It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the sleaze of Jack Abramoff and his many, many cronies and stooges have had real effects on real people for a really long time.

Case in point: the Northern Marianas Islands, as documented in a 2002 government report not released until recently.

Bob Ney, the Republican Congressman from Ohio appears to be about neck deep in the Abramoff scandal (not that you can always tell, since he's become invisible to Republicans).

Now, according to a piece in the Times Reporter of Ohio, has taken to publicly deriding and insulting a reporter for Copley News Service.

Not to start off a rant by sounding a lot like Andy Rooney, but d'ya ever notice....?

In yet another illustration of Republican family values, the Senate and House have passed, and Bush is anxious to sign, the "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act."

The Boston Globe has identified a dead giveaway that more Iraqis are being injured and/or killed in U.S. military operations in Iraq:  the amount of money given to Iraqi victims and their families quadrupled from about $5 million in fiscal 2004 to about $20 million in fiscal 2005.

Raw Story has posted a Vanity Fair article By CRAIG UNGER
investigating how the forged Niger yellowcake documents came into being and found their way into the willing hands of US intelligence people.

Most of the major drug companies now have some form of program which allows poor people to obtain certain drugs free.  This being the land of the middleman and hype, however, some clever people have figured out a way to piggyback on those free programs and turn a profit--by charging the poor not for the free medicine itself, but for "help" in identifying the available programs and completing the paperwork.

Tom DeLay has said bye-bye to his fellow Texas Republicans.  And he went out the way he came in and the way he served:  As a hypocritical, partisan, phony.

For those who avoid Fux News at all costs, Mr. Cavuto is the host (and, he insists, commentator, as well--the better to defend himself against claims of partisanship) of the show Your World.  He's also been managing editor of business news for the Fux Fokes since 1996.

He's also, if you haven't guessed already, as bitter, nasty and partisan as you can get without wearing a uniform with lots of belts and leathers.

A short stroll through Cavuto Land.

Iraqis have been complaining of U.S. soldiers' brutality to Iraqis for at least two years. The complaints were dismissed by the US gov't as exaggerations by people sympathetic to the insurgents, they were largely dismissed by the U.S. media on the say-so of the U.S. government, and were largely dismissed by most U.S. citizens on the say-so of the U.S. government, the perception that the Iraqis had a motive to exaggerate, and an unfortunate degree of racial/religious bias.

The US report recently absolving the military of any wrongdoing in Ishaqi is not satisfying the Iraqis or many in the American media.

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