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Hot Headlines, July-August 2006

August 5

BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Rep. John Conyers releases "The Constitution in Crisis" -- go here to link to the entire report | Size matters: More on Conyers' huge report | Justice Dept. threatens to sue Maine to stop domestic spying lawsuit | Are Democrats taking a stand on the Specter bill? | Latest Jailing of Journalist Sending A Message to Bloggers?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Anti-Gore "astroturf" video linked to multimillion-dollar oil lobbying operation | Former White House advisor blames Hurricane Katrina for shoplifting incidents | Book: Sept. 11 panel considered Pentagon probe | You can learn a lot about Rudy Giuliani from the company he kept -- and would still be keeping if it weren't for some uncomfortable scandals | Pentagon silent on inquiry into Cunningham contracts | Translator in Iraq pleads guilty to bribe offer involving armored vests | Connecticut Heckler Has a Tricky Past | Judge Torpedoes High-profile Smear Boat Liar, Dismisses Entire Sherwood vs. Kerry Lawsuit | Pro-Lieberman Lobbyist/Heckler Refuses Questions | Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) was Abramoff Island Client's "Hero" | The Collateral Damage of the Coming Harris Defeat
HOT POLITICS -- Attention all Democratic candidates: RAW STORY has the full, internal 91-page Republican memo outlining GOP 'homestretch' | RNC to Republicans: Don't defend Bush | The Republicans' favorite catalyst for their preferred wedge issues -- the so-called "culture war" in America -- is clearly ginned-up, phony and bogus, according to a new and wide-ranging survey | Welcome Party Switchers! The 2006 Republican Revolution: Why former Republicans in Kansas and elsewhere are deciding to run as Democrats | High-ranking OK State GOP Senator Dumps Party, Joins Dems: "The Moderate Republican No Longer Has A Voice" | Lieberman's Yale Roommate Would Vote for Lamont | CT-Sen: All Politics Really IS Local | Doomed: Lieberman Abandons "Get Out The Vote" Ground Operations | Surprise: GOP Rep. John Kline to be added to Murtha lawsuit unless he apologizes | GOP Candidates Flee From Bush | TX Redistricting Decided: Pickup in 23? | CT-Sen: Faux support for "moderate" Dems | CT-Sen: Lieberman Emboldens the Terrorists | CT-Sen: Lobbyists ponying up | Sen. Lautenberg (D-NJ) thinks Lieberman will drop out of general election if he loses the primary | Early Money | AFSCME's bottom-up revolution | GOP party chairman Ken Mehlman has nothing left to say | SC-Gov: Signs of life in the race? | TN-Sen: Corker wins GOP primary | CT-Sen: Lieberman scraps GOTV effort | Bob Casey returns Dan Savage gift | US Democrats unite on Iraq, see winning issue for midterm elections | Pity Tom Suozzi: Politicians Running For Office Will Selectively Quote The Darnedest Things | Heckuvan Inside Job Redux: Bernie Kerik, Bush's Would-Be DHS Chief, Faces 2nd Probe | Cynthia McKinney Must Fend Off Primary Challenge | FEC: Nearly $900 Mil to Campaigns This Cycle | After fireman pay criticism, Burns calls for funds to train insects | Crazy Rep. Katherine Harris Predicts Senate Win
QWAGMIRE -- France And US Agree On UN Resolution to Halt Israel-Hezbollah War: "A Major Victory For The US And Israel" | US Troops: Civil war in Iraq has already begun and we're stuck in the middle | Sects and the Chimpy: Ignorant Bush Didn't Know There Were Different Muslim Sects Two Months Before He Got His War On | Meanwhile, freedom is on the march in Iraq as hundreds of thousands rally and chant ‘Death To America’ | "It’s been obvious for years that Donald Rumsfeld is in denial of reality, but the defense secretary now also seems stuck in a time warp" | Israeli Commandos Renew Attack on Tyre | Data Bolsters Notion Of Iraqi Civil War | Missiles neutralizing Israeli tanks | Video: Routes out of Beirut destroyed | Israeli air strikes kill 60 civilians: Four Beirut bridges blown up | Hagel ramps up war criticism | Watch this! John McCain: "It’s Like A Game of Whack-A-Mole" | The Defense Department quietly asked Congress on Monday to raise the maximum age for military recruits to 42 for all branches of the service | At least Blair has his priorities straight | White House upset about Hillary Clinton's call for Rumsfeld to resign | Late for the party again, Joe! Lieberman to call for Rumsfeld resignation | Rising tensions with Shia in Iraq | Hagel: Begin Iraq withdrawal within 6 months | Officials: Israeli strikes in Lebanon flatten houses, 57 buried in rubble | Schools in Afghanistan Under Growing Attack
WAR CRIMES -- G.I. Crime Photos May Be Evidence | Report: Petty officer held four months in secret for espionage -- was he held illegally? | Then send him to The Hague! Ex-CIA contractor David Passaro to stand trial in Afghan beating
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 9/11 Commissioners Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton failed America | Surprise! Pentagon exonerates itself for lying to 9/11 Commission | Tamil Tigers kill 100 refugees, Sri Lanka says, amid new moves to halt | RNC Chief Ken Mehlman, Whose Boss Has Failed to Shut Down Al Qaeda, Has the Nerve to Fault Democratic Leaders on Terrorism
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Negroponte Orders an Update Engineered to Pin Sectarian Violence on "Terrorism's" Influence in Iraq | Senate to Negroponte: stop stonewalling
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Carter: Bush hurts prospects for peace
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Disgraced right-wing radio host allegedly violates probation, exposed his "giblets" to an 11-year-old | Watch this! Is Jack Cafferty A Crooks And Liars Reader? | Rush Limbaugh's Ex Beard… er, Girlfriend Daryn Kagan Leaving CNN to Start Web Site That She Claims Will Combat The "Straight News Business (Which Is) Lacking A Certain Spirituality" | Dry Eyes, Girded Loins: Wingnut meme about "staged" Qana photos collapses like a house of cards | The role of Tom Friedman and David Broder: help state -- and shift -- the "conventional Beltway "wisdom
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! The Sean Hannity double standard Despite both believing in global warming threat, "Al Gore is unhinged," but Pat Robertson is "sane" | Watch this! MSNBC's Tucker Carlson and Keith Olbermann double-team lying Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly's phony Mel Gibson media criticism | Watch this! Bill "Loofah" O'Reilly blames victim: Rape, murder victim was "wearing a miniskirt and a halter top. ... [E]very predator in the world is gonna pick that up at 2 in the morning" | Speaking from experience, Billy boy? | Watch this! Moments after noting both Bushes "led wars in the Gulf," John "OJ" Gibson criticized Ellis Henican for ruining his argument by bringing up Iraq
WHAT A RUSH! -- Watch this! Rush Limbaugh is once again the World's Worst Person!
