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Hot Headlines, July 2006
July 8
Why are Bush supporters celebrating today's leak of classified information? | Where Is the Outrage Over the Daily News Bomb Tunnel Story?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Tom DeLay Threatens Not To Retire... | DeLay Suggests He Might Not Retire Now That He Must Stand for Re-election | Reed Helped Abramoff Get Rove Meeting | Phone Jamming Underling To Point Fingers at White House, RNC? | Yes indeedy! NH phone jammer to argue Bush Administration approved scheme | Republican hypocrisy and corruption: House GOP leaders decry 'pork,' but back it | Experts: Scandal Will Mar Chicago Election | Harris letter thanked contractor for dinner | Prison scandal adds to list of ethics problems among Jeb! Bush hires | Six More Abramoff White House visits uncovered | They always say everything is bigger in Texas, including the corruption | William Jefferson Nabs Top Flight Flack | Ken Mehlman, caught lying again! | Scandal Law Firm Caught In Further Reporting Errors | GOP Sen helped R&B producer get Dubai pardon... | Rep. Bob Ney's delusional assertion: Indictment may keep me in office | Berlusconi to be tried for fraud
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Looky there, another privacy idea I gave to Democrats becomes a big GOP talking point! | The federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests | Cheney's (former) respect for dissent
HOT POLITICS -- Sen. Bayh Seeks Edge in Democratic Field | Bush in Chicago in Bid to Boost Standing | GOP. Agenda in House Has Moderates Unhappy | Joe Biden Explains Indian Convenience Store Comment | SC-Gov: The national implications | IL-Gov: Topinka (R) embraces Bush | SC-Gov: Splitting the right? | CT-Sen: Bigotry in Lieberman's camp | Libertarians and the Republican Party -- Irreconcilable Differences | Katherine Harris to enter hospital next week | Powell takes ill at Clinton dinner | Maybe It's Because They Don't Exist, pickles! Laura Bush Complains "Good Polls" Never Show Up on the Front Page
QWAGMIRE -- Remember that Georgia father who sought revenge in Iraq for the death of his son? Well, he's back–and wants to help Iraq's poor | Three U.S. soldiers killed in western Iraq | Murtha is Right: Reagan’s Redeployment Made America Stronger | Sponsor a missile–show you care | Bush brags on TV today about the great success we've had with "electricity" in Iraq–the problem is, we haven't! | Israel launches new Gaza attack | Iraq mosques bombed | Japan Begins Withdrawing Troops From Iraq
WAR CRIMES -- Colin Powell: Close Guantanamo Now | First Guantanamo hearings set | Marine cover-up over Haditha deaths?
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Sources: Tunnel plot just 'hate chatter' | Agent who led Osama criticizes closure of unit, argues Osama is gaining influence | 19 Suspected al-Qaeda Members Acquitted in Yemen | Germans arrest al Qaeda suspect with 9/11 links | UK has boosted Taliban, admits defense chief | Bush pretends U.S. is pressing search for Osama | Bush denies report CIA bin Laden unit is closed | Al Qaeda said split into tiny cells | Islamists recruiting in European jails | California Rock Fan Revealed as Al Qaeda Leader
BORDER BUNGLES -- GOP Hearing in Laredo Politicized So-called Border Terror Risks; Democrats Call Republicans on Race-baiting Gambit
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- U.S. and Russia to Enter Civilian Nuclear Pact | Another Reason to Dump Bush: He Has No Patience for Diplomacy | Defiant North Korea threatens more missile launches
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Ann Coulter's "Flatulent Raccoon Theory" Debunked | Hardball Pot-shots: The "Liberal Media" on MSNBC | When News Breaks, the Pentagon Fixes It! Former Newsweek Baghdad Bureau Chief: Army Reviewing Work of Embedded Journos For "Slant" | Update: Allegation Added to Coulter Plagiarism List | "Complete" List of Coulter Plagiarism Allegations | Watch this! Ann Coulter dodges CNN cameras | Watch this! Keith Olbermann awards "Worst Person" to Ann Coulter for bemoaning "polymorphous perversity," "anal sex and fisting" | Newsday, Sun close overseas bureaus
$MIRKONOMICS -- President Bush’s Job Record Since August 2003: Nothing To Brag About | Labor Department reports weak job growth for the third straight month | Job cuts suggest U.S. slowdown (layoffs up 25% in June from May)
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Personal data found in the internet, again | Lay's death could set Skilling free | John Edwards: Stop Predatory Lenders | Continental Tire Layoffs Are Part of An Allegedly Illegal Production Shift | After shilling for Indian casinos, GOP sees ban of Internet gaming as winner | GM board okay stalks with Nissan | Leave No Evidence: Body of Enron's Lay to be cremated
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Schwarzenegger Rules Out Tax Hike if Re-Elected; Angelides Would Tax Idle Rich
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- The evidence mounts: Tom Kean Junior, privatization stalking horse?
