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How the GOP filibustered the truth
A Top Ten guide, courtesy of Media Matters for America.

Newsweek tells its own story
The magazine's blunder was a big one, and any argument in its own defense merits some skepticism. But it's spot on about the greater backdrop for the Islamic world's violent reaction.

Funding the faith-based community
President Bush's abstinence-only education spending spree is coming under fresh scrutiny this week.

Dealing with insecurity at Homeland Security
The House gives the department's budget a makeover: No more money for sexy TV stars!

Bush's toxic EPA
Mercury pollution puts more than 600,000 American newborns at risk per year for permanent brain damage. Why is the administration siding with polluters?

L.A. Times blows kiss to Frist
In a surprise move, the paper's usually liberal editorial page says the filibuster's got to go.

Those are fighting words
While centrists try to avoid a filibuster showdown, Frist and Reid don't sound ready to compromise.

GOP's Coleman whopped by Brit
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong."

White House wants retraction-plus from Newsweek
Despite the magazine's prompt retraction, the White House continues to demand more.

The biggest cost of Newsweek's blunder
It turns Gitmo into a circus-of-a-media story, rather than one about the long-term pattern of abuses inside the Bush administration's secretive system of military prisons used in the war against terrorism.

Manufacturing consent on the filibuster
Though most Americans are against the nuclear option, a mysterious crop of letters has popped up in newspapers across the country in support of the GOP.

Pat Buchanan: The right is losing
The former presidential candidate says that a majority of the country doesn't buy the Christianists' take on moral issues.

The leaders stop talking
Frist and Reid are done negotiating over the nuclear option. Can centrists senators avert a showdown over Bush's judicial nominees?

Newsweek retracts, but where are the facts?
Did interrogators really flush the Quran? Did the magazine's article really spark riots?

The bigger story on Quran abuse at Gitmo
Newsweek's blunder aside, numerous past stories revealed that the Quran was abused by interrogators at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.

Minnesota goes ice cold on Bush
And that could be sunny news for Senate hopeful Al Franken.

Our good friends, the Saudis
If a wave of democracy is sweeping the Middle East, it sure hasn't washed over Riyadh yet.

Okrent's good, bad -- and liberal -- Times
Did the ombudsman experiment succeed in reviving the paper's reputation after Jayson Blair and Judith Miller?

The accountability moment
The White House says Newsweek hasn't apologized enough. When are Bush and Cheney going to start?

GOP now goes after NPR
Bad news from the Middle East? Maybe more music programming would be nice.

A nuclear countdown, but dinner first
Bill Frist is still talking tough. But as another Republican seems to defect, will the Senate majority leader be the first to blink?

What about Dick?
Bob Woodward says the vice president is a "serious dark horse candidate" for the White House.

Bushism of the week
Just when you thought he couldn’t sound any more oddly unpresidential...

Hideous Kinkies
A peek into the sex lives of moralistic right-wing blowhards, part 934: Horsley gets horsey, Hager is horrible!

From the wires

Nash leads Suns to 114-108 win over Mavs

U.S. gives Anchorage $1.5M for bus stop

Netscape browser combines search features

Jobless claims drop more than expected

Star Wars fans happy with last 'Episode'

Type 2 diabetics battle blood sugar woes

Koreas can't break nuclear impasse

Police question man about Idaho slayings

Iraqi terror group plans more bombings

Senators to resume talks on Bush nominees

Sports leaders want tougher drug policies

Trump sounds off on World Trade Center

Italy police arrest nine terror suspects

Official: Al-Zarqawi ordered Iraq attacks

Dems say Bolton sought to punish dissenter

Talks to head off filibuster showdown fail

Seven more bodies found west of Baghdad

Jane Fonda film banned from Ky. theaters

FBI, police search for missing Idaho kids

Pre-K student brings handgun to school

Deaths prompt end to breast cancer study

CBS cancels 'Judging Amy,' 'Arcadia'

Suspected bank robber shot at Kan. airport

Mother: Wendy's finger used to settle debt

Antonio Villaraigosa elected L.A. mayor

Senate takes up debate on Bush judge

Israeli aircraft strikes Hamas militants

FBI: Grenade at Bush rally was live

Bill Clinton: Iraq changes good for region

Pakistan: Newsweek retraction "not enough"

House GOP tries to pass Soc. Sec. overhaul

Wizards guard to appear before Congress

Palestinian court orders local revote

Harman apologizes for Abu Ghraib abuse

Senate defies Bush, approves highway bill

Vatican cardinal meets with Schiavo's kin

Three Islamic clerics killed in Baghdad

U.S. detains Cuban linked to 1976 bombing

Breast cancer study halted after deaths

Nixon son-in-law may take on Sen. Clinton

400 settler families to move to Israel

Social worker testifies in Jackson case

Treasury Dept. warns China on currency

Blair introduces national ID card plan

British lawmaker denies oil-for-food claim

Cubans march, demand arrest of exile

Man dies after jumping from Eiffel Tower

State Dept. tries to undo Newsweek damage

Sony unveils new PlayStation 3 consoles

Atlanta killings suspect pleads not guilty

Harvard to commit $50M to women programs