Whaddya gonna do about it, chumps? --
Tommy Thompson's committee finds that, yes, Medicare Czar Scully did deliberately withhold information from Congress, and yes, he did threaten to fire actuary Richard Foster if Foster told anyone the true costs of the Medicare Bill, but it's all OK, because there are no laws saying he can't do that:

"But neither the threat nor the withholding of information violated any criminal law, the report said. It accepted the Justice Department's view that Mr. Scully had "the final authority to determine the flow of information to Congress.'' Moreover, it said, the actuary "had no authority to disclose information independently to Congress.''"

"But Representative Pete Stark of California, the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, said, "It sounds as though the Bush administration examined itself and found it did nothing wrong.''"

(See this story, too.)

(I know Eric Alterman thinks he has written The Book On Bush, but let's face it: when all is said and done, we're going to need a deluxe multi-volume set to document the unethical, immoral and criminal activities of this "Christian" administration. Which reminds me, how are those non-competitive Iraq reconstruction contracts coming along?)

This is rich --
George Bush, appointed to his office after one term as a ceremonial governor and a decade or so of bankrupting businesses, is criticizing Edwards' lack of experience to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. (And the press obligingly continues to ignore the irony.)

Revolting --
Sadly,No! links to two horrifying stories (not from the US press, of course) about the abuse of Iraqi children being detained by coalition troops, here and here. Of course, we had a little inkling of things to come back in May.

Bringing Democracy to Iraq --
Well, that and martial law.

Which nonstory would that be? --
The 9/11 Commission stands by their earlier assertion that there was no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and Al Qaeda. But lest we think that challenges the integrity of Mr. Cheney, his delusional spokesman Kevin Kellims says the report puts to rest a "nonstory":

"We are pleased with today's statement from the 9/11 commission, which puts to rest a nonstory," he said. "As we have said all along, the administration provided the commission with unprecedented access to sensitive information so they could perform their mission. The vice president criticized some press coverage of the draft staff report. He did not criticize the commission's work."

Red herrings notwithstanding, Cheney is still on the trail, talking up the "connection."

Paging Dr. Lysencko --
Howard Dean, MD, has some warnings about Bush's science policies.