Headlines @ Closin’ Time

* 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.