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Hot Headlines, July 2006

July 29

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Senator Burns Forced to Apologize for Assailing Firefighters; details about "altercation" emerge | Jack Abramoff's old lobbying firm Greenberg scrambles to settle with Alabama-Coushatta tribe | Official: Tom "Coingate" Noe's partner said he gave investigator bogus documents | Florida Gov. Candidate in Ethics Flap | Suit Against Detroit Mayor Can Proceed | Homeland Security Spent $34B In Taxpayer Money On Wasteful Contracts Including Gyms, Fancy Office Art And Kitchens | Laura Bush's pet Iraq Hospital project: a mismanaged failure | Appeals Court Gives Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA2) a Peak at Seized Docs | Senator Burns Forced to Apologize for Assailing Firefighters | GOP-linked organization's ads credit Republican Rep. Chabot for vote he opposed | New Minimum Wage Bill To Benefit Poor and Wealthy | HarrisWatch: "Pink Sugar" Picks Fourth Campaign Manager | GOP leader apologizes to Strickland; staffer is fired for an e-mail | Justice's "Conspiracy" against Rep. Bob Ney | Secret' 9/11 lies? 2002 exec order let EPA bury info on air hazards | Only Indictments Could Revive Reform
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Big Brother tactics: NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Subpoenaed
HOT POLITICS -- Swann brings in a N.Y. strategist behind Bill Weld fiasco to lead campaign | Sen. Stabenow outraising Republican challengers | Singer John Hall Targets N.Y. GOP Lawmaker | Joe Lieberman Faces "Political Abyss" | Both Clintons Feature in Political Ads | Al Franken getting support from celebrities for possible Senate run | CA-Gov: Reaping and Sowing in La Mesa, CA | Katherine Harris: Don't Compare Me To Stalin... | Eyeing ‘08, McCain drops reform | McCain-Feingold — without McCain | Top Hagel staffer to head NE GOP in August | Frist gives the GOP their message: We're staying the course | PA AFL-CIO gives backing to Sestak | New Katherine Harris Campaign Manager Faces Challenge | TV ad war heating up for Ohio Senate seat | Jeb Bush says he won't enter Senate race | Flip-flop: Md. Republican Michael Steele Offers Two Views of Bush | Katherine Harris and Ben Nelson will debate | Senators Durbin & Obama Flex Muscles on Wind Power, Radar Issue | Bush's 'regular guy' mode backfires
QWAGMIRE -- Nearly 2/3 of Army's combat brigades not ready for wartime missions because of Bush incompetence |Schmoozing while Lebanon burns: Bush Hanging With American Idol Stars On Day 17 Of Middle East Crisis | Bush Cuts Short Holiday As Anti-War Neighbors Move In | Three US Marines killed in action in Iraq | War may last another month: U.N. official | UN deaths 'threaten peacekeeping' | War Pigs: Bush And Blair Dismiss Growing Worldwide Calls For Cease-Fire... | Israel Rejects Call For Cease-Fire | Lebanon: Hezbollah backs peace proposals | Bush, Blair Urge Multinational Force | Send the Bush Twins to Iraq | Bush sends Rice to Mideast, backs multinational force for Lebanon | Bush apologizes to Blair over bombs sent to Israel | White House admits that our troops in Iraq aren't really dying for the war on terror anymore | Iran stops would-be Hezbollah volunteers at border | Pentagon to Boost Iraq Troops to 135,000 | Bush Repeatedly Ignores Blair’s Sound Advice | Bush extends duty for thousands of US troops in Iraq, was serious when he said there'd be no withdrawal | Hezbollah can't be defeated, says UN force chief | U.S. marine killed in western Iraq
WAR CRIMES -- Soldier Confesses To Deliberate Plot To Kill Iraqi Detainees
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Senators Criticize Bolton At Confirmation Hearing: "He's An Ineffective Bully And Can't Win The Day When It Comes" | Bush's latest stupid declaration: "Decider" Decides American Foreign Policy No Longer Seeks to ‘Manage Calm’ | Rice to Return to Mideast to Work on Truce | President Bush seems to be basically brain dead on the Middle East situation | UN gives Iran nuke deadline of August 31
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Letterman parody: Clinton responds to Coulter | "The Interviewer Snarls At Me When I Mention That Haifa Has A Mixed Jewish/Arab Population" | The Middle East War and Media Bias | CBS4 Boston nixes union-bashing commercial | Oops! Ann Coulter cites wrong state, says she is "in awe [sic] of the voters of South Carolina [sic]" | Tony Snow: This Admin. Is Going To "Push Back" Against Criticism Of The US | Watch this! MSNBC's Will Geist rightfully mocks CNN for "doomsday on the brain" | NY Times quotes, without challenging, Lieberman supporter alleging "growing tolerance of [anti-Semitic faction] in the progressive community"
FOX WATCH -- Fox Anchor Jodi "Not Ready for the Network" Applegate Loses It Over Bloody On-Air Prank | Watch this! Moments after decrying U.S. failure to "blow the hell out of" Fallujah, Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly denounced "macho" approaches to the war, and said, "I'm an intellectual"
$MIRKONOMICS -- House's #1 Economic Priority: Keeping Paris Hilton Rich | Oil price and dollar plunge as American growth stalls | Prediction: There will be NO minimum wage increase this year | House Moves to Push Through Pensions Bill | GOP Holds Working Poor Hostage to Paris Hilton | House Conservatives: $2 For Workers, But Only If Paris Gets Millions | U.S. economy slows sharply
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart Admits Defeat In Germany | Ex-WorldCom CEO Ebbers' conviction affirmed
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Angry judge may free some held without trial in New Orleans jails
ELECTION THEFTS -- Huge fines restricting new voter applications | UNHRC: Lack of DC's representation in Congress is inconsistent with international law
JUSTICE WATCH -- Scouts' sex-abuse files are evidence
