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Hot Headlines, October 2006

Oct. 28
• Dennis Hastert's Office Blocked Corruption Probe
• Former Bush administration official David Safavian gets 18 months in prison for lying and obstructing justice in connection with Abramoff influence-peddling scandal
Report: Halliburton Is Hiding Data Concerning Its No-bid Iraq Megabucks From US | Feds in WY Take Over Colorado Ad Probe | Buzz in Virginia; Macacawitz Allen's divorce records might provide "spitting image" of GOP candidate | San Diego GOPers must be sooo proud! Grand jury probing Rep. Bilbray | Safavian Seeks Leniency in Abramoff Case | Rep. Henry Waxman Playing Cards Close to Vest About Future Probes
Watch this! "You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head.quot; David Letterman blasts Bill O'Reilly to his face | Watch this! Lynne Cheney, Unhinged and Attacking Leslie "Wolf" Blitzer, On CNN | New NBC policy bans Dixie Chick TV ads that criticize Bush | Shut Up and Ban! NBC's Newfound Protection of the Public Includes Shielding Viewers from Commmercials They Claim Somehow Is "Disparaging" to the Worst President Ever | How the Refs are Worked: Eric Alterman takes down phony political journo Mark Halperin and ABC News | Glenn Greenwald on Peggy Noonan and the rotting pundit class | ABC Political Director and Conservative apologist Mark Halperin now claims "every elite politico" in America "knows" the media has a liberal bias | Richard Engel's "Agenda": And end to "rotting bodies, bodies buried In shallow graves" (that OK with you, NRO?)
Top US Military Officer Recommends Pentagon Remove All Troops From Baghdad
Running from their leader: GOP Rep. John Hostettler says, "George Bush is not a message I want to talk about" | Control of Senate Hinges on Four Races
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- When Will Senator Allen Denounce Susan Combs? | The power of Swift-Boating money over the political discourse | House candidate David Meijas accuses Rep. Peter King of lobbying lies | Blagojevich Campaign Donor Pleads Guilty | OR-Gov: Return to Saxtonville | Central Figure Emerges in Gibbons Cover-up | Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC11) was sued for sex harassment | Inspector General: Halliburton Subsidiary Abused Rules | Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV): The Cover-Up is Worse than the Attempted Rape Allegation | Blackwater hires Kenneth Starr | IRS plays politics
HOT POLITICS --How We Lost Ownership of Our Own Democracy | Remembering the Original October Surprise, part 2 | Republicans facing electoral hurricane in face of centrist Democrat push | Iraqi Prime Minister: I'm "Not America's Man In Iraq" | House Democrats Launch Ads in 3 States | NE-03: Report from the Ground | Corporate America Increasing Its Last-Minute Bribes... er, Donations To Dems | House Dems Launch TV Ad Against Kansas Lawmaker Jim Ryun | Ohio Senate Candidates Hold Final Debate | GOP Losing Their Rural Base | Webb shrugs off Macacawitz Allen's try at book smear | Bush stumps for Jeff Lamberti -- and keeps calling him Dave | As the midterm elections approach, many conservatives are feeling betrayed by one of their most important allies in the war on terror: Battlestar Galactica | ID-01, CO-05: Upgraded to Red to Blue status by DCCC | a reminder: GOP's Mike DeWine Voted To Prevent Apartheid Sanctions | Desperate: GOP Spending 90% Of Ad Budget On Negative Commercials | AZ-05: Mitchell (D) over the bully | Bill Nelson ponies up | Big duh: Michael Steele's subway attack on ben Cardin backfires | Hypocrite-in-Chief Bush Says Protect the Institution of Marriage a Week After Stumping for Philandering PA Congressman
WAR CRIMES -- Bush denies Cheney embraced torture -- which he did | W House backpedals on Cheney "No-brainer" torture comment | White House Denies Cheney OKed Torture -- Even though He Said it's Fine By Him
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Powdered Substance Mailed to Clinton's Office Not Toxic | Latest tairist scare: Saudi oil facilities said threatened
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Idiotic Iran official: 9/11 just make-believe
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- The Daily Show Moves To Ohio For Last Week Before Elections | Oliver Willis gets results: NY Times issues retraction | Media Lose Ohio Exit Polling Challenge | National[ist] Review's Spruiell attacked Keith Olbermann for saying "Mr. Bush" -- so how does he feel about his boss Bill Buckley writing it all the time? | Lynne Cheney tells CNN that lesbian love novels are appropriate reading for small children | Death of a President movie opens to widespread boycott by right wing nutcases in US | Virginian-Pilot endorses democrat Jim Webb | CNN political analyst Bill Bennett and Ron Christie revived dubious claim that Steele "had Oreos thrown at him" to defend RNC ad former Sec. Cohen called "overt[ly] racist" | Phony-baloney "non-partisan" conservative talking head Glenn Beck: Democrats taking control of Congress "sounds scary" | NY Times falsely reported that McCain denounced controversial Tennessee attack ad
FOX WATCH -- Stephanie Miller Explains "Journalism" to Fox News
WHAT A RUSH! -- Contrition Limbaugh style: pill-addicted radio blowhard "apologize[d]" for being "wrong" that Michael J. Fox "didn't take his medication," then suggested Fox over-medicated himself intentionally | Olbermann: Rush is the one off his meds
$MIRKONOMICS -- Nebraskans, kiss your farm subsidies goodbye if Republican Adrian Smith wins your House race
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Republicans for Slave Labor
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Bush reserves right to repeat Katrina
HOMELAND HIJINKS --
ELECTION THEFTS -- RI votes on restoring felons' right to vote | Diebold Quietly "Repairing" Voting Machine Problem... Uncovered THREE YEARS AGO
RACISM IN THE USA -- Tony Snow Calls Racist Ad "A Little Bit Cute"

Oct. 27
• Scott Howell, protégé of White House political guru Karl Rove and consultant to Wal-Mart, exposed as producer of racist RNC ad targeting Tennessee Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr.
