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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.
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New York Times:
Hastert Fights to Save His Job in Page Scandal — Backed by measured words of support from President Bush, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert opened an intense drive on Tuesday to hold on to his post, but behind the scenes senior Republicans weighed whether he could survive the scandal surrounding former Representative Mark Foley.
Washington Post:
Some Say They Felt Uneasy About Representative's Attention — In 1995, male House pages were warned to steer clear of a freshman Republican from Florida, who was already learning the names of the teenagers, dashing off notes, letters and e-mails to them, and asking them to join him for ice cream, according to a former page.
Brian Skoloff / Associated Press:
Foley acquaintances question alcoholism
Foley acquaintances question alcoholism
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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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Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Violence in Iraq leaves at least 52 dead — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber unleashed a blast in a Baghdad fish market Tuesday and two Shiite families were found slain north of the capital as violence across Iraq claimed at least 52 lives. — The U.S. military, meanwhile …
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 …
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Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press: Gingrich says Hastert shouldn't resign over handling of page scandal
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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Westboro Cult Plans To Desecrate Amish Girls' Memorial
Westboro Cult Plans To Desecrate Amish Girls' Memorial
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Brad / The BRAD BLOG:
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!
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CNN:
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.
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Sonya Geis / Washington Post:
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 …
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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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Sex scandal, Iraq book take toll on Bush, GOP — NBC/WSJ poll: Bush back in 30s; Dems favored for control of Congress — WASHINGTON - — After what they have seen and heard over the past few weeks — events including the news of a Republican congressman's improper correspondence …
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
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.
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
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 …
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
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.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
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.
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 …
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
In Bill's Fine Print, Millions to Celebrate Victory — As the Bush administration urges Americans to stay the course in Iraq, Republicans in Congress have put down a quiet marker in the apparent hope that V-I Day might be only months away. — Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill …
David Charter / Times of London:
Mothers lose right to equal salaries — Women who take time out of the workplace for maternity leave have no automatic right to the same pay as male colleagues who are doing the same job but have not had time off, Europe's top court ruled yesterday. — The landmark ruling …
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