OH, GOD! -- Religious right suing to put porn star in public school as teacher
RACISM IN THE USA -- 1 dead, 5 hurt in Seattle shootings | Conspicuously Catholic actor Mel Gibson's alleged to have launched into an anti-Semitic tirade upon his DUI arrest; cover-up alleged | What is MSNBC's policy on airing "n!gger" jokes? And what is Verizon's policy on sponsoring "k!ke" jokes?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Iran Won't Cut Oil Exports if Syria Attacked
GAY IN AMERICA -- Dan Savage lets the chief justice of Washington State have it, in person, over his decision against gay marriage | Linguist: Army Is Indeed a Bunch of [Community] Player Haters | Army: We Don't Ask, Don't Tell About Community Theater

July 28

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Charlie Crist fundraiser resigns; FL GOP megafundraiser Sergio Pino under legal scrutiny | Congress to Adopt Gutted "Rules" on Lobbying | CQ: House Intel Panel Rips Bush's Efforts | Earmarkers Grumble about Muckraker | For Old Friend, Powerful "Reform" Lawmaker Bends the Rules | In Rural VA, MZM Center To Shut Its Doors | Lawmaker's Dad Busted for Car Sex | Roll Call: Pay Cut Let Lewis Aide Dodge Ban | State Official Crashes Party, Car, Career | Wife, Friend Tie Congressman Tom Davis to Consulting Firm
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Watergate Whistleblower John Dean: "We Have Returned To The Imperial Presidency"
HOT POLITICS -- A Deeper Look Into the Generic House Ballot Looks Good for Dems | AR-Gov: Beebe (D) maintains lead | Charles Barkley Talks About Run For Alabama Governor As Democrat | Governor Candidate Drops 'Grandma' Suit | Katherine Harris staffer joins opponent's campaign | MD Dems Bash Steele's "Premeditated Stunt" | MD-Sen: Steele (R) email leaked | Meet Curt Weldon, the Kind of Republican Who Attacks the Uniform and the Veteran in it | Michael Schiavo Supports Lieberman's Rival | Michael Steele keeps making his "scarlet letter"/Bush bashing scandal worse! | NRCC Chair doesn't have word "Republican" on his campaign website | Ohio Governor: Strickland 47%, Blackwell 27% | Poll of 50 most competitive races | Ready for a "New Direction"? | Republicans Panic, Pull Out All Stops to Find Way to Remove DeLay's Name from November Ballot | Too funny! Maryland Democrats Obtain Email from Steele Campaign | VA-Sen: Webb's money troubles | What kind of loser bashes firefighters trying to save his state?
QWAGMIRE -- Even neoconservatives now accepting defeat in Iraq | Whose 'Moral Clarity'? | "Little Has Changed In Lebanon Since The War Began" | 56% of Americans think the United States should set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq | Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’ | At Least 31 Killed In Latest Baghdad Bombings | Defense Experts Say Bush Plan To Move More Troops To Baghdad Will Weaken Army In Other Parts Of Country… | Democrats, Military Fault Bush for Old Weapons | Equipment shortfalls hurt Army readiness (2/3 of brigades not ready) | Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield' | PM urged: Stand up to Bush and call for ceasefire | President Clinton: Israel Has Gone Too Far, US Needs To “Get Some Kind Of Ceasefire Now”… | Rumsfeld extends tours of 4,000 US troops in Iraq | Sheehan buys land in Crawford with son's insurance money | Tide of Arab Opinion Turns to Support for Hezbollah | US House of Representatives passes India nuke deal
WAR CRIMES -- More Charges That Gitmo Detainees Were Abused | Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees | U.N. rights body tells U.S. to shut "secret" jails
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Al Qaeda Declares Holy War Against Israel | Judge Backs Release of Islamic Fundraiser | White House shrugs off tape as al-Qaeda bid to "stay in the game"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- George Bush's CIA or the Keystone Cops? | House Committee Finds US Intelligence Has "Poor Understanding Of The Threats" | The Bush Administration has been “slow to implement” major changes to counterterrorism intelligence sharing | US House report criticizes Bush administration intelligence work
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- The Secretary of State tells the Lebanese that the blood they're seeing represents the birth of a brave new order. She's convincing nobody | Watch this! John Bolton Admits He's More Committed To Right-Wing Think Tank Than Stopping Genocide | Lincoln Chafee changes to 'not decided' on Bolton | "These Are Dreary Days For US Diplomacy" | Returned to face the Senate that failed to confirm him the first time, U.N. ambassador John Bolton could barely contain his contempt | Bolton Blows off Sudan | Colbert on Bolton: Colonel Mustard | Condi Plays While The Middle East Burns | Diplomatic Divide Widens | Watch this! "He is a discredit to the United States" -- Protester Disrupts Bolton Hearing | Why Bolton’s First Year Was A Failure | Will Joe Lieberman Oppose John Bolton?
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- "Who would have imagined that history would prove so easy to rewrite in a democratic nation with a free press?" | Hugh "Cowardly Lion" Hewitt and Glenn "Instabigot" Reynolds Agree: Jews Control the Press | Comcast Censors ImpeachPAC - and YOU | Corporate Media Censors MoveOn | Conservative pundits made wildly wrong claims about how Iraq would turn out -- what are they saying now about the Middle East? | FCC Cites New TV Indecency Law, Fines PBS For Scorsese's "The Blues" | Maybe this is what's clogging those "tubes" | Real world impact of GOP silliness in action: it's political correctness conservative style | Watch this! Ann Coulter reaches new low, calls Gore a "total fag" -- as Tweety Matthews proclaims, "We'd love to have her back" | Watch this! Jack Cafferty goes shrill on those Al Qaeda infomercials | Will Ted Stevens debate Jon Stewart?
