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Hot Headlines, October 2006

Oct. 21
• Iraq mayhem triggers hunt for exit strategy in US and UK
• Richard Armitage, Former Top Bush Administration Official and Architect of Iraq War, Calls for Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Iraq
• Deluded, Stubborn, Stupid Bush Boy Insists He'll "Stay The Course" of Lie and Die in Iraq No Matter What
Genteel revolt: Republican veterans push for end to interventionist approach to iraq | Rival Iraq militias torch police stations, seize city | In a truly Bob-McNamara-esque moment, McCain announces his plan to win the war in Viet... um, Iraq | Many Iraqis Have More Faith In Militias Than US Troops | Another GOP Cut-and-runner! Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Speaks Out Against Iraq War | Dem leaders call for urgent change of course in Iraq | UN's nuke watchdog is underfunded | Report: Tester eviscerates Burns on iraq in latest debate | So now Bush says he will not change failed Iraq strategy | Bush to Dictate... er, Consult on Changing Iraq Tactics | Taliban targeting Afghanistan leaders | Palestine PM unhurt in convoy attack | Makin' great progress; Sadr militia takes control of city, again | Former Top Bush Administration Official Calls For Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Iraq
• Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases
My New Total Information Awareness Technique Will Be Totally Unstoppable | Robert Parry smacks down Bush' s abolition of habeas corpus -- and the lapdog NY Times
• Agents Search CA GOP congressional candidate Tan D. Nguyen's office
Did Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) violate the law by intimidating government personnel in the national security field who support his opponent, Joe Sestak? | Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL) Admits He Was Playing Politics When He Asked For Intel Staffer To Be Suspended | Surprise! Another Lying Republican: Jerry Lewis | Agent named as man who leaked confidential information for Bob Beauprez to use in attack ad | Roll Call: Office of Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA) sued for sexual harassment | Recess Corruption: Ignoring Senate, Bush Taps Mine Exec to be Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Chief | Cheney Is Still Lying About Iraq-Al Qaeda Link | Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA): Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) Abused Power, Suspended Staffer To Settle Political Score | Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA51) Falsely Claims Mass Firing Of Committee Investigators Was Bipartisan | Crazy Curt Weldon's "FBI informant" is a campaign staffer | See Rep. Sue Kelly (R-NY) Run. Run, run, run!
• Rep. Weller (R-IL) refers new page allegation
Only on eBay... | IL Lawmaker Refers New Page Incident to Panel | Ads From GOP, Whose Top Players Let Foley Prey on Interns, Accuse Dems of Not Protecting Kids
• Multi-alarm fire at Maryland building housing Army intelligence group
Fire at Fort Meade: Was it digital shredding?
HOT POLITICS -- Doc Hastings, Speaker of the House? | GOP "Scare 'em With Terror" Campaign Strategy No Longer Foolproof | Is Kerry going to open the spigot? | CT-SEN: Lieberman Funded by White House Donor Network | NEA makes major independent expenditures in three congressional districts | MT-Sen: If Tester Wins, He Would Get Appropriations Seat | George Felix Allen Jr. Faces Questions on Iraq War Stance | PA-07: Now this is how to fight swiftboat effort | Getting in the GOP candidate's face: Harold Ford Jr. showed up uninvited at a campaign event for rival Republican Bob Corker | Rep. John Lewis comes through with DCCC cash -- and more | Disillusionment With GOP Scares Rep. Chris Chocola (R-CA) | MI-Gov: Granholm Pulls Ahead | Dems are not getting upset over the GOP’s hail mary ad | Time Focuses on Close Tennessee Senate Race, Harold Ford Ascendant | The RNC's Osama spot and phantom ad buy | KY-04: Another out-of-touch Republican | NRCC spending money hand over fist | Any truth to Ohio voter roll purge reports? | Know Your Electorate: Who Votes, Who Doesn't, and Why | The GOTV Boogeyman: Dems have the ability to do it as well, if not better, these days | GOP candidate for governor of Florida outed as gay | Understanding the GOP in disarray: reality cracks solidarity | GOP turns to terror imagery in latest round of ads | Democrats get pre-election funding surge
WAR CRIMES -- LSD Mystery: Denials Aside, Terror Suspects Get Drugged
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- The Republican National Committee and George W. Bush: Giving Osama What He Really Wants | UK is the number one al-Qaeda target | Terrorists and GOP, in common cause
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Bush catapults the proliferation | The Godless Chicoms Give the World a Lesson In Diplomacy: Containing North Korea the Old Fashioned Way | Americans Seek to Stop Diplomatic Failures, Adopt New Foreign Policy
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Tabloids claim Bush marriage on rocks | MSNB's Countdown With Keith Olbermann Has become "Appointment Programming" | CNN's nearly news-free Web site exposed! | Ohio paper unendorses Ken Blackwell | Conventional media wisdom; terrorism helps the Republicans -- unless it helps the Democrats -- er -- um... | Ken Blackwell and Sean Hannity demonstrate the GOP's commitment to privacy (not) | 3 upstate NY stations nix sexually-charged NRCC ad | GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), furious that the truth about the danger our servicemen in Iraq has been demonstrated by the free press, asks Pentagon to remove embedded CNN journos | Broadcast and cable news gave GOP free air time for new fearmongering terrorism ad that they only intent to broadcast a few times | On Today, Meredith Vieira failed to challenge Mehlman's false claims about Democrats | WaPo endorses Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) for Senate | Tucker And Rita Out At MSNBC? Jossip Hears It, Abrams Denies It
