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Hot Headlines, September 2006

Sept. 30
Rep. Mark Foley Resigns From Congress; Is He a Pedophile?; Fears That Emails Even More Provocative Than Those Revealed Exist
Palm Beach Post: Foley shocker jolts race, GOP
Disgraced, Rep. Foley Exits in a Hurry
Nancy Pelosi leads House to pass resolution ordering immediate ethics probe over Mark Foley cybersex-with-a-minor scandal | Pedopholey? Rep. Mark Foley was sending salacious e-mails to multiple ex-pages! | Foley's name must stay on ballot | Jeff Miller: There are 35 pages of Foley emails | Why Wasn't Foley Stopped? | ABC: If guilty, Foley could be sentenced to years in prison | Foley: Do I make you a little horny? Teen: A little. Foley: Cool.
Cover-up! House GOP Leadership knew about Foley almost a year ago, let Foley remain in House leadership,hid facts from Democrats, let Foley remain as chair of House sex offender caucus
What did they know about Foley and when did they know it?
GOP Chairman of Congressional Page Board Did Not Investigate Or Intervene
Boehner says Hastert knew...
...then changes his story!
Boehner Knew About Foley Scandal Early On | Surprise! Boehner, tied to Foley cover-up, tries to block Pelosi's investigation resolution
Foleygate: They thought they were untouchable
All day Hastert's people and other GOP members lied, said Hastert was never informed | Foley departure is big, but the cover-up is bigger | GOP House page board chair may have helped cover-up Foley scandal | House GOP Leadership knew about Foley almost a year ago, let Foley remain in House leadership, let him remain as chair of House sex offender caucus
Foley's Departure Screws Florida GOP
Remember Bernard Cardinal Law? | I won't say "Republican pedophile ring" -- but feel free to think it... | FL-16: To Atone, Foley Must Donate His Warchest to Protect Exploited Children | Hey! Let's Waterboard GOP Rep. Mark Foley!
White House Falsely Described Rove's Contacts With Abramoff As Merely A Casual Relationship
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Hastert Lies Outright: Liberals Want to Take the 130 Most Treacherous People In the World and Release Them Out In the Public | Video: Jack Abramoff had "run" of the White House | Email Proves Rove Killed Interior Nomination for Abramoff | White House, caught off guard, is now on the defensive about Jack Abramoff; Rove forced to discuss gifts from lobbyists | Fact Check: White House Falsely Claimed Abramoff Had Very Few Meetings With Staff | Video: GOP rep accused of tolerating forced abortions, sex slavery | Ken Mehlman Was Jack Abramoff's Rock Star | HUD Spokesmodel Admits Making Crap Up To Spin Alphonso Jackson Controversy | Incompetence, corruption, or both? Over 100 Homeland Security computers worth $300,000 have gone missing
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Abu Gonzales Tries Bullying Judges, Warns Courts Against Interfering With Bush's Detainee Bill, Anti-Terrorism Tactics | GOP Infighting Deals White House Setback on Wiretapping Bill
HOT POLITICS -- Cleland Defends Brown From TV Attacks | ID-01: Polls, Debates, and More | Cleland Speaks Out Against Negative GOP AD: "I've Seen This Movie Before...It Beat Me In 2002" | FL-16: Meet Tim Mahoney | Your liberal media: ABC, CBS, CNN aired Bush's "cut and run" attack on Democrats, ignored Democratic response | Closer NJ Senate Race Than Anticipated | Loony Tom Feeney•s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory | MT-Sen: VoteVets ad, Conrad Burns edition | Intelligence and foreign policy issues continue to dominate the debate | Here is what a Democratic victory means in 2006 | Sen. Kennedy On GOP’s "Terror! Fear!' Campaign: "In 40 Days, We Can Put An End To This Nonsense" | On Kicking Ass and Crashing Gates
QWAGMIRE -- Iraqi Government Declares Emergency Curfew For Baghdad | Bush All But Admits Miserable Failure In Afghanistan | 7 tortured bodies found in Baghdad | Baghdad locked down over bomb threats | 10 Iraqis killed in violence, bomb plot arrest made | Kin of Saddam judge murdered | Bob Woodward: The Iraq Situation Is Getting Much Worse Despite What The White House And The Pentagon Are Saying In Public | If you hate America, despise the Pentagon and want to see the U.S. war machine humbled in Iraq and Afghanistan, then you have to love what the Cheney Administration and its most obedient servants in Congress are doing to the Army... | Congress says no to funding permanent Iraq bases | Iraq Bloodshed to Increase In 2007, Bush Was Told | Book: Bush blew off Iraq warnings | Dumping Billions Into a Hole: Senate Approves Record Pentagon Budget, Including $70 Billion For Iraq, Afghanistan | Even Laura Bush And Ex-WH Chief Of Staff Andy Card Urged The President To Replace Rumsfeld
WAR CRIMES -- Court Challenge to New "Torture the Tairistss" Law May Come In Days | Bush faces wave of challenges to torture law | Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt reveal the true impulses underlying yesterday's pro-torture vote
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush attacks Democrats again, with false linkage of demanding truth about Iraq and terrorism to supporting terrorist propaganda | Top CIA counterintel officials felt they could have killed Osama in the months before 9/11 -- but were brushed off when they went to Team Bush for money and authorization | Al Qaeda Using Media To Transform From Terrorist Group To Ideological Umbrella | Al Qaeda calls Bush a Failure
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- S. Korea bribes for UN chief slot? | Senate Passes Iran Sanctions Bill
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Keyboard Kommando Komix is back -- with their Disney Edition | Michael Savage: objectively pro-pedophilia! | Conservatively Biased Shills: Why is CBS paying Nicolle Wallace to sound like Tony Snow? | What is it that so infuriates the folks at The New Republic[an] about the Clinton Global Initiative?
