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Hot Headlines, December 2006

Dec. 16
• An organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose the Iraq war -- and they plan to petition Congress to get American troops out
Bush likely to reject study group call for withdrawal from Iraq | Pentagon, White House Moneymen Scramble to Ram Surge in U.S. Troops to Iraq Down Congress’, Nation’s Throat | So long Rummy: Another incompetent loser feted by Bush | Preview: John Murtha is going to grill Administration heavies about the Iraq War lies, inept execution and outright graft | US army near breaking point, top general warns | Iraq and its aftermath: a state of desperation and denial in the White House | Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war | U.S. soldiers lead Iraq children in obscene chant
HOT POLITICS -- Doctors agree Johnson’s recovery is encouraging | Senator Tim Johnson Reported Responsive; Capital Is Riveted | Bayh Rules Out White House Bid in 2008 | Ex-Rep. Bob Barr Quits GOP for Libertarians | Undecided 2008 Dem Candidate Bill Richardson Heads To New Hampshire On Saturday | Could Johnson’s absence throw the Senate into chaos? Actually, no... | Many of the 2008 presidential hopefuls have already hired advertising gurus | So, the whole Reyes vs Harmon vs Hastings brouhaha really was totally bogus
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Government fails 10th straight audit | Close Friend Of Bush At Center Of Coast Guard Contract Fiasco | Abramoff: I WAS SWIFT-BOATED! | Fed agents linked to Mexico gang killing | Scandal Hasn’t Sunk Abramoff Ally -- Yet | UK Official: Blair Lied to Public About Iraq WMD | Baghdad Residents Hit By Robo Calls | HarrisWatch: Goodbye Is Too Good a Word, Dear | The senator "who never says no"
TRAITORGATE -- Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said he didn’t expect Bush administration officials to resist calls to testify
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- White House Forbids Publication Of Op-Ed On Iran By Former Bush Official | Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq: What Junior is really planning to do | White House OKs $469b Pentagon budget | US Military Moving Troops Into Kuwait | Matt Damon: Ship the Bush Twins off to Iraq | Department of What the Hell Universe Do You Live In? Bush praises Rumsfeld: "This Man Knows How To Lead... And The Country Is Better Off For It" | Department of What the Hell Universe Do You Live In? Cheney calls Rumsfeld "the Finest Secretary of Defense This Nation Has Ever Had" | Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) blasts outgoing War Secretary Rumsfeld | Fatah, Hamas in Gaza gun battles (WARNING: Moonie Press Link) | The pundits who supported this whole Iraq thing long ago decided that they could evade responsibility for their role in this by continuing to come up new Pony Plans | For the neoconservatives, the widespread destruction and chaos in Iraq are not an unfortunate side effect of war, but an indication that everything is going according to plan
WAR CRIMES -- Guantánamo’s freed detainees: what happened next | ICC prepares Darfur war crimes trials
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- As Impeachment Movement Builds, Pollsters Silence Impeachment Talk | What took so long? Judith "If I Did It" Regan Fired | C’mon, Wolf Blitzer, tell us how you really feel... | Jeff Greenfield and now Mary Matalin on defensive over "botched joke" Obama-Middle East references | CNN’s Mary Snow did not call Prager on backpedaling on use of Quran for oath | Why is Glenn Beck back on Good Morning America? | Glenn Beck on Iran’s Holocaust denial conference: "Gee, the only one that wasn’t there was Jimmy Carter" | CSPAN Ask Pelosi For More Video Transparency: Current Situation "An Anachronism That Does A Disservice To The Institution" | Ed Koch slams Prager for being a bigot
FOX WATCH -- Only on FOX! The Inadvertent Truth by Gretchen Carlson
BORDER BUNGLES -- Nine days until Christmas – and Mommy just got dragged away in handcuffs for a bunch of show arrests. Nice. | Immigration Raids May Result In Higher Meat Prices
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Delusional and dangerous Condi Rice says former Secretary of State James Baker wants to give Iran nukes | Whine, whine, whine: Diplomatic visits to Syria by Senators irritates Tony Snow and the Bush Team | U.S. delegation in Cuba pushing for reform amid buzz of impending Castro death | GOP Sen. Arlen Specter Planning Syria Trip Against White House Wishes; More Proof That Bush Has Lost Grip on Power | Hypocrite: Now all of a sudden, John Bolton loves UN authority and wants charges brought against Ahmadinejad | Unhappy White House Threatens Bill Nelson Over Syria Visit: "May Cost Some People Their Credibility" | Kerry willing to travel to Iran | Follow-up on Saudi ambassador’s resignation | Condi Rice Rejects Overture To Iran And Syria
$MIRKONOMICS -- Paper Tiger In Beijing: Progress Unlikely in China Talks | And as the middle class gets the squeeze... | Morgan Stanley CEO’s $40m bonus
JUSTICE WATCH -- FL Suspends Executions After Botched Injection | Jeb Bush’s botched execution | Federal Judge Rules California’s Lethal Injection Method Unconstitutional
OH, GOD! -- CNN: a major news network being deeply hostile to people with or without faith
TRASHING NATURE -- Sen. John Warner (R-VA) drops bid for the ranking member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; is Inhofe back?