FOX WATCH -- FOX & Friends hyped "real success story" in Afghanistan, ignored real difficulties
$MIRKONOMICS -- House GOP may allow vote on min. wage -- with poison pills, of course
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Key House Republicans enable more pension rip-offs, boycott meeting
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Ex-FEMA Head Michael Brown On US Rep: "He Can Just Bite Me" | Too Little, Too Late? Feds Confirm Fears of New Orleans Flooding
ELECTION THEFTS -- Bush pledges vigorous enforcement of voting law -- and nobody believes him | Enforce voting act, rights leaders say | Bush Urged to Enforce Voting Rights Act | Diebold Profit Falls By 46%
JUSTICE WATCH -- Bush Signs Child Predator Law | Senator Harry Reid is victim of identity theft | Threats against judges at record pace
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Exxon Mobil profit tops $10 billion (Reuters) | Senate Chiefs Plan to Resist Compromise on Energy Bill
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Reynolds American Spending Big Bucks to Salvage Market for Their Deadly Addictive Drug in US | The Unborn, Like The Undead, May Always Be With Us
TRASHING NATURE -- EPA seen lax on pollution enforcement; GAO says agency dragging its feet on Clean Air Act | Energy Cooperative Admits Paying Global Warming Naysayer $100K… | Leaked Memo: More On the Coordinated Coal Industry Propaganda Blitz Attacking Global Warming Science
GAY IN AMERICA -- Bit Part in "Our Town" Will Get You Out of Military Service | US Army kicks out Arabic linguist because he's gay

July 27

Tom DeLay used government staff after leaving Congress
Rolling Stone Exclusive: Senior Pentagon Officials Plotted To Invade Iran
WA upholds gay marriage ban
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- "Pork reform via rules"? Yeah, sure, that's the ticket…. | Feds Investigating Ney, Abramoff, HAVA Negotiations! | Homeland Security Contracts Abused | KY job memo cites effort to oust Democrats | So a right wing blog is paid by McCain and doesn’t tell anyone… | Liar! Senate Candidate Steele Caught in New Bush Fib | Katherine Harris' Starbucks Order, Decoded! | Group complains to IRS about Sioux Falls anti-abortion non-profits... | What Katherine Harris Orders at Starbucks | Judges Delay Investigation of Congressman | Congress Drags Feet, Impedes Cunningham Probe | Boston was warned tunnel ceiling wouldn’t hold | With Scandal Lobby Firm, You Can Always Get What You Want | Cover-up: Congress holding Cunningham docs | Jefferson Legal Saga Continues
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- U.S. Can Withhold Security Firm Data | Specter Releases Sue-the-Prez Draft Bill | McCain won’t back Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-PA) bill that would allow Congress to sue President Bush over his use of presidential signing statements | On Key Constitutional Issue, A "Maverick" Rides with the Herd | CQ: Specter's "Sue the Prez" Bill is DOA. | Congressional GOP supports dictatorial presidential powers, refuses to back restriction on 'signing statements' | WaPo: To Heal NSA Wound, Specter Wants to "Shoot the Patient"
HOT POLITICS -- Another Bush legacy: loss of confidence for the nation | Used to be for the GOP before he was against it before he was for it: Flip-flopping MD GOP Senate candidate Michael Steele says fierce criticism of GOP, Bush was "a joke" | GOP candidates trying to figure out exactly how far to flee from Bush | Looks like "The Year Of The Black Republican" is backfiring | Bush uses bill signing "events" as propaganda/campaign vehicle | Howard Dean accurately compares Katherine Harris to Stalin | Nevada Gets Its Shot As Political Player | RI-Sen: Dems didn't change Party ID for Chafee | ID-01: Another GOP "safe" seat under pressure | Democrats battle in key House race in Colorado | CT-Sen: Spreading the word | TN-Sen: M-D polls the race | Democrats eye Ohio in quest for House gains | Howard Dean calls for end to divisiveness, party unity | Howard Stern Slams Lieberman | Poll: Sen. Nelson Extends Lead in Fla. | Harris Watch: Recount Queen Now Down by 38 Points
QWAGMIRE -- Day 15: Israel Suffers Heaviest Losses, Hezbollah Says It Will Begin To Hit Israel "Beyond Haifa" | As many as 14 Israeli troops were killed by Hezbollah forces Wednesday, raising the specter of a grinding guerrilla war Israelis don't want | Iraqi PM Calls for More Money and Troops | 16 Killed In Afghan Helicopter Crash | Air strikes resume after Rice moves on | Clinton calls for western-brokered ceasefire | Waiting to Get Blown Up': Troops express frustration with war | Zawahiri: We must fight 'Zionists and crusaders' | Retaking Baghdad . . . part deux | Dean Calls Iraqi PM an 'Anti-Semite' | Israeli strike hits truck carrying aid from UAE | Stop-loss's new twist: US may increase Iraq force by delaying departures | Rumsfeld On Whether Iraq Is In A Civil War: "Oh, I Don't Know..." | Senators Call For New Intelligence Estimate on Iraq | Protestor Disrupts Iraqi PM's Speech To Congress... | Watch this! War Protester ruins Maliki's speech | Democrats press for updated intelligence on Iraq | In the past two weeks, more Iraqi civilians have been killed than have died in Lebanon and Israel. | Ahmadinejad calls for Lebanon cease-fire | Nations can't agree on Lebanon cease-fire | Israeli Hospital will treat Lebanese Victims | Iraqi forces ill-equipped for west Baghdad battlefields | U.S. could face a showdown with al-Sadr | Iraqi tribes begin to assert themselves | Hezbollah vows wider war