$MIRKONOMICS -- Rising jobless, 'stagflation on way?' | Meet the Senate Millionaires Against Raising the Minimum Wage
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Delta moves to end pilots' pension plan | Unemployment at five month high
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Class Action Suit Against Smirk: Lawyers Say Many Left Out of Tax Refund
ELECTION THEFTS -- BradBlog slams Diebold 'apologist' Op-Ed | ComputerWorld Covers Busby/Bilbray Voting Machine 'Sleepover' Lawsuit, Contest | Activists: Advisory proves OH candidate Ken "Mister" Blackwell suppressing vote | MI authorities admit new voting system has flaws, cannot be relied on | On Paper Ballots, Voting Machine Sleepovers, Tom Feeney and Clint Curtis
OH, GOD! -- Time to call it what it is -- Crackpot Christianity, the real source of America's so-called " Moral Degeneration"
ENERGY SCANDALS -- 3 bucks for your suffering: that's all Con Ed would credit you for a week without electricity
TRASHING NATURE -- Ya think? Researches Link Heat Wave To Global Warming
GAY IN AMERICA -- Supporting and expanding family values: Indiana Supreme Court Justices rule same-sex couples can adopt | Three NM men beat 18-year-old gay man to 'scare him straight'

August 4

Hillary Clinton calls for Rumsfeld to resign
Senators Unload on Rumsfeld at Hearing: "Under your leadership, there have been numerous errors in judgment that have led us to where we are in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Shot across Rummy's bow: Sen. John Warner Suggests Congress May Need To Vote On New Iraq Resolution If Civil War Grows
CentCom Commander Changes Outlook On Future of Iraq; Now Suggests Civil War Is Possible | Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture’ About Iraq; ThinkProgress: Oh, Yes, You Did -- LIAR! | Rumsfeld's Latest Lame Excuse for Rising Insurgent Violence: The Weather! | Rumsfeld pulls a Lieberman | What’s Happened In Iraq Since The Last Time Rumsfeld Testified | Makin' Good Progress Yet? Abizaid Admits "Iraq Violence Is Probably As Bad As I've Seen It" | Rumsfeld: Withdrawal would be victory for extremists
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Where did that video spoofing Gore's film come from? Exxon's lobbying firm! | Glenn Greenwald demands that anti-Murtha lawyers live up to their commitment | 9-11 "conspiracy theorists" vindicated: Pentagon deliberately misled public opinion; military officials made false statements to Congress and to the 9-11 Commission | Prosecutors mull pre-election indictments in Congress | Another rubber-stamp Republican candidate fleeing Bush's record: Rep. Mark Kennedy's latest ad says he's a Republican who readily crosses party lines, but his voting record doesn't reflect that | CT-Sen: The Lieberthugs come out | Company Behind Santorum's New Campaign Tactic Plagued By Chequered Past | Exxon denies making anti-Gore film | Feds' Queries into Harris Grow | Feds Closing in on DeLay's Money Man? | DeLay Will Appeal Today's Ruling | WSJ: Dirty-Tricks Firm Tied to Anti-Gore Video | Republican party of Nevada sends election literature apparently pretending to be from Harry Reid | Halliburton Lobbyist Blames Wife for Green Party Donation | GOP-Funded Green Candidate: "I Bring Charisma, Depth" to PA Sen Race | Harris' campaign boss accused of petition fraud
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- GOP aims to criminalize whistleblowers
HOT POLITICS -- The End Of the Right? An EJ Dionne think piece you MUST read! | Paul Krugman: Centrism Is for Suckers | Reid wants Hillary to succeed her? | Reid 'may ask Clinton': Don't run in 2008--succeed me | Democrats roll out "6 for '06" agenda | Gay marriage isn't what it used to be, and Democrats may have found something -- stem cell research -- that trumps it | Is Bush preparing the American people for an all-out disaster? | Ct-Sen: Lieberman Campaign in Retreat | Why has Joe Lieberman hired the racist College Republicans to work with him? | Lieberman Finally Smells The Coffee | SD-AL: Herseth winning big | CT-Sen: Misc roundup | Judge: GOP Rep. Bonilla could be 'odd man out' in Texas redistricting | Max Cleland stumps for John Murtha | Rudy Giuliani's latest stupid comment: “It’s sort of the fashionable liberal view to be anti-American, anti-Israel.” | MT-Sen: Who is Conrad Burns? | PA-Sen: Green approached GOP for donations | Time to face the voters, Hammer | CT-Sen: Durbin on the race | CT-Sen: Lieberman rips Bush's war plan | Bush Vacation Plans: Crawford, Kennebunkport, Camp David...
