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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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"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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report: LaHood says it's 'obvious' lawmakers can't be trusted around teens
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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Associated Press:
Congressional Aide Resigns in Foley Scandal — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department ordered House officials to ''preserve all records'' related to disgraced Rep. Mark Foley's electronic correspondence with teenagers, intensifying an investigation into a scandal rocking Republicans five weeks before midterm elections.
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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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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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Steven Emerson / New York Post:
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 …
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Man Sues Secret Service Agent Over Arrest After Approaching Cheney and Denouncing War — A Colorado man who was arrested in June on harassment charges after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney to denounce the war in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday accusing a Secret Service agent of civil rights violations.
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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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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