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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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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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
confirmthem.com:
96 responses to 'Miers'.  —  RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for 'Miers'.  —  Stop The ACLU -  —  Kennedy v. The Machine » Incalculable Damage -  —  1 Ironman  —  About 'Miers'.  —  Justice Cheney?  —  2 SpectatorGirl  —  About 'Miers'.  —  Finally a new thread.
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 …
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
Bush Picks Harriet Miers
Discussion: Confirm Them
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Harriet Miers Gets The Nod
Discussion: Right Wing News and Confirm Them
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Round 2 O'Connor's Replacement.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and JunkYardBlog
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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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Newsweek:
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Reuters:
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Harry De Quetteville / Telegraph:
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Discussion: Jihad Watch
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WHY BALI?  —  It may be instructive to pause of a second …
Drudge Report:
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
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