President Bush announced, in what may be viewed as¬†either¬†an act of bipartisanship or a cynical ploy to disarm his critics, that Senator John Kerry will now be¬†the Administration’s pointman for “good news” in Iraq.¬† Senator Kerry immediately hit the ground running, announcing that construction of four¬†schools in Anbar Province were completed, before they were blown up.¬†

For those of you who may have missed it, the news program “Lou Dobbs Tonight” suddenly went “dark” last week, after the Immigration and Naturalization Service burst into the studio and arrested Mr. Dobbs’ cameraman.

Also, as part of the ongoing immigration debate, Congress gave tentative approval to a “Guess? Workers’ Program,” in recognition of the reality that the Government doesn’t have a faith-based prayer of keeping track of who’s coming and who’s going.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia charged today that she was asked to take a screening test for Sickle Cell Anemia –¬†just because she’s black.¬†

Amidst the relief over the release of reporter Jill Carroll, American journalists in Iraq reaffirmed that their biggest concern covering the War was not the threat of being kidnapped or killed, but learning to perfect their British accents so they could get more air time on the evening news. 

And finally, on Meet The Press today, Tim Russert confronted John McCain with conclusive documentary evidence establishing that the Arizona Senator used to be sane.

BLOGWORTHIES: 

Mahablog with excellent commentary on the McKinney flap.

Bradblog with an interesting report on the latest in the Al Franken-Ann Coulter wars.