QWAGMIRE -- | Israeli strike kills 25 farm workers in Lebanon | Deadly attacks hit northern Iraq | Six Marines charged in Iraq assault | Day 22: Bloodiest Day For Israel, 1 Million Displaced in Lebanon | Lew Rockwell: The Neocons' Next War | Hezbollah leader offers ceasefire -- with conditions | Senate asks Bush for intelligence update on Iraq | Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan | 'Israel Will Devastate Lebanon If Tel Aviv Attacked' | German Man Claims To Have Found China's "Area 51" On Google | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah today vowed to strike Tel Aviv | Confidential Memo To Tony Blair Warns Of Iraq Civil War... | Jordanian king 'enraged by war' | US troops fire on radical cleric supporters-police | Hezbollah: No Cease-Fire Without Pullout | Motorcycle Bombing Kills 12 in Baghdad | Hezbollah in Lebanon Gets Show of Support From Key Iraqi Shiite Cleric | Six people killed in rocket strikes in northern Israel | Another 11,000 Troops Being Sent To Afghanistan...
WAR CRIMES -- General Briefed Murtha After Murder Comment, Marine Corps Says | US troops accused of killing Iraqi detainees refuse to testify | Gonzales Says Government May "Indefinitely" Hold Guantanamo Prisoners...
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Iran sends Bin Laden's son to Syria/Lebanon to operate against Israel.
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iran's reformists redirect their anger toward US and Israel | North Korea backs away from 2nd missile test | UN report 'moral indictment' of US | Iran Warns US Of $200 Oil Barrels If Sanctioned... | Ahmadinejad: Destroy Israel, end crisis | Senator supports Bolton, blocks different Ambassador
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- How to Inspire (Even More) Fear and Loathing in the White House Press Room | This time, it didn't take Tom Friedman six months to admit that ‘staying the [Iraq] course Is pointless' and it's time To ‘disengage’ | Sen. "Tubes" Stevens Stymied, for Now | Neal "Boor" Boortz has another instance of Tourette's: adults earning minimum wage are "incompetent", "ignorant", "stupid", "worthless," and "pathetic" | Media Matters applies Bozellian logic: Since GOP readers outnumber Dems, well, golly, then online newspapers must be biased toward the conservative view! Thanks, El-Brent... | Hey, NYT, It's Spelled L-A-M-O-N-T | Class Dismissed: David Broder, Dean of Conventional Thinking | CBS' Kimberly Dozier Leaves Hospital | Moonie Times Apologizes For ‘Not Including Mr. Dingell’s Complete Answer’ | Now hear this! NPR's Morning Edition uncritically reported Arkansas lawmaker's claim that "over 10,000" studies show gay parents are "problematic for the child"
FOX WATCH -- Keith Olbermann’s Factor Fiction mercilessly mocks O'Reilly's dishonest chat with Geraldo | The numbers show Lieberman had a FOX News Channel habit, and kicked it cold turkey when he faced a primary challenge from the left | Watch this! Paul Bremer lies on FOX | Watch this! Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" and "vampires" criticizing Mel Gibson; Geraldo "Troop Locations" Rivera smears Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert | Watch this! Suspected transsexual Ann Coulter put "even money" on Sen. Clinton "[c]oming out of the closet"
WHAT A RUSH! -- Inside Rush Limbaugh's Dominican Stag Party | Good riddance: ex-Limbaugh moll and right-wing toolette Daryn Kagan Leaving CNN
$MIRKONOMICS -- Estate tax/minimum wage bill dealt major blow | Mortgage defaults up 67% in California
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Pension Overhaul Bill Sent to President | Wal-Mart stockholder Ned Lamont hits chain for practices | Ford More Than Doubles Expected Losses...
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Paris Hilton tax cut killed in Senate
ELECTION THEFTS -- DNC Releases 'Expanded National Voter Protection Effort' Plan | Justice Department to monitor Tennessee elections
JUSTICE WATCH -- General Counsel for Radio Free Asia stabbed to death in his home
OH, GOD! -- Bush's Christianist fundamentalism seen as a decisive, negative factor in his policies
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Plan B decision made before data review: FDA staff | Wal-Mart CEO: Big biz facing up to medical care crisis, but vague on direction
TRASHING NATURE -- Heat makes Pat Robertson a global warming "convert"
GAY IN AMERICA -- Rick Santorum signs statement defending transgender rights

August 3

Vanity Fair's must read article -- "9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes"
• Utter chaos and confusion at NORAD, Pentagon as 9/11 hijackings unfolded
• Cheney lied about issuing 9-11 command dispatching fighters to shoot down hijacked planes
• Transcripts and Audio Clips Online Now
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- A mystery over Ney’s legal bills | Guilty Plea for Claude "Sticky Fingers" Allen | US auditor lists failures in rebuilding of Iraq | Harris: I Didn't Report Subpoena Because I Didn't Have To | Abramoff probe looks to Nashville-based Christianist PAC | In PA, Big-Time GOP Donors Show True Colors: Green | Unconscionable: Sen. Talent Continues Lies, Attacks on Dead McCaskill Staffer | GOP Donors Funded Entire PA Green Party Drive | PA Dems Will Challenge GOP-Backed Green Candidacy | Republican WV candidate Chris Wakim's 'veteran' 'Harvard grad' claims challenged | Did Harris Break Rule, Hide Subpoena from House Leaders? | Ethics Committee Refuses to Exonerate Burns on Abramoff Dealings
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Watch this! Jack Cafferty on Conyers and a Constitutional Crisis | ABA fed up with Bush's dictatorial "I am the law" signing statements | More Big Brother With a Smirk: Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts Beyond Terrorists | Daniel Kish, a senior adviser to Rep. Pombo, has an eliminationist rhetoric problem | Would new Bush military tribunals cover American reporters?