FOX WATCH -- Fair and Balanced: a FOX News Case Study | FOX News Fight Club: Sheppard Smith clashes with Kristol on the War: | O•Reilly baselessly suggested that "religious fundamentalists" have "no influence" on politicians and the media | EJ Dionne explains the Clinton pushback
WHAT A RUSH! -- Affirmative assclown: Limbaugh claimed "[t]here can only be one reason" Survivor scrapped "segregated" competition after two episodes -- "the white tribe had to be winning"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Middle-class in worse shape ever
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- GM Hires Fox News Mouthpiece Sean Hannity As Spokesman
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Sen. Frist Delays Port Security Vote By Adding Unrelated Internet Gambling Legislation To Bill
JUSTICE WATCH -- Scalia Begins Third Decade on Court Subverting Constitution, Rule of Law
OH, GOD! -- Orrin Hatch has a song for bizarre cult mastermind Rev. Moon
RACISM IN THE USA -- Sen. George Macacawitz Allen's Teammate Stands By N-Word Report: "I Don't Know How George Can Look Himself In The Mirror" | AZ state rep. supports "Operation Wetback" | Another teammate confirms George Macacawitz Allen used N-word
ENERGY SCANDALS -- No Congress drilling deal despite talks
TRASHING NATURE -- Sen. James Inhofe Lashes Out At CNN, Grossly Distorts Global Warming Science

Sept. 29
Republican "F$#@ the Constitution" controlled Congress gives Bush the right to torture and detain people forever
whitehouse.gov: Bush was against torture before he was for it | The legalization of torture and permanent detention | Court holds Ashcroft can be held personally liable for wrongful detention | Sen. Leahy: "This is so wrong, un-Constitutional,un-American" | Harry Reid on Torture Bill: "I strongly believe this legislation is unconstitutional" | Obama Speaks | Debate the Merits of Torture? Gracious, Who Has the Time? | Senate Kills Habeas Amendment on Torture Bill | House Passes Torture Bill: How Did Your Rep Vote? | Torture Bill: Edwards Speaks | Torture Bill: Kerry Speaks | Torture Bill: Feingold Speaks | Torture Bill: Dodd Speaks | Bush Torture Bill Headed for Vote This Evening
Roll Call: White House intervened for Abramoff Clients | HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson Admitted Professional Bias Against Bush Critics, Ignored Warnings From Lawyers
The National Intelligence Estimate does not say what Bush says it does. How will he handle upcoming secret reports on Iran and Iraq?
Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann: The NY Post May Have Interfered With A Federal Investigation
New Bob Woodward Book Blows Lid Off Bad Iraq Decisions: Kissinger pays regular visits to President Bush; Every 15 minutes Iraqi insurgents attack troops | More: Woodward Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq | Boobie Doesn't Love Dubya Anymore! New Woodward Book Details Multiple Bush Coverups Over Iraq
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- The Bush cadre has a pathological need to break the law | Emails Suggest RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman (you know, the guy who paints Howard Dean as "unhinged") Arranged Fed Funds for Abramoff Contributions | "Karl Would Like 3 Tickets For His Family": 82 Contacts Between Abramoff and Rove Himself! | Does Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) "have a thing" for underage boys? | Another spying scandal for Capitol Hill | When corruption collapses: House ices Ney-tied telecom license | Did you know that House passed something called the Iran Freedom Support Act last night on a voice vote with no debate? | For HUD Sec, Breaking The Law is Hard To Do | Jeanine Pirro is demanding that Alberto Gonzales investigate the US Attorney who is investigating her | NY GOP AG candidate Jeanine "Love Bug" Pirro Blasts Probe, Asks Bush Admin for Help | More mirth guaranteed! NY GOP AG Candidate Jeanine "Wiretap the Love Boat, Dammit, Kerik!" Pirro Vows to Stay in Race | HP's Law Firm Has Given Thousands To Lawmakers Who Are Now Investigating Spying Probe | Dereliction of Office: Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) Admits He Only Read Iraq Intel Report This Week Even Though He Is On Intel Committee
TRAITORGATE --
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- House Approves Big Brother Warrantless Wiretap Law | Republican Senate tries to hijack cell phone privacy bill to help Bush's domestic spying program, and help telcoms keep you less safe | Tom "Has-been" Ridge: Dem call to pull draconian Patriot Act 'ludicrous' | Judge Taylor defies the Leader again, refuses Bush administration request to issue a stay of her Order in ACLU v. NSA
