Top Items:
![](/img/pml.png)
Lamont Leads Senate Race In Early Returns — Challenger Ned Lamont is holding onto a narrow lead with 80 percent of Connecticut's precincts reporting. — The Greenwich millionaire was leading incumbent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman by three and a half points, with Lamont garnering 51.75 percent …
Discussion:
Redstate, Burnt Orange Report, Wizbang Politics, The Irish Trojan's Blog, The Moderate Voice and The Empire Zone
RELATED ITEMS:
![](/img/pml.png)
CT-Sen: Why Lieberman's site is down — Two posts down it's clear that Lieberman's website isn't suffering from a Denial of Service attack. — But now I have the definitive answer as to why Lieberman's site went down. — They are paying $15/month for hosting at a place called MyHostCamp, with a bandwidth limit of 10GB.
Discussion:
MyDD, TPMmuckraker, Firedoglake, Bay to the Beltway, Crooks and Liars, Sirotablog, Personal Democracy Forum blogs, ConnecticutBLOG, Brilliant at Breakfast, Taylor Marsh, The Irish Trojan's Blog, Macsmind, TPMCafe blogs, The RCP Blog, Connecticut Local Politics, Decision '08, Mathew Gross, Burnt Orange Report and MaxSpeak
![](/img/pml.png)
CT-SEN: Lieberman Aide Acknowledges There's No Evidence Of Lamont Hacking — I just got off the phone with top Joe Lieberman adviser Dan Gerstein, and he acknowledged to me that the Lieberman camp doesn't have any evidence that the Lamont campaign — or Lamont supporters …
![](/060808/i120.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Lieberman trailing in Democratic primary — Sen. Joe Lieberman struggled in his bid for a fourth term in Tuesday's primary, battling to overcome a political newcomer and escape payback from his own party for supporting the Iraq war. — With 81 percent of precincts reporting …
![](/img/pml.png)
CT-Sen: Lieberman to go indy — While this race isn't officially over, it's pretty much over. Lieberman just announced that he is running as an independent. — I know Democrats in DC, including many of Lieberman's allies, are horrified at that possibility. Lieberman will tell them all to f**k off.
Discussion:
Sirotablog, AMERICAblog, Macsmind, Democrats.com, The Mahablog, Gateway Pundit, Pam's House Blend, Middle Earth Journal and The Corner
![](/img/pml.png)
Lieberman Alleged Hack Attack "Disrupted Entire Campaign" — I just got off the phone with the internet consultant to Joe Lieberman's campaign, Dan Geary. And he says that the site has been "fatally compromised" by an unknown hacker. In addition, all email addresses with the Joe2006.com domain …
Discussion:
Associated Press, Hotline On Call, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Wampum and Blue Crab Boulevard
![](/img/pml.png)
Lieberman Concedes Connecticut Primary to Lamont
Discussion:
The News Blog
![](/img/pml.png)
LAMONT-LIEBERMAN: Election Day Video
Discussion:
Sirotablog
![](/060808/i106.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
New York Times Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud! — ** Dead Men Walking! From the New York Times photo essay by Tyler Hicks on July 27, 2006 comes this unbelievable fraud! — Click photos to enlarge for detail- notice the shorts... and the hat! — Bizzyblog forwarded the "Dead Guy w/ no dust" …
Discussion:
Ace of Spades HQ, Democracy Project, Secular Blasphemy, RightWinged.com, Slublog, Riehl World View and Dinocrat
RELATED ITEMS:
![](/060808/i121.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
"Fauxtography" alert: NYTimes and USNews — ***scroll for updates*** — Case study number one: The NYTimes and the Lebanese pieta — Take a close look at the above photo. (Pay close attention to his shorts, his dustless chest, muscular torso, the dust on his hands, and the hat tucked in the crook of his arm.)
![](/img/pml.png)
Johnson declares victory over McKinney — Henry C. "Hank" Johnson declared victory about 11:05 p.m. in his campaign against U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney. — Johnson had 59 percent of the vote compared with 41 percent for McKinney, with 89 percent of precincts reporting.
RELATED ITEMS:
![](/060808/i116.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Electionblogging: Lieberman vs. Lamont, Johnson vs. McKinney (Drudge calls it for Lamont) (Lieberman concedes, will run as independent) (McKinney loses) (Video of speeches added) — I wasn't planning to open this thread for another three hours but Karol sent me something so sweet, I had to share before we got scooped.
![](/img/pml.png)
VANISH IN BIG APPLE — Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday. — The students - who were traveling …
RELATED ITEMS:
![](/img/pml.png)
U.S. - French Alliance at the U.N. Reportedly Crumbling — UNITED NATIONS — The French-American alliance at the United Nations over a Mideast cease-fire agreement is crumbling, sources tell FOX News. — The French U.N. delegation has joined with Arab nations and is now calling for a complete …
RELATED ITEMS:
![](/img/pml.png)
What a Surprise — Today the Tom DeLay saga in Congress seems to be officially coming to a miserable, pathetic end. But first a moment of reflection. — So for several weeks now, the DeLay camp has been huffing and puffing, seeping the word out that if Tom DeLay gets stuck on the ballot …
RELATED ITEMS:
![](/060808/i98.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Best of the Web — Jihadis Playing Possum — Back in May 2002, we noted that the Israel Defense Forces had provided a reconnaissance video showing a staged funeral of a Palestinian at the "refugee camp" in Jenin, supposedly the site of an Israeli massacre. As Ha'aretz reported at the time:
Discussion:
11alive.com, The Jawa Report, Associated Press, Wizbang, The Sundries Shack, PrairiePundit and Bookworm Room
![](/060808/i105.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
The Passion of the Toys - Updated — In Platoon, Oliver Stone said the first casualty of war is innocence. — He was wrong. — As the photos here show, the first casualties of war are...the symbols of innocence. And photographers from Reuters and the AP just happened upon many of these perfectly placed symbols of war's horrors.
![](/img/pml.png)
Big Oil reinvests big profits to tap costlier reserves — Big Oil's record profits attract attention and outrage, but an independent study has found that oil companies do exactly what economic textbooks say they should do with all that money: They invest it in oil exploration and development efforts …