BORDER BUNGLES -- Border Arrests On The Decline
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Overseas Tensions Show Failure of Bush Doctrine, Force Bush to Change Direction | US Blocks UN Council From Condemning Israel Strike On Post | What a a shock: Poland reluctant to give America sovereignty over missile base | CBS News/NY Times Poll: World Doesn't Respect Bush | International Respect Matters | John Bolton’s Bubble: U.N. Ambassador Skips All Security Council Foreign Travel | Anti-Americanism prompts push for "citizen diplomacy"
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Blast from the Past: John Stossel Meets His Match | Peter Dale Scott Reviews 'The One Percent Doctrine' | The madness of Instabigot: The Protocols of the Elders of Wingnuttia | Watch Keith Olbermann with Leno | Stephen Colbert Blasts The Morning Shows: Sawyer, Lauer, Tapper... Everyone… For Asking Why Politicians Go On His Show | CNN or CBN? Kyra "Boopsier" Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "[A]re we living in the last days?" | Coulter Dropped From Another Paper: "In The Last Few Months Ann Coulter Has Been A Very Naughty Girl Indeed" | Hosting Bill "Loose Slots" Bennett to discuss Mideast conflict, NBC's Today continued trend of imbalanced morning-show coverage | Ann Coulter says Bill Clinton is gay | MSNBC is using Ann Coulter to draw rubbernecking viewers to their media pile-up | Right-Wing ‘Guide to World War III’: ‘Kill ‘Em All, Let Allah Sort ‘Em Out’ | WaPo uncritically reported misleading GOP talking point on job growth
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! FOX’s Latest Attempt at Trying to Scare America | On FOX, McCain Falsely Claims the Iraqi Prime Minister Has ‘Condemned Hezbollah’ | Call McCain's office and tell him to stop lying like a lying liar | On Your World, Neil "Poledance" Cavuto let Tom "Indicted" DeLay claim that "we went and got" the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan
$MIRKONOMICS -- Chicago Passes Law Forcing Wal-Mart, Big Retailers To Pay "Living Wage"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Report: Small Businesses Losing Out
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Republicans Split On IRA Provision In Pension Bill | US House to vote on estate tax roll-back
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- New Legislation Responds to Ports Uproar
ELECTION THEFTS -- CNN's Lou Dobbs: Voting Machine Roadblock in Maryland Regarding Paper Trail | Mimi Kennedy Blogs on Busby/Bilbray Sleepovers (and more) at Huffington Post
JUSTICE WATCH -- Ohio's High Court Says City Can't Take Property for Economic Development
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- House votes to block police from seizing legal guns during disasters
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Guggenheim Study Suggests Arts Education Benefits Literacy
OH, GOD! -- Twilight Of The Insane "Religious" Right Wing?
RACISM IN THE USA -- Rep. Hinojosa blasts English language bill as "code for official discrimination"
MORALITY MORONICS -- From the Pledge to stem cells: Values Voters’ vacuous values | Who amongst us does not enjoy a little nookie in the car?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Shell quarterly profits only increase 40% | ConocoPhillips refinery idle after storms | White House Holds One-Year "Celebration" of Energy Bill With Industry Reps | $5.18 billion
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Medicare's 'Doughnut Hole' | Feds OK MA Universal Health Insurance
TRASHING NATURE -- National Park Service Director Resigns | Bush Administration Set to Log Oregon Old Growth Forest

July 26

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Horse’s Head Dumped in Democratic Councilwoman’s Pool | Guy Pistol-whips Wife, Gets Elected Mayor Anyway | Pentagon Approves $11 Billion Contract For Useless Weapons System | GOP staffer gay-baits, plays dirty tricks | DeLay and Texas GOP Get Tough Draw on Appeals Judges | VA Lawmaker: Despite MZM Dealings, Still No Call from Feds | Whispers: Harris Could Still Drop From FL Senate Race. Right?
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Judge Dismisses NSA Phone Records Suit | Congress OKs Child Molesters Database
HOT POLITICS -- After Bashing Bush, Michael Steele Forced to Back Down, Spin Critical Comments | "Anonymous" GOPer Michael Steele’s Makeover Attempt | Steele was the mystery GOP pol complaining about President Bush and a lot more that is today's Republican fiasco | Help is on the way: John Murtha will stump for 41 Dems | Republican death cultists in Ohio mobilize for Blackwell | Democrats Say Iraq War Is Top Problem | Ned Lamont Returns To The Attack | "The Internet Did Not Conjure Up Voter Opposition To Mr. Lieberman" | Istook Takes Lead in Okla. Gov. Race | Less Bush at some GOP sites now, a sign of party fleeing from their failed leader | KY-04: Lucas (D) leads | KS-Gov, AG: Sebelius leads Dem surge | 2008 calendar: Edwards the HUGE winner | MT-Sen: Burns fights for pork, yet has trouble delivering | Blacks against Blackwell | IN-02: Indy poll confirms Donnelly lead | Gröpenführer Confronted by Invited Guests at Campaign Event | Gallup: Bush Job Approval 37% (Drop From 40%) | Katherine Harris says she's cancer free | Santorum slips farther in new poll | Lieberman even runs a Bush style campaign