ELECTION THEFTS -- Powerful Latino DJs to Mount Immigrant Voter Drive | COURT TV's Catherine Crier on Electoral Crisis: 'A Full Frontal Attack on Democracy'
JUSTICE WATCH -- If you support the death penalty, you'd have to agree Jeffrey Skilling and the late Kenneth Lay would've been great candidates
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- College Blast Orwellian Student Tracking System
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oil Prices Hit Record Above $75 A Barrel Again
TRASHING NATURE -- Navy, Environmental Groups Settle on Sonar | Bush Brags He Kept Campaign Promise on Global Warming, Forgets Pledge To Regulate CO2
GAY IN AMERICA -- Angelides says he would sign gay marriage bill | Police Officer Suspended Over MySpace Gay Slurs
July 7
White Supremacist Tactics Adopted by "Mainstream" Right | The “True Threats” of the Right-wing Blogosphere
Ann Coulter's Column, Begging To Be Killed | Coulter's Syndicate Says It May Investigate Plagiarism Charges | The Meaning of Ann Coulter's Plagiarism
Coulter Plagiarism Story Picks Up Steam | Watch this! Olbermann hosted plagiarism expert to spell out allegations against Coulter | Plagiarism Claims Against Coulter Stretch Back Nearly Five Years | Olbermann wondered whether Coulter attacked Jayson Blair for plagiarism, and whaddyaknow? She did!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Republicans may press Ney to step down if indicted | DeLay Dispute Moves to Higher Court | Prosecutors Focus Sights on Wilkes | Remember would-be House Speaker Bob Livingston? Read about his ties to a pricey taxpayer-subsidized math education program | KY-Gov: McConnell ally says Gov. Fletcher (R) should quit | Bush Nominates Anti-Regulatory Zealot Susan Dudley To Head "Super-Powerful" Public Safety Office | TX-22: DeLay can't get off ballot | Shirlington Limo Loses Iraq War | Even GOP's Hand-picked Judge Didn't Buy DeLay Scheme | Hookergate: Taking Hospitality Just a Bit Too Far | Texas GOP worry as DeLay stays on ballot... | Rhode Island Attorney General Investigated | Jeb Bush appointee charged in kickbacks
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- ACLU sues Secret Service and police over 2004 anti-Bush protest
HOT POLITICS -- Judge's ruling keeps DeLay on ballot | "It seems that Tom DeLay outsmarted himself" | Joe Lieberman's debate with antiwar challenger Ned Lamont was hard-hitting enough to qualify as blood sport. But it's too soon to know how this intra-party drama will end | Angry man Joe | Watch this! Lieberman-Lamont debate highlights | Christy Hardin Smith with the post-debate wrap-up | CT-Sen: Lieberman's TWO big lies | Oh, SNAP! Watch this! Lamont blasts Lieberman for… well, you've gotta see it! | Rick "The Virginian" Santorum, Trailing in Re-election Bid, Resorts to Desperation Moves | Open Letter To The Liberal Blogosphere re. Lamont-Lieberman Race | Lieberman crony John Droney Scolds Jews for Supporting Lamont | Bush To Take Trips Around Country To Learn What's On Americans' Minds... | CT-Sen: "Who's a loyal Democrat" whip count | Meet Ned Lamont's campaign guru Bill Hillsman | NJ budget accord ends 6-day government shutdown
QWAGMIRE -- Shiite militia head captured by Iraq forces | Seven die in Baghdad gun battle | Soldier from U.S.-led force killed in Afghan ambush | Another horrible day in Iraq | Gaza Fighting Escalates; "Bloodiest Day Since The Uprising Began"... | Troops in Ramadi discover effective new strategy: courtesy | Snow Claims Iraq Has No Impact On Military Response To North Korea, But Pentagon Said Response To North Korea Would Be Hurt By Overstretched U.S. Military | Two US Choppers Downed in Iraq | Saddam lawyers invoke International Criminal Court | Darfur fighting 'worse since peace deal' | Kidnappers of Sunni lawmaker demand withdrawal timeline, prisoner release | Cindy Sheehan to move protest camp to Washington | In Cold Blood: Iraqi Tells of Massacre at Farmhouse | North Korean T-2 Missile Failure Highlights Ineptness of Li'l Kim's Fascist regime | Iraqi journalist dies in the crossfire | Iraq's PM vows to rein in rogue security services
WAR CRIMES -- Guantánamo inmate tells of worsening conditions | Details demanded on CIA flights | Oops! Sen. Lindsey Graham's Strategy To Restore Bush's Detainee Policy Is Unconstitutional
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Ever heard of gravity? Incompetent plotters sought to bomb NYC Holland Tunnel, "flood" area above sea level: paper | Quick! Call Jack Bauer! DHS makes papers public to ratchet up fear of tairists in California | FBI inflitrator urged terror crew to hit FBI's buildings | 'Iraq war made London target' | Al Jazeera Airs Message From London Bomber: "Now Is Only The Beginning"... | Paintballers Plotted World Takeover | Kerry writes Intel chief, demands bin Laden unit reopen | Claim: Iraq Qaeda leader in Egyptian jail last 7 years | Al Jazeera airs excerpts of Zawahri, London bomber
BORDER BUNGLES -- The "Minutemen"'s Fence Scam | GOP Feud! Specter Slams Santorum On Immigration
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CNN's Freudian Slip?
