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Hot Headlines, July 2006

July 15

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- New GOP Majority Leader revs up lobbying efforts as post-Abramoff reform bills lag | Is this what really worries the GOP and NBC about Katherine Harris? Miami Herald: Harris Whispered about Scarborough's "Dead Intern" | Liberal blogger agrees with Rep. Harris | Data on Bush-Abramoff links sought | Harris takes back $100,000 from campaign to renovate home | GOP's Losing Gambler: "I'm a Finance Expert"
TRAITORGATE -- Jonathan Turley on the merits of the Wilson lawsuit against Cheney et al | Press Smitten with Valerie Plame Wilson | Wilsons Hold Presser on Suit | In The Midst Of Lawsuit, Valerie Plame Re-signs For Her Memoirs | Joe Wilson Call: Cheney did not send him to Niger | Plame Suit Faces Trouble -- Says Bob Novak | Watch this! Valerie Wilson Press Conference | Attorney Explains Why Reporters Not Targeted In 'Plame' Lawsuit
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Critics blast meaningless wiretapping review negotiated by Senator Specter, White House | A close look at Sen. Arlen Specter’s Sham Legislation Touted By The Media As A White House ‘Concession’ | Conservative youth group bans liberal youth group from conference | Young America’s Foundation Student Conference Bans Progressive Reporters
HOT POLITICS -- Watch this! Jack Cafferty on new AP Poll: Republicans in trouble | Ex-Bush Aide Fatally Shoots Son, Himself | Santorum Struggles for Support at Home | MN-Sen: Big fundraising quarter | Aide: Hastert OK After Skin Infection | Wes Clark calls Lieberman on the carpet | A taste of the troubles ahead for the GOP come this fall | CT-Sen: Um, who is trying to buy the race again? | Santorum's fundraising tops $20 million | AP Poll: Republicans in danger of losing Congress | Cook's latest House race ratings | IL-Gov: Is Blago pulling away? | MT-Sen: Internal Tester poll shows narrow lead | CT-Sen: The Colbert treatment | Katherine Harris' Former Staffer: "Tantrums. Minor Things Cause Her To Blow....Micromanaging To The Nth Degree" | Harris Campaign: More Scenes from The Meltdown | Poll: Public Unhappy With GOP Congress | Who's Responsible for the Lieberman Meltdown?
QWAGMIRE -- Baghdad starts to collapse as its people flee a life of death | Gunmen Kidnap Iraq Olympic Committee Head And 30 Coworkers... | 12 Lebanese killed in convoy attack | North Korean Missile Attack Probably Couldn't Be Intercepted | Radical Shiite Cleric Hints at Militia Attacks to Protest Israel’s Actions | Missile hits Egyptian boat off Lebanon-Israel | Remembering Iraq's "period of significant transition" | Hezbollah Leader: "You Wanted An Open War, And We Are Ready For An Open War" | Israeli Navy ship hit by explosives-laden drone | IRS Operated Without Refund Fraud Screening Program This Year | Another $110 billion down the Iraq sinkhole | The WSJ editors get it: The ‘Real Problem’ Behind Middle East Violence Is The ‘U.S. Is So Bogged Down In Iraq’ | Bomb strike at Baghdad mosque kills 14 (Sunni mosque) | Hezbollah HQ Destroyed | Ahmadinejad: Iran is out of Israel's reach | IDF says rockets "made in Iran" | Gunmen attack checkpoint, kill 12 Iraqi soldiers | Israel keeps up Lebanon assault, criticism mounts | Israeli warplanes strike in Beirut again | Syria to Hezbollah: stop rocketing Israel, idiots!
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush Agrees Osama Helped in '04 | Bush, Putin announce global nuclear terror plan | Shiite leader killed in Pakistan by suicide bomber | White powder' letter sent to NY Times a hoax
BORDER BUNGLES -- US awards $1.16 bln for border scanning gear (Reuters)
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush refuses to press Israel for truce | Bush's options limited in worsening Mideast crisis | White House: Bush has spoken to others, not Israel about crisis | Where does Bush stand on Mideast conflict? | To Dismay of Some, Bush Takes Gentler Approach Toward Pootie-Poot
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Fighting back against the PR presidency: "A new kind of courage is needed in journalism" | NY Times Editor Admits Paper Made Mistakes In Run Up To War: "I Would Have Paid A Lot More Attention To The People On The Board Who Had Doubts" | Racism plagues Western media coverage | Senate telecom overseer Ted Stevens calls the Internet a `series of tubes,' sparking a surge of electronic derision among the digerati | Dissecting the Idiot CNN Piece on Valerie Plame | Tony Snow Quote O' the Day: It’s Important Israel Tries To "Limit As Much As Possible The So-called Collateral Damage, Not Only On Civilians But Also On Human Lives" | Watch this! CNN's King, Kagan echoed Republican falsehoods on Wilson's trip to Niger | Stabbed in the Back: The past and future of a right-wing myth | Christian Science Monitor Prints Attack On Global Warming Science | Scuffle At Soho House! And Also, Book Party | Blogger Barred From Couric Town Hall...Until He Surrenders His Pen | The Media Is The Problem | Watch this! On the Situation Room, Blitzer failed to challenge Kermit the Frog sound-alike Terry Jeffrey's misleading claims about CIA leak | Why is CNN's John King still repeating the Republican bamboozle that Joe Wilson 'said Dick Cheney sent him to Niger'? | Watch this! Keith Olbermann crowned El-Brent Bozell "Worst Person" runner-up for claiming NY Times is "rooting for the homosexual revolution"
FOX WATCH -- MySpace is foxified | Watch this! O'Reilly on Mafia hit man: "Couldn't he have killed Jerry Springer?"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Stocks suffer more losses as oil soars (economy headed down)