HOT POLITICS -- Lamont's up: 54 - 41 | Lieberman Prepares For Defeat | Too Late: Senator Burns Seeks to Fix Damage Over Firefighter Remarks | Struggling Harris loses four more campaign staff | Bush to Take Shortest Summer Vacation Yet | Tom Delay hearts Joe Lieberman | Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Scrambling for Anti-Net Neutrality Votes -- With Little Luck | ImpeachPAC's hard-hitting anti-Lieberman 'Lie & Die' ad to air on cable TV | PA-Sen: Republicans bought Green candidate | CT-Sen: Lieberman continues to plan for indie bid | On the Ground with Lamont/Lieberman | DCCC to launch $51.5M ad blitz | Tenn. GOP Primary Is Race to Watch | CT-Sen: Lying about social security | Unpopular Bush Stumps for Ohio Governor Candidate | College Repubs. campaigning for Lieberman | CT-Sen: College Republicans organizing for Lieberman | WA-08: Burner's (D) race upgraded by CQ | VETPAC defends Murtha's right to speak against war | Sen. Santorum Gets Snippy Because Senators-Only Elevator Overrun By The "Unelected" | CT-Sen: Lieberman's Republican friends | NV-Sen: Carter makes gains | GA-04: Johnson's lead shrinks | NE Ohio flood victims snubbed by Bush; campaign stop sees "Impeach Bush" and "Master of Disaster" signs insulting Junior | OH-Sen: Strickland shows tax forms, but Blackwell doesn't, ending 35-year-long tradition | ME-Gov: Baldacci (D) scores gains | VT-AL: Tight House race in Vermont | Rep. Charles Rangel is "all in," so confident Dems will win House that he'll retire if they don't | Freedom fries on the march -- off the Congressional menu | CT-Sen: The Myth Of The Angry Left | GOP bloggers desperately mimic progressives, start raising cash for candidates
QWAGMIRE -- Donald Rumsfeld flip-flops, decides to attend public hearing after declining Congressional request to testify | Pentagon to Face Tough Questions on Iraq | Rummy caves after Senator Clinton urges him to testify at open hearing | Rumsfeld's Defensive Stance: Iraq Isn't In "A Classic Civil War At This Stage...Certainly Isn't Like Our Civil War" | What's Rummy afraid of? And what was he intending to hide? | Bush Wants Wider War | Pure comedy gold: Rep. Jean Schmidt (Idiot-OH) Explains A Mideast Challenges [sic] | Shiites Go to Baghdad to Support Hezbollah | Too late to stop the Joenertia: Lieberman rips W's war plan | South Korea think tank says Iran working with N.Korea on missiles | Deluded GOP Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL): Why won’t Iraqis accept our gift of freedom? | UN: Gaza 'crisis as bad as Lebanon' | Of all the reasons to fight the war in Iraq: Christianist retired Air Force major general says we should evangelize them all to Jay-zus | Qana probe: IDF estimated targeted building was empty | Report: Troops on move around Cuba | Iraq Vows Total Security Takeover By Year's End | No Ending Near: Ferocity Of Air, Ground Battles Intensifying Deep Inside Lebanon
WAR CRIMES -- Top Military Lawyers Oppose Plan for Special Courts | Murtha was right: Haditha report could implicate Marines | White House Asks -- Catch This! -- Congress to "Define War Crimes" | Genocide: a new Republican value? | Marine charged with war crimes sues Rep. John Murtha; Rep: 'I don't blame him for lashing out' | Peers vowed to kill me if I told of slayings, says soldier | Update: Pentagon Meets Subpoena Deadline
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- NY Times receives second white powder envelope | Report: bin Laden's son freed in Iran
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- GOP senator opposes Bolton
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- No family members of Bush team have served in Bush's wars | SOLDIER: 101st Keyboard Brigade Refuses to Answer Hypocrisy
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Tony "Phony" Snow continues to smear Helen Thomas, insinuating that she's supposedly some sort of insidious Arab America-hater: 'You just made a Syrian argument against Israel' | Daily Show Blasts Network News for Mel Gibson Coverage | Bush Makes Staged "Surprise" Appearance In WH Briefing Room, Asked "Should Mel Gibson Be Forgiven?" | Breaking: News Photographers Did Not Collude with Hezbollah to Stage Photos at Qana | I seriously doubt George Bush approved of this | Seeking to deflect criticism of Mel Gibson, Dennis "The Menace" Prager revived discredited accusations that Sen. Clinton made anti-Semitic remarks 30 years ago | 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Redux: Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang Argues That Qana Was An Inside Job | Keeping the Internet fair and honest: Researcher unveils Net neutrality tools | CNN Anchor Gets Angry At Israeli Spokeswoman: All Of These Civilians Killed. And Yet, Very Little Impact On Hezbollah | Jon Stewart Slams TV News Coverage Of Mel Gibson: "Being A Move Star, There's Really A Clip...For Just About Anything You Could Ever Possibly Get Yourself Into" | Jonah Goldberg speaks out against demonization tactics | Following Powerlie, Moonie Times Falsely Claims Dingell Refuses To ‘Condemn Hezbollah’ | $$ Flows to Net Neutrality Undecideds | Watch this! Chris Matthews seems confused over who was president in 2001: "We know" President Clinton "didn't stop" 9-11 | Echoing Lyndon LaRouche, Horowitz and Poe smear 14-year-old George Soros as Nazi "collaborator"; new book features doctored quotes, factual errors
FOX WATCH -- FOX News Continues to Suggest Israel Did Not Bomb Qana Building | On Hannity & Colmes, proven liar David Horowitz dodged charges that he "didn't even write or research" portions of his book | Watch this! Bill "Loofah Boy" O'Reilly again baselessly attacked Oregonian's Carlin, this time for "vilifying" O'Reilly "by using far-left website propaganda material"
WHAT A RUSH! -- Following the lead of Powerlie and The Washington Times, Limbaugh cropped Dingell's statement to suggest he "refuses to condemn" Hezbollah
$MIRKONOMICS -- Bush Realizes What the Majority of Americans Know Already: Economy Is a Liability | Economists join reality-based world, admit "stagflation" is back
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Firm pays $4M to settle Iraq fraud
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Ploy to get Paris Hilton her tax giveback: GOP tacks "Coal Mine Cleanup" to minimum wage/Make Paris Richer Bill
BUDGET MESS -- More tax dollars wasted: House, Senate Plan To Give Millions To Cuban Dissidents To Fight For “Democratic” Change
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Treasury Secretary ready to privatize Social Security
