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Hot Headlines, December 2006

Dec. 23
• Lawmaker Virgil Goode stands firm as anti-Muslim bigot
The White House declines to condemn the anti-Muslim comments of Rep. Virgil Goode | GOP Silence on Goode Broken -- by Spin | The Roanoke Times snarks Goode, and good! | Goode's Deed Goes Unpunished | GOP Silence Update: "We Haven't Seen the Letter" | GOP Silence on Goode Bigotry: Not a GOPer Was Stirring, Not Even Presidential Hopefuls | GOP Silence Update: in Which the Fruitcake Begins to Slip from My Grasp | Still Up to No Goode | Rahm Emanuel challenges Junior to denounce Congressman Virgil Goode's intolerance
• Hard-right Bloggers Heart Al Qaeda: Dan bin-Riehl, John el-Hinderaker on same page as Ayman al-Zawah'ri
• Misinformer of the Year: ABC
Wolf Blitzer blames Ellison instead of the bigots for "touch[ing] off a raging controversy" | Clear Channel Radio has agreed to keep Air America on air in Madison, WI | WaPo suggested -- if you ccan believe it -- that Democrats need to "restore" image among minorities, working class, women | Ron Brynaert: The redacted Iran op-ed revealed | Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann: What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
Is Peggy Noonan the biggest idiot on the WSJ editorial page | From the White House's mouth to CNN's ... mouth? | Boldly boosting bigotry on MSNBC, Cheri Jacobus pretends it is "strange" to focus on Rep. Goode's remarks instead of Muslim Rep.-elect's use of Quran | Tweety Matthews, still a GOP shill: Gore is "the Hindenburg" (hey, Tweety, that must make Bush Jr. Mt. Vesuvius!)
FOX WATCH -- Rupert Murdoch’s Christmas present to himself is a John Malone-free new year and a firmer grip on his media conglomerate | Thank FOX for C-SPAN's potty mouth broadcast extravaganza!
HOT POLITICS -- Despite their vote of confidence in Democrats this November, voters doubt Congress' ability to lead -- but swift reforms could prove them wrong | Mitt Romney Set To Announce 2008 Bid for Prez (To Be Followed By Eventual Loss) Early Next Month | On Snowe-Landrieu Bipartisan Initiative: Kiss My Democratic Butt! | Earmarks freeze: Spending freeze targets pet projects for members of Congress | Sen-Elect Jim Webb (D-VA): White House Made My Fight With The President Public
QWAGMIRE -- Selective Service Denies Draft Rumors, Feuling Draft Rumors | Watch this! Mikey Weinstein on CNN: Blowing the lid off the Evangelizing of the Pentagon | Insurgents Offer Bush 30-Day Truce If He'll Withdraw, Give Bases "To The Mujahedeen Of The Islamic State" | Insurgent Attacks Kill 5 American Troops Friday; December Now 2nd Deadliest Month Of 2006 | Bob Gates Reports Back From Iraq, Catapults the Propaganda: "We Will Be Here For A Long Time" | Will Christmas Bring the Bombing of Iran? | Cannon fodder at Christmastime | The Insight of General Casey | US Airstrike Kills Top Taliban Commander | Condi Rice's latest imbecilic utterance: Lives "nvest[ed]" in Iraq were "worth it"... | ... so that makes four more "investments" in Iraq today
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Seems like the word "Christianist" gets under Tom "Bug Man's" skin | Attempt to hire hackers costs GOP press aide his job | Govt Allowing Oil Companies To Avoid Tens Of Billions In Royalties Owed To US Taxpayer | Democrats Hiring Up for Investigations | The Rise of Revolving-Door Consultants: Center for Public Integrity identifies firms both advising politicians and lobbying them | The fall of NY Comptroller Alan Hevesi: Eliot Spitzer turned his back, and that was that | Good Riddance to a Scamming, Un-Democratic Democrat: NY Comptroller Alan Hevesi Resigns Over Driver Scandal | Did Rep. Curt Weldon Break Rules to Hide News of Probe?
TRAITORGATE -- | Bush's Christmas Pardons Do Not Include Libby
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Bush's Global War on Radicals | Former Bush Official: CIA Censored Op-Ed Because It Was Forced To Bow To The White House | TSA mined more data on travelers than announced
WAR CRIMES -- via Buzzflash: George W. Bush is a sadistic, torture-loving sociopath | What Haditha says about the warbloggers
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Intentionally losing the war against terrorist murderers: George W. Bush would not pull the trigger on Osama bin Laden | Bomb could flood New York subway within hours | Ya Think? Report: NYC Train Tunnels Vulnerable To Bomb Attacks
BORDER BUNGLES --
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE --
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Putting the Bush Foreign Policy Into Receivership
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! --
MEDIA CORRUPTION --
WHAT A RUSH! --
$MIRKONOMICS --
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ --
DEAD DUBAI DEAL --
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION --
BUDGET MESS --
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY --
DISASTROUS RESPONSE --
HOMELAND HIJINKS --
ELECTION THEFTS --Sale Ending Voting Machine Probe | Votes Uncounted After Paper Trail Jams In New Electronic Voting Machines |
JUSTICE WATCH --
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! --
FILEGATE.GOP --
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE --
OH, GOD! -- Christian bullies and the fake "war on Christmas" | Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) whinws about blogs exposing his religious extremism
RACISM IN THE USA --
MORALITY MORONICS -- Next time some yokel tries to insult "Hollywood values", mention this...
