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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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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Don't misunderestimate Miers — President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School, and schooled in tactics by experience and advice, including the experience and advice of his father, whose most lasting political mistake was the nomination of David Souter.
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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 …
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Sonja Steptoe / Time:
A Sampling of the Writings of Harriet Miers — A look at the paper trail of President Bush's Supreme Court nominee — What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate.
Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:Harriet Miers: The wrong choice for the Supreme Court
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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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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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White House:
President Holds Press Conference — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Good morning. Yesterday I nominated an outstanding individual to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Over the past three decades, Harriet Miers has built a stellar record of accomplishment in the law.
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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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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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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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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.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Oklahoma Suicide Bomber May be Jihadi, Father Denies — The father of a University of Oklahoma student, Joel Henry Hinrichs III, that blew himself up on Saturday is denying reports that his son's death was somehow politically motivated. — However, both World Net Daily …
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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.
