Wonkette

• Bush began final campaign trip in Montana, and will travel to other historically Republican strongholds that are now under threat. [WP, NYT]

• Campaigns to end with ad blitz that “will boost spending on political and issue advertising past $2 billion in this campaign, or $400 million more than in the 2004 presidential campaign.” [WP]
• U.S. Government website releases Iraqi nuclear “cookbook.” Post is titled, “BREAKING! Must Credit Saddam!” [NYT]
• Conservative Christian leader Ted Haggard resigns amid allegations of whoring, gaying. [WP]
• A cost/benefit analysis of raising minimum wage shows it does cost business owners, does benefit workers. [WSJ]
• Economist bloggers believe “Democrats are better for growth than Republicans.” [WSJ]
• Report by House Ethics Committee on Pagefuckergate cover-up to be released to an apathetic post election world. [WP]
• Latest Military authorization bill eliminates the, “Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction,” as the reconstruction no longer needs inspecting, obv. [NYT]
• New web-based tool showing Metro train arrival times aims to allow passengers an extra few minutes to take care of blowjobs before heading to the station. [WP]

When the headline is about the President admitting mistakes, you can generally guess that the story won’t actually feature the President admitting mistakes. This is the closest he came today: MORE »

Congratulations to Campbell Brown and Dan Senor on their wedding! Hey Dan — let’s hope the transition to married life goes a little smoother than the transition to sovereignty, are we right? Ha! MORE »

Hey, remember Iraq? Neither did we, but we suddenly developed a renewed interest in the quagmire after reading what started off as just another routine “massive corruption and defrauding the government of billions of dollars of reconstruction money” story: MORE »