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Right on schedule: Iran, China and Natural Gas | Big Government Incentives to Big Oil
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Judge drops charges against abortion doc, defeats Kansas AG's attack on reproductive rights
WEIRD SCIENCE --
TRASHING NATURE -- A federal court struck down smog rules proposed by the Bush administration in 2004, calling them too weak and in violation of the Clean Air Act
JEBBIE'S BANANA REPUBLIC --
KAHLEEFAUNIA DREAMIN' --
GAY IN AMERICA -- Lynne Cheney (pretends she) doesn't understand the fuss about Mary's baby

Dec. 22
• It's the Politics, Stupid! How the Democrats Can Win the Permanent Campaign
Keep this story in mind when Republicans tell you something is too expensive or not doable | Nancy Pelosi Aims To Undo GOP's Mischaracterization of Herself and Democrats | From town halls to the state house, Vermont activists push for Bush impeachment
• Bush's Secy. Of Veteran Affairs (and former GOP chair) Jim Nicholson: "I Think That Our Society Would Benefit" From Reinstating The Draft
He was lying all along: Bush no longer says Iraq war needs will be dictated by commanders on the ground
• Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann: What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
The Paper Of (Mostly On The) Record: NYT Runs "Classified" Op-Ed Covered With Blacked-Out Redactions | Flynt Leverett's doubly informative op-ed | Blog: NYT to Ignore White House Whining, Run Not-so-classified "Classified" Op-Ed
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Todd Shriber, Communications Director for Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), hired two hackers to break into the computer of his alma mater, Texas Christian University, and change his college grades | A troll and a fraud: Woman who posed as liberal commenter on sites like BlueJersey.com -- then lied about it -- hired as communications director by McCain prez campaign | Fugitive In Iraq Donated To Bush, Republican Campaigns | Curt Weldon's Files Sought by Grand Jury | NH Phone Jamming: Final Mystery Solved
TRAITORGATE -- Melanie Sloan trashes Scooter Libby's reasons for wanting Joseph Wilson to testify as Tweety Matthews is left sputtering after Sloan demolishes the media conventional wisdom | Joseph Wilson's attorney admonished for statements on Libby | Amb. Joseph Wilson Seeks To Quash Subpoena to Testify for Libby
BIGOTRY IN THE USA -- GOP Silent As Goode Refuses To Apologizes For Anti-Muslim Remarks | Jewish Group Calls on Goode to Rethink Muslim Comments | Virgil Goode And Another Virginian | Watch This! Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Bigot) On Whether There Are Too Many Middle Easterners In the U.S.: "I'm Not Gonna Say Yes Or No" | Note to Rep. Virgil Goode: Keith Ellison Is Not An Immigrant
QWAGMIRE -- How Breaches in the US Nuclear Weapons Program Endanger You | Watch This! U.S. Military Officials: Bush Trying To Bribe Us To Support Iraq Escalation | Gates Meets With Iraqis on Military Aid | Lieberman Officially Endores Escalation in Iraq | Rep. Robin Hayes (R-Jaayzus) is a religious nut, claims that stability in Iraq "ultimately depends on spreading the message of Jesus Christ" | Gen. John Abizaid, Gen. George Casey Retiring | Troops to Gates: Extra Forces Would Help
WAR CRIMES -- Marine Squad Leader Charged With 13 Counts Of Murder In Haditha Trial
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Lobbyists, Journalists and Bloggers: Boundaries Blur at the Wall Street Journal | Manufacturing Consent, Example 2,318,044: Creating the Conventional Wisdom That the US Needs a "Troop Surge" in Iraq | Murray Waas: The Wag Time Pet Spa Conspiracy... And a Cancer Survivor's Right to Respect | Christmas Break Media Catfight: DC City Paper vs. Bloggers, Pet Spas, and the Venerable Murray Waas | Holocaust Memorial Passes Resolution Condemning Conservative Hate Radio Host and HM Board Member Dennis Prager's Remarks | Meet the Presbyters: Only Social Conservatives Featured On Meet the Press Special, "[Fundamentalist Christianist] Faith In America [and Muslims and Jews Not Welcome]" | NBC's Kelly O'Donnell claims "Congress has not passed a specific law" on Bush wiretap program -- um, Kelly? Sweetie? Ever heard of FISA? | The FCC Shafts The Locals | New CPB board member Warren Bell on hugging Pelosi: "[T]hat sort of thing leaves a stain" | Nice pair of new boobs! Still more ideological diversity (not!) at TIME as Billy Kristol and Mike Kinsley are implanted | Notable Quotables: Chris Matthews says something absolutely right for once | Split FCC Approves More So-called Cable "Competition"
