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Lott: 'Not comfortable' with Miers' nomination — Miss. Senator says he'll need more information before supporting nominee — Add Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to the list of Republicans not entirely pleased with President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WILL VERSUS BLANKLEY VERSUS MALKIN — While we're moving on, George Will and Tony Blankley address the merits of President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Will's column is frankly oppositional: "Miers is the wrong pick." Will writes:
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.
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:The Case Against Harriet Miers: The Baseball Analogy
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Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:The coffee-and-donuts defense — President Bush tells us …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:Can This Nomination Be Justified?
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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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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.
John / AMERICAblog:
The White House is hiding Karl Rove - they know something's coming... I just talked to a source who told me that Karl Rove has been missing from a number of recent White House presidential events - events that he has ALWAYS attended in the past. For example, Rove was absent …
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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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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Sunnis Drop Threat to Boycott Referendum — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament voted Wednesday to reverse last-minute changes to rules for next week's referendum on a new constitution after the United Nations said they were unfair. Sunni Arabs responded by dropping their threat to boycott …
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David R. Sands / Washington Times:
Army takes control of Iran nukes — Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has placed the military firmly in control of his nation's nuclear program, undercutting his government's claim that the program is intended for civilian use, according to a leading opposition group.
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
Senate Will Probe Saudi Distribution Of Hate Materials — WASHINGTON - The American government is demanding that Saudi Arabia account for its distribution of hate material to American mosques, as the State Department pressed Saudi officials for answers last week and as the Senate later …
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly calls Media Matters "assassins" and "the worst" among "most vicious" political websites — In a segment on the October 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor that he promoted as examining "the most vicious political websites in the country," host Bill O'Reilly named Media Matters for America …
Los Angeles Times:
Bush Says Social Security Overhaul Is Stalled — He cites a lack of public support for his plan. More pressing now is the hurricane recovery. — WASHINGTON — President Bush acknowledged Tuesday for the first time that his plan to restructure Social Security, once his top second-term domestic priority …
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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 …
John Podhoretz / The Corner on National Review Online:
IS THIS BUSH'S HIDDEN AGENDA? — A friend, one of the wisest analysts of politics I know, asks the following fascinating questions: Did the president pick Harriet Miers because she is an evangelical Christian? Is this the real meaning of the "trust me" message — and are her religious beliefs …
