Unproven as yet, but far from incredible, the Denver Post is reporting that a male prostitute has told a local television station that "he has had a three-year sexual business relationship with" Ted Haggard, "founder and senior leader of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the multimillion- member National Association of Evangelicals."

When Republicans lost no time unleashing their well paid and tightly organized attack dogs on the story of John Kerry's recent gaffe, do you think House Majority Leader John Boehner expected that the poison boomerang would whip around and smack his butt?

But almost every university has policies prohibiting such harassment [of students who say unpopular things] along with independent appeals procedures to protect students and the integrity of the academic environment. [David] Horowitz's restrictions [in his proposed Academic Bill of Rights ], in contrast, would invite outside monitoring of the classroom, creating hostility between students and professors, and politicizing the environment.The students who agree with me want our elected leaders to focus on addressing our real concerns: student loans, skyrocketing tuition and the post-graduation job market.

Katherine Harris has a very well-deserved reputation for volatility, amazingly self-serving assessments of events, and an extremist Christian perspective on life, politics, and the murky overlap between the two.

It often helps to travel back in time and compare what relevant players were saying about something important--like Iraq--before they knew how it was going to turn out.

How can you not be drawn to book/author claiming "A new multi-level model of ethics and morality has recently been announced..."????

During the Clinton Administration, our Committee took 140 hours of  testimony in hearings and depositions to examine whether President Clinton mishandled his Christmas card list.  After photographs revealed the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the House held only five hours of perfunctory hearings in the Armed services Committee to investigate the abuses and their origins.

This unseemly circus and its clowns in Congress can't go away fast enough and with enough dishonor and disgrace to suit the circumstances. Their place in America's history is secure: They will go down as the worst administration and the worst Congress we've ever had. Period.

They deserve to lose both the House and the Senate on Nov. 7, and the White House in 2008. They bullied their way into a war that they thought would be a slam-dunk and then so bungled things that the only superpower left in the world has been humbled and hobbled in a world that they've made more dangerous for us.

The business/corporate community in this country is extremely well organized and obviously well heeled.  It guards its interests, at the expense of the rest of us, night and day, 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year.  So if you thought the Sarbanes-Oxley law, or the incredible corruption revealed in the stories of Enron, Global Crossing, and more than a dozen other gigantic corporate rip-offs, had permanently changed the regulatory landscape, guess again.

Although quite happy to ignore the real possibility of massive electoral fraud via manipulation of electronic voting and vote-counting machines, not to mention the disqualification of eligible voters via bogus "scrub" lists, conservatives have been up in arms over claimed armies of ineligible voters casting ballots.  In fact, several states have "tightened" registration and/or ID requirements for voters.  And the tighter the requirements, the fewer eligible people vote.

Now comes a bipartisan report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission which finds "little evidence" of this type of vote fraud.

A slew of "attack ads" has hit airwaves across the nation as rival candidates seek to claw back points in the polls. And one key theme has emerged in many of them. It is not Iraq. Or terrorism. It is sex.

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