HOT POLITICS -- If America needs a vile, divisive bigot to run the nation, Rudy Giuliani is the man | As Newt Gingrich eyes the White House, the former speaker tries to distance himself from the Bush Administration, but he helped the president make his biggest mistake | Bush Doles Out 16 Pardons For Drug Crimes, Bank And Mail Fraud, Kickback Acceptances, Conspiracy To Defraud Govt | Paul Krugman: Given a choice between cutting the deficit and spending more on good things like health care reform, Democrats in Congress should choose the spending | Officials Say NY Comptroller Will Resign | Rep-Elect Ellison Responds To GOP Goode's Anti-Muslim Attacks: "I“m As American As They Come" | More Instability in an Unstable Region | Put on the Spot, Our Punk Preznit Lies Yet Again | One more time: PA House is Democrat | NM Dems to Launch Draft Richardson Effort | Panel Eases Ban On Issue Ads | More proof that the Senate Democratic majority really matters
BORDER BUNGLES -- Raid Update: Few Indicted, While Many Wait -- and a Call for More Raids
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- UK, US Intel: "A Miracle If There Isn't A Terror Attack Over The Holidays In London"
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- N. Korea nuke talks end without deal | Kerry, Dodd Meet With Syrian President
FOX WATCH -- Billo declares War on Saline and Silicon: "[M]ost women who like artificial trees ... have artificial breasts"
$MIRKONOMICS -- Bush's solution for America's stagnating economy: go shopping at the height of the shopping season!
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Big Oil welfare, big ripoff for American taxpayers | Pfizer's Outgoing CEO To Get $180 Million | Zune Player from Wal-Mart came pre-loaded... with gay male orgy!
ELECTION THEFTS -- Recount Overturns Vermont Auditor Race; Democrat Wins! | FL-13: Voting Company Expert Says Problems Cost Democrat Race
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Mike Bloomberg's sneaky move to open the door to partial public school privatization? | Judge Blocks L.A. School Takeover Law
HEALTH DEBACLES -- WTC hero finally wins health coverage
TRASHING NATURE -- Air Pollution: What You Can't See Can Kill You | Buying the Right to Pollute
GAY IN AMERICA -- Gov. Jon Corzine Signs Gay Civil Unions Bill Into New Jersey Law | Brownback continues obsession with gays

Dec. 21
• Bush plans bigger army amid fear of new Iraq deployment
• Watch this! Flynt Leverett says Iran sought dialogue with US in 2003
• In WaPo Interview, Bush Finally Admits U.S. Is Not Winning In Iraq
Disillusionment with war is an overlooked psychological liability on the battlefield, experts say -- and could lead to higher rates of PTSD among U.S. soldiers in Iraq | Glenn Greenwald on the Bush Regime's provocations towards Iran | The Tally: Dem Leaders Unite as Anti-Surge, GOP Leaders Silent
HOT POLITICS -- Reid: Bush seems lost within his own rhetoric | Bush Holds Press Conference Summing Up A Year Of Setbacks | How this latter-day Grinch became the Decider-by-the-faucet | Lieberman drops Centrist Coalition for more conservative company | Oh, we're weeping (not): Outgoing FL Gov. Jeb "Jeb!" Bush to reporters: "I have no future" | Meet Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, a New Breed Of Democratic Populist | Bush: Who the hell cares what you write or think about me? History will declare me great! | An analysis of the Washington Post's interview with Bush yesterday reveals a President who is ignoring reality | CO-Sen: Wayne Allard mulls being a liar, breaking term limit promise | Ex-Gov. Jim Gilmore (R-Who?) Eyes White House Run | Reality-based Bush? Fuhgedaboudit! | Bush Dodges Question on Overruling Military Brass | Yankee Republicans, go home! Don't look now but New Hampshire may be casting a blue shadow over the 2008 presidential race | The Neocon beast not dead, just wounded
QWAGMIRE -- Shake-up among top U.S. generals widely expected | Bush kills another of his talking points, this time about listening to the military | The Iraq war will cost more in 2007 | Flip-flopper: Remember when Bush said Kerry's proposal to increase the size of the military would make the nation "less safe"? | U.S. War Secretary Bob Gates Arrives in Iraq | Bush Ignores the U.S. Election, Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Iraq Commanders, NATO Allies, and Baker-Hamilton | Bush scrambles in desperate attempt to expand strained military | General John Abizaid fired for opposing Bush... er, set to retire | Diplomat's Suppressed Document Lays Bare the Lies Behind Iraq War | Senator-elect Jim Webb (D-VA) slams Bush's actions in Iraq war | The expansion of the Pentagon's presence in American embassies is creating frictions and overlapping missions that could undermine efforts to combat Islamic radicalism | No Military Hope, So Send More Troops | Bush Administration Weighs Alliance With Militant Shiite Cleric In Attempt To Isolate Moqtada Al-Sadr | Iranian Student Movement Resurging Against Ahmadinejad | Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi: objectively anti-surge | Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN): surprisingly anti-surge! | House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD): Anti-surge | Sen. John Thune (R-SD): Pro-surge | In 2005, the suicide rate among U.S. deployed troops rose to its highest level since the start of the Iraq war (WARNING: Moonie Press Link) | A New Mideast, or Wishful Thinking? | Powell: US is the big loser in Iraq's growing civil war, says Powell | Iranian colleges face political purges