Dec. 15
• Doctors Say Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S) Is "Appropriately Responsive" And Recovering "Without Complications"
HOT POLITICS -- Will Bush tap Lieberman to flip the Senate's majority? | The Daily Show's Samantha Bee gives Al Jazeera English an American TV News makeover | Al Jazeera's Brilliant PR Move: Submitting To The Will Of The Daily Show | Senator Johnson Recovering....Sen. Reid: "He Really Looks Good"... | Sen. Johnson "recovering without complication." Family is "encouraged and " | So, the whole Reyes vs Harmon vs Hastings brouhaha really was totally bogus | America Does Not Heart Republicans | Geiger: Reid shows honor GOP lacked | Rasmussen 2008 head-to-heads | Very Serious junior senator from Connecticut seriously dishonest about Iraq | Edwards kicking butt | Still waiting on Dean to decide 2008 convention location
QWAGMIRE -- US army near breaking point, top general warns | Iraq and its aftermath: a state of desperation and denial in the White House | Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war | U.S. soldiers lead Iraq children in obscene chant | Bush Admin Ignored UK Warnings About Iraqi Insurgency | Is former Saudi Ambassador Bandar egging the Cheney-ites on to bomb Iran? | For the neoconservatives, the widespread destruction and chaos in Iraq are not an unfortunate side effect of war, but an indication that everything is going according to plan | Chaos In Gaza: Hamas Leader Accuses Palestinian President Of Wanting To Start War | Victory in Iraq! What A Difference A Year Makes | Bush Officially Embraces Vietnam-Era Strategy Of Publicizing Enemy Body Counts In Iraq | Kill! Die! Kill! McCain Calls for More Troops in Iraq | Snow Hedges On Chalabi-Syria Involvement: "My guess is no" | Bush to ask for $100 billion for Iraq war
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Tony Snow's apology renders reporter speechless | Uproar over "stunt": CNN's Blitzer gives airtime to David Duke | Tony Snow Apologizes to David Gregory | Malkin announces that she's going to Baghdad... or is she? | Must-see TV: Keith Olbermann reviews Tony "I don't know" Snow | Michael Crichton's Poison Pen, Aimed Straight At Michael Crowley's Penis | Will pasty, pudgy Jonah Goldberg be a man of his word and pay up? | TIME accused of publishing plagiarized gay-bashing column | Orchestrated/ MSNBC's Norah "Lap Poodle" O'Donnell prompted Laura Bush to elaborate on "good things" in Iraq | Nancy "Malkin" Drew: Is Eason Jordan getting played? | Ghouls: Hume, Borger, Cavuto falsely reported Sen. Johnson would be replaced if "incapacitated" | Geffen Offers $2 Billion For LAT; Whither Baquet?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Big Pharma to face big investigations | Will the GOP try this stunt? In UK, "national interest" used as excuse to halt arms corruption inquiry | Boehner, King Distort Pelosi Quote, Falsely Claim She Has Broken 9/11 Commission Pledge | Email: Abramoff Associate Urged Funds for GOP Sen. Who "Never Said No" | DeLay Forgets He's Indicted, Tries To Make A Comeback. | Convicted GOP Rep Asks Friends for Favor
TRAITORGATE -- Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said he didn't expect Bush administration officials to resist calls to testify
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Whine, whine, whine: Diplomatic visits to Syria by Senators irritates Tony Snow and the Bush Team | Condi Rice Rejects Overture To Iran And Syria | Report: Castro close to death | Bush policies making US even less popular in Arab world | New UN Chief Officially Takes Over
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case | Bush "Privacy Board" is a joke | John McCain wants to legislate the blogs out of existence
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- "Blind Sheik" Behind WTC Bombing Hospitalized; FBI Warns Of Attacks If He Dies In US Custody
BORDER BUNGLES -- In Immigraion Raids' Aftermath, DHS Finds More Crooks -- and Innocents | "Identity Theft" a Red Herring in DHS Raids, Numbers Show | Despite DHS Claims, Raid Netted Legal Worker | In Raids' Aftermath, Kids Still Looking for Homes | Questions Swirl over DHS Raid Tactics, Statements
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Pelosi prepares for spy budget oversight
FOX WATCH -- Ghoulish FOX News Speculates How Officials Could Declare Sen. Johnson Incapacitated
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Dems eye alternative minimum tax fix
ELECTION THEFTS -- Officials backtracking on evote challenge?
