ACORN suspicion swells as McCain camp questions Obama's ties (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Warning of a plot to steal the election, the presidential campaign of Republican John McCain took aim Friday at a...

New questions arise about safe-haven law (Fremont Tribune)

OMAHA (AP) Nebraskas vaguely worded safe-haven law has already been exposed as ripe for abuse by allowing kids as o... (2 comments)

Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)

All our political forms are exhausted and practically nonexistent. Our parliamentary and electoral system and our political parties are just as futile as dictatorships are intolerable. Nothing is left. And this nothing is increasingly aggressive, totalitarian, and omnipresent.

Schumer: Don't Punish Education (R News)

The credit crunch is hitting student loan programs and Senator Chuck Schumer says punishing education is no way to pull our country out of trouble. Schumer said a tighter credit market could keep many students from being able to afford loans.

How the Senate's 60 Lawyers Voted on Bailout Bill (Law.com)

Lawyers across the U.S. have anxiously anticipated the fate of an economic rescue package -- and the revised bill finally made it through both the Senate and House, and was signed into law by President Bush on Friday. So how did the Senate's 60 lawyers vote? Only 12 voted against the plan. Two of the dissenters had worked at Am Law 200 firms or their predecessors, while 10 of the 47 who approved ...