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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 …
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Sweet Judy Blew Lies  —  By now you've all heard that Judy discovered some forgotten notes from June 2003.  It seems she and Fitzgerald are going to have a lot to talk about the next time they get together.  —  It's looking increasingly likely that the outtamyarse speculations I made in July …
Discussion: mediabistro
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 …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:   Judy, Pinch and a Boy Named Scooter
Jay Tea / Wizbang:
AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE  —  Yesterday, I derided the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency.  In the ocmments, one reader questioned just who I thought might deserve the prize.  So I started thinking.  —  The general requirements seem …
Discussion: »«TBogg»«
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The Heretik:
TAKING THE PRIZE  —  ONE OF DICK Cheney's sparring partners …
Discussion: firedoglake and JustOneMinute
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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Mona Charen / Townhall.com:
A timid and tepid pick
Discussion: The Gun Guy and PrestoPundit
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:   I WAS WONDERING
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.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Gateway Pundit
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California Conservative:   California'S Cruciphobia: Banning San Diego'S Mt. Soledad War Memorial
10news.com:
Fate Of Soledad Cross Questioned
Discussion: The Indepundit
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Attacking Jesus? Mt. Soledad Cross Unconstituional
Discussion: Basil's Blog and JunkYardBlog
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 …
Discussion: democracy guy
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 …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Confirm Them
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and TalkLeft
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.
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 …
Discussion: BIG DOG's WEBLOG and INDC Journal
Ronald A. Cass / realclearpolitics.com:
Stop Whining - Right Choices and the Courts  —  To hear the howls from conservative commentators following President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers, you would think that Bush just sold a seat on the Supreme Court to someone who's a cross between Ann Richards and Barney the White House pet.
Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:
Two Year Old Story Leads Guardian, Indy; Black Activist Either Blind or Lying; Boobs at the Grauniad  —  For most of today's papers, the announcement of a vaccine for cervical cancer takes top billing, dominating as it does the front pages of the Telegraph, Times and Daily Mail.

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