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- White House misreported flight time of North Korean missile | A group condemned as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Europe says it can provide a third way around the nuclear impasse | The Bush foreign policy failures are multiplying | Diplomats Don't Pay Parking Tickets When They Don't Like US | Passage of India Nuclear Deal Sends The Wrong Message To North Korea, Iran | "North Korea Is Firing Missiles. Iran Is Going Nuclear. Somalia Is Controlled By Radical Islamists. Iraq Isn't Getting Better, And Afghanistan Is Getting Worse" | Military Option Has not Arisen in Bush's Discussions On North Korea
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Was Bob Woodward Slam-dunked? | Larry "Softball" King whores for Bush during interview: "You Took The Lead on Iraq, the U.N. Went Along" | Michelle "Malkin " Maglalang smears dead woman | Corporate Media Continues Pulling For Bush | How Not to Attract Subscribers | Watch this! Norah "Noron" O'Donnell makes idiot of herself "interviewing" Cindy Sheehan | Moonie Times Misfires on Missile Defense | Smearmax: Conservative site launches full-frontal attack on McCain, questioning 'explosive' temper | Olbermann briefly outdraws O'Reilly
FOX WATCH -- FOX News hosts go off-message in hyping N. Korea missile tests | Do FOX News Anchors Only Watch FOX News?
$MIRKONOMICS --
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Cingular Faces Federal Lawsuit For Deceiving Customers... | Watch this! Bush calls Kenny "Cheato" Lay a "good guy" | And then there was just Skilling . . . | AZ sues Wal-Mart, AutoZone | NY Post Wants Lay's Coffin Checked | Hollinger launches new lawsuit against Conrad Black
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Recall effort against Blanco being abandoned
ELECTION THEFTS -- Manual Hand Count Requested in Busby/Bilbray Race | Ex-governor aims to block GA voter ID law | Lawsuit Challenges OH Voter Registration Rules | Group moves to block Georgia voter ID law | Hustler Finally Runs Raymond Lemme / Clint Curtis Photos, Story
JUSTICE WATCH -- Jeb! Bush's kangaroo court rejects $145 billion Florida tobacco judgment
RACISM IN THE USA -- Charles "Sour" Krauthammer misses the good ole' days when we threw Japanese-Americans in internment camps | Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts
TRASHING NATURE -- A good first step: Wal-Mart seeks guidance from Al Gore in effort to become environmentally friendly | Scientists Say Rash Of Wildfires Are Result Of Global Warming... | Fossil fuels said to damage ocean life
GAY IN AMERICA -- Howard Dean calls justification used in New York ruling on gay marriage 'bigoted, outdated' | GA Top Court Reinstates Gay Marriage Ban
July 6
Thuggery and intimidation tactics favored by far right extremists go mainstream | American Fascism: a Jewish family in Delaware that objected to extensive Christian proselytizing by their public school district is victimized by hard-right bloggers and Web sites
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Washington Babylon: Vanity Fair's primer on the Duke Cunningham scandal throws in a few juicy new revelations | John McCain vs. Grover Norquist: Grab the popcorn! | Former Blackwater employee faces extortion charge | First You Get The Congressman, Then You Get The Earmarks, Then You Get The Money | Lobbying Firm Underreported Income | Conservative Lobbyist Grover Norquist Attacks John McCain: "He Is Delusional" | Abramoff Had Access to DoJ, Ashcroft | McCain Aides: Norquist Should Go "Pick on Some Fourth Graders"
TRAITORGATE -- What Bush Told Fitzgerald: The Amazing Froomkin asks questions | Guardian picks up Murray Waas's explosive story on Bush authorizing political takedown of Joseph Wilson
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- China To Criminalize Reporting Of Any News Without Govt. Permission | Tax dollars to fund study on restricting public data
HOT POLITICS -- CT-Sen: Lamont as litmus test–who supports Democratic voters? | Unlike some peers, Kerry not endorsing Lieberman in primary | DNC will back whoever wins Democratic primary in Connecticut | Is Lieberman Blackmailing Senate Democrats? | Dem angst as unions split money | Hispanic Support for Bush Similar to National Average | Lamont Prepared to Spend Vs. Lieberman | Desperate Lieberman calls in for help | Lieberman is as Jon Stewart says, "hurting us" | Jeb For Vice President? Could Be Running Mate For Presidential Hopefuls Romney, Allen, Giuliani | Senate Democratic turncoats to help Lieberman (Biden, Boxer, Salazar) | Long Shot Republican Ends Senate Race | Lieberman may have a problem appearing on the ballot as an "Independent Democrat" | Wimps: Democrats won't redistrict like Texas even where they can | Lieberman: 'I am no President Bush' | Not all House Democrats are up on their leadership's playbook | MSNBC claims some Democrats 'fear Hillary bid' | Slam: Top party official tells Raw Story Lieberman on his own if he loses primary | Lieberman faces his war critics
