Here is the video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) introducing a resolution to investigate how long other Republicans knew about Mark Foley’s inappropriate behavior — Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) swiftly moves to have the resolution buried in the Ethics Committee. Pelosi is then shouted down when she attempts to motion for a recorded vote.

A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book “Fahrenheit 451″ as classroom reading material.

Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language.

Ok, I’m convinced, we need to start sterilizing parents — lets start with this idiot. (more…)

Tonight on ABC, investigative journalist Brian Ross suggested there may be other members of Congress who engaged in inappropriate behavior towards congressional pages:

BRIAN ROSS: So far, Foley is the only member whose overt sexual approaches have been documented. Charlie?

CHARLES GIBSON: The only one to be documented, but are there other shoes to drop?

ROSS: We’re hearing quite a bit from former pages. They’re sending us all sorts of messages about possible other members.

Told you there were more… (more…)

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert first claimed he was made aware of Foley’s emails to a young congressional page by media reports on Thursday. He has now admitted he was actually informed last fall.

Up until this morning, the top of Hastert’s website highlighted the congressman’s efforts to “Keep Kids Safe In Cyberspace,” with press releases from 8/29 and 8/22, as well as a link to an 8/29 event: (more…)

Former CIA Chief Told 9/11 Commission of Disputed Meeting

Former CIA director George Tenet told the 9/11 Commission that he had warned of an imminent threat from al-Qaeda in a July 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice, adding that he believed Rice took the warning seriously, according to a transcript of the interview and the recollection of a commissioner who was there. (more…)

Maybe so…

There has been a great deal of discussion about the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [.pdf], recently passed by both houses of Congress, and most of it has to do with the provisions allowing torture of alien detainees, that is, of non-citizens apprehended in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq, and their treatment at the hands of their American captors. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner, all Republicans, grandstanded for weeks over the torture provisions, then capitulated. Another “Republican maverick,” Arlen Specter, zeroed in on the real issue, however, when he said the bill would set us back 800 years by repealing the habeas corpus protections against arbitrary arrest and jailings – and then went ahead and voted for it, anyway. (more…)

WASHINGTON — A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week — nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year — as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to fix or replace equipment damaged in combat. (more…)

BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi forces fought a gun battle in Sadr City early today during a brief raid in search of a suspect wanted in killings and kidnappings. (more…)

Roll Call:

Hastert has been denying he knew about the allegations — Boehner even got the WaPo to pull the quote he gave them yesterday, which is a story in itself — but after the latest statement by NRCC Chairman Tom Reynolds also stating that Hastert was informed, Hastert issued a statement neither disputing nor denying Reynolds’ statement: (more…)

I am an ex Naval line officer and a psychiatrist in private practice in New Orleans, a Christian and homeschool dad. It troubled me a great deal that we rushed off to war on the flimsiest of evidence. I considered various ways to provide a smoking gun of who and why Sept 11th happened. Astute observers noticed right away that there were no Arabic sounding names on any of the flight manifests of the planes that “crashed” on that day.

A list of names on a piece of paper is not evidence, but an autopsy by a pathologist, is. I undertook by FOIA request, to obtain that autopsy list and you are invited to view it below. Guess what? Still no Arabs on the list. (more…)

• Also see: No Arabs on Flight 77, Part II: The Passengers

Dreifus Associates, LTD. who is run by Henry N. Dreifus has been contracted by the Pentagon to count all Military absentee ballots. Public record shows that Mr. Dreifus donated $2,000.00 to the Bush/Cheney ‘04 campaign.

Why don’t you just count all the votes yourself, Mr. President? (more…)

Republican congressional candidates scrambled to distance themselves from the Mark Foley sex scandal, fearing it might implicate their leaders and deal a final blow to the party’s bid to keep control of the House in November elections. (more…)

“It’s vile,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. “It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.” — Rep. Mark Foley, on Clinton’s escapades with Monica Lewinsky, September 12th, 1998

June 4th, 2002

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida’s child welfare agency said Monday it was unable to account for about 1,000 children in its system, including about 400 believed to have run away and more than 100 others missing because a non-custodial parent or relative took them.

From WRH: Start checking Capitol Hill basements. (more…)

A British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations against Catholic priests.

Before becoming head of the church, the then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced church doctrinal orthodoxy, including a “secret Vatican decree which seemed to shelter the perpetrators and silence the victims of abuse”, the Panorama programme said. (more…)