JUSTICE WATCH -- Judge: Bared breasts don't break any law
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Big Oil companies now facing oversight and justice | Big Oil companies now facing oversight and justice | Bush's friends in Saudi Arabia and OPEC want to cut oil production to keep prices above $60 a barrel | OPEC to reduce oil production
GAY IN AMERICA -- New Jersey legislature passes "civil unions" legislation for gay couples. Governor says will sign | TIME slammed by second doctor for publishing anti-gay hit piece misquoting legit science

Dec. 14
• Bush has created a comprehensive catastrophe across the Middle East
• Joint Chiefs do not agree with Junior's desire to send more of our kids to Iraq -- and they let him know
• Senior Marine Corps officials says Bush has so weakened the military, he's now jeopardized the war on terror
• Junior ignores public demand to resolve Iraq mess, drags his feet, won't be The Decider until next year
• Saudi royals to Cheney: we might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq's Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq
• Translations: Our "friends" the Saudis say that if US pulls out of Iraq, they may aid Al Qaeda led insurgency
• The President is really on an Ignoring Tour
• Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found
The Iraq Study Group: Evading responsibility, presuming legitimacy and getting caught like a monkey | The abrupt resignation of the Saudi ambassador to the United States and the postponement of George W. Bush's new Iraq policy speech mark a troubling new chapter for a U.S. strategy for the Middle East that continues to spiral toward catastrophe
• Sen. Tim Johnson in (D-SD) in critical condition after undergoing emergency brain surgery
Update on Senator Johnson | Another Quote Of The Day: Rangel Says Bush Is In "Deep Sh!t" | Pelosi announces committee picks | Sore losermen: Defeated GOP pols miffed about millions that Republican Senators still have on hand
• Jeff Greenfield's botched joke: a lot worse than John Kerry's -- and where is the rest of the press on this
Watch this! David Duke calls CNN's Wolf Blitzer a Jewish extremist | Jeff Greenfield, junior journalist: Scoobie Davis on more amateurishness from CNN's "respected" political commentator | Dana Milbank red-asses Tony "I don't know" Snow | Only on WorldNutDaily: Soy makes you gay!
• "These people should be court-martialed": Former Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein says evangelicals are trying to turn his beloved military into a "fr!ckin' faith-based initiative"
• General in Pentagon Christianist video also abused rank to solicit campaign contributions for Republicans
• A must-read from Media Channel: How the Communist Chinese Conquered America
• Funniest. R-rated. Political. Video! EVER!!! (Not work-safe)
HOT POLITICS -- TX-23: Upset! Democrat Ciro Rodriguez Beats 7-term Bush Buddy Henry Bonilla in Runoff Ballot; Dems Officially Pick Up 31 Seats in House | Ciro Victory a Stunning Upset and Final Election-year Rebuke to GOP | Sen. Clinton Hosts Evening in Iowa | TX-23 Post-mortem: looks like Bonilla lost because of Latino backlash | Pelosi front-pages yet more House frosh | Bob "Leaky" Novak: Rove Will Retire From Politics After Bush Term | Yep, He Is Running: Rudy Giuliani Hires Major RNC Figure To Head 2008 Exploratory Committee | For AP, John Solomon Breaks News, Leaving Others to Clean Up His Mess | Clinton hires faith guru; 2008 sign? | Democrats's House lead bigger than that of the GOP "revolution" | Kucinich Throws His Hat In | 82 Percent of Americans want most U.S. troops out of Iraq within two years | Tony Snow's Best Defense of Bush: The Public Dislikes Congress More | The Shia takeover of Baghdad
QWAGMIRE -- 25,000 US Troops Dead Or Wounded In Iraq | Martial Law in Iraq: Yeah, That'll Work | As many as 70 abducted on streets of Baghdad today | 21% approval? Send more troops! | Former Cheney Adviser: "Iraq Is Now Bush's Baby, And Cheney Doesn't Want To Be Tarred With It" | Without Deliberate Speed | Iraq: No good choices | Pentagon Wants to "Double Down" in Iraq -- and Make No Mistake: Sadr Is the Target | No banking system in Iraq. Still. | Car bombs kill 15 in Baghdad, north Iraq | Kerry to Meet Soldiers, Leaders in Iraq
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Ex-CNN chief starting all Iraq news site | The true assassins of the American paper (clue: it is not Craigslist.com's Craig Newmark) | Glenn Greenwald on the Washington Post and authoritarianism -- then and now | Two Very Different Newscasts: NBC & CBS | But Seriously, Do You Really Doubt That He Would? A Real Magazine Cover You've Gotta See