• Wal-Mart to fire Howell
• Conservative icon Richard Vigeurie says GOP offers conservative voters nothing this election -- and that a Democratic House may help cut back on spending
Why are Republican conservatives suddenly calling for an end to One Party GOP Rule? | Polls And Pundits Are Grim For The GOP, Sparking Desperate Smears | "I don't care if I vote for Happy the Clown, just so it's not who's there now" | OH-Sen: RNC officially pulls the plug — put a fork in Mike DeWine, he's done
• In the Libby Case, Patrick Fitzgerald Fillets, Grills and Serves Up a Libby Witness; is Libby Defense Team Freaking Out Yet?
• GOP furious as leaks about corruption probes targeting GOP crooks drip, drip, and keep dripping before election
• Behind the scenes at the House intel committee, Jane Harman is duking it out with corrupt Peter "We found WMDs!" Hoekstra
Ralph Reed now blames Indians for the mess he's in | Secret deal in Corker lawsuit raises questions | Lying liar Denny Hastert falsely states Pelosi never visited border | Raw obtains EPA memo alleging more 9/11 fraud | Ohio GOP Caught Faking Al Franken Photo And Quote.
• Ex-House Clerk Jeff Trandahl says Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Rehab) were page "problems"
Final Foley E-Mail Mystery Solved (Sorta)
• Scoobie Davis ups the Googlebomb megatonnage on corrupt reactionary pundit Michelle "Malkin" Maglalang
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr: "We Have A Negligent Press In This Country [That Has] Let The American People Down"
The major TV networks refuse to accept ads for The Dixie Chicks documentary | GoogleBombs Away! Democratic, Progressive Bloggers Use Web Indexing Technology to Get the Truth About GOP Candidates to Top of Searches
NY Times Smokes Crack On Maryland Gov. Race | Former GE CEO Jack "Booted Thug" Welch a Potential Buyer For BoGlo | To back up his specious claims of a "liberal media," ABC's Mark Halperin said liberal 527s "spent millions" attacking Bush -- and then falsely suggested there were no similar groups on the right | Matt Lauer becomes a Limbaugh apologist
• Yes, Bush actually said to a journalist, "There's some kind of reward during Ramadan for violence"
U.S. Deaths In Iraq Near Peak Months | Hans Blix: Iraqis were better off under Saddam Hussein | US Death Toll In Iraq Highest In A Year | Essential viewing: Michael Ware on exactly who we are fighting in Iraq | Rumsfeld loses temper, blasts critics of his Iraq incompetence: "This is complicated stuff... so you just ought to back off!" | Bush's disastrous Iraq misadventure is crippling democracy development in greater Middle East
• Uproar forces GOP to pull overtly racist ad targeting Harold Ford Jr.