FOX WATCH -- Murdoch faces tough shareholder questions | Report: FOX News Started Generalized Ideological Shift That Played Decisive Role In 2000 Election | FOX News: Increasing The Republican Vote Tally, One Viewer At A Time | Conservative (read: rabid wacko) media watchdog frets about Fox's "leftward" slant
WHAT A RUSH! -- Oxycontin speaking again? Rush Limbaugh is seeing a conspiracy between the media and the left
ELECTION THEFTS -- WANTED: Grad students to fix E-voting machines | Diebold Code Sent to MD Official In Anonymous Package | Judge Doubts Legality of Exit Poll Law | Right-wing Supreme Court OKs Arizona anti-Democratic "photo ID" voter suppression -- but does not make definitive ruling
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- GOP Candidate's Security Idea: Use Old Textbooks To Stop Bullets Shot By School Intruders
OH, GOD! -- Religious zealots surge in our politics -- and are a real threat to our freedom and security
RACISM IN THE USA -- Take a look inside the secret, hate-filled world of white supremacy
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Big Oil Companies Bankroll Deceptive California Campaign Against Alternative Energy
GAY IN AMERICA -- White House spokesman defends Condi Rice calling gay man's mother his mother in law | Former top aide to Rep. Ney (R-OH) says GOP just pretending to be anti-gay to fool Christian right

Oct. 20
• CQ: Facing Fed Probe, House GOP Spending Chief Jerry Lewis (R-CA51) Axes Investigative Staff
• RAW acquires police report stating that Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM1) has been accused of stealing; her husband accused of touching boy
• Convicted ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham offers to testify from federal prison
• Bush once again uses a "Signing Statement" to proclaim that he will break the law
Tan D. Nguyen defies GOP: I'm staying in the race | Calif. Candidate Urged to Exit Race Following Criminally Fraudulent Racist Mailing | NM-01: Police Report Hidden by Heather Wilson Is Found -- More Details! | Convicted congressman Bob Ney is still around, still collecting a paycheck | Nevada GOP Candidate for Governor, Congressman Jim Gibbons, involved in "mysterious event" with woman last Friday night | D'oh! Bob Beauprez Ad Contains Illegal Classified Info | The Sun to Shine on Cheney | Bush stumps for philanderer during 'Character Counts' week | Who is worse: Rep. JD Hayworth or his spokesman? | "Read My Lips:" DeWine Stands By Debunked Ad In Ohio Debate | Waitress Accuses GOP Congressman Of Threatening To Rape Her, Then Recants Charges | Prosecutors Want Abramoff Close By | Conservatives Using Pro-Pedophilia Group To Tar Opponents | GOP Candidate In California Says He Didn't Send Letter To Hispanic Voters Threatening Arrest Or Deportation | OH-Sen: GOP knows it is lying, but keeps ads up on the air | Judge Orders Cheney Visitor Logs Opened | DHS Holds on to Hookergate Scandal Limo Service | Paranoid Curt Weldon, seeing vast liberal conspiracy everywhere! | Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA51) is the House of Representatives' top recipient of lobbyist donations
• US General: The Anti-Violence Strategy in Baghdad Is Failing
Former Iraq Planning Chief: "The Iraq situation is not winnable in any real sense of the word 'winnable.'" | Violence in Iraq is rising, US campaign to quell it a failure | US may have weeks, not months, to avert all-out civil war in Iraq | One-Day Iraq Toll Is Highest for U.S. In Many Months | Why are the families of America servicemen begging for food? | Barren Iraqi field fills with Baghdad dead | Bush Will Send a Stern Message to North Korea About Exploding Nuclear Bombs by Attacking Iran | Rep. John Sweeney (R) flip-flops on Iraq -- will Bush call him a cut and runner? | Iraqi PM, Bush sock puppet urges Saddam execution | ABC Video: Operation fails to make Baghdad safer | Two-Thirds of Americans Believe There IS a Civil War in Iraq | Our national shame: Why are the families of America servicemen begging for food?
• Have Christian conservatives cost Republicans the election?
California Campaign of Tan D. Nguyen, GOP Challenger to Loretta Sanchez, Linked To Letter Illegally Threatening Hispanic Voters | Ken Blackwell is Desperate (Don't Ya Love It!) | With the ragtag Lamont campaign at his heels, Lieberman's new worry may be a long-shot GOP candidate siphoning votes | Cook Uprates More Seats In Dems' Favor | Karl Rove's strategy backfired for the GOP this year -- big time | What CHANGES Should Congressional Democrats Enact? | How an anti-gay, immigrant-bashing Republican from North Carolina heisted Howard Dean's playbook and raised big bucks on the Web | GOP scare ad puts focus on terror | Democrats Approach Nov. 7 With a Surge in Fundraising | GOP Already Blaming Each Other For Potential Midterm Losses | North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to Chinese diplos: I am really, really sorry about that nuclear test | GOP Disarray in Orange County, CA | Democrat Darcy Burner is waging a serious challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Dave Reichert | GOP Struggles to Salvage Once-secure FL Seat in Congress | Poll: Joe Lieberman's Lead Growing in CT -- but is it still there after debates? | GOP Approval Ratings At All-Time Low | Bayh, Kerry, Dodd, Biden: misers | Ben Cardin Doesn't Cut And Run From The Democratic Party | WA-08: Reichert--The Ultimate Rubber Stamp | NY-19: John Hall (D) debates empty chair | BOOM! Goes the dynamite! DCCC drops $12 million | Bush's PM Schedule: Campaign Stops With Macacwitz Allen, Alleged-Mistress-Choker Don Sherwood | Will John Kerry, yet again, hold on