ELECTION THEFTS -- Are Electronic Voting Machine Vendors Paying Disabilities Advocates Under The Table In New York? And Elsewhere? | 60 Years Ago, Veterans Fired On Corrupt Politicians To Prevent Election Fraud
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Kansas Board Of Education Shifts In Favor Of Evolution
OH, GOD! -- Focus on Gay-Bashing In the Family Disinvited From Atlanta Braves’ ‘Faith Day’ Events
RACISM IN THE USA -- How Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang sees Hispanics, courtesy the other Roger Ailes
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck Would Rather You Have That Rapist's Baby, Dammit
TRASHING NATURE -- 22 Cities Join Clinton Anti-Warming Effort | Majority Whip Blunt Intent On Increasing Global Warming Using Energy Industry's Own Junk Science Excuses: "Information Not Adequate Yet...To Do Anything Meaningful" | 22 Cities Joining Clinton Initiative To Limit Impact On Global Warming

August 2

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Conservative Family Values: Richard Mellon Scaife, the man who financed the attack on Bill Clinton over his personal life, is in yet another conservative broken marriage | 9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon, Mulled Legal Action | LA Sheriff Investigating Whether Gibson Got Special Treatment... | Abramoff gives up his b-ball season tix | Rebecca Cox, Ex-Rep.'s wife, uses Congressional spouse pin for special access | Harris Watch: "Pink Sugar" Hid Subpoena from Staff | An unconscionable attack from Jim Talent in Missouri | How The Right Does It: Smear Machine in Action | MT-Sen: More details on Burns' fireman meltdown | Feds may get Judith Miller phone records | Swiftboaters set sights on Murtha | Republicans Sponsor Green Candidate in PA Senate Race | Powerlie Blog Uses Chopped Audio Clip to Smear Rep. John Dingell As Hezbollah Apologist | Swiftboaters to go after John Murtha | Harris works out of GOP HQ--in primary
TRAITORGATE -- Libby Lawyers Channel Proust
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Progressive Reporter Ejected From National Conservative Student Conference | Sibel Edmonds Asks: 'What Price Security?' And 'What Security?' | Catapulting pure propaganda: WH press room "Makeover" engineered to shape stories, minimize criticism
HOT POLITICS -- Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit | NYOb: Did Lieberman Ever Have The NY Times Behind Him? | CT-Sen: Senate Dems covered for Lieberman | Save Yourself for Kinky: Check out the TX Guv candidate's cool cartoon | US political guru Charlie Cook says to expect "an electoral rout" | All 88 Are Key: OH Dems Adopt Dean Strategy, Plan to Leave No County Behind | Bill Frist is dreaming of clambakes | Charlie Cook sees November rout | CT-Sen: Sharpton blasts Lieberman; and other news | MO-Sen: McCaskill takes lead in Rasmussen poll | PA-Sen: Greens working for Santorum | CT-Sen: The Alito defense | CO-05: Fawcett versus crazy wingnuts | Gallup Numbers: Bush Approval Stagnant at 40% | MoveOn comes out in support of Dems on Iraq | Effort afoot to scrap Electoral College (WARNING: Right-wing fishwrap link) | MoveOn's 'revolt' divides Dems, worries leaders | Bush Baggage Could Cost Lieberman Primary
QWAGMIRE -- 44 Die in Attacks Aimed at Iraqi Security Forces | Israel 'holds Hezbollah fighters' | Lieberman Backs Troop Withdrawal but Not Timetable of Other Democrats | Israel: 'Capable of occupation' | Roadside bombs kill three people in Baghdad | Subject Of Rolling Stone Article Responds To Report That He's Selling War In Iran | Nephew of Montana Democratic Senator Baucus killed in Iraq | Israel Sending Thousands Of Forces Deeper Into Lebanon... | Bush Sr. advisers 'uneasy' with son's 'pro-Israeli tilt' | Lebanese: IDF tried to kidnap senior Hezbollah member | "Not ready for duty, sir!" Top General Says Army National Guard Not Ready For Combat | 63 People Killed In Violence Across Iraq... | Shock and fury mark worldwide protests at Israeli air strike | 3 Israeli soldiers killed in southern Lebanon | Audit: Corruption in Iraq a 'Pandemic' | Up to 10,000 Israeli Troops Push Into Lebanon | Heavy Fighting Rages Along Border; Hezbollah Claims 35 Israeli Casualties | 25 kidnapped from Chamber of Commerce in Baghdad | Bush to UN: 'I want more than ceasefire'
WAR CRIMES -- The pilot and Vietnam POW -- a staunch Republican -- who pushed through the War Crimes Act of 1996 is appalled that the Bush administration, facing possible prosecution for war crimes, is devising a legal escape hatch | Pentagon Report to Suggest Marines Shot Iraqis in Haditha
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Poll: Third of Americans suspect 9/11 government conspiracy | US releases hundreds of 9/11 attack photos, videos
BORDER BUNGLES -- CO Immigration Law signed
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE --
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Time for Adults to Handle America's Diplomacy | Iranian president rejects U.N. nuke deadline | Castro condition 'stable' | After Fidel, no deluge: Alfredo Duran, Bay of Pigs soldier turned voice of moderation, says Miami's angry old guard of Cuban exiles won't like what follows Castro
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Soldier: 101st Keyboarder Refuses to Answer Hypocrisy
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Bush Admin. Gets Inflated Record When Media Giants Are Labeled “Small Business” | Watch this! CNN still fixated on Apocalypse predictors, still ignoring alleged invitation to White House, Capitol Hill | Watch this! Amy Goodman challenges MSNBC, Hardball on Phil Donohue’s firing | Did They Fire Rich Lowry Yet? National[ist] Review then: "We're Winning [in Iraq]!!!" Now: Not so much… | Congresswoman McKinney Sues Atlanta Journal-Constitution for libel | Latest Powerlie scandal: Tape edited to change Dingell answer | Watch this! NBC's Tom "Lou" Costello falsely reported conservative Concerned Women for America "advocates" allowing Plan B with age restrictions | Watch this! Ned Lamont on The Colbert Report | Charles "Sour" Krauthammer falsely claimed estate tax "penalizes a lot of small businesses" | AP reported that Rice "cut short" her Mideast trip, failed to note reports that Lebanese PM rebuffed her | Watch this! Ned Lamont on the Colbert Report
