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Associated Press:
Reports: Bush to Pick Miers for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers (search), White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (search) on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday.
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Bush expected to nominate Harriet Miers to Supreme Court — Miers currently works as White House counsel — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush is expected Monday to name White House counsel Harriet Miers as his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Outside The Beltway
ABCNEWS:
Who Is Harriet Miers? — Bush's 'Pit Bull in Size 6 Shoes' Has Distinguished Career — Oct. 3, 2005 — Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush's personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief …
Arnold Hamilton / Dallas Morning News:
OU says student who blew himself up had history of problems — Extensive campus search turns up no other explosive devices — NORMAN, Okla. - A University of Oklahoma student who killed himself by detonating a bomb near the jam-packed Sooner football stadium apparently had a history of emotional problems, authorities said Sunday.
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Power Line
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Scrivener.net:
The Times' new Public Editor seems to have a question. — Byron Calame asks, "Why would anybody pay $49.95 to read a bunch of OpEd writers who get their stuff from Kos and then all just repeat each other?" Or just about... Five times the same error is made by three op-eders and a reporter.
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Don Surber
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Yahya Barzanji / Associated Press:
Iraq's President Calls for PM to Step Down — KIRKUK, Iraq - Iraq's Kurdish president called on the country's Shiite prime minister to step down, the spokesman for the president's party said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.
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Kim Sengupta / Independent:
Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds — Relief efforts to combat Hurricane Katrina suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war, an official American inquiry into the disaster has revealed.
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King of Zembla
mirror.co.uk:
KEEP IT SEALED KEEP IT SECRET — EXCLUSIVE: Secret paper links Thatcher to freebies probe — A DOCUMENT linking Margaret Thatcher to a US corruption probe is so explosive civil servants have been asked to ensure it remains "sealed". — The 79-year-old former Premier …
BBC:
Mandela wins BBC's 'global election' — Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government. — More than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game …
Charles Murray / Opinion Journal:
The Hallmark of the Underclass — The poverty Katrina underscored is primarily moral, not material. — Watching the courage of ordinary low-income people as they deal with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, it is hard to decide which politicians are more contemptible …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
RINO Agents Reporting! — Quasim was ready to call it a day and go home. He really disliked the weekly task of gathering the intel reports from the outer reaches of the empire. Not only did it take time to collect the reports from the field teams hidden on all those remote planets, but the reports were so inane and boring.
Opinions:
Whose Fault Is Pork? — THE HUGE EXPANSION of government overseen by the supposed party of small government has provoked a conservative backlash. The Heritage Foundation, which is usually respectful of Republican Party officeholders, recently noted that the party's ascendancy has coincided …
CBS News:
Ike Was Right About War Machine — (CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. It was first broadcast Oct. 2, 2005. — I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States — our United States — is spending $5.6 billion …
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Gateway Pundit
Drudge Report:
'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES — Choking back tears, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!" — The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Time Out Of Mind (WaPo, Too) — Neither the Times nor the WaPo seem able to keep certain details of the Wilson/Plame/"16 Words" saga in proper order. — Let's start with the Saturday Times: … And, perhaps relying on the paper of record, the Sunday WaPo gives us this:
