- “Not Gay” senator Craig now may be also “not resigning”
- German terror bomb plot foiled.
- Live nukes — set to be decomissioned — mistakenly loaded on a bomber and flown over U.S. heartland last week.
- Nuns — yes nuns — vote to impeach our divinely inspired leader.
- The massive hiring of Hillary Inc. makes her campaign now bigger than 96 percent of U.S. businesses.
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- Pentagon’s Iran war plans leaked: ‘A three-day blitz’ designed to knock out not only nuclear sites, but the entire Iranian military.
- Iran flaunts nuclear centrifuge progress.
- North Korea agrees to dismantle its nuclear program; Sanctions lifted, country dropped from terror-supporting list, removal from Axis of Evil next?
- Brits withdraw from Basra.
- Bush plots wealthy, do-nothing post-Presidency.
- “Not gay” Sen. Larry Craig resigns.
- Virginia Republican John Warner also calls it quits, opening up a Senate seat for former Gov. Mark Warner…and a Blue Virginia?
- John Edwards calls for mandatory preventative care: “You can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years.”
All the News That Fits. . . Iran and Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Bush’s $500 Mil Dream Legacy Library and More
11/28/06, 10:17 am EST
- Tens of thousands of Muslims protest, 15,000 police on guard for Pope Benedict XVI’s first trip to a predominately Muslim nation, Turkey.
- Marine Corps intelligence report: U.S. military can no longer defeat the disastrous insurgency claiming western Iraq, or win its residents hearts, minds back from the increasingly popular al-Qaeda. Sunni minority sees U.S. military as incapable of offering protection against “pogroms.”
- American Intelligence officials: Thousands of Shiite militamen being trained by Iranian-backed Hezbollah, unleashed into Iraq. Assertion implicates Iran in a wider diplomatic crisis enveloping the region.
- With his legacy unraveling in the Middle East, President Bush cements his lame duck status with a fundraising call for a colossal half-billion dollar think tank/presidential library in Dallas. Figure is twice what he raised for his reelection bid.
All the News That Fits. . . GW’s Diplomatic World Tour, Italy Quits Iraq and More
11/27/06, 11:15 am EST
- With Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq teetering towards civil war, Bush bolts from Asian tour to NATO summit to Iraq conference in Jordan in a search for international allies.
- By December 2007, the number of UK troops in Iraq is set to be “significantly lower by a matter of thousands,” says British Defense Secretary. Last Italian troops expected home by this Sunday.
- Supreme Court to decide whether EPA has an obligation to regulate carbon dioxide levels as a matter of public health. Affirmative ruling would force Bush administration to confront global warming.
- Leading democrat rep vows a slew of oversight investigations targeting, among others, Halliburton and Dick Cheney’s energy task force (of Enron fame).
- New York Times: Democrat’s victory represents no blow to the earmark, the defining practice of porkbarrel politics.
- NASA rocket scientists: Mars probe probably lost in space.
All The News That Fits. . . Pentagon’s Withdrawal Plans, Kissinger Spots Another Quagmire and More
11/20/06, 11:00 am EST
- Vice-President Dick Cheney: Democratic congressional victories will not thwart plans to invade, bomb or destabilize Iran.
- Prime Minister Tony Blair: War in Afghanistan is a “generation-long struggle.”
- Pentagon report favors sharp troop increases, followed by five to 10 year withdrawal on the sly. “The Decider” remainsnon-committal
- Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel calls on Republican leaders to reinstate the draft: “I don’t see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft.”
- Apocalypse Now Redux: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Nixonian policy maker who negotiated an end to Vietnam, rules out the possibility of a military victory in Iraq.
- Advocacy organization Human Rights Watch finds “serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects,” in Saddam Hussein trial, dismissing the verdict as unsound.
All the News That Fits. . . Bush’s Trip to Vietnam, Vatican Compares U.S. Fence to Berlin Wall and More
11/17/06, 11:45 am EST
- Bush tours Hanoi, draws lessons from the Vietnam War: “We’ll succeed unless we quit.”
- Vatican Cardinal condemns U.S.-Mexico fence plan as “inhumane,” compares the project to the old German divide.
- Pentagon “don’t ask don’t tell” policy re-catagorizes homosexuality from a mental disorder to a “circumstance,” like bed wetting, or motion sickness.
- Americans living off $5.15/hour may see the nearly decade-old minimum wage raised to $7.25/hour in the first few days of the Democratic congress.
- Democratic Senators Dodd, Leahy, Levin and other party leaders ignite partisan battle to overhaul freshly-legislated military tribunal laws.
All The News That Fits. . . Bush’s “Last, Big Push” for Iraq and More
11/16/06, 12:36 pm EST
- Amid talk of withdrawal, Bush calls for “a last, big push.” He wants 20,000 more troops deployed to Iraq, sharp increases in funding to Iraqi security forces, and a regional summit to involve Syria, possibly Iran. If he fails, officials expect withdrawals by Fall 2007.
- Shifting party alliances and looming 2008 politics trump substantive debate at first post-election hearing on Iraq. To their credit, Democrats arrive early, stay late, while Republicans are largely absent.
- Fun as it must have been to make, Venezuelan Prez Hugo Chavez’s “Bush is the Devil” speech is still costing the Leftist leader regional and international influence, says an official at the U.S. State Department.
- Clear Channel Communications, inc. — the advertising and media giant whose empire of billboards and Top 40 radio stations blankets the nation — sells for $18.7 billion.
- Richard Causey, last of the big-name Enron execs to be sentenced, receives five-a-half years imprisonment.
All the News That Fits. . . Sen. Boxer Defends the Environment, KFC Ad Campaign Defiles It and More
11/15/06, 1:00 pm EST
- South African legislature — well acquainted with issues of discrimination — approves same sex marriage. Across most of the continent, homosexuality itself is rarely legal.
- Fox News Competitor? Al-Jazeera English — watchdog group Accuracy in the Media calls it “terror television” — set to broadcast internationally into over 80 million homes. Virtually no US satellite or cable TV companies will offer it — until its profitable.
- Across Congress, no issue is set to experience a Democrat-led overhaul of policy like Global Warming — the current head of the Environment and Public Works Committee calls it a “hoax.” When Californian Sen. Barbara Boxer replaces him, her top priority will be “a very long process of extensive hearings” on the issue.
- The search for extra-terrestrial biscuit lovers: Colonel Sanders’ 87,500 square foot likeness in the Nevada desert makes KFC the first branding image visible from outer space.
- O.J. Simpson to release two-part television interview sub-titled “If I Did It, Here’s How it Happened.”
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