QWAGMIRE -- Did the invasion make things worse in Iraq? A reporter who has watched the country unravel compares its hellish present to the nightmare it lived under Saddam | Bush at 60, building a legacy of a more dangerous world | Suicide bomber hits Iran pilgrims in Iraq, 12 dead | Taiwan to test anti-China missile | The Lament of the Chickenhawk: Imperialism as Farce | Bush Admits He Hasn't Attended Any Funerals For US Troops Killed | Rape allegations create growing uproar in Iraq | Unhinged Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) Attacks Liberal "Backbiters" And "Naysayers" For Properly Criticizing and Naysaying Utterly Failed Missile Defense Scheme | So why would anyone remain committed to the continuation of a war whose strategy you think is doomed to failure? | Iraqi PM Maliki says hopes Saddam executed soon | Local Marine To Return Service Medal To Bush In Protest | Islamists open fire on World Cup viewers
WAR CRIMES -- Rumsfeld's Uncommon Subpoena | Charges not imminent in Army rape-murder probe | House panel subpoenas Rumsfeld in case of whistleblower who reported abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Endless War on Terror (Phase Two) | Al Qaeda shadow over London sorrow–but is OsamaCorp making another false claim? | Osama's clout feared rising -- at a time when Bush, Negroponte stupidly shut down CIA operation to track murderous thug
BORDER BUNGLES -- Senate Immigration Hearings: "A Dog And Pony Show" | Two Senate conservatives block formal immigration bill talks as House counterparts take the political war over border enforcement outside the Beltway | NYC Mayor Says U.S. Depends on Immigrants | ACLU slams CDC on HIV privacy
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Former CIA and State Dep't terror official says bank spying already known to terrorists | Sismi's #2 arrested; ties to forged Niger documents that were basis of Bush's false claim about Iraq's WMD quest | Vanity Fair links White House, Niger docs
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Crisis 2006: When pariah states cry wolf | North Korean missile test to go unpunished after UN split | US pushes for sanctions against North Korea | U.S. dismisses N. Korea's 'wild' threats | Defiant North Korea on Thursday threatens to test-fire more missiles | North Korea has three or four more missiles on launch pads | Italians Seek Extradition Of 22 CIA Agents | Report: North Korea fired 10 missiles
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Online journals gaining greater influence, scrutiny | Wimps: WSJ's Paul Steiger, WaPo's Len Downie Jr. passed on joining in Keller/Baquet Op-Ed | Eric Boehlert: I Think ABC's Terry Moran Owes Me An Apology | Coulter: NY Post is Big Apple's "Second-Crappiest Paper" | TIME's Joe Klein gets something sort of right, for once | Watch this! Media to GOP: Heads you win, tails you ... win | Watch this! MSNBC's Norah "Boopsie" O'Donnell wrongly claimed people view Bush more favorably than Hillary Clinton | Now hear this! Hatemonger Glenn Beck labeled Cindy Sheehan a "tragedy pimp" for her hunger strike to protest Iraq war | MSNBC's Lack Of North Korea Missile Coverage Draws Critics | For them before he was against them before he was for them: NY Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg ignored Bush's alleged flip-flop on House immigration provisions | Update: Company to Probe Coulter Plagiarism Charges | Ann Coulter wins columnist 'award' she probably won't appreciate | Coulter Gets a Pass on Plagiarism
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh not charged, but the doctors might be in hot water
$MIRKONOMICS -- June layoffs rise by 25 pct vs. May: survey
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ken Lay's Death Complicates Efforts to Seize Assets, But Accelerates Initiation of Civil Lawsuits | Lay's conviction 'gone with him' | Kenneth Lay: Not the first to cheat the Big House–experts say the stress of federal prosecution can lead to disease and suicide, especially for the well-heeled likes of "Kenny Boy" | White House's Phony Snowjob fumbles Lay death: "What Do You Think Would Be The Appropriate Thing To Say?" | Court OKs City Ordinance Barring Big Box Stores; Wal-Mart Isn't Smiling
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- 28-year-old hacked entire FBI database
ELECTION THEFTS -- Sacramento Bee on Busby/Bilbray Mess: "The Threat to Democracy is Real" | GOP Likely to Charge E-Vote Fraud This November; DNC Advised
JUSTICE WATCH -- Justices Won't Overturn Stay of Execution | UN to review alleged US human rights abuses after 465 page report by US nonprofits
RACISM IN THE USA -- Sheriff of Racism
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oil closes at record above $75: Tensions over Iran, worries about
