Gingrich on page scandal: Democrats have done far worse  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley.

At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder  —  Students stormed the stage at Columbia University's Roone auditorium yesterday, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the border between America and Mexico.

Voters Say Scandals Will Affect Votes  —  Voters Polled by AP Say Scandals Will Affect Whom They Choose in Midterm Elections  —  Congressional Republicans, already struggling against negative public perceptions of Congress, now face voters who say new scandals will significantly influence their vote in November.

HASTERT MUST RESIGN  —  What happened in the Amish countryside this week was not just "sick" or "monstrous" or even "evil."  It was demonic.  —  A good family man gets up in the morning, drops his three kids off at the school bus stop, then drives to a school where he can find young girls to tie up and slaughter.

Pajamas Media, Instapundit Facilitate Outing Of Foley Victim  —  An obscure right-wing blogger, Wild Bill, has outed one of Mark Foley's victims, a former Congressional page.  It is a despicable act.  Wild Bill however, gets almost no traffic, so the damage done to the victim's life could have been minimal.

Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union  —  Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.  —  As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers …

Reuters/Zogby Poll: Dems Lead GOP Incumbents in Three Key Senate Races; Control of Chamber Still Uncertain  —  Races for two other GOP seats in Ohio, Tennessee are tied  —  Democrats in U.S. Senate races across the country are leading their Republican opponents and appear poised to gain ground …

Waterboarding Historically Controversial  —  In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime; in 1968, It Reportedly Caused an Investigation  —  Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques — "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning.

Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters  —  This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the assistance of the women in Iran who have been sentenced to death by stoning.  —  1. Read the background and an explanation of the punishment for stoning to death in Islamic Law.

British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran  —  Troops in Southeast Iraq Test U.S. Claim of Aid for Militias  —  ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER — Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled …

Patterico's Exclusive Interview with a Man Who Has Spoken to the Terrorists at Guantánamo (Part Four: The Treatment of the Detainees)  —  [This is Part Four of my exclusive interview with "Stashiu," an Army nurse who worked at Guantánamo, and who spoke on a regular basis …

Congressman apologizes for affair in TV ad  —  Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa. also denies abusing mistress  —  SCRANTON, Pa. - Rep. Don Sherwood, a Republican fighting for re-election in northeastern Pennsylvania, says in a TV ad that he is "truly sorry" for cheating on his wife but denies ever abusing the woman he had the affair with.

A Complex and Hidden Life Behind Foley's Public Persona  —  Mark Foley, until last week a fixture on this town's lofty social circuit, once recounted a party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's fabled estate.  —  "Miss Germany was my date," he told a writer at Washingtonian magazine for an article about "How to Date a Congressman."

The Illinois Democrat may be more serious about '08 than you think  —  Ask Washington insiders about Sen. Barack Obama's presidential hopes, and you'll get a pat response: great idea, a cycle or three from now—or maybe this time as veep.  But they need to get out more.

Ned And Ted Counter Joe  —  Everything, it seems, can be linked to partisan politics these days if you're U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.  —  Wednesday, it was the struggling middle class, the Foley scandal, the failure of the Democratic Party to get a presidential candidate elected for eight years …

5 Nastiest Campaign Ads So Far  —  Will Republicans or Democrats control the Senate?  It all hangs on five tight Senate races — which means negative ads, and lots of them.  Mis-leading, meaningful, desperate, or despicable — they're on your TV, messing with your mind.

Trampling the Constitution  —  Voltaire once remarked to an adversary, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it."  Those words could never pass the lips of the city officials of my town of Franklin, Tenn. They seem to believe in crushing our right to say anything they don't approve of.