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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.
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 …
Discussion: Hit and Run and Think Progress
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Chooses Miers for Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, reaching into his loyal inner circle for a pick that could reshape the nation's judiciary for years to come.
Washington Post:
Bush Names Harriet Miers to Supreme Court  —  White House Counsel Would Replace O'Connor  —  President Bush has chosen White House Counsel Harriet Miers as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  —  Miers, who was Bush's personal attorney in Texas, was the first woman elected president …
Discussion: The Heretik
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.
Discussion: Don Surber
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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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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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Juan / Informed Comment:   Iraqi Government Totters  —  US Goes it alone Against Mighty Sadah
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
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Discussion: Power Line
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
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Discussion: Instapundit.com
MEMRI:
Egyptian TV Interview …
Discussion: TigerHawk and Jihad Watch
John Hinderaker / Weekly Standard:
The Plame Illusion  —  LAST SUMMER, New York Times reporter …
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Connecticut's First Same-Sex Unions Proceed Civilly
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Media deserve blame for New Orleans debacle
Atrios / nospeedbumps.com:
Classy Quote  —  One thing that you can say about Duncan Black …
Rebecca Carr / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
CDC locks up flu data
expressandstar.com:
Toy pigs must go at council

Earlier Picks:

CNN:
Twenty die as New York tour boat capsizes
Newsweek:
Troubled Waters  —  War, storms, leak probes—and a growing array of ethics clouds.
Discussion: Decision '08 and Daily Kos
Reuters:
Militants to 'spread out' after Iraq training
Discussion: NathanNewman.org
Harry De Quetteville / Telegraph:
Hamas women's wing takes up weapons 'for the love of jihad'
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Pieter Dorsman / Peaktalk:
WHY BALI?  —  It may be instructive to pause of a second …
Drudge Report:
'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Time Out Of Mind (WaPo, Too)  —  Neither the Times nor …
Will Hutton / Observer:
Something stinks in America
Discussion: The Mahablog and Tim Worstall
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Tom DeLay's House of Shame
 
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