FOX WATCH -- Murdoch megalomania | Is Rick Santorum going to work for FOX News?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Do-nothing bills in 109th Congress -- the rundown | Ostensibly supportive comments in DeLay blog carried a hidden message | Ex-choir Director Pleads Not Guilty, Gets Support From Bush Aunt | Government Of the Corrupt, By the Corrupt and For the Corrupt | Write a letter on behalf of Bob Ney! | Who is McCain campaign manager Terry Nelson? And will the media tell us? | Legal Fees Top $860K for Rep. Lewis | FEC Fines Swift Boat Vets $300K | FEC Hits Swift Boat Veterans For Truth With $300,000 Fine
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Judge nixes NYC attempt to obtain protest group data (WARNING: Right-wing fishwrap link) | Kids Lose Parents in DHS Raids | The death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet means the Bush Family can breathe a little bit easier | Leahy Promises Real Oversight of FBI | In Minn., DHS Immigrant Raid Leaves Baby Motherless | No Legals Swept Up in Raids, DHS Says | In Utah, DHS Raids Raise Concerns | Senator Leahy making privacy and Iraq top priorities for Judiciary Comm. | Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) pledges privacy protection
WAR CRIMES -- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) tells Raw Story he will subpoena torture memos | Pentagon 2004 report cited detainee abuses
JUSTICE WATCH -- Small-town judges said to abuse power | 34-Minute Execution May Revive Debate Over Florida Death Penalty
TRAITORGATE -- Outed CIA Operative, Husband Moving South
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Litvinenko poisoning: yet another perverse display of the Neocon's parallel intelligence structures
BORDER BUNGLES --A Whole New Immigration Wave: Iraqis? | Union: DHS Raids Grabbed Legal Workers | Potential 2008 GOP Candidate Romney Authorizes MA Police To Detain Illegal Aliens
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE --
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Democrat and Republican Senators head to Syria for high-level talks in defiance of Bush | FL Senator Defies Bush, Visits Syria | Iranian Nutcase President: Israel "Will Soon Be Wiped Out"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Treasury to blind Americans: drop dead! | Fed Holds Steady On Interest Rates
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Consumption Has Finally Caught Up With Us | Nearly 450 workers laid off at AOL | Buh-bye! Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling Reports To Federal Prison | 382,000 Boeing IDs lost
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Execs "tweaked" options to avoid paying tax
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Judge: Katrina Program a Legal Disaster | Study: U.S. Unprepared For Public Disaster
FOLEYGATE -- Foley Report: Piling On Edition
OH, GOD! -- Is George W. Bush Satan's Helper? | Christianist Bigot Eruption: Religious right leader, Republican politician Roy Moore, says American Muslims are not fit for US Congress | Naughty Intertube Fun with Christianists
RACISM IN THE USA -- David Duke calls Wolf Blitzer a Jewish extremist | Texas Klan town struggles to shake the racist reputation it earned and still deserves
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Safety issues at TX nuclear facility
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Sen. Wyden Proposes Universal Health Plan
GAY IN AMERICA -- TIME magazine accused of misrepresenting scientific study in effort to demean Mary Cheney and gays

Dec. 13
• Saudi royals to Cheney: we might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq's Shiites if the United States pulls its troops out of Iraq
• Translations: Our "friends" the Saudis say that if US pulls out of Iraq, they may aid Al Qaeda led insurgency
• Junior ignores public demand to resolve Iraq mess, drags his feet, won't be The Decider until next year
• Without Deliberate Speed
• Rummy Iraq shocker: "I don't think I would have called it the war on terror"
• "These people should be court-martialed":Former Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein says evangelicals are trying to turn his beloved military into a "fr!ckin' faith-based initiative"
• General in Pentagon Christianist video also abused rank to solicit campaign contributions for Republicans
• A must-read from Media Channel: How the Communist Chinese Conquered America
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Tom DeLay.com Launches With Attack On Huffington Post | Stock Up on Popcorn: Henry Waxman To Probe Bush Administration As Reform Chair -- "The Most Difficult Thing Will Be To Pick And Choose" | GOP-controlled Senate Panel Clears Reid on Free Tickets | Dems Keep Jefferson Off Ways and Means | Breaking: DeLay Blog Ghost Written! | Lobbyists swarm around Democrats | Weldon: Reyes Not as Crazy as Me | Update: Guilty NIH Official Stuck in Government Limbo | Tom DeLay: Blame Americans First | LA Times Shines a Light on Stones-Loving Pol Gary Miller (R-CA42) | "Dollar" Bill Jefferson To Trouble Dems Far into 2007