QWAGMIRE -- Miserable security failure behind U.S. decision to move troops from northern Iraq to Baghdad | Baghdad roadside bomb leaves brothers dead | Lebanon Bleeds, Iraq Burns, People Flee | Israeli air strike hits U.N. observer post | UN: Observers made many calls before strike | Kofi Annan: Attack by Israel on UN site looks deliberate | Israel Wins Battles, Not War | From The Mind of Mencia comes a skit involving Bush as the new leader of Iraq… | AP: Americans May Still Be Stranded in Lebanon | Iranian dissident snubs Bush on visit to US, says US foreign policy in Iraq has hampered Iran democracy movement | Missile defense "plan" seen ready by fall, but it still can't be made to work | 12 Israeli Troops Killed in Lebanon | Bush brilliantly states the obvious: "Obviously the violence in Baghdad is still terrible" | Urban warfare: Battle for Baghdad Boils Down to Grabbing a Slice at a Time | Al-Zarqawi group aims to strike beyond Iraq | U.S. wants to deal "aggressively" with Kurdish PKK | Cease-fire Ruled Out As Bombs, Missiles Crisscross Border | Palestinian groups agree deal for return of Israeli | Tony Snow's latest gaffe: Iraq PM's Security Plan That Bush Praised Is Not Working | Hezbollah admits massive miscalculation: Israeli response was a complete surprise; Team Hez won't lay down arms | Israel says they've killed senior Hezbollah commander | WaPo Correspondent's Book Fiasco Explains How "Bush's Decision To Invade Iraq... May Come To Be Seen As One Of The Most Profligate Actions" In US History | Larry C. Johnson on Failing to Learn the Lessons of Vietnam in Lebanon | Israel 'to control Lebanon strip' | Saudi monarch warns that Israel's offensives in Lebanon and Gaza could ignite a war in the region | Beirut takes another pounding | Faster, Israel, Kill! Kill! Grand Zen Snarkmaster James Wolcott analyzes the punditry skills, as they are, of one Monica Crowley | US, Iraq mull more Baghdad troops | Bush meeting Darfur rebel leader today
WAR CRIMES -- White House cooks up drafts plan to supposedly "try" Gitmo detainees
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 17-year-old reportedly confesses to terrorist sniper attacks in Indiana
BORDER BUNGLES -- "Luring Illegals? Yeah, right, Virgil..."
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA gives No. 2 job to agent who clashed with Goss | The secrets behind ‘state secrets’: Sibel Edmonds, Turkey's mafia and their US Neocon allies
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Mideast talks with Condi, Kofi, Europe, Lebanon fail to reach agreement | Inspight of the News: Neocons claim Condi has wandered off the reservation, want her demoted | Rice's Lack of success During Mideast Visit Meets With Harsh Criticism | U.S. approves two more weeks of fighting | Matthews on Imus: Pencil Neck Foreign Policy | Iraqi Speaker, Defended By White House, Claims America Invaded Iraq ‘With A Pure Zionist Agenda’ | Did they have diplomatic immunity? 'Scantily clad women' in State Dept. crash | South Korea seeks talks with North | Trade talks collapse after U.S. outburst
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- What makes someone a "chicken hawk"? | Cry of the Chickenhawk: Cliff May declares National(ist) Review bloggers are ‘Fighting a War’ that is ‘Equally Consequential’ to US troops in combat
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The Fog of Cable | Craigslist CEO's 'smart mob' news idea | USA Today, Glenn "Bigot" Beck misleadingly claimed Bush is first president to fund embryonic stem cell research | How The Lies About WMD Continue To Work | McCain Dodges Stewart Question On Bush: "How Much Safer Can The World Afford To Have [Bush] Make Us?" | Watch this! Where's a laugh track when you need it? Glenn Beck: "We went into Iraq three years ago to prevent World War III" | Now hear this: Michael "Savage" Wiener declares CNN's Wolf Blitzer "would have let children into the gas chamber in order to stay alive an extra day" | AP headline, article dubbed embryonic stem cell research that would involve destroying embryos "killing" | NBC's Chip "the Gyp" Reid returned to tried-and-true GOP "cut-and-run" characterization of Democrats, echoed attacks on liberals as "angry" and "crazy" | Freeway blogging: Overpasses become activists' podiums
FOX WATCH -- Keith Olbermann responds to FOX News | Falafels and brickbats: News show feud boils over into open warfare | FOX News (Officially) Abandons Journalism in the Middle East | Watch this! Voinovich Pitches the "Case" for Bolton: "The World Is Going Whacko Everywhere" | Dick Morris takes a break from sucking toes to say ‘Civil War IS progress’ in Iraq | Whiny FOX Chief Roger Ailes Sticks Up For Nazi Apologist Bill O'Reilly, Calls Olbermann's Ironic Snark "Over The Line"
WHAT A RUSH! -- Now hear this! Limbaugh + Caller x (Buckley's withering critique of Bush) = Pure Comedy Gold!