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! Bush emerged "dry as toast" from Neil "Poledance" Cavuto's softball interview | Watch this! Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’ | Fox Settles Sex Discrimination Suit... | Watch this! MSNBC's Tucker Carlson slams Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly's desire to "[l]evel" Fallujah, subsequent claim that "macho solutions are no solutions": "This is what happens when cable news does foreign policy" | Responding to weatherman's report about North American heat waves, FOX's Steve "Dookie" Doocy declared "it's not global warming" | Only on FOX: "Will this [Middle East] crisis bring back the 'Axis of Weasels?' "
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh’s Civilian talk | Rush Limbaugh on the Qana bombing
$MIRKONOMICS -- Republican Minimum Wage Bill to Lower Wages in Seven States | Mitt miffed as his veto of MA minimum wage hike is overturned
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Judge cancels Enron linked convictions | Harry Reid notes connection between Yucca, 'Big Dig'; Bechtel Corp. involved | Big drop for Big 3 car cos. in July sales | GOP Senate candidate McGavick sued over Safeco package
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Body found in eastern New Orleans, believed a Katrina victim
ELECTION THEFTS -- CA Senate Panel Rakes Kern Co. Elections Officials and Diebold Over the Coals | CNN's Lou Dobbs: Hand Counts in Iowa Kept Incorrect Op-Scan Counts From Installing the Wrong Candidates! | CO Court rules parolees cannot vote | GOP purges voter rolls over weekend | Latest blow to e-voting reliability: New flaws in voting machines found
JUSTICE WATCH -- Bar Association pans Bush court pick | Jewish Cop Busted Mel Gibson
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Evolution’s foes lose big time in Kansas school board elections
OH, GOD! -- Evangelicals in Kabul despite warning
RACISM IN THE USA -- LA gangbangers guilty in hate conspiracy | Watch this! African American Capitol Police Officers Say Rep. McKinney Targeted By White Officers
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Congress still addicted to oil
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Plan B Pill Snarls FDA Nominee Hearings | Surgeon General Leaves Post
TRASHING NATURE -- EPA bends to politics say staff scientists | Clinton Foundation to Work to Reduce Greenhouse Gases | Life-Threatening Heat Wave Prompts Evacuations And Energy Cutbacks In Eastern US. | Link Between Global Warming And Hurricane Intensity Remains Strong
GAY IN AMERICA -- Anti-gay closeted spokesman 'outed'

August 1

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Just released: Rep. John Conyers' Report on Potential Bush Crimes | House Majority Leader John Boehner: It's his job to be dishonest | Chuck lashes 9/11 fund: Schumer blasts 'stingy' firm slighting heroes, he sez, while Hil takes aim at EPA's 'secrets' | Frist Fails to Disclose Foundation Role | Judges Indicate They'll Rule Against Republicans, DeLay | Bush Admin May Have Violated 26 Statutes, Dems Say
TRAITORGATE -- Indicted Former Cheney Aide Libby Wants "Memory Expert" At Trial...
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Former National Security Agency intelligence analyst Russell Tice's grand jury appearance postponed
HOT POLITICS -- EJ Dionne has a good take on Lieberman v. Lamont | Fidel Castro in hospital, delegates power to brother Raul | GOP Aids PA Green Candidate Carl Romanelli | Running Silent: Joe Lieberman and campaign volunteers won't discuss possibility of independent run petitions | Senate Democrats Set Aside $7 Million to Back OH's Sherrod Brown; Incumbents in PA, MO Targeted for Ignominious, Humiliating Defeat | Katherine Harris' car no longer sports own sticker | Salon: "Lieberman And His Home State Democrats Have Been Slogging For Years Through A Troubled Marriage" | MT-Sen: Burns' burning hatred of fire fighters | Senate Set for Flurry of Bills | Stevens tries to pull fast one on Net Neutrality | Senate Democrats Reserve $25M for Ads | CT-Sen HQ: The Last Week | House 2006: Reynolds names names | The corrosive DC Democratic consultants | The new Democratic Right? | KS Republicans Vie for Nomination | Watch this: Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) Brags About GOP Having Sabotaged Minimum Wage Bill | VA-Sen: M-D polls the race | Florida GOP to Harris: We Never Loved You | Duuh! GOP Sen. Santorum Links Opponent To Completely Wrong Al Jazeera | Republican Party has revoked support for Katherine Harris's Senate campaign
QWAGMIRE -- Romance! After Middle East fighting spreads, Neocons fall in love with Bush all over again | House bill seeks to rescind Iraq war authorization | At least 52 die across Iraq, 24 on one bus | This can't be good: two Koreas exchange gunfire | The fallout from Qana: Human Rights Watch denounces Israel for war crimes, while a halt to air strikes lasted only a few hours | A war of self-defense against mothers and children | Olmert to Blair: Cease-fire possible once international force is deployed | Car bomb kills seven in Iraqi town | Oil pipeline in Iraq a shambles: Pentagon watchdog | GOP Sen. Hagel Breaks With Bush: Israel's Pounding Of Lebanon Is Hurting America's Image | Mideast crisis grows as Israel widens offensive | Pressure mounting in Iraq for ouster of Interior chief | House And Senate Dems Unite To Call For Iraq Troop Withdrawal | At Least 23 Murdered In Ambush Near Baghdad | Israel OKs expansion of Lebanon campaign | GOP's Chuck Hagel: Iraq Is "An Absolute Replay Of Vietnam" | Is Syria next -- either by accident or on purpose? | Raise readiness, Assad tells Syrian Army | Israel: "No Cease-fire"… We Are "Continuing To Fight" | Hezbollah Attacks Israeli Building With IED | Egypt's Mubarak warns entire Mideast peace process "could" collapse? It has, Hosni, it has | Iraqi Interior Ministry may be replaced because things are so bad | Dems unite, call for troop pullout from Iraq by year's end | Israel says hits 2/3 of Hezbollah's heavy missiles | The war in Iraq really is still happening -- and Americans are really still dying | Israel Ends 48 Hour Air strike Suspension Early... | NATO Takes Over Afghan South | Bush says Iran, Syria must end support for Hezbollah | Bush to consult with Rice on sorta kinda talking about a Mideast cease-fire | Did Iranians Attend North Korea's July 4th Missile Test? Possibly not… | Iraq gunmen attack Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce, take 26 hostage
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 9/11 Moussaoui Trial Exhibits Posted on Website
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Senator Chuck Schumer dons his pink tutu, asserts incompetent UN amb-ASS-ador John Bolton won't face filibuster -- thanks, Chuck, for nothing!
