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Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal — Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report: — Jake Tapper contributed to this report. — The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling …
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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.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Few Conservative Voices Still Speak for the Speaker — House Speaker Dennis Hastert woke up yesterday morning to find his Republican conservatives in mid-mutiny. — "Resign, Mr. Speaker," advised the Washington Times at the top of its editorial page. In the Mark Foley scandal …
David Corn:
"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 …
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Mark Foley and the unmasked Republican Party — Denny Hastert is smack in the middle of one of the tawdriest and ugliest sex scandals in American political history. As a result, he has been the target of aggressive criticism, even from a few members of his own party, and, by all accounts, is desperately battling to keep his job.
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New York Times:
Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda? — The more the House Republican leaders try to defend themselves on the Congressional page scandal, the worse it looks. They still do not seem to appreciate how serious this is, especially for a party that poses as the arbiter of morality.
Tony Blankley / Washington Times:
Republican integrity — Yesterday, the lead editorial of The Washington Times called for House Speaker Denny Hastert to resign his speakership immediately. I am the editor of the editorial page. Several loyal Republicans and conservatives around the country strongly disagreed with that judgment …
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:Dumping Denny Won't Do It — It is a mark of the sheer panic sweeping …
Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press: Gingrich says Hastert shouldn't resign over handling of page scandal
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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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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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 …
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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Molly Selvin / Los Angeles Times:U.S. Ruling Could Eliminate Union Eligibility for Millions
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Richard Kerbaj / The Australian:
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 …
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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.
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Militia-Friendly Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage — Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, the arch-conservative Idaho Republican whose deep suspicion of the government and federal law enforcement carried her to three terms in Congress, died Oct. 2 in a car crash near Tonopah, Nev.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Two New Polls Show Bush in the 30s — So much for the Bush boomlet. — Following an all-out offensive by the White House during August, President Bush's approval rating appeared to move up from the mid-30s up to the low-40s — still bad, but not nearly as terrible as before.
Gateway Pundit:
Get Your Lawyers... Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open! — ** THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO BUST OPEN! What we know now... Radical Gay Rights Activists held on to information about Representative Foley for months and years. These "Rights Activists" knew that representative Foley had relationships with …
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