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Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal — Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report: — ABC News' Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper reports that Kirk Fordham has resigned. — The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham …
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"The List" (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill); Hubris on Bloggingheads.tv — There's a list going around. Those disseminating it call it "The List." It's a roster of top-level Republican congressional aides who are gay. — On CBS News on Tuesday, correspondent Gloria Borger reported …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Congressman questions what Hastert knew — WASHINGTON - A third figure in the page scandal threatening to the envelop House Speaker Dennis Hastert suggested Wednesday the speaker knew of an inappropriate e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) sent to a Louisiana boy before the matter became public.
ABCNEWS:
Hastert Was Warned About Foley Two Years Ago, GOP Aide Says — House Speaker's Spokesman Disputes Kirk Fordham's Claim That He Previously Alerted Hastert's Office About Foley's Behavior — Despite claims by senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham that he notified House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office …
CNN:
A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex-Rep. Mark Foley and Rep. Tom Reynolds — "I've learned within the last few hours that unnamed sources have purported that I intervened on behalf of Congressman Foley to prevent a page board investigation. This is categorically false.
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Washington Post:
Foley Lawyer Cites Alcohol, Childhood Abuse — Attorney Says Lawmaker Never Tried to Have Sex With a Minor — Disgraced former lawmaker Mark Foley's behavior was affected by alcoholism and childhood molestation but he "never attempted to have sexual contact with a minor," …
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Gay Patriot:
More Foley Fallout: The Gay GOP Witchhunt Begins — **UPDATE BELOW** Welcome readers from Instapundit, The Corner and Mary Katharine Ham! — From liberal blogger David Corn (of The Nation and "outing Valerie Plame" fame) comes this disturbing development in the Foley saga. … Full citizen?
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Niles Lathem / New York Post:
SICK NEW FOLEY E-MAILS — HAD VIRTUAL SEX WITH TEEN BETWEEN VOTES — Shocking new Internet messages surfaced yesterday, revealing that former Rep. Mark Foley engaged in online sex with a male high-school page - while taking a break from an important vote on the House floor.
Hotline On Call:
Fordham Resigns; Blames Democrats — Update — Why did Kirk Fordham resign today? — Accounts vary. According to a senior Republican official in Washington, Fordham, in the spring of 2006, promised Rep. John Shimkus, the chairman of the page board as well as a staff member …
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
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Gateway Pundit:Get Your Lawyers... Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open!
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Powell: Staying course in Iraq isn't enough — The United States and allies can not resolve the current sectarian violence in Iraq, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today during a lecture in Minneapolis. — "Only the Iraqi people can resolve this," Powell said.
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Jordan / Confined Space:
Bush Labor Board Takes Organizing Rights Away From Millions Of Nurses And Other Workers — This afternoon, George W. Bush's National Labor Relations Board, in a party-line 3-2 decision, took away bargaining rights for millions of American nurses and other workers.
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Dale Russakoff / Washington Post:
Some Workers Change Collars — NLRB Rules Some Nurses Are Supervisors, a Potential Blow to Unions — The National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that nurses with full-time responsibility for assigning fellow hospital workers to particular tasks are supervisors under federal labor law …
Michelle Malkin:
Banned on YouTube — Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called "First, They Came" inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots. It's a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years. We posted it at YouTube a while ago. No problems.
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Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:
YouTube Suspending Anti-Jihad Accounts — The YouTube Jihad continues. Michelle's video account has been suspended. We just received notice from YouTube that the account for Sout al Kuffar is in also in jeopardy of being suspended: — Just so there is no mistake …
Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Gunman Said He Molested Girls Long Ago — QUARRYVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Charles Carl Roberts IV started buying supplies for a siege six days before storming the one-room Amish school. He made a checklist of what to bring. He wrote out four suicide notes. — Carrying several guns …
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Michael Luo / New York Times:
8 G.I.'s Die in Baghdad, Most in a Day Since '05 — Eight United States soldiers were killed Monday in Baghdad, the United States military said, the most in the capital in a day since July 2005. — Four of the soldiers died in a roadside bomb attack; the four others were killed by small-arms fire in separate incidents.
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Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Dems Hold Leads in Races for Key House GOP Seats as Republicans grapple with sex scandal — Democrats hold leads in races for 11 out of 15 key Republican-held House seats, the first in a series of Reuters/Zogby tracking polls shows. This sets the stage for a full-tilt battle …
Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
R.W. Apple, a Times Journalist in Full, Dies at 71 — R. W. Apple Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well from more than 100 countries, died early this morning in Washington.
Austin Bay / StrategyPage:
Al-Qaida's Narrative of Doubt — Several declassified al-Qaida documents — one discovered after the June 2006 air strike that killed al-Qaida's Iraqi emir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — strongly suggest al-Qaida's leaders fear they are losing the War on Terror. — On Sept. 18, Iraqi National …
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Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
W. Va. Lawmaker Embarasssed by Photos — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A state senator said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week. — "My family has urged me not to withdraw from the election …
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