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Media's Attention Deficit Helps Republicans and Lieberman Run From Iraq | Lying About Ledeen: National[ist] Review Falsely Claims Neocon‘Has Opposed Military Action Against Iran’ | Watch this! Michael "Savage" Wiener Voting Rights Act reauthorization will "put voting machines in crack houses" | Watch this! Look who's talking: Chris Matthews Show panel agreed Sen. Clinton is not an "authentic person"
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh Takes the Islamofascist Line | Rush, unhinged and down on the Hezbos
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Carlyle Group to launch hedge fund
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Panel: Offshore Tax Havens Cost US Treasury Billions
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Rep. John Boehner Pledges To Privatize Social Security
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- New FEMA Head: I Will See Spike Lee's "Katrina" Film, Bush Probably Won't
ELECTION THEFTS -- "This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines"
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Evolution’s Backers in Kansas Mount a Counterattack
OH, GOD! -- Worshipers of rival deities send hate mail to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster | How Churches Are Putting a Texas Town Out of Business
RACISM IN THE USA -- Actor and racist Mel Gibson enters rehab | ABC cancels Mel Gibson miniseries… | … after report that Disney execs "back" drunk bigot Gibson | Since Disney/ABC had Jew-hater Mel Gibson directing a mini-series about the Holocaust, AmericaBlog has other mini-series they might consider… | Watch this! Jack Cafferty, priceless on Mitt Romney's tar baby problem | Saddam vs. Mel: Spot The Difference Between The Crazy Ranting Despot
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Senate Close on Offshore Drilling Bill | Heat Wave Pushing Power Grid Demand To The Max | White House Conspicuously Absent From Blair, Schwarzenegger Energy
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Surprise morning-after pill ruling: it may go over the counter | Abortion under siege in Mississippi: Preaching that abortion is as evil as Islam, Nazism and homosexuality, dozens of activists have descended on Jackson, determined to shut down the state's last abortion clinic | Bush to kill successful suicide prevention line | You need $300,000 should be in the bank to cover retirement health expenses | Abortion ban turns out to be unpopular in South Dakota | U.S. Senate panel to hold hearing on FDA nominee | John Kerry calls for health insurance for all by 2012
TRASHING NATURE -- Study predicts a much hotter, drier California | Huge' Russian pipeline oil spill

July 31

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- In Scandal's Aftermath, Painful Prices Still Being Paid
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Echoes of the Nixon era: Arlen Specter's FISA bill would put President Bush above the rule of law, just as an earlier president would've wanted | Mike Bloomberg needs to come clean about his role in suppressing protests during 2004 GOP Convention
HOT POLITICS -- Top Democratic Organizers Joining Forces To Write 2008 "Road Map" | USA Today: Bush's "Regular Guy" Act Is Backfiring... | Election Challenge To Be Filed In Busby/Bilbray Race Monday Morning | WaPo Gives Nod To Lieberman -- Or So It Seems | Inaction Could Undercut Bush's Long-term Goals | Brainwashing update: More young people are now attending 'conservative boot camps' | The crazed face of Neoconservatism | Courant, ConnPost back Sen. Lieberman | DeLay and the Ballot: a 2-Step With Twists | Poll: Sen. Allen Leading in Virginia
QWAGMIRE -- IDF: Qana building fell hours after strike | War in the Age of 'Poodle-ism' | At Least 23 Killed in Ambush Near Baghdad | Israeli warplanes strike in eastern Lebanon | Israel denies breaking Lebanon bombing suspension | Lebanon Casts Pall on White House Game | Israel agrees to 48-hour suspension of bombing | Is US actually pushing escalation of Mideast war? | Annan Tells UN Council to Demand Mideast Truce; Bolton Plans Monkeywrenching | Marines Prop Up Ailing Local Gov't In Iraq | No chickenhawks in JJ's family: John McCain's son to enter Marines | Newsweek's Scott Johnson: IED Attack in Ramadi, Firsthand | U.S. Backs What They Call Israel's Right to Defend Itself | Newsweek Editor Zakaria: Rumsfeld "Seems Literally In A Parallel Universe And Slightly Deranged" | Lebanese army stops Israeli helicopters landing | Palestinians storm U.N. compound in Gaza City | Four more marines killed in Iraq | Officials: There 'aren't enough troops' to fix problems in Iraq | Syria: U.S. support for Israel no longer justified | Jordan's king accuses Israel of 'criminal aggression' in Qana attack | Reuters: Atomic incentives dead if UN passes resolution: Iran
BORDER BUNGLES -- Two Volunteers Arrested For Helping Immigrants | Quota of 20,000 H1B visas exhausted
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush's delusions about the Mideast further undermining US credibility | Rice believes can forge Lebanon truce this week | Bolton nixes Annan's call for cease-fire
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Jared Kushner Buys The New York Observer... | New NYOb owner: could be worse… | Media Giants Work Washington To Avoid Political Backlash From Oliver Stone's World Trade Center | Tweety Matthews's "No duh" moment: The Crescent is a Frankenstein’s Monster | Michael Moore readies Michigan film gala… is there a "surprise" in the works? | Moore: Republicans actually hug me! | What would happen if Americans actually had to watch real images of war?
