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Foley Resigns Over Sexually Explicit Messages to Minors — Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report: — Rhonda Schwartz contributed to this report. — Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned …
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Exclusive: The Sexually Explicit Internet Messages That Led to Fla. Rep. Foley's Resignation — Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz & Maddy Sauer Report: — Florida Rep. Mark Foley's resignation came just hours after ABC News questioned the congressman about a series of sexually explicit instant …
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Associated Press:
Foley Resigns From Congress Over E-Mails — Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page. — "I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Foley submits resignation to Congress — WASHINGTON - Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., submitted a letter of resignation from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page, according to a congressional official.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Challenger Seeks Probe of Rep. Foley's E-Mails to Boy, 16 — The Democratic opponent of Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) is calling for an investigation into an e-mail exchange that Foley conducted last year with a 16-year-old boy who had worked as a congressional page.
Gay Patriot:
US Rep. Mark Foley Resigns From Congress — Welcome Instapundit readers! — A friend of mine in DC is telling me that the Associated Press is reporting the imminent resignation of US Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL). — **UPDATED** - Foley has resigned from Congress this afternoon, according to the Associated Press at 3:18PM.
John / AMERICAblog:House GOP Leadership knew about Foley almost a year ago …
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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:ABC News Releases Message Exchanges Between Foley And Teens
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Sheldon Gweiser / MSNBC:
Poll shows Virginia Senate race is dead heat — Incumbent Sen. Allen and challenger James Webb tied with 43 percent — NEW YORK - Incumbent Republican Senator George Allen and Democratic challenger Jim Webb are tied in the latest MSNBC/McClatchy poll conducted by Mason-Dixon.
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Gary Reals / WUSA-TV:
More Racial Accusations in Va. Senate Race — A Vietnam vet who interviewed U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb for a newspaper article in 1983 says the Democrat told him of college pranks he took part in 20 years earlier in which racial epithets were used and guns pointed at African Americans on the streets of Watts.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Now, Even Allen's Apologies Are Getting Him in Trouble — Sons of Confederate Veterans Is the Most Recent Group Offended by Senator's Comments — Sen. George Allen can't seem to win: first, he apologizes for addressing an Indian American with a racial slur and acknowledges that many view the Confederate flag as a hate symbol.
William Hamilton / Washington Post:
Card Urged Bush to Replace Rumsfeld, Woodward Says — Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card on two occasions tried and failed to persuade President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to a new book by Bob Woodward that depicts senior officials of the Bush administration …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq — The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author.
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Pajamas Media:
Senator Joseph Lieberman, Independent Democrat: The PajamasMedia Video — "The fastest growing political party in America is no party, which is to say, that the fastest growing group of voters are unaffiliated with either party. That's a market statement on the two major parties."
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Robert D. Kaplan / Los Angeles Times:
Use Brinkmanship on Iran — Any diplomatic effort by the U.S. won't work unless backed up by a credible threat of force. — FOR IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to snare an invitation to speak before the Council on Foreign Relations last week, after threatening several times to destroy Israel …
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brusselsjournal.com:
Death Threats in Brussels, France (Robert Redeker) — Yesterday the Belgian authorities decided to provide police protection for people working in the Brussels prisons of Vorst and Sint-Gillis. The decision was taken after two jailers, on their way to work, were attacked on a Brussels tram.
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Bush's Conception Conflict — It was, I believe, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) who first made the excellent, bitter and terribly unfair joke about conservatives who believe in a right to life that begins at conception and ends at birth. — This joke has been adapted for use against various Republican politicians ever since.
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
Brigitte Gabriel: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America — Welcome, Hot Air readers! I got all blabby at the top, here, but the video's below. Scroll a bit. — There's been a lot of talk in the blogosphere over the last couple of days about whether some conservatives think and speak …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Beltway Democrats are seriously flawed, but the election is still critically important — (updated below) — Now that the torture and detention bill will become law, it is necessary to focus on the political implications of what happened yesterday and, more broadly, what has been done …
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