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• A federal judge invalidates the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, saying it “blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.” Oh, burn! [NYT, WP]
• Elsewhere in the federal judiciary, smoking causes cancer (and cigarette companies knew it). So long, “low tar” cigs. [WP, WSJ]
• Internal investigations suggest the Marine Corps withheld and destroyed information regarding the November killing of 24 Iraqis at Haditha. [NYT]
• Civilian contractor convicted in the beating death of an Iraqi prisoner. [LAT]
• The veracity of John Karr’s confession in the JonBenet Ramsey case is being questioned. Hey, 12 hours in a Thai prison and you’d confess to her murder, too. [ABC News] MORE »

The voters have spoken:

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The Washington Times‘ Jerry Seper reports on Keystone Kops antics at the U.S.-Mexico border: MORE »

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Four days in, and what hath Macacagate wrought?

• The end of George Allen’s presidential ambitions.
• A week’s worth of material for us (thanks, George!).
• A shitload of bad Internet art.

Please, people, if you ain’t got the skills to pay the bills, then stop writing bad checks. Or at least stop sending them to us. A rundown of some of the bad macaca-themed art we’ve received this week, after the jump.

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Boy, George Allen must have eaten John McCain’s lunch out of the Senate refrigerator or something. Or maybe McCain is just an ass. Yeah, that’s probably it. McCain cracked wise at an Allen rally in Norfolk yesterday:

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The killjoys at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have unveiled their largest anti-drunk driving campaign ever, kicking it off with a sure-to-be-effective ad campaign:

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More than anything, Bill O’Reilly thinks that TSA screeners need the gift of Secret Sight:

So all young Muslims should be subjected to more scrutiny than Granny…. Passengers who are Muslims ages 16 to 45 all should be spoken with. And if the ACLU doesn’t like it, tough. This isn’t racial profiling. This is criminal profiling.

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• Rush and Molloy: Ted Kennedy endorses John Edwards for the presidency? Bet that gives the junior senator from Massachusetts the ol’ green-eye. [NYDN]
• Tom Scocca: Baltimore Sun editor Tim Franklin thinks the paper’s corporate overlords are sucking the lifeblood out of the venerable broadsheet. [NYO]
• Loose Lips: How do you get DC CFO Natwar M. Gandhi to donate to your political campaign? Just say “please.” [WCP]

• The violence level in Iraq is at its highest level ever, with over 2500 roadside bombs detected in July. [NYT]
• The Lebanese government sends troops to the nation’s south in a creative attempt to save the cease-fire. Hezbollah gets to keep some weapons. [WP, BBC]
• The U.S. government wants a piece of the rebuilding action in Lebanon. [LAT]
• A 42-year-old American teacher was arrested in Thailand and charged in JonBenet Ramsey’s 1996 murder. Thai authorities claim John Karr made a full confession. [AP via MSNBC]
• Airport screeners’ newest weapon: Behavioral psychology. [NYT]
• Moron country singer kills tame bear. [AP via CNN]

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From Deadspin comes news that Post columnist Tony Kornheiser, fresh off his couldn’t-be-worse-than-Dennis Miller debut as a Monday Night Football commentator, was a little bit pissed that the Post gave him the ol’ fingeroo in its review:

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So earlier today we speculated that our pal Alan Colmes was the illicit love child of Rob Lowe and Kermit the Frog. We thought we presented some pretty strong evidence to support our case:

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