HOT POLITICS -- Sore losermen: Defeated GOP pols miffed about millions that Republican Senators still have on hand | Iraq: No good choices | Funniest. R-rated. Political. Video! EVER!!! (Not work-safe) | TX-23: Upset! Democrat Ciro Rodriguez Beats 7-term Bush Buddy Henry Bonilla in Runoff Ballot; Dems Officially Pick Up 31 Seats in House | Ciro Victory a Stunning Upset and Final Election-year Rebuke to GOP | MN-Sen: Al Franken inches closer to Senate run | With his rock star visit to New Hampshire, high-flying senator Barack Obama continues to tantalize Democrats with intimations of a White House run | "In the end, nothing became the 109th Congress so much as its going" | The Shia takeover of Baghdad | Sen. Clinton Hosts Evening in Iowa | Sen. Chris Dodd to Decide on Joining 2008 Race | Kucinich Launches Presidential Bid | CA-10: Ellen Tauscher's campaign manager whines about potential challenge | GOP Brings In Bush's Nephew For Runoff In Texas -- So Dems Bring In Bill Clinton | Pinochet's Death Spares Bush Family | Kucinich Should Lead the Impeachment Fight | Some things Lambert doesn't plan to "get over" anytime soon
QWAGMIRE -- Pentagon Wants to "Double Down" in Iraq -- and Make No Mistake: Sadr Is the Target | New Way Forward to Death: Bush Turns To Expert Advisers Who Slam Phased Withdrawal, Advocate Escalation In Iraq | Donald Rumsfeld, on his advice for incoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates: "I don't have any advice for him... I wish him well" | Car bombs kill 15 in Baghdad, north Iraq | Kerry to Meet Soldiers, Leaders in Iraq | 25,000 US Troops Dead Or Wounded In Iraq | Bush Gives No Hint of New Iraq Direction -- Probably Because He Has No Clue | Maybe Junior does need more time to learn about the war he started | Cafferty on Iraq: "The Decider Has Decided Not to Decide" | CNN: Bush Is "Very Seriously" Considering Sending More Troops To Iraq | He is not even gone, and already Don Rumsfeld has his knives out for his soon-to-be former boss | Delayed Iraq Phase II Report to Release in 2007 | Contradicting Bush, Rumsfeld Claims He Was Replaced Because of the Outcome of the Election | Is Sec Def Bob Gates considering firing Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace?
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Only on WorldNutDaily: Soy makes you gay! | The true assassins of the American paper (clue: it is not Craigslist.com's Craig Newmark) | Glenn Greenwald on the Washington Post and authoritarianism -- then and now | Chris Matthews: Hardballbuster | This Is Natalie Morales, Reporting From Uranus! Or, Why We Love YouTube.com | Support For Journalists Facing Jail: States, Scholars, And News Orgs File Briefs In Support Of Chronicle Reporters | Video: Olbermann mocks blog of "unemployed loser" DeLay | DeLusional DeLay blames the left for Bush's failed War | Tony Snow tells us something we already know: There Is a Sense Of Crisis Of Confidence In Government | Reader Asks WaPo: What's Up with Hiring Dem-Chasing AP Journo? | Eric Boehlert finds another phony warblogger outrage | Tim Russert and panel failed to challenge claim that "no one knew" intel on Iraq WMDs was flawed | Jon Stewart Says Farewell To His Favorite GOP Members From The 109th Congress | MSNBC's Chris Matthews out of hospital | Creator of unbearably unfunny right-wing comic strip arrested
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- The death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet means the Bush Family can breathe a little bit easier | Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) pledges privacy protection | Watch this! Senior Officers Accused Of Coercing Soldiers To Adopt Evangelical Christianity
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart sells religious intolerance to the Heartland's children | The Biggest Unreported Story on the 2006 Elections: A Huge Setback for Amway/Quixtar/Alticor | 382,000 Boeing IDs lost | Execs "tweaked" options to avoid paying tax | Goldman Sachs Delivers Biggest Annual Profit In History Of Wall Street: $9.4 Billion | Appeals Court Slaps Down Lower Court Ruling; Enron CEO Skilling Must Report To Prison Immediately | Massive privacy breach at UCLA, information on 800,000 student and salumni exposed
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Congress Wants Answers On Anthrax | Is the Bush Administration ignoring the so-called War on Terror? | Four People Connected With Poisoned Spy Case Hospitalized In Germany.
BORDER BUNGLES -- A Whole New Immigration Wave: Iraqis?
