White House releases its report on the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.

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Bush administration officials say the Medicare prescription drug bill has been a wild success, claiming over 25 million people have enrolled. Actually, the number is closer to five million.

Clean government group CREW has filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) after reports showing that a private Philadelphia bank that has contributed to Santorum’s campaigns violated its own policies to approve a $500,000 home mortgage for Santorum.

South Dakota’s senate has passed a bill banning virtually all abortions, becoming the “first state in 14 years to start a direct legal attack on Roe v. Wade.” State Sen. Tom Dempster (R): “This bill ends up being cold, indifferent and as hostile as any great prairie blizzard that this state has ever seen.”

The White House will release their Katrina “lessons learned” report today. The report will be “less scathing” than the House report that found “earlier involvement by President Bush could have spurred a faster response.”

Mr. Musharraf’s Other War: Pakistan is using U.S. weaponry to violently suppress an ethnic minority separatist movement in the country’s largest province. “That’s no way to win the hearts and minds of anyone.” Read more

“Iraq’s main Sunni Muslim bloc pulled out on Thursday of negotiations for the formation of a new government,” demanding an apology for recent attacks on Sunni mosques.

Dozens of factory workers were pulled off buses and gunned down in northeast Baghdad, leaving 47 dead, and at least 90 Sunni mosques have been attacked.