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- SEC cracks down on pension scams
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Katrina fund leader quits under duress
ELECTION THEFTS -- Rep. Lewis Recounts His Experience To Urge Renewal Of The Voting Rights Act: "I Was Beaten, I Had A Concussion...I Almost Died" | Liberal crowd boos Al Franken over election comments... | Georgia Lawsuit Filed over E-Voting Questionability -Atlanta Progressive
JUSTICE WATCH -- Missouri Says It Can’t Hire Doctor for Executions | 'Thank you, Jesus!' yell sends man to jail | DC National Mall Crimes Expose US Park Police Officer Shortage
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Public Schools Perform Near Private Ones in Study
MORALITY MORONICS -- Steve Largent's son indicted on sex charges
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Humorless Abortion Critic Fails To Get Really Old Onion Joke
TRASHING NATURE -- Scorching U.S.: First Half of 2006 Sets Heat Record | Household Pesticides Scrutinized; pyrethroid runoff is killing aquatic life
GAY IN AMERICA -- Court Restores Nebraska's Same-Sex Marriage Ban

July 14

Valerie and Joseph Wilson announce they will sue Dick "Big Time" Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Karl Rove, others in treasonous White House cabal that outed counterproliferation operation; link and full report to follow
• TPMuckraker has the suit in brief
• All 23 pages here
• Joseph Wilson comments, as does Larry Johnson
• Cheney, Rove, Libby and "John Does 1-10"... who could they be?
• Grab the popcorn or set your TiVO: press conference tomorrow
• Joseph & Valerie Wilson have established a legal fund
• Amb. Joseph Wilson: Novak, Administration 'completely distort' leak
• What's Rove Got to Do With It?
• Snakes on a Plame!
• Wednesday, Robert Novak lied on FOX about Murray Waas and other reporters
• GOP Operatives Fingered in Plame Suit?
• Novak's Call to Rove: Bad Idea, or Bad Advice?
• Andrew Napolitano made the false -- and absurd -- claim that Wilson listed Plame's CIA employment in Who's Who entry
• Novak Attack, Off by a Mile
• Novak-Rove exchange lasted 20 seconds
Dennis Hastert hospitalized for at least 72 hours with infection–will he finally drop the kielbasa and sauerkraut diet?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Omerta victim? Did Katherine Harris's questions about the death of an intern to ex-Congressman Joe Scarborough turn the GOP against her? | Sen. Dorgan: Halliburton Contract Needed To End Because "Hundreds Of Millions, And Probably Billions, Of Dollars Have Been Wasted"… | OH-Sen: Sherrod Brown blasts Mike "Pay to Play" DeWine | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson details Cheney's culture of abuse | Blackwell Pushes Plan to Lease Turnpike, But Rode it For Free | Jailed Cunningham among 'departing' lawmakers being honored | Schiavo nurse may lose license | Former GOP Senate Candidate Pete Coors Arrested For DUI | Jon Stewart Looks Into "50 Things You May Not Know About Rick Santorum" | 1,700 earmarks, “totaling about half a billion dollars," in one bill | Rudy Giuliani: America's Awful Mayor | DoJ Wants Jefferson Docs Now | Katherine Harris Caught "Grossly" Exaggerating Her Record In Congress | Jon Stewart on Republican values | GOP Card Shark: I'm a Cult Hero | Ex-Admin Official Appeals Abramoff Verdict | NH Dems Phone Jamming Suit Update | GQ: Reed, Abramoff Discussed "Mortgaging Old Black People' | Lawmakers Take on Right-wing KY Governor, Introduce Landmark Anti-Internet Censorship Bill | Iowa Rep Big Mouth Strikes Again | CA Rep Invests The Easy Way
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- What will Democrats do in the wake of the Specter cave-in? | Watch this! Cafferty blasts Specter’s new NSA court review | Bush Agrees to Eavesdropping Court Review After Specter Caves In | The Specter-White House FISA agreement | Specter’s "Compromise" on Warrantless Wiretapping Excuses Bush For Illegal Conduct
HOT POLITICS -- Watch the DCCC ad the Republicans can’t run from | N.J. Voters Blame Lawmakers for Shutdown | New Orleans drops bid for 2008 convention | Most Americans Plan To Vote For Democrats; Bush Approval Stagnant at 36% | Court to expedite DeLay's ballot case | Can You Hear Me Now? GOP miffed that DCCC dares make Iraq casualties a serious election issue | World's Happiest Country Study Comes Out, US Is No. 150 | Speaker Hastert Admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital for Skin Infection | Democrat Leads N.J. Fundraising Race | KT McFarland's Brother: Evil Sis Lied On 'Dad Abuse' | Giuliani Considering 2008 Presidential Run
QWAGMIRE -- Israel bombs airport, bridges, highways | Baghdad starts to collapse as its people flee a life of death | Iraq War Costs May Rise By $406 Billion Over Next Ten Years | The Middle East Is Slipping Into All-Out War | A former CIA expert dissects U.S. Policy in Lebanon | US sees three more years in building Afghan army | Bush to ask for another $110 billion for Iraq war | NY Times: Extremists the real winners in Middle East... | Watch this! Rumsfeld Confronted By Soldier Over Equipment Shortages In Iraq | It's near all-out-war between Hezbollah - so where is George Bush? | Israeli gunships blow up Beirut Airport Fuel Depot | Iraq's own mafia takes charge | Lebanon denies it attacked Haifa | Suicide car bomber in Iraq kills 5 people | Geraldo redux: after revealing troop positions, FOX crew shot at in Israel | Hezbollah rocket hits Israeli city of Haifa-army | Iraq on the right path, US ambassador tells Congress | Report: Lebanese rockets hit journalists | Iran denies Israel fears that soldiers head to Iran | Gruesome scenes of dead civilians after Israeli air raids on south Lebanon | Fox News crew is shot at on live television... | Iraq attacks kill local government members, police officers