$MIRKONOMICS -- House vote vowed on minimum wage
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- T-Mobile caves to far-right extremist group | BP's profits soar
BUDGET MESS -- Wreckless tax cuts and wild spending creating problem for Treasury
ELECTION THEFTS -- CNN's Lou Dobbs on E-Voting:The Feds Finally Look Into Foreign Ownership | AZ Daily Star Editorial Can't See The Quicksand For The Trees | WaPo gets real about tech trouble in the voting booth
JUSTICE WATCH -- WaPo columnist has 'Ashcroft nostalgia' | Political Bigwigs Get Jury Duty Call | Attorney's Offices' Staffing Is Decried: 2 Lawmakers Upbraid Gonzales
RACISM IN THE USA -- From Whitehouse.org: Bush at the NAACP
MORALITY MORONICS -- A whopping 4% of Americans think "morality" is the nation's top problem
ENERGY SCANDALS -- $55,000 per minute! | Watch "Kick That Filthy Habit!" From The Kick The Oil Habit Road Trip
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Congress Likely to Skip Medicare Cuts | Republican Hypocrisy on Teen Pregnancy | Amnesty International's abortion plan upsets regressives, christianists | Chicago Bans Cigarette Smoking, Foie Gras Eating... | Bill that endangers teens in need of pregnancy termination nears passage | Rape Victim, Denied Morning After Pill by Hospital, Had to Drive to Another County | Anti-abortion Republicans want to jail your priest | Luddite Group Urges Candidates to Return Cash from Stem Cell Supporters
TRASHING NATURE -- Global Warming Threatens 12 US National Parks | Are you ready for some football… make that global warming? | Study of Songbirds Finds High Levels of Mercury
GAY IN AMERICA -- Gay-Marriage Supporters Launch Ad Campaign | Out gay actor made a Lt. Colonel

July 25

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Bush already knew of Pakistan nuke plant – and failed to notify Congress! | Baptist Group's Leaders Convicted: Investors Lost $585 Million | Watch this! Stephen Colbert roasts Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition | Settlement Appears Close on Indian Trust | Lying to the Voters: Ohio Right Wing Caught Spreading Minimum Wage Jobs Myth | Gimme Five - Take Two? | Third-string Maryland GOP Senate Candidate Arrested on Rape, Assault Charges | GOP Card Sharp Searches Soul, Asks if Lieberman or Lamont Ever Gambled | Iran Bamboozler Still Hyping
TRAITORGATE -- No security clearances revoked over Plame; CIA still investigating leak
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Massive privacy violation in NY state affects over half a million | Bush is still the "bubble boy" | Bush undermining constitution according to ABA report
HOT POLITICS -- Republican Throws Bush Under the Train: For One Anonymous GOP Senate Candidate from Oklahoma, "R" Is Scarlet Letter | CT Bloggers Confront Lieberman | Bill Clinton Rallies Dems for Lieberman | Dems look to Western states to turn blue | Prominent CA GOP player Pete McCloskey bucks GOP, backs Democrat | Governor 2006 outlook | Watch this! Boxer defensive at Lieberman event | Bernie Sanders tells supporters to abandon Bush impeachment idea | Vilsack Urges Voters to Embrace Democrats | At least buy me dinner first... | Santorum slips behind in new poll; Latest polls put Democrats up | Stanford professor stumps for electoral college alternative | Reid Lobbies to Win Nev. Earlier Caucus
QWAGMIRE -- The new war in the Middle East has almost completely eclipsed the old war in Iraq, at precisely the time that Iraq appears to be on the verge of total collapse | Another Crackdown In Baghdad: US Troops Step Up Operations To Stem Violence | Hundreds of Americans Remain Stranded in Lebanon | The war in Lebanon is already a public relations disaster for Israel, and a very real human disaster, with no end in sight, for thousands of Lebanese | As Mideast Crisis Grows, Bush Makes Top Priority of Inviting ‘American Idol’ To The White House | Putin's billion-dollar arms sale risks souring Western détente | Fighting could spark larger war: King Abdullah | In Beirut, Rice Outlines Proposal to Deploy Force In Lebanon | "After This Crisis, Hezbollah And Its Allies Will Rule... I Do Not Want To Be A Part Of It" | Day 14: Hezbollah Nowhere Close To Being Neutralized… | Congress Fuels South Asian Nuclear Arms Race | Israeli shell hits UN post in S. Lebanon | Human Rights Watch: Israel using cluster munitions in Lebanon | Iraq's Al-Maliki predicts surge in killings | Iraq's morgues are overflowing and 100 civilians a day are killed in communal violence | Olmert backs joint EU-Arab force for south Lebanon | None left untouched by daily violence in Baghdad | Misunderestimated, Mideast-style | White House Endorses Column Calling For Israel to Attack Syria | Senior Iraqi army officer criticizes US security approach | Murtha renews call for Iraq pullout deadline | Libya 'came close to building bomb' | Seeking safety, Iraqis turn to militias | Seven Lebanese civilians, including two children, killed by IDF; 42 wounded | Israel lowers expectations over Lebanon conflict | Lebanon president says Israel uses phosphorous arms | Hundreds of Taliban assault police post | Talabani: We won't let Turkey conduct a military operation in Iraq
WAR CRIMES -- Detainee abuse is still standard operating procedure
BORDER BUNGLES -- Immigration Bill Aims to Bridge Republican Divide
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Still interfering with intelligence here, still getting bad results
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Frist lacks votes to overcome Bolton filibuster | Top Iraqi’s White House Visit Shows Widening Gaps With U.S. | Lebanon rejects Rice plan; Rice not working for immediate Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire but stalling for international peacekeeping force | The Reviews Are In: John Bolton Is Failing At the United Nations | Bush's diplomacy allergy: As war in the Middle East rages, even some conservatives are calling for the U.S. to start talking to its enemies, not just its friends | A 'New' Mideast? W's or Osama's | Iraqi's PM in DC -- and this time, it's not a love fest | South Korea seeks talks with North | North Korea blasts 'imbecile' Rice | Iranian dissident snubs White House | Karen Hughes 'gets earful' during refueling stop in Ireland | Israel: Diplomacy Not Likely To End Ground Operations | Russia won't support UN Iran resolution | Focus now on US support for Israel
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- As Lebanon sinks into crisis, a new dispute grows over media bias | Tucker Carlson's Casual Monday | Watch this! Tony Snow apologizes | Howard Kurtz Attacks "The Left," Shows He Still Doesn't Get It | Zombie fact of the day: lefties won't talk about Israel/Lebanon | Now hear this! Has Sinclair's Mark Hyman finally gone off the deep end? | NY Times omits correction from flawed Kornblut article on Clinton speech | Heat wave shuts down MySpace | Overkill: CNN sends too much talent to Israel, Lebanon, ignores other news | New Guy In Talks To Buy Observer; 25-Year Old Law Student So Not As Cool As De Niro | Georgia paper drops Coulter's column | Murdoch tilts to McCain, not Clinton | WSJ editor claims Israeli missiles "save" Lebanese lives
FOX WATCH -- Bwaaaah! FOX's whiny-ass boss Roger Ailes is upset about Keith Olbermann's rude but accurate O'Reilly Nazi stunt over the weekend | Message to Ailes: We wish you well, you pathetic hypocrite | Tipping your hand, Brit? Hume referred to GOP-led House of Representatives as "we" | Watch this! Once again, Juan Williams slaps down General Kristol | Watch this! Glenn Beck imitator Mike Gallagher Lives In a Neocon Fantasy | On Hannity & Colmes, Rich "Bitch" Lowry and Wayne "Richard" Simmons teamed up to smear Murtha | Beltway Boor Mort Kondracke falsely claimed Bill Clinton "has not said" he would support Lamont if he wins CT primary | Fox Host Sean Hannity Running Poll That Asks "What Do You Think About WMD's Being Found In Iraq?"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Empire of Debt | Bush fundraising email: Spend
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- AOL founder 'sorry' for Time merger | ATI and AMD to merge in $5.4bn deal
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Are FEMA trailers ‘toxic tin cans’? | U.S. Government Plans Overhaul in Disaster Aid
JUSTICE WATCH -- Federal Prosecutors Without Paper Clips
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Hempfield Teen Shot Dead With State GOP Senator's Gun
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Most States Fail Demands Set Out in Education Law
RACISM IN THE USA -- Why does the Religious right feel obliged to describe Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer as man "who was born into a Jewish family"?