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Funds for Native American doctors to be cut
TRASHING NATURE -- Columnist Grossly Distorts Study To Argue "We Can’t Do Much" About Global Warming When In Fact We Can
GAY IN AMERICA -- New York's top court says no to marriage equality for gays and lesbians | Gay marriage ban likely off the ballot in Illinois this November | Conservative Group Sues Michigan State Over Same-Sex Benefits
July 5
"Li'l" Kim Jong-Il fires six missiles, no doubt compensating for shortcomings; biggest missile prematurely blows after launch | … make that seven… | … with more to come
UN mulls sanctions against Li'l Kim | White House: Missiles Pose No U.S. Threat (and Bush'll get Osama, too… yeah, sure…) | China low key in outcry over North Korea missiles | Japan threatens sanctions over N Korea missile tests | David Kay: North Korea tests smack of 'desperate play' | NATO calls for firm international response to Korea's missile launch | NORAD alert status stepped up
Kenneth Lay Dead
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- We know a million bucks ain't enough | Amid Brewing Scandal, Lobby Firm's Clients Head for the Door
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- EFF defends Internet liberties
HOT POLITICS -- Sen. Clinton will back CT Democratic Primary winner; Lieberman on own if he loses Dem primary | Joe Lieberman's Ultimate Act of Betrayal | CT: Boom-Box parade | Crowds Big at Clinton Library for July 4 | Democrats Not Eager to Emulate Texas's Redistricting -- But They Should | US patriotism returns to pre-9/11 levels
QWAGMIRE -- Bloodshed fails to abate in Iraq | US commanders' breathtakingly stupid new plan for dealing with Ramadi insurgency: 'Get rid of it...' | Man serves year in Iraq because of military clerical error | Iraq rape, killings probe focuses on 'supervision' of soldiers | In Basra, state of emergency provides little relief from violence | 1,595 Bodies flood Baghdad morgue despite Zarqawi's death | Iraq considers arming -- you read that right, arming -- insurgents | Iraq government: ex-regime worse than "Al Qaeda in Iraq®" | Snatched Iraqi minister is freed
WAR CRIMES -- Iraq wants U.N. oversight in rape-murder case | Cycle of revenge: Iraq Insurgents Motivated by Murder Case | Iraq demands UN Security Council intervene to stop "monstrous" and "inhuman" US military attacks on civilians
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Richard Clarke: Osama likely hiding in former Soviet republic... | But I thought we were told al-Qaeda was the source of all problems | Two trucks loaded with fuel missing | France interviewed 6 held at Gitmo
BORDER BUNGLES -- Bush Signaling Flip-flop in Stance on Immigration
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- A "Birthday Present" for America | "Our leadership has gone from targeting Bin Laden as a key to the war on terror, to marginalizing him as just one person in a broad fight."
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush's Foreign Friends Fading Fast | Russia will ditch WTO trade rules if not admitted to body | Ayatollah's Moves Hint He, Not Ahmadinejad, Is In Charge and Iran Wants To Engage
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Nick Kristof's column comes out from behind the NY Times wall: "In retrospect, the real victims of Fox News weren't the liberals it attacked but the conservatives who believed it." | Who's dumber: Bill Bennett, or right-wing shills who pumped the debunked "Hidden-Murder-Scheme-in-the-NY-Times-Travel-Section" plot? | Google to Congress: net neutrality now -- we will not tolerate net abuse | Ann Coulter, As It Happens, Also Bothers Many Conservatives | Will others report Coulter plagiarism?
$MIRKONOMICS -- Interest rates, gas prices leave consumers with credit-card debt | Minimum wage increase to get a vote | Soros: Housing bubble may drag down economy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- GM truck sales fall 26% in June | Did Wal-Mart steal the yellow smiley face?
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Tax cuts losing force as rallying cry on the Hill
BUDGET MESS -- N.J. Lawmakers Reject Corzine Compromise | New Jersey Locks Up Casinos as Budget Deadlock Continues
JUSTICE WATCH -- Louisiana parish relies on convict labor
RACISM IN THE USA -- "Stop The ACLU" – stalking-horse for anti-Semitism of the worst kind | Are the Busheviks Playing the "Coded" Anti-Semite Card in Their Attack on the New York Times Banking Story? You Bet…
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Liver woes linked to high Tylenol doses
GAY IN AMERICA -- New York's Highest Court Set to Rule on Gay Marriages
July 4
It came from the top: George W. Bush ordered Cheney to use classified info to discredit Joseph Wilson, which led to the exposure of covert CIA NOC Valerie Plame and a program to track Iran's quest for nuclear material. Heckuva job, Junior...
