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Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
Hundreds Dead in Pakistan-India Earthquake — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building, killing hundreds of people in both nations.
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CNN:
Death toll in Asian quake tops 800 — Official says number of dead could reach into the thousands — (CNN) — Darkness is hampering the search for survivors of Saturday's major earthquake that rocked south Asia. — The magnitude 7.6 quake, which has generated strong aftershocks …
BBC:
Hundreds die in South Asia quake — Pakistan says more than 1,000 people may have died in a powerful quake that also hit north India and Afghanistan. — The 7.6-magnitude quake with the epicentre 80km (50 miles) north-east of Islamabad wiped out several villages.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
What Is To Be Done? — IT'S BEEN A BAD WEEK for the Bush administration—but, in a way, a not-so-bad week for American conservatism. George W. Bush's nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was at best an error, at worst a disaster. There is no need now to elaborate on Bush's error.
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The Mahablog:
Payback — Oooo, those Swedes. They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Mohamed ElBaradei and International Atomic Energy Agency. The Bushies must be mightily pissed. — Mohamed ElBaradei, you might recall, is the same guy who, before the Iraq invasion, did everything but stand on his head …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:ElBaradei and IAEA Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Judy, Pinch and a Boy Named Scooter — In a furious bout of post-prison housecleaning, Judy Miller just "happened" to find notes today from June 2003 when she spoke with Scooter Libby about Joe Wilson. — Of all the amazing discoveries. She's the f**king Indiana Jones of dust bunnies, that one.
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Adam Entous / Reuters:Reporter turns over notes in CIA leak case
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Al-Jazeera Finds Its English Voice — David Frost Joins New International Television Network — Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer …
John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Says He Wasn't Involved in CIA Leak — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told President Bush and others that he never engaged in an effort to disclose a CIA operative's identity to discredit her husband's criticism of the administration's Iraq policy, according to people …
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Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press:
Memo: NYC Attack Was Scheduled for Sunday — NEW YORK - Details emerged about an alleged plot to attack the city's subways with bombs hidden in bags and possibly baby strollers as local and federal officials jostled over the credibility of the threat. — A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained …
California Conservative:
California'S Cruciphobia: Banning San Diego'S Mt. Soledad War Memorial — atheist Philip Paulson, who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross on city land in 1989. — A California judge has ruled that San Diego's Proposition A, a voter initiative to preserve …
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White House:
President's Radio Address — In Focus: Judicial Nominations — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, I nominated an exceptional individual to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. Harriet Miers is a remarkable woman and an accomplished attorney.
Guardian:
MI5 unmasks covert arms programmes — Document names 300 organisations seeking nuclear and WMD technology — The determination of countries across the Middle East and Asia to develop nuclear arsenals and other weapons of mass destruction is laid bare by a secret British intelligence document which has been seen by the Guardian.
Editor and Publisher:
Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book — NEW YORK Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post might have a bigger scoop than he thought. In his online column this morning, as a final, almost throwaway item, he quoted from the first chapter of the forthcoming book by former CBS producer Mary Mapes …
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:
I WAS WONDERING — when somebody would make this argument. Kevin Martin, a former Scalia clerk, argues that Miers has the right temperament, judicial philosophy, and skills to be a good justice. (He also allows that she's not the nominee he would have picked—a concession that, I believe …
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Townhall.com:
BUSH'S AGENT — Former Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie, one of his party's rising stars, is off to a poor start in promoting Harriet Miers' confirmation to the Supreme Court. — According to published reports, Gillespie evoked a negative reaction from conservatives last Wednesday …
Cinnamon Stillwell / aim.org:
Terrorism Strikes the Heartland — If you happened to be browsing the Internet last weekend, the headline, "Suicide bombing in Oklahoma" just might have caught your attention. After all, it's not every day that there's a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and supposedly there hasn't been one since 9/11.
Pieter Dorsman / Peaktalk:
MOONBAT PRINCESS — The sister of Dutch Queen Beatrix has stepped into the limelight to declare that the West should initiate peace negotiations with al-Qaeda in an interview with De Volkskrant, one of the country's top newspapers. She also offered some criticisms of President Bush who in her opinion subscribes to only one ideal:
Jo Becker / Washington Post:
'The Right Result' Was Key to Miers — DALLAS, Oct. 7 — This city was already on edge, divided along racial and class lines over how to desegregate public housing, under court order to change an election system that kept minorities out of power, and seething from a series of police shootings that killed innocent blacks.