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Spring Break 2007 With Phyllis Schlafly and Ann Coulter! | Will the media challenge First Lady Laura "Pickles" Bush's unfounded criticisms of media -- now refuted by conservatives -- during interviews? | Eric Boehlert: The Associated Press Lost Iraq? | Idiot Dennis Prager and the Constitution | Shrill! The Daily Show knocks Bush administration on winning in Iraq | Joe Scarborough Sees The Light; Mike Barnicle Deems Bush "Delusional" | On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell Greenspan enabled a John McCain aide to distance Terry Nelson from the controversial racist RNC ad he made | Right-wing blog nutcase Captain Ed sees reality for once, admits the media is right about the mess that is Iraq | Pundits attack Obama already | Right-wing Bizarro World: Welcome to Oliver North's alternate universe | Humor Discovered in "Prickly City" as Democrat Takes Over Republican Comic Strip for a Week | Rich Lowry: So, so wrong! | TIME for an explanation: Turns Out "Ahmadinejad" Is A Little Trickier To Define Than "You" | Jon Stewart Gets Tough with Bill Kristol | The Right's Fakeroots Bought Out By Right Wing Publisher | Time Inc. Lays Off 27 Mid-Level And Senior Employees
FOX WATCH -- Talk Host Mike Gallagher: Round Up Olbermann, Damon, and Put Them In A Detention Camp | FOX News itself declares war on Christmas | Billo, lying again, falsely claimed Best Buy employee confirmed ban on "Merry Christmas" | Billo bellows, childishly challenges Dan Rather to "put up or shut up" for claiming that FOX News echoes White House
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- And fairies ate his pants: Holy (not!) Joe Lieberman and the hacked (not!) Web site | It's official: Lieberman and Co. lied about Lamont allies hacking Lieberman's web site | Bush on Leaked Admin Memo: What Do I Know? I Just Work Here | FBI investigating Joseph Bruno, the top NY Republican in the state assembly and a player with national ambitions | I Sold The Integrity of My Office and All I Got Was This Lousy Fruit Basket | Robo-calls reached 2 out of 3 voters | NY Comptroller Alan Hevesi is ready to resign | IG Report: That idiot Sandy Berger Hid archive documents | Giuliani is such a family values kind of guy... not! | What's with the dead deer on Dick Cheney's front lawn?
TRAITORGATE -- Dick Cheney's testimony in Traitorgate trial could be very damaging to the Administration
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Justice Department Reviews Own Role in NSA Wiretapping | U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25 | Update: List of Disappeared Info Growing
BORDER BUNGLES -- Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack Blasts ICE Raids | DoJ Indicts 23 Immigrants from Iowa Raid | Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) Blasts ICE Raids | ICE Raids Netted Only Fraudsters, Bush Falsely Claims
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- New left-leaning Israel lobby to take on AIPAC? | A Very Dangerous New Year | Adel al-Jubair appointed Saudi ambassador to the USA | U.S. Warns Sudan of Possible Action
$MIRKONOMICS -- Bush Makes Artificial Link Between Minimum Wage and Tax Break In effort to Embarrass Dems -- That Could Backfire Badly | Senators plan China trade deficit action
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Morgan Stanley used 9/11 smokescreen to hide e-mails
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Flip-flop -- or lame attempt at rope-a-dope? Bush says tax increases are on the table in budget talks with Dems | Bush Signs Massive Tax and Trade Bill
ELECTION THEFTS -- Democratic candidate Christine Jennings asks Congress to intervene in contested Fla. congressional race | Paper Jams a Problem for Electronic Voting
JUSTICE WATCH -- Court Halts Maryland Executions | The Supremos' rightward turn
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Report Says Poor Students Shortchanged | Evolution warnings now off textbooks
OH, GOD! -- 2nd New Life pastor resigns over sexual misconduct | Ex-top Southern Baptist pastor on leave over sex abuse claims
RACISM IN THE USA -- GOP Rep. Virgil Goode's Warning of Muslim Influx: The Letter
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Anthrax Vaccine Contract Voided, Thwarting Administration | Did Bush miss even more opportunities to take out bin Laden? | Al-Qaeda deputy leader appears on al-Jazeera, makes latest empty threats | Can we finally scrap the abstinence only programs now?
