Study refutes Limbaugh's take on media: "Love him or hate him, he was wrong"

Philly.com - "The Region's Home Page": SOP for the GOP "Serious questions arise when the Democratic mayor of the fifth-largest city in the country discovers, just weeks before a close election, that senior Bush administration officials approved a plan to bug his office"

US 'empire' and its limits | csmonitor.com: "Since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, the US has deposed five regimes - roughly one every three years, notes Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. 'We are in the business of regime change,' he says."

Ex-EPA Officials Question Clean Air Suits (washingtonpost.com): "The utility industry, which contributed $4.8 million to the Bush campaign and other GOP committees in 2000, argued that existing rules have discouraged investment and expansion of energy sources. Under the revised rules announced in August, older plants will not have to install pollution controls"

Bush taps DeWitt for inner circle: "'We're not sure qualities for appointment to the board include being a rich guy, financial supporter and close friend of the president,' said Eric Miller, senior defense investigator for the Project on Government Oversight.
'You need independence on this board. How can you be independent if you're one of the president's largest contributors?' he said."

U.S. May Expand Access To Endangered Species (washingtonpost.com): The best government money can buy. "Safari Club International gave $274,000 to candidates during the 2000 election cycle, 86 percent of it to Republicans. It also spent $5,445 printing bumper stickers for the Bush presidential campaign. Monson has made a variety of contributions himself, including $1,000 to the Bush for President campaign. "

KR Washington Bureau | 10/10/2003 | Leak of CIA officers leaves trail of damage: "the leak by Bush administration officials of that CIA officer's identity may have damaged U.S. national security to a much greater extent than generally realized"

Forbes.com: Princeton student sued over paper on CD copying Use the shift key, go to jail.

Yahoo! News - Israel Demands Withdrawal of Food Report: "Palestinians had been 'reduced to begging' by Israeli security measures.
'There is a permanent, grave violation of the right to food by the occupying forces. There is a catastrophic humanitarian situation, and really it is absurd,' he said at the time.
'Markets don't function, peasants don't go to the field, and they are humiliated in a very, very shocking way.' "

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Robert Novak: [writing in 2001] "Disclosing confidential sources is unthinkable for a reporter seeking to probe behind the scenes in official Washington, but the circumstances here are obviously extraordinary....[W]hy break a reporter's responsibility to keep his sources secret? I wrestled with this question for months and finally decided that my experience with Hanssen contributes to the portrait of this most contradictory of all spies. Furthermore, to be honest to my readers, I must reveal it. "

The New York Times: Politics: "Thirteen months before the 2004 election, a solid majority of Americans say the country is seriously on the wrong track." And the survey polled 41% more Bush voters than Gore voters. [Click on "Poll Watch" link for a .pdf of results]

Yahoo! News - Bill For Iraq Reconstruction Goes Up, Up, Up: "In 2004 alone, Iraq will need some $9.3 billion in areas such as water and education, according to a World Bank statement released Friday. The U.S. assessment says the biggest expense, $8 billion, would go for refurbishing Iraqi oil facilities, while the second biggest expense, $5 billion, would be for police and security. "

Philly.com - "The Region's Home Page": "The Bush administration has also been a factor in persistent confusion." Resarch shows most misinformed watch Fox news.

Charlotte.com - Your Guide to Charlotte Ballenger's wife also agreed with him that the GOP-controlled House's 1995 decision to restrict the money spent on members of Congress and their spouses had helped turn Washington into "a lousy place to live. ...It used to be you'd get invitations to the symphony or the theater ... I don't think you should get $1,000 trips to the Bahamas (from lobbyists). But I don't see where a dinner or a theater ticket is that bad. We had friends who are lobbyists."

Yahoo! News - US congressman blames marriage collapse on Muslim neighbors: "Congressman Ballenger's bizarre comments demonstrate the sheer lunacy of his political and religious views,' said Arsalan Iftikhar, CAIR's director of legal affairs. 'Ballenger's statements are a perfect example of Islamophobic hysteria at the highest levels of government"