Blue Radar

As I post each morning, here are some of the political stories thatmight not be worthy of their own posts, but are nonetheless newsworthy:

• Former Karl Rove aide and current U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin has resigned, amid allegations that Rove persuaded the Justice Department to fire the Tennessee attorney and replace him with Griffin.
• The Red Cross is warning military families about an ID theft scam that specifically targets soldiers.
• The Justice Department is broadening its investigation into allegations that senior officials hired career workers based on the applicants' politically conservative credentials.
• Congressional Democrats are proposing legislation that would overturn the recent 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that restricts women from filing lawsuits in sex discrimination cases.
• Rich Lowry of the conservative National Review says congressional sources tell him of an eventual GOP collapse on Iraq this September.  "Was talking to an influential Republican strategist who thinks if Iraqlooks the way it does now in September, Bush will lose about 25 SenateRepublicans on a bill with some sort of timetable for withdrawal," Lowry wrote.
• Barack Obama's health care plan mostly centers around eliminating waste and using that money to fund health care for every American.  31% (common knowledge) of all the money our country spends on health care goes to cover administrative costs -- buildings literally stacked full of papers from floor to ceiling.  One way to eliminate that waste is to convert it electronically.
• President Bush is proposing an additional $30 billion for AIDS programs in Africa.
• Nearly one-half of all adults in European Union countries are overweight, leading to higher health care costs across the board.  The EU's top public health official also said that 21 million children in the EU are overweight -- and increasing by 400,000 per year.
• Bob Shrum reveals the startling regret by John Kerry that Edwards was picked as his running-mate: "Kerry said that he wished he'd never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut."  This was part of a very good Newsweek article by Shrum.

If we left anything out, feel free to add any stories in the commentbox.

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