emit 230 Million Tons of Greenhouse Gas | Senator John Warner is so powerful, he's stopping the wind
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Surgeon General foolishly sides with science | Surgeon General: No Such Thing As A Non-Smoking Section | Surgeon general: No safe level of secondhand smoke | Democrats to unveil their proposed changes for drug benefit
TRASHING NATURE -- 32 Large Fires Burning in 8 Western States | Domenici Offers Nuclear Waste Proposal | Gore gets five stars for accuracy | Watch this! Frank Luntz Converts On Global Warming, Distances Himself From Bush
June 27
Rush Limbaugh detained at Palm Beach International Airport for the possible possession of illegal prescription drugs Monday evening; TV report from CBS4 Miami
"'We believe there may be a second degree misdemeanor violation;"' will Rush's limpdong pills nullify plea deal? | John Aravosis feels like there's something missing from this Limbaugh story | Rush Limbaugh doesn't learn | Watch this! Keith Olbermann, America's newsman, breaks the story at the national level
Former Admin. Official Needs Only Three Words To Explain Manipulation of Intel: ‘The Vice President’ | Watch the testimony here
Bush Lashes Out Against Free Press -- NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal -- After They Report On Mass Domestic Spying Without a Warrant
Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett plan healthy investment
Why Do Republicans Hate America's Veterans? The plot to "'swiftboat"' Murtha
One Percent Madness
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Bush is really, really mad at leakers (unless they work for him) | Court to Hear Arguments in McDermott-Gingrich "'Tale of the Tape"' Case | DeLay Testifies He Lives, Votes in VA -- yeah, right, Bugman… | Michael Steele’s donor list stirs controversy | Norquist: McCain's a Liar, Delusional | Grover Explains It All | Lobbying Reform Dying A Quiet, Undignified Death
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Watch this! Phony Snowjob Lashes Out at Media, Suggests NY Times Has Undermined Americans’ ‘Right to Live’ | Sunshine, shmunshine: Jeb Bush's veto halts access to documents | 'Lieberman had opponent arrested' | FBI drops Patriot Act secret request for library records | Data Brokers and Buyers Anger Congress
HOT POLITICS -- Republicans are pushing an absurd flag-burning amendment. Will their mom 'n' apple pie ploy torch the Democrats | Potential trouble for TX Republicans: Judge says DeLay 'withdrew' | MN-Sen: Kennedy (R) scrubs Web site of all references to Bush | Peter Daou hired by Hillary Clinton | VA-Sen: let's help Jim Webb get elected | CT-Sen: Lieberman campaign comes unhinged | Missouri? Yes, Blue Missouri on the rise | Bush stuck at 37% in new Gallup Poll | CT-Sen: Tons of news in one blog post | Judge to Tom DeLay: ‘Run like a rabbit’ | KY-Gov: Fletcher's long limo commute | Held over! Watch this! Biden on Cheney: 20% of nothing. | Rove distorts Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy | MO-Sen: Latest poll | Ten questions from Jimmy Carter | Treason Boy Rove catches grief during stop in Waterloo | Lieberman Lies, Leaps Into Gutter | Iraq drags down Bush in Missouri (under 40% approval) | Flag Burning Amendment Won't Pass Senate, Aides Say | Murtha's a star on the campaign trail | Cut & run' Dems is 'more of the same' GOP's theme
QWAGMIRE -- US deploys missiles as N Korea plans test launch | USA Today/Gallup Poll: Majority Supports Dems' Plans For Iraq Troop Withdrawal | Citing military plans, Rep. Maxine Waters declares a victory for Out of Iraq Caucus | Military Fails Some Widows Over Benefits | Wars triple Army equipment costs | White House Plays Down Iraq Withdrawal Talk | "'The Bush administration is actively working against the wishes of the elected Iraqi government and the expressed preferences of the American public to pursue an indefinite occupation of Iraq"' | Iraqi Oil Production Still Not At Prewar Levels | Second market bomb kills seven in Iraq | Marine among 15 dead in Iraq blast | Sunnis, Shi'ites find fault with Iraq peace plan, demand US withdrawal date | WP poll: Margin Favoring Withdrawal of Troops Is Increasing | Should we let NK test their missile?
