Leftover links

It's been a busy week and weekend for me, to say the least, and this week doesn't look that much better. So look upon this as a feast of leftovers from the weekend. Hopefully you can find something to your liking:

Want to read more about potential 2006 Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack? Here you go!

Also meet Jim Manley, a seasoned media operative working for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who is now in charge of the Democratic "war room" set up by Harry Reid.

You win one, you lose one in Louisiana.

Good thing Bush campaigned vigorously on the environment.

I'm not sure how a city council could think "Bible Week" would not stir up controversy, especially after "Torah Week" caused such a hubbub.

That whole thing about Democracy in the Middle East? Not so much, anymore.

Michael Palmer opened the all-girls boarding school in 1990, promising Christian based education and training for children with behavioral problems...at a price of 12-hundred dollars a month.

"It was emotional and mental breakdown for sure," says Ramirez. "They made you feel horrible about yourself. To the point where you were worthless, then that was where they could make you do anything they wanted to do and just make you believe that you can't live without this school."

Some say staff controls every aspect of their lives from talking or using the bathroom to eating.

"They always used to threaten us. If you throw it up, we'll make you eat it. And I know girls have had to do that," Ramirez says.

There's more.