TRASHING NATURE -- Expanding markets and dying oceans: Eating the planet like a bag of Doritos for Jesus | Bush and Inhofe's Home States Scorched By Wildfires And Droughts

Dec. 20
• In WaPo Interview, Bush Finally Admits U.S. Is Not Winning In Iraq
• Watch this! Flynt Leverett says Iran sought dialogue with US in 2003
U.S. War Secretary Bob Gates Arrives in Iraq | Powell: US is the big loser in Iraq's growing civil war | Bush Ignores the U.S. Election, Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Iraq Commanders, NATO Allies, and Baker-Hamilton | Bush scrambles in desperate attempt to expand strained military | General John Abizaid fired for opposing Bush... er, set to retire | Diplomat's Suppressed Document Lays Bare the Lies Behind Iraq War | Senator-elect Jim Webb (D-VA) slams Bush's actions in Iraq war | The expansion of the Pentagon’s presence in American embassies is creating frictions and overlapping missions that could undermine efforts to combat Islamic radicalism | But, but…Bush is LISTENING to the troops... or is he? | "Failure in Iraq? We've already failed" | Simon Rosenberg: Bush no longer knows what to do about Iraq -- no plan, no clue | As Crazy As the Bush Boy? Leaked Video Shows Radical Iraq Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Rambling, Anxious, Disorganized... | Former British Diplomat Drops Iraq War Lies Bombshell | Flip-flop!! Bush Insisted the "Sober Judgment of Our Military Leaders" Would Determine Troop Levels | Right-Wing Think Tank Advocating Two-Year U.S. Troop Escalation In Iraq Has The President's Ear
• Classified Doc Shows Bush Admin Plotting To Undermine Syrian Regime
New left-leaning Israel lobby to take on AIPAC?
HOT POLITICS -- Yankee Republicans, go home! Don't look now but New Hampshire may be casting a blue shadow over the 2008 presidential race | The Neocon beast not dead, just wounded | Rep. Ari Fleischer? Let him run... and lose! | Democrats To Make Final 2008 Convention Decision in January | Just One Reason Rudy Giuliani Will Never Be President | Youth vote in the Mountain West: blue, blue, and blue | Daschle: Obama Has Unlimited Potential | Conservative Mag: Gingrich Blames Rove For GOP' Problems | Thank you, Operation Rescue: More party switches in Kansas | In Shift To Right, McCain Embraces Henry Kissinger | "Republicans do understand it is political suicide to keep this red-state, blue-state thing going any longer" | "The conventional wisdom sees Republicans in danger of becoming merely a Southern regional party" | Giuliani Expected To Run, Developing Strategy To Win Social Conservatives | Sen. Johnson's son: he is headed back to work sooner rather than later!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- FBI investigating Joseph Bruno, the top NY Republican in the state assembly and a player with national ambitions | I Sold The Integrity of My Office and All I Got Was This Lousy Fruit Basket | Dead Deer Found On Cheney's Property; People Questioning Whether Vice President Allowed To Hunt On Grounds | Mucked Up Iraqi Official Hired U.S. Contractors to Bust Out of Jail | Pelosi names new ethics chief, Democratic campaign chair | Justice Dept. to ACLU: I Thought You Were My Friend | States and cities now privatizing toll roads | What's with the dead deer on Dick Cheney's front lawn? | Conservatives continue to ignore GOP Sen. Arlen Specter while attacking Dems for visiting Syria | Anti-abortion group: Stop Pelosi from attending mass | NJ Sen Drops $$ on Lawyer
TRAITORGATE -- AP: Scooter Libby to Call Richard Cheney to Testify in Trial; Could It Backfire?