HOT POLITICS -- Battle Royale: Democrats Have Shot At Senate and House Control | With elections looming, Iraq collapsing, and the Bush Regime under attack for failing to stop terrorism, Frist may shelve intelligence bill for second year in row | Beltway Democrats are seriously flawed, but the election is still critically important | David Corn: What waterboarding looks like | Harold Ford Jr.'s newest add spoofs "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" to highlight Republican Bob Corker's tremendous personal wealth | It's Friday morning, and Bush is making another campaign speech, with CNN dutifully covering it | Politics And Elections: All Outrage Is Local | VA-Sen: Allen spits on women | Michael Steele Is Tapped Out | VA-Sen: Drip, drip, drip | VA-Sen: The drip, drip, drip | The Fish Rots From the Head Down: 485 Contacts Between Jack Abramoff Team and Bush White House Officials | Dean vs. NY Money Liberals; and extraneous leftovers | Harris Trails Nelson in FL Senate Poll | Bush Strategist On Allen Campaign: "One Misstep And Meltdown After Another" | Lying about Iraq: Stay-and-Die Unpopular President Smears Dems | US Chamber of Commerce field director for the Simmons (R-CT) campaign runs videos bashing universal health care with images of holocaust corpses | Buzzflash: On Friday, September 29, It's Mourning in America | Poll: Weldon, Sestak locked in dead heat | Pelosi: Hastert "is a desperate man... I feel sorry for him" | Filibuster: Stand Up for Americans and Our Rights | Senate Kills Habeas Amendment on Torture Bill | GOP Off Course: Intel Report Forces Party To Defend Antiterror Policies As Elections Near | GOP 2006 Message: Ignore Losing In Iraq And Afghanistan And Vote Republican
QWAGMIRE -- How to Avoid World War III | Must-see TV: The real news about and from Iraq | Iraq Critics Are Confronting the Cut and Run Slander of Bush's Praetorian Guard | Seven more tortured bodies found in Baghdad | U.N., Israeli tanks in 20 minute face-off | Iraq reconstruction on par with Iraq war | Who can blame them? Saudis plan fence for Iraq border | GOP doesn't think about Iraq. Apparently not important or something | Fmr. Gen. Batiste On Iraq: "We're In A Real Fix Right Now...Because Sec. Donald Rumsfeld Went With His Plan And His Plan Alone" | Poll: Almost 2/3 Of Americans Say Iraq In Civil War | Troops abandon convoy as insurgents hit; ABC has the raw video | Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers | Blogger interviews Weapons Detective | Iraq now costs $2,000,000,000 per week and it is increasing
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- New Woodward book: Rumsfeld impeded and Rice ignored terror fight in 2001 | President Carter: "So there's no doubt that our country is in much more danger now from terrorism than it would have been if we would have done what we should have done and stayed in Afghanistan"
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Rice's Strategy on Darfur Genocide: Stay The Course
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Let The Moonie Times Sink | The Media's Double Standard For School Shootings | Watch this1 Keith Olbermann named Michael "Savage" Wiener second "Worst Person in the World" for saying "average prostitute [is] more reliable and more honest than most U.S. senators wearing a dress" | Echoing FOX News Orthodoxy, CNN's space case Miles O'Brien claimed Clinton had "meltdown" during interview with Wallace
FOX WATCH -- There's a New Mental Disorder: Fox News Derangement Syndrome | Rewind! FOX News Chief Roger Ailes Has History Of Involvement In Confrontational Interviews | Bill O'Reilly has meltdown interviewing Begala-Carville DLC tag team! | Bill O'Reilly On Iraq: "Couldn't Care Less About The Country" | O'Reilly Blasts Think Progress As "Hired Guns" Who Are "Paid to Smear People" | Whiny Roger Ailes petulantly protests Clinton's "assault"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Watchdog group: Wal-Mart declares war on organic farmers | Hewlett-Packard Scandal Unfolds On Capitol Hill: A Plumbers Operation That Would Make Nixon Blush
ELECTION THEFTS -- Diebold Added Secret, ILLEGAL Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say | DNC Voting Rights Institute Endorses 11th Hour Emergency Paper Ballot Legislation | Congressman Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) Attempts to Cast Doubt on Hard Copy E-Voting Paper Trail... With Hanging Chads!
RACISM IN THE USA -- Republican Senator Trent Lott (R-Racist) says all Muslims look the same to him! | The George Allen campaign steers reporters to a source who says Jim Webb used the N-word and harassed blacks 40 years ago | Sen. Burns Smears Italian-Americans At Committee Hearing | Racist Group Accuses Allen of Turning His Back on Institutionalized racism | Woman says George Allen repeatedly used the word "n*gger" in college | Dial up Slate's George Allen Insult Generator | Blog: Does George Allen hate US Mail? | McCain Stands Beside Racial Terrorist George Allen
TRASHING NATURE -- CNN Fact Checks Idiot OK Sen. James Inhofe's Dishonest Diatribe Against Global Warming Science
GAY IN AMERICA -- Senators back same-sex pair benefits for federal workers

Sept. 28
Democrats Face Opportunity To Win the Senate
Bernie &Guilty!" Kerik and NY GOP AG candidate Jeanine Pirro targeted in federal wiretapping probe!