WAR CRIMES -- Issue of Detainees Splits Bush Administration | Factual errors cited in cases against detainees
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- India names 2 bomb suspects | Nuclear Materials 'Dangerously Vulnerable' | José Padilla Gets Access to Secrets
BORDER BUNGLES -- Rep equates immigrants, livestock on House floor
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- TNR: Hoekstra Chases Ghosts the White House Gave Up
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush to Press Israel to Spare Civilians | Rumor: Israel tells Condi Rice to 'back off' | N Korea missile talks fail | Bush: Iran "can't wait us out" in nuclear dispute
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Jesus' General Reactivates Operation Yellow Elephant
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- CNN's Lebanon Problem | Electrocute Bill Keller! No, hang him! | Watch this! The Freeway Blogger Strikes Again! | Media outlets report on strength of Bush economy, ignore earlier reports that deficit numbers were inflated | Bush nominates another right winger to PBS board | Colbert on Lieberman, Lamont and David Brooks | Yahoo, Newspaper Consortium Consider Partnership | Conservatives, "balance," and the unbalanced Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang | Judge: Telco mergers may be monopolies | Watch this! Jon Stewart on Sen. Stevens and those Internet Tubes | Dan Rather Says He Hasn't Ruled Out Suing CBS | Civil War at the Wall Street Journal
$MIRKONOMICS -- Dow's 2-day loss: 288 points
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- NY AG Sues Chip Makers Over Price Fixing
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Let 'em die on Amtrak: Senate nixes increase funding for rail security in this country
ELECTION THEFTS -- House Renews 1965 Voting Rights Act, 33 Republicans Vote Against | GOP OK'd wrong number for Republican primary; off by 30,000 votes | Racist Southern GOPers Try to Hobble the Voting Rights Act
JUSTICE WATCH -- Treatment of US suspects at home mirrors that of terror suspects in military custody
OH, GOD! -- Evangelist arrested on tax evasion
RACISM IN THE USA -- Confederate kitsch epidemic sweeps NJ town
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Crude past $78 in electronic trading
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Colbert To Congressman: "Are You High Right Now?" | Opinion sought on charging abortion providers with murder in Texas
GAY IN AMERICA -- Anti-gay church billed for not protesting

July 13

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Katherine Harris pads role, impact on housing, reports say | Sen. Lindsey Graham Stands Accused Of Fabricating Senate Debate Sent To Supreme Court | Amid a prison scandal, Gov. Jeb! Bush defended his hiring decisions -- and said he will take responsibility for those that didn't go well | Army to Rebid Halliburton Unit's Contract | Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA) borrowed $7.5M to buy contributor’s land | Harris Loses Top Campaign Staff -- Again | Harris campaign staff said quitting | CT Senate Republican Candidate Reels from Gambling Scandal | White House paying $100,000 salary to "Director of Lessons Learned" | Texas Tribe Sues Abramoff, Reed | Texas Tribe Names Abramoff, Reed in Suit | PA school district wants reimbursement for homeschooling of Santorum's children | Halliburton: The End of An Era | CQ: Delayed Senate Iraq Report Unlikely to Land Before Elections | Corps. use nonprofits for lobbying
TRAITORGATE -- Why did it take two and one half years for Robert Novak to disclose details of his cooperation with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald? | Robert Novak Is a Traitor to His Country and Profession | Suggested questions for the media to ask Novak regarding the Plame affair | Novak's "tell all" Plame column revealed little new, contained more falsehoods, distortions, and contradictions | Pundit, ex-GOP Rep: Novak leak explanation 'garbage'
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Ex-Prosecutor Demands Newspaper's Sources | The President is Always Right! | Justice Dept. to Congress: Bush 'is always right'
HOT POLITICS -- Report: Pelosi 'cracking the whip,' taking names | 10 races to watch as the Democrats fight to take back Congress | Pro-war Heather Wilson is feeling the heat from Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid in this closely watched House race | Pryce May Pay a Price for Her Role as a House Republican Leader | WaPo Attacks Hillary Again, Now Pretending "It's Hillary vs. Herself" | Bush to return to Ohio on Aug.2 for Blackwell fundraiser | Rell Urges Schlesinger To Reconsider Candidacy (more Repub drama | MT-Sen: Tester in the Bay Area | Unknown court date puts former Rep. DeLay in limbo | NC-11: Schuler (D) leads in independent poll | Bush may trim Crawford vacation. | OH-02: Mean Jean - an upset in the making? | Lieberman Tells Democrats to STFU About President Bush | BlueVa | Lessons learned | WI-Gov: Doyle recovering? | Swann Struggles in Rookie Political Season | NJ-Sen: Menendez continues to rise | Two Lawmakers Challenge FEC Regulations | Rove heckled at La Raza event | Two polls say Ralph Reed dropping in GA Republican primary | Poll: New Yorkers Believe Bloomberg Won't Run for Prez in '08 | Fourth candidate in Connecticut senate race?