Now Tony Snow is playing the race card!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Well, well, well -- Chris Shays has a problem | Victim of assault by Jim Gibbons -- Congressman and Nevada's GOP candidate for Governor -- claims pressure and bribe attempt | Nevada Republican Jon Porter refuses to release records to prove he didn't make illegal fundraising calls from office - new email evidence arises | Attacks on Barney Frank intensify with his star poised to rise | Lies and the Lying Liars: Meet Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-NY8) | School Official Threatened by GOP Aide over Political Support
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- US Military In Iraq Blocks Left Leaning, Allows Conservative Based Websites
HOT POLITICS -- Bush admits to reporter he needs good news! | John Kerry to give $500,000 more to Dem campaigns | Michael Schiavo: My unreal night in Colorado | In the reliably Republican 20th District, a strong Democratic challenger gains on Abramoff-tinged incumbent John Sweeney | G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage | Ex-GOP Sen. Warren Rudman: Never neglect troops | Wis. Governor Race Focuses on Stem Cells | Poll: Middle Class Voters Abandoning GOP | GOP Rep. Henry Bonilla: Is he toast yet? | Lamont Gets Help From Obama | Read Mean Jean Schmidt's Denny Hastert letter here | Judge Blocks Ohio ID Rule for Absentees | ID-01: Cheney to Idaho | Jean Schmidt makes idiot of herself again! | Why Are Bush, Rove, Etc. Optimistic? They Have To Be... Or Else | OH-Sen: 20 points? | Bush's Victory Strategy: Whip Up The Rube Vote | The Wave In The Real World | WY-AL: NRCC swoops in to rescue Cubin; also CA-04 and CA-11 | The Colorado Democratic surge | No wonder the GOP is freaking out at that Michael J. Fox ad. It works! | NY-03: King (R) calls AARP and NAACP radical organizations | Two More GOPers Call for Rumsfeld's Ouster | DSCC raking in money | What Democrats Would Do -- Kos' DemFromCT With More of the Agenda
QWAGMIRE -- US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War? | Highest US Death Toll In Iraq In A Year | Bush followers demand escalation in Iraq | Five US troops killed in Iraq as Bush under fire | Disposable Heroes: The GOP's Mistreatment of Wounded Soldiers | Veteran disability claims skyrocket as violence escalates | Republican US House candidate from Kentucky calls on Rumsfeld to resign | NATO strike in Afghanistan said killed 85 civilians | Rumsfeld Claims Terrorists Are Saying "We've Got an Election in Two Weeks in America... We Want to Change Horses Over There"
WAR CRIMES -- Cheney endorses simulated drowning
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Misreading Al Qaeda on Iraq: what the criminal mass murderers really fear | WTC search fans out | Was 9/11 suspect once a Brit asset?
BORDER BUNGLES -- Bush signs "Border Fence" bill... | ... but the "Fence Bill" doesn't actually create a fence!
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- South Korea enforces sanctions on North
FOX WATCH -- Letterman calls Billo a bonehead | Huh? Billo: "[T]en years ago, nobody [had] even heard" of Iraq | Why was Bill O'Reilly speaking at a fundraising event for an organization whose PAC is dedicated to electing conservative, pro-business and primarily Republican candidates? | FOX News pundit attacks religion critic Sam Harris
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh physically mocked Parkinson's patients | Deaf, drug-addicted radio pundit is wrong AGAIN | Watch this! Michael J Fox makes a fool out of Limbaugh | Patti Davis: Michael J. Fox is an example of how we should all be living our lives. Rush Limbaugh's nasty stem-cell-ad response is not
$MIRKONOMICS -- Home prices plunge by most in 35 years
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Red flag raised on Clear Channel trading
ELECTION THEFTS -- Will Ken Blackwell find the ways to steal Ohio 2006 as he did in 2004? | Omaha Prints Own Ballots As Others Wait
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Exxon Reports 2nd Largest Quarterly Profit Ever
HEALTH DEBACLES -- GOP candidate with Scientologist tie: Kids are too medicated | Court overturns pot activist's conviction

Oct. 26
• 219 Members Of US Military Call For Prompt Withdrawal From Iraq.