WAR CRIMES -- Watchdog backs CIA flights report | Bush creates an "'out"' before signing bill banning torture
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Watch this! TDS on the Miami Seven | Reporter Says Inside Look at Miami "'Tairist"' Suspects' Warehouse May Change Opinions | Veteran FBI Terror Buster Questions Miami Case | Brother Corey, The Public Face of Seas of David | Seas of David? Or Seeds of David? | The AG's Seven Sunni (Sonny?) Samurai
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iran's Ahmadinejad planning to visit Iraq: report
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Why is The New Republic protecting an dishonest source? | A Press That Holds Itself in Contempt | What America's brownshirts dream of | Denver Post Publishes Letter That Advocates Beheading Editors, Pundits | Watch this! How it's done: Bernie Ward smacks down wingnut talk show host, who skulks off the set like a coward | CNBC Anchor Argues ‘Puny, Gnawing Little Humans’ Can’t Change The Climate | Feds Questioning NY Post "'Page Six"' Editor Richard Johnson | Schwarzenegger Caved To National Enquirer Interview After They Threatened To Say He Slept With Brigitte Nielsen | WSJ Hit Piece on Gore Movie Relies on Grievously Flawed Study | Howard Kurtz's double standard for reporting on journalists' illnesses | Guardian Latest Brit Paper to Expand in U.S. -- Kinsley Will Lead
FOX WATCH -- Murdoch heckled over Aussie award | Watch this! FOX twofer: Keith Olbermann awarded Geraldo Rivera, John "'OJ"' Gibson "'Worst Person"' honors: Rivera for smearing Kerry, Gibson for falsehood about human-rights groups | Ailes Cracks Whip as FOX News Slips
$MIRKONOMICS -- Foreclosure filings on Florida homes leap | Mass. Defaults Reaching 'Epidemic Level'
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Equifax quietly loses data records | Supremes won't hear generic drug case, in effect ruling for Big Pharma | Ex-Enron executive gets probation | iPod maker admits to using sweatshops
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Warren Buffett: Major Philanthropist and Opponent of Estate Tax Repeal
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- In a Nutshell -- Be Prepared Ain't Just for the Boy Scouts Now | FEMA: the GOP's reverse Midas touch in action
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Analyst Says He Warned of Iraqi Resistance | At Iraq forum, ex-Bush official calls US intelligence 'crap' | Prewar Intelligence: Three Words! "The Vice President" | Posada's CIA ties uncovered in papers
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- CA port closed on threat to Bush
ELECTION THEFTS -- Mainstream media picks up story of vulnerable voting black boxes | Ohio State panel upholds Blackwell's "'stealth disenfranchisement"' program | Lou Dobbs Covers the Voting Machine 'Sleepovers' in San Diego! | Congress Urged to Renew Voting Rights Act | Calif. Town Had No Elections for 25 Years | Voting System Recommended For Federal Certification By Unqualified Person
JUSTICE WATCH -- Supremos mull CO2 emissions | Court blocks draconian Georgia sex offender rule | Federal Judge stops MO lethal injections | Justices Won't Hear Ex-La. Governor Appeal | Bad day for clean elections: Court strikes down Vermont campaign finance law. | Alito breaks tie, KS death penalty stays
OH, GOD! -- Teaching bigotry and hate: Lessons from the Christian Reich
ENERGY SCANDALS -- GM Said to Be Developing 'Plug-In' Hybrid Car | Nelson Promises Filibuster If House Passes Offshore Drilling Bill
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Rep. Waxman: FDA Lax on Enforcement | Report: FDA fails to protect food supply
WEIRD SCIENCE -- NASA Admits Astronauts In Next Launch Have High Risk Of Death
TRASHING NATURE -- ABC News slams Bush hard over global warming | Bush Ignores Science, Claims ‘There Is A Debate’ Over The Cause of Global Warming | Kentucky Governor Talks The Talk, Won’t Walk The Walk (Prefers A Lincoln Town Car)
GAY IN AMERICA -- Dept. of Defense admits to wider surveillance of Don't Ask, Don't Tell groups | 'Gay buying power' to hit $1 trillion | Study suggests being gay genetic
June 26
Murray Waas: A Reporter's Bias – If you read one nonpolitical essay this year, make it this one
Warren Buffett Announces He's Giving Away Most of His $40 Billion Fortune
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Meet Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY13): He takes cash for legislation | Grand Old Police Blotter: Bagging Amy Edition | Lying 'Murtha Lied' site debuts early after getting a taste of their own swiftboating | White House Staffers Accept $135,000 In Free Trips Since Nov. 2004 From Business And Religious Supporters | Expansion of Alaska Native no-bid deals sparks debate