QWAGMIRE -- Just Like After 'Nam: War Veterans Feeling Stressed, Deserted (CBS News) | Bomb Destroys Palestinian Foreign Ministry | That'll Hurt Tourism: Israeli Jets Fire Rockets Into Runway at Beirut Int'l Airport | Israelis Attack Guerilla Base 10 Miles From Beirut | U.S. says treaty-breaking missile-shield component test successful | Administration To Request Another $110 Billion For Iraq Next Year | Audit: Bush Iraq strategy 'unclear' | Israel invades Lebanon | Seven are dead in attack on Hamas | U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Says Highly-Touted Baghdad Security Crackdown Has Failed
WAR CRIMES -- Administration Prods Congress to Curb the Rights of Detainees | House Vs. Senate Battle Looms Over Military Tribunals | Bush 'gag' sought in Iraqi murder case | Rep. Hunter Says Detainee Policy Too Lax
BORDER BUNGLES -- Immigration Hard-liners on a High: Democrats boast of restrictions
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- North Korea diplomacy falls apart | Gorbachev calls Cheney and Rummy "shallow people"
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Right-wing tempter tantrums: Hamdan and illegal eavesdropping | Watch this! Lewis Black demands, gets CNN banner removal | Watch this! John Dean on The Daily Show | War for Newsmax is just a marketing tool | First Review of Frank Rich's "Greatest Story Ever Sold": "A Savaging Sermon" On The Bush Administration's Alternate Reality | Watch this! Donny Deutsch Shatters the Coulter Myth to Coulter's Face | Newspaper drops Coulter column | Watch this! On 666 Club, El-Brent Bozell preached hot air about global warming | WSJ News Staff Plan to Protest Editorial On Bank Records Story; Rift Between News and Editorial Side "Unprecedented" | Watch this! TDS takes on North Korea's “License to IL” | NY Observer: New York Times Should Smack Down Critics | Reuters: FCC targets live news for naughty words
FOX WATCH -- AP Threatens FOX With Boycott After Network's Photographer Ban | Watch this! Billo and Ingraham bash the NY Times over the silly "Rummy travel story" | O'Reilly's average viewer is age 71 | Watch this! If at first you don't succeed: Fox News again attempted to link Saddam and Al Qaeda
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ex-Houston Mayor Collapses at Lay Funeral | Former President Bush among guests at Lay funeral | Govt. mismanaging data widespread | Enron witness found dead in London park
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Senate Votes To Demolish FEMA | Senate rejects Clinton bid for new, independent FEMA
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Hackers Attack State Department's China And N Korea Computers | Petting zoo and flea market make nonsense of US terror target list
ELECTION THEFTS -- Ga. Judge Blocks Voter ID Law Enforcement | Voting Machine Giants Being Sued By Competitor | Charge: Election law ignored by San Diego County | CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'What happens when electronic voting machines fail?'
JUSTICE WATCH -- Embattled Bush judge miffed over Salon report about his mendacity | Family of teen who died at FL boot camp to seek at least $40 million | DC police chief declares "crime emergency"
OH, GOD! -- Evangelicals said to 'support' torture
RACISM IN THE USA -- Brit Hume backs The Racist Sheriff
MORALITY MORONICS --
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oil Rises to Record in New York, London on Attacks in Nigeria | Citgo to Stop Selling Gas to U.S. Stations
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Sen. Dems see stem cell victory
GAY IN AMERICA -- No Vote On Massachusetts Gay Marriage Until November

July 12

Bob Novak Reveals Not All About Plamegate
Novak Backs Off Pledge To ‘Reveal All’ | Novak Outs Former CIA Spokesman As ‘Confirming’ Source On Plame | Novak, Rove and CIA spokesman all appear to have given different stories about Valerie Plame leak | Novak and Rove: “Friends ’til the End”
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- The Four Most Overpaid White House Staffers | Perpetually corrupt LAPD ripe for new misconduct scandal | Ronnie Earle is suing to keep secret the details about his investigation of indicted former House majority leader Tom DeLay | Army to End Expansive, Exclusive Halliburton Deal | Bush gives senior staff a whopping raise, junior staff get nothing | White House "Director For Lessons Learned" Makes $106,641 | Lobbyist Spending Hits Record High Again | Former Ill. State Senator Gets Probation | Post: Doolittle Splurged with Committee Cash | Abramoff Colleague, DeLay Aide Keeps Talking | GOP to pass pro-gambling bill this week that gives Jack Abramoff what he's been lobbying for | Ney's Decision Deadline | Biz Week: MZM Worked Prewar Iraq Intelligence | Jefferson Ruling Quiets Pelosi, Hastert | Rep. John T. Doolittle (RCA) Blasted for Nepotistic PAC Fees Paid to Wife
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: ‘The President Is Always Right’ | FCC's Big Brother Crackdown on Dirty Words | U.S. Wants More Bank Data -- This Time, All Transfers Out of USA | Republican says US readying crackdown on leaks | SF reviews contracts with AT&T over domestic spying | Speaking of illegally spying on Americans… some SWIFT Googling | 50-year study: Conservatives more likely 'followers' | FBI to Muslims: 'Become informant or face deportation' | Hoekstra's Source: Why It Matters