Journalist receives fake anthrax mailing; Murdoch rag treats it like a big joke
White House Trying to Cover Up Second Iraq NIE Until After Elections
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Uh, Jeanine, hope you had career Plan B | Jeanine Pirro bugs out amid probe | GOP Attack Calls May Violate Fed Rules | Has Katherine Harris (R-FL) outsourced her sock puppets? | Has Katherine Harris (R-FL) outsourced her sock puppets? | ID-01: GOP Sali Campaign Under Legal Cloud | VA-Sen: Allen \deer head\" incident under investigation" | A Racist AND a Liar! Witness Who Overhead George Felix Macacawitz Allen Jr. Make Racial Slurs Says His Denial Is "Just Plain A Lie"
TRAITORGATE -- Remember Ken Starr's $70 million penis hunt? Pat Fitzgerald's treasongate probe has cost less than $2 million | Courthouse For Libby Hearing Evacuated
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- GOP Gets Partial Win on Snooping Bill
HOT POLITICS -- PA GOP Congressman Don Sherwood Faces Election Challenge Following Affair, Accusations He Physically Abused Mistress | 2006 midterm elections pit a tiny band of powerful, incompetent extremists who have hijacked the conservative movement and the rest of the country | Some GOPers want to lose, bring party back to core principle of small government | Dead heat in suburban Seattle Congressional seat | VA-Sen: SUSA says race is unstable | WA-08: Burner's huge gains | Republicans skip Sen. Jim Jeffords' (I-VT) Senate retirement speech | Lamont Puts Another $750G of His Money Into Senate Race | Santorum down by double digits | CO-07, Gov: Colorado's blue wave | Twin Cities Win 2008 GOP Convention | MD Democrat Gets Boost From Sen. Obama | Kerry Says He's "Pretty Much Feeling" Motivation To Run Again | CO-05: Jay Fawcett cracks top-50 House races
QWAGMIRE -- Confidence in Iraq Policies Drops to 20% in U.S. | Bush referees as Karzai and Musharraf meet for dinner | Media wars, Iranian style | Heavily Hyped Iraq Police Academy a Disaster | How to Avoid World War III | Is radical Iraq cleric Moqtada al-Sadr losing control of the Mahdi Militia? | Suicide attacks in Iraq were at their highest level in any given week | Making Good Progress! Poll Shows Iraqis FAVOR Attacks On US Troops | New Pentagon Office Pushes For More Hardline Broadcasts In Iran | Angry, failed Bush and rubber-stamp GOP refuse to discuss their failed Iraq policy | New Poll: 71 Percent Of Iraqis Want U.S. Forces To Withdraw Within A Year
WAR CRIMES -- Watch this! Barack Obama blasts torture: essentially the weaker the government's case is against you, the fewer rights you have | The House moves to gut Constitution and authorize torture | Senate Likely to OK Torture, Delay Eavesdropping Bill | House Passes Controversial GOP Torture... er, Detainee Plan | Torture legislation battle is not over | Pelosi on GOP "Torture's Cool!" bill: "This bill does violence to the Constitution" | Support for the torture/detention bill by at least some Senate Democrats is as politically self-destructive as it is unconscionable on the merits
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Iraq war a veritable terrorist recruiting sergeant | Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann takes a "look back" at Bush's first months in office leading up to 9/11, when Bush ignored terrorism | UN Security Council terrorism experts study says Iraq has caused more terror | Tony Snow's Challenge: Please Show Me Where The NIE Says We're Not Winning | Is the White House Slow-Walking the Second Iraq NIE? | Rep. Jane Harman Blasts NIE Release Timeline as Unacceptable | Harman to Negroponte: Deliver the NIE Before November, Or Else! | White House 'Fesses Up: Yes, There IS a 2nd Iraq NIE | Gallup Poll: Majority Blames Bush For Not Catching Bin Laden | Pelosi call for secret session to consider National Intelligence Estimate rejected | House Intel Chair Claims Internet Ate NIE Report
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- US warns N. Korea on nuclear test; talks stalled | Ahmadinejad's Wild Week, NY Observer's Wild Scoop
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Grey Lady awakens, says lawlessness and torture are a bad thing! | Senator Clinton helped her former press attacker, David Brock, when he sought to start press watchdog Media Matters | Watch This! John Boehner Still Believes Saddam Was Tied To 9/11 and Had WMD -- So Tweety Matthews Tears Him to Shreds! | Watch this! Cafferty Sounds Off On Failed Bush Foreign Policy | Network news coverage of declassified NIE fraught with misinformation, GOP talking points | Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ): "Our Enemies Utilize The Blogosphere To Their Own Advantage" | ESPN denies replacing Bush boos with cheers | Press Turns Away From Iraq Bloodshed During Campaign Season. Again.
FOX WATCH -- Rudy Giuliani unexpectedly and vigorously comes to the defense of Bill Clinton and his efforts to stop Al Qaeda in wake of FOX News ambush interview | Sean Hannity comes to the fundraising rescue of Sen. George Macacawitz Allen Jr. | Backlash against FOX: Roger Ailes Discovers Journalism All Of A Sudden | False cause and effect: As Dow Nears All-Time High From 2000, FOX News Declares Bush Tax Cuts A Success | Sen. Barbara Boxer and former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe mock "fair and balanced" FOX newsmodels to their faces! | Has-been Newt Gingrich, believing himself relevant, chimes in on FOX Smackdown, advances goofy theory that Clinton planned beforehand to pick a fight with Chris Wallace
ELECTION THEFTS -- Stealing America...Vote by Vote | Kerry-Feingold urge e-voting vote machine backup plans | Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) has now filed a U.S. House version of the Emergency Paper Ballot legislation introduced yesterday by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) in the Senate | Over at CNN, Lou Dobbs and Kitty Pilgrim Cover Congressman Bob Wexler's Effort to Take E-voting Machines To The Supreme Court
JUSTICE WATCH -- Judge Rejects Ashcroft's Immunity Claim; Jaaayzus John Likely to Testify in Wrongly Imprisoned "Oops! He Isn't a Tairist" Lawsuit
RACISM IN THE USA -- Second college teammate of George Macacawitz Allen recalls racist deer head incident | Second source alleges George Allen involvement in racist "deer head" hate crime | New Report That Senator Macacawitz Allen Uttered Slurs
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Condi Rice's office gave final approval to the infamous EPA press releases days after 9/11 claiming the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe
TRASHING NATURE -- West states squeeze Colorado River to limit | Sen. James Inhofe; ignorant about global warming
GAY AMERICA -- Are they talking about the bedroom? NY Times to Condi Rice: We've kept some of your secrets | Colorado' looniest GOP Congresscritter, Marilyn Musgrave, proclaims gay marriage "the most important issue that we face today"

Sept. 27
Rep. Jane Harman Calls for Release of Second Secret Iraq Report
• Declassified NIE Shows Cheney and Bush Misled Americans
• Bush declassifies only 4 of 30 pages of controversial April NIE
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- More bad news for K Street and GOP pols: Jack Abramoff, prosecutors file to delay prison date, which means he must be singing like Placido Domingo | "Concern Troll" Out! House Aide Resigns Over Fake Blog Posts | Way inappropriate: Tony Snow to raise money for GOP candidates | George Allen: Questions-A-Swirlin' | WH Database Signing Kills Bipartisan Blog Buzz | When an Internet "concern troll" is exposed as a dirty trickster, grand finale: "IndyNH" Was GOP Candidate Bass's Policy Director! | Nice work if you can get it: 600 Consultants Earned $1.78 BILLION For Political Consulting In 2004 | Bush's Election Attorney Is On HP's Legal Team For Congressional Spying Probe | Lies as Policy: Condi Rice Falsely Claims Clinton Administration Did Not Leave a Strategy To Fight Al Qaeda
TRAITORGATE -- Treasonous Scooter Libby Tries Graymail to Get Out of Criminal Case
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Congress Unlikely To Pass Wiretap Bill | Authoritarianism and Theocracy: Bloggers Are Sounding A Warning | White House Bars Hurricane Report | FISA frenzy: Will the Congressional calender preserve some basic liberties (at least until January?)