to his millions, that we gave him, while Democrats lose? | House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) has gone psycho | Rubber ducks gang up on poor Rick Santorum (R-VA... um, PA) | NE-03, PA-04: Latest CQ upgrades | Dems Bring the Funny | Right-wing ad refers to black women as "hos" | OH GOP refuses to pull its TV ads that fraudulently claims Sherrod Brown is a tax deadbeat | In National Wildlife Federation ad, rubber ducks quack about Santorum record | Judge Nixes Signs in Foley's District | Republicans turned Democrats giving Kansas some blue | Scoobie: Brent Budowsky is wrong | Jean Hay Bright to run controversial "Lie and Die" Iraq war TV spot in Maine | End of the Republican Revolution: Now the religious right has turned against the Republican Congress, the great revolution is over | Obama riding momentum | Suicide Watch! McCain: I'll kill self if Dems take Senate | GOP Uneasy About Idaho House Race | Unopposed House Democrats Sitting On $26,288,418 | Young Lawmakers Make Inroads in Politics | Democrats Set Sights on Wins in Ohio
• Cable News Suckered Again: Fake NFL Bomb Threat Part Of Scariest Terrorist Scenario Contest
Suckers! Cables devoted big coverage to bogus NFL threat, did not mention evidence of political motivation for prior threat announcements | Blogger tells feds NFL threat a scam | Colbert Breaks Down Goofy Rick Santorum's Lord of the Rings Analogy | J.C. Watts claims that there is a "perception [that] Feingold and people like him are always on the side of the terrorists" | Peacock-plucking Party at NBC News: Thursday Morning of the Long Knives | NBC To Cut 700 Jobs, Streamline News Operations | The Smell of Desperation? NY Post' hilarious attack on Olbermann | Republicans vs. Democrats or Republicans vs. the news? | Sun Myung Moon's Creative Cinematic Offering to the World: Is "Inchon" the Worst Movie Ever | Sidney Blumenthal on the radical GOP, the real Dick Cheney, and why you should thank Nancy Reagan | Jon Stewart calls John Ashcroft on pushing tired anti-Democrat attack meme: "It is possible to disagree with the administration's policy in a way that does exhibit weakness.."
• Justice Department stops consideration of over a hundred habeas corpus petitions
• Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann calls out Bush on torture, habeas corpus: "Your words are lies, Sir."
John Dean on David Kuo's Book "Tempting Faith": The Author's Agenda, the Authoritarian Behavior He Reports, And the White House's Response | George W. Bush, the Politics of Fear and "Protection" of America, and Big Brother | Donklephant: Guilty until proven guilty | WaPo waters down Bush power grab
• House Clerk Testifies: Hastert's Office Knew About Foley And Problem Group Of Members
• GOP Page Scandal Spreading to Rep. Jim Kolbe
• Page tip line running without oversight
• Sources: House clerk warned GOP about Foley years ago
ABC: Clerk Fingers Hastert Staffer | Rumor: Illinois congressman (11th district?) may have a little page problem... | CNN: Clerk Raised Alarms on Foley | Priest Admits Relationship With Foley As Teenager; Describes Naked Massages, Skinny-Dipping | Jeff Trandahl, key witness in scandal, to testify about what GOP knew | A pattern is emerging of seduction by Foley that began when the boys were 16 and 17
• Ill-equipped states brace for elections chaos
Diebold voting machine code mailed to legislator | The Washington Post has just reported that the FBI is investigating the possible theft of Diebold voting machine source code in Maryland | 50% of most competitive races have no paper trail, hence no recounts possible | ChiTrib: Voting "Glitches" Feared on Nov. 7 | Tell The DNC To WAKE UP And Immediately Seek An Injunction To Reverse The Purge Of Democratic Voters | State laws prohibit millions of ex-felons from voting -- and favor Republicans at the polls. But activists say prisoners who served their time have every right to serve their country by casting a ballot | American voters suspicious of close election counts | CA Sec. of State Candidate Publishes Voters Bill of Rights
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Remains of 9/11/01 Al Qaeda mass murder victims are still being discovered!
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- House Intel Chair suspends Dem, blames him for making Bush look bad... er, leaking data to NY Times
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Putin To Israel's PM: "Say hello to your president... he raped 10 women. I never expected it from him. He surprised all of us. We all envy him!" | Iranian president vows no retreat from nuclear path | Condi Rice: Additional sanctions may be needed for North Korea
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- War of the Words: Part III of the full story of the courageous 101st Flying Keyboardists
FOX WATCH -- O’Really? The O'liminationist Rhetoric Factor: Billo wants to "frag" bloggers
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh Doesn't Want Single Women to Vote
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Corporate Responsibility: The Case of Big Tobacco -- As Explained By a Former Juror | Former Head Of NY Stock Exchange Ordered To Repay $80 Million | Wal-Mart workers walk out over inhuman practices
JUSTICE WATCH -- Fat Tony Is Ready to Repeal Roe v. Wade
OH, GOD! -- Romney camp plotting with Mormon leaders in advance of 2008 prez run
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Curious election-season timing: Oil prices sink prior to OPEC meeting
GAY IN AMERICA -- As Foleygate shows, Washington has a unique definition of what it means to be "openly gay." Should the media keep playing along | McWaffle from John McCain: I think gay marriage should be allowed, but not legal

Oct. 19
• Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann calls out Bush on torture, habeas corpus: "Your words are lies, Sir."
