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E-mails Show Foley Sought to Rendezvous with Page — Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report: — In addition to explicit sexual language, former Congressman Mark Foley's Internet messages also include repeated efforts to get the underage recipient to rendezvous with him at night.
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Judd / Think Progress:
Snow on Foley Scandal: 'Simply Naughty Emails' — This morning on CNN, Soledad O'Brien asked Tony Snow why "any communication between a 16-year-old and a congressman" didn't "raise red flags — major, massive red flags" with Speaker Dennis Hastert and others who have known about the communications for months.
Salon:
Foley fallout: Snow spins, Republicans scramble as more messages emerge — White House press secretary Tony Snow may be ready to dismiss Rep. Mark Foley's sexually explicit exchanges with underage House pages as nothing more than "naughty e-mails," but that's not the response we're hearing from most quarters.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Hastert Denies GOP Leaders Saw E-Mails — House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Monday that no Republican leaders saw lurid Internet exchanges from former Rep. Mark Foley to pages and that he would have demanded the Florida Republican's expulsion if he had known about them.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Laws Involving Contact With Minors Allow Prosecutors a Broad Range of Discretion
Laws Involving Contact With Minors Allow Prosecutors a Broad Range of Discretion
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
White House Spokesman: Foley's Emails To Teen Were "Simply Naughty" (UPDATED)
White House Spokesman: Foley's Emails To Teen Were "Simply Naughty" (UPDATED)
Brian E. Crowley / Palm Beach Post:
Foley's secret confounds friends: Ex-congressman, said to be an …
Foley's secret confounds friends: Ex-congressman, said to be an …
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
A Party Without Principles — After years of single-party government, the prospect of a Democratic majority in the House ought to feel refreshing. But even with Republicans collapsing in a pile of sexual sleaze, I just can't get excited. Most Democrats in Congress seem bereft of ideas or the courage to stand up for them.
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MSNBC:
Several incumbent Republicans trailing with five weeks until election — NEW YORK - Five weeks out from the midterm elections, MSNBC/McClatchy polls, conducted by Mason-Dixon in eight states, show Democrats are in striking distance of taking control of the Senate.
John Holusha / New York Times:
Students Killed by Gunman at Amish Schoolhouse — A lone gunman walked into a one-room schoolhouse in a largely Amish community in southeastern Pennsylvania today and shot as many as 10 girls, killing three immediately and then turned the gun on himself, dying at the scene, according to the state police.
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Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
6 Said Killed in Amish School Shooting — The county coroner says at least six people were killed in a shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse, where state police said earlier a gunman killed "a number" of people Monday in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County.
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
National Security — Rice Disputes Report CIA Warned Her About Attack — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday vehemently denied that she ever received a special CIA warning about an imminent terrorist attack on the United States, angrily rebutting new allegations about her culpability …
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Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News:
Bush's men snarled like wild animals
Bush's men snarled like wild animals
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Markos Moulitsas / Cato Unbound:
THE CASE FOR THE LIBERTARIAN DEMOCRAT — It was my fealty to the notion of personal liberty that made me a Republican when I came of age in the 1980s. It is my continued fealty to personal liberty that makes me a Democrat today. — The case against the libertarian Republican is so easy …
Drudge Report:
FOX MOVIE: 'MAY BUSH DRINK BLOOD OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD IN IRAQ' — All systems go for controversy, and the release of FOX fuss film 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' — a film which features a comic announcing to an outraged Virginia rodeo …
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Gordon Corera / BBC:
Musharraf nuclear claims attacked — The daughter of disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has criticised claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his autobiography. — In her first statement since her father's arrest in 2004, Dina Khan said she wanted to set the record straight.
Agence France Presse:
Bush to sign bill to prevent Internet gambling — US President George W. Bush this week is expected to sign a bill making it harder to place bets on the Internet, a practice which already is illegal in the United States. — Bush was expected to act quickly after Congress approved …
Brian Hicks / Post & Courier:
Shirley offers fix for bad parenting — Sterilize irresponsible moms, dads, he says — Charleston City Councilman Larry Shirley says the robbery of a downtown video store - allegedly by a band of kids, including one too young to be charged - is a sure sign society has gone awry, and it's time to start a "dialogue."
New York Times:
Wal-Mart to Add Wage Caps and Part-Timers — Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends. — Wal-Mart executives say they have embraced …
StrategyPage:
The Joke's on Osama — Al Qaeda in particular, and Islamic terrorist groups in general, are desperate for a major success. Islamic terrorists remember the 19 90s fondly as a time when they were kicking ass big time, or at least more effectively than they have since September 11, 2001.
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Muslim accosts injured Para in hospital — A paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan was threatened by a Muslim visitor to the British hospital where he is recovering. — Seriously wounded soldiers have complained that they are worried about their safety after being left on wards that are open …
Rasmussen Reports:
Tennessee Senate: Ford by 5 as Corker Falters — Ford (D) 48% Corker (R) 43% — Representative Harold Ford (D) has taken a 48% to 43% lead over Mayor Bob Corker (R) in Tennessee's increasingly competitive race for U.S. Senate (see crosstabs). — Ford has an edge with unaffiliated voters …
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