Rueters is reporting that two women have sued the Marine Corps, the Navy, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter and two Marine Corps recruiters, alleging that the recruiters forced them to have sex after they expressed interest in joining the Corps.

Two stories in today's news pretty well demonstrate the state of Republican allegence to Mr. Bush.  In one, it's obvious that Bush, although he's lost the ability to keep the Republicans in Washington in total lock step, still has enough clout to make them whimper "okay, Georgie" as to domestic spying.  But in the other, it appears that Bush's hold on unelected Republican conservatives may be tenuous, indeed, from the reported roasting he took at a forum sponsored by the Cato Institute.

At my new state's series of Town Meetings last night, 5 Vermont towns approved a nonbinding resolution calling on our sole member of the U.S. House, Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against President Bush for misleading the nation into the Iraq war and engaging in illegal domestic spying.

Writing in the Danville, KY Advocate-Messenger, Brian Cooney, a Professor at Centre College, today called President Bush's war on terror "mostly rhetoric - an excuse for invading Iraq and an election slogan to distract us from the damage he is causing at home and abroad."

A while ago, the Lobotomist posted a story about Duke Cunningham's use of a chart (a "rate card") to determine how much of a bribe he was due for each "favor."

Well, he's got competition for the title of Most Organized Political Extortion (MOPE).  It seems that Ohio's Terrence Gasper, that state's former chief financial officer of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation allegedly had a "handwritten list" specifying how much each brokerage firm was to receive in commissions for stock trades.

Showing no fear of the growling that surrounded her, Katherine Harris last week declared her complete innocence of all wrongdoing in having met with Mitchell Wade, the defense contractor who bribed Duke Cunningham.  She declared her innocence of all wrongdoing in having taken $32,000 in illegal campaign donations from Wade.  She declared her innocence of all wrongdoing in having submitted a $10 million dollar budget request to fund the project she discussed with Wade.  She saw no wrongdoing in one of her aides shortly thereafter going to work for Wade's company.

In a conference call last Friday, she said "There is nothing to it except for the press trying to be negative."

This week, she's invisible, even though still running for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida.

Bloomberg has a piece on which congressmen most often use private corporate jets for their flights.

I don't want to be too Blunt about the subject, but Blunt is the leader, and 9 of the top 10 are Repubs.

Hey, at least it's a smaller percentage than they comprise of the Abramoff scandal.  With Republicans, we might have to consider that progress.

Peter Speros, managing director of Sullivan, Bruyette, Speros & Blayney Inc., a wealth-management firm in McLean, VA:

These numbers are just so much worse than I would have thought. It's a real eye-opener.

What horrible thing had this man just encountered? the Federal Reserve Board's 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances.

Uh-oh, this is not good....

Seems some high-school kid decided his world geography teacher went overboard....

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