WaPo waters down Bush power grab | FBI director: ISPs should track users
• Watch this! Bill Clinton addresses the nation on the Common Good
• Rolling Stone proclaims 109th Congress "The Worst Congress Ever"
Ken Blackwell is Desperate (Don't Ya Love It!) | With the ragtag Lamont campaign at his heels, Lieberman's new worry may be a long-shot GOP candidate siphoning votes | Cook Uprates More Seats In Dems' Favor | Karl Rove's strategy backfired for the GOP this year -- big time | CT-Sen: Lieberman gets double-pwned by Schlesinger, Lamont | Losing very badly, Ohio's Ken Blackwell is very desperate and playing very dirty politics
Scoobie: Brent Budowsky is wrong | Jean Hay Bright to run controversial "Lie and Die" Iraq war TV spot in Maine | End of the Republican Revolution: Now the religious right has turned against the Republican Congress, the great revolution is over | Obama riding momentum | Suicide Watch! McCain: I'll kill self if Dems take Senate | GOP Uneasy About Idaho House Race | Unopposed House Democrats Sitting On $26,288,418 | Young Lawmakers Make Inroads in Politics | Democrats Set Sights on Wins in Ohio | Lie: Rep. John Boehner says Dems "want to appease the terrorist" | OH-Sen: GOP Senate Candidate DeWine Slings "Demonstrably Wrong" Accusations At Dem Opponent Sherrod Brown | NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds approval of the GOP-held Congress is at its lowest mark in 14 years | Watch this! Tom Kean dodges 23 Iraq questions | At the DCCC, cautious optimism has become confident aggressiveness | Clinton urges Dems to grow spines, challenge criticism | Apprehension and unease about the country's international position are at high levels and that the public mood may be nearing a tipping point | WY-AL: Freudenthal to assist Trauner | OH-Gov: Blackwell dives into the gutter | CT-04: Shays is his own worst enemy | FL-SEN: Going for broke! Katherine Harris vows to sell own home for cash-strapped campaign | Rove claims GOP will deploy $100 million In 21 days before election | Philadelphia union leader calls Santorum the anti-Christ | Right's Choreographed Attack on Leader Pelosi in Full Swing | The GOP Has Money, But What's It Worth? | Netroots Challenge Dems' Electoral Strategy
• One-Day Iraq Toll Is Highest for U.S. In Many Months
• In an ABC News exclusive, President Bush said that a newspaper column comparing the current situation in Iraq and the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam, which was widely seen as the turning point in that war, might be accurate
Iraq: Worse Than Civil War | Iraq descends into greater chaos | Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?
Our national shame: Why are the families of America servicemen begging for food? | Insane justification for deaths of thousands: US says troop deaths in Iraq are the "price" of "victory" | Reality vs. Dick Cheney, 10/18/06 | Shades of Dick Nixon: Crazy Conrad Burns says Bush has a "secret plan" for Iraq | Electricity Levels In Baghdad At Lowest Level Since U.S. Invasion
• Page tip line running without oversight
• Sources: House clerk warned GOP about Foley years ago
• Dana Milbank: There Are Rumors About A Third Page Scandal "Involving A 16-Year-Old Girl"
Rumor: Illinois congressman (11th district?) may have a little page problem... | Former Page: Foley Didn't Reel Him In Until Congress-horndog Showed Up At His College | GOP Leaders Bracing Themselves For Testimony From Aide Who Handled 2001 Foley Allegations | A pattern is emerging of seduction by Foley that began when the boys were 16 and 17
• Bush once again uses a "Signing Statement" to proclaim that he will break the law
Convicted congressman Bob Ney is still around, still collecting a paycheck | Nevada GOP Candidate for Governor, Congressman Jim Gibbons, involved in "mysterious event" with woman last Friday night | D'oh! Bob Beauprez Ad Contains Illegal Classified Info | Wonkette One-stop Guide to Crooks in Politics!
Sarah Evans's Porn-Loving Husband Gave Money To George Allen | CA Dem Slams Sweeney for Marianas Trip | CA Rep Jerry Lewis (R-CA) Drops Nearly $800,000 on Legal Fees | Blackwater CEO Is Outed As Closet Green Party Candidate Backer | Sweeney: You Call That A Sweatshop?
• Ill-equipped states brace for elections chaos
Tell The DNC To WAKE UP And Immediately Seek An Injunction To Reverse The Purge Of Democratic Voters | State laws prohibit millions of ex-felons from voting -- and favor Republicans at the polls. But activists say prisoners who served their time have every right to serve their country by casting a ballot | American voters suspicious of close election counts | CA Sec. of State Candidate Publishes Voters Bill of Rights | REPORT: Missouri to Offer Optional Paper Ballots | REPORT: Missouri to Offer Optional Paper Ballots
WAR CRIMES -- Four US Soldiers To Face Murder Charges For Raping 14-Year-Old Girl, Killing Entire Family
BORDER BUNGLES -- And he should know! Former Soviet Premier Gorbachev Compares Proposed Border Wall To Berlin Wall
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Ignorance on the Intelligence Committee: Rep. Terry Everett (R-AL), Poster Child!
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Condi Rice: Additional sanctions may be needed for North Korea
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- WaPo, NY Times, Reuters provided uninformative coverage of detainee bill signing | Why has CNN devoted 50 times as much coverage to Harry Reid's land deal as Dennis Hastert's? | Bush Bolsters His Noise Machine | Republicans vs. Democrats or Republicans vs. the news? | Sun Myung Moon's Creative Cinematic Offering to the World: Is "Inchon" the Worst Movie Ever | Sidney Blumenthal on the radical GOP, the real Dick Cheney, and why you should thank Nancy Reagan | Jon Stewart calls John Ashcroft on pushing tired anti-Democrat attack meme: "It is possible to disagree with the administration's policy in a way that does exhibit weakness.." | Anyone who watches MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell knows that she is nothing but a tarted-up GOP shill | Iraqi Death Rate May Top Our Civil War — But Will the Press Confirm It? | Washington Post endorses Jim Webb for VA Senate seat | Mark Halperin asserted, despite polling to the contrary, that Republicans have "an advantage" over Democrats on "national security and taxes" | Is Peter Boyles the most dishonest media figure in Colorado?
