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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Senate Confirms Roberts As Chief Justice — WASHINGTON - John Glover Roberts Jr. won confirmation as the 17th chief justice of the United States Thursday, overwhelmingly approved by the Senate as the jurist to lead the Supreme Court through turbulent social issues for generations to come.
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Roberts confirmed as chief justice — Bush poised to name O'Connor replacement — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Judge John Roberts was easily confirmed Thursday to be the 17th chief justice of the United States, winning Senate approval with a solid majority. — He is expected to be sworn in to the post later in the day.
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Roberts Confirmed by Senate — The Senate confirmed John Glover Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States, replacing the late William H. Rehnquist, the mentor for whom he clerked. The vote was 78-22. — Justice John Paul Stevens, the senior associate justice who has been performing …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Troubled Year Gets Worse for the GOP — Bad news often comes in bunches, but for a Republican Party that not long ago looked ahead to an unfettered period of growth and expansion, yesterday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) represented one of the most significant blows …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
The DeLay Dilemma And The Successor Search — Indicted Tom DeLay has stepped down as House Majority Leader temporarily, we are told, but now the real dilemmas surface over his successor, his party's stance towards him and his case, the response of Democrats — and the values the nation …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Tom Delay, Please Resign (UPDATED) — Tom Delay should resign from Congress. Did he do anything illegal? I've no idea. Campaign finance laws are like the tax code: so complicated as to lose all meaning to the average citizen. But whether or not Delay broke any laws is beside the point in my mind.
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The DeLay Indictment — YESTERDAY'S indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws won't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched the Texas Republican operate over the years. In his drive to consolidate Republican power …
Washington Times:
Gov. Blanco gets no Katrina questions — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city's post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina …
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Scott Shields / MyDD:
Media Finally Sees Through Bush's 'Number 2 Man' Myth — Ever notice how many times the Bush administration and the Pentagon tout the killing or capture of high level al Qaeda operatives? Just how many 'Number 2,' 'Number 3,' and 'Number 4' men can bin Laden and Zarqawi possibly have, anyway?
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Laura / War and Piece:
Basically, it's become evident that we can't believe a word coming out of the Pentagon's mouth... Anyhow, Rumsfeld is finally testifying today. — Update: Matt Yglesias suggests another disturbing possibility. The Pentagon doesn't really know who Zarqawi's number two guy is …
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New York Times:
Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25 - After the storm came the siege. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans. The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations …
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Nancy A. Youssef / Knight Ridder:
Opposition to Iraqi constitution weakening — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The two strongest opponents of Iraq's proposed new constitution said this week that they wouldn't campaign against it aggressively, making it likely that voters will approve the constitution in an Oct. 15 referendum.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
The blogs Kevin is referring to are run by, how shall I say this, rather young bloggers. ("Immature" might be another word, "naive" another, "downright silly sometimes" another). — I don't mind the silliness every once in a while, after all its not like conservatives are adverse to this type of thing …
MSNBC:
Soldiers still waiting for armor reimbursements — Pentagon fails to figure out how to pay back troops' personal expenditures — WASHINGTON - Nearly a year after Congress demanded action, the Pentagon has still failed to figure out a way to reimburse soldiers for body armor and equipment …
Jeff Miller / mcall.com:
Bush's plunging popularity bodes ill for Santorum — Being aligned with president not a good thing, poll finds. — WASHINGTON | President Bush's falling approval ratings are casting a shadow over Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's bid for a third term, a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll found.
BBC:
Hero's return for Labour heckler — An 82-year-old activist thrown out of the Labour party conference for heckling Jack Straw has returned to the venue to a hero's welcome. — Walter Wolfgang, from London, was cheered as he held up his security pass - confiscated by stewards on Wednesday.
BBC:
Aids virus 'could be weakening' — The virus which causes Aids may be getting less powerful, researchers say. — A team at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, in Antwerp, compared HIV-1 samples from 1986-89 and 2002-03. — They found the newer samples appeared not to multiply as well …
