Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/29/06

"Nothing could be less American," says the ACLU of the Military Commissions Act passed by the Senate, while one observer remarks that "it's not clear that most of the members understand what they've done," and the Los Angeles Times looks ahead to court challenges over the suspension of habeas corpus.

The Wall Street Journal celebrates 'An Antiterror Victory,' that would allow "benign" methods of interrogation to continue, that are not "torture" or even "abuse" but simply about "being able to make life uncomfortable."

David Corn shows pictures from a museum of Khymer Rouge atrocities of 'what waterboarding looks like', an experimenter tests how "rough" life might get in a "20 inch wide cell," and Chris Floyd calls out 'the murderers of democracy.'

As Richard Whalen observes that "dissenting retired generals are bent on making Iraq this nation's last strategically failed war," Joe Conason explains how a VoteVets ad campaign targeting Republican senators for failing to provide soldiers with adequate body armor is provoking fear in the GOP.

CNN highlights Sen. Inhofe's ties to the oil and gas industry as it fact checks his 'diatribe against global warming science,' but CJR Daily balances Inhofe's views with those of a more moderate global warming skeptic. Plus: 'Scientists of America, Unite!'

Although most observers think John Bolton is finished as U.N. Ambassador, and the postmortem examinations have already begun, 'the bully might still get your lunch money' thanks to a presidential signing statement.

Roll Call reports on the release of a House report documenting "hundreds of contacts between top White House officials and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff," and it appears to point to Ken Mehlman as "Abramoff's prime favor man in the White House."