Dems Outmaneuvered on Impeachment (Updated)  —  This afternoon Dennis Kucinich took to the House floor to press his case for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney.  A little while later, and as expected, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer moved to table the resolution without a debate.

Conservative Authors Sue Publisher  —  Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.

House Votes to Override Bush's Veto of Water Projects  —  The House voted 361 to 54 this evening to override President Bush's veto of a $23 billion water projects bill, apparently sealing Mr. Bush's first defeat in a veto showdown with Congress.  —  The House tally was well over the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.

Poll: 77% oppose illegals' licenses  —  Voters oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds.  —  As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are taking a hard line …

Kerry Bringing It On!  —  I am not making this up - a mere three years too late, Kerry has pieced together his autobiography: … Cool - Kerry has finally wrestled his personal history to the canvas.  Did Douglas Brinkley, Tour of Duty author, finally allow Kerry access to Kerry's "War Notes"?

The Gs and the Ts  —  A new poll shows 70 percent of gay Americans are fine with excluding the transgendered from proposed federal employment protections for now.  Since Bush will veto any pro-gay bills, this is more theoretically interesting than politically salient.

CIA Rendition: The Smoking Gun Cable  —  Sometimes the music was American rap, sometimes Arab folk songs.  In the CIA prison in Afghanistan, it came blaring through the speakers 24 hours a day.  Prisoners held alone inside barbed-wire cages could only speak to each other and exchange …

Poll finds Americans split on taking military action in Iran  —  Potential nuclear threat concerns respondents  —  WASHINGTON — Americans are concerned about Iran's nuclear program but split on whether military action should be undertaken if diplomacy and economic sanctions fail to stop it, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.

THE GOLDEN WINGNUT AWARD....The Wingnut Contest is over and the votes have now been tallied by the prestigious accounting firm of Pollhost.com.  So without further ado, the five winners of the Golden Wingnut Award are:  — John Hinderaker: "It must be very strange to be President Bush.

Decoy Election Websites Pretend to Root for Your Candidate  —  It took less than a month for Jason Francis to realize that he was not among allies at the so-called Fred Thompson Forum, a website purporting to support the candidacy of the Republican presidential contender.

The Demons of David Horowitz  —  During the week of October 21, far-right wing operative and former communist agitator David Horowitz deployed his allies to college campuses America to spout crude anti-Muslim invective.  He called this event "Islamofascism Awareness Week."

ACLU Finds Secret Torture Memos; Leftards Waterboard One Another  —  Update: Kender notices in this video at the 46 second mark...that when the towel is removed it keeps a shape.  If you pour a gallon of water on a towel, it does not keep shape like this.  There is a shield of some type under …

Kathleen Willey suspects Clintons murdered husband  —  New book details evidence of 'smear' campaign orchestrated by Hillary  —  In a new book alleging a campaign of slander and intimidation orchestrated chiefly by Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Willey points a finger of suspicion at the former …