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Tom / The Media Mob - NYO:
Miller Surrenders Additional Notes  —  According to sources involved in the Judith Miller case, lawyers for Miller have turned over an additional, previously unreported batch of notes on the New York Times reporter's conversations with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Reporter turns over notes in CIA leak case  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York Times reporter has given investigators notes from a conversation she had with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney weeks earlier than was previously known, suggesting White House involvement started …
Editor and Publisher:
'National Journal': Rove Told Bush He Did Not Leak to Reporters in Plame Case
Discussion: DC Debate
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CBS News:   GOP Pushes Through Refinery Bill
10news.com:
Fate Of Soledad Cross Questioned  —  Judge Rules Cross Proposition Unconstitutional  —  SAN DIEGO — A Superior Court judge has ruled that a proposed transfer of the Mount Soledad Cross to the federal government is unconstitutional.  —  Judge Patricia Cowett found Friday that maintenance …
Discussion: The Indepundit and JunkYardBlog
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Tom / Time Hath Found Us:
Idiot judge finds Mt. Soledad Cross unconstitutional  —  In a direct slap in the face of an overwhelming majority of voters, Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett has found Proposition "A", the save the Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross measure, unconstitutional.
Damian / Daimnation!:
A MEME IN THE MAKING  —  In a new BBC documentary, the Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister - and if you can't believe Palestinian officials, who can you believe? - say President Bush told them that God asked him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan:
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance  —  WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush's political coalition are worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
Discussion: MyDD
Kevin P. Martin / Boston Globe:
Miers's qualifications  —  PRESIDENT BUSH'S nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has been met with a remarkable amount of resistance from conservative pundits, including such luminaries as George Will, who have stumbled over themselves rushing to question her credentials.
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David Stras / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Supreme Court road to mediocrity
Elizabeth Gibson / media.dailynorthwestern.com:
Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win  —  The problem with Democrat campaign speeches is "litany," and they need more narrative like Winnie the Pooh stories, political consultant and pundit James Carville said.  —  At a speech sponsored by the Northwestern College Democrats Thursday evening …
Stephen Henderson / Knight Ridder:
Miers espoused progressive views as elected official, records show  —  WASHINGTON - In what appear to be some of her only public statements about a constitutional issue, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers testified in a 1990 voting rights lawsuit that the Dallas City Council had too few black …
Reuters:
Looking for work?  Consider Al Qaeda...  DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has put job advertisements on the Internet asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported.  —  The London-based Asharq al-Awsat said on its Web site this week that al Qaeda had …
US News:
The president's speech  —  I was in the hall at the Ronald Reagan Building (irony: Washington's largest federal building is named after the president who said government was the problem not the solution) when George W. Bush delivered his speech to the National Endowment for Democracy.
BBC:
David Frost joins al-Jazeera TV  —  Veteran UK broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station al-Jazeera, the network has confirmed.  —  Sir David is to appear on al-Jazeera International, the pan-Arab news network's new English-language channel, due to be launched next spring.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, morph and PoliBlog
Todd Zywicki / volokh.com:
[Continue Reading Warren Defends Times Editorial on Bankruptcy Reform and Hurricane Katrina under hidden text]:  —  DEMOCRACY, KELO-STYLE: When I first read Kelo, one thing that jumped out at me was the cute and endearing description of the way in which local land-use and redevelopment plans are made and implemented.
washingtonian.com:
U.S. News Makes Big Bet on Internet to Try to Save Fading Magazine  —  U.S. News & World Report, the perennial third among the newsmagazines, is trying to become the first to exploit the Internet.  It's also trying to be among the first of the mainstream media outlets to hitch its fortunes to the shaky engine of Web economics.

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