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Justice Department Reviews Own Role in NSA Wiretapping
QWAGMIRE -- DoD Still Undercounting Iraq Violence | A New Mideast, or Wishful Thinking? | Iranian colleges face political purges | Noam Chomsky On US Effort To "Spread Democracy" | Iraq Troop Buildup Idea Worries Generals | Iran's reformist press reacts to Ahmadinejad's setback in Iran election results | Harry Reid says he supports our commanders on the ground - they don' want more troops, therefore we shouldn't send any more | Bush Tells Wash Post: "We Do Need To Increase Our Troops" | CBS: War boy Junior wants his war on bigger! Navy buildup is a "warning to Iran" | Only 11 percent of Americans support escalating the war in Iraq by adding at least 20,000 additional U.S. forces | White House [Feigns] No Rift With Joint Chiefs | Pentagon report:Moqtada al Sadr -- not al Qaeda -- is the greatest threat in Iraq | 73% in military comfortable with gays serving openly | Iraq Insurgents Broadcasting Anti-US, Anti-Govt Propaganda On Their Own 24 Hour News Channel | DoD Report Spins Water Shortage in Iraq | "Will anyone get beyond the view that 'we have to succeed' to actually ask the question as to whether it is possible or likely?" (via Atrios)
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Eric Boehlert: The Associated Press Lost Iraq? | Debbie Schlussel: more unhinged than Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang? | No, Judith Regan isn't Jewish... but guess who is? | Hillary Clinton's team is privately demanding an explanation from Newsweek's editors for the glaring omission of poll numbers showing her beating McCain like a bad piece of meat | The right wing blogosphere's tender embrace of Tom DeLay | Media's latest phony anti-Hillary narrative: "ruthless Clinton machine" to attempt to "destroy" Obama | Media did not report Bob Gates sworn in 12 days after Senate confirmation because of Texas A&M commencement | Who Needs Meet The Press? Tom Vilsack Has The Daily Show | Media More Interested In Laura Bush's Skin Condition (and Invading Her Privacy) Than In Iraq | Newsweek's Folly: Are they trying to protect the St. McCain narrative? | Josh Marshall on Election 2008 and the coming media elite meltdown
WAR CRIMES -- The leader of a squad of Marines expects to be charged in the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha, his lawyer said Tuesday | Incoming Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) Seeks Detainee Abuse Case Update
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- AP office evacuated in powder mail scare | Who's a surrender monkey now? Documentary: French troops had that homicidal shit Osama in sights, but "US never gave order to kill" | Anti-Terror Guru Abruptly Quits State Post
$MIRKONOMICS -- The Greatest Threat To Our Standard Of Living | Delta Air Lines files reorganization plan
ELECTION THEFTS -- Election Costs Doubled in Utah Due to Use of Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Systems
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Evolution warnings now off textbooks | 0,000 FREE Inconvenient Truth DVDs To Be Given To Teachers After Natl. Teachers Assoc. Refuses To Distribute Them
OH, GOD! -- Simple answers to simple questions: Why has the Right made up the "War On Christmas"?
RACISM IN THE USA -- In Letter, GOP Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Xenophobe and Bigot) Fears Influx of Muslims
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Tanker firm fined $37m for pollution
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Can we finally scrap the abstinence only programs now? | Hawaii is now a no smoking state | Red tape delays care for ill 9/11 worker

Dec. 19
Did a High-Ranking Female Officer Die In Iraq So Iran-Contra Criminal Oliver North Could Jack Up His FOX News Ratings?
QWAGMIRE -- Joint Chiefs oppose Bush/McCain troop increase plan | The Road to Ignominious FUBAR: Robert Gates Lines Up with Bush | No Quarter: The Iraq Catch-22 | Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO): no troop adds without compelling reason | Mahdi Army biggest threat to Iraqi security, report says | Iraq violence at record level: 960 attacks every week | Iran's press reacts to election results as Ahmadinejad, the George W. Bush of Iran, is dealt a rebuke at the ballot box | No duuuh! War Secretary Bob Gates: Failure in Iraq Will Haunt U.S. | Dirty f&#@ing hippie blogger right, old men and women of the beltway wrong... again! | Pentagon report says Iraq violence now at record levels | Bush's New Strategy: Copy The "Success" of Vietnam | "Saddam Hussein had more legal counsel than I ever had" | Troop surge a terrible idea | Ex-Iraqi minister who was being held for corruption freed by former security staff | Abused US Contractor To Sue Rumsfeld
HOT POLITICS -- Bush drops to new poll lows on Iraq, war on terror | Charles Rangel: I support a GOP Giuliani-Kerik ticket! | Johnson Conscious After Brain Surgery | Crawford: Watch Me Listen | Was Philip Zelikow fired by Condi and her boyfriend Junior for wandering off the Neocon reservation? | Edwards Ready to Announce Candidacy? | many in Southern Methodist University community don't want Junior's Presidential Library tied to school
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Murdoch's News Corps Accuses Regan Of Anti-Semitism | Regan-Gate Continued: Bring On The Lawsuits! | David Carr: Judith Regan Refused To "Go Away Quietly" After The OJ Simpson Deal Blew Up | Judith "OJ" Regan's attorney vows "war" over Murdoch firing | Steve Gilliard on Judith Regan: Career Over