HOT POLITICS -- Watch this! Lieberman: “The situation in Iraq is a lot better that it was a year ago”–Cafferty on Iraq: “It’s BAD” | Republicans want court to hear DeLay case | Joe Lieberman "Doesn't Quite Get What Is Happening To Him"… | An intriguing solution for "First in the Nation" primary/caucus question | Scandal-Plagued Ralph Reed Promotes Himself As Candidate With "Stronger Values" | PA-07 and elsewhere: Dem fundraising shines | Giuliani Campaigns for Hutchinson in AR | MA-Gov: Patrick surging | MO-Sen: Still neck and neck | MT-Sen: Tester kicking ass | CT-Sen: Lieberman's bumpersticker lie | CA-04: The Doolittle racket | Lieberman pollster donates to primary challenger | Clinton says GOP strategy is weak | McKinney Skips Another Debate | The paramountcy of neoconservatism and Joe Lieberman
QWAGMIRE -- "A low-grade civil war" | Violence 'out of control' in Baghdad -- 50 die in a day | Rummy makes "surprise" visit to Iraq, just in time to experience typical day of violence | Gen. Casey puts blame on 'Terrorists, Death Squads,' fails to mention Rummy's inept war planning (WARNING: FAUX News Link) | The Return Of Faith Based Missile Defense | Car bomb explodes at Iraqi police check point, destroys police building | Last major Somali warlord surrenders ti theocratic militant regime | Democratic senators get it, say Iraq is close to civil war | Rumsfeld Promises To Defeat The Taliban in Afghanistan -- After Claiming In 2002 It Was Defeated! | In Baghdad streets, little sign of rule of law
WAR CRIMES --Bush Nominee Is Apologist for "Legal" Torture | Bush Admin. Judicial Nominee's Role In Interrogation Policies Ignites Opposition | Capitol Hill Divided Over Detainee Policy | U.S. Troops Will Benefit from Geneva Convention Clarity, Experts | Pentagon Counsel Rebuffs Official Policy on Guantanamo Commissions | Administration flip-flops on Geneva; Tony Snow lies about it | Bush Administration claims it will give detainees Geneva rights
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Making enemies everywhere: Al Qaeda none too happy with Iranian regime | Rethink 'war on terror' strategy, says former MI6 head | Series of explosions hit Mumbai trains
BORDER BUNGLES -- CO OKs Toughest U.S. Immigration Bills
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Is House Intelligence Committee chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) all-out insane? | CIA's Hayden Director Picks a #3, Shifts Roles
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Putin gives Cheney a rhetorical faceful of buckshot
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Wall Street Journal News Staff Rage Against Editorial Page: "They're Wrong All The Time" | Watch this! Bob Novak names Bill Harlow as a confirming source | Prominent right-wing blogger today calls for the murder of Supreme Court justice | Profile of America's Newsman, Keith Olbermann: After 9/11 "The Country Gave This President Every Imaginable Benefit Of The Doubt...He Abused It" | Media hypocrisy: despite blasting NY Times for bank monitoring story, conservative media figures mum on unwanted media exposure of alleged NYC terror plot | Band sues CBS for stealing its name | Why Bill O'Reilly is Irrelevant | A Fourteen-Year Old Is A Girl. So Why Are These News Outlets Calling Her a Woman? | ABC World News Tonight With Diane Sawyer Beats Out NBC Nightly News In Total Viewers | Tucker on "Tucker": Beats The Press, Smacks Down Anderson Cooper
FOX WATCH -- Geraldo Goes After Philadelphia Mobsters He Claims Wanted To "Whack" Him | WaPo Quotes FOX on Henhouse Security
$MIRKONOMICS -- Bush touts disastrous fourth-largest deficit in US history as some sort of victory; GOP sycophants applaud announcement | Top White House Staffers Pocket $4,200 Raise, Fight $2 Minimum Wage | U.S. Economy May Slow as Rates, Gasoline Costs Pinch | White House Falsely Credits Tax Givebacks for Minute Drop in Deficit
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart staff, untrained in bomb detection or disarmament, were ordered by management to search store after bomb threat
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Democrats to highlight Social Security, challenge piratization schemes in mid-term elections | Colorado House candidate Rick O'Donnell, enemy of Social Security
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- FEMA overhaul voted in by Senate | HUD OKs $4.2B for LA rebuilding program
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Homeland Security Ranks Indiana As State With Most Terror Targets, Such As Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo, Amish Country Popcorn factory… | More: Almost five years after 9/11, Homeland Security list of nat'l critical assets includes 'ice cream parlor,' Sears Auto Center | State Department Computers Hacked, Large-Scale Computer Break-Ins | VA inspector general blisters lack of security
ELECTION THEFTS -- GA Court Considers Halting Voter ID Law | CourtTV's Catherine Crier: Scathing Video Editorial Covers Busby/Bilbray 'Sleepovers', Clint Curtis, Tony Anchundo, DeForest Soaries, Brad Friedman | Busby/Bilbray Hand Count Requester Responds to San Diego County Registrar | 13-Year California Election Official Facing 43 Criminal Charges! | CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'Federal Government is Failing to Protect Democracy from an Imminent Threat' | Former Bush-Appointed EAC Chair Decries Lack of Standards for Running Elections in the U.S.
