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A Note From the Editors — There still seems to be some confusion about the order of events related to our coverage of Rep. Mark Foley and his email exchanges with teenagers he met through the congressional page program. Let me try to clear this up. — In November of last year …
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Washington Post:
The Foley Scandal — THE SUDDEN resignation of Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) involves more than an obviously troubled man who sent sexually suggestive e-mails to underage congressional pages. Numerous fellow lawmakers, including Republican leaders, apparently had at least partial knowledge about Mr. Foley's disturbing conduct.
Nico / Think Progress:
Hume Compares Mark Foley To President Clinton — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume compared Mark Foley's predatory behavior towards underage pages to President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Hume said that while Foley is now "in total disgrace in his party," Clinton's …
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GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001 — Maddy Sauer and Anna Schecter Report: — A Republican staff member warned congressional pages five years ago to watch out for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former page. — Matthew Loraditch, a page in the 2001-2002 class …
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Newsweek:
The Woodward War — Another book, another political blow. How the Bush team is handling the rain of bad news on Iraq, and what it means for Secretary Rumsfeld's future. — The White House had more than an inkling of what was coming. This was Bob Woodward's third book …
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Bob Woodward / Newsweek:
It was Bush's decision. But Rumsfeld drove the dynamic on Iraq. How the SecDef blew it. An exclusive excerpt. — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (left) had concerns about the 'overbearing style' of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (right), according to Woodward's book
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Justices to Hear Abortion, Integration Cases — 'Partial-Birth' Procedure and Schools' Race Policies to Dominate Court's Agenda — Abortion and race dominate the Supreme Court's agenda for the term that begins tomorrow, with the Bush administration and its conservative allies urging …
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Times of London:
Is there blood on his hands? — As Kofi Annan prepares to stand down as UN secretary-general, Adam LeBor investigates the accusations made against the world's chief defender of human rights — THE CASE AGAINST KOFI ANNAN — The bodies were still warm when Lieutenant Ron Rutten found them …
Michelle Malkin:
Bobblehead Rage! — I'm going offline the rest of the day, but had to blog this. — From fresco rage to book rage to film rage to beauty pageant rage to Koran-dropping rage to cartoon rage to Pope rage, it's always something with the Religion of Perpetual Outrage (hat tip-Andrew Bostom via NY Daily News).
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Tina Moore / NY Daily News:Bobblehead Muhammed? — A ceramic bobblehead doll …
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Clarice Feldman / The American Thinker:
Pardon me, but I smell something very peculiar in the way we have learned of the disgrace of Rep. Mark Foley. — The email scandal which led to the resignation of the Republican Congressman is reverberating throughout the capital and the nation, as Democrats attempt to capitalize on bad news for Republicans.
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Good news in the good fight, Iraqis hate al-Qaeda, too — "Light at the end of the tunnel" was one of those optimistic phrases from the Vietnam War that was widely mocked, until political pressures led the U.S. to abandon Vietnam. The light became the oncoming train of another Cold War cliche …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
The Inside Agitator — Not all states are equal on an election map, and Alaska is one of those less populous states — like Kansas or Idaho or Alabama — that national Democrats almost never bother to visit. For one thing, just getting there presents a logistical ordeal …
Brendan Daly / democraticleader.house.gov:
Pelosi Letter to Ethics Committee on Cover Up of the Foley Matter — Washington, D.C. - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following letter sent today to House Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings and Ranking Member Howard L. Berman about the Foley matter. The text of the letter follows:
Time:
Campaign 2006: The Republicans' Secret Weapon — You think the GOP is sure to lose big in November? They aren't. Here's why things don't look so bad to them — The polls keep suggesting that Republicans could be in for a historic drubbing. And their usual advantage …
Orlando Sentinel:
Florida Republicans angry at Foley's 'hypocrisy' — The congressman was known for crusading against sex predators and Internet porn. — FORT LAUDERDALE — At the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a young Republican congressman from Florida did something that seemed ordinary at the time …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Gunmen kidnap 26 workers in Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated food factory Sunday in western Baghdad in what appeared to be a new sectarian attack, a security official said. The kidnapped workers included Shiites and Sunnis, and they included three women …
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Times of London:
The laughing 9/11 bombers — Exclusive film of suicide pilots at Bin Laden's HQ — FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his "martyrdom" will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden's headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage.
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Jeffrey Feldman / FRAMESHOP:
Hastert "Protected A Predator" — Fifty years from now, when historians write about the social problem of sexual predators in early 21st Century America, they will put a photo of Cardinal Bernard Law next to a photo of Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
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