HOT POLITICS -- Democratic Senate Leader Reid calls talk he offered own job to Hillary Clinton foolish | GOP 2006: Making Fun Of A Disabled Vet | Josh Marshall: Was Team Bush concealing second NIE from Congress... illegally? | Democratic message: the war in Iraq is making it harder for America to fight and win the war on terror | NY-Gov: Eliot Spitzer, John Faso trade shots in debate | Already out on the road with other potential 2008 Oval Office contenders, Mark Warner lacks Hillary's -- or Obama's -- star power. But he's a newcomer to watch | GOP Scandals Are Sandbagging OH House Candidate Joy Padgett | Jean Schmidt caught plagiarizing again! | Calif. Democratic Candidate for Guv Phil Angelides Wants Guard Troops Home | State House primary decided by coin flip | PA-08: Murphy runs "bring our troops home" ad | Russ Feingold mulls 2008 presidential run | Jim Webb's new ad is a helpful guidepost to how Dems should talk about war and terrorism | CO-Gov: Race Seen As a Tossup | Democrats Tip GOP Apple Cart, Turn Tax Issues to Their Advantage | Santorum no-mentum! 'Dead in the water' | WY-AL: GOP Rep. Cubin Nervous | CT-Sen: Kerry responds to Lieberman | IL-06: Trashing Iraq vet Tammy Duckworth | VA-Sen: Webb makes Iraq issue in new ad | WY-AL: Republicans for Trauner launches | Casey Doubles Lead Over Santorum In PA Senate Race
QWAGMIRE -- Two US troops killed in action in Iraq | Sen. Clinton again calls for course change in Iraq | Iraqi Sunni Leader Resigns, 21 Killed In Series Of Bomb Explosions
WAR CRIMES -- Faith-based Torture | Retired intelligence officers write to Specter and Leahy in opposition to Torture Bill
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- April NIE Doesn't Share Bush's Optimism on Terror Fight | Larry Johnson: The Facts Behind the NIE | Transcript: Harman Reveals 2nd Iraq Report | Bush Angrily Declares White House Will Declassify Key Judgments of First April NIE | NIE revelations are a blow to Bush's War on Terror® | NIE follies; Sometimes you just have to let an idiot hang himself | Musharraf agrees with April NIE: Iraq makes the world more dangerous | Karzai: US should have engaged Afghanistan before 9/11 | US Intel Report: Iraq Is the Cause Celebre For Extremists | Ariz. Republican Denounces 9/11 Memorial That Dares Make the Right Points About the Failed War on Terror | Conyers to Force Vote on Secret Iraq Reports | Before Osama Struck, Bush Administration Focused On Missile Defense, Not Terrorism | Docs given to Rice in early 2001 show Rice claim is false: Clinton gave Bush plans for taking down al Qaeda | Pat Leahy blasts detention and torture bill | Bush refuses to give evidence that he did anything to stop Osama pre-9/11 during today' presser | Condi Rice and George Bush did NOTHING after the CIA warned them that Bin Laden was determined to strike in the US | What Did Bush Do About The Cole? Nothing
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bolton nomination "really, really dead"
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- But... but... he was wagging his finger, dammit! Media largely ignored substance of Clinton's criticism of Bush anti-terror efforts | Must-see TV: Olbermann defends Clinton, revokes Bush free pass | A modified MSNBC? Tweety, Keith to CNBC? | Nancy Grace has been caught plagiarizing in her latest book | Oops! Okay, to be fair, this is probably the first time the Boston Herald has seen a black person | PBS Fears the FCC, Will Censor Combat Documentaries To Avoid Fines | Watch this! Smackdown in Scarborough Country: Media Matters' Paul Waldman humiliates John Stosshole | P.R. Group That Paid Off Iraqi Papers Gets New $6.2 Million Media Contract | Pakistan President Musharraf Appears On The Daily Show | ESPN accused of fake cheers for Bush 41 | GOP Prostitute Attacks Oliver Willis | Watch this! Jack Cafferty -- Torture: a Family Value! | In the Fantasy World of Cultist Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang, US Intel Agencies Are On The Far Left | Perky Katie Couric fails to challenge "scary smart," "girly and fun" Condi Rice on a host of issues | Dick Armey, retired conservative GOP congressman, has had it with Christianist James Dobson and his thuggish allies -- so why is the media ignoring it? | Will Bunch unloads a barrage of redass on David Broder | AP, CNN uncritically reported Rice's misleading response to Clinton interview | Brian "Weasel Boy" Williams Takes No. 1 News Ratings From Katie "Perky Republican" Couric After Two Weeks | Breaking News! MSNBC Runs an Entire Segment On -- Yes, It Is Earthshaking -- Clinton's Socks!
FOX WATCH -- The Fox News gang believes that there is no libel so vile that it cannot be used against Democrats | Sen. Boxer joins the FOX backlash | GMA left unchallenged O'Reilly's falsehoods -- both on the air and in his book | Kim Hume out at FOX News DC bureau -- is it more than domestic sniping?