Rumsfeld and Secret Service spokespeople scoff at conservative blogger nonsense; photos of Casa Rummy were authorized by Grampa Don, cleared by Secret Service
American Prospect Exclusive: Secret Service Says NY Times Article On Cheney, Rumsfeld Homes Is Not A Security Threat | Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang, Powerlie Blog, RedHate, FrontRage, ScaifeMax Promote False Story: Where are the corrections? | Here are a few of them | Wingers: Anne Frank Wants NY Times To Shut Up | What is left of Malkin, Hinderaker and Horowitz's credibility?
Joe Lieberman preps for independent run as Lamont looks poised to win CT primary in August
Hillary will reportedly endorse whoever wins CT Democratic nomination | Hillary steps up | Latest on Lieberman from WaPo… and a parade float ya gotta see | More: Lieberman to gather signatures | CT-Sen: Joemania spreads (not) | Joe Lieberman Cuts and Runs | Watch this! Lieberman: "I have loyalties that are greater than those to my party" -- like to the Bush Regime? | Not only is Lieberman not a Democrat, he's also not democratic | Lieberman abandons Democrats | Sore Loserman: Question for Schumer | Watch this! Lieberman on CNN: "Fighting for survival" | MoveOn says Holy Joe's decision to run as indy 'reeks of arrogance'
For His Eyes Only: Bush's Secret Crimes
John Kerry: How to Love Your Country
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Tom DeLay's final legal defense fund report: not enough money! | Will Bribery Probe Nab Former Top Intel Official? | Abramoff's Payments to Rep's Wife Coincided with Favors
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Fight the Power! Today is FOIA's 40th anniversary
HOT POLITICS -- 2008: Chris Dodd will not support Democrat | No holiday for squabbling legislators: NJ Gov Jon Corzine Cracks the Whip, Orders Lawmakers to Work on Budget | Pink tutu alert: Tom Daschle mulls political comeback | All Pols Humming 'Hail to the Chief' | Cagle's TV ad slams Reed-Abramoff link | Dean, Dems split over strategy | MD-Sen: Mfume showing signs of life | While the Republicans are worrying about the epidemic of flag burning...
QWAGMIRE -- American Majority Says Iraq War Pointless | Iraq MP: Ministers' and legislators' telephone numbers in Zarqawi's cell phone | Soldiers now U.S. citizens in Afghanistan | Killings of two soldiers perhaps retaliation for slain Iraqi family | Reuters: Gunmen kidnap Iraqi deputy minister, 19 bodyguards | US to Give Afghans $2 Billion In Additional Military Equipment | Afghanistan Commanders begin to balk at mission impossible | Congressman visits U.S. military in Iraq | Helicopter crashes after Afghan attack, one killed | Not a gateway to a career after all: Veterans Have Tough Time Finding Work | 2 U.S. troops killed in Iraq | Iraqi Shias divided over peace plan
WAR CRIMES -- Marine Backs Out Of Plan To Record Song About Killing Iraqi Family | Ex-Soldier Charged With Iraq Rape And Murder Of Four
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Broken promise: Bush shut down CIA's "Osama bin Laden" unit a year ago | CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04 | Mike Scheuer has one sentence on the shutdown you should read | Wanted dead or alive — or whenever | Flogging the fear: US Navy claims al Qaeda poses "major threat from sea" | Al-Qaeda's laughable bid 'to infiltrate MI5' | London Police Say Terror Plots Foiled
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Suspending atomic work not on Iran's agenda: agency | US cancels invitation to Pakistani MP over Zarqawi prayers
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The Press asserts itself | Kristof steps up | Paper mulls axing proven plagiarist Ann Coulter's column | Coulter Blindsided By Science
FOX WATCH -- FOX News has done far more damage to conservatives than liberals
$MIRKONOMICS -- House GOP leaders say vote on minimum wage now likely | Resistance mounts to U.S. trade | Living Wage Fervor Spreading Across U.S. Campuses
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Goldman Gives Ex-Chief $18.7 Million Bonus | Telcos lower rates in fight with web phones
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Nelson, Ricketts trade barbs over so-called tax reform
ELECTION THEFTS -- CA-50: House race hand count 'to be requested' | Californians race to challenge election results… | RawStory.com Covers Busby/Bilbray 'Emergency Townhall Meeting' in San Diego | CA E-vote Lawsuit: New Declarations Regarding Voting Machine 'Sleepovers'