FOX WATCH -- Glenn Greenwald calls bullsh!t on what FOX News Channel viewers are told about the torture and detention bill
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh Doesn't Want Single Women to Vote
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart workers walk out over inhuman practices
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Just in time for midterms! Homeland Security "skeptical," but still makes a big deal of obviously fake dirty bomb threat against 7 NFL stadiums
JUSTICE WATCH -- Fat Tony Is Ready to Repeal Roe v. Wade
OH, GOD! -- Romney camp plotting with Mormon leaders in advance of 2008 prez run
GAY IN AMERICA -- Report: Anti-Gay Rights GOP Sen. Larry Craig Has Sex With Men | Some Seek "Pink Purge" in the GOP

Oct. 18
• Bush Signs Torture Bill, Kills Habeus Corpus, legalizes Throwing Anyone He Deems an Enemy in Prison, Guts Over 200 Years of Civil Rights for the Accused
• Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann: The Day Habeas Corpus Died
Shame on Us All | Election reform activist charged with felony wiretapping | Raw obtains CENTCOM email to blog
• First Bush-appointed Chair of EAC: There are "no standards" for e-voting boxes; system ripe for outright election theft
The Great Election Grab: When does gerrymandering become a threat to democracy? | Legal immigrants told it is illegal to vote
• AP: House Page Board is investigating Kolbe's camping trip with pages
• Page Board Is Discussing Allegations Involving Second Member of Congress
CA-04: Doolittle enabled sexual predator | Ba-a-a-a-a! Rep. Don Young opens mouth on Foleygate, inserts foot | Foley fallout: BlogActive outs GOP Sen. Larry Craig | Thankfully, Hastert is still around | Watch endangered Rep. Sue Kelly (R-NY) go postal in a debate at the editorial board of the local paper when her opponent brings up Foleygate
• Former US Secy. Of State James Baker: Iraq Is A Helluva Mess
• Violence in Iraq Kills 10 U.S. Soldiers
Watch this! Rep. Peter King (R-NY) Says That Being In Baghdad Is Like Being In Manhattan | Bush Fails to Put Iraqi Leadership on Notice; Bush's contradictory statement sent the wrong message — that the United States will continue giving a blank check to the Iraqi leadership no matter what it does or doesn' do | Is U.S. Worsening Iraq Civil War? Does Grizzly Bear Leave Dookies In Woods? | Bush wants to spread war to space | CNN: Support For Iraq At All Time Low | Why we are in such trouble not only in Iraq but here at home: Republicans are idiots
• Catapulting the Propaganda: Bush coordinates GOP political strategy with five right-wing talk radio liars
• Nova M Radio Launches; Team Includes the Drobnys, John Zogby, Joe Trippi and... Mike Malloy!
Stuart Rothenberg, wrong again! | Network News Amateur Hour! CBS, ABC ignored FBI raid of Weldon associates in corruption probe; NBC ignored key difference between Weldon raid and Reid land deal | AP's John Solomon is obsessed with Harry Reid | Does someone at the AP have it out for Harry Reid? Yes... and he has a right-wing oppo research guru! | CBS News Provides Free Airtime To Vets For Freedom Action Fund - A Campaign Organization | Carol Darr's worst nightmare | Conservative Radio Hosts Breaking With Bush, GOP Leaders
• Chertoff: Earn your Al Qaeda terrorism degree on the Web in your spare time!
Hastert's latest lie: Dems gingerly pamper terrorists
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Another GOP congressman in Abramoff trouble: Sweeney trip in question | Curt Weldon's Ties to Serbian Businessman Crony of War Criminal Slobodan Milosevic Part of Probe | PA-07: Does Weldon still deny FBI investigation? | Rep. Doolittle Defended Friend Accused of Sexual Assault | House Committee Ignored Guilty Former Congressman Randy Cunningham's Red Flags, Intimidation Tactics | Coin Dealer's Ex-Assistant Speaks at Noe Coingate Trial | L.A. Ethics Commission Head Fined $1,500 | Bush honors National Domestic Violence Awareness Month by campaign event with Congressman Choker | K.A. Paul Speaks! Again! Some More! | Curt Weldon's Daughter's Company Kept Low Profile -- So Low, They Kept No Web Site | Report: Cunningham bribes bought $70 m in contracts | AP: State Probe of GOP Colorado Gov Candidate Bob Beauprez | Time for the party to cut bait on this one: Democratic-aligned labor leader arrested for racketeering | Report: Cunningham Helped Contractors | You've just gotta laugh! Bush declares this National Character Counts Week | Report: Cunningham Alone is to Blame for His Corruption | Doolittle: I Am Not A Target of Fed Probe | GOP Coingate trial has everything: Corruption, theft, laundering, forgery
