Unprepared for Peace in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)

Abandoned weaponry litters Iraq / U.S. faulted for not securing Hussein-era munitions: "the United States, in its haste to dismantle Saddam Hussein's rule, has left thousands of pounds of munitions unguarded and accessible to looters and criminals."

Yahoo! News - White House threw up wall to block energy information: report: "The result is not just bad decisions on energy, but a rejection of the principles of open government and public accountability."

GAO Investigators: Cheney Stifled Energy Probe (washingtonpost.com): "This report is a sad chronicle of the efforts of the office of the vice president to hide its activities from the American people"

Report says limited cooperation thwarts a full review of Cheney's energy task force: "Investigators said none of the main federal agencies involved in the task force gave a complete accounting"

nbc4columbus.com - News - Voinovich Won't Return Donations From Jailed Executive

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Gary Younge: God help America

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | PM deeply involved in outing of Kelly: "The documents reveal an obsessiveness at the heart of government "

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: The National Media Watch Group Journalists Find "Calm" When Only Palestinians Die

Roy's Rock "the Constitution says that government will not establish a state religion, and by sanctioning Protestant Christianity as Alabama’s religion, he’s left everybody else out of the loop"

Yahoo! News - Experts Doubt U.S. Claim on Iraqi Drones: "Despite the Bush administration's public assertions, these unmanned aerial vehicles weren't designed to dispense biological or chemical weapons. "

Low-income students failing - lancastereaglegazette.com: "There's a pretty direct correlation between school performance and family income. Certainly, many people don't want to hear that, and certainly our politicians don't want to hear that."

Sunday Herald: "the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad were bombed is because the UN has been taken over by the US and turned into a 'dark joke' and a 'malignant force'"

When is Enough Enough? US Voters turn against Bush

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Insults to Intelligence

Yahoo! News - Ala. Judge Relents on Monument: "'This case has been about politics all along,' she said. 'Now he gets to point the finger at the other eight justices.'"

Yahoo! News - EPA Watchdog Rips White House on NYC Air: "At the White House's direction, the Environmental Protection Agency gave New Yorkers misleading assurances that there was no health risk from the debris-laden air after the World Trade Center collapse"

Yahoo! News - Clean Air Rules To Be Relaxed

The Observer | Comment | Lessons in how to lie about Iraq "Russian propaganda was so obvious that most Russians were able to ignore it. They took it for granted that the government operated in its own interests and any message coming from it was probably slanted - and they discounted it.

In the West the calculated manipulation of public opinion to serve political and ideological interests is much more covert and therefore much more effective. Its greatest triumph is that we generally don't notice it - or laugh at the notion it even exists."

Ohio News Network - All Ohio. All The Time.: The Ohio Court of Claims will hear the case filed by Sequoia Voting Systems, which says it was shut out of the negotiations with Blackwell's office without being allowed a chance to make a best and final offer.