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.

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.

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.

Wellstone Funeral Redux? … That quote comes from a new campaign ad by Patty Wetterling, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 6th district.  You have to admit, it's pretty impressive - in two introductory sentences, Wetterling ably and completely misrepresents two of the key facts of the Foley scandal.

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.

Passengers leaving hijacked jet  —  BRINDISI, Italy (CNN) — Passengers from a hijacked Turkish plane carrying 113 people are leaving the aircraft after the two unarmed Turks who hijacked the plane, protesting the pope's upcoming visit to Turkey, agreed to release them.

Green Party hopeful is out; win for Casey  —  By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  —  The prospect of a three-way U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania appeared all but over yesterday as the state Supreme Court rebuffed Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli's bid to get on the November ballot.

OMB Welcomes Help From Anti-Pork Bloggers  —  Call it the Office of Management and Blog-it.  —  The Office of Management and Budget is turning to bloggers for help in pushing the OMB's government reform plans after last week's success of its pet project, the Federal Funding Accountability …

Prophet not perfect, says Islamic scholar … A LEADING adviser on Islam, Ameer Ali, has attacked Muslims who "blindly" follow their faith and fail to question the veracity of the Koran, saying that even Mohammed had "flaws".  —  The chairman of John Howard's Muslim advisory board yesterday warned …

INCREDIBLE!  FOX 'NEWS' LABELS FOLEY AS DEM DURING O'REILLY FACTOR!  —  Three Different Video Cutaways, 15 Seconds or More Each, Credit Disgraced REPUBLICAN Congressman as Being a Florida DEMOCRAT!  —  UPDATED: NOW WITH VIDEO!  LATER UPDATE: 'Erroneous' Caption Scrubbed from Late-night O'Reilly Rebroadcasts Without Explanation!

Border Security, Job Market Leave Farms Short of Workers  —  Growers Frustrated by Delay in Agriculture Legislation  —  CLOVIS, Calif. — Bins of Granny Smith apples towered over two conveyor belts at P-R Farms' packing plant.  But only one belt moved.  P-R Farms, like farms up and down California …

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 …

Joe Lieberman on whether he will caucus with the Dems: … Could be improved by dropping the "intend"—he's maintaining some Saddam-like strategic ambiguity!  But this promise would still be fairly difficult to weasel out of, I should think. ...  **—The text, from a NYT blog, says "world," which I assume is a typo.

DIVERSITY vs. ECONOMIC JUSTICE....Walter Benn Michaels thinks that liberals have become too obsessed with "diversity."  Why?  Because, he says, "celebrating diversity" is easy and makes us feel good — we're fighting racism! and sexism! and homophobia! — while doing what we should be doing is hard and makes us feel tired.

It Takes a Sex Scandal  —  The real world cares about the Foley e-mails.  If Democrats can't win now, they're doomed to become modern-day Whigs.  —  An Iraq war that has cost us nearly half trillion dollars—and the good will of the world—might not have done it.

THE JIHAD ON KING  —  CNN'S OUTRAGEOUS SMEAR STEVEN EMERSON  —  THE media is engaged in a jihad against Rep. Peter King - a jihad in defense of Islamist extremists.  —  King, a Long Island Republican, has warned his constituents that some leaders of the Islamic Center of Long Island have …