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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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Hastert Was Warned About Foley Two Years Ago, GOP Aide Says — House Speaker's Spokesman Disputes Kirk Fordham's Claim That He Previously Alerted Hastert's Office About Foley's Behavior — Despite claims by senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham that he notified House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office …
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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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THE BOGUS BLOG BEHIND FOLEY'S FALL — ABCNews.com brought Mark Foley's boy-chasing to national attention, but it wasn't the first website to flog the story. That dubious honor belongs to StopSexPredators, a pseudo-vigilante blog filled with plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts …
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Gay Patriot:
More Foley Fallout: The Gay GOP Witchhunt Begins — **UPDATE BELOW** Welcome readers from Instapundit, The Corner and Mary Katharine Ham! — From liberal blogger David Corn (of The Nation and "outing Valerie Plame" fame) comes this disturbing development in the Foley saga. … Full citizen?
CNN:
A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex-Rep. Mark Foley and Rep. Tom Reynolds — "I've learned within the last few hours that unnamed sources have purported that I intervened on behalf of Congressman Foley to prevent a page board investigation. This is categorically false.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Longtime Republican was source of e-mails — The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley's (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide. — That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote …
Wild Bill / Passionate America:
Meet Jordan Edmund One Mark Foley Instant Messanger — Jordan Edmund is 21 years old — Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! — Now that that is out of the way I will reveal how I (and a few others) discovered Jordan Edmund was one of the former house pages …
Drudge Report:
ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD — A posting on ABCNEWS.COM of an unredacted instant message sessions between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page has exposed the identity of the now 21 year-old accuser.
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
The Open And Closeted Lives of a Gay Congressman — Mark Foley had secrets. — First, there was whispering about the Republican congressman's sexual orientation, beginning in 1994 during his first House campaign. He was almost outed two years later when he voted against gay marriage.
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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.
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
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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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Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:
YouTube Suspending Anti-Jihad Accounts — The YouTube Jihad continues. Michelle's video account has been suspended. We just received notice from YouTube that the account for Sout al Kuffar is in also in jeopardy of being suspended: — Just so there is no mistake …
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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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Dale Russakoff / Washington Post:
Some Workers Change Collars — NLRB Rules Some Nurses Are Supervisors, a Potential Blow to Unions — The National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that nurses with full-time responsibility for assigning fellow hospital workers to particular tasks are supervisors under federal labor law …
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Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
Court temporarily OKs domestic spying — CINCINNATI - The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. — The president has said the program is needed …
Associated Press:
Conservative leader urges Christians to vote their values — ST. PAUL - A prominent conservative Christian leader urged his supporters to vote according to their values on Election Day. — James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, told an enthusiastic crowd of about 2,500 …
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