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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.
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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.
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago — A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office two years ago about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages. — Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told …
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Gay Patriot:
More Foley Fallout: The Gay GOP Witchhunt Begins — **UPDATE BELOW** — From liberal blogger David Corn (of The Nation and "outing Valerie Plame" fame) comes this disturbing development in the Foley saga. … Full citizen? No party has the power or right to tell me I am a full citizen.
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Fordham Resigns; Blames Democrats And Media — Why did Kirk Fordham resign today? — According to a senior Republican official in Washington, Fordham, in the spring of 2006, promised both Rep. John Shimkus, the chairman of the page board as well as a staff member in Speaker Dennis Hastert's office …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report: LaHood says it's 'obvious' lawmakers can't be trusted around teens
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:A Few Conservative Voices Still Speak for the Speaker
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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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Molly Selvin / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Ruling Could Eliminate Union Eligibility for Millions — A federal labor agency Tuesday broadened its definition of who is a supervisor, in a ruling that could keep millions of skilled employees from joining unions and accelerate a decades-long decline in union membership.
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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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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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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.
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 …
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.
William H. Pryor Jr / Wall Street Journal:
'Neither Force Nor Will, But Merely Judgment' — Recently some leaders of the bench and bar — including, on this page last week, retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — have decried what they describe as unprecedented threats to the independence of the judiciary. I respectfully disagree.
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