HOT POLITICS -- Dean Puts The Chips On Blue | The Lame Duck Cometh | Republican sources tell Raw House GOP losing hope, believe Democrats planning new October surprise | Religious activists turn CT officials' support of torture into campaign issue | Irony Watch: Bush Proclaims National Character Counts Week 2006 | When someone says, "Democrats don't have a plan," call bullsh!t and rattle off this list | Poll: Intermittent Voters Critical | Democratic State Sen. Candidate Called Up by National Guard | Michael Steele Spits In The Face Of Black America | WA-05: DCCC Steps up for Goldmark | Talk dirty to me! Sex scandal discussion dominates NC election debate | American Approval Of Congress At Historical Low | Republicans Put Only $700G in TV Ads in Ohio | Ohio Senate debate turns vicious; Blackwell claims NAMBLA applauded Strickland | DNC securing loan to help DSCC fight the GOP firewall | Color Ohio Blue This Year | OH-Sen: DeWine's epic collapse | Sherrod Brown 14 point Lead over DeWine | Discontent With GOP Finds Way Into Texas | Pawlenty Trails Slightly in Minn. Race | TX-17, TX-21: Good news from the Lone Star State | KS-Gov, AG: Fixing Kansas | Wife of Rep. Sherwood (R-PA) is angry that Chris Carney is making a campaign issue out of her husband trying to choke his mistress | National GOP Yanks Funding From Candidate In Crawford, TX | GOP Senator Mike Dewine's (R-OH) empty chair | ID-01: GOP Going For Broke to Hang onto This Seat | Michael Steele endorsed by killer, and by rapist! | Dick Cheney on the campaign trail: Did I tell you the one about the black guy, the Jew, and the fag? | WY-AL: Race remains tight | They're no Act Blue: GOP bloggers raise paltry $250k in 60 days | Allen"s campaign smacks of desperation | NRCC pulling the plug on the challenger to Rep. Chet Edwards (D) down in Texas | GOP is pulling out of Ohio; DeWine is tanking
QWAGMIRE -- Explosion, gunfire at Sri Lanka navy camp
BORDER BUNGLES -- Wacky, paranoid Judicial Watch claims elementary school training Mexican revolutionaries with US taxpayer money
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Second North Korean test would be "belligerent" says US diplomat | Miserable foreign policy failure: North Korea test was plutonium produced under Bush I or Bush II, not Clinton | Nukes: Iran and North Korea are not the problem
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ken Lay's Enron criminal conviction erased from record by his all-too-convenient death; let the civil complaints begin
FOX WATCH -- Nation Books will publish "Fair and Balanced, My Ass: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News" | Hannity will blame his audience if the GOP loses in Nov. | Right Wing Media Spokesmodel Melanie Morgan Is Obsessed With Cindy Sheehan | Bush to Billo: Iraq War Critics "Propagandize," Engage In "Illogical Behavior"
GAY IN AMERICA -- Bush followers outraged over the political use of homosexuality and sex -- seriously | Rice swears in married gay official | The cost of GOP bigotry: Former congressman's death leaves his husband without a pension because federal law says gays don't count | Vice Presidential daughter Mary Cheney takes on anti-gay amendment in Virginia

Oct. 17
• FBI agents raid home of lobbyist -- who just happens to be daughter of Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA7)
• Homes Raided In Rep. Weldon Influence Probe
FBI operation probing Weldon corruption deals new blow to Republican hopes | Plea deal in the works? Rep. John Doolittle's lawyers talking to Justice Department | How it's done: Sen. Harry Reid disarms smear campaign, exceeds ethical requirements | Bush White House reportedly worked in support of sexual slavery in Asia as favor to Jack Abramoff | Former FDA chief Lester Crawford charged for lying about stocks | Two words, James Baker, Two Words | An e-mail trail suggests that current Republican National Committee head Ken Mehlman was lobbyist Jack Abramoff's go-to guy in the White House | Data loss at agencies is widespread | Religious, political videos pulled from city-owned TV after Democrats complain | Paranoid Curt Weldon: They're All Out to Get Me | Jack Abramoff Used Top White House Staffer Ken Mehlman To Get State Dept. Official Fired, New Emails Show | Dem writes RNC chief over free U2 tickets | Right-wing Group Falsely Claims Suffragists Were Anti-choice | So Curt, care to comment on that investigation now? | Did RNC chair take Abramoff U2 tickets? | For Hastert and Reynolds, Twelve Excuses and Counting | Bush: Get Me Some Compassion, Stat! | Testimony to Begin in Ohio GOP Coingate Case
• Another Lawmaker Has Page Problem?
Hastert, Reynolds Using "Scheduling Excuses" To Get Out Of Campaigning In Wake Of Foley Scandal | Ethics Inquiry into Foley Scandal Continues | Radioactivity Watch: Hastert fundraiser canceled in NJ 5 | Ethics panel questions Royal Alexander, chief of staff to Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA) about Foley, page | When in Doubt, Blame CREW
• North Korea may be preparing a second nuclear test, Japan and South Korea say
What North Korea wants | Plans for Olmert, Abbas meeting fail
• Iraq Study Group To Rule Out "Victory" in Report, Will Recommend Managed Withdrawal
What the murder of a key Iraqi commander means | Post-Election Issue #1: Should It Be Iraq Exit Strategy Hearings? Here's a good Argument In Favor | U.S. Officials Undermine Baghdad, Leader Says | Iraqis fleeing rising violence | GOP Catfight! Sen. Warner Says He Doesn't Back Candidate's Call For Rumsfeld Resignation | Iraq war supports hits all-time low | Snow on Iraq: "I Don't Know" If We Are Winning | Dozens Of Iraqis Killed in Reprisals | UK arms sales at record levels | What interesting timing! Saddam verdict due 2 days before US election
• RADAR magazine names America's 10 "dumbest Congressmen" -- including three Democrats who are, well, dumb!
