Summary Of The Fine Print Read  —  I have spent a lot of my weekend reading the draft immigration reform bill as was requested by both Jon Kyl and Tony Snow, and not just of me, but of all critics.  Here are the relevant posts in order of their appearance:  —  Part 1  —  Part 2  —  Part 3

Bush's Summer Hires Targeted  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush's devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton.  We hear that over the long August vacation …

Top Republican predicts Gonzales may resign  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee predicted on Sunday Attorney General Alberto Gonzales might step down in the face of a substantial Senate "no-confidence" vote on his performance.

My friend, Jerry Falwell  —  How the pornographer found himself in the embrace of the reverend who sued him.  —  THE FIRST TIME the Rev. Jerry Falwell put his hands on me, I was stunned.  Not only had we been archenemies for 15 years, his beliefs and mine traveling in different solar systems …

Assad's volcano in Lebanon  —  Terrorist group Fatah al-Islam unleashed its fury on the Lebanese army today, killing at least 12 army soldiers and ISF members and wounding dozens of others, including civilians.  The Syrian-backed group— made up of Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese …

Second Life for Study Group  —  After an initially tepid reception from policymakers, the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group are getting a second look from the White House and Congress, as officials continue to scour for bipartisan solutions to salvage the American engagement in Iraq.

Tainted Chinese Imports Common  —  In Four Months, FDA Refused 298 Shipments  —  Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical.  —  Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics.  —  Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria.  —  Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.

Canadians don't care for Sicko  —  Moore's health-care film gets rough reception  —  Michael Moore is handing out fake bandages to promote his new film Sicko, an exposé of the failings of the U.S. health care system.  —  But he may feel like applying a couple to himself after the mauling …

So how did it become required classroom viewing?  —  Even climate change experts say many of the claims in Al Gore's film are wrong.  —  First it was his world history class.  Then he saw it in his economics class.  And his world issues class.  And his environment class.

2 F.U.s From Now  —  Just finished chatting with Ellen Ratner and Lawrence O'Donnell on Seder's show.  O'Donnell's under the impression that a year from now the Republican candidate for president will be against the war, or at least talking about getting out of it.

A Law Terrorism Outran  —  In 1978, the first cellular mobile phone system was still being tested, a personal computer's memory had just been expanded to 16 kilobytes and our greatest threat was the largest nation-state on Earth, the Soviet Union.  That same year, the framework governing …

Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics  —  NAJAF, Iraq — The movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has embarked on one of its most dramatic tactical shifts since the beginning of the war.  —  The 33-year-old populist is reaching out to a broad array of Sunni leaders, from politicians to insurgents …

Poll: American satisfaction at new low  —  WASHINGTON - It's gloomy out there.  Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people.  —  Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction …

Bombs Imperil U.S. Troops Searching for Captured Comrades  —  The thousands of American soldiers searching for their three comrades who were captured a week ago have been dogged by a deadly threat: bombs buried far from roads that strike them as they fan out to cover the area's rural terrain.