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Washington Post:
Bush Says Miers Most Qualified Person for Court  —  President Bush, responding to critical questions about his appointment of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, said he is confident she shares his judicial philosophy now and that she will continue to share it during the next 20 years.
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Hewitt's Still Wrong  —  Hugh Hewitt continues to defend the Harriet Miers nomination, now by attacking his usual allies on the right.  He lays into Rammesh Ponnuru for not bowing down before "scholar" Doug Kmiec's defense of Miers (Hugh's choice to emphasize Kmiec's scholarly credentials is a bit odd …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Can This Nomination Be Justified?  —  Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules.  First, it is not important that she be confirmed.  Second, it might be very important that she not be.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Images Show Busses Evacuating New Orleans, More Questions than Answers  —  Update: Paul from Wizbang and I essentially agree and the photos really tell the same story: Nagin is an idiot, he just thinks Nagin is a bigger idiot than me.  —  Something odd struck me about the photo posted by Paul at Wizbang this morning.
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Paul / Wizbang:
NEVER FLOODED NEW ORLEANS BUSES NOT USED FOR EVACUATION  —  *** Wizbang Exclusive ***  —  Remember this gut-wrenching picture?  —  (AP Photo/Phil Coale)  —  It was a picture of what was left of the Orleans Parish school systems bus fleet that was supposed to be used to evacuate the citizens of the parish BEFORE the hurricane.
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Matthew Chung / Reuters:   Ten people dead as mystery virus hits Toronto home
Washington Post:
Transcript of President Bush's Press Conference
Amanda Marcotte / Pandagon:
PUT DOWN THAT TURKEY BASTER AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR SO I CAN SEE YOUR WEDDING RING  —  Indiana's legislature is considering a law mandating that a man better get laid if a baby is being made.  Seriously, that's pretty much how the bill is worded.
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Jill / Feministe:
Illegalizing Reproduction  —  It's an old pro-choice argument …
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PoliPundit.com:
Miers: Second Thoughts  —  I've had a day to reflect on the Miers nomination, and I've come to the conclusion that this is an exceedingly good decision.  Let's line up the objections and knock 'em down.  —  1. Miers may not be a conservative.  —  The President has known Miers for a long time, in every sense but the Biblical one.
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Gateway Pundit:
Sooner Bomber Wanted to Buy Ammonium Nitrate!  —  UPDATE: (11:30 PM CST) Joel Hinrichs attended a mosque down the street from his apartment.  His roommate is Pakistani and his identity has not yet been released.  However, I did hear from a different video that the roommate has not returned …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
News Comes in Code: Judy Miller's Return to the Times  —  Just one man's opinion, but now is a good time to say it: The New York Times is not any longer—in my mind—the greatest newspaper in the land.  Nor is it the base line for the public narrative that it once was.
johannhari.com:
The first genocide of the twenty-first century is drawing to an end  —  There are no black people left to cleanse or kill  —  At last, some good news from Darfur: the holocaust in western Sudan is nearly over.  There's only one problem - it's drawing to an end only because there are no black people left to cleanse or kill.
David Burge / iowahawk:
CONFIDENTIAL  —  JOB APPLICATION  —  Thank you for your interest in a career at the United States Supreme Court.  Please fill out the following application in BLACK INK for photocopying purposes (please, no pencils, felt tip markers, or blue ink).  When you have fully completed the form, please return to the on-duty supervisor.
Washington Post:
Gulf Firms Losing Cleanup Contracts  —  Companies outside the three states most affected by Hurricane Katrina have received more than 90 percent of the money from prime federal contracts for recovery and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, according to an analysis of available government data.
Matt Welch / Reason:
Echo Chamber in the Superdome  —  A Louisiana National Guardsman explains how he dealt with false rumors being piped into Ground Zero of Hurricane Katrina  —  We are now into Week Two of elite news organizations' re-evaluation of the New Orleans horror stories they helped transmit to the world …

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