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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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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:
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.
Gateway Pundit:
Sooner Bomber Wanted to Buy Ammonium Nitrate! — ** 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. Joel tried to purchase ammonium nitrate at a feed store late last week.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:Oklahoma Suicide Bomber May be Jihadi, Father Denies
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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 …
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Matt Welch / Reason:Echo Chamber in the Superdome
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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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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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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 …
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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.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Images Show Busses Evacuating New Orleans, More Questions than Answers — Scroll down for high resolution photos. — 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.
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.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
U.S. News Gives a Top Political Writer the Pink Slip — U.S. News & World Report, undergoing yet another round of layoffs, has dropped one of its most prominent writers, chief political correspondent Roger Simon. — The magazine has given pink slips to at least 10 journalists …
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Matthew Chung / Reuters:
Ten people dead as mystery virus hits Toronto home — TORONTO (Reuters) - Ten people have died from a mystery viral outbreak at a Toronto nursing home and another 40 are in hospital, public health officials said on Tuesday as they raced to contact anyone who visited the home recently.
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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.
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