• Bush's incoherent Iraq press conference: internal contradictions and incoherent claims are literally too numerous to chronicle
• Bush tries in vain to change spin on Iraq, claims "benchmarks" do not constitute a "timeline"
At Wired Press Conference, Bush Makes the Ultimate Case for His Impeachment | Kennedy, Leahy Blast Bush's Iraq Wake-Up Call | Must-see TV! Count The Number Of Times Bush Said "Stay The Course" | Must-see TV! Countdown: As Iraq collapses, Bush is shown making adjustments to the language of making adjustments | Government Agency Issues Grim Report On Iraq, Warns Of "Descent Into Hell" | Iraq: Who's Running This Show? | 54% of Americans want out of Iraq within a year | Iraqi PM Condemns US Raid In Sadr City
• Major WaPo front page story probes VA Senate candidate George "Macacawitz" Allen's history with racism
• US Generals Who Served In Iraq Say They Are Voting For Democrats
• Dems respond to Bush press conference, say they will reinstate oversight
NRSC to burn $5m in bid to oust Menendez | How it's done: Ford confirms Playboy party, turns tables on GOP, tells world he's a guy's guy, says, "I like football and I like girls" | Frist to GOP Hopefuls: Zip It About Iraq | GOP Candidates See Hastert As Fat Albatross In Wake of Of "Toxic" Foley Scandal | Watch this! DNC hits Bush Administration for lying about not having said "Stay the course"
• CREW files appeal to force release of Abramoff visit info
What happens to a has-been spokesperson for a Bush appointee who botched excuses for corrupt contract awards? | Gibbons Accuser: "I Was Not Stumbling Drunk" | Latest GOP scandals update: yes, you need a scorecard! | Rep. Porter (R-NV) refuses to release the phone logs | Are Renzi Scandals Connected? | 21 Year-Old Former Katherine Harris Staffer Says He Has Slept With FL GOP Guv Candidate Charlie Crist, Also Says Crist Has Long-term Boyfriend | WaPo: Probe of Rep. Jane Harman Turns Up No Evidence of Wrongdoing | Bush officials taking private jets at taxpayer expense | FL GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Charlie Crist: I Never Had Sex With That Man | Paper: GOP Lawmaker Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) Hid Land Ownership | Swiftboat 2.0 Group Loses Court Challenge
• Cheney: We Waterboard Detainees
CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
• A Musical Production Number Live From the NSA Listening Room!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- A Look Back at the Original October Surprise | AR-Gov: Dems poised to sweep the state | Stem Cell Issue Roils Missouri Race | Republicans Struggling in Colorado | Republicans are a bunch of wimps, says GOPer | Opponent of homophobe Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO-04), Angie Paccione (D-CO-04), ahead in latest poll | Presidential reruns: Will Bush have pressers everyday now up until the election? | RNC Chair Mehlman On Allegedly Racist Ad Against Dem Harold Ford: "I Think It's A Fair Ad" | John Kerry is fundraising, right now, for himself, while refusing to give more money to Dem candidates | MD-06: Another surprisingly competitive race | AK-Gov: Knowles pulls even | GOP Rep. John Hostettler: Dems have homosexual agenda | MI-Gov: Granholm way ahead | Watch this! OH-02: Democratic candidate Dr. Ginny Wulsin's new ad hits Mean Jean Schmidt hard | GOP Catfight: Bill Frist's Former Campaign Manager Called GOP Tenn. Candidate Corker "Pond Scum" | Latest sign Giuliani is running (and will be defeated): Hires Rove aide fundraiser | Cato Institute Makes a Case for Divided Government
FOLEYGATE -- Hastert Aide Goes Before Ethics Panel | House Foley Probe Conducting Last Interviews? | FBI Using 6-Page Questionnaire To Interrogate Former Male Pages About Foley | ABC: Foley checked into a rehab center in Arizona
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush Administration may have badly botched prosecution of so-called "20th hijacker"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- New Yorker sheds some light on the CIA's travel agent -- the one that arranged "extraordinary rendition" flights
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Report: Iran expands nuclear work
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- White House again times Iraq policy to U.S. elections; CBS' Katie "Boopsie" Couric and Jim "Axe-to-grind" Axelrod show little interest, despite surge of troop deaths | Media extensively covered -- and replayed -- GOP terror ad; will they give DNC Iraq ad same treatment? We doubt they will | ABC: pandering to the hard right wing | The DC media swamp needs to be drained of imbecile "conventional wisdom" | Pro-conservative ABC Politics Director Mark Halperin tells Billo the media has a liberal bias and "We've got to make sure we do better" | NY Times published correction to flawed Lieberman article | The pros sound off on impact of NBC News cuts | NY Times Endorses Farrell over Shays in CT-04 | MSNBC's "Battleground America" let conservative misinformation fly | Karl Rove dukes it out with NPR host over polling data | Imus rips Rush Limbaugh's lack of character following attack on Michael J. Fox | Look at this headline and article from CNN...
