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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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Bull Moose, Decision '08, The Anonymous Liberal, New World Man, QandO, Talking Points Memo, Legal Fiction, The Claremont Institute, Mark A. R. Kleiman, Power Line, American Prospect, The Anonymous Liberal, The Volokh Conspiracy, Balloon Juice, The Moderate Voice, The Politburo Diktat, The Peking Duck, AMERICAblog, »«TBogg»«, The Left Coaster, democracy guy, Patterico's Pontifications, PoliBlog, Daily Kos, The LLama Butchers and BrothersJudd Blog
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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.
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 …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Bush Plays Delicate Defense Game As Many Conservatives Rebel
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Captain's Quarters, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Heretik, Confirm Them and The Huffington Post
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
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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Bill / PunditGuy:
One Year — PunditGuy is one year old today. — When I started this little hobby, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had no idea how much it would become a part of my life. I had no idea how much fun it would be. — I had no idea that one year later, blogging would become a love of mine.
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.