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Stage 2 Power Emergency Declared for CA; rolling blackouts possible
HEALTH DEBACLES -- VA's ongoing care for brain-injured veterans falls short | Hospital Giant HCA Is Close to a Record Buyout led by Frist family
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Hillary Clinton says Bush years 'hard on science'
TRASHING NATURE -- Growing Coalition Battles Oil Drilling: "Not Your Garden Variety Environmental Group" | Sen. James Inhofe, Epitome of Ignorance, Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ | Gulf dead zone 'half size of Maryland' | Combating Global Warming Does Not Require "Economic Castration"

July 24

Adviser tells Bush 'lawyer up' in case Dems take over
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Intel Commitee's Cunningham Probe Wrapping Up | AP: Ill. Gov. Hired by Name Well Into '04
TRAITORGATE -- British MP Alleges Iraq Weapons Inspector Death Not A Suicide
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Group Decries Bush's Law Interpretations | John Dean and Authoritarian Cultism: Glenn greenwald on Dean's new book
HOT POLITICS -- Democrats Have Key to Winning Back Power | God's Own Party? | McKinney's grip on district weakens | Cheney: Fighting In Middle East Is Reason To Vote Republican | Dems Ahead on Money Race for House | A Look at Nevada - Likely '08 Hot Spot | Zell Miller shows his love for corruptuion, voted for Reed in GOP primary | William F. Buckley: If Bush Were European "It Would Be Expected That He Would Retire Or Resign"
QWAGMIRE -- 60 dead, 200 wounded in Baghdad today | "An Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon hits a bus filled with women and children trying to flee the region, raising questions about whether Israel is doing enough to avoid civilian casualties." | Kerry: 'If I was president, this wouldn't have happened' | Carrion Comfort: the Neocons remain ravenous in their hunger to widen the theater of war | The Hariri Mirage Returns | Israel warns it will hit 10 buildings for every rocket fired (AFP) | More troops might hurt, not help, some Iraqis say | More US troops for Baghdad as violence rages | Sectarian break-up of Iraq is now inevitable, admit officials | Twenty-three killed in Afghanistan after Kandahar suicide blasts | Iraq PM hopes for more troop exits | Israel plans occupation | Syria says deal with us, Hezbollah | Civilian death toll rising | "It's Bizarre Driving Around Beirut, And Making Mental Notes Of Places To Avoid" | "It's Hard To Beat Them" An Israeli Soldier Said, "They're Not Afraid Of Anything" | Pakistan Expanding Nuclear Program; Plant Underway Could Generate Plutonium for 40 to 50 Bombs a Year, Analysts Say | Iraqi's Prime Minister calls US troops "butchers" | Hezbollah fighters seized | Car bombs kill 56 in Iraq | Saudis tell their brother Bush to intervene in Mideast | UN appalled by Beirut devastation | Olmert: foreign media biased in Hezbollah coverage | Juan Cole: What the U.S. hopes to gain in Lebanon | Somalia inches towards war | Three-week war was planned over a year ago | Punishing Air Strikes, Deadly Rockets... | Refugees a massive strain on Syria | 2 dead as rockets hit Israeli city | US to give Israel another week for attacks | Hezbollah 'willing to talk' | Spiegel: Syria will enter war if Israel invades Lebanon | Journalist killed in Israeli bombing near Tyre, Lebanon
WAR CRIMES -- US Guardsman cleared in Ramadi killing
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- About that War on Terror: we're losing Africa | Should detainees at Gitmo attend trials? | Sleeper Hezbullah cells activated | India weighs terror crackdown | Pentagon says Bush budget cuts and go-it-alone strategy have hurt the war on terror | Syria 'to come clean' on al-Qaeda cells | Hezbollah attacks in U.S. seen unlikely | Domestic terrorism: I-65 Sniper-style shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured in southern
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- "Surprise Visit" foreign policy doesn't work | After years of pulling away from Mideast diplomacy, the White House is forced, reluctantly, to undergo sudden immersion | "I believe [Condi's] activities have been tailored to give the impression of action while not designed to make any real progress" | Condi makes "surprise" visit to Beirut, as if it will have any effect | Huh? Bush Resists Immediate Mideast Cease-Fire… | … as Rice flip-flops, declares urgent need for ceasefire | Iran asks Switzerland to host nuclear talks: newspaper | Rice Open To Working With Syria For Mideast Peace | Gary Hart: Diplomatic Failure in the Secret Society | "Even superpowers have to talk to bad guys" | Russia won't support UN Iran resolution | Another Split With Russia: Putin Plans To Block Out US Oil Giants | Sen. Dodd predicts 'Bruising fight' over Bolton | UK paper: Bush makes Blair look small
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Department of the Bleedin' Obvious: Tom Ricks on Iraq, then and now | Catch what Atrios saw at CNN.com | White House, NY Times still feuding | Josh Bolten squirms during Stem Cell questions | Josh Bolten Defends Rove’s False Claims on Stem Cells: Karl ‘Knows A Lot of Stuff’ | Josh Bolten Says Iraqi Speaker, Who Called U.S. ‘Butchers,’ Appreciates ‘the Sacrifice Americans Have Made’
FOX WATCH -- Public Relations Is A Contact Sport At FOX News
$MIRKONOMICS -- G6 talks collapse | Wage growth slumps for educated workers
JUSTICE WATCH -- The Brownie-ization of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division | Hastert to challenge FBI document hunt | 1996 Allegations Still Painful for Jewell | GOP lawmakers take aim at balance of powers, target U.S. judiciary
OH, GOD! -- Church Now Calling Gas Guzzling SUV's "A Symptom Of Sin"
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Blackouts as US temperatures soar | $3.01, folks!
