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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.
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 …
Dave Levinthal / Sun Herald:Miers said to be on `extreme end' of pro-life movement
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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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Gateway Pundit:
Sooner Bomber Wanted to Buy Ammonium Nitrate! — ** Evidence is mounting that Joel Hinrichs, 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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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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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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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 …
The Corner on National Review Online:
HUGH HEWITT — thinks that I am "ordinarily reliable" but have not answered Doug Kmiec's central point: viz., that Miers is, like Roberts, a "steadfast adherent[] to a judicial ethic of no personally imposed points of view. The cognoscenti snicker when the president reaffirms his criterion …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:Hewitt's Still Wrong
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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.
Lorri Helfand / St. Petersburg Times:
Parents forget son, 5, at park … LARGO - The Roy family came to the city for a Sunday outing: a visit to Largo Central Park and its Bluegrass Strings and Crafty Things festival. — But the Roys accidentally left someone behind: 5-year-old Jonathan Roy, who was found wandering Largo Central Park looking for them.
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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 …
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