LESBIAN ELECTED DALLAS' SHERIFF (NO, REALLY!)
"One-time migrant farm worker Lupe Valdez made history this week when she became the first woman and the first Hispanic elected Dallas County sheriff, not to mention the first Democrat to win the post since the mid-1970s. She also is openly gay."
(HOUSTON CHRONICLE, unearthed by Bill Messick)

EMINEN JOINS THE REVOLUTION
"Eminem, the man who George Bush once called 'the most dangerous threat to American children since polio' , and one of the least likely artists to come out with an overtly political message and a rallying call to youth, released 'Mosh, a rousing call to arms for the hip hop generation to take back the government that seeks to represent them.
With 'Mosh,' Eminem, the most polarizing musician of our times, takes on the most polarizing election of our times.
In the video, Eminem leads a mob fired up and politicized by four years of outrage and anger at the Bush administration. Clad in black hoodies, fists raised, the angry young men and women descend on a state building ... to vote."
(ALTERNET)

UNION CLAIMS HATCH ACT VIOLATION BY FORMER BUSH ADVISER
"When retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier took questions during a mandatory training session on prisoner-of-war issues, 'his comments included statements about scumbags who threw their medals over the fence, [and] that the Democratic Party was the 'peace' party, as if that were a derogatory title,' an American Federation of Government Employee wrote in the union's request for a Hatch Act investigation. "
(WASHINGTON POST)

BUSH'S PENCHANT FOR SECRECY
"As detailed in a telling new Congressional report, Mr. Bush's secrecy obsession - by now a widely recognized hallmark of his presidency - is truly out of hand."
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(NYT)