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Film and TV writers, actors and crew members are canceling vacations, working overtime and squirreling away savings while they still can.
Talent agencies, postproduction houses and equipment rental shops have drawn up plans to cut costs and payrolls while caterers and special-effects houses scramble to find jobs that reduce their dependence on the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush must seek congressional approval before taking any military action in Iran, unless Tehran attacks the United States first, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.
“We don’t believe that any authorities that the president has would give him the ability to go in without an act of Congress,” Pelosi […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Republicans in Congress on Thursday declared that troop withdrawal legislation should be scrapped because the United States has made significant progress in the Iraq war, just as Democrats were resuming efforts to bring soldiers home.”
It should be off the table,” House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said…
But Senate Republican Leader […]

Happy Labor Day, all you noble workers. You’re the backbone of our nation, as well as its vital organs. Its skin is our coastline, its heart is of course our heartland, which makes Florida… okay, that’s enough of metaphors for now.
Another positive sign for glorious workers is that North Korea has decided to […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on Monday, ending a controversial tenure as chief U.S. law enforcement officer that blemished the administration of President George W. Bush.
Bush immediately announced his nominee for Gonzales’ replacement, Washington-based lawyer Rarl Kove. Little is known about Mr. Kove and his qualifications, and a Google […]

From a speech by President Bush, 2002:
My Cabinet-level working group has met regularly for the last 10 weeks to review the most recent, most accurate, and most comprehensive science. They have heard from scientists offering a wide spectrum of views. They have reviewed the facts… about what is not known on the science of climate […]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The main Sunni Arab political bloc quit the Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday, plunging the government into crisis on a day when suicide bombers killed more than 70 people with massive strikes in the capital.
…White House spokesman Tony Snow said after the call:
“The president emphasized that the Iraqi people and the American people […]

From: Senator John McCain
To: Campaign staff
Re: Staffing changes
Hey all you McCainiacs!
As I’m sure you’ve heard, there have been a few more shake-ups in the staff. The press wants to call these “defections,” but as I’m sure you’re aware, the truth is that campaigns are long, and people often have to reprioritize. […]

From The New York Times:
White House Debate Rises on Iraq Pullback
White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush’s Iraq strategy are collapsing around them, according to several administration officials and outsiders they are consulting. They say that inside the administration, debate is intensifying over whether […]

My blogging time today is limited by my fabulous new apartment’s first…. plumbing emergency. Whee!
But I’m thinking about this, from the Times: Giuliani’s Views on Abortion Upset Catholic Leaders.
Now, I don’t want Rudy to be my President. He was my mayor, and yes, my mayor on 9/11. I’m just not convinced […]