OH, GOD! -- Religious left is coming alive | Satirical Jesus billboard turning heads | Pastor Appointed By Jeb! Bush Won't Apologize For Bigoted Anti-Islamic Remarks
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Gas Prices Spike to Second-Highest Level Ever, Analyst Predicts $4/Gallon | Oil industry hits peak production
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Despite past differences, health care industry is now 'banking' on Senator Clinton | Smoking Ban Imposed in Kentucky Buildings | Screwing over the sick: Elderly face higher Medicare monthly premiums -- an unaffordable 11.2% increase for many

July 11

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Watch this! John Dean on Countdown discusses Conservatives Without Conscience | Taylor Marsh's indispensable chronology of the Swiftboating of John Murtha | 2nd Ney Aide Subpoenaed to Talk in Probe | Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Kyl (R-AZ) are scam artists | Tony Snow Lies Again, Claims the Clinton Admin.'s North Korean Policy Was Offering "Flowers And Chocolates," But Forgets That NK Dismantled Nuke Program Under Clinton, Started New One Under Junior | Watch this! Snow confuses Iran, Iraq, blames spat with Helen Thomas | Former Bush Adviser Agrees to Pay for Trips | Congressional Republicans on verge of passing bill to promote online horse-race gambling in the name of "family values" | House Voting On Bill That Could Shut Down Online Gambling | Coulter a Cribber? Company: No. Expert: Yuh-huh. | GOP keeping corruption safe and "legal" | After Ruling, Jefferson Indictment Imminent? | Judge Rules Against "Taxpayer-Subsidized Sanctuary for Crime" | Lobbyist spending hits record pace | Republicans tar Dem over Abramoff ties… but will it boomerang? | OH-18: Corrupt Republican trails | Sunlight Foundation Poll: Congress to Unmuck Itself? | Republicans Toss a Boomerang Charge in Michigan
TRAITORGATE -- Rove: Plame leaker should be fired
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- FBI to Muslims: 'Become informant or face deportation' | Update: Blogger Sues Over Great Kentucky Blog Ban | Intel Spokesman: Whistleblower Not "Publicly Known" | Hoekstra's Whistleblower? | Tice May Not Be Hoekstra's Whistleblower | Report claims 'systematic' violations of Geneva Convention, Supreme | Who Told House Intel Chair What the White House Wouldn't?
HOT POLITICS -- Joe Lieberman files to run as independent | Reid Blasts Do-Nothing GOP Congress | Former. GOP Leader: "I'm Not Sure What This Congress Has Accomplished" | Ned Lamont Has a Messy Desk | How not to do GOTV | How Peer to Peer Outreach Can Harness Young Voters for Democrats and Win the State | RI-Sen: NRSC files complaint against Laffey | CT-Sen: The daily fix | Lieberman, Lamont differ on faith-based initiatives | Cheek to Challenge Nifong on Nov. Ballot | Three Kansas Democrats say why they left the Republican Party | The battle for Senate control | Cantwell opponent drops challenge | Hackett backs Brown in Ohio Senate race | Unicameral Legislature Misses Mich. Ballot | The death of Neoconservatism? | CT: The curse of the liberal issue groups | MT-Sen, MI-Sen: The NRSC attacks Stabenow for Burns' transgression | VA-05: Zogby polls the race | Tex. ballot: 'Kinky, yes; Grandma, no' | Watch this! The Bush Pilot
QWAGMIRE -- Cost overruns plague the Pentagon; Rumsfeld's promise broken | "Even by the degraded standards of everyday life in Baghdad, this report from CNN's Nic Robertson comes as a shock…" | The Enduring Logic of Withdrawal | Video shows bodies of slain U.S. soldiers | Gunmen attack Iraqi funeral procession, kill 10 | At least 34 killed in Iraq despite PM's plea | Baghdad gunmen ambush bus | Oh, now Chris Shays is worried about the Iraq debacle | Rummy visits Afghanistan, scratches head and wonders what's happening | Sunni bloc in Parliament to end boycott | Stubborn Man Tries to Govern in Iraq | Iraq in Turmoil | Gaza death toll 45 as strikes continue | Iraqis Using Fake IDs To Avoid Being Killed | Japan may strike N. Korea preemptively | Iraqi lawmaker kidnapping causing political upheaval | India missile test fails after launch
WAR CRIMES -- Top levels of military ignored torture | US Army to call reporters in officer's case | Iraq wants UN to end immunity for US troops | Senate to Hear Detainee Issue After Recess | Real dangers face Bush officials post-Hamdan, and they know it | Senators debate supporting or dumping Hamdan
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Chechen terrorist Basayev killed | Pre-empting plots key FBI strategy
BORDER BUNGLES -- Sensenbrenner throws monkey wrench into Bush's immigration law plans | Right-Wing Mayor Calls for McDonald’s Boycott Over Spanish-Language Ads
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush Toning Down Criticism of Putin | Security Council split on N Korea | Rice: Iraq Gov't Can Prevail Over Violence
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Tony Snow slips into full wing-nut claptrap overdrive | On new show, Dan Rather is 'fearless'
FOX WATCH -- Fred Barnes rewrites reality | Watch this! Marvin Kalb gets in Paul Gigot's face, says WSJ editorial page "dead wrong" for publishing attack on NY Times for bank-tracking story | Watch this! Keith Olbermann tagged Hannity third "Worst Person" for criticizing media, White House for not "paying attention to" discredited WMD claims
$MIRKONOMICS -- John Edwards Urges Ohio to Hike Minimum Wage
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ --
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Levee Repair Plan Has Slimmed Down | Bush Admin's New Hurricane Guidelines: "Nothing More Than Another Slap In The Face Of Louisiana"