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Bill Keller responds to fascist apologists hot and bothered about NY Times' report that Bush may be breaking the law again by spying en masse on banking without court approval | Reports of US Monitoring of SWIFT Transactions Are Not New: The Practice Has Been Known By Terrorism Financing Experts For Some Time | Sen. Arlen Specter Hints Bush May Backtrack On Warrantless Wiretaps | Rep. Peter King (R-Rove): Charge the NY Times with Espionage
HOT POLITICS -- No Stem Cell Talk in the Senate -- It's Flag-Burning Monday | Atlanta mayor: Martin Luther King papers to Morehouse | Meet the People-Powered Movement | Watch this! Feingold Doesn’t Support Lieberman, Hammers Bush/Cheney | Senator to Nowhere Ted Stevens picks feud with Maria Cantwell | New ratings create buzz for Bill Clinton -- and new opportunity for press pack to make snide comments about his wife | NJ-Sen: The Bush Factor | Good Start: How Democrats Should Handle Anything Emanating from Dick Cheney's Bionic Piehole | Proof that, like a broken clock, toe-sucking discredited pundits can be right twice a day: Dick Morris says Lieberman will lose | The Republican Inability To Govern
QWAGMIRE -- Sen. Barbara Boxer: "Now It Turns Out We're In Synch With [US Commander In Iraq] General Casey" On Drawdown | Did Cheney Know Of Casey's Redeployment Plan When He Said Democrats' Redeployment Plan Was "Worst Possible Thing?" | Iraqi Government Embraces US Democrats' Redeployment Proposals | Iraqi PM Presents Reconciliation Plan | Reconciliation Plan Proves Divisive From the Get-go | U.S. Lawmakers Denounce Iraq's Amnesty for Murder Plan | US-led convoy 'attacked' in Kabul | US to deploy PAC-3 missiles in Japan | Afghans lose faith in Karzai | Veterans of US prisons in Iraq in no mood for reconciliation | Who's Who Out of Iran | Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's "reconciliation" plan is part of a grand strategy by the Bush administration to stabilize Iraq | Watch this! Sen. Carl Levin: Administration Planning Reduction of Troops in Fall to Help Win Elections | Republicans on Iraq: We have a plan to have a plan | Baghdad in state of emergency | Larry Johnson: U.S. not really fighting insurgency
WAR CRIMES -- In Newly Revealed Allegations of Atrocity, Two US Soldiers Charged In Killing Of Iraqi Civilian
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Will Terror Charges Stick to Miami's Keystone Qaeda? | Al Qaeda-led Group Releases Video Showing Killing Of Three Russian Hostages Taken In Iraq | British Army Wives Receiving Death Threat Phone Calls From Iraqi Insurgents | Watch this! Sen. Russ Feingold Argues Emergence of Al Qaeda Leader As New Somalia Strongman Shows ‘Insanity’ Of Misplaced Priorities | US 'knew' location of Qaeda in Pakistan
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Analysis: Bush Faces Russian Balancing Act | Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) Calls for Direct Talks With North Korea
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- MSNBC Under New Boss Dan Abrams To Drop Part Of Talk-Show Lineup; Olbermann, Tweety Safe, But Right-wing Bloc Faces Demotion, Removal | David Brooks' Greatest Hits: History of a Liar | David Brooks, David Broder Unhinged: When Out-of-Touch Pundits Get Desperate | Cornholed: The Ethanol scam explained | Omerta: Zengerle and The New Republican won't burn a source who fed them bullshit | Your Media: How everything is "bad for Democrats" | Speaking of Fascism… here's CNN's Bill Bennett! | CNN Omits Crucial Facts About GOP From Troop Drawdown Report | The Daily Kos welcomes NY Times readers | More of the same–from the press: Newsweek, Sullivan continue to present "stay the course" as a winner for the GOP | Booman Trib: What is Kos really?
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! FOX's Brit Hume shills for the Iraqi insurgents, says amnesty for killing Americans is no big deal | FOX News alone gets 'fair' access to Gitmo
$MIRKONOMICS -- Republicans Reject Minimum Wage Increase
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- VA Barred From Publicizing Offer to Vets To Allow Window for Civil Suits | Who Killed the Electric Car? | GM to shed quarter of workforce this year | Bolivia to sue ex-Enron execs for fraud
ELECTION THEFTS -- Riverside County CA Deceived Paper Ballot Voters During June 6th Primary
JUSTICE WATCH -- Revolt against eminent domain gains traction as states, cities say no | Informants' behavior taints large-scale FBI cocaine sting
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Ruling may hinder schools on race
ENERGY SCANDALS -- U.S. Grants 1st License for Major Nuclear Plant in 30 Years | Ethanol booms amid growing doubts
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Exposure To Pesticides Linked With Parkinson's | EPA to Crack Down on Remodelers' Lead Dust to reduce children's exposure
GAY IN WEST ASIA -- John McCain supports Don't Ask, Don't Tell |Gay Muslims Seek Lesbians For Wives In Marriages Of Convenience
June 25
Duncan Hunter: Is he behind the Swiftboating of Murtha?
