Headlines @ Closin Time

* Arlen Specter wins colleagues’ support: GOP judiciary panel members unanimously back chairmanship /WorldNetDaily: I’m told by my sources in D.C. that this cat now has a bell on his tail. And he’ll behave. We’ll see. We’ll see.

* Veterans blast Pentagon for ACLU deal: Defense department denies Boy Scout support diminished /WMD: The Pentagon deserves our contempt for giving in to this bunch.

* Clinton: I never lied about my job: Ex-president says he paid for personal mistake ‘many times over’ /New York Daily News: He shouldn’t talk about Hillary that way.

* Rare blood infection in injured U.S. soldiers:
102 troops who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan have hard-to-treat malady /Reuters: Stay tuned.

* Linda Ronstadt laments ‘new bunch of Hitlers’:
‘People don’t realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves’ /WND: Isn’t it nice to be shown the error of your ways by one of the brain trust from the music industry?