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Diplo Shocker: Saudi Ambassador Abruptly Resigns, Leaves Washington
$MIRKONOMICS -- Treasury to blind Americans: drop dead! | Fed Holds Steady On Interest Rates | Consumption Has Finally Caught Up With Us
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Study: U.S. Unprepared For Public Disaster
OH, GOD! -- Naughty Intertube Fun with Christianists
RACISM IN THE USA -- Texas Klan town struggles to shake the racist reputation it earned and still deserves

Dec. 12
• Swift Boat Vets, related groups to face big fines
• The Biggest Unreported Story on the 2006 Elections: A Huge Setback for Amway/Quixtar/Alticor
HOT POLITICS -- With his rock star visit to New Hampshire, highflying senator Barack Obama continues to tantalize Democrats with intimations of a White House run | "In the end, nothing became the 109th Congress so much as its going" | Gore Chases Oscar Nod, Possible 2008 Bid | Obama Encouraged to Enter 2008 Race | Sources: Hillary Clinton 99%, Obama 80% Certain To Run For Prez | Tell us something we don't know: Karl Rove Has Lost His Touch | Really all you need to know about the children who run our government can be found in this excerpt | Pinochet's Death Spares Bush Family | Kucinich Should Lead the Impeachment Fight | Some things Lambert doesn't plan to "get over" anytime soon | Giuliani Jabs McCain: "I'm More Firmly Committed To Tax Cutting Than He" | Chicago Mayor Richard Daley Jr. Running for 6th Term | White House says GOP Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) isn't in favor of democracy | Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH10) Plans Another Presidential Bid | On his legacy, Bush claims, "I'll be dead when they get it right" | Bush Brothers Divided Over 2008 Candidates | MS-Sen: Cochran considers retirement | GOP prez hopefuls chase Bush donors | Taliban Resurgence Creating A Virtual Mini-State | The rise of the 30-somethings in the Democratic House caucus | Storm warnings as the rich take their money and run | The Civil Service Exam America needs: A Quiz for Lawmakers | GOP Heaps Scorn On Retiring Frist | Tony Snow's New Spin: Iraq Study Didn't Say The Policy's Not Working ...They Said The US Needs A New Policy
QWAGMIRE -- Experts tell Bush to fire "national security team," -- the generals, not the real team of Hadley, Rice and Big Time Dick | Did US pressure UK to keep nukes? | Poll: 75% Now Disapprove Of Way Bush Handled Of Iraq...Major Drop Among Conservatives | Almost four years after Bush started the war, he thinks it's time to get "advice" on Iraq | Among the Military Christianists, America is #3 on their loyalty list | 57 dead, 150+ wounded in Baghdad | Bush adopts ISG slogan (and nothing else) | Bush Pretends He Is Seeking More Advice On Iraq | Iraqi President Calls U.S. Security Training a Failure | A plurality of Americans say they back Iraq Study Group report -- but over a quarter say "What report?" | Brits dumping "war on terror" phrase | Taliban reject Pakistan-Afghanistan peace councils That had been agreed to with Karzai, Musharraf | Is Sec Def Bob Gates considering firing Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace? | Bush Iraq Approval Swirling the Bowl | Coalition Forming To Break Radical Cleric Moktada al-Sadr's Power | Brit Hume hilarity: ISG "did not reject the president's policy on Iraq" | Conservatives continued to belittle Iraq Study Group report | Olmert appears to admit Israel possesses nuclear weapons | Coalition Forming To Break Radical Cleric Moktada al-Sadr's Power | Snow Dismisses Gordon Smith's Criticisms Of Iraq Policy, Says Senator Is Just Being Emotional | Rick Santorum's Wacky Plan For Iran: With Our Help, Bus Drivers Could Topple The Government | Iraq Is Failing to Spend Billions in Oil Revenues | Taliban and Allies Tighten Grip in North of Pakistan | Addendum To The ISG Report? | Beyond civil war | Iraqis balk on reconstruction amid chaos | Group Leaders Urge Diplomacy in Mideast | Baker And Hamilton Say Their ISG Recommendations Are The Best Way Forward | Darfur Images Hard To Ignore, Until They're Ignored | Iraqi soldiers killed by US friendly fire | GOP Prez Hopeful Brownback: Just Park Cheney And Rice In The Middle East | 62% of Americans want the Bush administration to set a timetable for withdrawal
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Henry Waxman is writing letters! | Dems Will Eliminate Pork Projects | Ex-Aides Allege Rep. George Miller (R-CA7) Abused Power for Profit | GOP-dominated Panel: Leaked Gingrich Call Supposedly Broke Rules | Did Tom DeLay just blame the Democrats for his indictment? | DeLay pretends he is against the Politics of personal destruction | Records: Yes, Abramoff did lobby H.U.D. | House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expected to stand by decision to permanently remove Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA2) from Ways and Means Committee | Frist Ducks Responsibility For Unfinished Spending Bills, Disingenuously Blames "Systemic Flaws In America's Processes" | Defending Against a Congressional Probe: A Primer | Health Official Pleads Guilty -- But He Is Still on the Job | Tom DeLay: Conservative, Defendant, Blogger | The List: Administration Lawbreakers | Uniformed troops star in evangelical video | Culture of corruption in action: Future Bright for Ex-Members of Congress