Poor Little Swiftboater Amanda Doss
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Jack Abramoff Secretly Funneled Clients' Money Through Norquist's Nonprofits, Which Took Cut | E-Mails Blow Lid Off Abramoff Requests, Contacts; Kickbacks, Norquist, Graft | Norquist Doings Not Criminal? Not So Fast | More Bad News for Norquist | Fashion Tips From Scandal Law Firm: Don't Wear a Blue Hat in a Red | E-Mails Detail Abramoff Requests, Contacts | Yeah, baby! Florida GOP operative busted at brothel | San Diego Union-Tribune: Former Lewis Aide Paid "Bonus"
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Prosecute journalists ... or else? | Watch this! Jonathan Turley Blasts the Secret Bank Program
HOT POLITICS -- Republicans to reward Bush lawbreaking on warrantless surveillance | From Kansas to South Carolina, Republican moderate voters are turning their backs on the Neocons and defecting to the enemy | Ned Lamont: "I think [Sen. Joe Lieberman] sounds more like George Bush every day" | US Population To Hit 300 Million In Fall | Democratic standard-bearers Ford, Bredesen blitz GOP foes | CT-Sen: The issues Lieberman finds important | Divided Republicans: Twice In Two Years, Bush Failed To Drive Major Domestic Plans Through Friendly GOP Congress | MO-Sen: McCaskill Increases Lead in New Poll | Cheney gets an F | Auction cancelled; Atlanta mayor: Martin Luther King papers to Morehouse
QWAGMIRE -- Flip-flop: First Team Bush Criticized Democrats For Pushing Timeline -- But Now Bush Admin Now Has ‘Adjustable' Troop Withdrawal Schedule | Iraqi PM's Reconciliation Plan To Call For Withdrawal Timetable, Amnesty For Insurgents, Release Of Detainees | Sunni Insurgents Reject Peace Plan | Drawdown? Top US commander in Iraq outlines sharp troop cut | LA Times: At Least 50,000 Iraqis Killed Since Invasion | U.S. military confirms plan to reduce Iraq troops | Murtha speaks out against permanent bases in Iraq | By the Numbers | Syria, Iran tighten relations | Guardsmen: Iraq a minute-by-minute battle | Iraq Veterans Facing Homelessness | Numbers: 15 | US accuses Iran of aiding Iraq Shi'ites | Dean repeats call for Iraq troop drawdown | Iraqi cleric freed after U.S. raid
WAR CRIMES -- U.S. Releases 14 Saudis From Guantanamo | Time: How doctors got in torture biz
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Karzai Challenges Omar to Face Justice | Bizarre cult of Sears Tower ‘plotter’ | "Anyone who claims that the administration just broke up a plot to attack the Sears Tower is overstating what's occurred here" | Sunny, Sunni, What's the Difference?
BORDER BUNGLES -- Bush's Immigration Plan Stalled as Divided House GOP. Grew More Anxious
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Ex-CIA Aide Reveals New Details On Ignored Warnings About Iraqi WMD Fabricator "Curveball"
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bolton Attacks U.N. Human Rights Official For Criticizing Flawed Administration Policies
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Columnist David Brooks, in a fit of jealousy, attacks "Kingpin Kos" Markos Moulitsas | Bobo Brooks: obsessed, deranged | Newsweek Monday: 'Can Daily Kos control the Dems?' | BlogNYC Retains Legal Counsel to Defend Its Right to Free Speech and Squash the Frivolous Lawsuit Filed by Stephanie Adams | Michael Kinsley Joins The Guardian as US Editor-at-Large | Blogger seeks info to harass NY Times journos
FOX WATCH -- Whoa, watch this, duuuude! Geraldo gets his buzz on...
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- China's Parliament to Mull Anti-Monopoly And Other Laws
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Frank Rich savages the Department of Homeland Security as Crony Central
ELECTION THEFTS -- CA SoS Receives $23,625 Pay Raise After Flawed, Possibly Fixed, elections in CA | Busby/Bilbray Election Fraud Triggers More Town Meetings
TRASHING NATURE -- Gore: Global Warming Skeptics "Will Seize On Anything To Say Up Is Down And Black Is White"
