ThinkFast: November 3, 2006

• The House ethics committee report on the Foley page scandal will not be released before Election Day. The AP notes, “The lack of a report leaves voters to sort through conflicting Republican accounts in deciding whether GOP leaders failed to protect teenagers in their care.”
• A federal government web archive of Saddam-era documents, launched “under pressure from Congressional Republicans…to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam,” was shut down after weapons experts said some of the documents posted “could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms.”
• U.S. Sgt. Santos Cardona, a military dog handler at Abu Ghraib prison who was “convicted in May of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault,” is being sent back to serve in Iraq.
• “Under a new policy, children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants with low incomes will no longer be automatically entitled to health insurance through Medicaid.” Dr. Jay E. Berkelhamer, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the new policy “punishes babies who, according to the Constitution, are citizens because they were born here.”
• More top conservatives try to back away from Bush’s Iraq policy. House leader Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) told CNN yesterday, “What’s happening in Iraq is not a direct reflection on me.”

LSB: Yes, I'm late putting this up. Out of town and offline for the past week, so this is a make-up day.