Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

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Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.

It was about the se... the oath... the distracted from his job... the blowjob!

Newt, you lying blivet!

Gingrich Had Affair During Clinton Probe | The Huffington Post

More nuclear fun! That great big semi-circular blue spot that looks sort of natural? Nope! That's the crater left Castle Bravo in 1954.

bikini - Google Maps

And now, teh cool. The things that look like blackheads or pox scars? It's the Nevada nuclear test range. You can really zoom in on some of these.

Google Maps - Nevada Acne

Cummins' departure "was not for performance reasons," Moschella said, but because Justice officials thought Cummins didn't plan to serve out the rest of his term, and they wanted to find a spot for a former aide to Karl Rove, President Bush's top political strategist.

And this is somehow better then dismissing him because he didn't buckle to pressure?

Ousted U.S. attorneys describe lawmakers' intrusions

"I will say there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?' " Collins said. "I'm not saying we didn't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was, as Mr. Wells put it, he was the fall guy."

The defense made their case, it seems the jury wants to send the higher ups up the river too.

Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Trial | The Huffington Post

Why did Cheney’s chief of staff call and complain so fatefully when Wilson’s claims were repeated on “Hardball?”

Could it be that Cheney feared that if the country knew it was his inquiry that led to the Africa trip then he, the president’s right-hand man, could be expected to have gotten a full report on the trip’s findings.

In that case, Cheney would have known a year ahead of time that there was no deal by Saddam Hussein to buy uranium yellowcake in Niger. He should therefore have kept the president from making that assertion in his 2003 State of the Union that “British intelligence” reported a Saddam effort to buy uranium from Africa. That assertion of a nuclear threat from Iraq is what tilted this country toward war.

Ya think? Chris is coming to this party a little late, but the blunt answer is, they wanted a war with Iraq, marketed a war with Iraq, sold a war with Iraq, and if you disagreed with that, you were a traitor helping the terrorists.

It's time for the current administration to go. To jail.

Hardblogger : Chris Matthews reacts to Libby verdict

Magnet America, the largest manufacturer of the product, has seen sales fall from a peak of 1.2m in August 2004 to about 4,000 a month and now has an unsold stockpile of about 1m magnets.

I think this may be a good metric for looking at support for the war.

FT.com / World / US & Canada - Yellow ribbons dwindle with war support

Since the mass firings were carried out three months ago, Justice Department officials have consistently portrayed them as personnel decisions based on the prosecutors' "performance-related" problems. But, yesterday, officials acknowledged that the ousters were based primarily on the administration's unhappiness with the prosecutors' policy decisions and revealed the White House's role in the matter.

I think this has been expected by some of us for quite some time.

White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say - washingtonpost.com

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.

"Dreadfully sorry, didn't mean to interrupt breakfast." It's all part of a plot to unify the European banking system! Today Lichtenstein, tomorrow Luxemburg! It'll only take about a day...

Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein | The Huffington Post

Virgin has previously said it intends to take delivery of all six of the $300 million Airbus A380 planes it has on order, but would not see its first one until 2013 due to problems the planemaker has encountered in wiring the mammoth planes.

Something that matters to businesses is being able to get what they want when they want it. When you're talking about an airplane, that means you're looking a ways out, but six years before the first might show up? Airbus is looking at some very serious problems.

UPS cancels A380 in new blow for Airbus | Reuters