WHAT A RUSH! -- Turns out GOP commentator Limbaugh refuses to apologize for attacking people with Parkinson's disease | Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann provides the visual of Rush Limbaugh's sick attack on Michael J. Fox, including mock spastic shaking
$MIRKONOMICS -- Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Wal-Mart's "family values" hurt kids
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- A new homeland security report card
ELECTION THEFTS -- Calif. Letter Debunks Intimidating Flier | Election Watcher: Several States Ripe for Election Problems
JUSTICE WATCH -- Celebrity Keystone Kops! "Deputy Shaq" aided botched VA kiddie porn raid
RACISM IN THE USA -- TN-Sen: RNC Pulls Racist Ad, Offers Up (Another) Outrageous Substitute | TN-Sen: Racist Republican Ad Uses "Jungle Drum" Sounds For Mentions of Black Senate Candidate
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Bush Administration: Oil Is Our God
GAY IN AMERICA -- New Jersey Supreme Court adopts George Bush position on gay relationships: some kind of civil unions are acceptable, but in effect state Supremos say no to marriage

Oct. 25
• Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go, joined by more than 100 current military personnel in a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq -- now
Can GOP keep House by fraud? | Watch This! Arianna Huffington Gives the GOP, Media Redass Over Fearmongering | GOP Plays Race Card in Tennessee | Who says Dems don't fight back? Watch this ad,,, | Hastert Vigil: Dead Man Talking | Snow Falsely Claims Bush Said "Stay The Course" Only 8 Times (Actually, It's At Least 30) | Hastert Testifies in House Foley Probe | Tell The Safe Seventy Democrats To HELP Their Fellow Democratic Candidates | The GOP Regresses to Timeworn Strategy of Trying to Turn Out Base | Bush campaigns with GOPers in ethical trouble -- and there are plenty... | GOP Fear Coattails of Clinton-Spitzer Duo | AZ-Sen: Race continues to tighten | Ned Lamont Compares Holy Joe Lieberman to Tricky Dicky Nixon | Parkinson Foundation Debunks Limbaugh's False Smears on Michael J. Fox | Santorum: If I lose, terror could worsen | WY-AL: Changing stories | At $2.6b is it most costly election? | Is Ken Mehlman kidding? We should ask Harold Ford | PA-Sen: Santorum is off the air | Miserly John Kerry spokesman blasts "cowards" who "hide behind anonymous Web sites" | Media challenging Ohio exit poll rules | VA-Sen: Mark Warner launches new ad for Webb | WY-AL: Libertarian urges Cubin to resign | Kerry's spokesman insults Chris Bowers and the rest of you | Obama: "I Wouldn't Fit In With This Administration [Because I Think] Being Informed Is A Good Basis For Policy" | Hillary to paper: "Want to check for scars?" | GOPUSA: Obama named most dangerous man | Porn star Mary Carey exits CA gubernatorial race | WY-AL: Cubin is latest Republican to lose it | The Republican Party's middling efforts to fake out black and latino voters is running full speed into the reality wall | NY Times: Lieberman three times more likely to slam Dems | New MSNBC/McClatchy Senate polls look good for Democrats

• Iraqi leader al-Maliki contradicts Bush, disavows timetable report
• Who Supports The Troops? Democrats, As It Turns Out
• Bush Administration Hypes "Timeline" For Iraq -- But Policy Stays the Course
US soldier to voice Iraq conflict opposition | Bush administration now says we may need more troops in Iraq | Oops! Acute Power Shortage In Baghdad Interrupts Bush Administration Press Conference | Taliban attacks up 300% since "truce" | Guess how much U.S. taxpayers will end up paying for every additional second spent in Iraq?

• Hastert's Page Scandal Defense: I Don't Remember
• Top GOP Rep. Testifying Today: Says He Warned Hastert About Foley Last Spring
Questions remain about Tom Reynolds' Foleygate involvement | Hastert Urges Foley Situation Swept Under Rug... er, Swift Action to Resolve Matter | Foleygate Demolishes Hastert Campaigning | Foleygate testimony: House GOP Officials Likely to Be at Odds

Hot news flash! Terrorist killed back in April... but now, just in time for elections, it's front page news | Taliban planning attack on Europe

