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6:25 PM ET, October 4, 2006

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The Blotter:
Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal  —  Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:  —  ABC News' Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper reports that Kirk Fordham has resigned.  —  The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Congressman questions what Hastert knew  —  WASHINGTON - A third figure in the page scandal threatening to the envelop House Speaker Dennis Hastert suggested Wednesday the speaker knew of an inappropriate e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) sent to a Louisiana boy before the matter became public.
ABCNEWS:
Hastert Was Warned About Foley Two Years Ago, GOP Aide Says  —  House Speaker's Spokesman Disputes Kirk Fordham's Claim That He Previously Alerted Hastert's Office About Foley's Behavior  —  Despite claims by senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham that he notified House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog
Niles Lathem / New York Post:
SICK NEW FOLEY E-MAILS  —  HAD VIRTUAL SEX WITH TEEN BETWEEN VOTES  —  Shocking new Internet messages surfaced yesterday, revealing that former Rep. Mark Foley engaged in online sex with a male high-school page - while taking a break from an important vote on the House floor.
Gay Patriot:
More Foley Fallout: The Gay GOP Witchhunt Begins  —  **UPDATE BELOW** Welcome readers from Instapundit, The Corner and Mary Katharine Ham!  —  From liberal blogger David Corn (of The Nation and "outing Valerie Plame" fame) comes this disturbing development in the Foley saga. … Full citizen?
Hotline On Call:
Fordham Resigns; Blames Democrats — Update  —  Why did Kirk Fordham resign today?  —  Accounts vary.  According to a senior Republican official in Washington, Fordham, in the spring of 2006, promised Rep. John Shimkus, the chairman of the page board as well as a staff member …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
John Cochran / ABCNEWS:   Pols Debate Future of Hastert
Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Forced Out Staffer Issues Statement
Discussion: First Draft
Gateway Pundit:
Get Your Lawyers... Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open!
CNN:   A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex …
Michelle Malkin:
Banned on YouTube  —  Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called "First, They Came" inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots.  It's a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years.  We posted it at YouTube a while ago.  No problems.
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Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:
YouTube Suspending Anti-Jihad Accounts  —  The YouTube Jihad continues.  Michelle's video account has been suspended.  We just received notice from YouTube that the account for Sout al Kuffar is in also in jeopardy of being suspended:  —  Just so there is no mistake …
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Powell: Staying course in Iraq isn't enough  —  The United States and allies can not resolve the current sectarian violence in Iraq, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today during a lecture in Minneapolis.  —  "Only the Iraqi people can resolve this," Powell said.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Colin Powell Pins Bush, Lieberman on Iraq
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals  —  (CNSNews.com) - A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.  —  The Westboro Baptist Church — described as a hate group …
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Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Dems Hold Leads in Races for Key House GOP Seats as Republicans grapple with sex scandal  —  Democrats hold leads in races for 11 out of 15 key Republican-held House seats, the first in a series of Reuters/Zogby tracking polls shows.  This sets the stage for a full-tilt battle …
Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
R.W. Apple, a Times Journalist in Full, Dies at 71  —  R. W. Apple Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well from more than 100 countries, died early this morning in Washington.
Discussion: FishBowlDC, Gawker, CBS News and Lost Remote
Austin Bay / StrategyPage:
Al-Qaida's Narrative of Doubt  —  Several declassified al-Qaida documents — one discovered after the June 2006 air strike that killed al-Qaida's Iraqi emir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — strongly suggest al-Qaida's leaders fear they are losing the War on Terror.  —  On Sept. 18, Iraqi National …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Steven Emerson / New York Post:
THE JIHAD ON KING  —  CNN'S OUTRAGEOUS SMEAR STEVEN EMERSON  —  THE media is engaged in a jihad against Rep. Peter King - a jihad in defense of Islamist extremists.  —  King, a Long Island Republican, has warned his constituents that some leaders of the Islamic Center of Long Island have …
Dale Russakoff / Washington Post:
Some Workers Change Collars  —  NLRB Rules Some Nurses Are Supervisors, a Potential Blow to Unions  —  The National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that nurses with full-time responsibility for assigning fellow hospital workers to particular tasks are supervisors under federal labor law …
Robert B. Bluey / humanevents.com:
New York Democrat Billed Taxpayers for Phone Sex Call  —  Democrat congressional candidate Mike Arcuri, while serving as district attorney of Oneida County, N.Y., has billed taxpayers for several questionable expenses, including a call to a phone-sex hotline, according to records obtained by HumanEvents.com.
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Appeal on school's lesson in Muslim culture is rejected  —  The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by evangelical Christian students and their parents who said a Contra Costa County school district engaged in unconstitutional religious indoctrination when it taught students about Islam …
Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
W. Va. Lawmaker Embarasssed by Photos  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A state senator said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week.  —  "My family has urged me not to withdraw from the election …
 
 
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