Flash: Laffey concedes to Chafee at 10:40 p.m.  —  Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey conceded the Republican nomination to Sen. Lincoln Chafee tonight.  —  At 10:45 p.m. U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee had a growing lead when Laffey acknowledged that he had lost.  —  With 81 percent of the votes counted …

Bill Clinton Meets Bloggers  —  Why would I fly to New York for a day?  Because former President Bill Clinton invited a group of progressive, Democrat bloggers in for a 2 hour roundtable meeting at his Harlem office.  It was awesome.  More later, including a list of all the bloggers there …

White House Responds to Charge of Politicizing 9/11  —  The White House today dismissed charges by prominent Democrats that President Bush sought to capitalize politically on the Sept. 11 attacks when he addressed the nation on Monday night.  —  "The president was not making partisan remarks …

'Blogosphere' spurs government oversight  —  WASHINGTON — When watchdog groups that monitor federal spending wanted more information on 1,800 "pork barrel" projects buried in a House appropriations bill, they listed them on the Internet and asked readers to dig deeper.  Within days, details began pouring in.

BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right  —  The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right.  —  The three-hour programme, shown over two nights on BBC2 to commemorate …

Montgomery to Extend Voting Hours After Election Glitches  —  County Polling Places to Stay Open Until 9 P.M.  —  Polling stations in Montgomery County will remain open until 9 tonight—an hour later than usual—to accommodate voters who were turned away from the polls this morning …

Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?  —  Wikipedia, the community-edited online encyclopedia, has blossomed.  It has thousands of volunteers that have created more than five million entries in dozens of languages on everything from the Elfin-woods warbler to Paris Hilton.

Noe gets 27 months in federal prison for illegal Bush contributions  —  Tom Noe, the GOP fund-raiser at the heart of Ohio's biggest political scandal in a generation, was sentenced today to 27 months in a federal prison for illegally funneling money into President Bush's re-election campaign.

Rosie O'Moral Equivalence (Update: It's Equivalence Tuesday on Today!) … Update: I gots video of the political genius herself.  I love how she acts like Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the dumb one, when she's spouting this crap: "Afghanistan never threatened to kill us...We will never bring peace at the hands of war."

Pimping the Greatest Generation  —  The president seemed a little confused last night.  For the last two weeks he's been evoking images of WWII, talking about islamic fascists and the like.  Last night he seemed to be adding the Cold War into the mix.  Apparently, he wants people to believe …

Bush assassination movie gets U.S. deal  —  TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) — After you kill off President George W. Bush in a fictional film, what do you do?  How about make a deal.  —  Gabriel Range, the British producer/director/creator of "Death of a President," the fictional documentary …

'Girls Gone Wild' Cuts Plea Deal  —  The Santa Monica-based company failed to maintain age and identity documents for performers in sexually explicit films.  —  The California company responsible for the successful "Girls Gone Wild" series of videos has pleaded guilty to violating …

Yes, senator, McCain-Feingold does censor political speech  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., takes issue with The Examiner's editorial criticism of the McCain-Feingold bill and its "ban" on certain broadcast ads.  The indignant senator responds that the law "doesn't ban or censor any speech."

Fenty Wins D.C. Mayoral Primary  —  Adrian M. Fenty won the Democratic nomination for mayor of the District of Columbia tonight, decisively defeating his closest competitor, Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp, in a primary that sets the stage for him to become the youngest chief executive of the nation's capital.

Reborn  —  We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible.  But is that really the truth?  Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill.

CONSPIRACY CRANKS  —  CREATING CRAZED '9/11 TRUTH'  —  ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/ New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination.  That day, Popular Mechanics, the magazine I edit, hit newsstands with a story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Fear Factor  —  HOW DID WE SURVIVE ARI FLEISCHER'S REIGN OF TERROR?  —  And there it was again, in Frank Rich's column (TimesSelect subscription required) in the New York Times of Sunday, Sept. 10, recalling the alleged pall of fear that fell over Americans five years ago this month: