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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.
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Strong Grounding in the Church Could Be a Clue to Miers's Priorities — One evening in the 1980s, several years after Harriet Miers dedicated her life to Jesus Christ, she attended a lecture at her Dallas evangelical church with Nathan Hecht, a colleague at her law firm and her on-again, off-again boyfriend.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Right's Dissed Intellectuals — You could cut the disappointment with a knife. "This is the moment for which the conservative legal movement has been waiting for two decades," David Frum, the right-wing activist and former Bush speechwriter, wrote on his blog a few moments …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bush Plays Delicate Defense Game As Many Conservatives Rebel — The White House is at war. — With some Republicans. — President George Bush is now playing defense in a battle no one would have predicted he would have to wage: a battle to convince many in his own party …
Washington Post:
A Pick That Blurs Party Lines and Stalls 'Rapid Response' — White House Works To Sell Miers to Skeptics on Right — While President Bush yesterday led a public campaign to shore up support for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, his top White House aides and Republican National Committee …
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Gateway Pundit:
Sooner Bomber Wanted to Buy Ammonium Nitrate! — The Latest on the Sooner Boomer Story... ** Evidence is mounting that Joel Henry Hinrichs III, the University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up 100 yards outside the Oklahoma-Kansas State Football Game on Saturday night, had bigger plans.
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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.
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Erin Neff / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Son of former president to challenge Ensign in 2006 — Jack Carter, the son of former President Carter, said Tuesday he plans to run against John Ensign for the U.S. Senate next year. — Carter, 58, and his wife, Elizabeth, have lived in Las Vegas since 2003, operating the investment consulting firm Carter Global.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Why Ask Why? — Terrorist attacks aren't caused by any policy except that of the bombers themselves. — The return of murderous nihilism to Bali is highly instructive. It shows, first, that the fanatics of Islamism don't know how to stop. And it also shows that they never learn.
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AP and Reuters photographer Bilal Hussein colludes with insurgents — This is both disgusting and absurd. I was flicking through a Yahoo Photos thread called "US Military" when I came across six photos of the same small group of 'insurgents' posing for the photographer.
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Texas Prosecutor Cites New Input on DeLay — Earle Doesn't Respond to Lawmaker's Attack — The Texas prosecutor overseeing an investigation of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) fired back yesterday at criticism by DeLay's lawyers that he brought a new indictment …
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Andrew Quinn / Washington Times:
Iraqi charter gains wide backing — BAGHDAD — Recent polling shows widespread support for a new Iraqi constitution to be voted on Oct. 15, even in strongholds of Sunni Arab groups that are fighting to derail the charter. — Mehdi Hafedh, director of the Iraqi Center for Development …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Storms Show A System Out Of Balance — GOP Congress Has Reduced Usual Diet of Agency Oversight — Four hurricanes had hit Florida in 2004, and the evidence was overwhelming that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had totally botched its response. Some of the hardest-hit counties …
Washington Post:
News of Pandemonium May Have Slowed Aid — Unsubstantiated Reports of Violence Were Confirmed by Some Officials, Spread by News Media — Five weeks after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, some local, state and federal officials have come to believe that exaggerations of mayhem …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Democrats Party Like It's 2002 — There is something missing from Rahm Emanuel's discussion on Meet the Press about the Democratic agenda: … Hmmm. The word "Iraq" doesn't appear anywhere in the Democratic agenda. This is interesting since, major occasional news events not withstanding …
