The Bush administration has missed dozens of deadlines set by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks for developing ways to protect airplanes, ships and railways from terrorists.

Second try: President Bush, stung by the collapse of his previous choice, nominated veteran judge Samuel Alito on Monday in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his conservative allies.

List of Possible Replacements for Libby.

Who is "Official A"?

Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the Vice President's Chief of Staff has resigned after being indicted on Friday. "The grand jury indictment charged Libby with one count of obstruction of justice, two of perjury and two of making false statements. If convicted on all five, he could face as much as 30 years in prison and $1.25 million in fines."

Scooter: Yes, Rove: No.

"In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?" -- Senator (R-Miss.) Trent Lott

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

A brief history of indictments in recent Washington administrations.

For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq war was the "wrong thing to do", according to a poll published in The Wall Street Journal.

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Rosa Parks has died at 92.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says a federal investigation into his sale of stock in a family-owned hospital chain will affect his decision on whether he will seek the presidency in 2008.

A Democrat on the Senate committee that will consider Harriet Miers' nomination said Sunday that President Bush's Supreme Court choice lacks the votes now to be confirmed, saying there are too many questions about her qualifications.

"One of the smartest things President Bush did to reduce recovery costs in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita was to suspend Davis-Bacon Act rules in the hardest hit states. But Congress is frantically trying to overrule the president, which would add billions of dollars to the already staggering recovery costs."

Judith Miller's boss says the New York Times reporter appears to have misled the newspaper about her role in the CIA leak controversy.

In an e-mail memo Friday to the newspaper's staff, Executive Editor Bill Keller said that until Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald subpoenaed Miller in the criminal probe, "I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end" of leaks aimed at Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson.

Proceedings in the political-money case against Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, are on hold after the congressman's lawyer asked the presiding judge to step aside because he made campaign donations to Democrats and their liberal allies.

As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to conceal their actions and mislead prosecutors, lawyers involved in the case said Thursday. Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy.

Unfortunate Tom DeLay Photo of the Day

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

President Bush "This Much" Photo of the Day

Rep. Tom DeLay was ordered to appear at the sheriff's office in his home county of Fort Bend for booking on state conspiracy and money laundering charges.

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first FEMA official to arrive in the city conceded Thursday.

They still love him in Utah. "The people of Utah understand the president's agenda and his focus, the necessity of a war on terror."

Bush and Bono Photo of the Day

Cheney resignation rumors fly.

The Republican candidate for governor in Virginia is running ads that invoke Hitler. (Sort of a political TV ad version of Godwin's Law.)

A program designed to bail out small businesses affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may leave taxpayers with a larger than expected bill -- roughly $1 of every $5 in direct federal loans has fallen into default.

A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent's name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.

"I don't know how many ways to tell people that I have no interest in being a candidate for anything. ... No." -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Become Republican

Since almost the day he assumed power, George W. Bush has left a trail of broken careers in his wake.

"In late August 2005, after twenty years of service in the field of military procurement, Bunnatine ("Bunny") Greenhouse, the top official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in charge of awarding government contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, was demoted. For years, Greenhouse received stellar evaluations from superiors -- until she raised objections about secret, no-bid contracts awarded to Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) -- a subsidiary of Halliburton, the mega-corporation Vice President Dick Cheney once presided over."

Stunned by conservative opposition to Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, President Bush next week will bring in former justices from her home state of Texas to trumpet her qualifications for the nation's highest court.

Former House majority leader Tom DeLay is using his congressional campaign website to distribute to voters derogatory information about the prosecutor who brought the charges against him and to solicit donations for his re-election.

Big Box Mart.

Rehearsed teleconference with the troops or "carefully scripted publicity stunt"?

Karl Rove testified for the fourth time Friday before the grand jury in the CIA leak probe, following public disclosure of his conversations with two reporters about the identity of a covert officer at the spy agency.

2% of African-Americans approve of President George Bush's leadership.

Was Osama Bin Laden killed in the massive Kashmir earthquake?

Tucked deep inside the Children's Safety Act of 2005 bill designed to track sex offenders and prevent children from being victimized by sex crimes is language that could put many Hollywood movies in the same category as hard-core, X-rated films. The provision would require any film, TV show or digital image that contains a sex scene to come under the same government filing requirements that adult films must meet.

"Can you hear me now?" President Bush Photo of the Day

Bush without Rove is hard to imagine.

"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again." (however) "I don't completely rule out some future interest, but I don't expect to have that." -- Former Vice President Al Gore

Unfortunate Vice President Cheney Photo of the Day

Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail

President Bush "Hard Work" Photo of the Day

Governor Schwarzenegger: Hypocrite about video game violence?

McCain in 2008? (Wasn't this already a safe bet?)

The 2005 Kashmir earthquake has killed over 30,500 people.

DNC Chairman Howard Dean is looking to overhaul the Democratic National Committee. "What I'm trying to do is impose a system and run this place like a business."

Former Education Secretary William Bennett on Saturday blamed the news media for distorting his remarks about aborting black babies, saying he had intended to make "a bad argument in order to put it down."

NASCAR CEO Brian France doesn't like fans flying Confederate flags at races as he tries to make auto racing more appealing to minorities and women. "It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure."

Unfortunate President Bush Photo of the Day

Here is a poll showing how different groups feel about Bush.

The White House has denied that US President George W. Bush said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, as a new BBC documentary is expected to reveal.

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's legal team asked a court Friday to throw out his indictment, arguing that a Texas district attorney "attempted to browbeat and coerce" grand jurors into filing criminal charges.

The first case of espionage in the White House in modern history?

President Bush faced a growing Republican backlash Wednesday over the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, with several GOP senators threatening to oppose her confirmation and top conservative activists questioning her qualifications during a tense confrontation with White House advisors.

Wal-Mart turns in student's anti-Bush photo -- Secret Service investigates him. (I would have never thought you could put the Bush Adminstration and Wal-Mart into the same story for some sort of "perfect storm" of crappiness, but I was wrong.)

Bush lying about Iraqi Army readiness?

Roy Moore, who became a hero to the religious right after being ousted as Alabama's chief justice for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, announced Monday that he is running for Alabama governor in 2006.

Rep. Tom DeLay was indicted for a second time in less than a week by a Texas grand jury looking into campaign contributions, a development the former U.S. House majority leader called "an abomination of justice."

New Michigan state video game law: The People Vs. Common Sense

President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court on Monday, turning to a lawyer who has never been a judge to replace Sandra Day O'Connor and help reshape the nation's judiciary.

As the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men in the Bush administration were more involved in the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame than the White House originally indicated.

Federal auditors say that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a anti-paparazzi law on Friday tripling damages celebrities can win from paparazzi if they are assaulted during a shoot and denying the photographers profits from any pictures taken during an altercation.

The Bush administration has postponed punishing Saudi Arabia for restricting religious freedom, giving the U.S. ally six more months to show it has made progress in its treatment of religious minorities. (BFF?)