JUSTICE WATCH -- Musician sues over flag law | American Society Of Anesthesiologists Asks Members Not To Participate In Executions | People With AIDS Can Sue The Person Who Infected Them, Says California Supreme Court
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Intimidating academe: Feds investigate Yale over grant money
OH, GOD! -- The truth about America: religious bigotry is a huge problem in and out of the political arena; are arrogant, proselytization-prone evangelicals part of the problem? | Fallen Soldier Gets a Bronze Star but No Pagan Star
RACISM IN THE USA -- Former KKK Leader in Indiana Found Beaten
ENERGY SCANDALS -- US pump prices rise to $2.93/gallon-US EIA
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Fighting against the war on birth control from Waco, Texas | GOP bill would force cuts to Medicare
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Nearly Comatose Man's Brain Rewires Itself In Most Dramatic Recovery in US History
TRASHING NATURE -- Birds dying out faster than thought | Judge Temporarily Bars Navy Use of Sonar
GAY IN AMERICA -- Cross is burned on gay man's lawn
July 3
The Media FINALLY Bite Back | NY Times Justifies Breaking the SWIFT Story | The NY Times Stirs as Bill Keller Ambles to Defends Story | Right-wing Blog Asks Readers to "Hunt Down" Info About NY Times Editors' Kids | Bush Busy Attacking Messengers As Terrorists Remain Unmolested | Watch this! The Times' Eric Lichtblau: "We’re actually in the middle of an historic clash between the administration on the one hand and the press on the other." | Wingers call for murder of Times editors, reporters, photographers | The wingnuttosphere war against the media | Hint to the NY Times: They Hate You | Bill Keller: Times SWIFT Story Was NOT News To Terrorists
Watch this! Best TV takedown ever? Dana Priest smacks Bill Bennett around
Hilarious! Via Corrente: The Armageddon Flowchart
Last Stand: Sy Hersh's must-read on the conflict between Pentagon brass and Cheney Administration hawks over Iran
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Ann Coulter, Caught in Likely Felony Fraud, Tries to Erase Address (242 Seabreeze Avenue, Palm Beach, FL as opposed to 999 Indian Rd.) | Ethics bill tied up in Congress | Feds Demand Rep. Jefferson (D-LA2) E-Mails | 94 ballot 'loophole' becomes a focus of DeLay case | "Textbook Plagiarism," "Very Misleading" Citations Found In Ann Coulter's Godless; Verbatim Lifts In Weekly Column | Kerik's Name Removed From New York Jail | Hey, Associated Press, did Dick Cheney pay for his NASCAR tickets? | DoJ Report: Abramoff Too Late to Sink Prosecutor with Too Many Enemies
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Watch this! Feinstein says she was not briefed on the SWIFT Program | Suit Claims NSA Asked AT&T To Help With Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11 | 9/11 just an excuse: NSA sought to monitor domestic calls before Osama attacked | Bush reportedly decided to spy on your phone records BEFORE September 2001 | War on Terror Ruling Worries GOP Lawmakers | California's security office denies spying on protesters | Another day, another privacy violation
HOT POLITICS -- Unfit to Lead the World | McCain "Proud" Of The President's Leadership | New Jersey Govt. Shutdown Forces Atlantic City Casinos To Close; Bill Bennett in Uncontrollable Anguish | Joementum? No-mentum! | NYT Monday: Bush, McCain 'form new bond | Bored? Got a Few Spare Hours in Your Week? | Democrats Need to Get Smart Fast | Ask the Little People | GOP Aims to Use a War to Win an Election Battle
QWAGMIRE -- Dems urge review of Bush war powers | Car bomb strikes market in Iraq, kills 7 | Another rocket attack on Kandahar coalition base | War bill getting paid while lights go out at Army posts
WAR CRIMES -- 15 Judiciary Democrats seek hearings on Guantanamo| Pentagon sees Iran bombing scenarios as unsuccessful
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Not enough U.S. elite forces to take on armed terrorist militias | Screwball conspiracy theory from Zarqawi's wife: he was victim of Al Qaeda plot with Americans; no mention of Elders of Zion, Freemasons or Manchester United | Schumer Urges Review Of Govt. Anti-Terror Plans | White House in a spin war with Bin Laden | Our good friends the Saudis are helping turn Somalia into an Al Qaeda haven
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- N. Korea warns of nuclear war if attacked | Second-ranking Republican wants to sabotage Geneva treaty | Reality therapy for Bush on Iran | Are the Russians calling our bluff?