The Media We Need: Colin Powell Cornered on Video Tape Concerning Phony United Nations WMD Presentation | Tim Russert failed to challenge Newt Gingrich's dishonest claim of exoneration by IRS in ethics controversy | Newsweek has a problem: Omits own poll that has Hillary beating McCain | MSNBC: When will media "honeymoon" with possibly "overrated" Obama end? | NY Times whitewashes Christianist who proselytized during class, lied about it, but had been caught on tape | Yes Virginia, there is a Jamil Hussein | Must-see TV: Actor Matt Damon says he wants Cheney "under oath" | WaPo presented -- without evidence -- Bill Clinton as a campaign "distraction" | Tony Snow Denies White House Censored Critic, Moments After Admitting He Knew Nothing About It | Tell us how you really feel! View host Joy Behar calls Rumsfeld a "Hitler type" | The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 | Children's Show Censured By Conservatives Making A Comeback | Newt On MTP: Travelin' Down Memory Lane, Thinking 'Bout The Presidency | More David Brooks Daffiness: Even If Troop Surge Completely Fails, It Will Help McCain Politically
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- The Carroll County One: A Domestic Terrorist the Media Refuses to Cover | Fighting Terror: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Conrad Burns's Legal Fees Top $100K | Mucked Up GOPer Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT Red State Loser) Squirreled Away Nearly $300K | Why you could soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and Spanish builders for the privilege of driving on American roads | Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine | Iraq Attack Data Hiding: Pentagon Responds | Renowned author/researcher, England's Angela Phillips, stars in 5-minute web vid blasting Focus on the Family, Dobson's use of her research
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Couple Fired Over Security Wins Lawsuit | Bush signing statement on US-India nuclear deal erases Congressional restrictions | Ya think? Judge: NYC jailing 2004 Republican Nuremberg Rally protesters violated Constitution | Army to break up Goodyear strike? | Justice to ACLU: Gimme That "Secret" Doc... er... um.. Never Mind! | Americans held as prisoners of America in Baghdad show how Bush's democratic ideals are working in Iraq
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- India as a Nuclear Power
$MIRKONOMICS -- Broad US trade gap balloons to record
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Christmas in NOLA: 9th ward remains all but vacant
JUSTICE WATCH -- NY Times: Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Prez Wannabe) removes block on fed judge nominee | Violent crime still on rise, FBI data shows

Dec. 18
Memo reveals Blair lied about WMDs
Unlike alleged al Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla, right-wing dirty bomber Demetrius Crocker was investigated and prosecuted the old-fashioned constitutional way
U.S. Special Forces teams sent overseas on secret spying missions have clashed with the CIA and carried out operations in countries that are staunch U.S. allies
Catfight! Laura Bush snarks Condi Rice
Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Was Tortured -- No Other Word For It!
What happened to Glenn "Instafraud" Reynolds's blog symposium on Iraq?
Our Stupid Pentagon: Jihadist Web Sites Posting Links To US Army Manual -- including such sensitive topics as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting | Reid: Brief Troop Increase OK in Iraq | Harry Reid's call for a temporary increase in troops: not an endorsement of Bush or McCain, but a way to force Bush and McCain to endorse his | Palestine Prez calls for early elections
HOT POLITICS -- Whistling Past Dixie: Maybe the Democrats should write off the regressive, racist South | Will NV Set the Course for 2008 Pick? | Rival Palestinian Groups Hamas, Fatah Agree To Truce | Dem Mark Warner Reconsidering 2008 Bid | Gingrich bides time before committing to prez run
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION --A case of bi-partisan pork-barreling
FOLEYGATE -- Report: Foley knew he was doing wrong
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Flynt Leverett Blasts White House National Security Council Censorship of Former White House Officials Critical of Bush Policies | Is this the basis of the Flynt Leverett NY Times Op-Ed the White House is Blocking? | Read the .pdf of Flynt Leverett's "Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options toward Iran" here | Showdown: New Congress To Challenge Bush Over Warrantless Wiretaps
QWAGMIRE -- France to pull troops from Afghanistan | Sen. Clinton Opposes Troop Surge in Iraq | Kucinich: We could exit Iraq in sixty days | Colin Powell: "The army is broken" and the troop surge McCain supports is absurd | Results in Iranian Vote Seen as Setback for Ahmadinejad | Iraq PM pushes for reconciliation | Palestinian factions battle on streets | Pakistan high court halts rule of Taliban law | More mass kidnappings in Baghdad
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Assassins Used $10 Million Worth Of Polonium To Poison Russian Spy | Newsweek: 12-man team of Qaeda Westerners in Pakistan's back yard
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Six-nation North Korea nuclear talks nuke off to a rough start; Li’l Kim demanding, stubborn -- just like Bush | North Korea wants to talk aid, not arms | Researchers: U.S. bribing for UN Security Council votes
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! --
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Rupert Murdoch Said To Have Personally Fired Judith Regan Over Mel-Gibson-Like Anti-Semitic Epithets | Judith Regan's greatest hits, courtesy of Atrios | Air America -- sill in state of low-level chaos, but with better chance to survive | Will controversial Malkin go to Iraq? | Disputed A.P. Iraqi source located?