HEALTH DEBACLES -- USS Ronald Reagan Crew to Be Tested for TB | The War on Women and Doctors Hits SD
TRASHING NATURE -- California Faces Record-Breaking Heat Emergency

July 23

James Wolcott: "I predict that George Bush, upon leaving office, will be the most despised president in American history."
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Classified Bills a Refuge for Mischief | Donor to Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode's Scampaign Pleads Guilty | WaPo details ties between Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) | Gift to Big Business: IRS. to Cut Tax Auditors
TRAITORGATE -- New questions over death of David Kelly
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- ABA blasts the Specter NSA Bill, calls for Congress to wake up!
HOT POLITICS -- I have a dream | William F. Buckley Condemns George W. Bush, Says Bush Is Not a True Conservative | Ohio Democrat strong across board; Brown maintains 8-point edge over DeWine in Senate race | Democrats may widen presidential race locales | With Insurance Policy Comes Membership: How conservatives inflate their grassroots numbers | GOP Questions Sen. Dole: "I Don't See A Lot To Brag About" | Dear President Clinton | Democrats Buck Tradition With Move To Hold Nevada Caucus Second | Dems May Put Caucus Between Iowa, NH. | Democratic Governor Thrives in Oklahoma | What Did You Expect, America? | CT-Sen: More Good News
QWAGMIRE -- Koppel: 'US already at war with Iran' | Israel stunned at air war failure | 33 killed by suicide bomber in Baghdad | Hezbollah Rocket Attack Kills 2 in Haifa | In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam | U.S. faces new challenges as Mideast realigns itself | Israeli bombing's double danger: it might not be enough to wipe out Hezbollah, and it also might lead to backlash among Lebanese | Taliban warns Afghans to avoid foreign troops | Day 13: Israel Seizes Border Town | Baghdad Faces "Security Crisis". Ya think? | Iraq all but over? | Israeli missiles hit television station critical of Hezbollah | In Iran’s Streets, Aid to Hezbollah Stirs Resentment | Pentagon Holds Bargain Bin Sale! Come One, Come All! | 2 Canadian soldiers killed, 8 wounded in Afghanistan | Winning Hearts and Minds, Or Something | 2 Americans, dozens of Iraqis killed | US errantly kills Iraqi woman, toddler | US seeks to wedge Syria from Iran | Bush: War, war, war, I wanna get my war on again! | Air Force to waste billions for new bomber | Iraq parliament speaker calls for US withdrawal
WAR CRIMES -- “No Blood, No Foul”: Human Rights Watch Details Soldiers’ Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq | Stain of Guantanamo | CIA. Worker Says Message on Torture Got Her Fired
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- MI5 fears Hezbollah terror attacks in Britain
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iranian official issues diplomacy shocker: Enrichment ISon the Table | Diplomats See Nominee Bolton "As A Stand-In For The Arrogance Of the Bush Administration" | John Bolton Admits His Support ‘Would Probably Be The Kiss of Death’ For Next U.N. Head | Bolton’s Ways Foil Goals, U.N. Envoys Say
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Western media has dropped the ball by failing to tell the real story in Lebanon | Olbermann Wears Bill O'Reilly Mask To Fundraiser | Did NBC-owned Access Hollywood Misquote Former Employee Katie Couric Intentionally? | "It's very hard, after more than three years of anticipating, dreading and now watching the catastrophe blossoming in Iraq, to tolerate the pathetic whimpering of former hawks who've finally managed to drag themselves into the searing light of reality" | "I take it personally when a propaganda industry makes millions spreading lies that liberals are terrorists or traitors."
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Tipster Set Fund Scandal Snowballing
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- New Orleans, one year later: Still a disaster
JUSTICE WATCH -- Slate: "The Judiciary Is Striking Back" On Executive Power | Many arrested Bush dissenters eye courts
RACISM IN THE USA -- Civil rights hiring shifted in Bush era; Conservative loyalty a litmus test
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Frank Rich skewers President Bush's 'passion of the embryos' | 400,000 Frozen Embryos...But only 128 'snowflakes' have been adopted. Will the stem-cell veto hurt the GOP? | President's stand 'for life' cruelty ignores ailing lives waiting for cures | Alzheimer's cure getting closer | Democrats Slam Bush's Stem Cell Bill Veto
TRASHING NATURE -- Wild Bees And The Flowers They Pollinate Are Disappearing Together