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Amanda Marcotte tells the truth about Ana Marie Cox, fake lush and trollop–and for-real media whore | Dumbest Senator ever? Ted Stevens on the Internets | CBS News President Continues Rebuilding–But Into Just What? | "Beating Up On The NY Times Is Red Meat For The Conservative Lemmings | Bill Bennett v. James Madison | David Sirota to the Hartford Courant: Who does Lieberman represent? Not you! | Journamalism: More right-wing attacks on Kos | Declaring Internet Independence From AT&T Won't Be So Easy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- A bad weekend for college students | Airbus CEO Resigns Suspicion Of Insider Trading | Hazardous Fumes Shut Down Wal-Mart Store | A showdown over overtime -- Granholm, GOP fight over who's eligible
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Florida's manufactured home owners in a vulnerable state
ELECTION THEFTS -- RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Whistleblower Suits Against Two Voting Machine Companies! | Matt Pascarella and Greg Palast on election theft in Mexico
JUSTICE WATCH -- Time: FBI losing senior agents to private sector
OH, GOD! -- Georgia Allowing Ten Commandments In Courtrooms If Displayed With Other Documents
July 2
HELD OVER! Read Jane Mayer's profile of Cheney's fascist aide David Addingtion
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Right-wing Republican Diana Irey's Hysterical 'Call to Action' Against Murtha Includes Smear Boat Veterans for Bush | $1.3 Billion of Our Tax Dollars Wasted: Farm Program Pays That Much to People Who Don't Farm | Cronyism: Pals pitch NE primary loser Osborne to Bush | Ex-CT Governor Makes Post-Prison Speech | Isn't That Illegal? Jeb Bush Used Nonprofit Foundation To Pay Pollster, Former Campaign Aides | The Duke Cunningham investigation has generated as many spinoffs as All in the Family | Big-time )and smalltime) lobbyists corrupt small towns seeking earmarks
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- A Warning For America - When Republicans Hurt Our Freedoms, The Terrorists Win | It's NOT about "tairists" after all: Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say | Gonzales Condemns SCOTUS Ruling | It would be easier for Bush if he were the dictator -- but that's Cheney job: Shadow President Emerges from Shadows | The war for permanent Republican power
HOT POLITICS -- 66% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track | Candidates spend to win as R.I. Senate race turns nasty | The GOP 2006 Strategy: Yes to Torture | Newark's Rising Star Takes The Reigns | Bush is bouncing backwards | Opposition to Stem Cell Research Hurting Missouri Senator | Kerry Faces Hard Road in Presidential Bid
QWAGMIRE -- 13 wounded in Sunday blast near police station | Israel fires missile at Palestinian PM's office in Gaza
WAR CRIMES -- Gonzales Whines Petulently About Supreme Court's Ruling Against Administration's Detainee Policy; "Hampered Our Ability" To Deal With (Read: Abuse and Torture) Terrorists | Congress scrambles to create military tribunals for detainees; hearings called after ruling by Supreme Court | Iraq rape/murder story gets worse | At Guantanamo, Dying Is Not Permitted
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- US to Zarqawi's Accomplices: We've Already Buried Him In a Secret Location, Nya Nya Nya Nya Nya! | Iraq names Saddam's daughter, wife in wanted list | While the Republicans debate gay marriage and flag burning, guess who is still alive and kicking? | Bush Regime: Osama Aims to Bolster Insurgency | NY Times on Miami terror arrests: 'Diehards or Dupes?' | Second Osama infomercial on Iraq, Somalia posted
BORDER BUNGLES -- Moonie Times shocks Beltway, conservatives, blasts Bush over sending National Guard to the border
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Why Bush declared war on the NY Times: The paper's security exposés have made it a convenient target for a defensive White House | Conservative pundits "reveal" murderous plot by the Travel Section of the NY Times | Inside the unprecedented Joint Editorial From The NY Times and LA Times: Keller and Baquet Slam Back At Critics, Administration, WSJ | Frank Rich: War failing, so Bush attacks the press | ASNE and the Society of Professional Journalists Hit Latest Attacks on Press | The Colbert Report: "Let Me Simplify It For You. The NY Times Wants You And Your Family Dead" | NY Times and LA Times Op-ed Reveals Sad State of Our Daily Conversation | Liar Ann Coulter Affirms Previous Statement About Bombing NY Times Office
FOX WATCH -- Karma bites Carla Sauer-Iyer, Hannity's "Schiavo nurse" -- she may lose her license for lying on FOX -- Crooks & Liars has the rerun of a lying liar
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Red Cross Laptop With Data On Thousands Of Blood Donors Stolen | US bosses earn 800 times lowest pay
DEAD DUBAI DEAL --
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION --
BUDGET MESS -- The Air Force wastes $450,000 of your tax dollars snooping through blogs
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY --
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Historic black New Orleans college reclaims campus
HOMELAND HIJINKS --
ELECTION THEFTS -- The TV People Take on E-Voting
JUSTICE WATCH -- Supremos' smackdown of military tribunals: A slender victory for democracy | It's Chief Justice Roberts's Supreme Court, Sort Of…
HEALTH DEBACLES -- War on Women Expands into a War on People
TRASHING NATURE -- Dept. Of Defense Invokes National Security Clause To Trump Lawsuit Over Sonar Said To Harm Whales | Link: N.E. storms, global warming