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Poll shows Reynolds lags behind Davis after connection to Foley scandal — BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) _ Rep. Thomas Reynolds is trailing behind his Democratic opponent after he was connected to the scandal involving former GOP Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, according to a poll released Saturday.
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Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Reynolds is badly trailing Davis, poll shows — Incumbent Republican's connection to Foley sex scandal has given his opponent a lead of 48% to 33% — Democrat Jack Davis has opened a significant lead over Republican incumbent Thomas M. Reynolds in a congressional contest fueled …
Karen Tumulty / Time:
End of the Revolution — Sex, lies and power games are just the latest symptoms of a Republican party adrift from its ideals — Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich …
Walter F. Roche Jr. / Los Angeles Times:
Ex-Page Tells of Foley Liaison — The young man says the then-congressman eyed males in the program. He says he was 21 when he and the Florida Republican had sex. — A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails …
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Evan Thomas / Newsweek:
A Secret Life — Mark Foley's explicit e-mails could bring down the GOP. His story, and the fallout. — In uptight, colorless Washington, Congressman Mark Foley, 52, Republican of Florida, was a bon vivant. He loved parties and making jokes; he did a wicked Bill Clinton imitation; he loved to talk about sex.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Page scandal makes America look silly — I'm a foreigner, so I might not be up to speed on how things work around here. But, insofar as I understand it after the last week, American politics is divided between: teenage pages; guys who are hot for teenage pages; guys who are enablers for guys …
Associated Press:
AP: Allen didn't disclose stock options — RICHMOND, Va. - For the past five years, Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record), has failed to tell Congress about stock options he got for his work as a director of a high-tech company. The Virginia Republican also asked the Army to help another business that gave him similar options.
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C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Journalist Critical of Chechen War Is Shot Dead — Anna Politkovskaya, the veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday in her apartment building, shot in the head with a pistol, the authorities and her colleagues said.
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Byron York / Washington Post:
Fear and Loathing In the GOP — Even in the grand tradition of scapegoating in American politics, J. Dennis Hastert's current plight stands out. The former high school coach-turned-accidental speaker of the House spent last week as the unlikeliest of fall guys for a sex scandal that involved …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:Hastert scratches New York fundraiser
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Carol Rosenberg / Seattle Times:
Guantánamo defense lawyer forced out of Navy — NEWARK, N.J. — The Navy lawyer who took the Guantánamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court — and won — has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military. — Lt. Cmdr.
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
US secretly woos Khatami — The Bush administration made secret overtures to former Iran president Mohammed Khatami during his visit to the United States last month in an attempt to establish a back channel via the ex-leader. — American officials made the approach as part of a strategy …
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Michelle Malkin:
DNC changes vets' page — An update to my blog post yesterday about the DNC's tribute to American troops that featured a Canadian soldier. The foreign soldier has been replaced (hat tip - Mark): — At least it's the right flag. — (Good thing the webmaster made sure this one didn't slip through:)
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
U.S. Casualties in Iraq Rise Sharply — Growing American Role in Staving Off Civil War Leads to Most Wounded Since 2004 — The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest monthly level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check …
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Michael Kinsley / Los Angeles Times:
Forget the L.A. Times; How About a National Tribune? — Former opinion editor feels ex-Publisher Jeff Johnson's pain, gives his recipe for 21st century success. — OCCASIONALLY, during the year and change that I ran the opinion pages of this newspaper (ending a little over a year ago) …
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Iraq's Dark Day of Reckoning — If you were a Shiite, having suffered through a brutal insurgency and an incompetent government, would you give up your weapons? — When Iraq's current government was formed last April, after four months of bitter disputes, wrangling and paralysis …
TBlumer / Bizzyblog:
The Federal Budget Deficit: Bush Benchmark Achieved, Ignored — ..... and the best may be yet to come. — A huge point has been virtually if not totally ignored since the announcement on Friday that the reported federal deficit for the fiscal year that ended a week ago was $250 billion …
Sadeq Saba / BBC:
Iran arrests controversial cleric — An Iranian cleric, Mohammed Kazemeini Boroujerdi, has been arrested amid clashes between his supporters and police outside his house in Teheran. — Police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of his followers, who had formed a cordon around his residence.
Frank Luntz / Time:
Foley: The Final Straw — In 1994, pollster Frank Luntz helped congressional Republicans sweep into power. Now he says the G.O.P. has become everything it once swore to destroy — Had enough? — America has. Anyone who reads the polls accurately and honestly will acknowledge …
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