The NY Post caught phonying its circulation numbers upward | Flashback: Atrios brings us a classic example of Beltway print pundit "wisdom" (not!) from 2002 | How many times will the White House drop "stay the course" before the media notice it has purported to drop it before? | Keeping Up Appearances: PBS, Wal-Mart And Charlie Rose | Winger projection syndrome in action: Tucker Carlson calls Bill Clinton a "sanctimonious jerk" | YouTube has yanked Ann Coulter videos | Al Gore and the press charade: Seven years later, Harris and Halperin start telling the truth... very slowly | Who's airing an enemy propaganda film: CNN... or the RNC? | Barney Frank tells it like it is | Sherrod Brown Shows How Its Done | Fringe v. mainstream views

Despite affair, James Dobson favors Sherwood

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Nevada GOP Candidate Accused Of Hiding Illegal Alien Housekeeper In The Basement | Roll Call updates scandal checklist | Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ): One Congressman, Two Probes | Congressman Renzi Is the Focus of Land Inquiry | Renzi Had Secret Tie to Land Deal, Sources Say | Officials scrutinize Ariz. land deal involving rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) | Congressional candidate Tan Nguyen personally bought the list of voters to whom a racially charged letter was mailed | Bush Caught Lying About Claiming "We've Never Been Stay The Course" | Coingate convict's wife shops videotape of prominent GOP | NY-Comp: Ethically beleaguered Democrat Alan Hevesi blows off Daily News | GOP Candidate Linked To Voter Intimidation Scheme: I Won't Resign If Charged | Update: Scanners, Filing System Share Blame for NIE Blackout | GOPers Vouch for Convicted Bush Official | Specter May End Earmark Shenanigans -- Even His Own | Flack: For Months, Tech "Snafu" Kept Key Intel Docs from Lawmakers | LAT: Despite Denials, Candidate Aided Own Dirty Trick | Who do you have to sleep with to not get a top rating from the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family? | Campaign 2006: The scandals just keep coming
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- US asks court to restrict "war on terror" detainees' talks with lawyers
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Sibel Edmonds vindicated? FBI reveals investigation continues | Ousted Dem House intel staffer denies leaking to NY Times | Ex-CIA chief joins "007" research firm
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- China denies North Korea apologized
FOX WATCH -- Watch this! Bill O'Reilly tries -- and fails -- to bully potential 2008 candidate Wesley Clark | FOX' John "OJ" Gibson says if Democrats win, insurgents win | O'Reilly: Taliban Resurgence In Afghanistan Is A Myth
WHAT A RUSH! -- Michael J. Fox Responds To Limbaugh Smear
ELECTION THEFTS -- Some Virginia electronic voting machines get Webb's name wrong | Administration Sends Troops Info on Foley Replacement, Doesn’:t Mention Other Candidates | Rigging the vote in VA: Voting machines won't display Democrat Webb's name | Diebold Laugh Line of the Moment | VA-Sen: George F. Allen vs. James H. "Jim" . . . ?
RACISM IN THE USA -- Mehlman's Tennessee Ad Looks a Lot Like Corker's Ads | Senate candidate Bob Corker (R-TN) says Republican National Committee is refusing to remove racist TV ad from Tennessee | Former GOP Senator says Republicans are running racist ads in Tennessee against Harold Ford, Jr.
HEALTH DEBACLES -- GAO: Abstinence-only Sex Ed Must Change
GAY IN AMERICA -- Blog: US taxes fund Iraqi gay genocide

Oct. 24
• Hastert's Top Aide Gives Six Hour Testimony In Foley Probe
• ... and looks none too happy after finishing!
• Turmoil in Hastert's Office as Key Staff Testifies, Lawyers Up
The Hand of Hastert: Worries Persist over Fairness of House Foley Probe
• Active-Duty Troops Launch Campaign to Press Congress to End U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Donald Rumsfled: We Are Still Staying the Course | Sen. Lindsey Graham: Iraq near chaos, and Rummy and his generals are to blame | Tony Snow Fails To Convince Reporter That Bush Doesn't Use Term "Stay The Course" | PA-10: Republican Mailer Accuses Carney Of Helping To Start War In Iraq | Report: Pentagon Breaks Promise Not to Negotiate with Insurgents
• GOP Senator Grassley demands FBI brief Congress on its probe of 2001 anthrax attacks before Thanksgiving
John Negroponte brings Central America gang murder to Iraq | New GOP "fear ad" lists terrorists Bush has failed to capture five years after September 11. Why are we in Iraq?
• Jerry Falwell: Gay Smut Peddler?
• Jeffrey Skilling, one of the most infamous corporate crooks in history, gets only 24 years in prison -- but possibly enough to be a life sentence
• Was Nancy Pelosi bull$#!tting Lesley Stahl? Could you blame her?
