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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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CNN:
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 …
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:   Roberts Confirmation Vote (Live Blogging)
Steve Clemons:
Will the Main Stream Media Report that Dreier was Blocked Because He is GAY?  —  I have just done a quick search at News.Google.com just to see what media outlets in the Google roster have posted anything about David Dreier being knocked out of contention for the House Majority Leader position …
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Oliver Willis:
Democrats Want To Lose
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Pam's House Blend
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
It's Time For Tom DeLay To Go — Part 2
Discussion: Reuters
Will Franklin / WILLisms.com:   The Ole Blogroll.  —  In the interests of keeping the blogroll healthy …
Opinions:
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 …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?  —  There is a lot to be said about Ronnie Earle's indictment yesterday of Tom DeLay—and, by the way, a corrupt DA like Earle can procure an indictment of pretty much anyone he chooses, so I refuse to give Earle cover by attributing the indictment to the grand jury …
Discussion: Think Progress and Random Fate
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 …
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos  —  NEW YORK A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image.  Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes of …
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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Shakespeare's Sister:
Sacked and Begging  —  (This post will stay at the top for awhile; new posts below.)  —  Well, all the joy I felt yesterday has evaporated in record time.  Last night, Mr. Shakes and I got a notice that our property tax had been increased 100% on our matchbox of a house, and effectively immediately …
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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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
MORE GOOD NEWS SUPPRESSED BY THE MSM.  The other day …
Discussion: MyDD and THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH
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 …
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 …
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
OP-ED PAGE TRENDS.  Over at Duncan Black's place yesterday, historian Rick Perlstein, now at work on a book on Richard Nixon's southern strategy and the political dimensions of recent racial tensions, finally gave up circulating his post-Katrina op-ed to newspapers and put it to pasture on the blogs.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
Marc Morano / CNSNews:
Black Voter Suppression Blamed for Weak Katrina Response  —  Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Bush administration's slow response to Hurricane Katrina may be the result of minority votes being suppressed and Democratic candidates losing the last two presidential elections, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus has alleged.
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:
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 …
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Forthright civil servant to be PM's security adviser  —  ·Job put in spotlight by Iraq weapons dossier furore  —  ·Mandarin hit headlines for frank view on scandal  —  Sir Richard Mottram, hitherto renowned in Whitehall for supposedly telling a colleague "We're all completely f**ked …
Discussion: OxBlog and Clive Davis

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