Bush pledges more carnage and death in Iraq | America's Pac is running "race ads" in more than 2 dozen Congressional districts | Is there a Rove/Mehlman power struggle for control of the GOP campaign operation? | The DCCC continues to expand the list of races that are in play. Yes, you read that right: expand the list | Let Glenn Greenwald take you on a tour around the mind of the Bush follower | Mike Tyson, Don King Heart Michael Steele | GOP distances self from failed preznit; Bush factor is proving a negative for voters and candidates along the campaign trail | Chafee Tries to Recover From RI Primary | MT-Sen: Tester breaks fundraising record | As Denver eyes 2008 Democratic Convention, state and West trend Dem | Pelosi: If Dems win, Bush has to listen | ID-01: CQ Upgrades Race | CT Debate: Ned hit Joe on the issues, Ned looked the most Senatorial of the three, Schlesinger will rise in the polls after this performance | NE-03: Kleeb Gets Impressive Endorsement | CNN Poll: Bush Disapproval Rating At 61 Percent, An All-time High | CT Debate: Lieberman4Lieberman Candidate Makes Poor Showing In Debate, Schlesinger and Lamont Dominate | CT Debate: Lieberman Crunched, Schlesinger Soars | CT-Sen: former Club for Growth chief bankrolls Lieberman | MT-Sen: Schweitzer/Tester ad | Is Ohio being written off by GOP? | Yes, Ohio is being written off by the GOP! | CQ thinks huge Democratic "wave" may be possible this Election Day | Washington Post: Hastert Losing Control Of GOP | Hyperpartisanship Started With Newt
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- The Dynamics of Rising American Fascism | The New Slavery: Bio-Ownership | Woman Sues After Being ticketed for Anti-Bush Car Sticker | Raw Story obtains US military email to critical bloggers
WAR CRIMES -- Hero of Guantanamo, Lt. Commander Charles Swift, on Detainee Bill: "I Don't Believe [It Will] Match Constitutional Muster" | Bush to finally sign pro-torture law - no details yet on how many signing statements | The deceitful ritual of the "independent" GOP Senator and the torture bill
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Blind sheik's lawyer gets 28 months
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Bust but still beaming: US liberal radio | Jon Stewart Rips On Unending GOP Scandals: Dennis "I've Got My Own Problems" Hastert Just Plays The Tape | CNN Pushes the Wacky Theory That Investigation of Curt Weldon Is a Liberal Conspiracy by Bush Justice Department -- So Where is the Evidence | The shifting ethics of Howard Kurtz | Purporting to have learned from Capitol Police about House pages "cavort[ing]" naked, wacky Cal Thomas's claims very similar to NewsMax report of pre-1983 conduct
FOX WATCH -- O'Really? Billo Proclaims "You Cannot Be Confrontational With The President of the United States!"
$MIRKONOMICS -- The U.S. housing bust: Excess investment and its discontents | Democrats Favored When Economy Uncertain
ELECTION THEFTS -- And the Winner Is ... Me: Ken Blackwell, the new Katherine Harris | Missouri Supreme Court Declares State Photo ID Laws Unconstitutional (Again!) | Ohio Meltdown 2006: A Poll Worker Shares News of What's to Come | NAACP to Monitor Elections in 10 States | CA Sec'y of State Says All Voters May Request and Vote On a Paper Ballot
JUSTICE WATCH -- South Dakota is back: Judges beware
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Washington Supreme Court Says Yes to Local Gun Show Restrictions
OH, GOD! -- Former White House insider David Kuo talks about how the Bush administration used its most loyal voters, evangelical Christians, for political gain | Gov. Mitt Romney rips own state in pitch to Dominionists, Christianists, Theocrats | Religious bigots: Evangelical Christians are disgusted by gay-friendly Condi Rice | Turning the other fist: Christian Conservatives attack Kuo | GOP Candidate Bachmann: "God Then Called Me To Run For The United States Congress...You Are Looking At A Fool For Christ" -- Um, No, We're Looking At Just a Fool

Oct. 16
• Senior Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI -- you know, the nut who says we found WMDs in Iraq) meets with known intelligence fabricator over Iran, Iraq, al Qaeda sources
• CNN confirms DOJ probing Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA7)
Mehlman confronted by Tim Russert on role in firing of aide Jack Abramoff did not like
• Shot across the Bush Boy's bow: two prominent GOP senators demand new Iraq strategy
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NW): We Need To Find A New Strategy, A Way Out Of Iraq | Bob Woodward Interviews John Kerry: How He Would Have Handled Iraq | Sen. John Warner says "things are going sideways" in Iraq as US death toll soars | Giving Bush the Purple Finger | Dozens Of Iraqis Killed in Reprisals | Blog: How many dead Iraq contractors? Get ready for more bad news | US Death Toll In Iraq Hits 53 So Far This Month | Saddam verdict to come in early November | Sunni accuse Shiites of dirty tricks in passing controversial federalism law | Naval buildup near Iran
FOLEYGATE -- Foley "October Surprise" Claim Flops
HOT POLITICS -- Krugman: There are two reasons why party control is everything in this election | GOP Writes Off Sen. Mike DeWine's Seat | The GOP Firewall strategy is going up in flames | thuggish behavior, shakedowns of GOP supporters: the in-depth profile of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) he does not want you to read | Viguerie to the GOP: Fuhgedaboutit | Forget Iraq and Guantánamo; this is about the bottle and the zipper | C0-04, CO-05, CO-07: A Triple Play in Colorado | CT-05 Chris Murphy and Nancy Johnson: Closer Than You Think | NY Times: GOP redirects financial support to vulnerable incumbents | Bush, Rove "inexplicably upbeat" on GOP’s election prospects (but then, they still think we're makin' great progress in Iraq, too) | Ken Mehlman just makes stuff up | US News: How Deluded Are Bush Staffers? They Think Newt Gingrich Would Make A Great President In 2008 | WA-08: What's Behind the Seattle Times Reichert Endorsement? | Bush Jr.'s follies mar legacy, his dad's former aides gripe | Poll: Incumbent Leads Michigan Gov. Race | Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) Struggles in Bid to Retain Senate Seat | Governor race polls | VA-Sen: Neck and neck | MN Senate Hopefuls Clash on Iraq | Watch Rep. Mark Kennedy, GOP Senate Candidate, Scramble To Distance Himself From Bush | Clinton: Common life in America has been "disturbed", voters "know something is wrong" in Washington | Iraq war top campaign obstacle for GOP | Bob Casey Is On A Campaign To Send Rick Santorum Into Political Obscurity | Democrats' Big Dog Barks Louder