• Mike Malloy is b-a-a-a-a-c-k
• You MUST see Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on GOP Fearmongering
• Paul Krugman is not ready to make nice with the Republican elite -- and the Democrats should not be either
NPR blows "stay the course" story, missing fact Bush denies he ever said it | Andrea Mitchell: George and Laura Upset at Card | Wingnut-aligned FL paper endorses Katherine Harris | On Reliable Sources, the perpetually insipid Michael Medved cited two CNN specials that attacked Dems to baselessly claim CNN has "taken a very clear side and the side has been anti-[Bush] administration" | Republicans Ragging on Eastwood | NY Post In Effect Steals Stories from RadarOnline.com, Refuses to Credit Them | FCC Challenged By Benton Foundation and Social Science Research Council On Media Consolidation
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- GOP candidate who sent Latinos letter threatening them with arrest if they voted, refuses to drop out, blames his opponent | Fly the Beauprez Skies...For Free: Just Who Is Paying for Colorado GOP Guv Candidate's Wings? | Will Abramoff Take Another Lawmaker Down -- Soon? | More Sex Scandals For GOP Rep. Alexander: Chief Of Staffed Sued For Harassment | WY Rep. tells candidate, "I'd slap you" | NJ-SEN: Ad Targeting Democratic Candidate Bob Menendez Uses Anti-Italian Slur | Foley Probe Hears from GOP Aides -- Will We Finally Find Out Which Republican Is Lying? | Just Plain Stupid: NY Comptroller Alan Hevesi Owes for State Chauffeur | Bush Was Lying, Now Admits There Is No Evidence Iraqi Insurgents Are Trying To Influence U.S. Elections
HOT POLITICS -- CT Senate Debate Gets Wild: Hecklers, Candidates Attack Lieberman | "Use it or Lose it" is gaining attention, makes the NY Times -- time for safe Democrats to pay up | 2006's October Surprises (So Far) | Why Dems should press Bush's stupid "Stay The Course" talk | NJ-SEN: Bob Menendez Flips the GOP' "Stakes" Ad On Its Head | Independent Voters Favor Democrats by 2 to 1 in Poll | Sheehan: Up to us to end Bush reign | Lieberman reversed himself yet again on Iraq | Newsweek Poll Shows New Democratic Congress Will Have a 51% Mandate to Impeach Bush | WA-05: Dirty Tricks and Desperation | The War Continues To Fracture the GOP During Campaign Season | Scandals in 2 States May Affect KY Race | Bono: Santorum has 'a kind of Tourette's' | FL SEN: Harris, Nelson Debate | Florida Mirrors GOP Election Problems | GOP Losing Battle For Independent Voters | More polls spell big trouble for Bush and the GOP | MA Candidate Would Slash Government Employee Head Count by 8000 | Minimum Wage, War Top the Democratic Agenda for the 110th Congress | MN-06: Bachmann's (R) church believes Catholics follow Satan
WAR CRIMES -- Investigators tried to stop Gitmo abuse | This is what the U.S. Congress voted two weeks ago to legally authorize and sanction
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Diplomats say Iran expands enrichment | Latest Darfur peace pact in disarray
FOX WATCH -- After repeated whining, Billo -- who won't have "loathsome" "secular-progressives" on his show -- to appear on Oprah
WHAT A RUSH! -- Press, pundits express revulsion at Limbaugh for comment about Michael J Fox | Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Questionable Tactics and Stance On Social Security
RACISM IN THE USA -- GOP Sen: Republican Party "Coming Very Close" To Making Racial Attack On Dem Candidate Harold Ford | White House denies charges of GOP race-baiting
GAY IN AMERICA -- Sean Hannity's gay dating website

Oct. 23
• Military scrambles to put together "last chance" to secure Iraq
• Bush Trying To Change The Subject From Iraq
• Kleptocracy: Over $500 Million Meant To Fight Insurgency Stolen From Iraqi Government
You Knew It Would Happen Dept.: Diplomat Says He "Misspoke" On Iraq | At least 15 Iraqi police recruits were killed Sunday | sen. Joe Biden: 12-14 Conservatives Would Vote To Change Course In Iraq If Senate Changes Hands | Bush, claims, "We've Never Been Stay The Course" | ... and, of course, he was lying!
Senior military official: "No additional US troops" to Baghdad | Majority Of Iraqi Youth Want US Troops Out | 15 insurgents die in Afghan gun battle | UN: 914,000 have fled homes in Iraq | US Tracking North Korean Vessel
• Jack Abramoff spends 4 hours a day ratting out crooked republicans, so we say a desk is the least DoJ can give the guy!
Watch Bush Lie: We've Never Been "Stay The Course" | Former aide says Rep. Porter made illegal fundraising calls | Bush Defies Senate, Appoints Mine "Unsafety" Head. Again.
