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Reuters:
ElBaradei: Peace Prize a "shot in the arm"  —  VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei said on Friday winning the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize would give him and his agency a much-needed "shot in the arm" as they tackle nuclear crises in Iran and North Korea.
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Washington Post:
ElBaradei, IAEA Share Nobel Peace Prize  —  Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog agency he heads, won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Peace today.  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee called ElBaradei "an unafraid advocate" for nuclear nonproliferation …
Discussion: The Mahablog and The Agonist
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
IAEA, ElBaradei Share Nobel Peace Prize
Reuters:   IAEA, ElBaradei win peace prize
Jay Tea / Wizbang:
THE FAILURE OF A NOBEL EXPERIMENT
Discussion: A Blog For All
CBS News:
Poll: Bush Ratings Hit New Low  —  (CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President.  Americans' outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years.
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Deacon / Power Line:   MY LEAST FAVORITE REPUBLICAN SENATOR
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
DeLay Meeting, RNC Actions Coincided  —  Financial Transactions Began on Day Texan Met With Fundraiser  —  Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) met for at least 30 minutes with the top fundraiser of his Texas political action committee on Oct. 2, 2002, the same …
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Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
DeLay conspiracy charge little used part of state law  —  AUSTIN — A little-used Texas law could decide the future of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, charged with conspiracy and money laundering in an alleged campaign finance scheme.  —  Grand jurors looking into 2002 campaign contributions indicted DeLay …
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:   DeLay statements raise new questions
James Sturcke / Guardian:
White House denies Bush God claims  —  A senior White House official has denied that the US president, George Bush, said God ordered him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.  —  A spokesman for Mr Bush, Scott McClellan, said the claims, to be broadcast in a TV documentary later this month, were "absurd".
Discussion: Daily Pundit
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Rupert Cornwell / Independent:
Bush: God told me to invade Iraq
Press Association:
'God told me to invade Iraq' - Bush
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Obtains Treatise By Bin Laden Deputy  —  The United States has obtained a letter from Osama bin Laden's deputy to the leader of Iraq's insurgency that outlines a long-term strategic vision for a global jihad, with the next phase of the war to be taken into Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, according to U.S. officials.
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Washington Post:
Rove to Testify Again in Grand Jury's CIA Leak Probe  —  Prosecutor's Warning That Bush Adviser Could Be Indicted Suggests New Information May Have Emerged  —  White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove will again testify to a grand jury that is in the final stages of investigating whether …
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Washington Post:
New Yorkers Warned Of Threat to Subways  —  NEW YORK, Oct. 6 — New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg warned residents Thursday night of "a specific threat" of a terrorist attack on the city's transit system in coming days, but Washington authorities played down the threat as "non-credible."
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Opinions:
Withdraw This Nominee  —  When in 1962 Edward Moore Kennedy ran for his brother's seat in the Senate, his opponent famously said that if Kennedy's name had been Edward Moore, his candidacy would have been a joke.  If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States …
Washington Post:
Miers Makes Rounds On Hill  —  Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers left a mixed impression in one-on-one meetings yesterday with Senate Judiciary Committee members, raising the stakes for her upcoming confirmation hearing as the White House scrambled to defend Miers from a barrage of criticism from the right.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Right Sees Miers as Threat to a Dream  —  If there has been a unifying cause in American conservatism over the past three decades, it has been a passionate desire to change the Supreme Court.  When there were arguments over tax cuts and deficits, when libertarians clashed with religious conservatives …
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Report Warns Democrats Not to Tilt Too Far Left  —  The liberals' hope that Democrats can win back the presidency by drawing sharp ideological contrasts and energizing the partisan base is a fantasy that could cripple the party's efforts to return to power, according to a new study by two prominent Democratic analysts.
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
On Becoming a Problem Child  —  John Dickerson makes a point about the Harriet Miers nomination that rings true for me: … I have the distinct impression that the Democratic Party sees the liberal blogosphere as being inside the tent, while the Republican Party views the conservative blogosphere …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The State of the Union Between the Right and the White House Turns Frosty  —  Yesterday's tribute by President Bush to William F. Buckley and National Review was arranged in happier times, when the Republican president and the right wing were still in a state of connubial bliss.
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
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White House:   President Honors Buckley at 50th Anniversary of National Review
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Faith-Based Hypocrisy  —  Now we know: President Bush's supporters are prepared to be thoroughly hypocritical when it comes to religion.  They'll play religion up or down, whichever helps them most in a political fight.  —  Shortly after Bush named John Roberts to the Supreme Court …
Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh read note from his "mistress in Georgia" (aka CNN's Daryn Kagan?):  Bush's speech was "great," "sounds like you giving this speech"  —  On the October 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh read a "note" that, he said, came from his "mistress in Georgia …
WorldNetDaily:
Oklahoma bombing search warrant sealed  —  Justice Department requests action in case of 'jihad' student's suicide  —  The warrant used to execute a search of Oklahoma University bomber Joel "Henry" Hinrichs III's apartment, where an undetermined amount of explosives were found …

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