$MIRKONOMICS -- Pot beats corn and hay as a US cash crop
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Most in US still not ready for disasters
ELECTION THEFTS -- The Cox legacy: Who "owns" our votes? | Diebold Whistleblower Looks Back with Gratitude and Forward with Hope
JUSTICE WATCH -- Oh, No! Fourth Circuit Court Might Become Almost Balanced!
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- College conservatives are once again race-baiting
ENERGY SCANDALS -- India to help bargain down price of oil
HEALTH DEBACLES -- U.S. Is Proposing to Cut Medicaid Drug Payments | MA health plan : a partial model for national universal care? | Big Pharma and one-size-fits-all drugs: the case against self-regulation
GAY IN AMERICA -- Frank Rich: Gay-baiting may do more harm than good to pols

Dec. 17
War Boy Wants His Slaughterhouse: Bush Poised to Reject Dramatic, Effective Iraq Options | Bush, Right Wing Press Had Best Stop Blaming Iraq "Defeat" On U.S. Troops | While it may be hard for many of us to accept the idea of young American women dying in combat, the fact is they are dying in record numbers | How are we at war without a declaration of war? | DoD Posts Counterinsurgency War-Fighting Manual On Web | Aid agency claims attacks by US | McCain to Europe: Bail Bush's and Karzai's Asses Out, Send Troops to Fight in Afghanistan
HOT POLITICS -- Bush refuses to acknowledge reality as the geopolitical situation and his own Presidency collapses | In Iowa, Duncan Hunter Pretends He Has a Shot in Prez Race | CA-10: Tauscher and Bush | Former Bush Appointee Tommy Thompson Files Papers To Explore 2008 Bid | Carter clarifies use of word "Apartheid" in new book title | Newt Gingrich: I Still Think We Need To Curb Free Speech | Dem Officials: John Edwards To Run For President | Sen. Tim Johnson Resting, Remains Critical But Improved | Bush is sleeping well. He wants us to know that...
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Grab the popcorn! Henry Waxman on warpath over Blackwater payments | Bush appoints another incompetent using recess appointment authority | Another Republican Congressman, Tim Murphy, Under Federal Investigation
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Salon names "macaca" target S.R. Sidarth as their Person of the Year | There's Something About Mary (Cheney) -- and the Amnesiac Press | Wait, you mean Jonathan Swift didn't want to eat Irish children? | 2006 Annual White House BarneyCam Extravaganza Gets the "Daily Show" Remix Treatment | Is a certain conservative blowhardette backing out of a trip to Iraq? | Stephen Colbert Agrees With DeLay | The devil is in the captions: CNN graphics question absence of congressional Democrats' Iraq plan -- but not Bush's postponement!
QWAGMIRE -- McCain asks NATO help against Taliban | Roadside bombs kill troops at highest rate of Iraq war | First Lady Bushwhacks Fourth Estate (With Their Complicity) | Tony Blair in Baghdad | But... but... we're building schools! | Every Aspect of Iraqi Judicial System Lacking...System Overloaded, Unable to Process Detainees | Bill Richardson Takes On McCain, Denounces Plan To Send More Troops To Iraq | Flashback: May 3, 2003, New York Times | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Hamas: I've Gotcher Democracy Right Here! Abbas Calls For Elections | Desperation Peace Talks: Iraqi PM Maliki Scrambles to Save His Ass, Reaches Out To Baathists | Women's Rights Disappearing In Postwar Iraq
W AR CRIMES -- Extraordinary rendition: CIA used 3rd world tactic in Europe
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- A Constitutional Showdown on the NSA? | Flynt Leverett Blasts White House National Security Council Censorship of Former White House Officials Critical of Bush Policies | Showdown Looms Over Domestic Spying
TRAITORGATE! -- Witnesses in Libby trial all expected to testify; Fitzgerald signals nobody to assert privilege
BORDER BUNGLES -- Newt Gingrich tries to outdo Pat Buchanan as the GOP's most xenophobic blowhard | CA-based company which helped construct US-Mexico border fence busted for hiring illegal immigrants
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Diplo-bribery: US accused of using aid to sway votes in UN security council | "Apocalypto" Then: Reagan, Guerrilla War and Latin America | North Korea' Li'l Kim to US: End "hostilities" | Vladimir Putin might be gay?
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION -- Paying the Economic Costs of Iraq: Democrats May Back an Iraq Tax
BUDGET MESS -- Do-nothing GOP Congress Threatens Funding
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Katrina's victims face a second Christmas without hope
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Rampant Culture of Incompetence: Cutting and Running at DHS
JUSTICE WATCH -- Americans are again turning against the death sentence
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Eli Lilly Engaged In 10-Year Effort To Suppress Health Risks Of Top-Selling Schizophrenic Medication
OH, GOD! -- Why do Mullah James Dobson and his acoyltes hate children? Beats me (pun intended)...
TRASHING NATURE -- Carmakers, seeking their own extinction, fight global warming suit