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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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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 …
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.
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 …
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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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.
CNN:
Poll: Support for Miers not as high as that for Roberts — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans, particularly conservatives, are less supportive of President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court than they initially were for his nomination of John Roberts, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday night.
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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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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.
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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Laylan Copelin / statesman.com:
Prosecutor reveals third grand jury had refused DeLay indictment — Newly impaneled grand jury returned money-laundering charge within hours — A Travis County grand jury last week refused to indict former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as prosecutors raced to salvage their felony case against the Sugar Land Republican.
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Joyce Price / volokh.com:
CONSERVATIVES LUKEWARM ON SOUTER — Conservatives expressed lukewarm support yesterday for Supreme Court nominee David Souter, but most predicted they will be behind him strongly once they know more about him. — "The consensus is that we would have preferred someone else - not what we were given …
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 …
BBC:
Dane fights for state-funded sex — A disabled Danish man is fighting for the state to pay for him to have a prostitute visit him at home. — Torben Hansen, who has cerebral palsy, which severely affects his speech and mobility, believes his local authority should pay the extra charge …
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
RELIABLE VOTE — The more I think about it, the more I think there's something inherently corrupt about the "she's a reliable vote" argument. I'm not singling any reader, blogger or activist out because this argument tends to reside amidst a lot of other arguments and other rhetoric.