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart shrinks health options for new hires | GE loses 50,000 employee records | Six years in jail for Enron's Fastow
ELECTION THEFTS -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) introduced emergency legislation to amend the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) this afternoon to offer funding to states and counties who make contingency paper ballots available | Court victory lets preserved Ohio 2004 ballots tell new tales of theft and fraud as indictments and convictions mount | News Groups Win Lawsuit Over Poll Access | Conservative Mag: Voting Machines Can Be Hacked
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Government report on higher education states the obvious, recommends band-aids
RACISM IN THE USA -- How the world sees George Felix Allen Jr., and -- by extension -- Virginia | Dept. of Still No Excuse -- Senate Candidate Jim Webb On The N-Word: "I Don't Think That There's Anyone Who Grew Up In The South That Hasn't Had That Word Pass Through Their Lips At One Time" | George Felix Macaca Allen Jr.; He loves KKK Wizards and a deer's head in a mailbox
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Did TX utility rig the market? Is the Pope Catholic?
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Group Pushes Universal Health Care
GAY IN AMERICA -- Values Voter Summit Featured Attack on "Faggots," Claim That Gay Rights Movement Inspired From The Pit Of Hell Itself

Sept. 26
Gen. Batiste: "Secretary Rumsfeld's dismal strategic decisions resulted in the unnecessary deaths of American servicemen and women, our allies, and the good people of Iraq"
Prof. Larry Sabato of UVA, #1 expert on Virginia politics, says George Allen did in fact use the N-word in the past, in spite of Allen's denials
John Negroponte Tries to Cloud Intelligence Analysis on the War on Terror
Will The Next Election Be Hacked? RFK Jr. Explains How Hackers Can Easily Rig The Technology
At long last, Rep. Henry Hyde tells the truth and admits he's a vindictive scumbag: Clinton's Impeachment was "revenge for Nixon"
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Bridge to indictment: FBI returns for more from Sen. Ted Stevens' office | GOP House member slandered sex slave | Who Has Time to Read Anymore? | TN GOP Senate Candidate Corker's Claims That He Reduced Crime As Mayor Debunked By FBI Reports | Glenn Greenwald revisits and debunks GOP attacks on President Clinton | Rove Passing On Tactics To Generation Of Sleazebag Protégés | McCain's Hypocrisy on Devil Comments: Chavez Was "Despicable," Refuses To Condemn Falwell
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Are You an Unlawful Combatant? | Losing a War, Winning a Police State
HOT POLITICS -- More on the politics of the April National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq: it is especially troublesome for Republican electoral chances | Looky! Newsweek's latest cover, by geographical region | Ineffectual sad-sack NY Governor Pataki set to take political plunge -- and lose -- in Iowa | September War Dead the GOP Wants You to Forget | Color her shocked, shocked to discover that we weren't really told the facts at the outset of the Anthrax case | HarrisWatch: No One Here Gets Out Alive | Dems: We Will Not Let GOP Paint Us Into a Corner On Torture, Wiretapping | George Clooney Not Bullish on Getting Into Politics As a candidate | Dems vow to block House adjournment | DE's lone US Rep. suffers strokes, expected to recover | PA Judge to Drop Green Candidate From Senate Ballot | Feeney watch: Corrupt Congressman's Campaign Creates "Crazy Clint Curtis" Smear Website! | Novak: Republican Money Is Starting To Pour Into Lieberman's Campaign | TN-Sen: New internals | Bush Meets Privately With GOP Donors | Democratic candidate upstages incumbent, Cheney with BBQ | MD: More Black Republican Momentum... Down the Toilet! | Florida Paper Rips Tom Feeney in New Cover Story on Vote-Rigging Whistleblower Clint Curtis! | Red America: Discontent Bubbles to the Surface | Waste of Airtime: Rick "The Virginian" Santorum Has Televised Debate With Politician Who Isn't On His Ballot | Working to win vs. whining
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Watch this! Veteran Journalist Michael Ware affirms the intelligence report citing Iraq invasion as a catalyst for terror | Debunked! Condi Rice Falsely Claimed That Bush's Pre-9/11 Anti-Terror Efforts Were "At Least As Aggressive" As Clinton | Democratic Senators Call for Briefing on April NIE Showing Iraq War Incubates Terrorism and Terrorists | Iraq war spurs Islamic radicals: retired U.S. general | Caught on Tape! Delusional Cheney Can't Buy Idea That Iraq War Is Creating More Terrorists | Remember that Condi lied to Americans about the Iraq War as she now challenges Clinton' honesty | October surprise preview? Suddenly, five years after the fact, FBI widens anthrax attack suspect pool | Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann's Special Comment: Are YOURS the actions of a true American? Who should we really blame for 9/11? | Key Democrats call for making public April NIE | French, US officials doubt report of Osama death | Rewind! Conservative Lawmakers Decried Clinton's Near-successful Attacks Against Osama As "Wag the Dog" | White House Claims NIE Does Not Show The "War in Iraq Has Made Terrorism Worse" | So... has Bush read the NIE?