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang Fiddles While Baghdad Burns | Jeff Greenfield goes off on bizarre pundit bender over Obama | Glenn Greenwald on WaPo's praise for Augusto Pinochet | David Brooks the "New Domino Theory" | MSNBC's Chris Matthews out of hospital | Creator of unbearably unfunny right-wing comic strip arrested | WaPo Snags AP's Dem-chasing, Fact-challenged Investigator | AP's John Solomon: The Story So Far | Time gave Dobson a platform to misrepresent -- again -- science on same-sex parenting | The War on Christmas 101; Just in case you need to understand | Accountability, the elite press and the blogs | Elite punditry -- or potemkin pontification | Efforts Underway To Oust Iraqi PM Maliki | Maybe because Russert bites the big one: ABC'sThis Week Show Gains Momentum
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Rahm to oil industry: The honeymoon is over
WAR CRIMES -- Exposing The Truth Of Abu Ghraib
FOLEYGATE -- Pelosi bill would reform Congressional page program | Foley Scandal: Why Didn't the Dems Act? | It's Official: Foley Report Sucked
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Chileans celebrate despite a death too good for fascist dictator Pinochet | Surveillance; Exploring the distinction between "legal" and "illegal" with useful idiot David Frum
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Four People Connected With Poisoned Spy Case Hospitalized In Germany. | Exclusive: Murdered ex-KGB was working for Brit security company at time of his death, sources say | NYC's war on terrorism rivals nation's effort
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Kofi Annan to US: Serve, don't dominate the world | Annan to blast U.S. in farewell | Video: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a strident supporter of fascist-apologist Cuban refugees, wants Castro assassinated, later denies
FOX WATCH -- Blog: FOX News hiring a "Fact Writer" in NY | Juan Williams Hits His Limit on FOX News Sunday
$MIRKONOMICS -- More Americans losing their homes through foreclosures | Oil exporters are dumping the dollar
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- WSJ: Ex-Enron CEO Skilling Won't Have To Report To Prison | Craigslist Exec. To Wall Street: We Are Not Interested In Making Money | DuPont plans to cut 1,500 jobs | Dubai Company Sells U.S. Port Operations
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- No. 2 Official At Los Alamos Resigns
JUSTICE WATCH -- Jury gives 90 yrs. for hate attack | Supreme Court shocks their pro-business boosters, rules against oil industry
OH, GOD! -- On Weird Christian Soldiers
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Why does the Right hate sick Africans?
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Scientists Detect Surprisingly Recent Instance Of Human Evolution
TRASHING NATURE -- Inhofe Distorts New UN Report On Climate Change, Claims We Are All Skeptics Now | Gore plans to initiate a grass-roots carbon freeze movement
GAY IN AMERICA -- Another big Colorado evangelical comes out as gay | Mitt Romney wuvs gay Republicans

Dec. 11
• Swift Boat Vets, related groups to face big fines
• Newt Gingrich finally admits dismal failure of conservative "revolution"
HOT POLITICS -- Sources: Hillary Clinton 99%, Obama 80% Certain To Run For Prez | Tell us something we don't know: Karl Rove Has Lost His Touch | Really all you need to know about the children who run our government can be found in this excerpt | Storm warnings as the rich take their money and run | The Civil Service Exam America needs: A Quiz for Lawmakers | GOP Heaps Scorn On Retiring Frist | Tony Snow's New Spin: Iraq Study Didn't Say The Policy's Not Working ...They Said The US Needs A New Policy | John Sweeney, still reeling from re-election loss to Kirsten Gillibrand, fails to show for votes
QWAGMIRE -- Iraqi President Calls U.S. Security Training a Failure | A plurality of Americans say they back Iraq Study Group report -- but over a quarter say "What report?" | Brits dumping "war on terror" phrase | Taliban reject Pakistan-Afghanistan peace councils That had been agreed to with Karzai, Musharraf | Iraqi President Blasts Iraq Study Group Report: "Very Dangerous Recommendations Undermine Sovereignty Of Iraq" | Frank Rich: Rather than plotting way forward, Iraq Study Group only delays the "recognition of our defeat" | Iraq Is Failing to Spend Billions in Oil Revenues | Taliban and Allies Tighten Grip in North of Pakistan | Addendum To The ISG Report? | Beyond civil war | Iraqis balk on reconstruction amid chaos | Group Leaders Urge Diplomacy in Mideast | Baker And Hamilton Say Their ISG Recommendations Are The Best Way Forward | Darfur Images Hard To Ignore, Until They're Ignored | Iraqi soldiers killed by US friendly fire | GOP Prez Hopeful Brownback: Just Park Cheney And Rice In The Middle East | 62% of Americans want the Bush administration to set a timetable for withdrawal | Baghdad remains a slaughterhouse