ELECTION THEFTS -- GOP in-fighting holds up hyped Voting Rights compromise | Printouts to verify e-voting this fall - Hawai'i
JUSTICE WATCH -- Judge Strikes Down Part of Alaska Pot Law | Washington, DC is becoming "A Clockwork Orange" | Bush sued by family of slain reporter
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Record Violence in Boston, and How to Stop It
OH, GOD! -- Va. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine Pardons Witch (300 years later) | Magic Mushrooms Induce Effects “Descriptively Identical” To Religious Experiences, Say Scientists; Is Religion All In the Mind? | ‘Religious Left' Leader: "Jesus Never Said One Word About Homosexuality, Never Said One Word About Civil Marriage Or Abortion"
RACISM IN THE USA -- NAACP’s response to racist Sheriff Jack Strain
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Tobacco may kill 1 billion in this century | Rove: Bush will veto stem cell bill
WEIRD SCIENCE --
TRASHING NATURE -- Get paid to recycle your old cell phone. | Newsweek Falsely Claims that Bush has Conceded Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity
GAY IN AMERICA -- Mass. Court Backs Gay Marriage on Ballot

July 10

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- -TX-22: DeLay's options | Rumsfeld, Cheney linked to '70s cover-up | Billions Wasted In Iraq? You betcha… thanks to BushCo and their friends | That's what friends (in high places) are for: GOP Senator Orrin Hatch, possible Supreme Court nominee, gets drug smuggler off the hook | TX-22: DeLay To Run Again? | Papers From Jefferson Office Raid in Limbo
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- House Intel. Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI): White House Hid "At Least One Major" Program From Congress; Whistleblower Tipped Off Conservative Congressman, and He's Not Too Happy | Hoekstra Urges Bush to Come Clean | What is the "major" "significant" intelligence activity that Hoekstra says he has learned about from whistleblowers, not from the White House? | Jewish activist, pro-Mark Warner volunteer slain in Georgetown attack | The new right: Civil liberties and the rule of law are for America-haters | Supreme Court’s Ruling in Hamdan Means Warrantless Eavesdropping is Clearly Illegal | FBI in new Internet wiretapping push
HOT POLITICS -- DeLay Forced to Plan Aggressive Campaign To Retake House Seat if Court Decision Leaves Him On Ballot | CT-Sen: Now Come the Lies | Rick "The Virginian" Santorum is the most endangered Senate incumbent | Peter Sullivan drops out of NH congressional race | "Some" Bush voters have buyer's remorse? Looks like a great big "many" to us… | Lanny Davis implies opposing Lieberman is anti-Semitic | Did Lieberman Ad Use Fake Lamont Bumper Sticker?
QWAGMIRE -- 8 Killed, 41 Hurt in Baghdad Car Bombings | Baghdad Erupts in Mob Violence | Rod Nordland: "It’s a lot worse [in Iraq] than is reported. The administration does a great job of managing the news…" | Afghanistan is becoming the next Iraq | Kids die of common diseases in Basra because cheap medications are not available | Bringing Nazi-style racism to Iraq | Do-It-Aghanistan | Vietnam vets' experience on boats utilized in Iraq | Nationalize the US defense industry: Public good should trump private greed | UK Paper Confirms Revenge as Motive for GIs' Mutilation | Four More Soldiers Charged In Rape, Killing Of Iraqi Family... | Militia leader urges calm after Baghdad violence
WAR CRIMES -- Raped Iraqi girl was 14, not 20 as US said | State Dept. Lawyers Warned Bush In '02 Of Legal, Political Backlash From Gitmo | Bush sought "law-free universe" for terrorist suspects pre-Gitmo | Five more US soldiers charged in Iraq rape, murder case | US Military Braces For Series Of High-Profile Criminal Cases From Iraq
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Credible sources doubt there really was a terrorist NYC tunnel plot
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Let's nip this whole "Bush is shifting to a more enlightened foreign policy" theme in the bud, shall we? | U.S. Urges China to Pressure North Korea | North Korea's Li'l Kim starts talking "all-out war" as tensions mount | UN showdown over N. Korean missiles
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- A Memo to Jon Chait, Joe Klein, Lee Siegel, Richard Cohen re. Lieberman | Damning With Faint Damnation: Coulter plagiarism kerfluffle turns funny | New York Times pans Mary Cheney's book, and Mary herself
FOX WATCH -- Clueless Brit Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a "Successful Strategy"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- UK extradites 3 for Enron-linked trial | Dept. of Tinfoil: Many bloggers think Ken Lay still lives | Bring me the head of “Kenny Boy” Lay: Another convenient death invites new investigations of Enron-Bush crimes
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Katrina insurance lawsuit to begin
ELECTION THEFTS -- CA Sec. of State Document on Voting Machine Certification 'Disappeared' from SoS Website
JUSTICE WATCH -- Supremos' Gitmo ruling has GOP, Fascisto-Federalists horrified: what if Bush doesn't have unlimited power?
OH, GOD! -- Meet the Alliance Defense Fund, lawyers for the theocrats
RACISM IN THE USA -- Slavery reparations gaining momentum
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Democrats Force Stem Cell Research to Senate Agenda | Mississippi Department of Health may cut maternity services in Katrina-devastated area | Once A Day AIDS Pill A Milestone In Treatment...
TRASHING NATURE -- Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science | Tom Brokaw Joins Fight Against Global Warming
GAY IN AMERICA -- Gay retirement communities a hit

July 9
Miserable failure in Iraq: US effort to establish Iraqi civil law enforcement has collapsed; "Iraqi police" irremediably subverted by insurgent infiltration, fascist-style brutality, rampant corruption
Miserable failure of the "Bush Doctrine": In the span of four years, the Bush Administration has been forced to rethink the preemptive doctrine with which it hoped to remake the world as the strategy's ineffectiveness is exposed by the very policies it prescribed
Right-wingers desperate to intimidate the press have accused the New York Times of treason for publishing details of a terror investigation -- ignoring the fact that everything significant about that operation has been known for years
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Powerful GOP Activist Grover Norquist Sees Influence Slip As Lobbygate Scandal Spreads | Why is Senator Hatch helping someone dodge a drug conviction? | Corrupt Ohio Governor Taft Faces Public Reprimand | Report asserts Carnival Cruise Lines sought Jeb Bush's help in getting megabucks post-Katrina contract | Sen. Orrin Hatch Orchestrates R&B Producer's Release From Dubai Jail With Help From "Multiple Ambassadors, A Prime Minister, A Prince, Lionel Richie"
TRAITORGATE -- Bill Clinton Says He'd Ask Rove What He'd Do If Clinton's Political Adviser Had Blown The Cover Of A CIA Agent
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- What else don't we know? | Too Little, Too Late? Hoekstra's bombshell | Ally Told Bush That Failing to Inform Congress of Spying Projects Might Be Illegal | Reno anti-war rally listed in California security report
HOT POLITICS -- Republican Priorities Stalled in Congress | Lamont-Lieberman Race Turns Hot, Nasty | Kansas GOP candidates ditch party and run as Democrats: "I was put off by the meanness of the campaign within the Republican Party and the intentional misrepresentations" | Chicken hawk admirers "swift boat" John Murtha -- and fail | Maxine Will Campaign For Ned Lamont: What's Wrong With Barbara Boxer? | Fractures in the GOP House | Sign of things to come? Republican Kean Distances Himself From President | House GOP pushing "Terri Schiavo" agenda | Corzine Ends 8-Day New Jersey Shutdown
QWAGMIRE -- Sunnis being ID'd and shot on site today in Baghdad as civil war gains traction; at least 40 dead | Britain to put more troops in Afghanistan as original front in war on terror goes to pot | Bad news Roundup from Iraq | Blast Kills 3 GIs in Western Iraq | Coalition soldier killed in Afghan battle | No progress in Iraq: Daily intelligence brief states Baghdad's 'dreams and desires are shrinking' | Senators: Iraqis see US pullout soon | U.S., Iraqi forces besiege Shi'ite mosque | US military convoy attacked by insurgents west of Baghdad | Saddam's ex-judge heads for dock himself | Poll: 2/3 say US should withdraw from Iraq
WAR CRIMES -- Guantanamo Probe Finds Evidence of Suicide Plot | Murray Waas weighs in on Gitmo on his blog (start here, scroll down…) | US General's Report Finds Initial Investigation Of Haditha Civilian Deaths Was Negligent | Powell: Close Guantanamo Now | Justices Tacitly Backed Use of Guantánamo, Bush Claims
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- In Zeal to Foil Terror Plots, Cases May Be Missing Something Like, Say, Substance | Jet-set Jihadist? The Lebanese playboy accused of masterminding a cockamamie plot to destroy Hudson River tunnels traveled to the U.S. at least once and had recently applied for a new Canadian visa - possibly for another trip to the U.S., sources said yesterday. | Iran says "terrorists" should not be let into Iraq | Sources say no serious plot for NYC, just hate chatter
BORDER BUNGLES -- Clinton Praises Bush on Immigration Reform; Will Clinton-haters Turn on Bush Now?
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- North Korea can be more isolated after missiles: US | Clintonites: Bush weak on N. Korea | Ahmadinejad: Islamic Countries Should Eliminate Israel
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- NY Times' Rich: WSJ editorial page aids Bush's attacks on a free press attacks | Odd, isn't it... | Now hear this! Adam Carolla hangs up on Ann Coulter | Watch this! David Brooks, who is about as qualified to speak for Democrats as Limbaugh, says, “Democrats privately despise the netroots” No, David, they PUBLICLY despise liars like YOU | Larry King Let Laura Bush Lie To Him | Coulter Syndicator to Respond to Plagiarism Allegations Next Week
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Court Rules Utah Companies Not Allowed To ‘Sanitize' Movies For DVD Rentals | Murdoch meeting raises disclosure issues | Security Hole In Sprint Automated Phone System Leaks Customer Data
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Curbs U.S. Deficit, But Not Much
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Democrats Rip GOP on Social Security Plan | Democrats Rip GOP on Social Security Plan
ELECTION THEFTS -- Mexico 2006: Florida all over again? | Busby/Bilbray Registrar's Office Quotes Three Different Prices for Cost of Hand Count to Voters, Media; No Explanation Given for Disparities | House prepares to debate renewal of Voting Rights Act | Mexican presidential candidate claims vote was rigged. | Clint Curtis Invoked in Mexican Election Integrity Fight | NASA Labor Union Endorses Whistleblower/Candidate Clint Curtis
JUSTICE WATCH -- Judge Roberts, the judicial activist | What Did Hamdan "Tacitly" Decide? Nothing -- but tell that to Unitary Executive Boy
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
RACISM IN THE USA -- Probably just a coincidence | Neo-Nazis Infiltrate the U.S. Military - Is Steven Green One?
TRASHING NATURE -- Cue Laugh Track! Bush Says He's "Solving" Global Warming "Debate"