QWAGMIRE -- Trent Lott gets all snippy, threatens Democrats for using appropriations hearing for getting to the truth about Iraq | Bush's own church begins a full week of anti-war protests | Rumsfeld says he is not leaving | Wesley Clark: Bush derelict in duty as Commander-in-chief | ABC News: US has only 7,000 to 10,000 combat brigades fully trained and equipped to respond quickly to a crisis | British Forces Kill Leading Iraqi Insurgent | Army extends troop's Iraq duty yet again | Iraq parliament to discuss autonomous states | Video shows US troop bodies set on fire
WAR CRIMES -- "In America they torture people, including their own, in secret prisons" | Video: Anti-torture protest disrupts Senate detainee hearing | At Detainee Hearing, Witness Puts Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) On the Stand | Torture witnesses failed to inform
BORDER BUNGLES -- Newspaper Investigation: GOP's Border Fence Will Not Work
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- A "Maverick" in Action: Bush' other poodle, John McCain, backs bully boy Bolton
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Playing down seriously bad news: Newsweek scrubs "Losing Afghanistan" from US cover | Slicing From the Top at Viacom: Sumner Redstone Takes a Pay Cut; Hint to Moonves? | Progressive Talk Radio Show Hosts More Accepting Than Conservative Hosts Of Dissenting Points Of View | Watch this! Jack Cafferty just had some real choice words about Bush summing up Iraq as a "comma" during his interview with Wolf Blitzer | More bias from ABC: they provided no Clinton response to Falwell's Lucifer comparison and no rebuttal to Perkins's smear of Dems | Authors Of I Hate Ann Coulter! To Remain Anonymous For Their Safety | Nancy Grace Accused Of Plagiarism | Scarborough On Nancy Grace: "At What Point Does CNN Step In And say 'Enough's Enough'?"
FOX WATCH -- The Daily Show deems Clinton "Incredible Hulkesque" for taking on Chris Wallace | "Nice Little Conservative Hit Job" And Nice Little Conservative Clip Job! | Desperation in Ailes-land: FOX News' Live Desk cluttered with falsehoods on Clinton, Bush terrorism records | Right Wing "Fact Sheet" On Clinton Interview Gets It Wrong | Tony Snow Reacts To Clinton's Fox Interview: "Well, He Retorts, You Decide" | Newsweek on O'Reilly's examples of Dems who deserve title of "traditionalist": "two deceased Democrats and one who lost his party's primary"
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Condi Rice, on the hot seat, tries to deny truth that Bill Clinton told Chris Wallace
ELECTION THEFTS -- Common Cause Says Measure for Emergency Paper Ballots this November Would be Ideal | Requiring photo ID to vote would stop a very, very tiny amount of actual fraud, but would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of poor, non-white, elderly, and disabled citizens
OH, GOD! -- Pious right-wing Republicans smear the name of Jesus and ravage the image of Christianity | Ayatollah Robertson runs his pie hole again: "Muslims deal with history and the truth with violence. They don't understand what reasoned dialogue is."
RACISM IN THE USA -- Watch this! Larry Sabato says Allen used the "N" word | Another person comes forward and says Allen used the N-word | Larry Sabato: " I KNOW that George Allen used the N word."
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Half Of Americans Think Political Manipulation Is Root Of Falling Gas Prices
HEALTH DEBACLES -- $200B suit against Big Tobacco gets OK
TRASHING NATURE -- Planet's Temperature Highest In Thousands Of Years

Sept. 25
Three college teammates say George Allen used the N-word frequently, wanted to go to a college where "blacks kn[e]w their place"
Dean applauds Clinton for getting in the face of the FOX propaganda machine
The press reacts to FOX's attempted sandbagging of Bill Clinton -- and it's not what FOX had wanted...
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Rewind! Bush Ignores Intelligence, Misleads Public On Impact of Iraq on Terrorism | Theocrats teach theocrats to use dirty tricks and lie in elections
HOT POLITICS -- Philly suburbs shift toward Democrats | MD-SEN: Michael Steele on toast -- Cardin starts with 11 point lead for MD Senate battle | Calif. Gov. Opponent Phil Angelides: Pull the National Guard Out of Iraq | GOP Congress Derided As Do-nothing Has One Week Left To Something | Ned Lamont writes to Joe Lieberman | "Eventually, we will reclaim our party, because we are Democrats" | Katherine Harris Faces Tainted Money Problems Again | Dems: Bush junta not being honest about Iraq | WaPo endorses Lieberman | Ohio Democrats may achieve near-sweep in November | NY Times: Growing Violence, Not Growing Democracy, Is The Dominant Feature Of Iraqi Life
QWAGMIRE -- Democrats Use Intel Report to Call Bush On the Carpet For His Miserable Failure in Iraq and Against Terrorists -- and the GOP For Enabling Bush's Catastrophic Debacle | The five pillars of the US military-industrial complex | Former Military Officials Will Testify About Rummy's Incompetence | Retired Officers to Blast Incompetent Pentagon-shaped-bubble Boy Rumsfeld | 37 dead as violence surges in Baghdad | Karzai: We Are Paying For Inaction In Afghanistan | President Bush, delusional as always, dismisses Iraq violence as "Just a comma" in history | Iran's supreme leader forbids nukes (yeah, right...) | Iraq Policy Is A Miserable Failure
WAR CRIMES -- Musharraf: CIA paid Pakistan for al-Qaeda suspects | Ed Markey, Bobby Scott Act Like Democrats, Say No to Torture | Frist refuses to answer if waterboarding is torture or not
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Implications of Intelligence Report Showing Iraq Civil War Making Terrorism a Far Bigger Problem Begin To Sink In; "It's getting to the point where even Fox has to report it." | Amid all the "success", y'think John "Iran-Contra" Negroponte will declassify the April NIE showing we are more threatened by terrorism due to Iraq folly? | Question for the right wingers: who wanted to cut and run from Somalia? Could it be... you? | Report: Geneva Conventions Have Already Been Violated | George Bush knew Al Qaeda was a problem for just as long as Bill Clinton did. So why didn't Bush take Osama on before September 11? | Report: Al Qaeda heads moving to Middle East | Bush is blatantly misleading the American people about the War on Terror® | Osama bin Laden died again, so vote Republican
BORDER BUNGLES -- Congress bill would aid port defenses -- and it's all about elections | Frist Wants Vote on Immigration Bill
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- McCain Wants Bolton Confirmed Quickly
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Sunday Talk Shows: No Story Bigger Than Clinton | Katie Couric's profile of Condi Rice on 60 Minutes is a kind of case study in softball fluff job journamalism | Pravda On The Potomac Strikes Again: WaPo Tells Us Bush II Cares | Arianna: the way the Republican White House and Congress is being run it's very evident that they do not want to work with Democrats and she believes this was a wake-up call for Bill Clinton | Weekly Murdoch attacks George Felix Macaca Meshugah Allen Jr. Yes, you read that right... | The imagined national consensus is of course precisely aligned with the consensus-of-serious-thinkers-in-Washington
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! Bill Clinton Sets The Record Straight On Terrorism, Smacks Down FOX News | Chris Wallace falsehood: said in Clinton interview that he asked Bush Administration officials "plenty of questions" about failure to catch bin Laden
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- NY Times, WaPo reported Bush's attack on Democratic tax policies, but failed to note budgetary effects
ELECTION THEFTS -- Panicked Following Exposure of Their Hack Box E-voting Terminals As Unsecured, Diebold Tells NY Times That Access to Their Voting Machines Is Analogous to Launching a Nuclear Missile. Talk About a Bad Metaphor...