WAR CRIMES -- A suspected al Qaeda leader accused involvement in September 11 and 2004 Madrid train bombings has been imprisoned in a secret U.S. jail for the past year
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- John Bolton Refuses To Rule Out Military Action Against North Korea | North Korea may send bomb by sea
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Ky. Newspaper to Return Foundation Grant After Mitch McConnell Whines "Bias" | Bob Woodward criticizes White House press corps' "wrong tack by asking [Bush] general questions" | Suggesting that both Clinton and Bush buckled on NK nuke program, Tim Russert ignored halt of plutonium production under Clinton | NBC's Andrea Mitchell Greenspan: George And Laura Bush Are Really Angry At Former Chief Of Staff Andy Card For Telling To Truth To Bob Woodward | Brent Budowsky: "Air America should have played a far more powerful role, and this far more powerful role should have been good for business as well as good for America"
FOX WATCH -- War Pigs: Brit Hume, Billy Kristol Want Unilateral Action on North Korea, Iran | Desperate Brit Hume smears Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi | FOX News Loses Condoleezza To Technical Difficulties
JUSTICE WATCH -- Scalia: Abortion Rights Not Constitutional
OH, GOD! -- Easy marks for a White House con: The Bush team mocked evangelical Christians after winning their support | David Kuo, former Bush faith-based player turned author, on 60 Minutes: "The name of God is being destroyed in the name of politics"
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Reason Fights Back! | Putting A Face To Stem Cell Research

Oct. 15
• Jack Abramoff's Tentacles Reach Ken Mehlman And The White House
• FBI is said to be probing Weldon over his influence
Colorado's Republican candidate for governor, Bob Beauprez, appears to be improperly using federal crime databases
Rep. John Murtha Blasts GOP for |Cheap Shot campaign of Name-calling Over Iraq | About Time! Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA2) Loses Party Endorsement | Korenna Kline, spokesperson for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), abruptly resigned yesterday | Report: FBI probing rep. Curt Weldon's aid to daughter
• Iraqis, fed up with the violence that came with imposed Western-style kleptocra... er, "dempcracy", want a strongman-style junta to end anarchy
A Day in Iraq: Anarchy, war, chaos | Iraqi Colonel Who Bridged Sectarian Divide Is Killed
How can you ask someone to be the last one to die for a Republican midterm election? | Outbreak Of Sectarian Violence Kills 43 In Iraq | US hangs UK out to dry in Afghanistan | What about all those purple fingers? David Brooks; Bush may overthrow... er, push to replace failed Iraq government | Rocket-propelled grenade attack on UN headquarters in Beirut | Whoooa, Duuude! Impenetrable Forests Of 10-Feet High Marijuana Plants Face Canadian Troops In Afghanistan | Bush Keeps Shifting and Changing His Explanation For Why The US Is In Iraq | Isolation of Hamas proving useless | Coroner: US killed Brit TV reporter
• America is finally revolting against the Republicans
It was as if the Kerry of 2006 was channeling the Howard Dean of 2003 | Bush: Bring us your chokers, your racists, your creepy child sex predator defenders and the White House will support them all
What do Bush and Rove know that we don't? | George Allen Plummets In Polls: Race Now A Virtual Tie | Bush Stumps For Troubled Sen. Macacawitz Allen, Admitted Adulterer Rep. Sherwood... | Rep. Tom Reynolds "knew all about" Mark Foley&146;s child sex predation "and didn't do a thing. He didn't think of the kids or anyone but himself" | Chris Shays showed his true colors this past week | GOP Pulling Funds From Scandal-ridden Ohio | We need more Clif Kelleys -- the guy is a Democratic hero | IL-14: John Laesch is within striking distance of beating dennis Hastert | Maybe, just maybe, Democrats ARE sexier! | National GOP Fails To Deliver Funds To DeLay's Substituts | Implications of Ohio's GOP implosion | Ohio is transforming under the weight of Republican scandal and voter dissatisfaction -- and going blue
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Florida paper asks what really made White House shun Foley? | It's True: Majority Of Americans Reject Right Wing Anti-gay Smears In Foley Scandal
QWAGMIRE -- Army lowers standards, scrapes for recruits
WAR CRIMES -- A man has been kept at Guantanamo because of a propaganda tape made by Al Qaeda -- who tortured him too
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- The terrorists who aren't in the news -- and they are domestic terrorists: Anti-abortion fanatics spread fear by bombings, murders and assaults, but the media take little notice
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Ex-S.Korea leader blames Bush for N. Korea fiasco | Expect up to 40 new nuke powers if arms race heats up | UN Agrees On Tough North Korean Sanctions
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Olbermann: Taking Names and Getting Ratings | Two conservative-leaning authors blast GOP-controlled Congress | Bill Maher rips into Bush, Bolton, Foley, Hastert, Republicans, Democrats, and… maybe, you | NBC pulls down profits at GE | NBC's David Gregory Accidentally (Or Maybe Not So Accidentally) Reveals His George Bush Impression
FOX WATCH -- Three in Four Americans Support Bringing Troops Home From Iraq -- And That's According to FOX News! | Chris Wallace Ignores 20,000 Emails Demanding He Ask Rice About The USS Cole | FOX Fires Broadcaster Over Racially Insensitive Comment
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- One Year After Bankruptcy Bill, It's Well Past Time To Crack Down On Predatory Lenders
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- GAO: Federal government unable to track spending of $88 billion in Katrina funding
ELECTION THEFTS -- U.S. says Philadelphia violates voting rights -- will they give the same scrutiny to Texas municipalities?
JUSTICE WATCH -- The Republicans just made online gambling a crime
GAY IN AMERICA -- Full Text of Frank Rich: The Gay Old Party Comes Out