HOT POLITICS -- Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund | Republicans for Spitzer: In upstate NY, Republicans have had enough | Muslim could be a 1st in Congress | Hillary Clinton's challenger loves cheap shots | Bush thinks the GOP is "making progress" in elections | The Myth of the Bull Elephant | GOP Shuns Immigration Hardliner in AZ | Bill Richardson: 2008 Surprise? | ID-01: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | How bad are things for the GOP? | Bush Braces for Fight if GOP Loses House | Bush Scolds Dad On Election Remarks: "He Shouldn't Be Speculating Like This" | GOP Rep. Boehner Worried About Elections: "There's No Question That There's A Jet Stream In Our Face" | Sen. Obama Says He is Weighing 2008 Run | GOP Losses Could Spark Partisan Warfare | Bringing On The Nasty | Brilliant Dem ads spoof Mac vs. PC ads | Obama In 2008? He's Thinking About It | While campaigning for a pedophile enabler, Karl Rove argues that the party of 9/11, Katrina, and Iraq is somehow stronger than the Democrats | Schumer, Dole Bet On Elections | WA-05: Oops! McMorris and Craig inadvertently let a reporter know how scared the GOP is over Election Day | If Democrats win back the House, Rahm Emanuel gets all the credit | Newsweek: Harold Ford Jr. May Deliver Democrats The Senate | Bush predicts midterm victory for the GOP | GOP In Shock, Denial As Evangelical Base Slips Away | NJ-SEN: Dem Bob Mendendez pulls away from GOP candidate Tom Kean, Jr., in a new poll
FOLEYGATE -- Former pages spill the beans on Foley's pick-up tactics: "You could always stay at my place...I'm always lonely... Up for oral sex
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 5 years later, even more Ground Zero remains are uncovered
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- The CIA Won't Say So, But The UK Initially Opposed War In Iraq
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iran offers to talk about nukes
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Right wing toady: NY Times ombudsman now says paper was wrong to report on banking-data surveillance program | C&L interviews Joe Maguire, author of "Brainless" | GOP columnist slams Limbaugh, Hannity for destroying Republican party | Melanie Morgan is a lunatic | Softball questions abound in Time interview with Cheney | George Stephanopoulos left unchallenged Bush's revisionist history on "stay the course," Woodward books | Decoding the Media "Conventional Wisdom" Narrative On The November Elections | Fabulous! Bush uses gay rights flag as backdrop for ABC interview | Media Pushes Idea That We Have Yet To See Full Force Of GOP Attacks
PUNDIT PAYOLA -- Armstrong Williams settles DoE pundit payola case, admits no guilt
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Former Enron boss to be sentenced | AFL-CIO files UN complaint
ELECTION THEFTS -- American Democracy Threatened By E-Voting Machines | ABC suddenly discovers that hackable electronic voting machines could skew elections | The sleuths who showed how to steal your e-vote
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- No Child Left Behind Act funds fill Neil Bush"s company coffers
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Like it is some sort of surprise: Energy deregulation boon to investment firms

Oct. 22
• For months doubts over Iraq have risen along with the death toll. Last week a tipping point was reached as political leaders in Washington and London began openly to think the unthinkable: that the war was lost
• A senior US diplomat told Al Jazeera yesterday that the United States had shown 'arrogance' and 'stupidity' in Iraq
Ken Mehlman concedes that Republicans "cut and run" from Afghanistan and terrorists took over The Iraq "Intervention" That Never Was | 78 US Troops Killed So Far In October | A fresh attempt by President Bush to redefine success in Iraq was undermined within hours by the American military and Iraqi officials. | Bush Administration may be leaning towards partitioning Iraq | U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role | Bomb attacks kill 5 in Baghdad shops
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Jim Gibbons (happily married, of course) still being dogged by alleged assault | Aide May Have Misdialed Phone Sex Line | NY-24: Another false libelous ad NRCC refuses to pull
HOT POLITICS -- Dems Holding Leads in Many Pivotal Races | Democrats Strengthen Chances For Senate | Newsweek Poll: Americans Love A Democratic Agenda, Bush is at 35% | Negative Phone Sex Ad May Backfire On GOP | Americans support Democrats' First 100 Hours plan | ID-01: Brilliant ad | An Ad We Should See | Lamont Gives $2M to Flagging Campaign | Democrats: More Seats Coming Into Play | WaPo: Pelosi may be next speaker of the House | Blackwell's attacks on foe getting personal; Strickland's sexual orientation questioned | Lieberman spent $400,000 in "petty cash" in 12 days?
WAR CRIMES -- Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 15 more remains recovered at WTC
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Original NYT Story Strongly Suggests Suspended Staffer Could Not Be Source of NIE Leak
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Rice Prods Moscow on Press Freedom, Iran
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- NY Times To Endorse Chris Murphy (CT-05) and Joe Courtney (CT-02) | Right Wing Nutjob Quote of the Day | David Roberts on CBS News and the Blogosphere | Daytona News-Journal Endorses E-voting Whistleblower Clint Curtis Over Tom Feeney, Calls Curtis "Independent Thinker", "Prepared Well" to Serve Florida's 24th Congressional District
ELECTION THEFTS -- Fitrakis Ohio Voter Purge Investigation Continuing-- Letters Found
JUSTICE WATCH -- Justices Discuss Judges' Independence | Scalia dismisses the idea of judicial independence as an absolute virtue
OH, GOD! -- Former German Chancellor found Bush's constant faith talk "suspicious"