*Ashcroft, Evans resign from Cabinet: Attorney heneral, commerce secretary 1st to step down since election/MSNBC: The Left will have to find someone else to demonize as the Great Satan -- beyond Dubya, of course.

*Terror leaders likely fled Fallujah: Al-Zarqawi, others probably left city before U.S. assault began/Reuters: Terror big shots are all for martyrdom ... as long as someone else is doing the dying.

*Specter promised to stop Bush picks: Expected judiciary panel chairman made pre-election vows to papers/WND: Send this bum to the showers. He shouldn't be on our team anyway.

*Madonna calls for U.S. to leave Iraq: Singer to BBC: 'My feelings are can we just all get out?'/Agence France-Presse: Madonna would have been a perfect secretary of state under a Kerry administration. Hey, don't laugh. If Flipflop'd won, he would have owed Planet Hollyweird big time.

*Official: Arafat has hours left: Wife in battle with leaders over her portion of estate/WorldNetDaily: This guy takes longer to die than old Tito.

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