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- The List: Administration Lawbreakers | Uniformed troops star in evangelical video | Culture of corruption in action: Future Bright for Ex-Members of Congress
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Chileans celebrate despite a death too good for fascist dictator Pinochet | Surveillance; Exploring the distinction between "legal" and "illegal" with useful idiot David Frum
WAR CRIMES -- Exposing The Truth Of Abu Ghraib
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- NYC's war on terrorism rivals nation's effort
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Is it too late to put Rush Holt into place? New Dem House Intel chief can't answer fundamental questions about the Middle East
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Annan to blast U.S. in farewell | Video: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a strident supporter of fascist-apologist Cuban refugees, wants Castro assassinated, later denies
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- David Brooks the "New Domino Theory" | Efforts Underway To Oust Iraqi PM Maliki | Maybe because Russert bites the big one: ABC'sThis Week Show Gains Momentum
FOX WATCH -- Blog: FOX News hiring a "Fact Writer" in NY | Juan Williams Hits His Limit on FOX News Sunday
$MIRKONOMICS -- Oil exporters are dumping the dollar
OH, GOD! -- On Weird Christian Soldiers
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Rahm to oil industry: The honeymoon is over
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Why does the Right hate sick Africans?
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Scientists Detect Surprisingly Recent Instance Of Human Evolution
TRASHING NATURE -- Gore plans to initiate a grass-roots carbon freeze movement

Dec. 10
• Secret U.S. talks with insurgents break down
HOT POLITICS -- Sore Loserman: George Allen Speaks | Democrats Vow Changes in Next Congress | Bush is in immensely deep trouble -- and Booman explains why | Deep Fissures In GOP | "Dollar Bill" Jefferson Retains La. House Seat | Next Step To 2008: Obama Headed To "Critical" Primary State New Hampshire | Hard Race To Win In The Big Easy
QWAGMIRE -- Must-read via Larry Johnson: A Special Forces soldier's story | Bush ignores criticisms on Iraq | Iraq Report Casts Military As War-Weary | Scene od the Crime: Rumsfeld Goes To Iraq To Say Goodbye | Bush Pans Criticism of Iraq War Policies | Deluded Bush: Iraq Study Group Agrees With Me | American public supports ISG - wants change | New Taliban Rules Target Afghan Teachers | Iran offers to help U.S. leave Iraq... At a Cost | Coast Guard upgrade a disaster | Military Readiness Lowest Since Vietnam | Rummy now says Bush is wrong, Iraq isn't about Al Qaeda | Black-Market Weapon Prices Soaring In Iraq | Active-duty military to protest war | A Special Forces soldier's story | Ahmadinejad: Iran Expanding Uranium Enrichment Program | CQ: Senior Dem Backs 30K More Troops in Iraq
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- What will the House Democratic Caucus do about Rep. Bill Jefferson? | Subpoena may signal a wider corruption probe involving AL GOP Sen. Ted Stevens's son | AK lawmaker faces multiple charges | Foley Report: Kolbe Responds | Sore Loserman: George Allen Whines... er, Speaks | Doolittle's Legal Bills Top $100K
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Wired: White House Privacy Board "a Gag"
WAR CRIMES -- Delusional Rumsfeld: Abu Ghraib worse than 9/11
FOLEYGATE -- Did Rahm Emanuel lie about his knowledge of Mark Foley? Yes | ABC Exclusive: No Prosecution Likely for Foley
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- UK war effort said undercut by CIA
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Russia Accused Of Orchestrating Campaign Of Intimidation Against British Interests | Buh-bye, bully boy: US Ambassador Bolton leaves UN with Congressional recess
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Major Media Companies Discussing Jointly-Owned Rival YouTube Site
$MIRKONOMICS -- GAO: The status quo is unsustainable
BUDGET MESS -- GOP Budget Chair Leaves Reservation, Blasts Leadership for Tax Bill Budget-Buster
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- FEMA ordered to pay evacuee housing
OH, GOD! -- Taxpayers Funding Programs Aiming Evangelism, Religious Activities At Prisoners
GAY IN AMERICA -- The religious right is now suddenly "surprised" that Mitt Romney was pro-gay before he was anti-gay