Daily News For Sept 29, 2005

by John Hawkins | September 29, 2005 4:02 am

Domestic

Indicted DeLay Steps Down From House Post[1]

A Statement From Tom DeLay & His Comments About The Indictment This Morning[2]

DeLay Calls Prosecutor A ‘Partisan Fanatic’[3]

Blunt Picked To Replace Delay As US House leader[4]

Attempt To Pick Successor Is Foiled. Blunt Temporarily Takes Reins As Conservatives Reject Dreier (Free WAPO Reg Req)[5]

Gov. George Pataki On Wednesday Removed A Proposed International Freedom Center From The Space Reserved For It At Ground Zero, Saying The Project Had Aroused ”Too Much Opposition, Too Much Controversy.” (Free NYT Reg Req)[6]

Gov. Blanco Gets No Katrina Questions From Senate Committee[7]

NASA Chief Confesses:Space Shuttle ‘Mistake’. Nearly All Last 30 Years ‘Was Not The Right Path’[8]

Foreign

Reports: Plot To Attack Paris Subway, Airport. Police Arrest 9 In Anti-Terror Sweep After Tip Off From Algerian Authorities[9]

The Day When Osama Bin Laden Applied For Asylum – In Britain[10]

Columns

Richard Brookhiser: American Jews Unprepared For Attacks From The Left[11]

Jonah Goldberg: What We’ve Learned (About Democrats) From The Battle Over Roberts[12]

Dick Morris: The Left Nips At Hillary After Her Move To The Right[13]

Ann Coulter: Bob Shrum With A Good Cause[14]

Robert Robb: Fiscal Relief Is There, If GOP Finds The Backbone[15]

John Tabin: The DeLay Opportunity[16]

Left-Overs

Democrat Ben Affleck Is Considering Running For Senator In Virginia?[17]

100 Dead Cats Found In Empty Apartment. British Officials Believe Someone May Have Been Living Among Corpses[18]

Quicksand Can’t Suck You Under. Experiments Show That Humans Do Not Sink All The Way Into Shifting Sands[19]

Website Of The Day: The Republican Research Council[20]