$MIRKONOMICS -- Millions of men in 'prime of their lives' have dropped out of work
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart first China union could mean more to come | Enron victims could speak at sentencings | GM and UAW support pensions bill
JUSTICE WATCH -- They impeach people for this sort of thing: Ted Kennedy says Alito and Roberts misled Judiciary Committee
OH, GOD! -- Ohio State Employees Told to Take Religious References Out of E-mails | Normal evangelicals are starting to fight back
RACISM IN THE USA -- Mitt Romney apologizes for use of expression "tar baby" | Mel Gibson's bigotry: "he laid it out nice and clearly awhile back, and everyone agreed not to notice..."
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Seniors learning the Bush/GOP drug plan is a disaster | Is The FDA Too Cozy With Drug Makers? Is the Pope Catholic? | Study knocks Bush dental plan
TRASHING NATURE -- Emergency "Escape Route" From Global Warming Published By Nobel Scientist

July 30

Welcome to the Police State: Bush submits new terror bill | Bottom line: Bush wants law that would permit him to throw any American in jail, forever, without a trail or attorney | The AP story that got buried: Bush submits new terror detainee bill
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- The corrupt hackery of Pat Roberts: Conceal the truth to help the GOP's election chances | NYT: State Dept. Agency Hid Iraq Costs from Congress | Pat Roberts Scrambles to Cover Up Report on Prewar Intelligence
HOT POLITICS -- CT-Sen: New York Times endorses Ned Lamont | "Not A Good Thing To Be [Republican] This Year" | NM Governor Bill Richardson: America Needs 'New Realism' | CT-Sen: The Rest of the Story | "God, Guns, Gays" a Stretch for Average Voters | A Tale of Two Primaries | Katherine Harris Makes "A Bit Of A Stretch" Describing Resume Of New Campaign Manager | New York mayor Mike Bloomberg to bid for White House as independent?
QWAGMIRE -- At least 57 civilians - 37 of whom were children - were killed as the IAF fired missiles at a building in the southern Lebanese town; Olmert, Halutz and Peretz apologize for Qana deaths | World condemns attack in Qana | 132,000 US troops in Iraq, up from 127,000 last week; US Has "Quietly Reversed Its Goal" Of Troop Withdrawal From Iraq (read: more troops going to Iraq) | Miserable failure: Stymied in Mideast, Condi Rice to Head Home | Rumors of coup in Iraq prompt Shiite warnings | An environmental disaster in Lebanon | Hezbollah politicians back peace package | UN Security Council to meet for Lebanon talks today | Rioting against the UN in Beruit | 52% of Americans want all US troops withdrawn from Iraq within 12 months | Israel Withdraws From Border Town After Bloody Week | Intense Diplomacy, Ceaseless Fighting | Hezbollah declares victory after Israel announces troop withdrawal | Israel will not demand Hezbollah disarm | Rep. Ed Markey accuses White House of duplicity as India sells missile parts to Iran | Source: Islamic Jihad leader killed | Christians Fleeing Lebanon Denounce Hezbollah | US Repositioning Troops in Iraq
WAR CRIMES -- New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay | US military rules of engagement on trial in Iraqi killing case
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Secretive Fight Against Bioterror: Classified lab raises concerns
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA insiders: "[Pentagon] thesis that Hezbollah operations are directly controlled and closely managed from Teheran[is] an exaggerated picture of the real situation"
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- It's no wonder Iraqis are not impressed with Bush-style democracy | State Radio: Iran to Reject U.N. Nuke Proposal
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Frank Rich: Why the television networks 'canceled' the war in Iraq | Karl Rove v. Thomas Jefferson re. the Press: We're with Jefferson | Fareed Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’ | Whiny Leaker Karl Rove Slanders Press, Claims They Have a "Corrosive Role" In Politics | The anti-war majority, Glenn Reynolds, and the dishonest tactics | When will the pundit class call Frist and the GOP’s "stay the course agenda" out of touch with America? | Watch this! Republicans afraid to say they are…Republicans! | Bills Soar As Many Hit Gap in Drug Plan: Medicare Provision Jolts
OH, GOD! -- Disowning Conservative Politics Is Costly for an Evangelical Pastor | Marines’ Dad Sues Infamous Anti-Gay Church Over Funeral Protests
RACISM IN THE USA -- Official Confirmation: Racist Christianist Mel Gibson Did Spew Anti-Semitic Slurs In DUI Arrest; No Cover-up By Authorities | Malibu's Most Wanted
HEALTH DEBACLES -- US Employers Look Offshore for Healthcare, Surgery
TRASHING NATURE -- Dakotas At The Epicenter Of Crippling US Drought | Deadly Heat Wave Migrates East | Toxic Runoff Spawning "The Rise Of Slime" In Worldwide Oceans | Widespread Heat Waves "Very Strongly Connected" To Global Warming