OH, GOD! -- Religious Right Growing In Canada
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Tenfold Increase in Vet Mental Disorders

Sept. 24
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat Against US | The idea that Bush is making the War on Terrorism worse by increasing terrorism should come as no surprise to anyone | Iraq war created a terrorist flood, American spymasters warn Bush | Bombshell: Bush Will Request More Troops For Iraq, While National Intelligence Estimate Says Iraq Makes Terrorism Worse | Devastating Washington Post analysis of Bush administration's failure to take bin Laden seriously | This report alone ought to dictate the outcome of the election
Bill Clinton turns tables on Chris Wallace, rhetorically tears FOX "News" [sic] Channel journo-toady limb from limb after Wallace makes the amateurish mistake of implying Clinton was weak on terrorism to his face | Think Progress Has the Transcript: Fox News Sunday Interview With President Bill Clinton
Fact: Chris Wallace Never Asked A Bush Administration Official Why They Demoted Richard Clarke | It's audience research time - why did FOX's Chris Wallace mention a supposedly new blame-Clinton book? | Fact: Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole | Waaaah! Daddy, Billy Clinton was mean to me... | FOXnews.com: "Clinton Gets Crazed"
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Anti-Clinton well dries up; GOP donors shut wallets | Legal Aid Program Tried to Oust Auditor | Millions in waste by FAA assailed | Name Calling as a Republican -- not a Democratic -- Right | IN-8: John Hostettler Doing Oppo Research On Dem Ellsworth's 19-year-old Daughter | Judge Dismisses Suit Against Halliburton For Responsibility In Drivers' Deaths
TRAITORGATE -- Scooter Libby to testify at his criminal trial
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Chavez: US Detained Foreign Minister | Sportswriter Mike Lupica blasts Bush's War on Freedom
HOT POLITICS -- GOP Worries Conservatives Will Abandon Party: "If They Don't Come To The Polls, We're In Trouble" | Akaka Maintains Lead in Hawaii Primary | Sen. Burns, Tester Debate in Montana | Incumbent Seen Winning MD House Primary | RNC Chair Swears: "I'm Not Flipping Out" | George Allen "Obviously Hasn't Assimilated...The Lessons Of American Politics" | GOP Candidates Keeping Bush Under Wraps | A slew of new books on Karl Rove make us question whether the president's deputy chief of staff is truly the Machiavellian genius so many in Washington claim
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq: Do The Math | Middle East Nuclear Dominos | Another day of carnage and mayhem in Bush's Iraq quagmire | Frank Rich: Stuff happens again in Baghdad | al-Sadr goes apocalyptic: US has file on Shiite Messiah | NYC's reservists asked to return Iraq pay | No morals, no ethics, no integrity: Rumsfeld breaks the rules on Pentagon's squash courts | 37 dead as violence surges in Baghdad
WAR CRIMES -- Bush's Dirty War Amnesty Law | Marines considered bombing Iraq home | Prisoner Abuse By Special Forces Units Goes Unreported, Unprosecuted
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Osama's Weekend At Bernie's | Is Osama really dead? | Chirac: Intel on death of bin Laden is not confirmed
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Intelligence? What intelligence? I never heard of any intelligence
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Analysis: US Expected Little at UN | Maureen Dowd slams Bush's "Axis of sketchy allies" | Iran nuke talks might start without US
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Bias at the NY Times Book Review: If it dare criticizes Chucklenutz W. Bush Jr., it sucks! | Columbia Journalism Review Criticizes Media for Failing to Report Electoral Issues | MT-Sen: What's Right with the Montana Press | Press Critic Michael Massing On Covering Right-wing Talk Shows: "I Was Like An Anthropologist Going Out Into A Foreign Land"
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Dems: GOP Again Targets Social Security
ELECTION THEFTS -- Voter ID Bill is an attack on seniors | NM Gov. Bill Richardson Blasts Electronic Voting: "I Didn't Want My State To Continue To Be An Embarrassment Like Ohio And Florida" | Election officials getting cold feet on electronic voting
OH, GOD! -- Jerry Falwell Claims He Speaks for Christians When In Fact He Only Speaks for Himself and His Rich Allies When He Claims Faithful Fear Clinton More Than Devil
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Superstore Face-off: Target Launches Generic Drug Program | Calif. Gov. vetoes universal health bill
TRASHING NATURE -- Gov. Pataki privately pressured regulators enforcing safe demolition of the toxic former Deutsche Bank tower to make sure the Ground Zero building comes down as soon as possible